Mai 2023
Geopolitical Talks: Overlapping Crises
The geopolitical reverberations of the Russo-Ukrainian War have been felt far beyond Europe. The conflict has further complicated an already daunting set of challenges facing the global order. It has simultaneously worsened big-power polarization, widened the gulf between countries in the West and the so-called Global South, and emboldened influential middle-power countries to be more assertive in pushing for their own interests. Countries already struggling to deal with economic vulnerabilities are now at higher risk of instability. Meanwhile, the war …
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Mehr erfahren »März 2024
Ein Wir in vielen Namen
In ihrem Buch „Unsere Anderen: Geschichten ukrainischer Vielfalt“ dokumentiert die Journalistin und Schriftstellerin Olesya Yaremchuk die Geschichte(-n) ethnischer Minderheiten in der Ukraine. Insgesamt 14 Gemeinschaften mit anderen Sprachen und Kulturen hat die Autorin besucht und in teils sehr persönlichen Reportagen deren berührende Schicksale lebendig werden lassen. Sie verbindet wissenschaftliche Hintergrundrecherchen mit Interviews und Gesprächen in den jeweiligen Dorfgemeinschaften und erzählt von ihnen in literarischer Form. Der Krieg Russlands gegen die Ukraine verändert die ethnische Landschaft der Ukraine weiter. Neue Migrationswellen …
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Mehr erfahren »The Contamination of History. World War II and How Everything Started to Make Sense
In 2020, the Chilean writer Benjamín Labatut published his novel When We Cease to Understand the World about a scientist whose work became weapons during the First and Second World War. For many, the world truly ceased to make sense during that period. But for others, it began to make perfect sense. The talk will elaborate on the ideas of those who made super sense out of the events of World War II in particular and how their ideas have …
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Mehr erfahren »The Contamination of History. World War II and How Everything Started to Make Sense
In 2020, the Chilean writer Benjamín Labatut published his novel When We Cease to Understand the World about a scientist whose work became weapons during the First and Second World War. For many, the world truly ceased to make sense during that period. But for others, it began to make perfect sense. The talk will elaborate on the ideas of those who made super sense out of the events of World War II in particular and how their ideas have …
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Mehr erfahren »Abgesagt: Geopolitical Talks: Geopolitics and the Energy Transition. Can the Downward Spiral Be Reversed?
Diese Veranstaltung wurde kurzfristig abgesagt. Wir bitten etwaige Unannehmlichkeiten zu entschuldigen. Energy and geopolitics have long been entangled, with major shifts in one driving major changes in the other. Meghan L. O’Sullivan will discuss how this interdependence has never been more relevant to the future of humanity than it is today. In her keynote speech, the speaker will elaborate on the emergence of a feedback loop between the deteriorating geopolitical environment and the ongoing energy transition to a net-zero global …
Mehr erfahren »April 2024
Can Beauty Save the World? On Historical Injustice, Reconciliation and the Role of Aesthetic Education
“Beautiful world! Where hast thou gone?" asks Friedrich Schiller in his famous poem “The Gods of Greece.” He laments the loss of harmony in a world divided by injustice both past and present. In this lecture, Lea Ypi reads from her forthcoming book on human dignity. In it, she reflects on the relationship between politics and art by focusing on historical injustice and its legacy in a divided world. Through the life of her grandmother, Leman Ypi, she travels from …
Mehr erfahren »Mai 2024
Beyond the Leader: Looking at Grassroots Reasons for the Rise of Illiberalism
As Europe and the United States prepare themselves to see a rise of far-right and illiberal parties gaining a large share of the votes at the June and November 2024 elections, Marlene Laruelle explores the grassroots reasons for this rise of illiberalism. Moving beyond the usual explanations of electoral politics and populist rhetoric, she engages with the deeper transformations of our societies in terms of their relationship to time and space, socioeconomic transformations, the impact of media ecosystems, the polarization …
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Mehr erfahren »Beyond the Leader: Looking at Grassroots Reasons for the Rise of Illiberalism
As Europe and the United States prepare themselves to see a rise of far-right and illiberal parties gaining a large share of the votes at the June and November 2024 elections, Marlene Laruelle explores the grassroots reasons for this rise of illiberalism. Moving beyond the usual explanations of electoral politics and populist rhetoric, she engages with the deeper transformations of our societies in terms of their relationship to time and space, socioeconomic transformations, the impact of media ecosystems, the polarization …
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Mehr erfahren »Collisions. The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability
Author Michael Kimmage will present his latest monograph Collisions. The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability. The book launch will be followed by a panel discussion with IWM Visiting Fellows Yuliya Yurchenko and Mykola Ryabchuk. One war: three collisions – in this vividly written, narrative history of the war in Ukraine, Michael Kimmage puts together the pieces of a complicated international puzzle to understand the origins of the current conflict that has brought the world …
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Mehr erfahren »Oktober 2024
Between Populism and Technocracy: Digital Hyperconnectivity and the Transformation of Politics and Governance
Digital hyperconnectivity has reshaped political life by transforming regimes of knowing, regimes of feeling, and regimes of governing. It has altered ways of knowing the public world by weakening epistemic authority, reinforcing epistemic suspicion and distrust, and eroding the foundations of a shared public world, contributing to epistemic paralysis on the one hand and epistemic polarization on the other. Hyperconnectivity has altered regimes of public feeling by encouraging the expression and mobilization of moral outrage and thereby deepening partisan antipathy …
Mehr erfahren »November 2024
Can We Create a Better World Order? Geopolitical Talk with Stephen Walt
Humanity is at a Gramscian moment when “one world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born.” The Cold War order ended in 1992, and the U.S. attempt to construct a global liberal order collapsed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the global resurgence of populism and authoritarianism. This lecture and discussion will examine the forces that are undermining the current geopolitical order and consider how states can …
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Mehr erfahren »Odesa City Myth Rethought and Reframed – Ukrainian Black Sea Narratives, Multidirectional Memory, and the Challenges of Decolonization
Few cities on the Black Sea coast can rival Odes(s)a in the richness and diversity of its cultural legacy. An oft-mythologized image of the city derived from Russian-language writings, especially from the early twentieth century, trickled into a stereotypical version exploited for decades both by the Soviet and the Russian post-Soviet mass culture, as well as by the city's own tourism industry. However, this outdated and now largely shed cliché narrative obscures many facets of the city's cultural diversity both …
Mehr erfahren »Practical Past – Visions of the Early Modern Era in the Ukrainian-Crimean Tatar Encounter
The modern Ukrainian-Crimean Tatar alliance has succeeded in overcoming narratives of historical antagonism by excavating and promoting a “practical past” of solidarity in their stead. In this lecture, Rory Finnin will explore these visions of alliance and cooperation in works of literature and film and will analyze their strategic setting in the seventeenth century, before the arrival of Russian colonial power in Crimea. This talk with draw on Rory Finnin’s award-winning book Blood of Others: Stalin’s Crimean Atrocities and the …
Mehr erfahren »Dezember 2024
The Standpoint of Moral Progress. A Defense in Kantian Spirit – Jan Patočka Memorial Lecture with Axel Honneth
The IWM Jan Patočka Memorial Lecture series was inaugurated by Hans-Georg Gadamer in 1987. It honors the work and legacy of Jan Patočka, co-founder and spokesman of the civil rights movement Charter 77 and widely considered one of the most influential modern philosophers of Central Europe. Previous speakers include Nancy Fraser, Lord Dahrendorf, Edward W. Said, Albert O. Hirschman, François Furet, Jacques Derrida, Leszek Kołakowski, and, most recently, Chantal Mouffe and Aleida Assmann. Today, the idea that there has been …
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