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Total democracy and the parademocratic system
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What is a parademocratic system and what are the merits of opening up larger numbers of everyday institutions to democratic governance? This Einstein Forum debate takes a closer look, asking what are the advantages and disadvantages of total democracy.
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Working from home: is it working?
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In light of the spread of the coronavirus, more and more people are being encouraged to work from home, but what consequences does this have for society and our social lives? This debate takes a look at the broader implications of working from home.
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Power to the people!
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What do big protest movements have in common? This De Balie Forum on European Culture debate brings together activists from France, the UK, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Italy and the Czech Republic to discuss their strategies, experiences and intentions.
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This is what we know about your future
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What might Europe's future hold post-pandemic? This De Balie Forum on European Culture debate takes a look at what the knock-on effect of the coronavirus outbreak might be for European politics and economics, asking what futures are possible in a world in flux.
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A conversation with Thomas Piketty & Lodewijk Asscher
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How close are academic theory and political practice – which theories can actually be realised? This De Balie debate brings both sides of the coin together to discuss what needs to and what can be done to combat inequality in our societies.
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Framing with Baldwin Van Gorp
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Beurschouwburg and deBuren team up to challenge our perception of normality. This discussion between Baldwin Van Gorp and Selm Wenselaers looks at the concept of framing, assessing how the formulation of information develops and frames our understanding of the world around us.
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Power & Powerlessness, Vienna Humanities Festival 2018
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The Vienna Humanities Festival returns to look at the dynamics of power and powerlessness in 39 discussions with renowned speakers, five screenings of related classic & contemporary films and a performance of Vyrypaev's The Iran Conference.
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Europe: from hope to disaffection. A Mediterranean view
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In a day of seminars, the CCCB & the British Academy look at the shift in perceptions of the EU from the perspective of Southern Europe, tracing how the European project has gone from being greeted as a positive development to having increasingly negative associations.
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Cynics or saints? The representational politics of disability
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Kultura Liberalna take a look at the recent disability protests in the Sejm, asking what needs to be done to help disabled people in Polish society and how we can avoid serious topics being reduced to vessels for political ambition and insincere promises.
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Dissidents today – from anti-communism to anti-liberalism?
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Nikolay Mihaylov talks to The Red House about the boundaries of public discussion, looking at whether liberalism itself innately restricts our ability to discuss our concerns and the conditions we need to guarantee an environment within which democratic alternatives can be widely discussed.
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Transcripts of the Kultura Liberalna debate, I hate politics.
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These are transcript excerpts from the Kultura Liberalna debate, I hate politics. On people's cynicism and the dissolution of trust - a debate which looked at the nature of trust in liberal democracies.
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The Central European Forum, 2014 – Us and Them
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2014's CEF focussed on the concept of "us and them", on 25 years of post-communism in the former Eastern bloc and on emerging societal divisions. Participants came together to discuss a quarter century of freedom and the challenges our societies have to face as we look to the future.
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