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Governing through Contradictions.
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Ayşe ÇağlarUlrike Flader
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Notes on Militant Populism in Contemporary France
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Winnie Lem
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Idealism and Capitalism: Two Sides of the Beginnings of Private Higher Education in the Czech Republic
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Ludger HagedornMilada Polišenská
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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What Did Russia Build Within—the Digital Gulag or the Cyberpunk?
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Andrei ZakharovClemena AntonovaKirill Rogov
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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The Afghan Crisis Reconsidered
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Ludger HagedornNergis CanefePaula Banerjee
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
When the U.S. government announced its withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Afghan government folded, the president abandonend his people and the army surrendered to the Taliban. Many people, including the U.S. president looked askance at this development. Banerjee argues that such a development was hardly surprising. When the U.S. attacked Afghanistan, it was to create a client state that would protect U.S. interests, not those of Afghanistan or its neighbours. In fact, the nascent process of nation-building was halted. The US wanted to impose its values and most Afghans who went along with it did so out of self-interest. At best, the U.S. created a “creamy layer of collaborators” that in no way had deep rooted impact. When the U.S. left, there was nothing to hold the amorphous group together and they could not think of themselves as one nation. Many have fled, the others have surrendered to the Taliban, portraying clearly that it was never their war. Rather, it was another episode of the great game.
Nergis Canefe discussed the history of the Afghan refugee crisis that predates the withdrawal of the U.S. troops and the regional containment and redistribution of the dispossessed Afghan populations.
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
When the U.S. government announced its withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Afghan government folded, the president abandonend his people and the army surrendered to the Taliban. Many people, including the U.S. president looked askance at this development. Banerjee argues that such a development was hardly surprising. When the U.S. attacked Afghanistan, it was to create a client state that would protect U.S. interests, not those of Afghanistan or its neighbours. In fact, the nascent process of nation-building was halted. The US wanted to impose its values and most Afghans who went along with it did so out of self-interest. At best, the U.S. created a “creamy layer of collaborators” that in no way had deep rooted impact. When the U.S. left, there was nothing to hold the amorphous group together and they could not think of themselves as one nation. Many have fled, the others have surrendered to the Taliban, portraying clearly that it was never their war. Rather, it was another episode of the great game.
Nergis Canefe discussed the history of the Afghan refugee crisis that predates the withdrawal of the U.S. troops and the regional containment and redistribution of the dispossessed Afghan populations.
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Marginalized (not only) in Times of Lockdown
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Alison SmaleLudger HagedornNoémi Kiss
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
In recent months, culture and the arts have suffered severely under pandemic-related restrictions. While artists, freelancers, independent projects, and even publicly funded cultural institutions are struggling for economic survival, we easily overlook the fact that—also in “normal times”—the autonomy of culture is increasingly being called into question. With respect to the immediate effects of this political and economic pressure on the arts, there is a major divide between cultural centers and those operating on the periphery. Most heavily affected by the asymmetric consequences of these pressures are not the trend-setter elites in cultural centers, or the publicly funded (non-)artists on the semi-peripheries, but all those who do not move to the cultural capitals. That is, those who decide to uphold cultural projects on the periphery—where they are most direly needed. Within Europe, there is also a significant East-West divide, not only in terms of the distribution of funding, but also in regard to the autonomy of art. This talk dealt with the situation of cultural actors on the periphery, confronted with emigration, poverty, de-/nationalization, walls, borders, ghettos, diseases, regime changes, and a new intra-European colonization.
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
In recent months, culture and the arts have suffered severely under pandemic-related restrictions. While artists, freelancers, independent projects, and even publicly funded cultural institutions are struggling for economic survival, we easily overlook the fact that—also in “normal times”—the autonomy of culture is increasingly being called into question. With respect to the immediate effects of this political and economic pressure on the arts, there is a major divide between cultural centers and those operating on the periphery. Most heavily affected by the asymmetric consequences of these pressures are not the trend-setter elites in cultural centers, or the publicly funded (non-)artists on the semi-peripheries, but all those who do not move to the cultural capitals. That is, those who decide to uphold cultural projects on the periphery—where they are most direly needed. Within Europe, there is also a significant East-West divide, not only in terms of the distribution of funding, but also in regard to the autonomy of art. This talk dealt with the situation of cultural actors on the periphery, confronted with emigration, poverty, de-/nationalization, walls, borders, ghettos, diseases, regime changes, and a new intra-European colonization.
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Workers’ Experiences of Post-Soviet Deindustrialisation
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Anastasiya RyabchukMarci Shore
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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An Aromatic Trail through the Centuries: The Damascene Rose as Art, Economics, and Anthropology on the Silk Road and Beyond
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Yavor SiderovAyşe Çağlar
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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What is Wrong with Economics?
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Robert Skidelsky
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A Black Box in Dark Times: Russian Public Opinion in the Midst of Despotism and War
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Ivan KrastevKirill Rogov
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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