29. May 2026 - 09:15
Venue: Am Planetarium 7
Organizer: Imre Kertész Kolleg
On 29 May, the Working Group ‘Imagining the Democratic Self’ will commence its activities.
As a part of Research Area 3 within the Cluster of Excellence “Imaginamics”, the Working Group picks up on a long tradition in political thinking that reflects on the need to root liberal democracy in everyday life and seeks to take it from the realm of political theory to empirical research, aiming to gain insights into practices of imagining the democratic self and their role in articulating conflicting interests and shaping the collective will. The Working Group seeks to challenge common perceptions of Eastern European societies as being historically immature and prone to authoritarian leanings.