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Series: Seminars and Colloquia

This paper is an exploration of forced migration studies seen from the lens of de-colonial theory and invites us to consider shifting the geographies of reason habitually marking the field.

Series: Seminars and Colloquia

In the shadow of population decline some Central European states have turned their attention to curtailing women’s access to abortion and in the case of Poland, effectively outlawing it. These policy moves are not only the work of illiberal governments. They are also heavily linked to religious institutions who for decades have labelled women’s reproductive rights as enemy number one on the battlefield of moral values. Calling for a “return to traditional family values” is not the path to economic and social prosperity. Yet it is a clarion call sounded from Warsaw to Budapest. Furthermore, these moves are indicative of the Church’s desire to maintain its political as well as religious influence as a growing number of people in the region chose a more secular life.

Series: Panels and Discussions

Debaty Tischnerowskie przez wiele lat prowadził prof. Marcin Król - historyk idei, filozof i publicysta, jeden z najbardziej wpływowych polskich intelektualistów ostatnich dekad. Odszedł od nas w 2020 r., ale pozostawił nam zapisy swych przemyśleń – liczne książki i artykuły.

Series: Lecture

In this lecture, Prof. Doná revisits the social history of ethnic violence in Rwanda by focussing on marginalised voices. She introduces the constellation of genocide narratives to conceptualise the relationship between public and personal narratives of violence and its legacy and to identify connections among varied stories. This chronicle from below challenges a social history of almost totalising violence to speak of continuity, embeddedness and the everyday. In doing so, it problematizes the narrative of ruptures between the “old” (pre-genocide) and “new” (post-genocide) reality; challenges the overlap of ethnic and social identities; and records the complex legacy of ethnic violence, as an event and as narrative, on the social and narrative lives of the nation and its people.

Series: Lecture

Der renommierte britische Rechtswissenschaftler, Menschenrechtsanwalt und Schriftsteller Philippe Sands kommt für die Vorstellung seines jüngsten literarischen Werks „The Ratline“ am 14. Juni auf Einladung des IWM nach Wien. In Anknüpfung an seine früheren Werke begibt sich Sands erneut auf Spurensuche und ergründet die Lebensgeschichte des österreichischen SS-Gruppenführers und angeklagten Massenmörders Otto Wächter und dessen Frau Charlotte.