Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Fluid Zones of Hegemony	Mon, 10.05.2021, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Ayşe Çağlar Ezgican Özdemir	Fluid Zones of Hegemony Hydro-Scales, Cartographic Rule, and Place in North Cyprus Mon, 10.05.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Ezgican Özdemir Series: Seminars and Colloquia Based on a 16-month ethnographic fieldwork in north Cyprus, Ezgi Özdemir's doctoral dissertation studies water infrastructure in the Turkish-occupied territories of Cyprus, enduring patronage relations between the Turkish state and the de-facto Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), and emergent political subjectivities and collective identificatory practices of peoples in north Cyprus, which are contingent upon notions of exceptionality, non-recognition, and infrastructural and political dependence. For this, she looks specifically at the Turkish state-funded water pipeline from Turkey to north Cyprus—a megaproject that has since been privatized along with the transferred water and the local water resources of the north. Read more
Fluid Zones of Hegemony Hydro-Scales, Cartographic Rule, and Place in North Cyprus Mon, 10.05.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Ezgican Özdemir Series: Seminars and Colloquia Based on a 16-month ethnographic fieldwork in north Cyprus, Ezgi Özdemir's doctoral dissertation studies water infrastructure in the Turkish-occupied territories of Cyprus, enduring patronage relations between the Turkish state and the de-facto Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), and emergent political subjectivities and collective identificatory practices of peoples in north Cyprus, which are contingent upon notions of exceptionality, non-recognition, and infrastructural and political dependence. For this, she looks specifically at the Turkish state-funded water pipeline from Turkey to north Cyprus—a megaproject that has since been privatized along with the transferred water and the local water resources of the north. Read more
	Do We Need a Post-Covid Economic Revolution?	Sun, 09.05.2021, 11:00	Panels and Discussions	Albena AzmanovaDaniel Gros, Harald Oberhofer, Lisa Herzog, Eric Frey	Do We Need a Post-Covid Economic Revolution? Europa im Diskurs - Debating Europe Sun, 09.05.2021, 11:00 Speakers: Albena AzmanovaDaniel Gros, Harald Oberhofer, Lisa Herzog, Eric Frey Series: Panels and Discussions The Covid-19-pandemic and the economic crisis it triggered is not only upsetting fiscal and social policies in most industrialized countries, but also the debate among economists about the role of the state, the future of work and the balance between necessary economic growth and the needs to fight global warming. How many of these new ideas will persist once the pandemic is over? Has the time for a new approach to economics finally arrived? Read more
Do We Need a Post-Covid Economic Revolution? Europa im Diskurs - Debating Europe Sun, 09.05.2021, 11:00 Speakers: Albena AzmanovaDaniel Gros, Harald Oberhofer, Lisa Herzog, Eric Frey Series: Panels and Discussions The Covid-19-pandemic and the economic crisis it triggered is not only upsetting fiscal and social policies in most industrialized countries, but also the debate among economists about the role of the state, the future of work and the balance between necessary economic growth and the needs to fight global warming. How many of these new ideas will persist once the pandemic is over? Has the time for a new approach to economics finally arrived? Read more
	Balaton. Novellen	Mon, 03.05.2021, 18:00	Lecture	Ludger Hagedorn Noémi Kiss	Balaton. Novellen Lesung und Gespräch mit Noémi Kiss Mon, 03.05.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Noémi Kiss Series: Lecture Ungarn in den 1980er-Jahren: Der Balaton, oder Plattensee, ist ein beliebtes Urlaubsziel. Hier liegen Menschen von beiden Seiten des „Eisernen Vorhangs“ einträchtig nebeneinander am Strand, durch den Mauerbau getrennte Familien machen gemeinsam Ferien. Read more
Balaton. Novellen Lesung und Gespräch mit Noémi Kiss Mon, 03.05.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Noémi Kiss Series: Lecture Ungarn in den 1980er-Jahren: Der Balaton, oder Plattensee, ist ein beliebtes Urlaubsziel. Hier liegen Menschen von beiden Seiten des „Eisernen Vorhangs“ einträchtig nebeneinander am Strand, durch den Mauerbau getrennte Familien machen gemeinsam Ferien. Read more
	Das Fremde hinter der Fremde	Tue, 27.04.2021, 18:00	Lecture	Ludger Hagedorn Michael Kegler Susann Urban	Das Fremde hinter der Fremde Tue, 27.04.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Michael Kegler Susann Urban Series: Lecture Mittlerweile gibt es viele AutorInnen, für die Englisch nicht die Muttersprache oder eine Muttersprache unter mehreren, sondern die Zweit-, oder Drittsprache ist. Ihre globalen Biografien und Lebensbrüche spiegeln sich nicht nur in ihren Themen wider. Sie schmuggeln ungewohnte Sprachbilder, Metaphern, Idiome in die englische Sprache – eine wunderbare Bereicherung und eine enorme Translationsherausforderung. Read more
Das Fremde hinter der Fremde Tue, 27.04.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Michael Kegler Susann Urban Series: Lecture Mittlerweile gibt es viele AutorInnen, für die Englisch nicht die Muttersprache oder eine Muttersprache unter mehreren, sondern die Zweit-, oder Drittsprache ist. Ihre globalen Biografien und Lebensbrüche spiegeln sich nicht nur in ihren Themen wider. Sie schmuggeln ungewohnte Sprachbilder, Metaphern, Idiome in die englische Sprache – eine wunderbare Bereicherung und eine enorme Translationsherausforderung. Read more
	Die Lieblinge der Justiz	Mon, 26.04.2021, 18:00	Lecture	Yuri AndrukhovychCornelius Hell	Die Lieblinge der Justiz Lesung und Gespräch mit Juri Andruchowytsch Mon, 26.04.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Yuri AndrukhovychCornelius Hell Series: Lecture Die Lieblinge der Justiz, das sind Verbrechen und Verbrecher, echte und vermeintliche: Bohdan Staschynskyj zum Beispiel, ein KGB-Agent und Auftragskiller. Oder Mario, der Kolonialwarenhändler aus Kolomea im östlichen Hinterland der k. und k. Monarchie. Juri Andruchowytsch entfaltet in seinem neuen Buch »Die Lieblinge der Justiz. Parahistorischer Roman in achteinhalb Kapiteln« ein die Jahrhunderte umspannendes Panorama von Mord, Liebe und Verrat, von der Monstrosität des Verbrechens und der Justiz. Read more
Die Lieblinge der Justiz Lesung und Gespräch mit Juri Andruchowytsch Mon, 26.04.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Yuri AndrukhovychCornelius Hell Series: Lecture Die Lieblinge der Justiz, das sind Verbrechen und Verbrecher, echte und vermeintliche: Bohdan Staschynskyj zum Beispiel, ein KGB-Agent und Auftragskiller. Oder Mario, der Kolonialwarenhändler aus Kolomea im östlichen Hinterland der k. und k. Monarchie. Juri Andruchowytsch entfaltet in seinem neuen Buch »Die Lieblinge der Justiz. Parahistorischer Roman in achteinhalb Kapiteln« ein die Jahrhunderte umspannendes Panorama von Mord, Liebe und Verrat, von der Monstrosität des Verbrechens und der Justiz. Read more
	In Memory of the “Festival Age” (1987–1994)	Mon, 19.04.2021, 17:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Marci Shore Yuri Andrukhovych	In Memory of the “Festival Age” (1987–1994) Was it Indeed a Phenomenon? Mon, 19.04.2021, 17:00 Speakers: Marci Shore Yuri Andrukhovych Series: Seminars and Colloquia The essay Yuri Andrukhovych currently works on is an attempt at a consistent recollection and a fairly objective reconstruction of several significant cultural events that fundamentally influenced Ukrainian society nearly three decades ago. The final years of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the first years of independent Ukraine came together into what was essentially an uninterrupted festival of artistic events that were new for their time, or at the very least a clear alternative to the ossified official culture. A radical renewal of cultural discourses and values through poetry, rock music, visual and performance art became an ineluctable part of sociopolitical changes at that break of eras. How did it begin in Ukraine, and why did it end? What has been preserved in memory? What has been swallowed up by oblivion? Was the “festival age” a continuation of, or a supplement to, the East European velvet alternatives? Read more
In Memory of the “Festival Age” (1987–1994) Was it Indeed a Phenomenon? Mon, 19.04.2021, 17:00 Speakers: Marci Shore Yuri Andrukhovych Series: Seminars and Colloquia The essay Yuri Andrukhovych currently works on is an attempt at a consistent recollection and a fairly objective reconstruction of several significant cultural events that fundamentally influenced Ukrainian society nearly three decades ago. The final years of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the first years of independent Ukraine came together into what was essentially an uninterrupted festival of artistic events that were new for their time, or at the very least a clear alternative to the ossified official culture. A radical renewal of cultural discourses and values through poetry, rock music, visual and performance art became an ineluctable part of sociopolitical changes at that break of eras. How did it begin in Ukraine, and why did it end? What has been preserved in memory? What has been swallowed up by oblivion? Was the “festival age” a continuation of, or a supplement to, the East European velvet alternatives? Read more
	Capitalism, Alone	Thu, 15.04.2021, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Shalini RanderiaBranko Milanovic	Capitalism, Alone Books in Perspective Thu, 15.04.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Shalini RanderiaBranko Milanovic Series: Panels and Discussions We are all capitalists now. For the first time in human history, the globe is dominated by one economic system. In Capitalism, Alone, leading economist Branko Milanović explains the reasons for this decisive historical shift since the days of feudalism and, later, communism. Surveying the varieties of capitalism, he asks: How did capitalism become the dominant system in all parts of the world? And what needs to change for capitalism to deliver a more equitable future? Read more
Capitalism, Alone Books in Perspective Thu, 15.04.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Shalini RanderiaBranko Milanovic Series: Panels and Discussions We are all capitalists now. For the first time in human history, the globe is dominated by one economic system. In Capitalism, Alone, leading economist Branko Milanović explains the reasons for this decisive historical shift since the days of feudalism and, later, communism. Surveying the varieties of capitalism, he asks: How did capitalism become the dominant system in all parts of the world? And what needs to change for capitalism to deliver a more equitable future? Read more
	Forced Migration, the Antinomies of Mobility, and the Autonomy of Asylum	Wed, 14.04.2021, 17:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Ayşe ÇağlarNicholas de Genova	Forced Migration, the Antinomies of Mobility, and the Autonomy of Asylum Seminar Series on Forced Migration with Nicholas de Genova and Ayse Çağlar Wed, 14.04.2021, 17:00 Speakers: Ayşe ÇağlarNicholas de Genova Series: Seminars and Colloquia Rather than seeing the ever more devious reaction formations of border policing and militarization, migrant detention, immigration enforcement, and deportation by state powers as if these were purely a matter of control, it is instructive to situate this economy of power in relation to the primacy, autonomy, and subjectivity of human mobility on a global (transnational, intercontinental, cross- border, postcolonial) scale. This is true, I contend, as much for refugees as for those who come to be derisively designated to be mere “migrants.” If we start from the human freedom of movement and recognize the various tactics of bordering as reaction formations, then the various tactics of border policing and forms of migration governance can be seen to introduce interruptions that temporarily immobilize and decelerate human cross-border mobilities with the aim of subjecting them to processes of surveillance and adjudication. Indeed, it is this dialectic that reconstitutes these mobilities as something that comes to be apprehensible, alternately, as “migration,” or “asylum-seeking,” or the “forced migration” of “refugees” in flight from persecution or violence – which is to say, as one or another variety of target and object of government. Yet, even under the most restricted circumstances and under considerable constraint, these human mobilities exude a substantial degree of autonomous subjectivity whereby migrants and refugees struggle to appropriate mobility. Even against the considerable forces aligned to immobilize their mobility projects, or to subject them to the stringent and exclusionary rules and constrictions of asylum, the subjective autonomy of human mobility remains an incorrigible force. Read more
Forced Migration, the Antinomies of Mobility, and the Autonomy of Asylum Seminar Series on Forced Migration with Nicholas de Genova and Ayse Çağlar Wed, 14.04.2021, 17:00 Speakers: Ayşe ÇağlarNicholas de Genova Series: Seminars and Colloquia Rather than seeing the ever more devious reaction formations of border policing and militarization, migrant detention, immigration enforcement, and deportation by state powers as if these were purely a matter of control, it is instructive to situate this economy of power in relation to the primacy, autonomy, and subjectivity of human mobility on a global (transnational, intercontinental, cross- border, postcolonial) scale. This is true, I contend, as much for refugees as for those who come to be derisively designated to be mere “migrants.” If we start from the human freedom of movement and recognize the various tactics of bordering as reaction formations, then the various tactics of border policing and forms of migration governance can be seen to introduce interruptions that temporarily immobilize and decelerate human cross-border mobilities with the aim of subjecting them to processes of surveillance and adjudication. Indeed, it is this dialectic that reconstitutes these mobilities as something that comes to be apprehensible, alternately, as “migration,” or “asylum-seeking,” or the “forced migration” of “refugees” in flight from persecution or violence – which is to say, as one or another variety of target and object of government. Yet, even under the most restricted circumstances and under considerable constraint, these human mobilities exude a substantial degree of autonomous subjectivity whereby migrants and refugees struggle to appropriate mobility. Even against the considerable forces aligned to immobilize their mobility projects, or to subject them to the stringent and exclusionary rules and constrictions of asylum, the subjective autonomy of human mobility remains an incorrigible force. Read more
	Borders and Mobility	Mon, 05.04.2021, 14:30	Lecture	Ranabir SamaddarNasreen Chowdhory	Borders and Mobility with Ranabir Samaddar and Nasreen Chowdhory Mon, 05.04.2021, 14:30 Speakers: Ranabir SamaddarNasreen Chowdhory Series: Lecture It is difficult to define the concept of the border with rigour and precision; it is easier to make sense of it as an institution and a practice with the help of associated concepts, such as boundary, frontier, borderlands, etc. The border as a mode to protect and delimit a territory is old. Read more
Borders and Mobility with Ranabir Samaddar and Nasreen Chowdhory Mon, 05.04.2021, 14:30 Speakers: Ranabir SamaddarNasreen Chowdhory Series: Lecture It is difficult to define the concept of the border with rigour and precision; it is easier to make sense of it as an institution and a practice with the help of associated concepts, such as boundary, frontier, borderlands, etc. The border as a mode to protect and delimit a territory is old. Read more
	Capitalism on Edge	Mon, 29.03.2021, 18:00	Lecture	Albena Azmanova Ludger Hagedorn Wolfgang Merkel	Capitalism on Edge How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia Mon, 29.03.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Albena Azmanova Ludger Hagedorn Wolfgang Merkel Series: Lecture Albena Azmanova’s new book Capitalism on Edge puts precarity at the root of such social pathologies as the rise of populism and the inability of liberal democracies to effectively manage crises. The author observes that, while we have been discussing the crisis of capitalism in the aftermath of the 2008 financial meltdown, neoliberal capitalism has mutated into a new form, “precarity capitalism”, marked by the massification of political, economic and psychological insecurity. Read more
Capitalism on Edge How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia Mon, 29.03.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Albena Azmanova Ludger Hagedorn Wolfgang Merkel Series: Lecture Albena Azmanova’s new book Capitalism on Edge puts precarity at the root of such social pathologies as the rise of populism and the inability of liberal democracies to effectively manage crises. The author observes that, while we have been discussing the crisis of capitalism in the aftermath of the 2008 financial meltdown, neoliberal capitalism has mutated into a new form, “precarity capitalism”, marked by the massification of political, economic and psychological insecurity. Read more

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