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	Vienna Humanities Festival 2023: Zwischen Perfektionierung und Überwindung. Kritische Reflexionen zu Mensch und KI	Mon, 25.09.2023	Festivals	Janina Loh, Judith Belfkih	Zur Anmeldung über WIENER VORLESUNGEN	Vienna Humanities Festival 2023: Zwischen Perfektionierung und Überwindung. Kritische Reflexionen zu Mensch und KI Mon, 25.09.2023 Speakers: Janina Loh, Judith Belfkih Series: Festivals Im Rahmen des Vienna Humanities Festivals spricht Janina Loh in dieser Vorlesung über gegenwärtige Tendenzen des Trans- und Posthumanismus. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei das Menschenbild des „Transhumanismus“ sowie die Rolle der künstlichen Intelligenz. Read more
Vienna Humanities Festival 2023: Zwischen Perfektionierung und Überwindung. Kritische Reflexionen zu Mensch und KI Mon, 25.09.2023 Speakers: Janina Loh, Judith Belfkih Series: Festivals Im Rahmen des Vienna Humanities Festivals spricht Janina Loh in dieser Vorlesung über gegenwärtige Tendenzen des Trans- und Posthumanismus. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei das Menschenbild des „Transhumanismus“ sowie die Rolle der künstlichen Intelligenz. Read more
	Vienna Humanities Festival 2023: Die Rückkehr der Weltanschauung	Wed, 27.09.2023	Festivals	Ludger HagedornPeter Trawny, Isolde Charim	Ich möchte mich anmelden	Vienna Humanities Festival 2023: Die Rückkehr der Weltanschauung Wed, 27.09.2023 Speakers: Ludger HagedornPeter Trawny, Isolde Charim Series: Festivals Im Rahmen des Vienna Humanities Festivals spricht Peter Trawny in dieser Vorlesung über das Wiederaufleben von Weltanschauungen. Lange Zeit als tot betrachtet, werden diese angesichts des vermeintlichen Endes einer Epoche wieder anschlussfähig. Wäre es wichtig, die Aufgaben des 21. Jahrhunderts möglichst sachlich anzugehen, oder brauchen wir zuletzt doch eine Idee, an die wir glauben müssen? Read more
Vienna Humanities Festival 2023: Die Rückkehr der Weltanschauung Wed, 27.09.2023 Speakers: Ludger HagedornPeter Trawny, Isolde Charim Series: Festivals Im Rahmen des Vienna Humanities Festivals spricht Peter Trawny in dieser Vorlesung über das Wiederaufleben von Weltanschauungen. Lange Zeit als tot betrachtet, werden diese angesichts des vermeintlichen Endes einer Epoche wieder anschlussfähig. Wäre es wichtig, die Aufgaben des 21. Jahrhunderts möglichst sachlich anzugehen, oder brauchen wir zuletzt doch eine Idee, an die wir glauben müssen? Read more
	Fourth Annual International Editors’ Roundtable - Part 1	Fri, 29.09.2023	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Misha Glenny		Fourth Annual International Editors’ Roundtable - Part 1 Fri, 29.09.2023 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Misha Glenny Series: Panels and Discussions The Annual International Editors’ Roundtable was established in 2018. This year it will be held at the Josephinum and at the IWM under the leadership of Rector Misha Glenny and Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev. The event will bring together a small group of editors, freelance writers, and academics from the most prestigious publications worldwide with diverse political orientations, among them: FAZ, New Statesmen, Süddeutsche, NZZ, Die Presse, The Guardian, FT, Die Zeit, Gazeta Wyborcza, Telex.hu, Politico, Der Standard, NYT. Read more
Fourth Annual International Editors’ Roundtable - Part 1 Fri, 29.09.2023 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Misha Glenny Series: Panels and Discussions The Annual International Editors’ Roundtable was established in 2018. This year it will be held at the Josephinum and at the IWM under the leadership of Rector Misha Glenny and Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev. The event will bring together a small group of editors, freelance writers, and academics from the most prestigious publications worldwide with diverse political orientations, among them: FAZ, New Statesmen, Süddeutsche, NZZ, Die Presse, The Guardian, FT, Die Zeit, Gazeta Wyborcza, Telex.hu, Politico, Der Standard, NYT. Read more
	Fourth Annual International Editors’ Roundtable - Part 2	Sat, 30.09.2023	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Misha Glenny		Fourth Annual International Editors’ Roundtable - Part 2 Sat, 30.09.2023 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Misha Glenny Series: Panels and Discussions The Annual International Editors’ Roundtable was established in 2018. This year it will be held at the Josephinum and at the IWM under the leadership of Rector Misha Glenny and Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev. The event will bring together a small group of editors, freelance writers, and academics from the most prestigious publications worldwide with diverse political orientations, among them: FAZ, New Statesmen, Süddeutsche, NZZ, Die Presse, The Guardian, FT, Die Zeit, Gazeta Wyborcza, Telex.hu, Politico, Der Standard, NYT. Read more
Fourth Annual International Editors’ Roundtable - Part 2 Sat, 30.09.2023 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Misha Glenny Series: Panels and Discussions The Annual International Editors’ Roundtable was established in 2018. This year it will be held at the Josephinum and at the IWM under the leadership of Rector Misha Glenny and Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev. The event will bring together a small group of editors, freelance writers, and academics from the most prestigious publications worldwide with diverse political orientations, among them: FAZ, New Statesmen, Süddeutsche, NZZ, Die Presse, The Guardian, FT, Die Zeit, Gazeta Wyborcza, Telex.hu, Politico, Der Standard, NYT. Read more
	Vienna Humanities Festival 2023: What’s Become of the Common Good?	Sat, 30.09.2023	Festivals	Ivan Krastev Michael J. Sandel	Get free tickets through VOLKSTHEATER	Vienna Humanities Festival 2023: What’s Become of the Common Good? Sat, 30.09.2023 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Michael J. Sandel Series: Festivals As part of the Vienna Humanities Festival, in this lecture Michael Sandel will talk about the prospects for a fairer society. He asks if such a thing as the common good still exists, as well as whether and how we should value and reward citizens’ contributions to the economy. His reflections take us to the very heart of what human dignity means. Read more
Vienna Humanities Festival 2023: What’s Become of the Common Good? Sat, 30.09.2023 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Michael J. Sandel Series: Festivals As part of the Vienna Humanities Festival, in this lecture Michael Sandel will talk about the prospects for a fairer society. He asks if such a thing as the common good still exists, as well as whether and how we should value and reward citizens’ contributions to the economy. His reflections take us to the very heart of what human dignity means. Read more
	Part I: The Changing Fortunes of Cosmopolitanism: Demos, Cosmos and Globus. Kantian Cosmopolitanism and its Critics	Thu, 05.10.2023	Lecture	Seyla BenhabibGeorge Karamanolis	I want to attend	Part I: The Changing Fortunes of Cosmopolitanism: Demos, Cosmos and Globus. Kantian Cosmopolitanism and its Critics Thu, 05.10.2023 Speakers: Seyla BenhabibGeorge Karamanolis Series: Lecture This lecture series will defend cosmopolitanism from below by engaging with the postcolonial critiques of Kantian thought. By interpreting cosmopolitanism as “world citizenship,” Kant makes a fundamental contribution to this contested tradition. In the first lecture, Seyla Benhabib defends aspects of Kant’s legacy against liberal nationalisms as well as postmodern and de-colonial criticisms. Read more
Part I: The Changing Fortunes of Cosmopolitanism: Demos, Cosmos and Globus. Kantian Cosmopolitanism and its Critics Thu, 05.10.2023 Speakers: Seyla BenhabibGeorge Karamanolis Series: Lecture This lecture series will defend cosmopolitanism from below by engaging with the postcolonial critiques of Kantian thought. By interpreting cosmopolitanism as “world citizenship,” Kant makes a fundamental contribution to this contested tradition. In the first lecture, Seyla Benhabib defends aspects of Kant’s legacy against liberal nationalisms as well as postmodern and de-colonial criticisms. Read more
	Berdyaev and the Russian Idea	Mon, 09.10.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova George Pattison		Berdyaev and the Russian Idea Mon, 09.10.2023 Speakers: Clemena Antonova George Pattison Series: Seminars and Colloquia Nikolai Berdyaev was strongly cosmopolitan, and his philosophy can be seen as a variant of German idealism. At the same time, he strongly identified as Russian and defined his thought in terms of its relation to Russian religious and intellectual traditions. A question to be addressed in this colloquium is, therefore, what implications this relation has for the overall evaluation of Berdyaev both as a philosopher and as a point of reference for the contemporary crisis of Russian culture. Read more
Berdyaev and the Russian Idea Mon, 09.10.2023 Speakers: Clemena Antonova George Pattison Series: Seminars and Colloquia Nikolai Berdyaev was strongly cosmopolitan, and his philosophy can be seen as a variant of German idealism. At the same time, he strongly identified as Russian and defined his thought in terms of its relation to Russian religious and intellectual traditions. A question to be addressed in this colloquium is, therefore, what implications this relation has for the overall evaluation of Berdyaev both as a philosopher and as a point of reference for the contemporary crisis of Russian culture. Read more
	Part II: The Changing Fortunes of Cosmopolitanism: Demos, Cosmos and Globus. From the Hermeneutics of Suspicion to Reconstructing Cosmopolitan Law	Wed, 11.10.2023	Lecture	Misha Glenny Seyla Benhabib	I want to attend	Part II: The Changing Fortunes of Cosmopolitanism: Demos, Cosmos and Globus. From the Hermeneutics of Suspicion to Reconstructing Cosmopolitan Law Wed, 11.10.2023 Speakers: Misha Glenny Seyla Benhabib Series: Lecture This lecture series will defend cosmopolitanism from below by engaging with the postcolonial critiques of Kantian thought. Distinguishing between liberal nationalism, liberal internationalism, neoliberal globalism and cosmopolitanism, Seyla Benhabib will argue in the second lecture that only cosmopolitanism from below can incorporate the advances in international human rights law advocated by third-world scholars of international law. Read more
Part II: The Changing Fortunes of Cosmopolitanism: Demos, Cosmos and Globus. From the Hermeneutics of Suspicion to Reconstructing Cosmopolitan Law Wed, 11.10.2023 Speakers: Misha Glenny Seyla Benhabib Series: Lecture This lecture series will defend cosmopolitanism from below by engaging with the postcolonial critiques of Kantian thought. Distinguishing between liberal nationalism, liberal internationalism, neoliberal globalism and cosmopolitanism, Seyla Benhabib will argue in the second lecture that only cosmopolitanism from below can incorporate the advances in international human rights law advocated by third-world scholars of international law. Read more
	Crisis, Conjuncture, and Biopolitics from Below	Mon, 16.10.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Ranabir Samaddar Ayşe ÇağlarSabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury		Crisis, Conjuncture, and Biopolitics from Below Mon, 16.10.2023 Speakers: Ranabir Samaddar Ayşe ÇağlarSabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury Series: Seminars and Colloquia Drawing on Indian experiences, Ranabir Samaddar explores “biopolitics from below” within governments caught in crises, particularly in the neoliberal era. The presentation will revolve around two themes: (a) the specific context of multiple crises – recent epidemiological, financial, and political crises culminating in a crisis of life; and (b) the emergence of “biopolitics from below” as a response to this conjuncture. It demonstrates how “biopolitics from below” manifests as a phenomenon specifically during moments of crisis and conjuncture. Read more
Crisis, Conjuncture, and Biopolitics from Below Mon, 16.10.2023 Speakers: Ranabir Samaddar Ayşe ÇağlarSabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury Series: Seminars and Colloquia Drawing on Indian experiences, Ranabir Samaddar explores “biopolitics from below” within governments caught in crises, particularly in the neoliberal era. The presentation will revolve around two themes: (a) the specific context of multiple crises – recent epidemiological, financial, and political crises culminating in a crisis of life; and (b) the emergence of “biopolitics from below” as a response to this conjuncture. It demonstrates how “biopolitics from below” manifests as a phenomenon specifically during moments of crisis and conjuncture. Read more
	Part III: The Changing Fortunes of Cosmopolitanism: Demos, Cosmos and Globus. The Globe as World, Earth and Planet	Thu, 19.10.2023	Lecture	Seyla Benhabib	I want to attend	Part III: The Changing Fortunes of Cosmopolitanism: Demos, Cosmos and Globus. The Globe as World, Earth and Planet Thu, 19.10.2023 Speakers: Seyla Benhabib Series: Lecture This lecture series will defend cosmopolitanism from below by engaging with the postcolonial critiques of Kantian thought. In the third lecture, Seyla Benhabib asks what it means to adopt a planetary perspective when the earth is endangered by the unprecedented intensity of the movement of news and people, services and microbes, fashion and money across borders. Read more
Part III: The Changing Fortunes of Cosmopolitanism: Demos, Cosmos and Globus. The Globe as World, Earth and Planet Thu, 19.10.2023 Speakers: Seyla Benhabib Series: Lecture This lecture series will defend cosmopolitanism from below by engaging with the postcolonial critiques of Kantian thought. In the third lecture, Seyla Benhabib asks what it means to adopt a planetary perspective when the earth is endangered by the unprecedented intensity of the movement of news and people, services and microbes, fashion and money across borders. Read more