Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Delhi, Oxford, Moscow.	Thu, 14.10.2021, 18:00	Lecture	Andrei SoldatovArundhati Virmani	Delhi, Oxford, Moscow. The Intellectual and Political Spaces of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Philosopher, Ambassador to Soviet Russia, and President of India Thu, 14.10.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Andrei SoldatovArundhati Virmani Series: Lecture Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, philosopher, academic, intellectual, president of the Indian Republic, spent his life in building and crossing unexpected bridges: between the multifarious activities he undertook during his lifetime, between places that he chose to inhabit, or where he was sent. His multifaceted profile thus led him from his native southern India to the seat of the British empire in Calcutta, to academic citadels in Britain and in the United-States, and later, at the heart of the Cold War, as ambassador to the Soviet Union. His trajectory allows us to follow these multilateral exchanges at different scales and leads us to consider the complex exchanges between distant places belonging to civilizational blocs like Europe, India and Russia beyond traditional binary poles, while viewing them in very contemporary contexts. The intervention examines how Radhakrishnan’s biography challenges our classic understandings of colonial and post-colonial categories and relationships. Read more
Delhi, Oxford, Moscow. The Intellectual and Political Spaces of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Philosopher, Ambassador to Soviet Russia, and President of India Thu, 14.10.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Andrei SoldatovArundhati Virmani Series: Lecture Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, philosopher, academic, intellectual, president of the Indian Republic, spent his life in building and crossing unexpected bridges: between the multifarious activities he undertook during his lifetime, between places that he chose to inhabit, or where he was sent. His multifaceted profile thus led him from his native southern India to the seat of the British empire in Calcutta, to academic citadels in Britain and in the United-States, and later, at the heart of the Cold War, as ambassador to the Soviet Union. His trajectory allows us to follow these multilateral exchanges at different scales and leads us to consider the complex exchanges between distant places belonging to civilizational blocs like Europe, India and Russia beyond traditional binary poles, while viewing them in very contemporary contexts. The intervention examines how Radhakrishnan’s biography challenges our classic understandings of colonial and post-colonial categories and relationships. Read more
	Sovereignty and Political Mythologies	Wed, 13.10.2021, 18:00	Lecture	Colby Dickinson	Sovereignty and Political Mythologies Wed, 13.10.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Colby Dickinson Series: Lecture The Cartesian mind/body dualism that has come to dominate western thinking for centuries has an unacknowledged affinity with the split in sovereign power that once characterized the king’s two bodies. In this medieval political theology the king is said to have both a physical-temporal body that eventually dies and another body that represents the politically sovereign and eternal body. Secularized Cartesian mind/body dualism, where the mind becomes an eternal force of reason acting within a corrupted embodied existence, the king’s two bodies reflect a hierarchical imposition of dominance that justifies a more deeply engrained master/slave duality. Read more
Sovereignty and Political Mythologies Wed, 13.10.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Colby Dickinson Series: Lecture The Cartesian mind/body dualism that has come to dominate western thinking for centuries has an unacknowledged affinity with the split in sovereign power that once characterized the king’s two bodies. In this medieval political theology the king is said to have both a physical-temporal body that eventually dies and another body that represents the politically sovereign and eternal body. Secularized Cartesian mind/body dualism, where the mind becomes an eternal force of reason acting within a corrupted embodied existence, the king’s two bodies reflect a hierarchical imposition of dominance that justifies a more deeply engrained master/slave duality. Read more
	Legacies of Silenced Atrocities: Lessons from Holodomor	Mon, 11.10.2021, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Karolina Koziura Katherine Younger Ludger Hagedorn	Legacies of Silenced Atrocities: Lessons from Holodomor Mon, 11.10.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Karolina Koziura Katherine Younger Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia How to make sense of an atrocity in an environment of repressive silence? What kind of memory work needs to be done to overcome imposed forgetting? This presentation aimed to address these questions by analyzing the long-term legacy of political violence that travels across time and space. By unravelling the meaning of Holodomor, one of the biggest - yet unacknowledged - atrocities in the history of the Soviet Union, it traced the lasting effects of the denial of mass atrocity and documented the struggles of transnational mnemonic activists to reclaim authority over a silenced past. It further showed that to achieve reconciliation with a repressive past, history and memory need to be seen as mutually dependent transcending the national optic. Read more
Legacies of Silenced Atrocities: Lessons from Holodomor Mon, 11.10.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Karolina Koziura Katherine Younger Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia How to make sense of an atrocity in an environment of repressive silence? What kind of memory work needs to be done to overcome imposed forgetting? This presentation aimed to address these questions by analyzing the long-term legacy of political violence that travels across time and space. By unravelling the meaning of Holodomor, one of the biggest - yet unacknowledged - atrocities in the history of the Soviet Union, it traced the lasting effects of the denial of mass atrocity and documented the struggles of transnational mnemonic activists to reclaim authority over a silenced past. It further showed that to achieve reconciliation with a repressive past, history and memory need to be seen as mutually dependent transcending the national optic. Read more
	The Ratline - From Vienna and Back, with Love, Lies and Justice	Tue, 05.10.2021, 19:00	Lecture	Ivan VejvodaPhilippe Sands	The Ratline - From Vienna and Back, with Love, Lies and Justice Patočka Memorial Lecture 2021 Tue, 05.10.2021, 19:00 Speakers: Ivan VejvodaPhilippe Sands Series: Lecture To mark the publication of the English language version of The Ratline, which follows his prize-winning book East West Street, Philippe Sands explored the ideas that underpin his new work, an account of the lives of Otto von Wächter, an Austrian SS Gruppenführer indicted for mass murder, and his wife Charlotte, from the moment they met Vienna in April 1929 to his unexpected death in Rome in 1949. The lecture was built around a set of deeply personal stories that explore the role of justice, the legacy of memory across generations, and the impulses that generate our search for truth. Read more
The Ratline - From Vienna and Back, with Love, Lies and Justice Patočka Memorial Lecture 2021 Tue, 05.10.2021, 19:00 Speakers: Ivan VejvodaPhilippe Sands Series: Lecture To mark the publication of the English language version of The Ratline, which follows his prize-winning book East West Street, Philippe Sands explored the ideas that underpin his new work, an account of the lives of Otto von Wächter, an Austrian SS Gruppenführer indicted for mass murder, and his wife Charlotte, from the moment they met Vienna in April 1929 to his unexpected death in Rome in 1949. The lecture was built around a set of deeply personal stories that explore the role of justice, the legacy of memory across generations, and the impulses that generate our search for truth. Read more
	Buchpräsentation: Migration und Staatsbürgerschaft	Fri, 01.10.2021, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Rainer Bauböck, Gerd Valchars, Nina Horaczek, Heinz Mayer	Buchpräsentation: Migration und Staatsbürgerschaft Fri, 01.10.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Rainer Bauböck, Gerd Valchars, Nina Horaczek, Heinz Mayer Series: Panels and Discussions Die beiden Autoren Rainer Bauböck und Gerd Valchars sprachen mit Nina Hoarczek und Heinz Meyer über die Ergebnisse ihres Buches sowie insbesondere über die Wichtigkeit des Zugangs zu Staatsbürgerschaft und die Akzeptanz von Doppelstaatsbürgerschaften. Read more
Buchpräsentation: Migration und Staatsbürgerschaft Fri, 01.10.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Rainer Bauböck, Gerd Valchars, Nina Horaczek, Heinz Mayer Series: Panels and Discussions Die beiden Autoren Rainer Bauböck und Gerd Valchars sprachen mit Nina Hoarczek und Heinz Meyer über die Ergebnisse ihres Buches sowie insbesondere über die Wichtigkeit des Zugangs zu Staatsbürgerschaft und die Akzeptanz von Doppelstaatsbürgerschaften. Read more
	The German Elections and Europe's Future	Thu, 30.09.2021, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Vejvoda Olivia Lazard Valbona Zeneli Zoran NechevRoderick Parkes	The German Elections and Europe's Future Thu, 30.09.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Olivia Lazard Valbona Zeneli Zoran NechevRoderick Parkes Series: Panels and Discussions The panel addressed the results of the elections from three regions of Europe by researchers who are this year's Europe's Futures Fellows, together with a view from Berlin offered by the research director of the German Council for Foreign Relations DGAP. Read more
The German Elections and Europe's Future Thu, 30.09.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Olivia Lazard Valbona Zeneli Zoran NechevRoderick Parkes Series: Panels and Discussions The panel addressed the results of the elections from three regions of Europe by researchers who are this year's Europe's Futures Fellows, together with a view from Berlin offered by the research director of the German Council for Foreign Relations DGAP. Read more
	Europe's Futures Colloquium	Tue, 28.09.2021, 14:30	Seminars and Colloquia	Ivan Vejvoda Soli Özel Valbona Zeneli	Europe's Futures Colloquium with Valbona Zeneli and Soli Özel Tue, 28.09.2021, 14:30 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Soli Özel Valbona Zeneli Series: Seminars and Colloquia The Transatlantic relationship between Europe and the United States is being challenged in a variety of ways. The situation in Southeastern Europe and Turkey adds to this complexity but also opens alleys for cooperation. Foreign malign influence is growing in the candidate-countries of the Western Balkans, highlighting the vacuum and the economic, security and environmental risks created after the recent “deepening-before-widening [of the European Union]” policy shift that has put the accession processes on hold. In the immediate vicinity, Turkey has been going through cycles of internal and external conflicts that have further strained relations with the European Union already damaged by the effective removal of Turkey’s accession prospects. This session offered detailed insight and expert views from two of 2021-22 Europe’s Futures Fellows, Valbona Zeneli and Soli Özel. In a conversation facilitated by Ivan Vejvoda, they examined the routes for the Western Balkans’ candidate-countries to be drawn closer – and in - to the European Union, as well as the likely scenarios for future political developments in Turkey. Read more
Europe's Futures Colloquium with Valbona Zeneli and Soli Özel Tue, 28.09.2021, 14:30 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Soli Özel Valbona Zeneli Series: Seminars and Colloquia The Transatlantic relationship between Europe and the United States is being challenged in a variety of ways. The situation in Southeastern Europe and Turkey adds to this complexity but also opens alleys for cooperation. Foreign malign influence is growing in the candidate-countries of the Western Balkans, highlighting the vacuum and the economic, security and environmental risks created after the recent “deepening-before-widening [of the European Union]” policy shift that has put the accession processes on hold. In the immediate vicinity, Turkey has been going through cycles of internal and external conflicts that have further strained relations with the European Union already damaged by the effective removal of Turkey’s accession prospects. This session offered detailed insight and expert views from two of 2021-22 Europe’s Futures Fellows, Valbona Zeneli and Soli Özel. In a conversation facilitated by Ivan Vejvoda, they examined the routes for the Western Balkans’ candidate-countries to be drawn closer – and in - to the European Union, as well as the likely scenarios for future political developments in Turkey. Read more
	Red Platonism? Kazimir Malevich and Russian Religious Philosophy	Mon, 27.09.2021, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Tatiana Levina	Red Platonism? Kazimir Malevich and Russian Religious Philosophy Mon, 27.09.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Tatiana Levina Series: Seminars and Colloquia Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) is usually perceived as a revolutionary and iconoclast. His position is often presented in the light of Communism or Leninism. Several researchers have argued that Malevich’s “new theology” developed from glorifying God into extolling Lenin. Tatiana Levina started her talk with analysing Malevich’s “Cult of Lenin” and present his ideas on the Communist leader. She juxtaposed these with the metaphysical ideas he discusses in his tractate on Suprematism and showed his position within the circle of the Russian religious philosophy instead. Malevich’s intellectual parallels with religious philosophers Pavel Florensky (1882-1937), Sergey Bulgakov (1871-1944), and many others were the main focus of her talk. He has not usually been perceived as a worshipper of the divine, and she showed his way of glorifying God relying on Meister Eckhart’s negative theology and Gregory Palamas’s hesychasm. His revolutionary rhetoric during the first years of the Communist state, rather, served as an appeal to platonism and idealism. Read more
Red Platonism? Kazimir Malevich and Russian Religious Philosophy Mon, 27.09.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Tatiana Levina Series: Seminars and Colloquia Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) is usually perceived as a revolutionary and iconoclast. His position is often presented in the light of Communism or Leninism. Several researchers have argued that Malevich’s “new theology” developed from glorifying God into extolling Lenin. Tatiana Levina started her talk with analysing Malevich’s “Cult of Lenin” and present his ideas on the Communist leader. She juxtaposed these with the metaphysical ideas he discusses in his tractate on Suprematism and showed his position within the circle of the Russian religious philosophy instead. Malevich’s intellectual parallels with religious philosophers Pavel Florensky (1882-1937), Sergey Bulgakov (1871-1944), and many others were the main focus of her talk. He has not usually been perceived as a worshipper of the divine, and she showed his way of glorifying God relying on Meister Eckhart’s negative theology and Gregory Palamas’s hesychasm. His revolutionary rhetoric during the first years of the Communist state, rather, served as an appeal to platonism and idealism. Read more
	Olga Tokarczuk: Literatur als Gedächtnis und Erinnerung	Wed, 22.09.2021, 19:00	Lecture	Olga Tokarczuk, Martin Pollack, Steffi Krautz, Markus Meyer	Olga Tokarczuk: Literatur als Gedächtnis und Erinnerung Eine Kooperation des IWM mit den Wiener Vorlesungen Wed, 22.09.2021, 19:00 Speakers: Olga Tokarczuk, Martin Pollack, Steffi Krautz, Markus Meyer Series: Lecture Die Nobelpreisträgerin Olga Tokarczuk war in Wien. Mit Martin Pollack hat sie über die Bedeutung von Mythen und Parabeln gesprochen sowie über die Fähigkeit der Literatur, eine andere Dimension der Welt zu erschließen. Begleitet wurde das Gespräch von einer szenischen Lesung vorgetragen von Steffi Kautz und Markus Meyer, eingerichtet von Anna Badora. Read more
Olga Tokarczuk: Literatur als Gedächtnis und Erinnerung Eine Kooperation des IWM mit den Wiener Vorlesungen Wed, 22.09.2021, 19:00 Speakers: Olga Tokarczuk, Martin Pollack, Steffi Krautz, Markus Meyer Series: Lecture Die Nobelpreisträgerin Olga Tokarczuk war in Wien. Mit Martin Pollack hat sie über die Bedeutung von Mythen und Parabeln gesprochen sowie über die Fähigkeit der Literatur, eine andere Dimension der Welt zu erschließen. Begleitet wurde das Gespräch von einer szenischen Lesung vorgetragen von Steffi Kautz und Markus Meyer, eingerichtet von Anna Badora. Read more
	Europe's Futures Colloquium	Tue, 21.09.2021, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Ivan Vejvoda Janka Oertel Olivia Lazard	Europe's Futures Colloquium with Olivia Lazard and Janka Oertel Tue, 21.09.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Janka Oertel Olivia Lazard Series: Seminars and Colloquia The European Union stands at a critical juncture in terms of the Green agenda. In a complex geopolitical environment it aims among other to externalise its Green Deal - the most advanced political and technical proposal to chart a path torward a regional climate transition. Key in this overall geopolitical environment is the question: how far is China ready to go forward on its recently stated commitment to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2060 (President Xi Jinping’s statement at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2020). How can the EU's Green Agenda Go Global? How to best manage and mitigate the impact of China’s new role as a competitor also on the green transition? What does the European Union need to do to project its vision and values on these issues? Read more
Europe's Futures Colloquium with Olivia Lazard and Janka Oertel Tue, 21.09.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Janka Oertel Olivia Lazard Series: Seminars and Colloquia The European Union stands at a critical juncture in terms of the Green agenda. In a complex geopolitical environment it aims among other to externalise its Green Deal - the most advanced political and technical proposal to chart a path torward a regional climate transition. Key in this overall geopolitical environment is the question: how far is China ready to go forward on its recently stated commitment to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2060 (President Xi Jinping’s statement at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2020). How can the EU's Green Agenda Go Global? How to best manage and mitigate the impact of China’s new role as a competitor also on the green transition? What does the European Union need to do to project its vision and values on these issues? Read more

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