Events / Timothy Snyder

	Title	Date	Type Sort descending	Speakers
	Ukraine: Thinking Together	Thu, 15.05.2014 - Mon, 19.05.2014	Conferences and Workshops	Timothy Snyder	Ukraine: Thinking Together Thu, 15.05.2014 - Mon, 19.05.2014 Speakers: Timothy Snyder Series: Conferences and Workshops Under the heading “Ukraine: Thinking Together” an international group of intellectuals gathered in Kyiv to demonstrate solidarity, meet their Ukrainian counterparts, and carry out a broad public discussion about the meaning of Ukrainian pluralism for the future of Europe, Russia, and the world. The discussions, which took place from 15 to 19 May, featured some of Europe’s, America’s, Russia’s and Ukraine’s most interesting opinion makers and intellectuals, including Wolf Biermann, Slavenka Drakulic, Viktor Erofeyev, Agnieszka Holland, Yaroslav Hrytsak, Bernard Kouchner, Ivan Krastev, Andrey Kurkov, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Adam Michnik, Mustafa Nayem, Mykola Riabchuk, Karl Schlögel, Karl Schwarzenberg, Sławomir Sierakowski, Timothy Snyder, Serhii Zhadan, and Josef Zissels. Read more
Ukraine: Thinking Together Thu, 15.05.2014 - Mon, 19.05.2014 Speakers: Timothy Snyder Series: Conferences and Workshops Under the heading “Ukraine: Thinking Together” an international group of intellectuals gathered in Kyiv to demonstrate solidarity, meet their Ukrainian counterparts, and carry out a broad public discussion about the meaning of Ukrainian pluralism for the future of Europe, Russia, and the world. The discussions, which took place from 15 to 19 May, featured some of Europe’s, America’s, Russia’s and Ukraine’s most interesting opinion makers and intellectuals, including Wolf Biermann, Slavenka Drakulic, Viktor Erofeyev, Agnieszka Holland, Yaroslav Hrytsak, Bernard Kouchner, Ivan Krastev, Andrey Kurkov, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Adam Michnik, Mustafa Nayem, Mykola Riabchuk, Karl Schlögel, Karl Schwarzenberg, Sławomir Sierakowski, Timothy Snyder, Serhii Zhadan, and Josef Zissels. Read more
	On Solidarity	Sun, 13.08.2006 - Sat, 26.08.2006	Conferences and Workshops	Claus Offe Ivan Krastev Krzysztof Michalski Marci Shore Marcin Król Timothy SnyderUte Frevert, Norman Naimark, Birgit Sauer, Aleksander Smolar, Gianni Vattimo	On Solidarity Sun, 13.08.2006 - Sat, 26.08.2006 Speakers: Claus Offe Ivan Krastev Krzysztof Michalski Marci Shore Marcin Król Timothy SnyderUte Frevert, Norman Naimark, Birgit Sauer, Aleksander Smolar, Gianni Vattimo Series: Conferences and Workshops The IWM organized the summer school in 2006 exclusively for its alumni. They constitute a distinguished, exceptionally diverse international network of researchers and intellectuals. Read more
On Solidarity Sun, 13.08.2006 - Sat, 26.08.2006 Speakers: Claus Offe Ivan Krastev Krzysztof Michalski Marci Shore Marcin Król Timothy SnyderUte Frevert, Norman Naimark, Birgit Sauer, Aleksander Smolar, Gianni Vattimo Series: Conferences and Workshops The IWM organized the summer school in 2006 exclusively for its alumni. They constitute a distinguished, exceptionally diverse international network of researchers and intellectuals. Read more
	Bearing Witness to War	Wed, 08.02.2023	Exhibition	Katherine Younger Timothy Snyder Volodymyr Yermolenko	Bearing Witness to War Wed, 08.02.2023 Speakers: Katherine Younger Timothy Snyder Volodymyr Yermolenko Series: Exhibition With 200 projects now funded by the Documenting Ukraine program, this event was designed to highlight the work of the Documenting Ukraine grantees and present early results from the program. It was an opportunity for grantees and round table participants to network with the wider IWM community. The evening brought together a variety of interested publics, including those who influence opinion and craft policy, to foster a greater understanding of both the program and the work of those it supports, who are bearing witness to war. The evening also included the opening of a preview exhibition of art and photography from Documenting Ukraine projects. From eight artists working in different media, the exhibition is a preview of a larger exhibition to take place later in 2023. Read more
Bearing Witness to War Wed, 08.02.2023 Speakers: Katherine Younger Timothy Snyder Volodymyr Yermolenko Series: Exhibition With 200 projects now funded by the Documenting Ukraine program, this event was designed to highlight the work of the Documenting Ukraine grantees and present early results from the program. It was an opportunity for grantees and round table participants to network with the wider IWM community. The evening brought together a variety of interested publics, including those who influence opinion and craft policy, to foster a greater understanding of both the program and the work of those it supports, who are bearing witness to war. The evening also included the opening of a preview exhibition of art and photography from Documenting Ukraine projects. From eight artists working in different media, the exhibition is a preview of a larger exhibition to take place later in 2023. Read more
	Ukraine, Russia, and Europe, Past and Future	Mon, 29.06.2015	Lecture	Timothy Snyder	Ukraine, Russia, and Europe, Past and Future Mon, 29.06.2015 Speakers: Timothy Snyder Series: Lecture President Putin has used the occasion of the Russian invasion of southern and southeastern Ukraine to provide alternative readings of contemporary European history. Read more

	Alien Logic	Tue, 11.05.2021	Lecture	Ayşe Çağlar Martin Burckhardt Timothy Snyder	Alien Logic Tue, 11.05.2021 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Martin Burckhardt Timothy Snyder Series: Lecture Bronislaw Malinowski has shown with his ethnological studies that a supposedly primitive society can be of astonishing complexity, as well as why the structure of this order remains obscure to its members. Obviously, modern societies also suffer from system blindness – why else is digitization said to have chiliastic, diabolic, magical powers? In a continuation to his cultural-theoretical investigations on the genealogy and philosophy of the machine, Martin Burckhardt explores the question of how the self-enchantment of rationality can occur, and to what extent the operating system of the attention economy can be read as an outsourced unconscious. This, in turn, leads back to the point of departure: what perspective must a contemporary social anthropologist take in order to read the present? Read more
Alien Logic Tue, 11.05.2021 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Martin Burckhardt Timothy Snyder Series: Lecture Bronislaw Malinowski has shown with his ethnological studies that a supposedly primitive society can be of astonishing complexity, as well as why the structure of this order remains obscure to its members. Obviously, modern societies also suffer from system blindness – why else is digitization said to have chiliastic, diabolic, magical powers? In a continuation to his cultural-theoretical investigations on the genealogy and philosophy of the machine, Martin Burckhardt explores the question of how the self-enchantment of rationality can occur, and to what extent the operating system of the attention economy can be read as an outsourced unconscious. This, in turn, leads back to the point of departure: what perspective must a contemporary social anthropologist take in order to read the present? Read more
	Judenplatz 1010	Thu, 09.05.2019	Lecture	Timothy Snyder	Judenplatz 1010 Thu, 09.05.2019 Speakers: Timothy Snyder Series: Lecture ERSTE Foundation has initiated a public lecture, which will be held annually at Judenplatz as of 2019, in honour of Europe Day. The first speaker was the prominent historian Timothy Snyder from Yale University, who is also a Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. The place and time chosen for the lecture are no coincidence: European history is presented at Vienna’s Judenplatz like in no other place. Every year will provide a new opportunity to ask: Which text emanates from this urban space today? A text that shows the European narrative, which brought forth today’s Europe, in a different light. It is a contribution towards giving this idea of Europe – which for so long was an assurance of peace – a place in the centre of the city and of our awareness. Read more
Judenplatz 1010 Thu, 09.05.2019 Speakers: Timothy Snyder Series: Lecture ERSTE Foundation has initiated a public lecture, which will be held annually at Judenplatz as of 2019, in honour of Europe Day. The first speaker was the prominent historian Timothy Snyder from Yale University, who is also a Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. The place and time chosen for the lecture are no coincidence: European history is presented at Vienna’s Judenplatz like in no other place. Every year will provide a new opportunity to ask: Which text emanates from this urban space today? A text that shows the European narrative, which brought forth today’s Europe, in a different light. It is a contribution towards giving this idea of Europe – which for so long was an assurance of peace – a place in the centre of the city and of our awareness. Read more
	Putin’s Memory War. Russia’s Battles over the History of World War II	Tue, 26.01.2021	Lecture	Clemena Antonova Sergei Medvedev Timothy Snyder	Putin’s Memory War. Russia’s Battles over the History of World War II Tue, 26.01.2021 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Sergei Medvedev Timothy Snyder Series: Lecture In the past decade, memory politics has become greatly contested. Russia under Putin launched a major propaganda offensive ahead of the 75th anniversary of victory in World War II (8 May in the rest of the world, 9 May in Russia), aiming to fight the “falsifications” of war history by the West, and to deny the crimes of Stalinism during the War. This presentation explored the implications of this memory war on Russia’s relations with Europe, and its role in legitimizing the ruling regime. Read more
Putin’s Memory War. Russia’s Battles over the History of World War II Tue, 26.01.2021 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Sergei Medvedev Timothy Snyder Series: Lecture In the past decade, memory politics has become greatly contested. Russia under Putin launched a major propaganda offensive ahead of the 75th anniversary of victory in World War II (8 May in the rest of the world, 9 May in Russia), aiming to fight the “falsifications” of war history by the West, and to deny the crimes of Stalinism during the War. This presentation explored the implications of this memory war on Russia’s relations with Europe, and its role in legitimizing the ruling regime. Read more
	A Short History of Prison Noise	Tue, 23.02.2021	Lecture	Felix Ackermann Iryna Vushko Timothy Snyder	A Short History of Prison Noise Tue, 23.02.2021 Speakers: Felix Ackermann Iryna Vushko Timothy Snyder Series: Lecture Noise can be understood as sonic violence and analysed as a central means of communication during the recurring prison riots in the early 20th-century Habsburg Empire. For both prison administrators and state-appointed public prosecutors, silence was synonymous with discipline and order. This definition gave criminal prisoners an opportunity to bargain silence in exchange for legally slight yet routine-revising changes within the regime of incarceration. Noise wielded such powerful leverage because it spread inmates’ demands from inside the prison to nearby streets – in this case, those of the Habsburg city of Lemberg. Inmates were able to use their prison buildings as a space of resonance – in both physical and symbolic ways. Read more
A Short History of Prison Noise Tue, 23.02.2021 Speakers: Felix Ackermann Iryna Vushko Timothy Snyder Series: Lecture Noise can be understood as sonic violence and analysed as a central means of communication during the recurring prison riots in the early 20th-century Habsburg Empire. For both prison administrators and state-appointed public prosecutors, silence was synonymous with discipline and order. This definition gave criminal prisoners an opportunity to bargain silence in exchange for legally slight yet routine-revising changes within the regime of incarceration. Noise wielded such powerful leverage because it spread inmates’ demands from inside the prison to nearby streets – in this case, those of the Habsburg city of Lemberg. Inmates were able to use their prison buildings as a space of resonance – in both physical and symbolic ways. Read more
	Ukraine, Russia, and Europe, Past and Future	Tue, 16.06.2015	Lecture	Timothy Snyder	Ukraine, Russia, and Europe, Past and Future Tue, 16.06.2015 Speakers: Timothy Snyder Series: Lecture The crisis in Ukraine has provoked a number of unhelpful intellectual responses in Russia and the West, notably the resort to ethnic and linguistic definitions of identity and destiny that have long been discredited both in scholarship and in EU political practice. Read more
Ukraine, Russia, and Europe, Past and Future Tue, 16.06.2015 Speakers: Timothy Snyder Series: Lecture The crisis in Ukraine has provoked a number of unhelpful intellectual responses in Russia and the West, notably the resort to ethnic and linguistic definitions of identity and destiny that have long been discredited both in scholarship and in EU political practice. Read more
	Liberty after Liberalism: Emancipatory Struggles in Ukrainian Journalism, 1998-2021	Mon, 10.07.2023	Lecture	Katherine Younger Mary Kaldor Taras Fedirko Timothy Snyder	Liberty after Liberalism: Emancipatory Struggles in Ukrainian Journalism, 1998-2021 Mon, 10.07.2023 Speakers: Katherine Younger Mary Kaldor Taras Fedirko Timothy Snyder Series: Lecture This talk traced the emergence and transformation of a movement for the reform of Ukrainian journalism in 1998-2021 in order to explore the rise of an anti-oligarchic liberalism and its effects on civic conflicts in pre-invasion Ukraine. Read more
Liberty after Liberalism: Emancipatory Struggles in Ukrainian Journalism, 1998-2021 Mon, 10.07.2023 Speakers: Katherine Younger Mary Kaldor Taras Fedirko Timothy Snyder Series: Lecture This talk traced the emergence and transformation of a movement for the reform of Ukrainian journalism in 1998-2021 in order to explore the rise of an anti-oligarchic liberalism and its effects on civic conflicts in pre-invasion Ukraine. Read more