Kristóf Szombati (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) held an IPW Lecture on 17 March 2022. Moderation by Dorothee Bohle (IPW).

This Special IPW Lecture took place on Friday, 11 March 2022 online via Zoom.

Participants: Julia Baumann (Geschwister Scholl Institute for Political Science, LMU Munich), Edgars Eihmanis (Willy Brandt Center for German and European Studies at University of Wrocław and Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies at University of Tartu), Anna Lazareva (Department of Political Science, University of Vienna), Anatoly Reshetnikov (Webster Vienna Private University), Yuliya Yurchenko (International Business and Economics Department & and Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability Institute, University of Greenwich) and Tatiana Zhurzhenko (ZOIS - Center for East European and International Studies, Berlin)

Moderators: Dorothee Bohle & Tobias Spöri (Department of Political Science, University of Vienna)

Abstract: As the brutal invasion of Ukraine is going into its third week, the Department of Political Science convenes a roundtable of experts on Ukrainian, Russian and Baltic politics to discuss origins of the war and the current situation in Ukraine, the reaction within Russia, and the fall-out in the Baltic States. We will be covering humanitarian aspects of the war; national class dimension, tensions and competition since Ukraine’s independence; disinformation and propaganda, the chances of elite defection and popular resistance in Russia, tensions and fears in the Baltic States, and possible ways out.

Lukas Schlögl (CeSCoS), Timo Seidl (EIF) & Paul Dunshirn (DigiGov) held an IPW Lecture on 19 January 2022. Moderation by Barbara Prainsack. 

Abstract:

Discourses on the “Future of Work” attract significant attention in the policy community and beyond. Who will pursue what kind of work in the future? What role will new technologies play in the workplace? Who will need to adapt their skills to a changing work environment? And what role should governments, businesses and trade unions play in the transformation of work? Discourses that address such questions and provide respective policy advice implicitly (re-)negotiate the value of work, norms about distribution and fairness, and the social order. This IPW lecture presents findings from three recent studies that analyse public discourse on the Future of Work, the actors involved in producing it, and the values underpinning it.

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