Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab A cooperation of the Bruno Kreisky Forum, the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) and the University of Applied
Arts. Historian, journalist and author Philipp Blom invites international guests to talk about transformation, reasonable
change, necessary steps and new conceptual spaces.
Beset by a crisis of democracy and
geopolitical challenges, by demographic imbalances and environmental disaster, an economically weakened Europe, bereft of
its old, liberal narrative, seems to be staggering, a waning force losing both credibility and power.
Not
so, says Nathalie Tocci, director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome and Europe’s Futures Fellow at the IWM in
Vienna. If Europe is ambitious enough, it can secure future influence and prosperity by fully committing to a true green revolution,
expanding on the goals of the energy transition that has already become the new heart of the European project. Tocci is one
of the foremost thinkers on Europe and its future in the world. Even while faced with new uncertainties and challenges, Europe
can find a new global role by championing and driving an agenda for green transition that recognizes only global solutions
and global justice will be effective in the fight for a European future.
Philipp Blom speaks with Nathalie Tocci
about a European future between energy transition and new strategic challenges, as well as the challenges for European democracies
faced with popular discontent and a loss of trust in the European project or its institutions.
Is the future
green and global, or will the European moment be swallowed up in epochal change?
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 Nathalie Tocci:
Nathalie
Tocci is Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali IAI, Honorary Professor at the University of Tübingen, Pierre Keller
Visiting Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and Adjunct Professor at the European Union Institute. She has been Special
Advisor to EU High Representative and Vice President of the Commission Josep Borrell. As Special Advisor to HRVP Federica
Mogherini she wrote the European Global Strategy and worked on its implementation. She has been a member of Eni's Board of
Directors since May 2020. In 2022–23 she is a Europe’s Futures Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences IWM.
Previously
she held research positions at the Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, the Transatlantic Academy, Washington and
the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Florence. Her research interests include European foreign policy, conflict
resolution, the Middle East and the Mediterranean.
About Philipp Blom:
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
This event
is kindly supported by RD Foundation
