Past Events

Three decades after the begin of China's process of opening up and reform and about a decade after China's accession to the WTO, the country's fast industrialisation process became hard to ignore. In European politics this is summarised in the acknowledgement of China as a „partner for cooperation and negotiation, an economic competitor and systemic rival".…

Double Keynote presentation in the framework of the Conference "Deindustrialization and Reindustrialization Re-Connected"

Lesung und Diskussion: In dieser Literaturlesung und -diskussion wird unser angesehener Autor*innenkreis ihre Einsichten zur Darstellung sozioökonomischer Ungleichheiten in der Literatur teilen und prüfen, wie das Schreiben als starkes Instrument genutzt werden kann, um Ungleichheiten anzufechten.

Roundtable-Diskussion

Roundtable-Diskussion:

Welche Auswirkungen hat zunehmende Ungleichheit auf den gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt? Stellt sie eine Gefahr für das demokratische System dar? Was können traditionelle sozialstaatliche Ausgleichsmechanismen noch leisten? Oder ist Chancengleichheit statt Umverteilung der Schlüssel zu mehr Gerechtigkeit in der Gesellschaft?

Roundtable Discussion: The roundtable aims at engaging scholarly, literary, political, and activist perspectives in a dialogue on how questions of justice permeate their perceptions and practices of addressing the climate emergency.

Lecture: Looking at the case of China, this talk looks at how digital technologies have transformed social, economic, and political life in China.

Keynote lecture: Reviving the commons and compensating the commoner for their deprivations should form the core of a new progressive politics grounded in ecological imperatives of our times.

Roundtable discussion: How is inequality encoded in technologies, human bodies, literary canons, and economic systems? And what transformations have the concepts of equality and inequality undergone in East Central Europe and beyond over the past half century?