Events
The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) organises academic events in order to provide the broader public as well as an expert audience with regular insights into the most recent research results in the fields of Holocaust, genocide, and racism research. These events, some of which extend beyond academia in the stricter sense, take on different formats ranging from small lectures to the larger Simon Wiesenthal Lectures and from workshops addressing an expert audience to larger international conferences and the Simon Wiesenthal Conferences. This reflects the institute’s wide range of activities.
The range of events further extends to the presentation of selected new publications on the institute’s topics of interest, interventions in the public space, the film series VWI Visuals, and the fellows’ expert colloquia.
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Hannah Arendt und die Wertungen der Moderne / Hannah Arendt and the Judgement of Modernity | |||
from Wednesday, 21. June 2017 - 09:00 Wien Museum: Karlsplatz, 1040 Wien / VWI: Rabensteig 3, 1010 Wien / IFK: Reichsratsstraße 17, 1010 Wien
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Der Hannah Arendt gewidmete, gemeinsam mit dem Internationalen Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK) veranstaltete Workshop wird versuchen, die ideengeschichtlichen Traditionen jener humanen und sozialen Vision zu rekonstruieren, die in der Überzeugung wurzelt, dass es – auch in einer säkularen Epoche – möglich ist, zwischen Gut und Böse zu unterscheiden. Viele Denkerinnen und Denker setzten sich mit den Begriff des moralischen Individualismus – sei er transzendental oder von dieser Welt – auseinander und betonten dabei die Autonomie des Individuums als eines der Grundprinzipien der modernen, westlichen Gesellschaft. Dazu bedurfte es aber universaler Leitlinien fernab des Staates. Auch Hannah Arendt beschäftigte sich immer wieder mit universaler Verantwortung und deren Verhältnis zum Konzept von Humanität. Zweiter Weltkrieg und Holocaust erzwangen zudem ihr Interesse für die Beziehung zwischen Universalismus und Partikularismus. Ihre Schriften zu Totalitarismus, Demokratie, kritischem Urteil und über das Böse brennen auch deshalb noch immer unter der Haut. Ihr Engagement mit dem jüdischen Schicksal, ihre Arbeit mit jüdischen und zionistischen Einrichtungen, ihre Beschäftigung mit jüdischer Geschichte und Politik sowohl auf einer theoretischen als auch praktischen Ebene stehen im Fokus dieses Workshops. Die Keynote wird die Philosophin Bettina Stangneth am 21. Juni 2017 im Wien Museum halten. Im Rahmen der VWI-Visuals wird auch Ada Ushpiz’ Film Vita Active. The Spirit of Hannah Arendt vorgeführt. Konzept: Natan Sznaider The workshop – organised jointly by the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK), Vienna and the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies – seeks to reconstruct the intellectual origins of a human and social vision rooted in the belief that even in a secular age we are blessed with the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong and good and evil through exercising our power of judgment. Many intellectuals were concerned with moral individualism, which is both transcendental and of this world. Some of these voices stress the sanctity and the autonomy of the individual as one of the fundamental principles of modern society. In their view, this was the true expression of modernity. The particular world of devout Jewry was no longer sufficient to cope with the challenges of modernity. Thus, they were looking for universal guidelines, both within and outside the state. This becomes true even more strikingly after the Holocaust. The workshop will focus on the works and legacies of one of the most exciting thinkers of the 20th Century, namely Hannah Arendt. Arendt was constantly concerned with universal responsibility and its relation to the concept of humanity, which she sees as part of the Jewish tradition. Thus, the choice of Arendt is not arbitrary. Perhaps more than that of any other thinker of the twentieth century, the urgency of her writing on totalitarianism, democracy, critical judgment, and evil is now more urgent than ever. Her engagement with the fate of the Jews, her work with Jewish and Zionist organisations, her engagement with Jewish history and politics on a theoretical and on a practical level – all of these things make her a good fit with the subject of this workshop. Her experiences during the Second World War, and what would later be called the Holocaust fed her theoretical interest in the relationship between universalism and particularism. Bettina Stangneth is invited to deliver a keynote on 21 June 2017, also Vita Activa. The Spirit of Hannah Arendt, a film by Ada Ushpiz will be presented as a VWI-Visual on 22 June 2017. Concept: Natan Sznaider
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Programme: Mittwoch, 21. Juni 2017, 18:30 Wien Museum, 1040, Karlsplatz 8 Begrüßung: Matti Bunzl (Wien Museum), Béla Rásky (VWI), Thomas Macho (IFK) Keynote 18:30 Bettina Stangneth (Hamburg) Donnerstag, 22. Juni 2017 VWI, 1010 Wien, Rabensteig 3 Opening Remarks 9:00 Natan Sznaider (Academic College, Tel Aviv-Yaffo) Verbrechen und Strafe, 9:00-9:30 9:30 Monika Boll (Düsseldorf) 9:50 Barbara Bushart (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) 10:10 Diskussion 10:30 Coffee break Questions of Guilt and Judgement: Responsibility, 10:50-12:20 10:50 Daniil Aronson (Institute of Philosophy, Moscow) 11:10 Annika Glassmeier (RWTH Aachen) 11:30 Devrim Sezer (İzmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi) 11:50 Diskussion 12:20 Lunch break Aesthetics and Politics, 13:30-15:00 13:30 Jennifer Pavlik (Université du Luxembourg) 13:50 Zoë Roth (Durham University) 14:10 Ruzanna Amiraghyan (Yerevan) 14:30 Diskussion 15:00 Coffee break Multifaceted Understanding of Modernity, 15:30-17:00 15:30 Ville Suuronen (Jyväskylän Yliopisto/University of Jyväskylä) 15:50 Nataliia Aniskevich (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation) 16:10 Mika Ojakangas (Jyväskylän Yliopisto/University of Jyväskylä) 16:30 Diskussion Evening Lecture, 17:00 17:00 Ágnes Heller (Budapest) 19:30 Vita Activa. The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (Ada USHPIZ, IL 2015) Freitag, 23. Juni 2017, 9:30-18:00 IFK, 1010 Wien, Reichsratsstraße 17 Holocaust and The Jewish Question, 9:30-11:00 9:30 Anna Corsten (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen) 9:50 Avner Dinur (Sapir College, Seminar Hakibbutzim, Israel) 10:10 Shmuel Lederman (University of Haifa) 10:30 Diskussion 11:00 Coffee break Questions of Guilt and Judgement: Human Rights, 11:30-12:30 11:30 Sinkwan Cheng (London) 11:50 Joanna Tegnerowicz (Uniwersytet Wrocławski) 12:10 Diskussion 12:30 Lunch break Jewish Intellectual Assimilation, 14:00-15:30 14:00 Marius San (Universitatea din Bucureşti) 14:20 Vladimir Tismaneanu (University of Maryland) 14:40 Joshua Cherniss/Thijs Kleinpaste (Georgetown University) 15:00 Diskussion 15:30 Coffee break The Politics of Tradition, 16:00-17:00 16:00 Naira Mkrtchyan (Yerevan State University) 16:20 Ruth Kager (Universität Wien) 16:40 Diskussion Between Past And Future, 17:00-18:00 17:00 Elisabeth Gallas (Simon-Dubnow-Institut, Leipzig) 17:20 Holly Case (Brown University, Providence) 17:40 Diskussion 18:00 Veranstaltungsende
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