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Europe and Russia After the Liberal World Order
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Clemena AntonovaIvan KrastevTimofei Bordachev
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Kidnapped from Nazism, or the Greek Tragedy of Central Europe
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Aspen BrintonLudger HagedornTomáš KordaVlasta Kordová
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
The paper recalls the essay The Tragedy of Central Europe, written by the Czech novelist Milan Kundera. Vlasta Kordova and Tomas Korda criticize the unhistorical cold-war image of the West that Kundera employs. In his reading, the Second World War just did not take place. They do not mean this objection as an external critique. Since why should someone be interested in Kundera’s omission, after all. They mean their criticism as immanent in the sense that ignoring the WWII, as the “truth” and result of the severe nationalism that was then spread across the continent, precludes the very possibility to apprehend the moral equality or equal legitimacy of the “socialist” East and the “capitalist” West. Since a tragic collision of two powers is set up only by their equal essentiality, Kundera cannot grasp the tragical dimension of the Cold War, and Central Europe respectively. Underpinned by the WWII and thereby elevated into the genuine Greek tragedy, the Cold War cannot know any victors, losers or pure victims and, moreover, both powers of equal essentiality must experience their own respective demise.
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
The paper recalls the essay The Tragedy of Central Europe, written by the Czech novelist Milan Kundera. Vlasta Kordova and Tomas Korda criticize the unhistorical cold-war image of the West that Kundera employs. In his reading, the Second World War just did not take place. They do not mean this objection as an external critique. Since why should someone be interested in Kundera’s omission, after all. They mean their criticism as immanent in the sense that ignoring the WWII, as the “truth” and result of the severe nationalism that was then spread across the continent, precludes the very possibility to apprehend the moral equality or equal legitimacy of the “socialist” East and the “capitalist” West. Since a tragic collision of two powers is set up only by their equal essentiality, Kundera cannot grasp the tragical dimension of the Cold War, and Central Europe respectively. Underpinned by the WWII and thereby elevated into the genuine Greek tragedy, the Cold War cannot know any victors, losers or pure victims and, moreover, both powers of equal essentiality must experience their own respective demise.
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Forced Immobility and Forced Mobility During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Rethinking the Notion of Forced Migration
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Ayşe ÇağlarSandro Mezzadra
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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How left-wing parties deal with immigration: Notes from France
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Ludger HagedornMadeleine Schwartz
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Arts after Violence: How to Read the History of Ukrainian Art?
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Kateryna IakovlenkoKatherine Younger
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Gender Bias in Psychiatry: A Critical Examination
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Misha GlennyPrune Antoine
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Mental Illness as a Cultural and Societal Phenomenon
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Anna KiedrzynekEric ReinhartLudger Hagedorn
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Facing Post-Truth in Central-Eastern Europe
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Arvydas GrišinasLudger Hagedorn
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
The main challenge that post-truth poses, as the concept itself suggests, is the alleged end of centrality of the idea of truth in politics. Central and Eastern Europe finds itself in a political culture where claims, ideas and utterances must no longer necessarily be grounded in proven empirical facts, in order to be held true by the broader public. This situation, however, is by no means new or unheard of. In this regard, it resembles Soviet social reality, where officially held narratives also had scant empirical grounding. Furthermore, while it were Central-Eastern European dissidents who problematized these issues and set out to successfully counter them, resulting in the events of 1989, the same dissident heritage is also used nowadays to promote agendas of populist illiberal regimes in the region. The talk explored the prospects and challenges to utilizing the dissident heritage to tackling these contemporary issues.
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
The main challenge that post-truth poses, as the concept itself suggests, is the alleged end of centrality of the idea of truth in politics. Central and Eastern Europe finds itself in a political culture where claims, ideas and utterances must no longer necessarily be grounded in proven empirical facts, in order to be held true by the broader public. This situation, however, is by no means new or unheard of. In this regard, it resembles Soviet social reality, where officially held narratives also had scant empirical grounding. Furthermore, while it were Central-Eastern European dissidents who problematized these issues and set out to successfully counter them, resulting in the events of 1989, the same dissident heritage is also used nowadays to promote agendas of populist illiberal regimes in the region. The talk explored the prospects and challenges to utilizing the dissident heritage to tackling these contemporary issues.
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The Compatriots
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Andrei SoldatovClemena AntonovaIrina Borogan
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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The Imperfect Is Our Paradise
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Ludger HagedornJohn Palattella
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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