Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Forced Immobility and Forced Mobility During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Rethinking the Notion of Forced Migration	Wed, 19.10.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	Ayşe ÇağlarSandro Mezzadra	Forced Immobility and Forced Mobility During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Rethinking the Notion of Forced Migration Wed, 19.10.2022 Speakers: Ayşe ÇağlarSandro Mezzadra Series: Seminars and Colloquia In the global conjuncture of pandemic and war, borders and mobilities continue to play key roles in the mutations of politics and society, states and capitalism. Based on a project Sandro Mezzadra is currently pursuing with Brett Neilson, this seminar focused in particular on the shifts characterizing the management of borders and movements of migration since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more
Forced Immobility and Forced Mobility During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Rethinking the Notion of Forced Migration Wed, 19.10.2022 Speakers: Ayşe ÇağlarSandro Mezzadra Series: Seminars and Colloquia In the global conjuncture of pandemic and war, borders and mobilities continue to play key roles in the mutations of politics and society, states and capitalism. Based on a project Sandro Mezzadra is currently pursuing with Brett Neilson, this seminar focused in particular on the shifts characterizing the management of borders and movements of migration since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more
	Greening Democracy	Tue, 18.10.2022	Lecture	John Keane Misha Glenny	Greening Democracy Tue, 18.10.2022 Speakers: John Keane Misha Glenny Series: Lecture The unparalleled greening of democracy during the past half-century extends well beyond such matters as sustainability and climate justice, and is far more consequential than the birth of green parties, policy disputes about carbon pricing schemes and global emissions targets, this lecture proposes. Suggesting a new way of thinking historically about the relationship among ecosystems, energy regimes and democracy, John Keane asked why people with green sympathies might be expected in our times to embrace democracy for more than tactical reasons. Read more
Greening Democracy Tue, 18.10.2022 Speakers: John Keane Misha Glenny Series: Lecture The unparalleled greening of democracy during the past half-century extends well beyond such matters as sustainability and climate justice, and is far more consequential than the birth of green parties, policy disputes about carbon pricing schemes and global emissions targets, this lecture proposes. Suggesting a new way of thinking historically about the relationship among ecosystems, energy regimes and democracy, John Keane asked why people with green sympathies might be expected in our times to embrace democracy for more than tactical reasons. Read more
	Small and mighty: The policies of the Benelux countries towards Ukraine	Mon, 17.10.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	Aliesia Soloviova Katherine Younger	Small and mighty: The policies of the Benelux countries towards Ukraine Mon, 17.10.2022 Speakers: Aliesia Soloviova Katherine Younger Series: Seminars and Colloquia The subject of this research is the dynamics of changes in the foreign policy of the Benelux countries towards Ukraine as well as the peculiarities of defining the foreign policy strategies of small states in the context of the Benelux policy towards Ukraine. The project will also interrogate the characteristics of the policies of small states in matters related to the resolution of international conflicts through the prism of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Read more
Small and mighty: The policies of the Benelux countries towards Ukraine Mon, 17.10.2022 Speakers: Aliesia Soloviova Katherine Younger Series: Seminars and Colloquia The subject of this research is the dynamics of changes in the foreign policy of the Benelux countries towards Ukraine as well as the peculiarities of defining the foreign policy strategies of small states in the context of the Benelux policy towards Ukraine. The project will also interrogate the characteristics of the policies of small states in matters related to the resolution of international conflicts through the prism of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Read more
	The Rebel's Clinic: The Life, Work, and After-Lives of the Psychiatrist Frantz Fanon	Mon, 10.10.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	Adam Shatz Ayşe Çağlar	The Rebel's Clinic: The Life, Work, and After-Lives of the Psychiatrist Frantz Fanon Mon, 10.10.2022 Speakers: Adam Shatz Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia In his talk, Adam Shatz presented an admiring yet tragic portrait of the Martinique-born psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, the author of such works as Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961). Read more
The Rebel's Clinic: The Life, Work, and After-Lives of the Psychiatrist Frantz Fanon Mon, 10.10.2022 Speakers: Adam Shatz Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia In his talk, Adam Shatz presented an admiring yet tragic portrait of the Martinique-born psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, the author of such works as Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961). Read more
	The Idea of Europe	Sat, 08.10.2022	Festivals	Volodymyr Yermolenko Misha Glenny Philippe Sands, Tetyana Oharkova	The Idea of Europe Sat, 08.10.2022 Speakers: Volodymyr Yermolenko Misha Glenny Philippe Sands, Tetyana Oharkova Series: Festivals Co-hosted with IWM, this talk explores how the war has changed people’s concept of Europe. How have the boundaries of Europe been defined previously – geographically, religiously, politically? Can we ever see Russia as a European country once again? Read more
The Idea of Europe Sat, 08.10.2022 Speakers: Volodymyr Yermolenko Misha Glenny Philippe Sands, Tetyana Oharkova Series: Festivals Co-hosted with IWM, this talk explores how the war has changed people’s concept of Europe. How have the boundaries of Europe been defined previously – geographically, religiously, politically? Can we ever see Russia as a European country once again? Read more
	Surviving Human Trafficking: Activism as a Way Through the Struggle	Mon, 03.10.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	Ivan Vejvoda Milica Kravić Aksamit Misha Glenny	Surviving Human Trafficking: Activism as a Way Through the Struggle Mon, 03.10.2022 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Milica Kravić Aksamit Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia In her talk, Milica Kravić Aksamit presented her recent analyses and work on the television and radio piece “Osnažena” (Empowered), which narrates the stories of female survivors and activists who live in Belgrade but came from various African countries. Besides illustrating their life trajectories, the story reinforces the fact that human trafficking and gender-based violence are important social phenomena. The idea of Kravić Aksamit’s work is to show an uncommon perspective with focus on the bright and inspiring side of survivors’ lives, rather than on problems only. Read more
Surviving Human Trafficking: Activism as a Way Through the Struggle Mon, 03.10.2022 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Milica Kravić Aksamit Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia In her talk, Milica Kravić Aksamit presented her recent analyses and work on the television and radio piece “Osnažena” (Empowered), which narrates the stories of female survivors and activists who live in Belgrade but came from various African countries. Besides illustrating their life trajectories, the story reinforces the fact that human trafficking and gender-based violence are important social phenomena. The idea of Kravić Aksamit’s work is to show an uncommon perspective with focus on the bright and inspiring side of survivors’ lives, rather than on problems only. Read more
	Putin’s Roots in KGB and the Road to War in Ukraine	Sat, 01.10.2022	Festivals	Catherine Belton, Tessa Szyszkowitz	Putin’s Roots in KGB and the Road to War in Ukraine Sat, 01.10.2022 Speakers: Catherine Belton, Tessa Szyszkowitz Series: Festivals The talk examined Putin's roots in the KGB and how this was a mindset and modus operandi that became ever more deeply entrenched the longer his rule continued. Former Moscow correspondent and investigative journalist Catherine Belton, author of the bestseller Putin’s People, revealed the untold story of how former KGB men seized power in Russia and built a new league of oligarchs. In conversation with Austrian historian and journalist Tessa Szyszkowitz, she examined the resulting risks now for the west, as well as for Putin's own hold on power. Read more
Putin’s Roots in KGB and the Road to War in Ukraine Sat, 01.10.2022 Speakers: Catherine Belton, Tessa Szyszkowitz Series: Festivals The talk examined Putin's roots in the KGB and how this was a mindset and modus operandi that became ever more deeply entrenched the longer his rule continued. Former Moscow correspondent and investigative journalist Catherine Belton, author of the bestseller Putin’s People, revealed the untold story of how former KGB men seized power in Russia and built a new league of oligarchs. In conversation with Austrian historian and journalist Tessa Szyszkowitz, she examined the resulting risks now for the west, as well as for Putin's own hold on power. Read more
	Logik, Wahn, Gespenster	Fri, 30.09.2022	Festivals	Ludger Hagedorn Misha Glenny Daniel Kehlmann, Anna Badora, Julia Kreusch, Günther Franzmeier, Markus Meyer	Logik, Wahn, Gespenster Fri, 30.09.2022 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Misha Glenny Daniel Kehlmann, Anna Badora, Julia Kreusch, Günther Franzmeier, Markus Meyer Series: Festivals Szenische Lesung aus Geister in Princeton, im Anschluss: Daniel Kehlmann im Gespräch mit Ludger Hagedorn über die Bedrohlichkeit von Gespenstern, auch und gerade in Zeiten der Rationalität. Read more
Logik, Wahn, Gespenster Fri, 30.09.2022 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Misha Glenny Daniel Kehlmann, Anna Badora, Julia Kreusch, Günther Franzmeier, Markus Meyer Series: Festivals Szenische Lesung aus Geister in Princeton, im Anschluss: Daniel Kehlmann im Gespräch mit Ludger Hagedorn über die Bedrohlichkeit von Gespenstern, auch und gerade in Zeiten der Rationalität. Read more
	An Uncertain Future: The World Economy, Globalization and Resentment	Tue, 27.09.2022	Festivals	Joseph Stiglitz Misha Glenny	An Uncertain Future: The World Economy, Globalization and Resentment Tue, 27.09.2022 Speakers: Joseph Stiglitz Misha Glenny Series: Festivals To open the Vienna Humanities Festival 2022, Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz held a lecture addressing the necessity to chart a new course, in which markets and governments operate in tandem, in which corporations don’t dictate vaccine availability and richer countries offer constructive and real help to developing countries. Read more
An Uncertain Future: The World Economy, Globalization and Resentment Tue, 27.09.2022 Speakers: Joseph Stiglitz Misha Glenny Series: Festivals To open the Vienna Humanities Festival 2022, Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz held a lecture addressing the necessity to chart a new course, in which markets and governments operate in tandem, in which corporations don’t dictate vaccine availability and richer countries offer constructive and real help to developing countries. Read more
	Reflections on Mass Violence: War, Excess and Responsibility	Tue, 20.09.2022	Lecture	Ludger Hagedorn Nergis Canefe	Reflections on Mass Violence: War, Excess and Responsibility Tue, 20.09.2022 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Nergis Canefe Series: Lecture This talk examined the role of judgment and philosophical engagement in the determination of the scope of international [criminal] law in such crises. Specifically, it examined what Kurt Flasch aptly called "the spiritual mobilization" of philosophy. It revisited Jan Patočka's interpretation of the First World War in the sixth of his Heretical Essays. As Patočka declared, the "excessive" character of the 20th century was best exemplified in the dangerously romantic conception of "force." Read more
Reflections on Mass Violence: War, Excess and Responsibility Tue, 20.09.2022 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Nergis Canefe Series: Lecture This talk examined the role of judgment and philosophical engagement in the determination of the scope of international [criminal] law in such crises. Specifically, it examined what Kurt Flasch aptly called "the spiritual mobilization" of philosophy. It revisited Jan Patočka's interpretation of the First World War in the sixth of his Heretical Essays. As Patočka declared, the "excessive" character of the 20th century was best exemplified in the dangerously romantic conception of "force." Read more