Angewandte
Interdisciplinary LabPhilipp Blom and Nina Khrushcheva in Conversation
Russia – A Society
in Meltdown
About the discussion series Dialogues for Tomorrow:
The debate series Dialogues
for Tomorrow critically examines the present from multiple perspectives in order to create a better understanding of tomorrow.
Beginning in Fall 2022, Gerald Bast, rector of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, invited
artists and experts to the new Café Exchange. The interdisciplinary conversations covered topics from the field of art, science,
culture, technology and politics and give audiences a chance to join the discussion.
As a
sequel of the series, the program is now broadened: In spring 2023 together with the Bruno Kreisky Forum and
the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), the University of Applied Arts hosts experts from different disciplines
to discuss future challenges. Ranging from climate change to democracies in crisis, current wars and social controversies:
this time it is historian, journalist and author Philipp Blom who will be in conversation with renowned, innovative, intelligent
and provocative international guests to talk about transformation, reasonable change, necessary steps and new conceptual spaces.
About
the guest:
Nina Khrushcheva is Professor in the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs of International
Affairs at The New School in New York. She is an editor of and a contributor to the Project Syndicate: Association of Newspaper
Around the World. Her articles have appeared in Foreign Policy, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial
Times, and other publications. She has commented widely on Russian politics for MSNBC, CNN, BBC, and other international media
outlets. Khrushcheva's latest co-authored book is In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across
Russia's Eleven Time Zones (St. Martin's Press, 2019). She is currently working on a biography of her great-grandfather,
Nikita Khrushchev.
About the host:
Philipp Blom was born in Hamburg
in 1970. After living and working in Oxford, London, and Paris, he is now based in Vienna. His historical works, essays, and
novels have been translated into 16 languages and have received numerous awards, including a scholarship at the Getty Research
Institute in Los Angeles and the German Non-Fiction Book Prize. Blom is also a prolific radio journalist and public speaker.
Among his most recent German and English publications are: Diebe des Lichts, Karl Blessing 2021; Das große Welttheater, Zsolnay
2019; Eine italienische Reise, Hanser 2018; Was auf dem Spiel steht, Hanser 2017; Die Welt aus den Angeln, Hanser 2017 / Nature’s
Mutiny; Bei Sturm am Meer, Zsolnay 2016; Die zerrissenen Jahre. 1918–1938, Hanser 2014; Böse Philosophen. Ein Salon in Paris
und das vergessene Erbe der Aufklärung, Hanser 2011 / A Wicked Company; Der taumelnde Kontinent. Europa 1900–1914, Hanser
2009 / The Vertigo Years - Change and Culture in the West, 1900-1914
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