Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	History of the Shoah and Politics of History in Post-Communist Lithuania	Tue, 08.06.2021, 18:00	Lecture	Christoph Dieckmann Marci Shore Viktoras Bachmetjevas	History of the Shoah and Politics of History in Post-Communist Lithuania Tue, 08.06.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Christoph Dieckmann Marci Shore Viktoras Bachmetjevas Series: Lecture History has become a deeply contentious topic in the post-communist space, particularly with regard to World War II, Communism, and Nationalism. Memories are not static, and our increasing historical knowledge is embedded within a dynamic contemporary context. This means that both history and the politics of history are developing and changing. Christoph Dieckmann, one of the leading historians of the German occupation in Lithuania, shared his experiences and impressions of the politics of history in Eastern Europe from the perspective of a German historian. Read more
History of the Shoah and Politics of History in Post-Communist Lithuania Tue, 08.06.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Christoph Dieckmann Marci Shore Viktoras Bachmetjevas Series: Lecture History has become a deeply contentious topic in the post-communist space, particularly with regard to World War II, Communism, and Nationalism. Memories are not static, and our increasing historical knowledge is embedded within a dynamic contemporary context. This means that both history and the politics of history are developing and changing. Christoph Dieckmann, one of the leading historians of the German occupation in Lithuania, shared his experiences and impressions of the politics of history in Eastern Europe from the perspective of a German historian. Read more
	Fleeing and Staying	Fri, 04.06.2021, 15:30	Lecture	Meghna Guhathakurta, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury	Fleeing and Staying A Nuanced View of the Bangladesh Refugee Crises of 1971 with Meghna Guhathakurta and Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury Fri, 04.06.2021, 15:30 Speakers: Meghna Guhathakurta, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury Series: Lecture This lecture was part of CRG’s proposed research on the Fifty Years of the Liberation of Bangladesh as well as its research programme on Migration and Forced Migration Studies supported by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and Institute of Human Sciences, Vienna and several other universities and institutions and universities in India. Read more
Fleeing and Staying A Nuanced View of the Bangladesh Refugee Crises of 1971 with Meghna Guhathakurta and Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury Fri, 04.06.2021, 15:30 Speakers: Meghna Guhathakurta, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury Series: Lecture This lecture was part of CRG’s proposed research on the Fifty Years of the Liberation of Bangladesh as well as its research programme on Migration and Forced Migration Studies supported by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and Institute of Human Sciences, Vienna and several other universities and institutions and universities in India. Read more
	Europe and Russia After the Liberal World Order	Mon, 31.05.2021, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Ivan Krastev Timofei Bordachev	Europe and Russia After the Liberal World Order Mon, 31.05.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Ivan Krastev Timofei Bordachev Series: Seminars and Colloquia The relationship between Europe and Russia after the end of the Cold War emerged within the rules and practices of the Liberal World Order. This order was based on certain universal freedoms and global American leadership and ultimate power dominance. Recently it has been under stress, and now there are serious reasons to believe that it is coming to an end, under pressure from a change in the global composition of powers. Both Russia and Europe are looking for new roles within changing international politics. Read more
Europe and Russia After the Liberal World Order Mon, 31.05.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Ivan Krastev Timofei Bordachev Series: Seminars and Colloquia The relationship between Europe and Russia after the end of the Cold War emerged within the rules and practices of the Liberal World Order. This order was based on certain universal freedoms and global American leadership and ultimate power dominance. Recently it has been under stress, and now there are serious reasons to believe that it is coming to an end, under pressure from a change in the global composition of powers. Both Russia and Europe are looking for new roles within changing international politics. Read more
	Trojanow trifft: Michael Kegler	Thu, 27.05.2021, 19:00	Panels and Discussions	Ilija Trojanow Michael Kegler	Trojanow trifft: Michael Kegler Thu, 27.05.2021, 19:00 Speakers: Ilija Trojanow Michael Kegler Series: Panels and Discussions Der Übersetzer Michael Kegler hat gerade ein Mammutwerk abgeschlossen: Mit Sonntage ohne Gott ist der fünfte und letzte Teil des Roman-Zyklus Vorläufige Hölle erschienen, mit dem Luiz Ruffato (*1961) brasilianische Literaturgeschichte geschrieben hat. Ein vielstimmiger, zerrissener Chor aus zahllosen Einzelstimmen erzählt vom Leben in Brasilien aus der Sicht von Arbeitern, Besitzlosen, Entrechteten. Ein Gespräch mit dem Übersetzer sowie Ausschnitte aus dem Werk. Read more
Trojanow trifft: Michael Kegler Thu, 27.05.2021, 19:00 Speakers: Ilija Trojanow Michael Kegler Series: Panels and Discussions Der Übersetzer Michael Kegler hat gerade ein Mammutwerk abgeschlossen: Mit Sonntage ohne Gott ist der fünfte und letzte Teil des Roman-Zyklus Vorläufige Hölle erschienen, mit dem Luiz Ruffato (*1961) brasilianische Literaturgeschichte geschrieben hat. Ein vielstimmiger, zerrissener Chor aus zahllosen Einzelstimmen erzählt vom Leben in Brasilien aus der Sicht von Arbeitern, Besitzlosen, Entrechteten. Ein Gespräch mit dem Übersetzer sowie Ausschnitte aus dem Werk. Read more
	The Hijack	Tue, 25.05.2021, 20:00	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Marci Shore Slawomir Sierakowski Timothy Snyder Viktoras BachmetjevasFiona Hill, Martin Malek, Francois Heisbourg	The Hijack Europe, Belarus, and the Abduction of Roman Protasevich Tue, 25.05.2021, 20:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Marci Shore Slawomir Sierakowski Timothy Snyder Viktoras BachmetjevasFiona Hill, Martin Malek, Francois Heisbourg Series: Panels and Discussions On 23 May, a Belarusian fighter plane intercepted Ryanair 4978 and forced the European commercial airliner to land in Minsk. The reporter Roman Protasevich (26), known for his coverage of pro-democracy protests, was then abducted by Belarusian authorities, along with the student Sofia Sapega (23). How can reporters be protected against the use of military force by dictators? And how should the EU react to the state hijacking of an aircraft bound from one EU capital to another? Given Russia’s dominant role in Belarus, might it bear responsibility? Read more
The Hijack Europe, Belarus, and the Abduction of Roman Protasevich Tue, 25.05.2021, 20:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Marci Shore Slawomir Sierakowski Timothy Snyder Viktoras BachmetjevasFiona Hill, Martin Malek, Francois Heisbourg Series: Panels and Discussions On 23 May, a Belarusian fighter plane intercepted Ryanair 4978 and forced the European commercial airliner to land in Minsk. The reporter Roman Protasevich (26), known for his coverage of pro-democracy protests, was then abducted by Belarusian authorities, along with the student Sofia Sapega (23). How can reporters be protected against the use of military force by dictators? And how should the EU react to the state hijacking of an aircraft bound from one EU capital to another? Given Russia’s dominant role in Belarus, might it bear responsibility? Read more
	Revisiting the Social History of Ethnic Violence in Rwanda	Tue, 25.05.2021, 18:00	Lecture	Ayşe Çağlar Giorgia DonàErin Jessee	Revisiting the Social History of Ethnic Violence in Rwanda Marginalized Voices and the Constellation of Genocide Narratives Tue, 25.05.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Giorgia DonàErin Jessee Series: Lecture In this lecture, Prof. Doná revisited the social history of ethnic violence in Rwanda by focusing on marginalized voices. She introduced the constellation of genocide narratives to conceptualize the relationship between public and personal narratives of violence and its legacy and to identify connections among varied stories. This chronicle from below challenges a social history of almost totalizing violence to speak of continuity, embeddedness and the everyday. In doing so, it problematizes the narrative of ruptures between the “old” (pre-genocide) and “new” (post-genocide) reality; challenges the overlap of ethnic and social identities; and records the complex legacy of ethnic violence, as an event and as narrative, on the social and narrative lives of the nation and its people. Read more
Revisiting the Social History of Ethnic Violence in Rwanda Marginalized Voices and the Constellation of Genocide Narratives Tue, 25.05.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Giorgia DonàErin Jessee Series: Lecture In this lecture, Prof. Doná revisited the social history of ethnic violence in Rwanda by focusing on marginalized voices. She introduced the constellation of genocide narratives to conceptualize the relationship between public and personal narratives of violence and its legacy and to identify connections among varied stories. This chronicle from below challenges a social history of almost totalizing violence to speak of continuity, embeddedness and the everyday. In doing so, it problematizes the narrative of ruptures between the “old” (pre-genocide) and “new” (post-genocide) reality; challenges the overlap of ethnic and social identities; and records the complex legacy of ethnic violence, as an event and as narrative, on the social and narrative lives of the nation and its people. Read more
	30 Debata Tischnerowska	Wed, 19.05.2021, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Dariusz StolaAgata Bielik-Robson, Timothy Garton Ash, Aleksander Smolar	30 Debata Tischnerowska Aktualność myśli Marcina Króla Wed, 19.05.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Dariusz StolaAgata Bielik-Robson, Timothy Garton Ash, Aleksander Smolar Series: Panels and Discussions Debaty Tischnerowskie przez wiele lat prowadził prof. Marcin Król - historyk idei, filozof i publicysta, jeden z najbardziej wpływowych polskich intelektualistów ostatnich dekad. Odszedł od nas w 2020 r., ale pozostawił nam zapisy swych przemyśleń – liczne książki i artykuły. Dlatego najbliższą, trzydziestą już Debatę, poświęcimy aktualności myśli Marcina Króla. Do rozmowy na ten temat zaprosiliśmy troje wybitnych uczonych: Agatę Bielik-Robson, Timothy Garton Asha i Aleksandra Smolara; ich dyskusję poprowadzi Dariusz Stola. Read more
30 Debata Tischnerowska Aktualność myśli Marcina Króla Wed, 19.05.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Dariusz StolaAgata Bielik-Robson, Timothy Garton Ash, Aleksander Smolar Series: Panels and Discussions Debaty Tischnerowskie przez wiele lat prowadził prof. Marcin Król - historyk idei, filozof i publicysta, jeden z najbardziej wpływowych polskich intelektualistów ostatnich dekad. Odszedł od nas w 2020 r., ale pozostawił nam zapisy swych przemyśleń – liczne książki i artykuły. Dlatego najbliższą, trzydziestą już Debatę, poświęcimy aktualności myśli Marcina Króla. Do rozmowy na ten temat zaprosiliśmy troje wybitnych uczonych: Agatę Bielik-Robson, Timothy Garton Asha i Aleksandra Smolara; ich dyskusję poprowadzi Dariusz Stola. Read more
	Religious Fundamentalism and the Decline of Women’s Reproductive Rights in Central Europe	Mon, 17.05.2021, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Amanda Coakley Dennis Patterson Ivan Vejvoda	Religious Fundamentalism and the Decline of Women’s Reproductive Rights in Central Europe A Lesson from Ireland Mon, 17.05.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Amanda Coakley Dennis Patterson Ivan Vejvoda Series: Seminars and Colloquia In the shadow of population decline some Central European states have turned their attention to curtailing women’s access to abortion and in the case of Poland, effectively outlawing it. These policy moves are not only the work of illiberal governments. They are also heavily linked to religious institutions who for decades have labelled women’s reproductive rights as enemy number one on the battlefield of moral values. Calling for a “return to traditional family values” is not the path to economic and social prosperity. Yet it is a clarion call sounded from Warsaw to Budapest. Furthermore, these moves are indicative of the Church’s desire to maintain its political as well as religious influence as a growing number of people in the region chose a more secular life. Read more
Religious Fundamentalism and the Decline of Women’s Reproductive Rights in Central Europe A Lesson from Ireland Mon, 17.05.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Amanda Coakley Dennis Patterson Ivan Vejvoda Series: Seminars and Colloquia In the shadow of population decline some Central European states have turned their attention to curtailing women’s access to abortion and in the case of Poland, effectively outlawing it. These policy moves are not only the work of illiberal governments. They are also heavily linked to religious institutions who for decades have labelled women’s reproductive rights as enemy number one on the battlefield of moral values. Calling for a “return to traditional family values” is not the path to economic and social prosperity. Yet it is a clarion call sounded from Warsaw to Budapest. Furthermore, these moves are indicative of the Church’s desire to maintain its political as well as religious influence as a growing number of people in the region chose a more secular life. Read more
	Decolonizing Forced Migration Studies: Lessons from Borderlands	Wed, 12.05.2021, 17:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Ayşe Çağlar Nergis Canefe	Decolonizing Forced Migration Studies: Lessons from Borderlands Seminar Series on Forced Migration with Nergis Canefe and Ayşe Çağlar Wed, 12.05.2021, 17:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Nergis Canefe Series: Seminars and Colloquia This presentation was an exploration of forced migration studies seen from the lens of de-colonial theory and invited us to consider shifting the geographies of reason habitually marking the field. Starting with a foundational critique of moralism and privilege marking canonized understandings of migration, precarity, displacement and dispossession, it unpacked the complexity of an existential political commitment to redefining forced migration not from the core/recipient states and societies but from borderlands. This work thus contributed to a long and rich—yet also troubled and deeply contested—conversation between postcolonial studies and forced migration studies. Read more
Decolonizing Forced Migration Studies: Lessons from Borderlands Seminar Series on Forced Migration with Nergis Canefe and Ayşe Çağlar Wed, 12.05.2021, 17:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Nergis Canefe Series: Seminars and Colloquia This presentation was an exploration of forced migration studies seen from the lens of de-colonial theory and invited us to consider shifting the geographies of reason habitually marking the field. Starting with a foundational critique of moralism and privilege marking canonized understandings of migration, precarity, displacement and dispossession, it unpacked the complexity of an existential political commitment to redefining forced migration not from the core/recipient states and societies but from borderlands. This work thus contributed to a long and rich—yet also troubled and deeply contested—conversation between postcolonial studies and forced migration studies. Read more
	Alien Logic	Tue, 11.05.2021, 18:00	Lecture	Ayşe Çağlar Martin Burckhardt Timothy Snyder	Alien Logic The Universal Machine and the Psyche of the Social Apparatus Tue, 11.05.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Martin Burckhardt Timothy Snyder Series: Lecture Bronislaw Malinowski has shown with his ethnological studies that a supposedly primitive society can be of astonishing complexity, as well as why the structure of this order remains obscure to its members. Obviously, modern societies also suffer from system blindness – why else is digitization said to have chiliastic, diabolic, magical powers? In a continuation to his cultural-theoretical investigations on the genealogy and philosophy of the machine, Martin Burckhardt explores the question of how the self-enchantment of rationality can occur, and to what extent the operating system of the attention economy can be read as an outsourced unconscious. This, in turn, leads back to the point of departure: what perspective must a contemporary social anthropologist take in order to read the present? Read more
Alien Logic The Universal Machine and the Psyche of the Social Apparatus Tue, 11.05.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Martin Burckhardt Timothy Snyder Series: Lecture Bronislaw Malinowski has shown with his ethnological studies that a supposedly primitive society can be of astonishing complexity, as well as why the structure of this order remains obscure to its members. Obviously, modern societies also suffer from system blindness – why else is digitization said to have chiliastic, diabolic, magical powers? In a continuation to his cultural-theoretical investigations on the genealogy and philosophy of the machine, Martin Burckhardt explores the question of how the self-enchantment of rationality can occur, and to what extent the operating system of the attention economy can be read as an outsourced unconscious. This, in turn, leads back to the point of departure: what perspective must a contemporary social anthropologist take in order to read the present? Read more

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