PROGRAMM

This talk by Professor MARIA TODOROVA will broadly raise the issue between European consciousness and conscience. Concretely, it will try to find an explanation for the strange disappearance of the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s from European consciousness, the way that the moral outrage in European conscience is universalized and materialized (or not, then and today). In a conversation with IWM Albert Hirschman Permanent Fellow IVAN KRASTEV, Todorova will broaden the problem with dealing with the disappearance of socialist and, more generally, other utopian thinking from European consciousness and its “Unbehagen” at others’ moral outrage.

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MARIA TODOROVA is the Gutgsell Professor of History Emerita at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of Balkan Family Structure and the European Pattern (University Publishing Association, 1993); Imagining the Balkans (Oxford University Press, 2009); Bones of Contention: The Living Archive of Vasil Levski and the Making of Bulgaria's National Hero (Central European University Press, 2011); Scaling the Balkans: Essays on Eastern European Entanglements (Brill, 2018); The Lost World of Socialists at Europe's Margins: Imagining Utopia (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), as well as the editor of volumes on memory and remembrance.