Upcoming Events

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	A Speech to Europe 2024: "Shadows of History, Spectres of the Present: The Middle East War and Europe’s Challenge"	Tue, 07.05.2024	Lecture	Omri Boehm		A Speech to Europe 2024: "Shadows of History, Spectres of the Present: The Middle East War and Europe’s Challenge" Tue, 07.05.2024 Speakers: Omri Boehm Series: Lecture In the third "Speech to Europe", following historian Timothy Snyder and human rights activist Oleksandra Matviichuk, philosopher Omri Boehm will address the pressing questions of why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict poses a threat to European identity and how a constitutional crisis in the European Union can be averted. Read more
A Speech to Europe 2024: "Shadows of History, Spectres of the Present: The Middle East War and Europe’s Challenge" Tue, 07.05.2024 Speakers: Omri Boehm Series: Lecture In the third "Speech to Europe", following historian Timothy Snyder and human rights activist Oleksandra Matviichuk, philosopher Omri Boehm will address the pressing questions of why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict poses a threat to European identity and how a constitutional crisis in the European Union can be averted. Read more
	Beyond the Leader: Looking at Grassroots Reasons for the Rise of Illiberalism	Tue, 14.05.2024	Lecture	Ludger Hagedorn Marlene Laruelle	I want to attend	Beyond the Leader: Looking at Grassroots Reasons for the Rise of Illiberalism Tue, 14.05.2024 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Marlene Laruelle Series: Lecture As Europe and the United States prepare themselves to see a rise of far-right and illiberal parties gaining a large share of the votes at the June and November 2024 elections, Marlene Laruelle explores the grassroots reasons for this rise of illiberalism. Read more
Beyond the Leader: Looking at Grassroots Reasons for the Rise of Illiberalism Tue, 14.05.2024 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Marlene Laruelle Series: Lecture As Europe and the United States prepare themselves to see a rise of far-right and illiberal parties gaining a large share of the votes at the June and November 2024 elections, Marlene Laruelle explores the grassroots reasons for this rise of illiberalism. Read more
	Biden or Trump? The US Elections and Their Impact on Europe	Sun, 28.04.2024	Panels and Discussions	Marlene Laruelle Misha GlennyKim Darroch, Mark Medish, Eva Nowotny	Tickets can be purchased here	Biden or Trump? The US Elections and Their Impact on Europe Sun, 28.04.2024 Speakers: Marlene Laruelle Misha GlennyKim Darroch, Mark Medish, Eva Nowotny Series: Panels and Discussions As America prepares to elect its next president, Europeans look on nervously at this battle of the gerontocrats, Joe Biden and Donald Trump. April’s Debating Europe event at the Burgtheater brings together leading policymakers and scholars from America and Europe to assess the prospects for the election and the impact of its possible outcomes on Europe, Ukraine and the Middle East. Read more
Biden or Trump? The US Elections and Their Impact on Europe Sun, 28.04.2024 Speakers: Marlene Laruelle Misha GlennyKim Darroch, Mark Medish, Eva Nowotny Series: Panels and Discussions As America prepares to elect its next president, Europeans look on nervously at this battle of the gerontocrats, Joe Biden and Donald Trump. April’s Debating Europe event at the Burgtheater brings together leading policymakers and scholars from America and Europe to assess the prospects for the election and the impact of its possible outcomes on Europe, Ukraine and the Middle East. Read more
	Cultural Approaches to Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe	Wed, 24.04.2024	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Vejvoda Karolina Wigura Ruth Wodak Till van Rahden	Register here	Cultural Approaches to Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe Wed, 24.04.2024 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Karolina Wigura Ruth Wodak Till van Rahden Series: Panels and Discussions The panelists will speak about how democracy is acted out in everyday life and local relationships with special emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe. What kinds of democratic culture have emerged in the region historically and more recently? What are the cultural and social preconditions of democracy as a system of government? Read more
Cultural Approaches to Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe Wed, 24.04.2024 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Karolina Wigura Ruth Wodak Till van Rahden Series: Panels and Discussions The panelists will speak about how democracy is acted out in everyday life and local relationships with special emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe. What kinds of democratic culture have emerged in the region historically and more recently? What are the cultural and social preconditions of democracy as a system of government? Read more
	Garrison Colony and Soviet Atomgrad	Fri, 26.04.2024	Seminars and Colloquia	Mariia ShynkarenkoSvitlana Matviyenko	Register Here	Garrison Colony and Soviet Atomgrad Fri, 26.04.2024 Speakers: Mariia ShynkarenkoSvitlana Matviyenko Series: Seminars and Colloquia The colloquium will discuss several types of colonies typical for Soviet modernity, including the notions of internal and external colonization, to ponder and problematize their applicability to Soviet practice. We will specifically focus on three different Ukrainian atomic cities, or “plutopia” (Brown) – Pripyat, Chornobyl, and Slavutych, the pre- and post-accident satellites of the nuclear power plant. Read more
Garrison Colony and Soviet Atomgrad Fri, 26.04.2024 Speakers: Mariia ShynkarenkoSvitlana Matviyenko Series: Seminars and Colloquia The colloquium will discuss several types of colonies typical for Soviet modernity, including the notions of internal and external colonization, to ponder and problematize their applicability to Soviet practice. We will specifically focus on three different Ukrainian atomic cities, or “plutopia” (Brown) – Pripyat, Chornobyl, and Slavutych, the pre- and post-accident satellites of the nuclear power plant. Read more
	What We Gather	Mon, 29.04.2024	Seminars and Colloquia	Iryna Zamuruieva Mariia Shynkarenko		What We Gather Mon, 29.04.2024 Speakers: Iryna Zamuruieva Mariia Shynkarenko Series: Seminars and Colloquia At the colloquium, Iryna Zamuruieva will share the strands of her research and creative work, where she works and thinks with certain plants. She is attempting to analyze the political ecology of land relations in Ukraine, developing methodologies rooted in Ukrainian intellectual thought and theories. Read more
What We Gather Mon, 29.04.2024 Speakers: Iryna Zamuruieva Mariia Shynkarenko Series: Seminars and Colloquia At the colloquium, Iryna Zamuruieva will share the strands of her research and creative work, where she works and thinks with certain plants. She is attempting to analyze the political ecology of land relations in Ukraine, developing methodologies rooted in Ukrainian intellectual thought and theories. Read more
	„Der bestirnte Himmel über mir.“ Omri Boehm & Daniel Kehlmann sprechen über Kant	Mon, 06.05.2024	Panels and Discussions	Ludger HagedornOmri Boehm, Daniel Kehlmann		„Der bestirnte Himmel über mir.“ Omri Boehm & Daniel Kehlmann sprechen über Kant Mon, 06.05.2024 Speakers: Ludger HagedornOmri Boehm, Daniel Kehlmann Series: Panels and Discussions Im „Kantjahr“ 2024, dreihundert Jahre nach dessen Geburt im ostpreußischen Königsberg, treffen mit Daniel Kehlmann und Omri Boehm zwei der aufregendsten Denker unserer Gegenwart zusammen, um über die Aktualität Kants zu sprechen. Read more
„Der bestirnte Himmel über mir.“ Omri Boehm & Daniel Kehlmann sprechen über Kant Mon, 06.05.2024 Speakers: Ludger HagedornOmri Boehm, Daniel Kehlmann Series: Panels and Discussions Im „Kantjahr“ 2024, dreihundert Jahre nach dessen Geburt im ostpreußischen Königsberg, treffen mit Daniel Kehlmann und Omri Boehm zwei der aufregendsten Denker unserer Gegenwart zusammen, um über die Aktualität Kants zu sprechen. Read more