When: Monday, 25 May 2023, 17:00
Where: online
Speaker:
Eszter Kováts (University of Vienna)
Massimo Perinelli (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation)
Ondřej Slačálek (Charles University, Prague)
Chair:
Marlene Laruelle (George Washington University)
The culture war is a concept developed in the US and for grasping the country’s cultural polarization. As often with US hegemony in academia, the concept has traveled to Europe. As other loaded concepts like populism and illiberalism, the notion of culture wars is often used not in analytical terms but in political debates to delegitimize the opponent. In this series published between May 2022 and May 2023 – now compiled as an e-book – we looked at some of the current cultural debates in Europe, such as race, LGBT, reproductive rights, cancel culture, woke, covid-19, climate change, and take a reflexive stance at how they are morally loaded – both on the conservative and the so-called progressive side, both in political movements and discourses as well as in academia.
The Book was edited by Eszter Kováts (University of Vienna). Birgit Sauer (with Stefanie Mayer) as well as Ulrich Brand (with Markus Wissen) have each contributed a chapter to the book.
Please register here for the event. You can also read the invitation as a PDF.
