Viadrina Institute for European Studies (IFES)
Winter Term 2017/18
This semester the Research Seminars focused on the overriding questions of what "criticism" is and how to understand it in relation to European studies.
Tuesday, 10 October 2017, 4-6 pm
IFES kick-off meeting with coffee and biscuits
Presentation and discussion of the web and public concepts for the IFES and programmatic questions for the coming year.
Logenhaus, LH 101/102
Wednesday, 24 October 2017, 4-6 pm
Opening event of IFES Research Seminars: Exhibition Opening and panel. The Aesthetic Fixation of Sociocultural Inequities in a Post-Socialist Society: Photographs by Mykhailo Minakov (DAAD Visiting Professor, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) / University of Kyiv)
Panel discussion with Mykhailo Minakov, Paul Zalewski. Timm Beichelt, Alexander Wöll and Amelie Kutter
Moderator: Estela Schindel
Gräfin-Dönhoff Building GD 102
The exhibition will be open from 25.10.2017 until 31.1.2018 in the gallery on the 1st floor of the Gräfin-Dönhoff-building.
A bulletin of the MOZ about Mykhailo Minakov can be found here.
Here you can find the event-journal of the Department of Press and Public Relations in German Language.
Tuesday, 21 November 2017, 4-6 pm
Book presentationd and discussion: EU-Space and the Euroclass. Modernity, Nationality and Lifestyle among Eurocrats in Brussels by Pawel Lewicki (EUV).
With Günter Verheugen
Moderation: Timm Beichelt, Head of the IFES.
Logenhaus, LH 101/102
Here you can find the event-journal of the Department of Press and Public Relations in German Language.
Tuesday, 05 December 2017, 4-6 pm
Zur Ambivalenz europäischer (Selbst-) Behauptung: Eine Diskussion von Valérys Europa-Begriff zwischen Krise und Universalität
Pablo Valdivia Orozco (EUV)
Logenhaus, LH 101/102
Tuesday, 09 January 2017, 4-6 pm
How far is the smuggling train? Informal economy between Calais, German-Polish border and Novosibirsk. Critical Insights into European Mobility (event in Polish with translation into German).
Małgorzata Irek (Oxford)
Hauptgäbude HG 109 Senate Hall
Tuesday, 23 January 2017, 4-6 pm
Thematische Diskussion: Was ist (Europa)Kritik?
With Julien Deroin and EUV-Professors Jürgen Neyer, Andreas Reckwitz and Andrea Allerkamp.
Ort: Logenhaus, LH 101/102
Thursday, 30 November 2017 - Saturday, 02 December 2017
'European peripheries: transdisciplinary perspectives'
International workshop ‘European peripheries: transdisciplinary perspectives’ hosted by the project ‘Reconfigurations’ at the Viadrina Institute of European Studies (IFES)
The workshop investigates current trends of periphery-building in the European context. Contributions from political economy, sociology, political science, history, cultural and discourse studies provide conceptual orientation and empirical depth to peripheries as an emerging transdisciplinary research agenda.
Concept: Amelie Kutter
Contact/registration: reconfigurations@europa-uni.de
Wednesday, 18 November 2017, 1-2pm
Lunch Lecture Number One
21% „Globalisierungsverlierer?“ Ergründungen zur Bundestagswahl mit Blick auf/aus Frankfurt (Oder) (in German Language)
The not-so-unexpected electoral success of the AfD now also at the federal level lets the media, politics and the academic world vehemently discuss possible causes. The above-average AfD figures in Brandenburg (19.4%), Thuringia (22.5%) and Saxony (25%) in many cases invite voters in the east of the republic to be frustrated, nationalistic and / or depends on globalization to stigmatize.
The Viadrina Cultural Studies Institute for European Studies (IFES) criticizes this discourse in its first of three "present-day analyzes." We invited experts from political education practice in Frankfurt (Oder) on the basis of their insights into social sentiment Their aim is to contrast the local perspective with the comparative view of right-wing populist trends in Europe, a one-hour prelude to a dialogue to be deepened.
Panelists:
Frank Hühner, Koordinierungs- und Fachstelle Partnerschaft für Demokratie, Frankfurt (Oder)
Robin Kendon, Brandenburgisches Institut für Gemeinwesenberatung demos
Jürgen Neyer, Professur für Europäische und Internationale Politik
Moderation: Anja Hennig
GD HS 8
A bulletin of MOZ about the event. Here you can find a Video Documentation of the event.
Here you can find the event-journal of the Department of Press and Public Relations in German Language.
Wednesday, 13 December 2017, 1-2 pm (s.t.)
Lunch Lecture Number Two
Über die neue Mittelklasse der Einzigartigen und die Krisen der Gegenwart: Die Gesellschaft der Singularitäten. Zum Strukturwandel der Moderne (In German Language)
Andreas Reckwitz, Professor of Comparative Cultural Sociology at the Viadrina, a discussion with Estela Schindel (IFES) and imm Beichelt (IFES) about his new book.
Moderation: Anja Hennig (IFES)
Ort: GD HS 8
Here you can find the event-journal of the Department of Press and Public Relations in German Language.
Tuesday, 16 January 2018, 4-6 pm
Is Europe possible without imperialism? Reflections on the global future of the European Union
Key Note Lecture von Prof. Arjun Appadurai (New York University/Humboldt Universität)
AM 03
A video documentation of the event can be found here.
Here you can find the event-journal of the Department of Press and Public Relations in German Language.
