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New Histories of Public Spheres and Public Actions

A webinar series jointly organized by Profs. Alexander Etkind (EUI) and Ellen Rutten (University of Amsterdam)

Established in 2020, this lecture series responds to the dramatic events of our time in a historical and humanistic perspective. Arguably, public action has rarely been more important and public protest more inspired then it is today, while the underlying public sphere has never been more fragmented. We will focus on the historical roots, cultural forms and political fruits of this peculiar combination. Exploring the public effects of digital media and the new awareness of Anthropocene, we will address the changing materiality and global roles of the new public. We will also examine local, gendered and other aspects of access, inclusivity, and retribution. Inviting historians, media scholars, and other colleagues to this debate, we will create a new transnational community that will be instrumental in changing some inherited truths – and establishing new ones.

Lecture

Department of History

European Islam: Remedy, Refuge or Repression?

14 January 2022, 16:00 CET

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Lecture

Department of History

How wellbeing became an object of expertise

5 November 2021, 15:00 CET

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Lecture

Department of History

Digital environmental dreams and their dirty material politics

11 June 2021, 16:00 CET

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Department of History

Nuclear Secrets

16 April 2021, 16:00 CET

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Internal Events:

Was Soviet Television a Public Sphere?

5 February 2021

  • Speaker: Bohdan Shumylovych (Centre for Urban History, Lviv)

Public Spheres: In Theory and in Belarus

9 December 2020

  • Speaker: Mischa Gabowitsch (Einstein Forum, Potsdam)


Memory, Conflict and Post-Socialist Media: Old Stories, New Questions

30 October 2020




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