Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Feminism, Modernism and Resistance to Empire in Ukraine	Tue, 28.06.2022, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Katherine Younger Uilleam BlackerTamara Hundorova	Feminism, Modernism and Resistance to Empire in Ukraine The Case of Lesia Ukrainka Tue, 28.06.2022, 18:00 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 The Case of Lesia Ukrainka Tue, 28.06.2022, 18:00 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, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Rajshree ChandraDimitry Kochenov	Rule by Law and the Making of Ethno-Democracies Mon, 27.06.2022, 16:00 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, 16:00 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, 19:00	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, 19:00 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, 19:00 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, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Adam Sitze Johannes Völz Ludger Hagedorn	Behind the Shields of Fantasy: The Populist Aesthetics of Status Loss Mon, 20.06.2022, 16:00 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, 16:00 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, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Saurabh DubeJulian Strube	Decolonial Desires: Thinking through Discipline and Difference Mon, 13.06.2022, 16:00 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, 16:00 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
	The Return of Yesterday	Fri, 10.06.2022, 18:30	Lecture	Misha Glenny	The Return of Yesterday Europe’s Long Decades and the Threat to Human Scale Fri, 10.06.2022, 18:30 Speakers: Misha Glenny Series: Lecture The political and social consequences of the Reformation were intimately linked with profound changes in technology that had taken place in the previous 100 years. Central to the intellectual revolution of the Renaissance was the humanist idea of human scale. Since then, we have struggled to balance the requirements of progress with those of scale. The advent of the personal computer has accentuated this challenge as never before. Not only have crises proliferated since the 1990s, the Decade of Delusion, but the loss of human scale has magnified their impact. The need to control technology and return to human scale is now an imperative. Read more
The Return of Yesterday Europe’s Long Decades and the Threat to Human Scale Fri, 10.06.2022, 18:30 Speakers: Misha Glenny Series: Lecture The political and social consequences of the Reformation were intimately linked with profound changes in technology that had taken place in the previous 100 years. Central to the intellectual revolution of the Renaissance was the humanist idea of human scale. Since then, we have struggled to balance the requirements of progress with those of scale. The advent of the personal computer has accentuated this challenge as never before. Not only have crises proliferated since the 1990s, the Decade of Delusion, but the loss of human scale has magnified their impact. The need to control technology and return to human scale is now an imperative. Read more
	US Perspective of the War in Ukraine	Thu, 09.06.2022, 16:00	Panels and Discussions	Ivan VejvodaMirjana Tomic, Bruce Stokes, Richard Parker	US Perspective of the War in Ukraine Policy Choices, Political Debates, and Public Attitudes Thu, 09.06.2022, 16:00 Speakers: Ivan VejvodaMirjana Tomic, Bruce Stokes, Richard Parker Series: Panels and Discussions Washington has pledged support for Ukraine and approved the biggest arms, economic and humanitarian aid package since 1945. It has also provided intelligence and training. What is the political and economic thinking behind current policy decisions? Is there bipartisan support? What have been the main policy debates? How long can the US sustain this high-profile support? Can the midterm elections, scheduled for 8 November 2022, alter political aims and foreign policy priorities? Since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, US objectives regarding the outcome of the war seem to be shifting, as several US media noted, from liberating Ukraine to defeating Russia. Is the final goal clear for the US citizens and the Western allies? Does US president Joe Biden have popular support for his policy towards Ukraine? What does the US public think about the war in Ukraine? Is the public ready for long-term support? What has been the role of the media in shaping policies towards Ukraine? Bruce Stokes will explore public attitudes towards the war in Ukraine, Russia, and government policies, while Richard Parker will focus on debates and policy choices that have dominated the US public sphere. Read more
US Perspective of the War in Ukraine Policy Choices, Political Debates, and Public Attitudes Thu, 09.06.2022, 16:00 Speakers: Ivan VejvodaMirjana Tomic, Bruce Stokes, Richard Parker Series: Panels and Discussions Washington has pledged support for Ukraine and approved the biggest arms, economic and humanitarian aid package since 1945. It has also provided intelligence and training. What is the political and economic thinking behind current policy decisions? Is there bipartisan support? What have been the main policy debates? How long can the US sustain this high-profile support? Can the midterm elections, scheduled for 8 November 2022, alter political aims and foreign policy priorities? Since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, US objectives regarding the outcome of the war seem to be shifting, as several US media noted, from liberating Ukraine to defeating Russia. Is the final goal clear for the US citizens and the Western allies? Does US president Joe Biden have popular support for his policy towards Ukraine? What does the US public think about the war in Ukraine? Is the public ready for long-term support? What has been the role of the media in shaping policies towards Ukraine? Bruce Stokes will explore public attitudes towards the war in Ukraine, Russia, and government policies, while Richard Parker will focus on debates and policy choices that have dominated the US public sphere. Read more
	Courage: A Conceptual History	Tue, 07.06.2022, 18:00	Lecture	Aner Barzilay Ludger HagedornEdward Skidelsky	Courage: A Conceptual History Tue, 07.06.2022, 18:00 Speakers: Aner Barzilay Ludger HagedornEdward Skidelsky Series: Lecture Courage has always been a central virtue in the Western ethical tradition, but its meaning has changed considerably over time. In antiquity, courage signified fearlessness in the face of bodily injury and death, whether passively endured (like Socrates and Christ) or actively risked (like Achilles and Alexander the Great). Today, however, such "physical courage", as it is called, tends to be depreciated in favour of "moral courage", defined by Sidgwick as a readiness to “face the pains and dangers of social disapproval in the performance of what one believes to be one’s duty”. Why did this shift occur, and what is its significance for the future of courage? These were the questions Skidelsky addressed in his talk. Read more
Courage: A Conceptual History Tue, 07.06.2022, 18:00 Speakers: Aner Barzilay Ludger HagedornEdward Skidelsky Series: Lecture Courage has always been a central virtue in the Western ethical tradition, but its meaning has changed considerably over time. In antiquity, courage signified fearlessness in the face of bodily injury and death, whether passively endured (like Socrates and Christ) or actively risked (like Achilles and Alexander the Great). Today, however, such "physical courage", as it is called, tends to be depreciated in favour of "moral courage", defined by Sidgwick as a readiness to “face the pains and dangers of social disapproval in the performance of what one believes to be one’s duty”. Why did this shift occur, and what is its significance for the future of courage? These were the questions Skidelsky addressed in his talk. Read more
	Philosophy, Sacrifice, and War: Problems and Ambiguities	Thu, 02.06.2022, 19:00	Lecture	James Dodd Ludger Hagedorn	Philosophy, Sacrifice, and War: Problems and Ambiguities Thu, 02.06.2022, 19:00 Speakers: James Dodd Ludger Hagedorn Series: Lecture James Dodd seeked to explore the limits of a philosophical approach to the twin problems of war and sacrifice. Is something like a true “philosophy of war”—understood as a coherent system of ideas, or a clearly articulated theoretical posture adequate to fully addressing the enduring challenges of war on a properly philosophical register—at all possible? In turn, can philosophy offer a cogent analysis of the phenomenon of sacrifice, one that captures both its paradoxical character and spiritual resonance? The suggestion was that where the two seem to fundamentally merge—when war calls for sacrifice, and sacrifice calls for war, each seeming to provide the meaning for the other—we trip on the limits of philosophy in a way that the very sense of its vocation becomes clear. Read more
Philosophy, Sacrifice, and War: Problems and Ambiguities Thu, 02.06.2022, 19:00 Speakers: James Dodd Ludger Hagedorn Series: Lecture James Dodd seeked to explore the limits of a philosophical approach to the twin problems of war and sacrifice. Is something like a true “philosophy of war”—understood as a coherent system of ideas, or a clearly articulated theoretical posture adequate to fully addressing the enduring challenges of war on a properly philosophical register—at all possible? In turn, can philosophy offer a cogent analysis of the phenomenon of sacrifice, one that captures both its paradoxical character and spiritual resonance? The suggestion was that where the two seem to fundamentally merge—when war calls for sacrifice, and sacrifice calls for war, each seeming to provide the meaning for the other—we trip on the limits of philosophy in a way that the very sense of its vocation becomes clear. Read more
	War and the Fate of Europe in Patočka’s Heretical Essays	Wed, 01.06.2022, 19:00	Lecture	David Dusenbury	War and the Fate of Europe in Patočka’s Heretical Essays Wed, 01.06.2022, 19:00 Speakers: David Dusenbury Series: Lecture Despite the effort not to repeat the mistakes and atrocities of the previous generations, the twenty-first century continues to be a century of wars and suffering. In these lectures, David Dusenbury and James Dodd reflected on Patočka’s and Derrida’s phenomenological analysis of self-sacrifice as a form of resistance in extreme situations of oppression (war or repression of authoritarian/totalitarian regimes). Read more
War and the Fate of Europe in Patočka’s Heretical Essays Wed, 01.06.2022, 19:00 Speakers: David Dusenbury Series: Lecture Despite the effort not to repeat the mistakes and atrocities of the previous generations, the twenty-first century continues to be a century of wars and suffering. In these lectures, David Dusenbury and James Dodd reflected on Patočka’s and Derrida’s phenomenological analysis of self-sacrifice as a form of resistance in extreme situations of oppression (war or repression of authoritarian/totalitarian regimes). Read more