Events / Ludger Hagedorn

	Title	Date Sort descending	Type	Speakers
	Vorhang auf oder Schotten dicht? Was bleibt von 1989?	Sun, 17.02.2019	Panels and Discussions	Basil Kerski Ludger Hagedorn Noémi KissErhard Busek, Radek Knapp, Lisa Nimmervoll	Vorhang auf oder Schotten dicht? Was bleibt von 1989? Sun, 17.02.2019 Speakers: Basil Kerski Ludger Hagedorn Noémi KissErhard Busek, Radek Knapp, Lisa Nimmervoll Series: Panels and Discussions Im Frühsommer 1989 bekam der Eiserne Vorhang erste Risse. Im November 1989 fiel symbolträchtig die Berliner Mauer, bis Jahresende verschwanden die alten Regime in der DDR, in Polen, Ungarn, in der Tschechoslowakei, in Bulgarien und Rumänien. Es war eine historische Zäsur – politisch, wirtschaftlich, gesellschaftlich. Plötzlich schienen Freiheit und Demokratie überall möglich, und das geteilte Europa sah sich als wiedervereint. Was aber wurde aus diesem historischen Aufbruch? Was ist geblieben von 1989? Read more
Vorhang auf oder Schotten dicht? Was bleibt von 1989? Sun, 17.02.2019 Speakers: Basil Kerski Ludger Hagedorn Noémi KissErhard Busek, Radek Knapp, Lisa Nimmervoll Series: Panels and Discussions Im Frühsommer 1989 bekam der Eiserne Vorhang erste Risse. Im November 1989 fiel symbolträchtig die Berliner Mauer, bis Jahresende verschwanden die alten Regime in der DDR, in Polen, Ungarn, in der Tschechoslowakei, in Bulgarien und Rumänien. Es war eine historische Zäsur – politisch, wirtschaftlich, gesellschaftlich. Plötzlich schienen Freiheit und Demokratie überall möglich, und das geteilte Europa sah sich als wiedervereint. Was aber wurde aus diesem historischen Aufbruch? Was ist geblieben von 1989? Read more
	Junior Fellows’ Conference	Thu, 16.05.2019	Conferences and Workshops	Aishwary Kumar Aleksandra Głos Alicja Rybkowska Anastasiya Ryabchuk Eva Schwab Hubert Czyzewski Ivan Krastev Krzysztof Skonieczny Ludger Hagedorn Luiza Bialasiewicz Marci Shore Paweł Grad Sanja Dragic Zofia Smolarska Miloš Vec	Junior Fellows’ Conference Thu, 16.05.2019 Speakers: Aishwary Kumar Aleksandra Głos Alicja Rybkowska Anastasiya Ryabchuk Eva Schwab Hubert Czyzewski Ivan Krastev Krzysztof Skonieczny Ludger Hagedorn Luiza Bialasiewicz Marci Shore Paweł Grad Sanja Dragic Zofia Smolarska Miloš Vec Series: Conferences and Workshops Program 10:00–10:30 Martha Nussbaum and the Uses of Imagination in Political Philosophy Krzysztof Skoneczny Assistant Professor, Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw Discussant: Aishwary Kumar Read more
Junior Fellows’ Conference Thu, 16.05.2019 Speakers: Aishwary Kumar Aleksandra Głos Alicja Rybkowska Anastasiya Ryabchuk Eva Schwab Hubert Czyzewski Ivan Krastev Krzysztof Skonieczny Ludger Hagedorn Luiza Bialasiewicz Marci Shore Paweł Grad Sanja Dragic Zofia Smolarska Miloš Vec Series: Conferences and Workshops Program 10:00–10:30 Martha Nussbaum and the Uses of Imagination in Political Philosophy Krzysztof Skoneczny Assistant Professor, Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw Discussant: Aishwary Kumar Read more
	Democracy and Its Enemies	Wed, 22.05.2019	Panels and Discussions	Chantal Mouffe Ludger Hagedorn Shalini RanderiaPeter Engelmann	Democracy and Its Enemies Wed, 22.05.2019 Speakers: Chantal Mouffe Ludger Hagedorn Shalini RanderiaPeter Engelmann Series: Panels and Discussions Democracy is undoubtedly the most successful form of government in our times. Unlike in the early 20th century democracy today is neither endangered by dictators or by military coup d’état. We are witnessing instead a growing erosion of democracy and its legitimacy from the inside. The title the IWM publication expresses this new threat succinctly Wenn Demokratien demokratisch untergehen (When Democracies are dismantled democratically). The volume marks the resumption of a series of IWM publications in cooperation with Passagen Verlag, Vienna. Read more
Democracy and Its Enemies Wed, 22.05.2019 Speakers: Chantal Mouffe Ludger Hagedorn Shalini RanderiaPeter Engelmann Series: Panels and Discussions Democracy is undoubtedly the most successful form of government in our times. Unlike in the early 20th century democracy today is neither endangered by dictators or by military coup d’état. We are witnessing instead a growing erosion of democracy and its legitimacy from the inside. The title the IWM publication expresses this new threat succinctly Wenn Demokratien demokratisch untergehen (When Democracies are dismantled democratically). The volume marks the resumption of a series of IWM publications in cooperation with Passagen Verlag, Vienna. Read more
	Popular Sovereignty, Majority Rule, and Electoral Politics	Thu, 30.05.2019 - Sat, 01.06.2019	Conferences and Workshops	Aishwary Kumar Ayşe Çağlar Charles Taylor Ewa Atanassow Ludger Hagedorn Shalini RanderiaBenjamin Lee, Michael Ignatieff, Craig Calhoun, Nilüfer Göle, Luciana Chamorro, Arudra Burra, Mukulika Banerjee, Deval Desai	Popular Sovereignty, Majority Rule, and Electoral Politics Thu, 30.05.2019 - Sat, 01.06.2019 Speakers: Aishwary Kumar Ayşe Çağlar Charles Taylor Ewa Atanassow Ludger Hagedorn Shalini RanderiaBenjamin Lee, Michael Ignatieff, Craig Calhoun, Nilüfer Göle, Luciana Chamorro, Arudra Burra, Mukulika Banerjee, Deval Desai Series: Conferences and Workshops The three concepts-popular sovereignty, majority rule and electoral politics-as embodied in institutional arrangements and practices, are seen as constitutive of the modern democratic project as it has evolved over the last three hundred years or more. However, in recent decades those concepts and their institutional expressions are beginning to threaten and undermine the spirit and norms of democracy everywhere, including in economically advanced liberal societies in the West. This conference interrogated and explored this challenge “internal” to the democratic project itself. Read more
Popular Sovereignty, Majority Rule, and Electoral Politics Thu, 30.05.2019 - Sat, 01.06.2019 Speakers: Aishwary Kumar Ayşe Çağlar Charles Taylor Ewa Atanassow Ludger Hagedorn Shalini RanderiaBenjamin Lee, Michael Ignatieff, Craig Calhoun, Nilüfer Göle, Luciana Chamorro, Arudra Burra, Mukulika Banerjee, Deval Desai Series: Conferences and Workshops The three concepts-popular sovereignty, majority rule and electoral politics-as embodied in institutional arrangements and practices, are seen as constitutive of the modern democratic project as it has evolved over the last three hundred years or more. However, in recent decades those concepts and their institutional expressions are beginning to threaten and undermine the spirit and norms of democracy everywhere, including in economically advanced liberal societies in the West. This conference interrogated and explored this challenge “internal” to the democratic project itself. Read more
	The Future of Work	Mon, 03.06.2019	Panels and Discussions	Ludger Hagedorn Robert SkidelskyMichal Pechoucek	The Future of Work Mon, 03.06.2019 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Robert SkidelskyMichal Pechoucek Series: Panels and Discussions In contemporary discussions about the future of artificial intelligence we often lose our heads. While economists offer bleak predictions of mass job losses and a deepening of already widespread precarity, Silicon Valley utopians insist that new technologies are bringing us ever closer together and will one day deliver us from work, disease and poverty. But when human life is reduced to a set of rational processes waiting to be optimized, we risk losing sight of the irreducible quality of human experience. With his characteristic attention to the subtleties of the human condition, Robert Skidelsky offers a challenging account of what it means to pursue the good life in the age of the machines. Read more
The Future of Work Mon, 03.06.2019 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Robert SkidelskyMichal Pechoucek Series: Panels and Discussions In contemporary discussions about the future of artificial intelligence we often lose our heads. While economists offer bleak predictions of mass job losses and a deepening of already widespread precarity, Silicon Valley utopians insist that new technologies are bringing us ever closer together and will one day deliver us from work, disease and poverty. But when human life is reduced to a set of rational processes waiting to be optimized, we risk losing sight of the irreducible quality of human experience. With his characteristic attention to the subtleties of the human condition, Robert Skidelsky offers a challenging account of what it means to pursue the good life in the age of the machines. Read more
	Facing Post-Truth in Central-Eastern Europe	Mon, 27.01.2020	Seminars and Colloquia	Arvydas Grišinas Ludger Hagedorn	Facing Post-Truth in Central-Eastern Europe Mon, 27.01.2020 Speakers: Arvydas Grišinas Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia The main challenge that post-truth poses, as the concept itself suggests, is the alleged end of centrality of the idea of truth in politics. Central and Eastern Europe finds itself in a political culture where claims, ideas and utterances must no longer necessarily be grounded in proven empirical facts, in order to be held true by the broader public. This situation, however, is by no means new or unheard of. In this regard, it resembles Soviet social reality, where officially held narratives also had scant empirical grounding. Furthermore, while it were Central-Eastern European dissidents who problematized these issues and set out to successfully counter them, resulting in the events of 1989, the same dissident heritage is also used nowadays to promote agendas of populist illiberal regimes in the region. The talk explored the prospects and challenges to utilizing the dissident heritage to tackling these contemporary issues. Read more
Facing Post-Truth in Central-Eastern Europe Mon, 27.01.2020 Speakers: Arvydas Grišinas Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia The main challenge that post-truth poses, as the concept itself suggests, is the alleged end of centrality of the idea of truth in politics. Central and Eastern Europe finds itself in a political culture where claims, ideas and utterances must no longer necessarily be grounded in proven empirical facts, in order to be held true by the broader public. This situation, however, is by no means new or unheard of. In this regard, it resembles Soviet social reality, where officially held narratives also had scant empirical grounding. Furthermore, while it were Central-Eastern European dissidents who problematized these issues and set out to successfully counter them, resulting in the events of 1989, the same dissident heritage is also used nowadays to promote agendas of populist illiberal regimes in the region. The talk explored the prospects and challenges to utilizing the dissident heritage to tackling these contemporary issues. Read more
	The Importance of Being Funny	Mon, 06.04.2020	Seminars and Colloquia	Ludger Hagedorn Mila Ganeva	The Importance of Being Funny Mon, 06.04.2020 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Mila Ganeva Series: Seminars and Colloquia This talk was part of a book project on the cultural history of Jewish artistic presence in German-speaking cabaret and film in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. (During her fellowship at the IWM, Mila Ganeva was researching materials at the Austrian Exile Archive at ÖNB and the Österreichisches Kabarettarchiv in Graz.) In this presentation for the colloquium, she focused on a representative figure of cabaret and film, the German-Jewish comedian Siegfried Arno. Arno, who was labeled by contemporaries “our Buster Keaton”, was enormously successful on both the cabaret stage and the silver screen. In the 1920s, Arno and many of his colleagues were also at the centre of the so-called “cabaret wars”, as they were accused (and often sued) by the Centralverein of the German Citizens of the Jewish Faith of excessive use of Jewish jokes and fuelling antisemitism. The presentation reviewed Arno’s role in the very public debate about Jews in cabaret and film, and explored some of his actual performances in films as well as on the stage of the Kabarett der Komiker. Read more
The Importance of Being Funny Mon, 06.04.2020 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Mila Ganeva Series: Seminars and Colloquia This talk was part of a book project on the cultural history of Jewish artistic presence in German-speaking cabaret and film in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. (During her fellowship at the IWM, Mila Ganeva was researching materials at the Austrian Exile Archive at ÖNB and the Österreichisches Kabarettarchiv in Graz.) In this presentation for the colloquium, she focused on a representative figure of cabaret and film, the German-Jewish comedian Siegfried Arno. Arno, who was labeled by contemporaries “our Buster Keaton”, was enormously successful on both the cabaret stage and the silver screen. In the 1920s, Arno and many of his colleagues were also at the centre of the so-called “cabaret wars”, as they were accused (and often sued) by the Centralverein of the German Citizens of the Jewish Faith of excessive use of Jewish jokes and fuelling antisemitism. The presentation reviewed Arno’s role in the very public debate about Jews in cabaret and film, and explored some of his actual performances in films as well as on the stage of the Kabarett der Komiker. Read more
	Communism Never Happened	Tue, 14.04.2020	Seminars and Colloquia	Jan Sowa Ludger Hagedorn	Communism Never Happened Tue, 14.04.2020 Speakers: Jan Sowa Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia Almost every time a public discussion deals with questions of redistribution or social justice, there is a person standing up and saying something like: “Yes, we know that experiments from history and they all end up in some kind of Gulags!” This can be observed e.g. in debates around Corbynism in the UK or Bernie Sanders in the US, when they are portrayed as vicious Marxists who want to reanimate ugly socialism. The proposition of this talk was to look at the historical experience of Eastern Europe and try to answer the question to what extent it was a communist experience, if matched with the vision and principles of communism as constructed in the 19th and 20th century. The goal was to show that however we evaluate that period, calling it “communist” makes no more sense than agreeing that the German Democratic Republic was “democratic”, because this was asserted by its propaganda and its official name. The talk tried to put forward an analytical framework that allows for a better conceptualization and a more accurate description of the actually existing “communism.” Read more
Communism Never Happened Tue, 14.04.2020 Speakers: Jan Sowa Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia Almost every time a public discussion deals with questions of redistribution or social justice, there is a person standing up and saying something like: “Yes, we know that experiments from history and they all end up in some kind of Gulags!” This can be observed e.g. in debates around Corbynism in the UK or Bernie Sanders in the US, when they are portrayed as vicious Marxists who want to reanimate ugly socialism. The proposition of this talk was to look at the historical experience of Eastern Europe and try to answer the question to what extent it was a communist experience, if matched with the vision and principles of communism as constructed in the 19th and 20th century. The goal was to show that however we evaluate that period, calling it “communist” makes no more sense than agreeing that the German Democratic Republic was “democratic”, because this was asserted by its propaganda and its official name. The talk tried to put forward an analytical framework that allows for a better conceptualization and a more accurate description of the actually existing “communism.” Read more
	Democratic Backsliding in Eastern Europe	Mon, 20.04.2020	Seminars and Colloquia	Ludger Hagedorn Venelin Ganev	Democratic Backsliding in Eastern Europe Mon, 20.04.2020 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Venelin Ganev Series: Seminars and Colloquia Back in the late 2000s, when all former Soviet satellites in Eastern Europe acquired full membership of the European Union, it appeared as if these countries were on their way to democratic normality. What happened instead was that many of them underwent democratic backsliding. As the region transitioned from the accession to the post-accession era, the institutional, legal and political parameters of elite action were dramatically and swiftly reconfigured in ways that facilitated the rise of ambitious, illiberal projects. Read more
Democratic Backsliding in Eastern Europe Mon, 20.04.2020 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Venelin Ganev Series: Seminars and Colloquia Back in the late 2000s, when all former Soviet satellites in Eastern Europe acquired full membership of the European Union, it appeared as if these countries were on their way to democratic normality. What happened instead was that many of them underwent democratic backsliding. As the region transitioned from the accession to the post-accession era, the institutional, legal and political parameters of elite action were dramatically and swiftly reconfigured in ways that facilitated the rise of ambitious, illiberal projects. Read more
	Leben im – und Wege aus dem – „Corona-Camp“	Mon, 11.05.2020	Seminars and Colloquia	Bernd Marin Ludger HagedornAugust Ruhs	Leben im – und Wege aus dem – „Corona-Camp“ Mon, 11.05.2020 Speakers: Bernd Marin Ludger HagedornAugust Ruhs Series: Seminars and Colloquia Der renommierte österreichische Sozialwissenschaftler Bernd Marin hat in zwei Interviews (beide in voller Länge nachzulesen im Corona Blog des IWM) das Leben im „Corona-Camp” (6. April; eine vielbeachtete Kurzfassung erschien am 12. April in der Ostersonntagsausgabe des KURIER) sowie Post-Quarantimes: Wege aus dem „Corona-Camp“ (29. April) kritisch reflektiert. Im Rahmen des virtuellen IWM-Kolloquiums stellte sich Bernd Marin öffentlich den Fragen zu seinen beiden Interviews (hier eine mögliche Auswahl) und diskutierte mit dem bekannten Psychiater August Ruhs. Read more
Leben im – und Wege aus dem – „Corona-Camp“ Mon, 11.05.2020 Speakers: Bernd Marin Ludger HagedornAugust Ruhs Series: Seminars and Colloquia Der renommierte österreichische Sozialwissenschaftler Bernd Marin hat in zwei Interviews (beide in voller Länge nachzulesen im Corona Blog des IWM) das Leben im „Corona-Camp” (6. April; eine vielbeachtete Kurzfassung erschien am 12. April in der Ostersonntagsausgabe des KURIER) sowie Post-Quarantimes: Wege aus dem „Corona-Camp“ (29. April) kritisch reflektiert. Im Rahmen des virtuellen IWM-Kolloquiums stellte sich Bernd Marin öffentlich den Fragen zu seinen beiden Interviews (hier eine mögliche Auswahl) und diskutierte mit dem bekannten Psychiater August Ruhs. Read more