Politik der Unruhe – Georg Diez befragt CHRISTIAN VOLK - SCRIPTS Short Talk „Nervöse Demokratie“ #2

In the organizer's words:

How much nervousness can democracy tolerate? Where do these tensions come from? How is our concept of democracy currently changing? Which forms of democracy do we need to preserve, which do we need to unlearn and relearn? And where will we be in five years' time?

The journalist and author Georg Diez will talk to SCRIPTS researchers on three evenings about the state and future of "nervous democracy": about the transformation shock of democracy after 1989, about the tension between hysteria and reason using the example of the USA and about the politics of unrest, protest and revolt as essential elements of a living democracy.

How do systemic change and protest work in a democracy in which protest has for some time been voiced primarily by anti-democratic forces? How much unrest does a democracy need in order to change? And how can politics absorb the contradictory energies circulating in society and use them constructively?

In an interview with journalist Georg Diez, political scientist Christian Volk answers questions about political resistance and civil disobedience beyond individual and populist sensitivities.

Christian Volk is Professor of Political Theory at the Institute of Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Principal Investigator at the SCRIPTS Cluster of Excellence. He conducts research in the fields of political theory and philosophy, democracy, social theory and critical state theory. He works intensively on forms of protest, political dissidence and civil disobedience.

Further dates in the series: 18.12.2024: SCRIPTS Short Talk #3: HYSTERY AND CONFUSION IN THE USA - Georg Diez interviews Lora Anne Viola

- free of charge

- from 14 years

- Humboldt Lab, 1st floor

- Belongs to: After nature