As part of the lecture series "Against the Authoritarian Drift" and the ICGP series Performing the Political, we will discuss international and local legal issues and their social dimension, the interconnection between anti-Semitic, racist and sexist violence, and current attacks on university autonomy.
Antidiscrimination Revisited – Paradox Entanglements of Antisemitism, Racism and Gender
Discussion
May 8, 2025, 6:00 p.m.#Performing the Political #Drifting into Authoritarianism #Discussion
Organization: Evelyn Annuß & Isabel Frey
Against the backdrop of the current authoritarian turn and global fascist developments, hard-won antidiscrimination policies are increasingly coming under pressure. Not only in the USA, for example, are trans and queer rights under massive attack from the right, and institutionalized equality measures are being suspended. At the same time, anti-discrimination rhetoric is being hijacked to discredit or sanction critical political voices. Ironically, in the German-speaking context, accusations of anti-Semitism are also used to silence criticism of current war crimes and violations of international law.
As part of the inter-university lecture series Against the Authoritarian Drift and the ICGP series Performing the Political, we will discuss international and local legal issues and their social dimension, the interconnection between anti-Semitic, racist and sexist violence, and current attacks on university autonomy.
Lectures/Performances
- Wolfgang Kaleck (European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, ECCHR),
- Deborah Feldman (author of Judenfetisch, 2023),
- Monika Mokre (political scientist and migration policy activist)
- Isabel Frey (ethnomusicologist and founder of the Jewish-Arab peace initiative Standing Together Vienna)