From the 2nd-4th November 2018, Eurozine’s 29th European Meeting of Cultural Journals, entitled Mind the Gap: Illiberal Democracy and the Crisis of Representation, took place in Vienna.
About the conference:
In 2018, the Vienna-based European network of cultural journals, Eurozine, will meet for the 29th time, celebrating a twofold anniversary, with it being 35 years since the first European Meeting of Cultural Journals in Switzerland in 1983 as well as 20 years since the foundation of the online magazine and association.
This year, the meeting is entitled Mind the Gap: Illiberal Democracy and the Crisis of Representation and the conference’s panels will discuss the the role of liberal media in the dynamics of polarisation and the rise of the populist right as a result of the failure of institutional politics. Eurozine will also look at surveillance capitalism and the corporate and state capture of the internet as well as at the history of cultural journals and the practice of cultural journalism today.
Alongside a programme of private network events, the conference will open with a public discussion between Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Claus Leggewie on Friday 2nd November 2018, in which the two will discuss what is to be done for a free and open Europe in light of the brand of nationalist and illiberal populism gaining ground across the continent.
Over the course of the weekend, a further four panel discussions will then be publicly aired, covering topics such as the Left’s abandonment of the social question, media pluralism under pressure, the challenges facing contemporary cultural journalism and the relationship between the internet and democracy.
The opening discussion and all of the main panel discussions were all live streamed on Eurozine’s Facebook page and an embedded playlist of the panel discussions can now be found at the top of this page.
Programme:
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02.11 - 19:15
Europe first!
Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Claus Leggewie
Click here to watch a (German-language) video of this debate
03.11 - 09:30
Populism and the representation gap
Dominika Kasprowicz | Director of the Villa Decius Association
Cornelia Koppetsch | Professor at the TU Darmstadt
Reka Kinga Papp | Hungarian Journalist & new Editor-in-Chief of Eurozine
Marc-Olivier Padis | Director of Terra Nova Think Tank & former Editor-in-Chief of Esprit
Mario Ricciardo | Director of Rivista il Mulino
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03.11 - 11:15
Media pluralism under pressure
Ismail Einashe | Investigative Journalist & Correspondent for Index on Censorship
Simon Garnett | Eurozine Editor
Ernst Gelegs | Eastern Europe Correspondent for ORF [Austrian Broadcasting Corporation]
Ola Larsmo | Author, Novelist & former Chairman of Swedish PEN
Claire Potter | Professor of History at The New School, New York & Executive Editor of Public Seminar
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04.11 - 10:00
Worlds of cultural journals
Sally Davison | Co-Editor of Soundings
Marit Kapla | Editor-in-Chief of Ord&Bild
Waldemar Kuligowski | Editor-in-Chief of Czas Kultury
Roman Schmidt | Head of Department for Contemporary History at the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin
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04.11 - 13:30
Internet technologies and democracy
Rachael Jolley | Editor of Index on Censorship
Daniel Leisegang | Editor of Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik & Member of the Eurozine Editorial Board
Kathrin Passig | Founding Member of the Zentrale Intelligenz Agentur & Author
Andrei Soldatov | Journalist and Founder/Editor, Agentura.ru
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Media:
The panel discussions listed above were all live streamed on https://www.facebook.com/eurozine/ and we will put together an embedded playlist with videos of these discussions at the top of this page post-conference.
You can keep informed of the availibility of media content from all TTT debates by following us on our social media and/or media platforms, where we post information on forthcoming events and publish all new recordings
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