<![CDATA[Beyond EVE: Events]]> de-DE Sun, 10 Jul 2022 14:59:17 +0200 <![CDATA[The Last Forty Years and the Next Forty: Eastern Europe, Europe, the World]]> https://www.beyond-eve.com/en/events/the-last-forty-years-and-the-next-forty-eastern-europe-europe-the-world In this conversation, part of a series of events marking the IWM’s 40th anniversary in 2022, Timothy Snyder and Yuval Noah Harari discussed what lessons we should take from the past four decades and what will determine the course of the years to come.

Topics included techno-optimism and -pessimism, the role of ideas in politics, the continuing relevance of history to geopolitics, the failure and the success of predictions from the past, the intellectual legacies of the late twentieth century, and the war in Ukraine and its possible consequences for coming decades.

Yuval Noah Harari is a Professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of bestsellers Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Sapiens: A Graphic History, and the forthcoming Unstoppable Us - and has sold over 40 Million books worldwide. Harari writes regularly for publications such as The Guardian, Financial Times, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Economist - addressing current world affairs like COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine from a macro-historical perspective.

Timothy Snyder is the Levin Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University and IWM Permanent Fellow. His fifteen books, which include The Road to Unfreedom, On Tyranny, Bloodlands, and Black Earth, have been translated into more than forty languages and have received a similar number of awards. He holds state orders and honorary doctorates and has appeared in documentaries, on network television, and in major films.

The conversation was moderated by IWM Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev.

]]> ]]> Sun, 10 Jul 2022 14:59:17 +0200 <![CDATA[Kant's Tribunal of Reason. Legal Metaphor and Normativity in the Critique of Pure Reason]]> https://www.beyond-eve.com/en/events/kants-tribunal-of-reason-legal-metaphor-and-normativity-in-the-critique-of-pure-reason Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, his main work of theoretical philosophy, frequently uses metaphors from the law. In this first book-length study in English of Kant's legal metaphors and their role in the first Critique, Sofie Møller shows that they are central to Kant's account of reason. Through an analysis of the legal metaphors in their entirety, she demonstrates that Kant conceives of reason as having a structure mirroring that of a legal system in a natural right framework. Her study shows that Kant's aim is to make cognizers become similar to authorized judges within such a system, by proving the legitimacy of the laws and the conditions under which valid judgments can be pronounced. These elements consolidate her conclusion that reason's systematicity is legal systematicity.

With Rainer Forst (Normative Orders, Goethe University), Jakob Huber (Normative Orders, Goethe University), Sofie Møller (Normative Orders, Goethe University), Susan Shell (Boston College), Martin Sticker (University of Bristol), Marcus Willaschek (Normative Orders, Goethe University)

Moderated by Lara Scaglia (University of Warsaw)

Organised by Sofie Møller (Author)

For further information about the book: Click here...

]]> ]]> Tue, 12 Jan 2021 22:18:14 +0100 <![CDATA[Archived Landscapes and Archival Landscapes: Architectures of Political Record-Keeping in Early Modern Western Europe, 1450-1700]]> https://www.beyond-eve.com/en/events/archived-landscapes-and-archival-landscapes-architectures-of-political-record-keeping-in-early-modern-western-europe-1450-1700 The materiality of pre-digital documentary sources means that their preservation and organization in archives involved at least two simultaneous and separate architectonic contexts. Archivists sought to place physical documents within ordered spaces in a legible way; at the same time, as conveyers of information, documents were equally part of larger conceptual architectures, which were often spatially conceived in early modern Europe. This talk builds on the seminal contributions of Peter Rück, who captured this duality with the term „ideal-topographical“, but will move beyond the mapping relationships that Rück identified as the most common way of ordering archives from the 14th to 17th centuries. Examining several notable creations of dedicated archival architecture, from 15th century Savoy to Simancas to the Haus- und Hofarchiv in Vienna in the 1740s, it will examine how the architecture of physical archives provided for but also constrained landscapes of domainal space by projecting them onto archival containers. In doing so, archiving supported shifting architectures of dominion by providing a stable site where such landscapes could be delineated and differentiated, as in the production of maps or cadasters.

]]> ]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2021 14:00:58 +0200 <![CDATA[Built Order: Spaces of Power / The Architecture of European Integration]]> https://www.beyond-eve.com/en/events/built-order-spaces-of-power-the-architecture-of-european-integration The architecture of the space around us has a considerable influence on our everyday lives. However, the resulting layout is rarely accidental and unintentional. Architects who design government and administrative buildings, urban spaces, libraries or other built structures have always been guided by the aesthetic as well as functional requirements and needs that are placed on the buildings and architectures they design. The result is architecturally manifested space that intends to reflect and constitute political-social orders and ideals or designed with regard to specific forms of exercising and securing power.

The lecture series “Gebaute Ordnung” (Built Order) will investigate spaces of power during the 2021 summer semester. In particular, the speakers will explore how aspects of the architectural and spatial perceptibly interlock with political and social orders. Four evening lectures will touch on the topics of architectures of integration, exclusion and annihilation, representation and legitimation, and the securing of power.

SEBASTIANO FABBRINI

The Architecture of European Integration

“Architekturen des Ordnens” is a four-year (2020-2023) interdisciplinary research project of the Goethe University Frankfurt and Technical University Darmstadt, with the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Theory and the Deutsches Architekturmuseum as non-university partners.

]]> ]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2021 12:21:15 +0200 <![CDATA[What Economics and Economic History can learn from Memory Studies]]> https://www.beyond-eve.com/en/events/what-economics-and-economic-history-can-learn-from-memory-studies How are individual and collective memories of extreme economic moments produced in a community? How do these memories translate into the political economy and shape the realm of possibility of macroeconomic policies? Why is some statistical data and economic policy represented more factual than others in the historical narration of national economies? How do some economic indicators become more powerful symbolic frameworks than others and receive different degrees of affective intensity? How can methods and key concepts of memory studies inform and enrich the historical and economic analysis related to these questions?

The Workshop is organised by Stephanie Ettmeier and Marie Huber, Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Global History at the HU Berlin. Taking our own research projects – dealing with the postcolonial economy of Francophone West Africa, and the recovery of the German economy from the Great Depression under the Nazis from 1933 onwards, respectively – as a starting point, we want to invite others working on economic experiences and expectations to discuss these questions with us. In a critical thinking and discussion focused workshop format, we want to strengthen interdisciplinary conversation and provide methodological impulses for a broad range of research topics.  

Keynote Lectures

Ute Röschenthaler, Universität Mainz, will give a keynote lecture and provide valuable input during the discussions.

]]> Thu, 07 Jan 2021 19:15:08 +0100 <![CDATA[Ernst May Haus Frankfurt and Max Liebling Haus Tel Aviv – Exhibiting and Visiting an Architectural Monument]]> https://www.beyond-eve.com/en/events/ernst-may-haus-frankfurt-and-max-liebling-haus-tel-aviv-exhibiting-and-visiting-an-architectural-monument At the third event of the series “Context, Contrast, Continuity – Heritage Conservation and Urban Development” exemplary houses of Modernism will be discussed with the Max Liebling Haus in Tel Aviv and the Ernst May Haus as the foci.

The Max Liebling Haus was built in 1936 by Max and Tony Liebling according to plans by the architect Dov Karmi. Since 2019 it houses the White City Center Tel Aviv. The Liebling Haus – The White City Center was co-founded by the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality and the German government at a historical and cultural crossroad in the heart of Tel Aviv. Its mission is to actively preserve the heritage of the White City site and the international style, known in Israel as the Bauhaus.

The Ernst May Haus was built 1927/28 according to plans by Carl Hermann Rudloff and Ernst May as part of Frankfurt’s Römerstadt. It is an exemplary house for the extensive housing estates of the Neues Frankfurt. Since 2010, after carefully restoring the small single-family terraced house to its original state of 1929, it can be visited by the interested public.

Sharon Golan Yaron, architect and programme director of the Max Liebling Haus will present her curatorial achievements for the White City Center Tel Aviv. The Head of the ernst-may-gesellschaft, Prof. Dr. Klaus Klemp, will introduce the Ernst May Haus and the programme developed by the Forum Neues Frankfurt. They will expose the radically different curatorial strategy behind the Ernst May Haus and the Max Liebling Haus. The different approaches to storytelling in historically protected monuments will be explored also in the subsequent discussion which will be opened by Natascha Drabbe, Director and Founder of the Iconic Houses Network.

The online discussion event will be conducted in English.

]]> ]]> Fri, 22 Jan 2021 17:40:50 +0100 <![CDATA[Anger and its Interaction with Love and Hate]]> https://www.beyond-eve.com/en/events/anger-and-its-interaction-with-love-and-hate Why has anger become such a dominant theme in today's world that people have even spoken of an "age of anger"? Is it conceivable that this emotionalization could also have a positive effect, under what conditions? In terms of the history of philosophy and religion, two approaches to this topic can be identified. On the one hand, a complete rejection, in Buddhism, for example, and in Stoicism; on the other hand, the approving qualification of anger as a virtue, under special circumstances, for example, in Aristoteles and Thomas von Aquin. Absolute negation has a detrimental effect when certain sensations are so excluded, including positively experienced sensations. Essentially, two causes can be identified for the increasing affliction by anger in our society. On the one hand, the evaporation of traditional as well as new values; on the other hand, the all too arbitrary expression of anger in the social media. In addition, it has the effect that more and more anger-filled protest actions, of youth, of women, show a challenge to traditional specifications. Meanwhile, anger as a popular and triumphant affect misses the mark. A binding, moral force can only emerge when anger gains coherence, in its sustainability, intensity, and reach. Otherwise, anger becomes destructive rage.


Aaron Ben-Ze'ev is a professor of philosophy at the University of Haifa (Israel), of which he was president for many years; research in social philosophy, perception theory, and everyday psychology; numerous publications on the historical and contemporary politics of emotions, including "Love Online: Emotions on the Internet" (2004), "The Logic of Emotions. A Critique of Emotional Intelligence" (2009), "The Arc of Love. How Our Romantic Lives Change over Time" (2019).

Introduction and talk: Ethel Matala de Mazza

]]> ]]> Sat, 01 May 2021 10:57:36 +0200 <![CDATA[Saving America's Cities]]> https://www.beyond-eve.com/en/events/saving-americas-cities Lizabeth Cohen - Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age — in conversation with E. J. Dionne Focusing on the life and work of Edward J. Logue (1921-2000), an urban planner, public administrator, and lawyer, Cohen’s new book surveys the boom of government-sponsored urban renewal in the post-war decades. An advocate of large-scale projects like his contemporary and rival, Robert Moses, Logue worked to revive New Haven, designed New Boston around a restored Government Center and Faneuil Hall-Quincy Market, and, as head of New York State’s Urban Development Corporation, rebuilt Roosevelt Island. Highlighting both the successes and troubling legacy of Logue’s work,


Cohen, a Harvard professor and award-winning author of Making a New Deal and A Consumers' Republic, illuminates the complicated history of today’s gentrification issues.

Cohen will be in conversation with E.J. Dionne, Washington Post op-ed columnist.

]]> Fri, 04 Dec 2020 21:25:13 +0100 <![CDATA[Rethinking Democratic Athens and Republican Rome in an Age of Plutocracy and Populism]]> https://www.beyond-eve.com/en/events/rethinking-democratic-athens-and-republican-rome-in-an-age-of-plutocracy-and-populism Two ancient polities, Athenian democracy and the Roman republic, figure prominently in debates over the contemporary crisis of “liberal,” “electoral” or “representative” democracy. Democratic Athens and republican Rome are often invoked as models to be imitated or avoided in efforts to address rising political inequality and rampant political corruption in our plutocratic age. I criticize recent books by Philip Pettit, Nadia Urbinati and Josiah Ober that evaluate majoritarian and populist solutions, inspired by Athenian or Roman politics, to address the contemporary crisis of democracy. In response, I advocate classspecific or randomly distributed political offices, citizen referenda, and popularly judged political trials as ancient-inspired reforms intended to address the problems of unaccountable and unresponsive elites, socio-economic inequality and political corruption that plague contemporary democracies.


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John P. McCormick is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Carl Schmitt’s Critique of Liberalism: Against Politics as Technology (Cambridge University Press, 1997); Weber, Habermas and Transformations of the European State: On Constitutional, Social and Supranational Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2007); Machiavellian Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2011); and Reading Machiavelli (Princeton 2018). Professor McCormick has received the following fellowships: Fulbright Scholarship, the Center for European Law & Politics, the University of Bremen in Germany (1994 – 95); Jean Monnet Fellowship, the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (1995 – 96); Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, Harvard University (2008 – 09); Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellowship, Bellagio, Italy (2013); and National Endowment for the Humanities Grant (2017 – 18).

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