Socialism: Tragedy of an Idea

Thursday, April 29, 2021

9:30 am – 11:00 am EDT/GMT-4 

Online Event

9:30 am New York l 3:30 pm Vienna

On Thursday, April 29, OSUN and CEU invite members to an event based on a recent book by Lajos Bokros and in the tradition of the CEU University-Wide Seminars. "Socialism: Tragedy of an Idea" invites scholars from different academic disciplines across OSUN to discuss a topic of common interest from different intellectual, theoretical and methodological perspectives.

The seminar will address the questions:

• How was "socialism" understood, in particular from the perspective of political economy, by some of the most remarkable scholars who have studied it before and after the fall of communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe?
• How have scholars who have both studied and "lived" socialism, before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, understood it?
• What is socialism and what is freedom?
• What is the relationship between economic system and political regime?
• How has socialism worked outside the communist camp of Central and Eastern Europe.

PANELISTS:
Lajos Bokros / School of Public Policy
Roger Berkowitz / Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities, Bard College
Cristina Corduneanu-Huci / School of Public Policy / Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy, and International Relations
Julius Horvath / Department of Economics and Business
 
MODERATOR:
Liviu Matei / CEU Provost and OSUN Vice-Chancellor

This is an online event. Please join via the Zoom Link
 

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