Crises bring about social change
European Minister Karoline Edtstadler, Jürgen Wertheimer, German scholar and comparative scholar, Daniela Braga, CEO of Defined.ai, and author and columnist Marc Elsberg could be heard at the "Society in Transition" panel discussion.
- How do crises change society and what new lines of conflict are emerging?
- How do new social concepts and digitization shape democracy?
- How can politics and political institutions react and how can they provide orientation in times of uncertainty?
- How can culture and science contribute to this?
"We should have seen that"
Jürgen Wertheimer talks about "upgrading the language" before the weapons start to be upgraded. " Before the first shots are fired, a war of words takes place," says the Germanist. His research project "Cassandra" deals with the early detection of crises by evaluating literature - i.e. using literature as a knowledge-promoting instrument. He asks himself: "Why do we notoriously react too late? Why do we take so long to get going? We only extinguish when there is a flame, not when smoke rises." As for the war in Ukraine, Wertheimer says: "We could and should have seen that."
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