Past Events

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?

A locked door inside a Belgrade apartment has kept one family separated from their past for over 70 years. As the filmmaker begins an intimate conversation with her mother, the political fault line running through their home reveals a house and a country haunted by history.

For the vast majority of the world’s population, the global migration regime appears as a form of unfreedom. We will examine the contested meanings of migration, its multiple forms as well as the complex entanglements of freedom and unfreedom in global migration from historical, anthropological, and activist perspectives.

Both Hungary and Poland have turned away from liberalism in recent years, at times openly embracing concepts like "illiberal democracy." In this discussion, two former central bankers in their countries will reflect upon the trajectory of economic liberalism in post-communist transformation, the current state of affairs, and the perspectives for the future.