Making Sense of Histories of Resistance to High Technology from Within
Thursday, 22 October, 2026 13:00 - 14:30 CEST
This talk looks at instances in the history of technology, and particularly in the US computing industry, where workers have pushed back or protested against the very products that they have been educated, trained, and employed to create. Using examples from the 20th century as a bridge to movements and concerns in high tech currently, this talk asks whether…
Moral Autopsy: Truths, Secrets, and the Judicial Afterlives of Communist Secret Services
Thursday, 19 November, 2026 13:00 - 14:30 CEST
Drawing on his recently released book, Moral Autopsy (Cambridge University Press 2025), Saygun Gökarıksel shows how the contentious trajectory of postsocialist transitional justice in Poland, especially, lustration, reveals the fundamental problems of global transitional justice including its capitalist nation-state centrism, Eurocentric liberal teleology of…
Student Internationalism and the Global Cold War: Discussing the International Union of Students
Thursday, 26 November, 2026 13:00 - 14:30 CEST
Founded in 1946 in Prague, the International Union of Students was meant to be a universal federation representing student interests internationally. Soon after its foundation, however, the IUS aligned itself with the Eastern Bloc and started promoting socialist student internationalism.
Beyond North and South: Mapping Eastern Europe, the Second World(s), and International Legal Liminality
Thursday, 28 January, 2027 13:00 - 14:30 CEST
Drawing on Second World Approaches to International Law (SWAIL), this talk excavates Eastern Europe's complex relationship to empire, colonialism, civilization and race. In offering novel insights into how this region has shaped, and been shaped by, doctrines, ideas and practices of self-determination, great power intervention, and conditional sovereignty,…
