Democracies Under Pressure: Putin's Russia
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| free admission |
| Please book your ticket in advance online or at the box office in the foyer. |
| Duration: 60 min |
| 14 years and older |
| Humboldt Lab, 1st floor |
| max. 30 persons |
| Part of: SCRIPTS Short Talks |
| Belongs to: After Nature |
War is back in Europe – on 24 February 2022, Russia, autocratically led by Vladimir Putin, invaded democratic Ukraine. But the war of aggression also targets democracy as such. Is Putin’s ideology, which despises the liberal West, a coherent counterpart to the liberal order? What are his plans for Russia and the world? And finally, why do large sections of Russian society still seem to agree with Putin’s policies?
In a conversation with journalist Christoph David Piorkowski, political scientist and Eastern Europe expert Gwendolyn Sasse answers questions about Putin’s fight against the liberal-democratic order in a short talk.
Participants
Christoph D. Piorkowski is a journalist and author. He writes on society, political current affairs, philosophy and the humanities. His political feature articles appear in the Tagesspiegel, as well as in Deutschlandfunk, taz, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Philosophie-Magazin, Das Parlament, Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, and at the Einstein and Max Weber Foundations, among others. In 2021 and 2022 he was nominated for the Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Science Journalism. 2022 Visiting Journalist at the Cluster of Excellence Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS). He is also a lecturer in political philosophy with a focus on migration ethics.
Gwendolyn Sasse is Scientific Director at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), Einstein Professor of Comparative Study of Democracy and Authoritarianism at the Institute of Social Sciences at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Prinicipal Investigator at the Cluster of Excellence SCRIPTS. As a political scientist she has been researching for decades on Eastern Europe and Ukraine – in particular on post-socialist transformation processes. Her research includes post-communist transformation processes, and the dynamics of war, migration and protest movements.
An event in cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)
