Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Geopolitical Talks: Overlapping Crises	Wed, 24.05.2023, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Ivan KrastevComfort Ero	Geopolitical Talks: Overlapping Crises Wed, 24.05.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan KrastevComfort Ero Series: Panels and Discussions The geopolitical reverberations of the Russo-Ukrainian War have been felt far beyond Europe. The conflict has further complicated an already daunting set of challenges facing the global order. The war has also exposed the limitations of those institutions responsible for maintaining international peace and security. International Crisis Group President and CEO Dr. Comfort Ero spoke on how to best grapple with these overlapping crises. Read more
Geopolitical Talks: Overlapping Crises Wed, 24.05.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan KrastevComfort Ero Series: Panels and Discussions The geopolitical reverberations of the Russo-Ukrainian War have been felt far beyond Europe. The conflict has further complicated an already daunting set of challenges facing the global order. The war has also exposed the limitations of those institutions responsible for maintaining international peace and security. International Crisis Group President and CEO Dr. Comfort Ero spoke on how to best grapple with these overlapping crises. Read more
	A Left Populist Strategy for a Green Democratic Revolution	Tue, 23.05.2023, 18:00	Lecture	Chantal Mouffe Ivan Vejvoda	A Left Populist Strategy for a Green Democratic Revolution Tue, 23.05.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Chantal Mouffe Ivan Vejvoda Series: Lecture In this presentation, Chantal Mouffe intended to argue that at the current crossroads, a project to radicalize democracy requires implementing a left populist strategy whose hegemonic signifier is a Green Democratic Revolution, connecting the defense of the environment with the manifold democratic struggles against different forms of inequality. Read more
A Left Populist Strategy for a Green Democratic Revolution Tue, 23.05.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Chantal Mouffe Ivan Vejvoda Series: Lecture In this presentation, Chantal Mouffe intended to argue that at the current crossroads, a project to radicalize democracy requires implementing a left populist strategy whose hegemonic signifier is a Green Democratic Revolution, connecting the defense of the environment with the manifold democratic struggles against different forms of inequality. Read more
	Bringing Beauty into Life: How Soviet Workers Discovered Aesthetics after Stalin	Mon, 22.05.2023, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Serguei OushakineFranz Graf	Bringing Beauty into Life: How Soviet Workers Discovered Aesthetics after Stalin Mon, 22.05.2023, 16:00 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, 16:00 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
	Time To Decide Europe Summit 2023	Tue, 16.05.2023, 12:30	Conferences and Workshops	Anthony Barnett Gerald Knaus Ivan Krastev Ivana Dragičević Jan-Werner Müller Janka Oertel Kim Scheppele Soli Özel Misha GlennyAlexander Schallenberg	Time To Decide Europe Summit 2023 Tue, 16.05.2023, 12:30 Speakers: Anthony Barnett Gerald Knaus Ivan Krastev Ivana Dragičević Jan-Werner Müller Janka Oertel Kim Scheppele Soli Özel Misha GlennyAlexander Schallenberg Series: Conferences and Workshops What will the coming year bring about? How will Europe’s foreign and defense policy be transformed? Will Europe’s democracies come out weakened or strengthened from the current crisis? What future for the economy and ecology in Europe? Can risks be turned into opportunities, and how? Read more
Time To Decide Europe Summit 2023 Tue, 16.05.2023, 12:30 Speakers: Anthony Barnett Gerald Knaus Ivan Krastev Ivana Dragičević Jan-Werner Müller Janka Oertel Kim Scheppele Soli Özel Misha GlennyAlexander Schallenberg Series: Conferences and Workshops What will the coming year bring about? How will Europe’s foreign and defense policy be transformed? Will Europe’s democracies come out weakened or strengthened from the current crisis? What future for the economy and ecology in Europe? Can risks be turned into opportunities, and how? Read more
	Das Leben Passiert Nicht Außerhalb der Geschichte	Mon, 15.05.2023, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Radka Denemarková Ludger Hagedorn	Das Leben Passiert Nicht Außerhalb der Geschichte Zum Aktuellen Vermächtnis der Dissidenz Mon, 15.05.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Radka Denemarková Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia Im Fellows Colloquium präsentierte Radka Denemarková ihre literarische Auseinandersetzung mit dem intellektuellen Vermächtnis Václav Havels und Jan Patočkas. Im Hintergrund spielen jedoch die mitteleuropäischen Erfahrungen des 20. Jahrhunderts und insbesondere die tschechoslowakische Dissidenz eine wichtige Rolle. Read more
Das Leben Passiert Nicht Außerhalb der Geschichte Zum Aktuellen Vermächtnis der Dissidenz Mon, 15.05.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Radka Denemarková Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia Im Fellows Colloquium präsentierte Radka Denemarková ihre literarische Auseinandersetzung mit dem intellektuellen Vermächtnis Václav Havels und Jan Patočkas. Im Hintergrund spielen jedoch die mitteleuropäischen Erfahrungen des 20. Jahrhunderts und insbesondere die tschechoslowakische Dissidenz eine wichtige Rolle. Read more
	Dialogues for Tomorrow: A Green and Global Europe?	Wed, 10.05.2023, 19:00	Panels and Discussions	Nathalie Tocci Philipp Blom	Dialogues for Tomorrow: A Green and Global Europe? Wed, 10.05.2023, 19:00 Speakers: Nathalie Tocci Philipp Blom Series: Panels and Discussions Philipp Blom and Political Scientist Nathalie Tocci in Conversation. Historian, journalist and author Philipp Blom invites international guests to talk about transformation, reasonable change, necessary steps and new conceptual spaces. Read more
Dialogues for Tomorrow: A Green and Global Europe? Wed, 10.05.2023, 19:00 Speakers: Nathalie Tocci Philipp Blom Series: Panels and Discussions Philipp Blom and Political Scientist Nathalie Tocci in Conversation. Historian, journalist and author Philipp Blom invites international guests to talk about transformation, reasonable change, necessary steps and new conceptual spaces. Read more
	A Speech to Europe 2023: “No Peace without Freedom, No Justice without Law“	Tue, 09.05.2023, 19:00	Lecture	Oleksandra Matviichuk	A Speech to Europe 2023: “No Peace without Freedom, No Justice without Law“ Part of Wiener Festwochen Tue, 09.05.2023, 19:00 Speakers: Oleksandra Matviichuk Series: Lecture We are pleased that we were able to secure the Ukrainian human rights lawyer Oleksandra Matviichuk for the Speech to Europe 2023, which marked the beginning of this year's Wiener Festwochen program. After a three-year hiatus, the event returns to the Judenplatz in Vienna, where Yale historian and IWM Permanent Fellow Timothy Snyder delivered the first Speech to Europe in 2019. Read more
A Speech to Europe 2023: “No Peace without Freedom, No Justice without Law“ Part of Wiener Festwochen Tue, 09.05.2023, 19:00 Speakers: Oleksandra Matviichuk Series: Lecture We are pleased that we were able to secure the Ukrainian human rights lawyer Oleksandra Matviichuk for the Speech to Europe 2023, which marked the beginning of this year's Wiener Festwochen program. After a three-year hiatus, the event returns to the Judenplatz in Vienna, where Yale historian and IWM Permanent Fellow Timothy Snyder delivered the first Speech to Europe in 2019. Read more
	From Biopolitics of Care to Necropolitics of War	Mon, 08.05.2023, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Sergei Medvedev Misha Glenny	From Biopolitics of Care to Necropolitics of War Politics of the Body in the Making of Russian Fascism Mon, 08.05.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Sergei Medvedev Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia The Russio-Ukrainian War in Ukraine can be interpreted in many ways: as a geopolitical grab of territory; as an institutional fight for the new world order; or as a making of Russian identity and a manifestation of post-imperial ressentiment. The presentation took on an alternate view, suggesting that it is an extension of the biopolitical discourse that has shaped Russia’s authoritarian drift of the past decade. Read more
From Biopolitics of Care to Necropolitics of War Politics of the Body in the Making of Russian Fascism Mon, 08.05.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Sergei Medvedev Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia The Russio-Ukrainian War in Ukraine can be interpreted in many ways: as a geopolitical grab of territory; as an institutional fight for the new world order; or as a making of Russian identity and a manifestation of post-imperial ressentiment. The presentation took on an alternate view, suggesting that it is an extension of the biopolitical discourse that has shaped Russia’s authoritarian drift of the past decade. Read more
	Ukraine Testifies	Wed, 03.05.2023, 20:15	Visual and Performing Arts	Katherine Younger Nataliya Gumenyuk	Ukraine Testifies A Documentary Film Screening Wed, 03.05.2023, 20:15 Speakers: Katherine Younger Nataliya Gumenyuk Series: Visual and Performing Arts The Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) and its program Documenting Ukraine is happy to announce the launch of an event series together with this human world – International Human Rights Film Festival. The first event, organized in cooperation with The Reckoning Project, featured a special screening of Ukrainian short films documenting war crimes during the Russo-Ukrainian War. Read more
Ukraine Testifies A Documentary Film Screening Wed, 03.05.2023, 20:15 Speakers: Katherine Younger Nataliya Gumenyuk Series: Visual and Performing Arts The Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) and its program Documenting Ukraine is happy to announce the launch of an event series together with this human world – International Human Rights Film Festival. The first event, organized in cooperation with The Reckoning Project, featured a special screening of Ukrainian short films documenting war crimes during the Russo-Ukrainian War. Read more
	IWM auf der Leipziger Buchmesse: Geschichten, die wir uns erzählen: Erinnerung, Amnesie und das Trauma des Krieges	Sun, 30.04.2023, 14:00	Panels and Discussions	Kateryna Mishchenko Nelia Vakhovska Ludger HagedornKarl-Markus Gauß	IWM auf der Leipziger Buchmesse: Geschichten, die wir uns erzählen: Erinnerung, Amnesie und das Trauma des Krieges Sun, 30.04.2023, 14:00 Speakers: Kateryna Mishchenko Nelia Vakhovska Ludger HagedornKarl-Markus Gauß Series: Panels and Discussions Wie bestimmt das Erzählen die Gegenwart und vor allem die Zukunft? Read more

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