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In the current conjuncture, can the spatial histories of authoritarian haunting grounds illuminate the present?
Join us next week for our Monthly Lecture with Katharyne Mitchell on the spatial history of Tempelhof Field in Berlin.
Register here:
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Heute startet Vienna meets Prague! Den Auftakt macht ein besonderes Konzert: Vanda Šabaková und Luděk Šabaka (Vater und Tochter) präsentieren ein Programm für Harfe und Klavier, das Werke vom 18. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart umfasst.
👉 www.viennameetsprague.com/duo-%C5%A1ab...
In today's ceremonial address at the Austrian Federal Chancellery, Ivan Krastev reflects on what it means for Europeans today to consider themselves the children of May 8th, 1945 – an appeal to remain hopeful.
Read the full address:
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On 13 May, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social delivered this year’s Speech to Europe, reflecting on the multiple challenges Europe faces but also reminding us of the enormous potential it possesses:
www.iwm.at/news/a-speec...
Photo Credit: ERSTE Stiftung/APA-Fotoservice/Tanzer
At last week's Political Salon (with @erstestiftung.org, @diepressecom.bsky.social & Wien Museum), @frankfukuyama.bsky.social, Ivan Krastev, Andreas Treichl & Christian Ultsch explored rising populism, pressure on democracy & lessons from Hungary:
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Photo Credit: Klaus Ranger
The liberal international order is dead—and no one should mourn its passing. Any relevant successor must and will be a planetary order whose lodestars are ecological survival and planetary habitability, argues @nilsgilman.bsky.social.
📺 Rewatch his February lecture here:
Ein Highlight der heurigen Ausgabe von Vienna meets Prague: Kurt Schwitters' dadaistische Ursonate in der Fassung von Jaromír Typlt und Pavel Novotný, erstmals in Wien aufgeführt. Sie frönt ganz dem Unsinn, und ist doch alles andere als unsinnig.
🤝 In Koop. mit @oegfl.bsky.social
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Join @thomasgomart.bsky.social & Ivan Krastev for a timely discussion on the shifting global balance of power.
As the post-1945 international order tilts, this talk explores how power is reshaped by conflict, competition & technological disruption:
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Monthly Lecture
What Is a ‘World Order’? (And What Would a Planetary One Look Like?)
Nils Gilman, Misha Glenny
10 February 2026, 18:00 CET
IWM Library
The liberal international order is dead—and no…
