Panel discussion on October 17, 2022, at 7:00 p.m. hosted by the Cluster of Excellence "Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)" and in cooperation with Verlag C.H. Beck and silent green Berlin
How do people speak about war? And how do they explain war events and their background? Panelists will discuss these questions and more at an event on October 17, 2022, at 7:00 p.m. hosted by the Cluster of Excellence "Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)." Political scientist and expert on Eastern Europe Professor Gwendolyn Sasse and Ukrainian author and publisher Kateryna Mishchenko will take a look at political and social dynamics in Ukraine’s recent history.
Taking Professor Sasse’s recent book, Der Krieg gegen die Ukraine: Hintergründe, Ereignisse, Folgen ("The War against Ukraine: Background, Events, Consequences," C.H. Beck, 2022) as a point of departure, they will examine the language being used to reflect upon and to "narrate" this war. Between science and literature, analytical expertise and artistic approaches, the two experts seek to extend common perceptions to major political situations, everyday practices, and people’s lived experiences in the midst of war. "Futuring the Liberal Script: Ukraine - Talking of War," is a co-organized event put on by the Cluster of Excellence SCRIPTS together with the publisher Verlag C.H. Beck and the cultural quarter silent green.
Journalist and author Dr. Jens Bisky will moderate the panel. The event is free of charge, and registration is not required.
Panelists
- Gwendolyn Sasse is the director of the Center for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) and Einstein Professor for the Comparative Study of Democracy and Authoritarianism at the Institute of Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Professor Sasse is also principal investigator at the Cluster of Excellence SCRIPTS. She has conducted extensive research on Eastern Europe and Ukraine over the years - in particular on post-socialist transformation processes and the dynamics of war, migration, and protest movements. Her work currently includes projects on the war and border regimes in Ukraine, and social mobilization in Belarus.
- Kateryna Mishchenko is a writer, publisher, and translator. She is co-founder and editor of the Ukrainian publishing house Medusa and was the editor of Prostory, a magazine for art, literature, and social criticism. She taught literary history at the Kyiv National Linguistic University and worked as a translator in the field of human rights. Mishchenko’s essays have been published in Ukrainian and international anthologies and magazines, and she co-authored the book Ukrainian Night (Spector Books, 2015). From April to June 2022, Mishchenko was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, where she has lived and worked since the beginning of the war.
- Jens Bisky (moderator) is a journalist and writer. He has been editor-in-chief of Mittelweg 36 and Soziopolis since 2021, both published by the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. From 2001 to 2020 he was an editor for the arts and culture section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Bisky is the author of Geboren am 13. August ("Born on August 13," 2004), Kleist: Eine Biographie ("Kleist: A Biography," 2007), and most recently Berlin: Biographie einer großen Stadt ÜBerlin: Biography of a Great City," 2019). His essays have been published widely in magazines and newspapers. In 2017 Bisky was awarded the Johann Heinrich Merck Prize for Literary Criticism and Essay Writing by the German Academy for Language and Poetry.
About "Futuring the Liberal Script"
SCRIPTS’s public conversation series "Futuring the Liberal Script" brings together researchers from the Cluster of Excellence and guests for live events at silent green in Berlin, where they address current crises impacting liberal societies and democracies.
Cluster of Excellence "Contestations Of The Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)"
The Cluster of Excellence "Contestations Of The Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)" is a research consortium that analyses why the liberal model of order has fallen into crisis despite its political, economic, and social achievements. Interdisciplinary research teams investigate why alternative concepts of social order are on the rise, how these contestations differ from earlier ones, and what the consequences are for the global challenges of our time. SCRIPTS is hosted by the Freie Universität Berlin and unites eight major Berlin-based research institutions.