Book Salon with Judith Kohlenberger and Mohammad Sarhangi
Migration is as fundamental as it is controversial in this society. The emotionally charged debates of recent times have narrowed this multifaceted topic down to questions of control and limitation. Actors from the right-wing populist and right-wing extremist spectrum are increasingly successfully capitalizing on doomsday scenarios, conspiracy myths and fear-mongering.
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Willy Brand an der deutsch-deutschen Grenze
Migration researchers, on the other hand, have long complained about a race to one another between the strictest migration policies, in which not only the human right to asylum but also central elements of democratic coexistence and respect for human dignity fall by the wayside. Rarely is there any reflection on how thinking and talking about migration changes this society as a whole in addition to migration policy. Because ultimately the question of migration and its regulation is always also a question of the state of democracy.
The cultural scientist and migration researcher Judith Kohlenberger (Vienna University of Economics and Business) presents her two books “Against the New Hardship” and “Limits of Violence: How External Borders Affect the Interior”, published in 2024. She received the City of Vienna's Promotion Prize in 2021 and the Anas Schakfeh Prize for services in the field of human rights, democracy and the promotion of the rule of law in 2024.
The historian Mohammad Sarhangi (Center for Research on Antisemitism, TU Berlin) presents his book “Years of Fear, Moments of Hope. An Emotional History of Migration”, also published in 2024, which landed on numerous non-fiction bestseller lists immediately after its publication.
The discussion in the new format of the book salon is moderated by Frank Wolff.
(TALK IN GERMAN)
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Dates
April 2025
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