Two years ago, my body gave out. ‘Burnout’, said the doctor, as he carefully wrote out a note ordering me to stop all professional activities. His look indicated that I would be needing his signature more often. What followed was...
Six months after the collapse of a concrete awning at the railway station in Novi Sad, Serbia is in the throes of a general rebellion against the regime of President Aleksandar Vučić. The November tragedy, in which sixteen people lost...
In the early morning of 25 April 1959, about ten masked men wearing white gloves entered the Pearl River County Jail in Poplarville, Mississippi. One of the guards let them in and led them to the cell where 23-year-old Black...
In early April 2021 the Belarusian author Victor Martinovich wrote an article for the news portal Budzma, in which he poured out his anxiety about what was happening in his country. ‘Every new morning is a challenge: Are you still...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gb5FY0QAX4 For those not too familiar with the internal affairs of Serbia, let me introduce two key players from today’s conversation: Aleksandar Vučić is a recurring character here. He has been in power in Serbia since 2012 in varying capacities,...
Tonight, I would like to talk to you about migration and identity. Perhaps the best way to start the conversation is with a presentation of myself. My name is Lea Ypi. I’m often introduced as a philosopher, as a writer,...
When women gained the right to vote in Sweden in 1919, a group of intellectuals – including Ada Nilsson (doctor), Honorine Hermelin (pedagogue and teacher) and Elin Wägner (author) – organised a course for women in political participation at a...
In an anniversary issue looking back on three decades of art and cultural criticism, Austrian magazine springerin brings together companions of the magazine in a ‘reflexive self-ethnography’. Artists and writers reflect on the hopes and ideals of the mid-1990s –...
I should like to begin with a poem. It is by the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa and is the first poem in his collection Message (Mensagem), published in 1934 – at a point when fascist movements had prevailed here and...
Though the US has not entirely abandoned the idea of brokering a deal between Russia and Ukraine, it has become clear that the White House administration is no longer Ukraine’s ally but rather a negotiator between the two sides. Kyiv...
