Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Preparing for a Fascist America	Tue, 19.07.2022	Lecture	Jason Stanley Marci Shore	Preparing for a Fascist America Tue, 19.07.2022 Speakers: Jason Stanley Marci Shore Series: Lecture The ongoing coup against American democracy raises serious concerns for democracy worldwide. In this talk, Stanley argued that the history of the United States, as well as its present situation, justifies these concerns. More specifically, Stanley argued that the anti-democratic form that is emerging in the United States is a kind of racial fascism. Europe should prepare for the possibility of a fascist United States. Read more
Preparing for a Fascist America Tue, 19.07.2022 Speakers: Jason Stanley Marci Shore Series: Lecture The ongoing coup against American democracy raises serious concerns for democracy worldwide. In this talk, Stanley argued that the history of the United States, as well as its present situation, justifies these concerns. More specifically, Stanley argued that the anti-democratic form that is emerging in the United States is a kind of racial fascism. Europe should prepare for the possibility of a fascist United States. Read more
	ERC Mentoring Initiative Workshop July 2022	Fri, 08.07.2022	Conferences and Workshops	Ylva Huber	ERC Mentoring Initiative Workshop July 2022 Fri, 08.07.2022 Speakers: Ylva Huber Series: Conferences and Workshops In continuation of the ERC Mentoring Initiative, a workshop will be held on July 8-9. The Institute for Human Sciences, in cooperation with the Polish Academy of Sciences (and generously supported by the Polish Ministry of Education and Science), has established a mentoring initiative for applicants for European Research Council Starting and Consolidator Grants in the humanities and social sciences from Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. The purpose of the initiative is to strengthen and further internationalize the humanities and social sciences in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe by increasing their inclusion in ERC funding schemes. Read more
ERC Mentoring Initiative Workshop July 2022 Fri, 08.07.2022 Speakers: Ylva Huber Series: Conferences and Workshops In continuation of the ERC Mentoring Initiative, a workshop will be held on July 8-9. The Institute for Human Sciences, in cooperation with the Polish Academy of Sciences (and generously supported by the Polish Ministry of Education and Science), has established a mentoring initiative for applicants for European Research Council Starting and Consolidator Grants in the humanities and social sciences from Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. The purpose of the initiative is to strengthen and further internationalize the humanities and social sciences in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe by increasing their inclusion in ERC funding schemes. Read more
	Ukrainian War, Refugees, and Human Rights in a Global Context	Wed, 06.07.2022	Panels and Discussions	Ayşe Çağlar Ranabir SamaddarAlex Aleinikoff, Randall Hansen, Grażyna Baranowska, Olena Fedyuk	Ukrainian War, Refugees, and Human Rights in a Global Context Wed, 06.07.2022 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Ranabir SamaddarAlex Aleinikoff, Randall Hansen, Grażyna Baranowska, Olena Fedyuk Series: Panels and Discussions The Ukrainian war unleashed unprecedented displacements in Europe, unseen since WWII. Most of the borders in Europe and throughout the world were opened to Ukrainians - in contrast to the restrictive border regimes many recent refugee movements to Europe, such as the Syrian or Afghani refugees fleeing war, were subject to. A series of schemes were developed to welcome Ukrainian refugees and emplace them into the labor markets and educational systems of their host countries. Instead of approaching the current Ukrainian refugee movement as unique and singular, this panel aimed to situate its dynamics within a broader context of refugee movements in Europe and beyond. It further placed it in conversation with the historical, political, and social contexts that cause such movements in the first place and seeks to explore it in relation to and together with other refugee movements globally. Read more
Ukrainian War, Refugees, and Human Rights in a Global Context Wed, 06.07.2022 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Ranabir SamaddarAlex Aleinikoff, Randall Hansen, Grażyna Baranowska, Olena Fedyuk Series: Panels and Discussions The Ukrainian war unleashed unprecedented displacements in Europe, unseen since WWII. Most of the borders in Europe and throughout the world were opened to Ukrainians - in contrast to the restrictive border regimes many recent refugee movements to Europe, such as the Syrian or Afghani refugees fleeing war, were subject to. A series of schemes were developed to welcome Ukrainian refugees and emplace them into the labor markets and educational systems of their host countries. Instead of approaching the current Ukrainian refugee movement as unique and singular, this panel aimed to situate its dynamics within a broader context of refugee movements in Europe and beyond. It further placed it in conversation with the historical, political, and social contexts that cause such movements in the first place and seeks to explore it in relation to and together with other refugee movements globally. Read more
	How left-wing parties deal with immigration: Notes from France	Mon, 04.07.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	Ludger Hagedorn Madeleine Schwartz	How left-wing parties deal with immigration: Notes from France Mon, 04.07.2022 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Madeleine Schwartz Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this talk, Schwartz discussed her recent reporting on the French socialist and leftist parties to elaborate on how left-wing parties deal with changing social patterns. Read more

	The Last Forty Years and the Next Forty: Eastern Europe, Europe, the World	Thu, 30.06.2022	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Timothy SnyderYuval Harari	The Last Forty Years and the Next Forty: Eastern Europe, Europe, the World Thu, 30.06.2022 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Timothy SnyderYuval Harari Series: Panels and Discussions In this conversation, part of a series of events marking the IWM’s 40th anniversary in 2022, Timothy Snyder and Yuval Noah Harari discussed what lessons we should take from the past four decades and what will determine the course of the years to come. Read more
The Last Forty Years and the Next Forty: Eastern Europe, Europe, the World Thu, 30.06.2022 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Timothy SnyderYuval Harari Series: Panels and Discussions In this conversation, part of a series of events marking the IWM’s 40th anniversary in 2022, Timothy Snyder and Yuval Noah Harari discussed what lessons we should take from the past four decades and what will determine the course of the years to come. Read more
	Feminism, Modernism and Resistance to Empire in Ukraine	Tue, 28.06.2022	Panels and Discussions	Katherine Younger Uilleam BlackerTamara Hundorova	Feminism, Modernism and Resistance to Empire in Ukraine Tue, 28.06.2022 Speakers: Katherine Younger Uilleam BlackerTamara Hundorova Series: Panels and Discussions Tamara Hundorova and Uilleam Blacker discussed the work of Lesia Ukrainka (Larysa Kosach, 1871-1913), a Ukrainian modernist, feminist and anti-colonial thinker, in the context of Russia’s war in Ukraine and the move towards decolonizing the study of Russia and Eastern Europe. Lesia Ukrainka is a canonical figure in Ukraine, known for her fiery poems opposing Russian colonial rule in Ukraine and praising freedom. Her most accomplished works were her dramas, however, which transform stories and myths drawn from European and world culture into feminist and anti-imperial allegories: these with their focus on imperial violence, the importance of freedom and the twisting of truth, have much to teach us today. Read more
Feminism, Modernism and Resistance to Empire in Ukraine Tue, 28.06.2022 Speakers: Katherine Younger Uilleam BlackerTamara Hundorova Series: Panels and Discussions Tamara Hundorova and Uilleam Blacker discussed the work of Lesia Ukrainka (Larysa Kosach, 1871-1913), a Ukrainian modernist, feminist and anti-colonial thinker, in the context of Russia’s war in Ukraine and the move towards decolonizing the study of Russia and Eastern Europe. Lesia Ukrainka is a canonical figure in Ukraine, known for her fiery poems opposing Russian colonial rule in Ukraine and praising freedom. Her most accomplished works were her dramas, however, which transform stories and myths drawn from European and world culture into feminist and anti-imperial allegories: these with their focus on imperial violence, the importance of freedom and the twisting of truth, have much to teach us today. Read more
	Rule by Law and the Making of Ethno-Democracies	Mon, 27.06.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Rajshree ChandraDimitry Kochenov	Rule by Law and the Making of Ethno-Democracies Mon, 27.06.2022 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Rajshree ChandraDimitry Kochenov Series: Seminars and Colloquia The paper accompanying this colloquium seeks to understand a mutation in the Rule of law project, where an increasing gap between the Rule of Law and “rule by law” becomes a factor in the fashioning of modern ethno and/or authoritarian democracies. It seeks to use India as a case study to examine the conduct of law in its various modes – constitutional, exceptional and extra-legal. Read more
Rule by Law and the Making of Ethno-Democracies Mon, 27.06.2022 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Rajshree ChandraDimitry Kochenov Series: Seminars and Colloquia The paper accompanying this colloquium seeks to understand a mutation in the Rule of law project, where an increasing gap between the Rule of Law and “rule by law” becomes a factor in the fashioning of modern ethno and/or authoritarian democracies. It seeks to use India as a case study to examine the conduct of law in its various modes – constitutional, exceptional and extra-legal. Read more
	Sprache Macht Politik	Tue, 21.06.2022	Panels and Discussions	Ludger Hagedorn Nelia VakhovskaThomas Weiler, Iryna Herasimovich, Sława Lisiecka, Lyuba Yakimchuk, Ursula Ebel, Manfred Müller	Sprache Macht Politik Tue, 21.06.2022 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Nelia VakhovskaThomas Weiler, Iryna Herasimovich, Sława Lisiecka, Lyuba Yakimchuk, Ursula Ebel, Manfred Müller Series: Panels and Discussions Die Zusammenhänge von Sprache, Macht und Politik sind wieder allgegenwärtig. Vor dem Hintergrund des Krieges in der Ukraine gewinnen Lüge und/oder Authentizität der Sprache eine lang vergessene Dringlichkeit. Dieser Jubiläums-Abend der ÖGfL und des IWM widmete sich den Zusammenhängen von Sprache und Krieg, Übersetzung und politischer Einflussnahme und erläuterte, welch herausragende Bedeutung in Zeiten von Krieg und Propaganda gerade die Übersetzer*innen haben. Read more
Sprache Macht Politik Tue, 21.06.2022 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Nelia VakhovskaThomas Weiler, Iryna Herasimovich, Sława Lisiecka, Lyuba Yakimchuk, Ursula Ebel, Manfred Müller Series: Panels and Discussions Die Zusammenhänge von Sprache, Macht und Politik sind wieder allgegenwärtig. Vor dem Hintergrund des Krieges in der Ukraine gewinnen Lüge und/oder Authentizität der Sprache eine lang vergessene Dringlichkeit. Dieser Jubiläums-Abend der ÖGfL und des IWM widmete sich den Zusammenhängen von Sprache und Krieg, Übersetzung und politischer Einflussnahme und erläuterte, welch herausragende Bedeutung in Zeiten von Krieg und Propaganda gerade die Übersetzer*innen haben. Read more
	Behind the Shields of Fantasy: The Populist Aesthetics of Status Loss	Mon, 20.06.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	Adam Sitze Johannes Völz Ludger Hagedorn	Behind the Shields of Fantasy: The Populist Aesthetics of Status Loss Mon, 20.06.2022 Speakers: Adam Sitze Johannes Völz Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia The talk explored the potentials of relational sociology for the study of populism and, particularly its aesthetic dimension. In complementary ways, the works of Norbert Elias and Pierre Bourdieu offer a theoretical foundation to further develop existing approaches to populism that focus on aesthetics and performativity. Read more
Behind the Shields of Fantasy: The Populist Aesthetics of Status Loss Mon, 20.06.2022 Speakers: Adam Sitze Johannes Völz Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia The talk explored the potentials of relational sociology for the study of populism and, particularly its aesthetic dimension. In complementary ways, the works of Norbert Elias and Pierre Bourdieu offer a theoretical foundation to further develop existing approaches to populism that focus on aesthetics and performativity. Read more
	Decolonial Desires: Thinking through Discipline and Difference	Mon, 13.06.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Saurabh DubeJulian Strube	Decolonial Desires: Thinking through Discipline and Difference Mon, 13.06.2022 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Saurabh DubeJulian Strube Series: Seminars and Colloquia This presentation derived from a larger project that attends to distinct registers and divergent claims of decolonize/decolonial/decoloniality, in order to carefully unravel these notions and practices as prescient optics unto contemporary worlds. Read more
Decolonial Desires: Thinking through Discipline and Difference Mon, 13.06.2022 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Saurabh DubeJulian Strube Series: Seminars and Colloquia This presentation derived from a larger project that attends to distinct registers and divergent claims of decolonize/decolonial/decoloniality, in order to carefully unravel these notions and practices as prescient optics unto contemporary worlds. Read more