Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Cultural Approaches to Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe	Wed, 24.04.2024, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Vejvoda Karolina Wigura Ruth Wodak Till van Rahden	Cultural Approaches to Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe Wed, 24.04.2024, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Karolina Wigura Ruth Wodak Till van Rahden Series: Panels and Discussions The panelists spoke 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, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Karolina Wigura Ruth Wodak Till van Rahden Series: Panels and Discussions The panelists spoke 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
	Minority and Majority as Asymmetrical Concepts: The Perils of Democratic Equality and Fantasies of National Homogeneity	Mon, 15.04.2024, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Ludger Hagedorn Till van Rahden	Minority and Majority as Asymmetrical Concepts: The Perils of Democratic Equality and Fantasies of National Homogeneity Mon, 15.04.2024, 16:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Till van Rahden Series: Seminars and Colloquia To this day, the conceptual couple of majority and minority is viewed as a harmless way of identifying an arithmetic relationship to make sense of cultural differences. The talk argued that a history of the binary juxtaposition between a majority and one or several minorities suggests that it is both a recent neologism and an essentially contested conceptual couple. Read more
Minority and Majority as Asymmetrical Concepts: The Perils of Democratic Equality and Fantasies of National Homogeneity Mon, 15.04.2024, 16:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Till van Rahden Series: Seminars and Colloquia To this day, the conceptual couple of majority and minority is viewed as a harmless way of identifying an arithmetic relationship to make sense of cultural differences. The talk argued that a history of the binary juxtaposition between a majority and one or several minorities suggests that it is both a recent neologism and an essentially contested conceptual couple. Read more
	Can Beauty Save the World? On Historical Injustice, Reconciliation and the Role of Aesthetic Education	Tue, 09.04.2024, 18:00	Lecture	Lea Ypi Misha Glenny	Can Beauty Save the World? On Historical Injustice, Reconciliation and the Role of Aesthetic Education Tue, 09.04.2024, 18:00 Speakers: Lea Ypi Misha Glenny Series: Lecture “Beautiful world! Where hast thou gone?" asks Friedrich Schiller in his famous poem “The Gods of Greece.” He laments the loss of harmony in a world divided by injustice both past and present. In this lecture, Lea Ypi read from her forthcoming book on human dignity. Read more
Can Beauty Save the World? On Historical Injustice, Reconciliation and the Role of Aesthetic Education Tue, 09.04.2024, 18:00 Speakers: Lea Ypi Misha Glenny Series: Lecture “Beautiful world! Where hast thou gone?" asks Friedrich Schiller in his famous poem “The Gods of Greece.” He laments the loss of harmony in a world divided by injustice both past and present. In this lecture, Lea Ypi read from her forthcoming book on human dignity. Read more
	Russlands Krieg Gegen die Ukraine	Mon, 08.04.2024, 16:00	Other	Misha Glenny Tanja MaljartschukEmil Brix, Wolfgang Mueller, Oksana Stavrou, Holger Hestermeyer, Alfred F. Praus	Russlands Krieg Gegen die Ukraine Mon, 08.04.2024, 16:00 Speakers: Misha Glenny Tanja MaljartschukEmil Brix, Wolfgang Mueller, Oksana Stavrou, Holger Hestermeyer, Alfred F. Praus Series: Other Eine ereignisreiche Veranstaltung unterstützt durch die Stadt Wien und in Kooperation mit der Diplomatischen Akademie Wien uvm. Read more

	Soviet Subalterns on Stage	Mon, 25.03.2024, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Mariia Shynkarenko Mariia Kardash	Soviet Subalterns on Stage Mon, 25.03.2024, 16:00 Speakers: Mariia Shynkarenko Mariia Kardash Series: Seminars and Colloquia Dance practices, an easily overlooked area in social and historical studies, can become a discreet but influential tool of politics. State control, regulation and power structures manifest themselves in dance through choreography and music choices, dress norms, the range of ‘appropriate’ movements and body distancing. Equally, the Cold War cultural competition between the USSR and the West instrumentalized dance as an ideological medium, both on the level of leisure activity and art form. Read more
Soviet Subalterns on Stage Mon, 25.03.2024, 16:00 Speakers: Mariia Shynkarenko Mariia Kardash Series: Seminars and Colloquia Dance practices, an easily overlooked area in social and historical studies, can become a discreet but influential tool of politics. State control, regulation and power structures manifest themselves in dance through choreography and music choices, dress norms, the range of ‘appropriate’ movements and body distancing. Equally, the Cold War cultural competition between the USSR and the West instrumentalized dance as an ideological medium, both on the level of leisure activity and art form. Read more
	The Contamination of History. World War II and How Everything Started to Make Sense	Tue, 19.03.2024, 18:00	Lecture	Holly Case Ivan Vejvoda	The Contamination of History. World War II and How Everything Started to Make Sense Tue, 19.03.2024, 18:00 Speakers: Holly Case Ivan Vejvoda Series: Lecture In this Monthly Lecture, Holly Case elaborated on the ideas of those who made super sense out of the events of World War II in particular, and how their ideas have come to inform the contemporary perception that the world is irredeemably contaminated. Read more
The Contamination of History. World War II and How Everything Started to Make Sense Tue, 19.03.2024, 18:00 Speakers: Holly Case Ivan Vejvoda Series: Lecture In this Monthly Lecture, Holly Case elaborated on the ideas of those who made super sense out of the events of World War II in particular, and how their ideas have come to inform the contemporary perception that the world is irredeemably contaminated. Read more
	The Vienna Black Market 1943-1948	Mon, 11.03.2024, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Misha Glenny Nathan Marcus	The Vienna Black Market 1943-1948 Mon, 11.03.2024, 16:00 Speakers: Misha Glenny Nathan Marcus Series: Seminars and Colloquia Historians have long argued against understanding the end of the Second World War in Germany or Austria as one of complete rupture. The popular concept of “Stunde Null,” which implied a total break with the past and a completely new beginning, rather served to obscure problematic continuities in both societies. Read more
The Vienna Black Market 1943-1948 Mon, 11.03.2024, 16:00 Speakers: Misha Glenny Nathan Marcus Series: Seminars and Colloquia Historians have long argued against understanding the end of the Second World War in Germany or Austria as one of complete rupture. The popular concept of “Stunde Null,” which implied a total break with the past and a completely new beginning, rather served to obscure problematic continuities in both societies. Read more
	Ein Wir in Vielen Namen	Wed, 06.03.2024, 18:00	Lecture	Ludger Hagedorn Olesya YaremchukMaria Weissenböck	Ein Wir in Vielen Namen Geschichten Ethnischer Gemeinschaften in der Ukraine Wed, 06.03.2024, 18:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Olesya YaremchukMaria Weissenböck Series: Lecture In ihrem Buch „Unsere Anderen: Geschichten ukrainischer Vielfalt“ dokumentiert die Journalistin und Schriftstellerin Olesya Yaremchuk die Geschichte(-n) ethnischer Minderheiten in der Ukraine. Im Gespräch mit Ludger Hagedorn stelle die Autorin ihr Buch vor, das 2021 in deutscher Übersetzung erschienen ist, und von ihrer aktuellen Arbeit erzählen. Read more
Ein Wir in Vielen Namen Geschichten Ethnischer Gemeinschaften in der Ukraine Wed, 06.03.2024, 18:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Olesya YaremchukMaria Weissenböck Series: Lecture In ihrem Buch „Unsere Anderen: Geschichten ukrainischer Vielfalt“ dokumentiert die Journalistin und Schriftstellerin Olesya Yaremchuk die Geschichte(-n) ethnischer Minderheiten in der Ukraine. Im Gespräch mit Ludger Hagedorn stelle die Autorin ihr Buch vor, das 2021 in deutscher Übersetzung erschienen ist, und von ihrer aktuellen Arbeit erzählen. Read more
	Solidarity-Based Citizenship for Migrants in Rural Regions: Marginalised Solidarities in Marginalised Places?	Mon, 04.03.2024, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Sevasti Trubeta Ayşe Çağlar	Solidarity-Based Citizenship for Migrants in Rural Regions: Marginalised Solidarities in Marginalised Places? Mon, 04.03.2024, 16:00 Speakers: Sevasti Trubeta Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia European cities and civil societies have been since 2015 remarkably active in promoting solidarity-based local citizenship for migrants and refugees regardless of those nationality and legal status of residence. Read more
Solidarity-Based Citizenship for Migrants in Rural Regions: Marginalised Solidarities in Marginalised Places? Mon, 04.03.2024, 16:00 Speakers: Sevasti Trubeta Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia European cities and civil societies have been since 2015 remarkably active in promoting solidarity-based local citizenship for migrants and refugees regardless of those nationality and legal status of residence. Read more
	Wie Gespalten ist Unsere Gesellschaft?	Sun, 03.03.2024, 11:00	Panels and Discussions	Isolde Charim, Jürgen Kaube, Bernhard Pörksen, Kathrin Stainer-Hämmerle, Eric Frey	Wie Gespalten ist Unsere Gesellschaft? Europa im Diskurs Sun, 03.03.2024, 11:00 Speakers: Isolde Charim, Jürgen Kaube, Bernhard Pörksen, Kathrin Stainer-Hämmerle, Eric Frey Series: Panels and Discussions Im großen Wahljahr 2024 wird nicht nur in den USA, sondern auch in Europa eine zunehmende Polarisierung beklagt. Migration, Corona, der Russisch-Ukrainische Krieg, der Nahostkonflikt und die Debatten über Identitätspolitik – überall scheinen sich Verfechter unterschiedlicher Ansichten unversöhnlich gegenüberzustehen. Die Reihe, "Europa im Diskurs" analysiert diesen gesellschaftlichen Zustand aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln. Read more
Wie Gespalten ist Unsere Gesellschaft? Europa im Diskurs Sun, 03.03.2024, 11:00 Speakers: Isolde Charim, Jürgen Kaube, Bernhard Pörksen, Kathrin Stainer-Hämmerle, Eric Frey Series: Panels and Discussions Im großen Wahljahr 2024 wird nicht nur in den USA, sondern auch in Europa eine zunehmende Polarisierung beklagt. Migration, Corona, der Russisch-Ukrainische Krieg, der Nahostkonflikt und die Debatten über Identitätspolitik – überall scheinen sich Verfechter unterschiedlicher Ansichten unversöhnlich gegenüberzustehen. Die Reihe, "Europa im Diskurs" analysiert diesen gesellschaftlichen Zustand aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln. Read more