Events / Ludger Hagedorn

	Title	Date	Type Sort ascending	Speakers
	Philosophische Miniaturen	Sat, 26.09.2020	Visual and Performing Arts	Jan Frei Ludger Hagedorn Michaela AdelbergerJakob Rendl	Philosophische Miniaturen Sat, 26.09.2020 Speakers: Jan Frei Ludger Hagedorn Michaela AdelbergerJakob Rendl Series: Visual and Performing Arts Die “Philosophischen Miniaturen” stellten in Lesungen und Gesprächen das Werk des Philosophen Jan Patocka vor. Patocka ist nicht nur der wichtigste tschechische Philosoph des 20. Jahrhunderts, sondern war auch eng mit der Charta 77 verbunden. Read more
Philosophische Miniaturen Sat, 26.09.2020 Speakers: Jan Frei Ludger Hagedorn Michaela AdelbergerJakob Rendl Series: Visual and Performing Arts Die “Philosophischen Miniaturen” stellten in Lesungen und Gesprächen das Werk des Philosophen Jan Patocka vor. Patocka ist nicht nur der wichtigste tschechische Philosoph des 20. Jahrhunderts, sondern war auch eng mit der Charta 77 verbunden. Read more
	Krzysztof Michalski In Memoriam	Mon, 13.02.2023	Social and Networking Events	Agnieszka Pasieka James Dodd Klaus Nellen Marci Shore Piotr Kubasiak Timothy Snyder Ludger HagedornMonika Szmigiel-Turlej	Krzysztof Michalski In Memoriam Mon, 13.02.2023 Speakers: Agnieszka Pasieka James Dodd Klaus Nellen Marci Shore Piotr Kubasiak Timothy Snyder Ludger HagedornMonika Szmigiel-Turlej Series: Social and Networking Events Im Februar 2023 ist der 10. Todestag von Krzysztof Michalski, weltgewandter Philosoph, charismatische Persönlichkeit mit Organisationstalent und, nicht zuletzt, Gründer und langjähriger Rektor des IWM. Freunde und Wegbegleiter, die ihn kannten, schätzten und bisweilen kritisierten, erinnerten an eine herausragende Person der polnischen und österreichischen Zeitgeschichte, an einen Brückenbauer mit großen Verdiensten für Europa Ost und West. Read more
Krzysztof Michalski In Memoriam Mon, 13.02.2023 Speakers: Agnieszka Pasieka James Dodd Klaus Nellen Marci Shore Piotr Kubasiak Timothy Snyder Ludger HagedornMonika Szmigiel-Turlej Series: Social and Networking Events Im Februar 2023 ist der 10. Todestag von Krzysztof Michalski, weltgewandter Philosoph, charismatische Persönlichkeit mit Organisationstalent und, nicht zuletzt, Gründer und langjähriger Rektor des IWM. Freunde und Wegbegleiter, die ihn kannten, schätzten und bisweilen kritisierten, erinnerten an eine herausragende Person der polnischen und österreichischen Zeitgeschichte, an einen Brückenbauer mit großen Verdiensten für Europa Ost und West. Read more
	Ukraine and the Borders of Europe	Mon, 08.11.2021	Seminars and Colloquia	Katherine Younger Ludger Hagedorn Volodymyr Yermolenko	Ukraine and the Borders of Europe Mon, 08.11.2021 Speakers: Katherine Younger Ludger Hagedorn Volodymyr Yermolenko Series: Seminars and Colloquia Volodymyr Yermolenko explored how evolving ideas and imagination of Europe in the 18th-20th centuries shaped evolving ideas and imagination of Ukraine, in particular the image of Ukraine as the “big frontier”. Moving beyond the geographical sense of border/frontier inherent in Ukraine’s name, the focus here is on the mental and geo-philosophical aspect: the evolution of the mental borders of Europe and the concepts, metaphors, and imagination of Europe that shaped and reshaped how Ukraine and the Ukrainian lands have been seen in intellectual history, both from within and from without. Read more
Ukraine and the Borders of Europe Mon, 08.11.2021 Speakers: Katherine Younger Ludger Hagedorn Volodymyr Yermolenko Series: Seminars and Colloquia Volodymyr Yermolenko explored how evolving ideas and imagination of Europe in the 18th-20th centuries shaped evolving ideas and imagination of Ukraine, in particular the image of Ukraine as the “big frontier”. Moving beyond the geographical sense of border/frontier inherent in Ukraine’s name, the focus here is on the mental and geo-philosophical aspect: the evolution of the mental borders of Europe and the concepts, metaphors, and imagination of Europe that shaped and reshaped how Ukraine and the Ukrainian lands have been seen in intellectual history, both from within and from without. Read more
	Das Leben Passiert Nicht Außerhalb der Geschichte	Mon, 15.05.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Radka Denemarková Ludger Hagedorn	Das Leben Passiert Nicht Außerhalb der Geschichte Mon, 15.05.2023 Speakers: Radka Denemarková Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia Im Fellows Colloquium präsentierte Radka Denemarková ihre literarische Auseinandersetzung mit dem intellektuellen Vermächtnis Václav Havels und Jan Patočkas. Im Hintergrund spielen jedoch die mitteleuropäischen Erfahrungen des 20. Jahrhunderts und insbesondere die tschechoslowakische Dissidenz eine wichtige Rolle. Read more
Das Leben Passiert Nicht Außerhalb der Geschichte Mon, 15.05.2023 Speakers: Radka Denemarková Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia Im Fellows Colloquium präsentierte Radka Denemarková ihre literarische Auseinandersetzung mit dem intellektuellen Vermächtnis Václav Havels und Jan Patočkas. Im Hintergrund spielen jedoch die mitteleuropäischen Erfahrungen des 20. Jahrhunderts und insbesondere die tschechoslowakische Dissidenz eine wichtige Rolle. Read more
	Belarusian Protests: In Search of Democracy, or the Restructuring of State Institutions	Mon, 07.12.2020	Seminars and Colloquia	Ludger Hagedorn Marci Shore Pavel Barkouski	Belarusian Protests: In Search of Democracy, or the Restructuring of State Institutions Mon, 07.12.2020 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Marci Shore Pavel Barkouski Series: Seminars and Colloquia For more than 100 days in Minsk, citizens’ protests against the authorities, which falsified the results of the last presidential elections, have not subsided. Forms of suppression unprecedented in Europe – violence and brutality against protesters – have forced many citizens to reconsider their attitude to what is happening. If initially the protest was inspired by the desire to establish democratic mechanisms for the change of power, we are now talking about a more basic level of relations within the framework of the social contract. Citizens insist on a return to the meaning of constitutional rights. Read more
Belarusian Protests: In Search of Democracy, or the Restructuring of State Institutions Mon, 07.12.2020 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Marci Shore Pavel Barkouski Series: Seminars and Colloquia For more than 100 days in Minsk, citizens’ protests against the authorities, which falsified the results of the last presidential elections, have not subsided. Forms of suppression unprecedented in Europe – violence and brutality against protesters – have forced many citizens to reconsider their attitude to what is happening. If initially the protest was inspired by the desire to establish democratic mechanisms for the change of power, we are now talking about a more basic level of relations within the framework of the social contract. Citizens insist on a return to the meaning of constitutional rights. 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
	Whose Story? Which Sacrifice?	Mon, 08.02.2021	Seminars and Colloquia	Ludger Hagedorn Marci Shore	Whose Story? Which Sacrifice? Mon, 08.02.2021 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Marci Shore Series: Seminars and Colloquia Sacrifice may be a topic of intense philosophical-theological academic debate, but it is also the everyday experience of millions of ordinary people. Scholarly reflection on sacrifice has produced an ambiguous discourse which stretches across numerous disciplines from anthropology, to religious and social studies, to ethics. Sacrifice has of course developed within the religious-cultic context and can be traced in global religions and local cults alike. Read more
Whose Story? Which Sacrifice? Mon, 08.02.2021 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Marci Shore Series: Seminars and Colloquia Sacrifice may be a topic of intense philosophical-theological academic debate, but it is also the everyday experience of millions of ordinary people. Scholarly reflection on sacrifice has produced an ambiguous discourse which stretches across numerous disciplines from anthropology, to religious and social studies, to ethics. Sacrifice has of course developed within the religious-cultic context and can be traced in global religions and local cults alike. Read more
	Parrhesia and the Care of the Self: Foucault, Patočka, and Dissident Praxis	Mon, 13.05.2024	Seminars and Colloquia	Darren Gardner Ludger Hagedorn	Parrhesia and the Care of the Self: Foucault, Patočka, and Dissident Praxis Mon, 13.05.2024 Speakers: Darren Gardner Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia Drawing on an elaboration of their concepts of “care“, Darren Gardner discussed how Foucault and Patočka can be seen to contribute to an understanding of dissidence, and how that dissidence can be viewed in the light of a long but underappreciated tradition of cynic philosophical praxis. Read more
Parrhesia and the Care of the Self: Foucault, Patočka, and Dissident Praxis Mon, 13.05.2024 Speakers: Darren Gardner Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia Drawing on an elaboration of their concepts of “care“, Darren Gardner discussed how Foucault and Patočka can be seen to contribute to an understanding of dissidence, and how that dissidence can be viewed in the light of a long but underappreciated tradition of cynic philosophical praxis. Read more
	The “Sunny” Side Of The Holocaust. Dr. Endre Szántó’s Photo Album From His Forced Labour Service, 1940	Mon, 29.11.2021	Seminars and Colloquia	András Lénárt Ludger HagedornIngo Zechner	The “Sunny” Side Of The Holocaust. Dr. Endre Szántó’s Photo Album From His Forced Labour Service, 1940 Mon, 29.11.2021 Speakers: András Lénárt Ludger HagedornIngo Zechner Series: Seminars and Colloquia “Millions of images taken by SS propaganda teams and a smaller number of photographs taken by victims, bystanders and liberators have survived.” This is possibly the most cited sentence on the topic of Holocaust photography, written by Sybil Milton (Images of the Holocaust, 1986). However, in the case of Hungary only hundreds of images are known, and the systematic exploration of these is yet to take place. Read more
The “Sunny” Side Of The Holocaust. Dr. Endre Szántó’s Photo Album From His Forced Labour Service, 1940 Mon, 29.11.2021 Speakers: András Lénárt Ludger HagedornIngo Zechner Series: Seminars and Colloquia “Millions of images taken by SS propaganda teams and a smaller number of photographs taken by victims, bystanders and liberators have survived.” This is possibly the most cited sentence on the topic of Holocaust photography, written by Sybil Milton (Images of the Holocaust, 1986). However, in the case of Hungary only hundreds of images are known, and the systematic exploration of these is yet to take place. 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