On Wednesday, November 27, 2024, 6:00pm
at Hotel Sacher
(Philharmoniker Str. 4, 1010 Wien).
The keynote will be held by Shalini Randeria, President and Rector of Central European University (CEU).
Shalini Randeria is the first woman, and the first person from the global South, to take up the position of President and Rector of CEU. She was elected as President and Rector upon a distinguished academic career at institutions of higher education across Europe as the Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna and Professor of Social Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, where she was also Director of the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy. She holds the Excellence Chair at the University of Bremen, where she leads a research group on “soft authoritarianisms”. Her influential podcast series, Democracy in Question, launched in 2021, is now in its ninth season.
As always, we will hold our general meeting on the occasion of the dinner – we will start at 6.00pm and keep this official part as brief as possible. The dinner will start at 6.30pm.