Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Ukrainian Identity in the Time of War	Thu, 23.03.2023, 18:00	Lecture	Ayşe Çağlar Mariia ShynkarenkoVolodymyr Kulyk, Mariia Shynkarenko	Ukrainian Identity in the Time of War Thu, 23.03.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Mariia ShynkarenkoVolodymyr Kulyk, Mariia Shynkarenko Series: Lecture Based on original data from a nationwide survey and a series of focus group discussions in different parts of the country, Kulyk demonstrated that not only has Ukrainian identity become more salient compared to other attachments, but it has also come to mean a stronger embrace of beliefs that have traditionally been associated with Ukrainian ethnic belonging. Read more
Ukrainian Identity in the Time of War Thu, 23.03.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Mariia ShynkarenkoVolodymyr Kulyk, Mariia Shynkarenko Series: Lecture Based on original data from a nationwide survey and a series of focus group discussions in different parts of the country, Kulyk demonstrated that not only has Ukrainian identity become more salient compared to other attachments, but it has also come to mean a stronger embrace of beliefs that have traditionally been associated with Ukrainian ethnic belonging. Read more
	Consolation: Art and Ritual	Tue, 21.03.2023, 18:00	Lecture	Richard Sennett Ludger Hagedorn	Consolation: Art and Ritual Tue, 21.03.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Richard Sennett Ludger Hagedorn Series: Lecture In this Monthly Lecture, Richard Sennett explored the difference between artistic and ritual performances in the work of consolation, the need of the living to reconcile themselves to the death of others. Read more

	Music in Flight: The "Jewish Express" and the Bolivian Cantata	Mon, 20.03.2023, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Andrea Orzoff Ludger Hagedorn	Music in Flight: The "Jewish Express" and the Bolivian Cantata Mon, 20.03.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Andrea Orzoff Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia This talk presented in Bolivian miniature the larger arguments of Andrea Orzoff’s book manuscript, Music in Flight: Migration from Hitler’s Europe and Musical Politics in Latin America. The author begun with the story of Erich Eisner, a Prague German who directed Bolivia’s national orchestra, examining the ironies of Eisner’s Bolivian career. Through Eisner, Orzoff visited the chaotic mass migration to Bolivia, the country’s troubled modernization, and the dissemination of scientific racism and eugenics-inflected antisemitism to Latin America. Read more
Music in Flight: The "Jewish Express" and the Bolivian Cantata Mon, 20.03.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Andrea Orzoff Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia This talk presented in Bolivian miniature the larger arguments of Andrea Orzoff’s book manuscript, Music in Flight: Migration from Hitler’s Europe and Musical Politics in Latin America. The author begun with the story of Erich Eisner, a Prague German who directed Bolivia’s national orchestra, examining the ironies of Eisner’s Bolivian career. Through Eisner, Orzoff visited the chaotic mass migration to Bolivia, the country’s troubled modernization, and the dissemination of scientific racism and eugenics-inflected antisemitism to Latin America. Read more
	Dialogues for Tomorrow: Russia – A Society in Meltdown	Wed, 15.03.2023, 19:00	Panels and Discussions	Philipp BlomNina Khrushcheva	Dialogues for Tomorrow: Russia – A Society in Meltdown Wed, 15.03.2023, 19:00 Speakers: Philipp BlomNina Khrushcheva Series: Panels and Discussions Philipp Blom and political scientist Nina Khrushcheva in Conversation Sequel of our discussion series Dialogues for Tomorrow. This semester historian, journalist, and author Philipp Blom invites renowned, innovative, intelligent, and provocative international guests to talk about transformation, reasonable change, necessary steps, and new conceptual spaces. Read more
Dialogues for Tomorrow: Russia – A Society in Meltdown Wed, 15.03.2023, 19:00 Speakers: Philipp BlomNina Khrushcheva Series: Panels and Discussions Philipp Blom and political scientist Nina Khrushcheva in Conversation Sequel of our discussion series Dialogues for Tomorrow. This semester historian, journalist, and author Philipp Blom invites renowned, innovative, intelligent, and provocative international guests to talk about transformation, reasonable change, necessary steps, and new conceptual spaces. Read more
	Contradictions in the Governance of Environmental Mobility: Evidence from African Cities	Mon, 13.03.2023, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Achilles Kallergis Ayşe Çağlar	Contradictions in the Governance of Environmental Mobility: Evidence from African Cities Mon, 13.03.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Achilles Kallergis Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this colloquium, Achilles Kallergis discussed environmental mobility in the context of sub-Saharan Africa. It considered environmental mobility in the broader context of the region's urbanization. Drawing on evidence from participatory research in Accra, Dar es Salaam, Freetown, and Monrovia, Kallergis discussed the role of low-income urban neighborhoods as receiving areas simultaneously shaped by frequent, recurring mobility and immobility. Read more
Contradictions in the Governance of Environmental Mobility: Evidence from African Cities Mon, 13.03.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Achilles Kallergis Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this colloquium, Achilles Kallergis discussed environmental mobility in the context of sub-Saharan Africa. It considered environmental mobility in the broader context of the region's urbanization. Drawing on evidence from participatory research in Accra, Dar es Salaam, Freetown, and Monrovia, Kallergis discussed the role of low-income urban neighborhoods as receiving areas simultaneously shaped by frequent, recurring mobility and immobility. Read more
	The Sahel and Africa’s Future in a World of Geopolitical Confrontation	Wed, 08.03.2023, 18:30	Panels and Discussions	Ivan VejvodaEmanuela Claudia Del Re	The Sahel and Africa’s Future in a World of Geopolitical Confrontation Wed, 08.03.2023, 18:30 Speakers: Ivan VejvodaEmanuela Claudia Del Re Series: Panels and Discussions Violence and instability have been on the rise in the Sahel region of Africa over the last three years. Moreover, Russia’s multi-pronged penetration in the Sahel has made the region into a new zone of geopolitical confrontation over political influence and control of valuable resources. How does, and how should, the European Union act to stabilize and improve the situation? Read more
The Sahel and Africa’s Future in a World of Geopolitical Confrontation Wed, 08.03.2023, 18:30 Speakers: Ivan VejvodaEmanuela Claudia Del Re Series: Panels and Discussions Violence and instability have been on the rise in the Sahel region of Africa over the last three years. Moreover, Russia’s multi-pronged penetration in the Sahel has made the region into a new zone of geopolitical confrontation over political influence and control of valuable resources. How does, and how should, the European Union act to stabilize and improve the situation? Read more
	Following Anti-Gender Movements in Europe: What’s Next?	Mon, 06.03.2023, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Mieke Verloo Tatev Hovhannisyan	Following Anti-Gender Movements in Europe: What’s Next? Mon, 06.03.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Mieke Verloo Tatev Hovhannisyan Series: Seminars and Colloquia Over the past 20 years, anti-democratic transnational movements against women’s rights and gender equality have grown in strength across Europe. In this talk, Tatev Hovhannisyan presented a number of openDemocracy’s investigations, according to which the backlash in Europe is well-organized and extensively funded by transnational actors, including US Christian conservatives. Read more
Following Anti-Gender Movements in Europe: What’s Next? Mon, 06.03.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Mieke Verloo Tatev Hovhannisyan Series: Seminars and Colloquia Over the past 20 years, anti-democratic transnational movements against women’s rights and gender equality have grown in strength across Europe. In this talk, Tatev Hovhannisyan presented a number of openDemocracy’s investigations, according to which the backlash in Europe is well-organized and extensively funded by transnational actors, including US Christian conservatives. Read more
	The Russo-Ukrainian War One Year On	Sun, 05.03.2023, 11:00	Panels and Discussions	Mischa Gabowitsch Misha Glenny Nathalie TocciOlga Tokariuk, Ursula Plassnik, Michael Clarke	The Russo-Ukrainian War One Year On The Military Situation and its Political Implications Sun, 05.03.2023, 11:00 Speakers: Mischa Gabowitsch Misha Glenny Nathalie TocciOlga Tokariuk, Ursula Plassnik, Michael Clarke Series: Panels and Discussions A year after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Debating Europe series brought together five leading experts to examine to what degree the Russo-Ukrainian War is shifting the geo-political landscape. Read more
The Russo-Ukrainian War One Year On The Military Situation and its Political Implications Sun, 05.03.2023, 11:00 Speakers: Mischa Gabowitsch Misha Glenny Nathalie TocciOlga Tokariuk, Ursula Plassnik, Michael Clarke Series: Panels and Discussions A year after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Debating Europe series brought together five leading experts to examine to what degree the Russo-Ukrainian War is shifting the geo-political landscape. Read more
	Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative Vienna Research Symposium	Wed, 01.03.2023, 09:20 - Thu, 02.03.2023, 19:00	Conferences and Workshops	Achilles Kallergis Ayşe ÇağlarColleen Thouez, Alex Aleinikoff, Liav Orgad, Lucy Earle, Gianluca Gatta	Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative Vienna Research Symposium Wed, 01.03.2023, 09:20 - Thu, 02.03.2023, 19:00 Speakers: Achilles Kallergis Ayşe ÇağlarColleen Thouez, Alex Aleinikoff, Liav Orgad, Lucy Earle, Gianluca Gatta Series: Conferences and Workshops The Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative held a two-day symposium presenting new research at the intersection of cities, citizenship, migration, and displacement. The symposium brought together scholars and practitioners from around the globe with the objective to advance knowledge that contributes to a greater understanding of the role of cities in accommodating human mobility. Read more
Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative Vienna Research Symposium Wed, 01.03.2023, 09:20 - Thu, 02.03.2023, 19:00 Speakers: Achilles Kallergis Ayşe ÇağlarColleen Thouez, Alex Aleinikoff, Liav Orgad, Lucy Earle, Gianluca Gatta Series: Conferences and Workshops The Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative held a two-day symposium presenting new research at the intersection of cities, citizenship, migration, and displacement. The symposium brought together scholars and practitioners from around the globe with the objective to advance knowledge that contributes to a greater understanding of the role of cities in accommodating human mobility. Read more
	Move Over, Mona Lisa. Move Over, Jane Eyre: Making the World’s Universities, Museums, and Libraries More Welcoming to Everyone	Mon, 27.02.2023, 18:00	Lecture	Ayşe Çağlar Peggy Levitt	Move Over, Mona Lisa. Move Over, Jane Eyre: Making the World’s Universities, Museums, and Libraries More Welcoming to Everyone Mon, 27.02.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Peggy Levitt Series: Lecture Across the world, calls for greater equity in the halls of academia, museum galleries, and libraries are loud and clear. If everyone agrees that business as usual is no longer acceptable, why is progress so slow? In this presentation, Peggy Levitt argued that the simple answer is that the lack of diversity in intellectual and cultural institutions is the product of a supply chain of exclusions that leave out a broader set of experiences at every turn. Read more
Move Over, Mona Lisa. Move Over, Jane Eyre: Making the World’s Universities, Museums, and Libraries More Welcoming to Everyone Mon, 27.02.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Peggy Levitt Series: Lecture Across the world, calls for greater equity in the halls of academia, museum galleries, and libraries are loud and clear. If everyone agrees that business as usual is no longer acceptable, why is progress so slow? In this presentation, Peggy Levitt argued that the simple answer is that the lack of diversity in intellectual and cultural institutions is the product of a supply chain of exclusions that leave out a broader set of experiences at every turn. Read more

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