Events / Program: Guests of the Institute

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers	Register
	Beyond the Leader: Looking at Grassroots Reasons for the Rise of Illiberalism	Tue, 14.05.2024	Lecture	Ludger Hagedorn Marlene Laruelle	I want to attend	Beyond the Leader: Looking at Grassroots Reasons for the Rise of Illiberalism Tue, 14.05.2024 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Marlene Laruelle Series: Lecture As Europe and the United States prepare themselves to see a rise of far-right and illiberal parties gaining a large share of the votes at the June and November 2024 elections, Marlene Laruelle explores the grassroots reasons for this rise of illiberalism. Read more
Beyond the Leader: Looking at Grassroots Reasons for the Rise of Illiberalism Tue, 14.05.2024 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Marlene Laruelle Series: Lecture As Europe and the United States prepare themselves to see a rise of far-right and illiberal parties gaining a large share of the votes at the June and November 2024 elections, Marlene Laruelle explores the grassroots reasons for this rise of illiberalism. Read more
	Minority and Majority as Asymmetrical Concepts: The Perils of Democratic Equality and Fantasies of National Homogeneity	Mon, 15.04.2024	Seminars and Colloquia	Ludger Hagedorn Till van Rahden		Minority and Majority as Asymmetrical Concepts: The Perils of Democratic Equality and Fantasies of National Homogeneity Mon, 15.04.2024 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Till van Rahden Series: Seminars and Colloquia To this day, the conceptual couple of majority and minority is viewed as a harmless way of identifying an arithmetic relationship to make sense of cultural differences. The talk argued that a history of the binary juxtaposition between a majority and one or several minorities suggests that it is both a recent neologism and an essentially contested conceptual couple. Read more
Minority and Majority as Asymmetrical Concepts: The Perils of Democratic Equality and Fantasies of National Homogeneity Mon, 15.04.2024 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Till van Rahden Series: Seminars and Colloquia To this day, the conceptual couple of majority and minority is viewed as a harmless way of identifying an arithmetic relationship to make sense of cultural differences. The talk argued that a history of the binary juxtaposition between a majority and one or several minorities suggests that it is both a recent neologism and an essentially contested conceptual couple. Read more
	Can Beauty Save the World? On Historical Injustice, Reconciliation and the Role of Aesthetic Education	Tue, 09.04.2024	Lecture	Lea Ypi Misha Glenny		Can Beauty Save the World? On Historical Injustice, Reconciliation and the Role of Aesthetic Education Tue, 09.04.2024 Speakers: Lea Ypi Misha Glenny Series: Lecture “Beautiful world! Where hast thou gone?" asks Friedrich Schiller in his famous poem “The Gods of Greece.” He laments the loss of harmony in a world divided by injustice both past and present. In this lecture, Lea Ypi read from her forthcoming book on human dignity. Read more
Can Beauty Save the World? On Historical Injustice, Reconciliation and the Role of Aesthetic Education Tue, 09.04.2024 Speakers: Lea Ypi Misha Glenny Series: Lecture “Beautiful world! Where hast thou gone?" asks Friedrich Schiller in his famous poem “The Gods of Greece.” He laments the loss of harmony in a world divided by injustice both past and present. In this lecture, Lea Ypi read from her forthcoming book on human dignity. Read more
	The Contamination of History. World War II and How Everything Started to Make Sense	Tue, 19.03.2024	Lecture	Holly Case Ivan Vejvoda		The Contamination of History. World War II and How Everything Started to Make Sense Tue, 19.03.2024 Speakers: Holly Case Ivan Vejvoda Series: Lecture In this Monthly Lecture, Holly Case elaborated on the ideas of those who made super sense out of the events of World War II in particular, and how their ideas have come to inform the contemporary perception that the world is irredeemably contaminated. Read more
The Contamination of History. World War II and How Everything Started to Make Sense Tue, 19.03.2024 Speakers: Holly Case Ivan Vejvoda Series: Lecture In this Monthly Lecture, Holly Case elaborated on the ideas of those who made super sense out of the events of World War II in particular, and how their ideas have come to inform the contemporary perception that the world is irredeemably contaminated. Read more
	The Vienna Black Market 1943-1948	Mon, 11.03.2024	Seminars and Colloquia	Misha Glenny Nathan Marcus		The Vienna Black Market 1943-1948 Mon, 11.03.2024 Speakers: Misha Glenny Nathan Marcus Series: Seminars and Colloquia Historians have long argued against understanding the end of the Second World War in Germany or Austria as one of complete rupture. The popular concept of “Stunde Null,” which implied a total break with the past and a completely new beginning, rather served to obscure problematic continuities in both societies. Read more
The Vienna Black Market 1943-1948 Mon, 11.03.2024 Speakers: Misha Glenny Nathan Marcus Series: Seminars and Colloquia Historians have long argued against understanding the end of the Second World War in Germany or Austria as one of complete rupture. The popular concept of “Stunde Null,” which implied a total break with the past and a completely new beginning, rather served to obscure problematic continuities in both societies. Read more
	Solidarity-Based Citizenship for Migrants in Rural Regions: Marginalised Solidarities in Marginalised Places?	Mon, 04.03.2024	Seminars and Colloquia	Sevasti Trubeta Ayşe Çağlar		Solidarity-Based Citizenship for Migrants in Rural Regions: Marginalised Solidarities in Marginalised Places? Mon, 04.03.2024 Speakers: Sevasti Trubeta Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia European cities and civil societies have been since 2015 remarkably active in promoting solidarity-based local citizenship for migrants and refugees regardless of those nationality and legal status of residence. Read more
Solidarity-Based Citizenship for Migrants in Rural Regions: Marginalised Solidarities in Marginalised Places? Mon, 04.03.2024 Speakers: Sevasti Trubeta Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia European cities and civil societies have been since 2015 remarkably active in promoting solidarity-based local citizenship for migrants and refugees regardless of those nationality and legal status of residence. Read more
	Liberalism Challenged: Debating the Causes That Weaken Liberalism, and Illiberalism’s Amplifying Feedback Loop Effect	Mon, 22.01.2024	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Marlene Laruelle Yavor Siderov		Liberalism Challenged: Debating the Causes That Weaken Liberalism, and Illiberalism’s Amplifying Feedback Loop Effect Mon, 22.01.2024 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Marlene Laruelle Yavor Siderov Series: Seminars and Colloquia This presentation discusses the different forms of challenges that liberalism is facing today. It looks at the structural causes that weaken liberalism or contest its hegemonic status in the Global North. It also analyzes an amplifying feedback loop, that is, that illiberalism is not the cause weakening liberal values but a product of this weakening, which it accelerates. Read more
Liberalism Challenged: Debating the Causes That Weaken Liberalism, and Illiberalism’s Amplifying Feedback Loop Effect Mon, 22.01.2024 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Marlene Laruelle Yavor Siderov Series: Seminars and Colloquia This presentation discusses the different forms of challenges that liberalism is facing today. It looks at the structural causes that weaken liberalism or contest its hegemonic status in the Global North. It also analyzes an amplifying feedback loop, that is, that illiberalism is not the cause weakening liberal values but a product of this weakening, which it accelerates. Read more
	“Architects of the Better World”: The Birth of the International Parliamentary Complex (1918–1998)	Mon, 04.09.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Daniel Quiroga-Villamarin Ivan Vejvoda		“Architects of the Better World”: The Birth of the International Parliamentary Complex (1918–1998) Mon, 04.09.2023 Speakers: Daniel Quiroga-Villamarin Ivan Vejvoda Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this presentation, Daniel Quiroga-Villamarin argued that the “architecture of international cooperation” is a relevant question for international legal history. Instead of taking purpose-built environments for granted, he traced a genealogy of the emergence of the international parliamentary complex as a spatial technology of global governance (1918–1998). Read more
“Architects of the Better World”: The Birth of the International Parliamentary Complex (1918–1998) Mon, 04.09.2023 Speakers: Daniel Quiroga-Villamarin Ivan Vejvoda Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this presentation, Daniel Quiroga-Villamarin argued that the “architecture of international cooperation” is a relevant question for international legal history. Instead of taking purpose-built environments for granted, he traced a genealogy of the emergence of the international parliamentary complex as a spatial technology of global governance (1918–1998). Read more
	Bringing Beauty into Life: How Soviet Workers Discovered Aesthetics after Stalin	Mon, 22.05.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Serguei OushakineFranz Graf		Bringing Beauty into Life: How Soviet Workers Discovered Aesthetics after Stalin Mon, 22.05.2023 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Serguei OushakineFranz Graf Series: Seminars and Colloquia In his talk, Oushakine focused on one aspect of late Soviet materiality: by reading closely materials published in the 1960s–1970s, he showed how Soviet sociologists, urbanists, and designers tried (though ultimately failed) to transform new mass apartments into an effectively constructed material ecosystem. Material aesthetics - not ideology - was seen as a major force that could productively shape the perceptions and demands of the Soviet individual. Read more
Bringing Beauty into Life: How Soviet Workers Discovered Aesthetics after Stalin Mon, 22.05.2023 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Serguei OushakineFranz Graf Series: Seminars and Colloquia In his talk, Oushakine focused on one aspect of late Soviet materiality: by reading closely materials published in the 1960s–1970s, he showed how Soviet sociologists, urbanists, and designers tried (though ultimately failed) to transform new mass apartments into an effectively constructed material ecosystem. Material aesthetics - not ideology - was seen as a major force that could productively shape the perceptions and demands of the Soviet individual. Read more
	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