Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict	Thu, 18.11.2021, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Mark Leonard	The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict Thu, 18.11.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Mark Leonard Series: Panels and Discussions In today’s world, many of the forces that were supposed to bring the world together have ended up driving us apart. Trade, technology, the internet and travel promised to create a global village, but they are also giving countries a reason to fight one another, the opportunity to struggle and an arsenal of new weapons, from cyber-attacks and sanctions to fake news and weaponised vaccines. Building on the argument from his new book, The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict, Mark Leonard, unveils how connectivity has fragmented our societies, politics and made people focus more on what divided them rather than what they hold in common and why this interdependence makes conflict cheaper and more likely in international relations. As the contemporary five big forces driving interdependence – the economy, infrastructure, technology, migration, and international institutions – are being turned into a weapon and change how the topography of power looks like, can we take steps to disarm connectivity and avoid catastrophe? Read more
The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict Thu, 18.11.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Mark Leonard Series: Panels and Discussions In today’s world, many of the forces that were supposed to bring the world together have ended up driving us apart. Trade, technology, the internet and travel promised to create a global village, but they are also giving countries a reason to fight one another, the opportunity to struggle and an arsenal of new weapons, from cyber-attacks and sanctions to fake news and weaponised vaccines. Building on the argument from his new book, The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict, Mark Leonard, unveils how connectivity has fragmented our societies, politics and made people focus more on what divided them rather than what they hold in common and why this interdependence makes conflict cheaper and more likely in international relations. As the contemporary five big forces driving interdependence – the economy, infrastructure, technology, migration, and international institutions – are being turned into a weapon and change how the topography of power looks like, can we take steps to disarm connectivity and avoid catastrophe? Read more
	Symposium: Belarus in Contemporary Europe	Wed, 17.11.2021, 10:00	Conferences and Workshops	Andriej Moskwin Clemena Antonova Pavel BarkouskiHenadz Korshunou, Anton Saifullayeu, Olga Shparaga, Aleksandr Raspopov	Symposium: Belarus in Contemporary Europe Protecting Identity Wed, 17.11.2021, 10:00 Speakers: Andriej Moskwin Clemena Antonova Pavel BarkouskiHenadz Korshunou, Anton Saifullayeu, Olga Shparaga, Aleksandr Raspopov Series: Conferences and Workshops For many years, Belarus was confined to the sidelines of European history. It was only with the presidential election of 2020 and the huge accompanying wave of social protests that the country became a widespread topic of discussion. The symposium “Belarus in Contemporary Europe: Saving an Identity” aimed to initiate a more in-depth debate on the current situation in Belarus and to consider how it might develop. Particular emphasis will be placed on the notion that Belarus is a country with a rich history and culture that has been a part of Europe and has maintained close relations with the rest of the continent for many centuries. Read more
Symposium: Belarus in Contemporary Europe Protecting Identity Wed, 17.11.2021, 10:00 Speakers: Andriej Moskwin Clemena Antonova Pavel BarkouskiHenadz Korshunou, Anton Saifullayeu, Olga Shparaga, Aleksandr Raspopov Series: Conferences and Workshops For many years, Belarus was confined to the sidelines of European history. It was only with the presidential election of 2020 and the huge accompanying wave of social protests that the country became a widespread topic of discussion. The symposium “Belarus in Contemporary Europe: Saving an Identity” aimed to initiate a more in-depth debate on the current situation in Belarus and to consider how it might develop. Particular emphasis will be placed on the notion that Belarus is a country with a rich history and culture that has been a part of Europe and has maintained close relations with the rest of the continent for many centuries. Read more
	Belarus: A Land that Rests on Three “Whales”	Mon, 15.11.2021, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Andriej Moskwin Clemena AntonovaDessislava Gavrilova-Krasteva	Belarus: A Land that Rests on Three “Whales” Mon, 15.11.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Andriej Moskwin Clemena AntonovaDessislava Gavrilova-Krasteva Series: Seminars and Colloquia In Poland, as in many European countries, Belarus is a country with a rather low profile. It was only the events of 2020 that demonstrated that there is a significant, strong civic community in Belarus demanding reform. In this context, research on various aspects of Belarusian literary life, culture and art is vital: it will serve not only to demonstrate Belarus’s rich literary and artistic output, but also the achievements of the process of Europeanization, which is crucial for the future of the country. Such activities are especially important now, as Belarusian culture is being repressed by the authorities and its representatives are either unable to work or are forced to emigrate. Read more
Belarus: A Land that Rests on Three “Whales” Mon, 15.11.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Andriej Moskwin Clemena AntonovaDessislava Gavrilova-Krasteva Series: Seminars and Colloquia In Poland, as in many European countries, Belarus is a country with a rather low profile. It was only the events of 2020 that demonstrated that there is a significant, strong civic community in Belarus demanding reform. In this context, research on various aspects of Belarusian literary life, culture and art is vital: it will serve not only to demonstrate Belarus’s rich literary and artistic output, but also the achievements of the process of Europeanization, which is crucial for the future of the country. Such activities are especially important now, as Belarusian culture is being repressed by the authorities and its representatives are either unable to work or are forced to emigrate. Read more
	Identität, Diversität, Postkolonialismus: Neue Herausforderungen für das Übersetzen von Literatur	Tue, 09.11.2021, 18:00	Lecture	Ludger Hagedorn Lutz Kliche Michael Kegler Susann Urban	Identität, Diversität, Postkolonialismus: Neue Herausforderungen für das Übersetzen von Literatur Tue, 09.11.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Lutz Kliche Michael Kegler Susann Urban Series: Lecture Über viele Jahre ist das Übersetzen im Literaturbetrieb – bei Verlagen, im Feuilleton, bei Autorinnen und Leserinnen – nicht seiner Bedeutung entsprechend gewürdigt worden. Während dieses Defizit glücklicherweise langsam korrigiert und die zentrale Rolle wahrgenommen wird, die das Übersetzen für die Entstehung internationaler Literatur spielt, sehen sich die Übersetzenden mit neuen Herausforderungen konfrontiert: Aktuelle Debatten um Identität, Diversität und das viel zitierte „Gendern“, die Ausdruck allgemeiner sprachlicher Verunsicherung sind, betreffen gerade auch die Arbeit der Literaturübersetzenden. Read more
Identität, Diversität, Postkolonialismus: Neue Herausforderungen für das Übersetzen von Literatur Tue, 09.11.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Lutz Kliche Michael Kegler Susann Urban Series: Lecture Über viele Jahre ist das Übersetzen im Literaturbetrieb – bei Verlagen, im Feuilleton, bei Autorinnen und Leserinnen – nicht seiner Bedeutung entsprechend gewürdigt worden. Während dieses Defizit glücklicherweise langsam korrigiert und die zentrale Rolle wahrgenommen wird, die das Übersetzen für die Entstehung internationaler Literatur spielt, sehen sich die Übersetzenden mit neuen Herausforderungen konfrontiert: Aktuelle Debatten um Identität, Diversität und das viel zitierte „Gendern“, die Ausdruck allgemeiner sprachlicher Verunsicherung sind, betreffen gerade auch die Arbeit der Literaturübersetzenden. Read more
	Ukraine and the Borders of Europe	Mon, 08.11.2021, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Katherine Younger Ludger Hagedorn Volodymyr Yermolenko	Ukraine and the Borders of Europe Essays in Ukrainian and European Intellectual History Mon, 08.11.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Katherine Younger Ludger Hagedorn Volodymyr Yermolenko Series: Seminars and Colloquia Volodymyr Yermolenko explored how evolving ideas and imagination of Europe in the 18th-20th centuries shaped evolving ideas and imagination of Ukraine, in particular the image of Ukraine as the “big frontier”. Moving beyond the geographical sense of border/frontier inherent in Ukraine’s name, the focus here is on the mental and geo-philosophical aspect: the evolution of the mental borders of Europe and the concepts, metaphors, and imagination of Europe that shaped and reshaped how Ukraine and the Ukrainian lands have been seen in intellectual history, both from within and from without. Read more
Ukraine and the Borders of Europe Essays in Ukrainian and European Intellectual History Mon, 08.11.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Katherine Younger Ludger Hagedorn Volodymyr Yermolenko Series: Seminars and Colloquia Volodymyr Yermolenko explored how evolving ideas and imagination of Europe in the 18th-20th centuries shaped evolving ideas and imagination of Ukraine, in particular the image of Ukraine as the “big frontier”. Moving beyond the geographical sense of border/frontier inherent in Ukraine’s name, the focus here is on the mental and geo-philosophical aspect: the evolution of the mental borders of Europe and the concepts, metaphors, and imagination of Europe that shaped and reshaped how Ukraine and the Ukrainian lands have been seen in intellectual history, both from within and from without. Read more
	Healing the World? – German Foreign Policy between High Aspirations and Competing Imperatives	Tue, 02.11.2021, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Ivan KrastevThomas Bagger	Healing the World? – German Foreign Policy between High Aspirations and Competing Imperatives Tue, 02.11.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan KrastevThomas Bagger Series: Panels and Discussions German foreign policy is strongly informed by a historically grounded optimism in global convergence. But the self-confidence of finally being on the right side of history is shattered by recent crises and the re-emergence of geopolitical conflict. Calls for a more decisive German leadership role in Europe tend to overlook the competing imperatives at the core of Germany’s interests and ambitions. Read more
Healing the World? – German Foreign Policy between High Aspirations and Competing Imperatives Tue, 02.11.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan KrastevThomas Bagger Series: Panels and Discussions German foreign policy is strongly informed by a historically grounded optimism in global convergence. But the self-confidence of finally being on the right side of history is shattered by recent crises and the re-emergence of geopolitical conflict. Calls for a more decisive German leadership role in Europe tend to overlook the competing imperatives at the core of Germany’s interests and ambitions. Read more
	Doomed to Sacrifice?	Thu, 28.10.2021, 14:00 - Fri, 29.10.2021, 16:30	Conferences and Workshops	Martin Koci Sandra LehmannRené Rosfort, Anna Sjöberg, Sara Shabot Cohen	Doomed to Sacrifice? Existential and Phenomenological Perspectives on Sacrifice and Gender Thu, 28.10.2021, 14:00 - Fri, 29.10.2021, 16:30 Speakers: Martin Koci Sandra LehmannRené Rosfort, Anna Sjöberg, Sara Shabot Cohen Series: Conferences and Workshops Sacrifice is a popular theme in philosophical and theological discussions. The concept remains ambiguous, however, and the field is contested across anthropological, ethnological, sociological and ethical perspectives. The objective of this workshop was to discuss gendered aspects of sacrifice from the perspectives of phenomenology and existentialism – disciplines that view sacrifice through the lens of the sacrificial experience. Read more
Doomed to Sacrifice? Existential and Phenomenological Perspectives on Sacrifice and Gender Thu, 28.10.2021, 14:00 - Fri, 29.10.2021, 16:30 Speakers: Martin Koci Sandra LehmannRené Rosfort, Anna Sjöberg, Sara Shabot Cohen Series: Conferences and Workshops Sacrifice is a popular theme in philosophical and theological discussions. The concept remains ambiguous, however, and the field is contested across anthropological, ethnological, sociological and ethical perspectives. The objective of this workshop was to discuss gendered aspects of sacrifice from the perspectives of phenomenology and existentialism – disciplines that view sacrifice through the lens of the sacrificial experience. Read more
	Hybrider Thementag der Kommission für One Person Libraries	Fri, 22.10.2021, 09:30	Conferences and Workshops	Katharina Gratz, Barbara Petritsch, Lisa Weinberger, Rainer Stowasser, Iwona Dullinger, Sandra Hermann, Sandra Sparber, David Moosmaier, Martin Weidinger, Leonie Bischof	Hybrider Thementag der Kommission für One Person Libraries "Der Mensch für sich allein vermag gar wenig und ist ein verlassener Robinson; nur in der Gemeinschaft mit den andern vermag er viel." Arthur Schopenhauer Fri, 22.10.2021, 09:30 Speakers: Katharina Gratz, Barbara Petritsch, Lisa Weinberger, Rainer Stowasser, Iwona Dullinger, Sandra Hermann, Sandra Sparber, David Moosmaier, Martin Weidinger, Leonie Bischof Series: Conferences and Workshops "Der Mensch für sich allein vermag gar wenig und ist ein verlassener Robinson; nur in der Gemeinschaft mit den andern vermag er viel." Arthur Schopenhauer Read more
Hybrider Thementag der Kommission für One Person Libraries "Der Mensch für sich allein vermag gar wenig und ist ein verlassener Robinson; nur in der Gemeinschaft mit den andern vermag er viel." Arthur Schopenhauer Fri, 22.10.2021, 09:30 Speakers: Katharina Gratz, Barbara Petritsch, Lisa Weinberger, Rainer Stowasser, Iwona Dullinger, Sandra Hermann, Sandra Sparber, David Moosmaier, Martin Weidinger, Leonie Bischof Series: Conferences and Workshops "Der Mensch für sich allein vermag gar wenig und ist ein verlassener Robinson; nur in der Gemeinschaft mit den andern vermag er viel." Arthur Schopenhauer Read more
	The Impossibility of Politics: Brecht, Manto and Two Itinerant Situations	Tue, 19.10.2021, 19:00	Lecture	Ludger Hagedorn Ranabir Samaddar	The Impossibility of Politics: Brecht, Manto and Two Itinerant Situations Tue, 19.10.2021, 19:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Ranabir Samaddar Series: Lecture Two writings of Bertold Brecht and Sadat Hasan Manto are joined by a realisation that in certain situations political openings become impossible. Strangely these are not stable or more correctly speaking static situations but are situations of mobility. Yet the conditions of mobility bring to us only spectres of deaths. Political openings towards transformation at least in a conventional sense are ruled out. The severity of itinerant situations at times makes it impossible for the migrant subjectivity to become political. Read more
The Impossibility of Politics: Brecht, Manto and Two Itinerant Situations Tue, 19.10.2021, 19:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Ranabir Samaddar Series: Lecture Two writings of Bertold Brecht and Sadat Hasan Manto are joined by a realisation that in certain situations political openings become impossible. Strangely these are not stable or more correctly speaking static situations but are situations of mobility. Yet the conditions of mobility bring to us only spectres of deaths. Political openings towards transformation at least in a conventional sense are ruled out. The severity of itinerant situations at times makes it impossible for the migrant subjectivity to become political. Read more
	Regional free movement of people law: A new field of research for migration studies	Mon, 18.10.2021, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Diego Acosta Ranabir Samaddar	Regional free movement of people law: A new field of research for migration studies Mon, 18.10.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Diego Acosta Ranabir Samaddar Series: Seminars and Colloquia A powerful narrative presents the response to the global challenge of migration as the erection of borders. This paper explores its apparent converse: the easing of borders at regional level. There are now policies and laws facilitating free movement of people in at least thirty-three regional organizations involving 174 states, in addition to numerous bilateral agreements and domestic norms. Yet little work has been done to understand their scope. This Article defines a new field of study for international migration law, labelled as regional free movement of people law, and systematically presents its components. Read more
Regional free movement of people law: A new field of research for migration studies Mon, 18.10.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Diego Acosta Ranabir Samaddar Series: Seminars and Colloquia A powerful narrative presents the response to the global challenge of migration as the erection of borders. This paper explores its apparent converse: the easing of borders at regional level. There are now policies and laws facilitating free movement of people in at least thirty-three regional organizations involving 174 states, in addition to numerous bilateral agreements and domestic norms. Yet little work has been done to understand their scope. This Article defines a new field of study for international migration law, labelled as regional free movement of people law, and systematically presents its components. Read more

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