Events / Program: Europe’s Futures

	Title Sort descending	Date	Type	Speakers	Register
	1989 in a Day	Wed, 06.11.2019	Panels and Discussions	Aleksandra Głos Andrzej Waskiewicz Holly Case Ivan Vejvoda Kateryna Ruban Philipp Ther Volodymyr KulykErhard Busek, Vuk Velebit, Ralf Beste, Dagmar Rychnovská, Georgi Pirinski, Jana Tsoneva, Jennifer Bergerova, Raluca Alexandrescu		1989 in a Day Wed, 06.11.2019 Speakers: Aleksandra Głos Andrzej Waskiewicz Holly Case Ivan Vejvoda Kateryna Ruban Philipp Ther Volodymyr KulykErhard Busek, Vuk Velebit, Ralf Beste, Dagmar Rychnovská, Georgi Pirinski, Jana Tsoneva, Jennifer Bergerova, Raluca Alexandrescu Series: Panels and Discussions This is a series of conversations spanning various Eastern and Central European societies between someone, who was an active participant, or a close observer, of an event on a crucial date in 1989, and a person, who was still very young in 1989. Both speakers will start with personal reflections that will be followed by a debate about the relevance of this date/event today. Read more
1989 in a Day Wed, 06.11.2019 Speakers: Aleksandra Głos Andrzej Waskiewicz Holly Case Ivan Vejvoda Kateryna Ruban Philipp Ther Volodymyr KulykErhard Busek, Vuk Velebit, Ralf Beste, Dagmar Rychnovská, Georgi Pirinski, Jana Tsoneva, Jennifer Bergerova, Raluca Alexandrescu Series: Panels and Discussions This is a series of conversations spanning various Eastern and Central European societies between someone, who was an active participant, or a close observer, of an event on a crucial date in 1989, and a person, who was still very young in 1989. Both speakers will start with personal reflections that will be followed by a debate about the relevance of this date/event today. Read more
	A Future for Europe? Politics and Democracy in Times of Uncertainty	Mon, 09.10.2017	Lecture	Ivan Vejvoda		A Future for Europe? Politics and Democracy in Times of Uncertainty Mon, 09.10.2017 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Series: Lecture We are living in times of individual, political, economic and societal uncertainty. Europe is confronted with an unprecedented crisis, an internal self-questioning of the project itself manifested by the rise of nationalism and populism, coupled with external challenges of the wave refugees, the crisis in the Middle East and Russia. Read more
A Future for Europe? Politics and Democracy in Times of Uncertainty Mon, 09.10.2017 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Series: Lecture We are living in times of individual, political, economic and societal uncertainty. Europe is confronted with an unprecedented crisis, an internal self-questioning of the project itself manifested by the rise of nationalism and populism, coupled with external challenges of the wave refugees, the crisis in the Middle East and Russia. Read more
	A Resilient Europe in Uncharted Waters	Mon, 12.12.2022	Conferences and Workshops	Alida Vracic Amanda Coakley Dimitar Bechev Isabelle Ioannides Ivan Vejvoda Julia De Clerck-Sachsse Nathalie Tocci Oana Popescu-Zamfir Rosa Balfour Stefan Lehne Valbona Zeneli Veronica AnghelRoberto Menotti, Riccardo Alcaro, Zoran Nechev		A Resilient Europe in Uncharted Waters Mon, 12.12.2022 Speakers: Alida Vracic Amanda Coakley Dimitar Bechev Isabelle Ioannides Ivan Vejvoda Julia De Clerck-Sachsse Nathalie Tocci Oana Popescu-Zamfir Rosa Balfour Stefan Lehne Valbona Zeneli Veronica AnghelRoberto Menotti, Riccardo Alcaro, Zoran Nechev Series: Conferences and Workshops Does Europe want to be a bystander in a radically shifting global landscape? Is it responding robustly enough to the threats to the democratic liberal order both internally and externally? Can the EU fulfil its intention to be a geopolitical actor on an equal footing with other powers? These are questions and issues that the seminar addressed. Read more
A Resilient Europe in Uncharted Waters Mon, 12.12.2022 Speakers: Alida Vracic Amanda Coakley Dimitar Bechev Isabelle Ioannides Ivan Vejvoda Julia De Clerck-Sachsse Nathalie Tocci Oana Popescu-Zamfir Rosa Balfour Stefan Lehne Valbona Zeneli Veronica AnghelRoberto Menotti, Riccardo Alcaro, Zoran Nechev Series: Conferences and Workshops Does Europe want to be a bystander in a radically shifting global landscape? Is it responding robustly enough to the threats to the democratic liberal order both internally and externally? Can the EU fulfil its intention to be a geopolitical actor on an equal footing with other powers? These are questions and issues that the seminar addressed. Read more
	Citizens of Nowhere	Tue, 14.05.2019	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Vejvoda Niccolo Milanese Ulrike Lunacek		Citizens of Nowhere Tue, 14.05.2019 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Niccolo Milanese Ulrike Lunacek Series: Panels and Discussions Europe might appear like a continent pulling itself apart. Ten years of economic and political crises have pitted North versus South, East versus West, citizens versus institutions. And yet, these years have also shown a hidden vitality of Europeans acting across borders, with civil society and social movements showing that alternatives to the status quo already exist. Read more
Citizens of Nowhere Tue, 14.05.2019 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Niccolo Milanese Ulrike Lunacek Series: Panels and Discussions Europe might appear like a continent pulling itself apart. Ten years of economic and political crises have pitted North versus South, East versus West, citizens versus institutions. And yet, these years have also shown a hidden vitality of Europeans acting across borders, with civil society and social movements showing that alternatives to the status quo already exist. Read more
	Cultural Approaches to Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe	Wed, 24.04.2024	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Vejvoda Karolina Wigura Ruth Wodak Till van Rahden	Register here	Cultural Approaches to Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe Wed, 24.04.2024 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Karolina Wigura Ruth Wodak Till van Rahden Series: Panels and Discussions The panelists will speak about how democracy is acted out in everyday life and local relationships with special emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe. What kinds of democratic culture have emerged in the region historically and more recently? What are the cultural and social preconditions of democracy as a system of government? Read more
Cultural Approaches to Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe Wed, 24.04.2024 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Karolina Wigura Ruth Wodak Till van Rahden Series: Panels and Discussions The panelists will speak about how democracy is acted out in everyday life and local relationships with special emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe. What kinds of democratic culture have emerged in the region historically and more recently? What are the cultural and social preconditions of democracy as a system of government? Read more
	Elections in Finland: Between Happiness and the Russo-Ukrainian War	Tue, 28.03.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Ivan VejvodaVeera Luoma-aho, Iro Särkkä, Mirjana Tomic		Elections in Finland: Between Happiness and the Russo-Ukrainian War Tue, 28.03.2023 Speakers: Ivan VejvodaVeera Luoma-aho, Iro Särkkä, Mirjana Tomic Series: Seminars and Colloquia Finland holds elections on 2 April 2023. The campaign focuses on domestic issues, but the war in Ukraine cannot be ignored. The seminar addressed both domestic and security issues. Does Finland fear the spillover of the Russo-Ukrainian War? How does the war affect the elections? Read more
Elections in Finland: Between Happiness and the Russo-Ukrainian War Tue, 28.03.2023 Speakers: Ivan VejvodaVeera Luoma-aho, Iro Särkkä, Mirjana Tomic Series: Seminars and Colloquia Finland holds elections on 2 April 2023. The campaign focuses on domestic issues, but the war in Ukraine cannot be ignored. The seminar addressed both domestic and security issues. Does Finland fear the spillover of the Russo-Ukrainian War? How does the war affect the elections? Read more
	Elections in Poland	Mon, 09.10.2023	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Vejvoda Wojciech PrzybylskiJacek Kucharczyk, Aleksandra Niżyńska, Mirjana Tomić		Elections in Poland Mon, 09.10.2023 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Wojciech PrzybylskiJacek Kucharczyk, Aleksandra Niżyńska, Mirjana Tomić Series: Panels and Discussions European Contexts panel focuses on understanding the elections’ context, focusing on three topics: Internal electoral issues, international priorities based on internal political needs, and gender politics as electoral issues. Read more
Elections in Poland Mon, 09.10.2023 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Wojciech PrzybylskiJacek Kucharczyk, Aleksandra Niżyńska, Mirjana Tomić Series: Panels and Discussions European Contexts panel focuses on understanding the elections’ context, focusing on three topics: Internal electoral issues, international priorities based on internal political needs, and gender politics as electoral issues. Read more
	End of the Near Abroad	Fri, 17.02.2023	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Vejvoda Thomas de Waal		End of the Near Abroad Fri, 17.02.2023 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Thomas de Waal Series: Panels and Discussions Europe’s Futures Fellow Thomas de Waal spoke about how the Russo-Ukrainian War has ended the concepts of “the Near Abroad” and the “post-Soviet space” and what this means in the longer term for Russia’s own cohesion, state identity and relations with its neighbours. Read more
End of the Near Abroad Fri, 17.02.2023 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Thomas de Waal Series: Panels and Discussions Europe’s Futures Fellow Thomas de Waal spoke about how the Russo-Ukrainian War has ended the concepts of “the Near Abroad” and the “post-Soviet space” and what this means in the longer term for Russia’s own cohesion, state identity and relations with its neighbours. Read more
	Eroding Trust	Wed, 07.10.2020	Seminars and Colloquia	Ivan Vejvoda Srdjan Cvijic		Eroding Trust Wed, 07.10.2020 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Srdjan Cvijic Series: Seminars and Colloquia Freedom came to Serbia in 2000, with a decade-long delay with respect to the rest of the post-Communist Europe. Ever since, the country has been on a wobbly transition towards an established democracy and EU membership. More than Serbia’s inability to settle firmly on a Westward geopolitical course and its uneasy relationship with its neighbors, it is the lack of trust between the citizens and their government internally that stood in the way of the construction of a lasting democracy. Was there a political conspiracy to murder of Zoran Djindjic, the first democratically elected Prime Minister since WW2? Did a criminal network steal more than three thousand babies from mid-1950s to 2000, and gave them to illegal adoption? Is sustainable democratisation compatible with the unreformed security service and their monopoly on secrets? Is the mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic by the current regime historically unique, or can it be set in the broader historical perspective of state capture and disregard of the independent institutions in Serbia and Yugoslavia? The answer to these questions concerning Serbia can serve as an allegory for all of the post-Communist world’s untold stories that combined, offer an explanation to its shaky democratization in the last three decades. Populists and their outlandish conspiracy theories did not come from thin air. It is the lack of transparency and accountability of the mainstream governments that created reservoirs of disgruntled citizens thus transforming them in an easy prey for the enemies of democracy. Read more
Eroding Trust Wed, 07.10.2020 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Srdjan Cvijic Series: Seminars and Colloquia Freedom came to Serbia in 2000, with a decade-long delay with respect to the rest of the post-Communist Europe. Ever since, the country has been on a wobbly transition towards an established democracy and EU membership. More than Serbia’s inability to settle firmly on a Westward geopolitical course and its uneasy relationship with its neighbors, it is the lack of trust between the citizens and their government internally that stood in the way of the construction of a lasting democracy. Was there a political conspiracy to murder of Zoran Djindjic, the first democratically elected Prime Minister since WW2? Did a criminal network steal more than three thousand babies from mid-1950s to 2000, and gave them to illegal adoption? Is sustainable democratisation compatible with the unreformed security service and their monopoly on secrets? Is the mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic by the current regime historically unique, or can it be set in the broader historical perspective of state capture and disregard of the independent institutions in Serbia and Yugoslavia? The answer to these questions concerning Serbia can serve as an allegory for all of the post-Communist world’s untold stories that combined, offer an explanation to its shaky democratization in the last three decades. Populists and their outlandish conspiracy theories did not come from thin air. It is the lack of transparency and accountability of the mainstream governments that created reservoirs of disgruntled citizens thus transforming them in an easy prey for the enemies of democracy. Read more
	Europäische Nation vs. Europa der Nationen?	Sun, 10.11.2019	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Ruth WodakJacques Rupnik, Constanze Itzel		Europäische Nation vs. Europa der Nationen? Sun, 10.11.2019 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Ruth WodakJacques Rupnik, Constanze Itzel Series: Panels and Discussions Was hat die Nation zu einem Erfolgsmodell gemacht? Wie umgehen mit dem Wiedererstarken von Nationalismus und Isolationsbestrebungen? Und welche imperialen Vermächtnisse spielen in der aktuellen Identitätssuche Ost- und West-Europas eine Rolle? Read more
Europäische Nation vs. Europa der Nationen? Sun, 10.11.2019 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Ruth WodakJacques Rupnik, Constanze Itzel Series: Panels and Discussions Was hat die Nation zu einem Erfolgsmodell gemacht? Wie umgehen mit dem Wiedererstarken von Nationalismus und Isolationsbestrebungen? Und welche imperialen Vermächtnisse spielen in der aktuellen Identitätssuche Ost- und West-Europas eine Rolle? Read more