After 1989, Who Imagined the Future? – A Conversation with Dorine Schellens
During her Visegrad Fellowship at the Blinken OSA Archivum, Dorine Shellens worked on her book project “Beyond Post-Communism, Imagining the Future in Times of Transition”, where she examines alternative futures imagined by cultural actors in Soviet Russia and East Germany during the 1980s and early 1990s.
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After 1989, Who Imagined the Future? – A Conversation with Dorine Schellens
During her Visegrad Fellowship at the Blinken OSA Archivum, Dorine Shellens worked on her book project “Beyond Post-Communism, Imagining the Future in Times of Transition”, where she examines [...]
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The Politics of Europe’s Panic – A Conversation with Francesco Trupia
The CEU Democracy Institute’s annual conference, with the title Imaginary Exhaustion? asked to what extent today’s democracies are trapped by fear and exhaustion, and how we might rebuild our [...]