• Wed 14 01 2015 •
Some parallels between the violent breakup of Yugoslavia and today’s Ukrainian crisis

with BORIS BUDEN

Some Parallels between the violent breakup of Yugoslavia and today's Ukrainian crisis: lecture by Boris Buden, King Georg Cologne, 14 01 2015, © Anna Kallage

History never repeats, but sometimes a comparison of two events separated by decades can disclose remarkable similarities and continuities: a falling-apart of a society along cultural dividing lines, a mobilization of the past in current conflicts, the promise of European integration, the irreversibility of violent transformations, etc. What Giorgio Agamben argued about the dissolution of Yugoslavia seems to fully apply to what is taking place today in Ukraine: there will never be a return to normality and restoration of the old social contract. Instead, a state of exception born from violence will turn into a permanent condition and go so far as to spread all over the globe.

Some Parallels between the violent breakup of Yugoslavia and today's Ukrainian crisis: lecture by Boris Buden, King Georg Cologne, 14 01 2015, © Jan Kryszons

Entrance: 20.00, Beginning: 21.00

Venue: King Georg Klubbar, Sudermanstraße 2, Cologne

Entry: 3 €

Lecture in English.