Events / Program: Guests of the Institute

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Destroying Democracy by Law	Tue, 25.04.2023	Lecture	Kim Scheppele Misha Glenny	Destroying Democracy by Law Tue, 25.04.2023 Speakers: Kim Scheppele Misha Glenny Series: Lecture Until 2005, the number of democracies in the world had been steadily increasing; however, since that date, the number has declined. Even robust democracies are now showing signs of weakness and some have turned into hybrid regimes suspended between democracy and autocracy. What is killing off the world’s democracies, and what can be done about it? Read more
Destroying Democracy by Law Tue, 25.04.2023 Speakers: Kim Scheppele Misha Glenny Series: Lecture Until 2005, the number of democracies in the world had been steadily increasing; however, since that date, the number has declined. Even robust democracies are now showing signs of weakness and some have turned into hybrid regimes suspended between democracy and autocracy. What is killing off the world’s democracies, and what can be done about it? Read more
	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

	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

	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
	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
	Move Over, Mona Lisa. Move Over, Jane Eyre: Making the World’s Universities, Museums, and Libraries More Welcoming to Everyone	Mon, 27.02.2023	Lecture	Ayşe Çağlar Peggy Levitt	Move Over, Mona Lisa. Move Over, Jane Eyre: Making the World’s Universities, Museums, and Libraries More Welcoming to Everyone Mon, 27.02.2023 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Peggy Levitt Series: Lecture Across the world, calls for greater equity in the halls of academia, museum galleries, and libraries are loud and clear. If everyone agrees that business as usual is no longer acceptable, why is progress so slow? In this presentation, Peggy Levitt argued that the simple answer is that the lack of diversity in intellectual and cultural institutions is the product of a supply chain of exclusions that leave out a broader set of experiences at every turn. Read more
Move Over, Mona Lisa. Move Over, Jane Eyre: Making the World’s Universities, Museums, and Libraries More Welcoming to Everyone Mon, 27.02.2023 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Peggy Levitt Series: Lecture Across the world, calls for greater equity in the halls of academia, museum galleries, and libraries are loud and clear. If everyone agrees that business as usual is no longer acceptable, why is progress so slow? In this presentation, Peggy Levitt argued that the simple answer is that the lack of diversity in intellectual and cultural institutions is the product of a supply chain of exclusions that leave out a broader set of experiences at every turn. Read more
	Non-Territorial Autonomy and National Minorities in Interwar Europe	Mon, 20.02.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Börries Kuzmany Katherine Younger Marina Germane	Non-Territorial Autonomy and National Minorities in Interwar Europe Mon, 20.02.2023 Speakers: Börries Kuzmany Katherine Younger Marina Germane Series: Seminars and Colloquia This talk examined the concept of non-territorial autonomy (NTA) as a common ideological platform shared by numerous ethnic minorities in interwar Europe, with a particular focus on Jews and Germans. Through a reflection upon the advantages and pitfalls of NTA, Marina Germane explored the limits to minorities’ cooperation in a world of nation-states. Read more
Non-Territorial Autonomy and National Minorities in Interwar Europe Mon, 20.02.2023 Speakers: Börries Kuzmany Katherine Younger Marina Germane Series: Seminars and Colloquia This talk examined the concept of non-territorial autonomy (NTA) as a common ideological platform shared by numerous ethnic minorities in interwar Europe, with a particular focus on Jews and Germans. Through a reflection upon the advantages and pitfalls of NTA, Marina Germane explored the limits to minorities’ cooperation in a world of nation-states. Read more
	Enver Hoxha: Biography of a Balkan Tyrant	Mon, 13.02.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Nikolai Antoniadis Robert Austin Misha Glenny	Enver Hoxha: Biography of a Balkan Tyrant Mon, 13.02.2023 Speakers: Nikolai Antoniadis Robert Austin Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows Colloquium, Robert C. Austin presented his research on Albania’s Enver Hoxha (1908-1985), who is likely the least understood of the twentieth century’s communist dictators that took power in the aftermath of the Second World War in Europe. Hoxha was also one of the most violent, ruthless, and repressive communist leaders. Albanians could easily claim that they endured the worst type of communist rule: Hoxha’s form of (violent) communism was without parallel in Europe. Read more
Enver Hoxha: Biography of a Balkan Tyrant Mon, 13.02.2023 Speakers: Nikolai Antoniadis Robert Austin Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows Colloquium, Robert C. Austin presented his research on Albania’s Enver Hoxha (1908-1985), who is likely the least understood of the twentieth century’s communist dictators that took power in the aftermath of the Second World War in Europe. Hoxha was also one of the most violent, ruthless, and repressive communist leaders. Albanians could easily claim that they endured the worst type of communist rule: Hoxha’s form of (violent) communism was without parallel in Europe. Read more
	Policing a Postimperial World	Mon, 12.12.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	David Petruccelli Katherine Younger	Policing a Postimperial World Mon, 12.12.2022 Speakers: David Petruccelli Katherine Younger Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this talk, David Petruccelli showed how the drive to internationalize policing in the early twentieth century was tied to the messy processes of imperial collapse convulsing Eastern and Central Europe after 1918. He considered the implications of the postimperial roots of Interpol for our understanding of international policing and international crime control today. Read more
Policing a Postimperial World Mon, 12.12.2022 Speakers: David Petruccelli Katherine Younger Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this talk, David Petruccelli showed how the drive to internationalize policing in the early twentieth century was tied to the messy processes of imperial collapse convulsing Eastern and Central Europe after 1918. He considered the implications of the postimperial roots of Interpol for our understanding of international policing and international crime control today. Read more
	Reflections on Mass Violence: War, Excess and Responsibility	Tue, 20.09.2022	Lecture	Ludger Hagedorn Nergis Canefe	Reflections on Mass Violence: War, Excess and Responsibility Tue, 20.09.2022 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Nergis Canefe Series: Lecture This talk examined the role of judgment and philosophical engagement in the determination of the scope of international [criminal] law in such crises. Specifically, it examined what Kurt Flasch aptly called "the spiritual mobilization" of philosophy. It revisited Jan Patočka's interpretation of the First World War in the sixth of his Heretical Essays. As Patočka declared, the "excessive" character of the 20th century was best exemplified in the dangerously romantic conception of "force." Read more
Reflections on Mass Violence: War, Excess and Responsibility Tue, 20.09.2022 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Nergis Canefe Series: Lecture This talk examined the role of judgment and philosophical engagement in the determination of the scope of international [criminal] law in such crises. Specifically, it examined what Kurt Flasch aptly called "the spiritual mobilization" of philosophy. It revisited Jan Patočka's interpretation of the First World War in the sixth of his Heretical Essays. As Patočka declared, the "excessive" character of the 20th century was best exemplified in the dangerously romantic conception of "force." Read more