Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Prelude to Ukraine: Russia's Intervention in the Syrian Civil War	Mon, 17.04.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Itamar Rabinovich Ivan Krastev	Prelude to Ukraine: Russia's Intervention in the Syrian Civil War Mon, 17.04.2023 Speakers: Itamar Rabinovich Ivan Krastev Series: Seminars and Colloquia The talk outlined Russia's intervention, in league with Iran, in the Syrian civil war and its role in enabling Bashar al Assad to remain in power in a truncated Syria. Read more
Prelude to Ukraine: Russia's Intervention in the Syrian Civil War Mon, 17.04.2023 Speakers: Itamar Rabinovich Ivan Krastev Series: Seminars and Colloquia The talk outlined Russia's intervention, in league with Iran, in the Syrian civil war and its role in enabling Bashar al Assad to remain in power in a truncated Syria. Read more
	Europa im Diskurs: Ist künstliche Intelligenz bald klüger als wir?	Sun, 16.04.2023	Panels and Discussions	Helga NowotnyLisz Hirn, Peter Knees, Maya Pindeus, Jörg Piringer, Petra Stuiber	Europa im Diskurs: Ist künstliche Intelligenz bald klüger als wir? Sun, 16.04.2023 Speakers: Helga NowotnyLisz Hirn, Peter Knees, Maya Pindeus, Jörg Piringer, Petra Stuiber Series: Panels and Discussions Sie beantworten Mails, schreiben Hausübungen, unterstützen wissenschaftliche Recherchen und versuchen sich auf Verlangen sogar an Lyrik und Dramatik. Ist künstliche Intelligenz bald klüger als wir? Read more
Europa im Diskurs: Ist künstliche Intelligenz bald klüger als wir? Sun, 16.04.2023 Speakers: Helga NowotnyLisz Hirn, Peter Knees, Maya Pindeus, Jörg Piringer, Petra Stuiber Series: Panels and Discussions Sie beantworten Mails, schreiben Hausübungen, unterstützen wissenschaftliche Recherchen und versuchen sich auf Verlangen sogar an Lyrik und Dramatik. Ist künstliche Intelligenz bald klüger als wir? Read more
	War, Work and Want: How OPEC Caused Mass Migration and Revolution	Tue, 11.04.2023	Lecture	Ivan Vejvoda Randall Hansen	War, Work and Want: How OPEC Caused Mass Migration and Revolution Tue, 11.04.2023 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Randall Hansen Series: Lecture In the early 1970s, there was every reason to believe that large-scale immigration to Europe and America would end. In fact, global migration has tripled. This lecture asked why. Read more

	Grounding a ‘Geopolitical Europe’	Mon, 03.04.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Ayşe Çağlar Luiza Bialasiewicz Misha Glenny	Grounding a ‘Geopolitical Europe’ Mon, 03.04.2023 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Luiza Bialasiewicz Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia Examining a number of different European national contexts, Luiza Bialasiewicz argued in this talk that without a grounded and democratic geopolitics, other geopolitical stories will inevitably rush in to fill the void to help EU citizens make sense of the vertigo of the current moment. Such geopolitical stories include the conspiratorial geopolitical imaginations fed by extremist parties and movements, but not solely. They also increasingly manifest themselves across a range of issue areas and spaces: most visibly in urban contexts, where they have begun to frame various forms of contestation, including protests against refugee reception. Read more
Grounding a ‘Geopolitical Europe’ Mon, 03.04.2023 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Luiza Bialasiewicz Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia Examining a number of different European national contexts, Luiza Bialasiewicz argued in this talk that without a grounded and democratic geopolitics, other geopolitical stories will inevitably rush in to fill the void to help EU citizens make sense of the vertigo of the current moment. Such geopolitical stories include the conspiratorial geopolitical imaginations fed by extremist parties and movements, but not solely. They also increasingly manifest themselves across a range of issue areas and spaces: most visibly in urban contexts, where they have begun to frame various forms of contestation, including protests against refugee reception. Read more
	Documenting Refugees from Eastern Europe	Thu, 30.03.2023	Conferences and Workshops	Kamil Ruszała Philipp TherKatarzyna Nowak, Christoph Augustynowicz	Documenting Refugees from Eastern Europe Thu, 30.03.2023 Speakers: Kamil Ruszała Philipp TherKatarzyna Nowak, Christoph Augustynowicz Series: Conferences and Workshops The conference was opened by an introductory lecture by Philipp Ther, discussing the exile of yesterday and today, with particular emphasis on the contemporary situation. The lecture was followed by three thematic panels: 1) discussing migration during both world wars in Europe; 2) presenting the Ukrainian experience of refugeedom, both in the past and present; 3) presenting projects documenting contemporary wars and refugeedom. Read more
Documenting Refugees from Eastern Europe Thu, 30.03.2023 Speakers: Kamil Ruszała Philipp TherKatarzyna Nowak, Christoph Augustynowicz Series: Conferences and Workshops The conference was opened by an introductory lecture by Philipp Ther, discussing the exile of yesterday and today, with particular emphasis on the contemporary situation. The lecture was followed by three thematic panels: 1) discussing migration during both world wars in Europe; 2) presenting the Ukrainian experience of refugeedom, both in the past and present; 3) presenting projects documenting contemporary wars and refugeedom. Read more
	Elections in Finland: Between Happiness and the Russo-Ukrainian War	Tue, 28.03.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Ivan VejvodaVeera Luoma-aho, Iro Särkkä, Mirjana Tomic	Elections in Finland: Between Happiness and the Russo-Ukrainian War Tue, 28.03.2023 Speakers: Ivan VejvodaVeera Luoma-aho, Iro Särkkä, Mirjana Tomic Series: Seminars and Colloquia Finland holds elections on 2 April 2023. The campaign focuses on domestic issues, but the war in Ukraine cannot be ignored. The seminar addressed both domestic and security issues. Does Finland fear the spillover of the Russo-Ukrainian War? How does the war affect the elections? Read more
Elections in Finland: Between Happiness and the Russo-Ukrainian War Tue, 28.03.2023 Speakers: Ivan VejvodaVeera Luoma-aho, Iro Särkkä, Mirjana Tomic Series: Seminars and Colloquia Finland holds elections on 2 April 2023. The campaign focuses on domestic issues, but the war in Ukraine cannot be ignored. The seminar addressed both domestic and security issues. Does Finland fear the spillover of the Russo-Ukrainian War? How does the war affect the elections? Read more
	Christ the Savior – Orthodoxy’s Ground Zero	Mon, 27.03.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Lucy Ash Misha Glenny	Christ the Savior – Orthodoxy’s Ground Zero Mon, 27.03.2023 Speakers: Lucy Ash Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia Using stories of individual priests, individual churches and individual cities, Ash traced the story of the Russian Orthodox Church back to its roots one thousand years ago and to show that, whatever the violent and extreme changes of political power, those at the top of the church have done whatever it takes to curry favor. Read more
Christ the Savior – Orthodoxy’s Ground Zero Mon, 27.03.2023 Speakers: Lucy Ash Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia Using stories of individual priests, individual churches and individual cities, Ash traced the story of the Russian Orthodox Church back to its roots one thousand years ago and to show that, whatever the violent and extreme changes of political power, those at the top of the church have done whatever it takes to curry favor. Read more
	Ukrainian Identity in the Time of War	Thu, 23.03.2023	Lecture	Ayşe Çağlar Mariia ShynkarenkoVolodymyr Kulyk, Mariia Shynkarenko	Ukrainian Identity in the Time of War Thu, 23.03.2023 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Mariia ShynkarenkoVolodymyr Kulyk, Mariia Shynkarenko Series: Lecture Based on original data from a nationwide survey and a series of focus group discussions in different parts of the country, Kulyk demonstrated that not only has Ukrainian identity become more salient compared to other attachments, but it has also come to mean a stronger embrace of beliefs that have traditionally been associated with Ukrainian ethnic belonging. Read more
Ukrainian Identity in the Time of War Thu, 23.03.2023 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Mariia ShynkarenkoVolodymyr Kulyk, Mariia Shynkarenko Series: Lecture Based on original data from a nationwide survey and a series of focus group discussions in different parts of the country, Kulyk demonstrated that not only has Ukrainian identity become more salient compared to other attachments, but it has also come to mean a stronger embrace of beliefs that have traditionally been associated with Ukrainian ethnic belonging. Read more
	Consolation: Art and Ritual	Tue, 21.03.2023	Lecture	Richard Sennett Ludger Hagedorn	Consolation: Art and Ritual Tue, 21.03.2023 Speakers: Richard Sennett Ludger Hagedorn Series: Lecture In this Monthly Lecture, Richard Sennett explored the difference between artistic and ritual performances in the work of consolation, the need of the living to reconcile themselves to the death of others. Read more

	Music in Flight: The "Jewish Express" and the Bolivian Cantata	Mon, 20.03.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Andrea Orzoff Ludger Hagedorn	Music in Flight: The "Jewish Express" and the Bolivian Cantata Mon, 20.03.2023 Speakers: Andrea Orzoff Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia This talk presented in Bolivian miniature the larger arguments of Andrea Orzoff’s book manuscript, Music in Flight: Migration from Hitler’s Europe and Musical Politics in Latin America. The author begun with the story of Erich Eisner, a Prague German who directed Bolivia’s national orchestra, examining the ironies of Eisner’s Bolivian career. Through Eisner, Orzoff visited the chaotic mass migration to Bolivia, the country’s troubled modernization, and the dissemination of scientific racism and eugenics-inflected antisemitism to Latin America. Read more
Music in Flight: The "Jewish Express" and the Bolivian Cantata Mon, 20.03.2023 Speakers: Andrea Orzoff Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia This talk presented in Bolivian miniature the larger arguments of Andrea Orzoff’s book manuscript, Music in Flight: Migration from Hitler’s Europe and Musical Politics in Latin America. The author begun with the story of Erich Eisner, a Prague German who directed Bolivia’s national orchestra, examining the ironies of Eisner’s Bolivian career. Through Eisner, Orzoff visited the chaotic mass migration to Bolivia, the country’s troubled modernization, and the dissemination of scientific racism and eugenics-inflected antisemitism to Latin America. Read more