Prague European Summit 2018: Day 1 - Populism and Demagogy: Are We Really out of the Woods?
The year 2017 was dubbed by some, perhaps too quickly, as the year that populist parties were defeated in crucial elections, especially with the defeat of Marine Le Pen and the realization that BREXIT will be a slow and mostly painful process. Is the influence of populist parties on the decline? Have the underlying factors of their rise been identified, and are mainstream politicians acting upon them? What is the danger of traditional parties appropriating themselves the rhetoric and sometimes even policies from these populist movements?
Rosa Balfour, Senior Fellow, Europe programme, German Marshall Fund of the US Yves Bertoncini, President of the European Movement-France
Josip Brkić, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Monica Frassoni, Co-Chair, European Green Party
Isabell Hoffmann, Senior Expert, Head of the Research Project eupinions, Bertelsmann Foundation
Chair: Ondřej Ditrych, Director, Institute of International Relations Prague
Tattooed musician sets sights on Czech presidency
Despite having no political track record, 53-year-old drama professor and classical composer Vladimir Franz -- whose entire body is tattooed -- is in the race to become the Czech Republic's next president. And with some polls showing he is third among nine contenders, there is all to play for as voters cast their ballots in the first round of voting on Friday. Duration: 01:48
ReactiveConf 2019 - Nader Dabit: Curious Use Cases of GraphQL
Oct 30 - Nov 1, 2019
Prague, Czech Republic
Millennium stage
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As GraphQL moves into the mainstream, the tooling & ecosystem has grown and has made it possible to do much more with GraphQL than using it as just a data layer. In this talk, I’ll show how developers are using GraphQL as an API gateway to accomplish things that you may have never thought possible.
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When we think of GraphQL at the resolver level, we typically associate some type of database as the resolver data source, but in practice a resolver is simply a function. What this means is that we can do much more with our GraphQL APIs & our resolvers than we ever thought possible, including things like taking existing REST APIs & transforming them into GraphQL APIs (http resolvers), passing the query to Lambda or serverless functions for processing & returning the response via a GraphQL query (for things like AI & ML), geospatial & time-based queries (passing the query to Elasticsearch), & even VR & AR apps (passing in user location / app info & using the subscription to transmit image assets). In this talk, I’ll walk through what this looks like in theory & in practice, demoing 4 different applications that implement this functionality & showing the code that make the magic happen.
Western Turkey
Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide | From the port of Kuşadası, we wander the streets of ancient Ephesus, soak in a natural spa at Pamukkale, learn why the dervishes whirl at Konya, munch lunch in a Turkish pizzeria, and cruise the Mediterranean on a traditional Turkish gulet from Antalya. Turkey is a mighty nation whose ancient heritage, Muslim faith, and western ways are coming together...and we’ll see how. | © 2014 Rick Steves' Europe
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Poland : The Road Of Revival
Torn for centuries between East and West, often a victim of fate, Poland has always been able to overcome adversity. Pierre Brouwers set out with his cameras to discover the traces of the fascinating History and many facets of this country full of surprises. This captivating reportage is the portrait of a Poland in transformation and its people, eager to make up for lost time.
Warsaw. Elblag Canal. The Bison of Borecka Forest. The Storks. Malbork Castle.
Sopot. The Dunes of the Baltic. Kazimierz Dolny. Lublin. Zamosh. Gdansk. Krakow. The
Wieliczka Salt Mines. Auschwitz. Lodz. Zakopane. The Carpathian Mountains.
Debno. The Gorges of Dunajec. Chocholow. The Flower Festival. Ariel Views.
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Czechoslovakia - the Last Bastion of Democracy | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1935 Part 1 of 4
Czechoslovakia is holding on to democracy by a thread. It even looks like they might be able to integrate the German Czechoslovakians, but Hitler's rise to power changes everything.
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Research by: Francis van Berkel and Rune Væver Hartvig
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The V4 in the EU Successful Interest Group, or an Odd Bunch of Trouble makers
Since 2015, the Visegrad Group has been in an awkward position within, and vis-a-vis the European Union. On one hand, political coordination within the group has increased. Likewise, its visibility with regard to other partners, as well as the general public within and beyond Central Europe has also risen. On the other hand, however, this is to a large extent due to its record of criticising or even blocking the mainstream positions on a range of agendas: migration and asylum, rule of law and climate change. The panel discussed the role of the new V4 within the EU, with particular focus on how coherent and successful the group has been.
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Tomáš Strážay - Director, the Slovak Foreign Policy Association, Slovakia
Sándor Gyula Nagy - Deputy Director Research, the Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Hungary
Pavlína Janebová - Deputy Research Director, Association for International Affairs, Czechia
Tomasz Žornaczuk - Research Fellow at the Polish Institute of International Affairs, Poland
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Jakub Eberle - Chair, Senior Reseacher, Institute of International Relations
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Conference Day 1 | Reactive 2016
Live stream: Conference: Velvet Capitalism, 16/10/2019, DOX
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16/10/2019, 17.00, DOX (Prague)
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Welcome and Introduction: Lubomír Zaorálek, Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic, chairman of the Masaryk Democratic Academy (0:00:01)
Panel I: Post-communism and the legacy of 1989 – Pavel Barša, Boris Buden, Stephany Griffith-Jones (0:09:35)
Panel II: From protest to politics to protest – Colin Crouch, Jodi Dean, Andrzej Leder (1:37:15)
Titulky: Lukáš Gurník (lukasgurnik@gmail.com), překlad: Klára Nekvasilová, Barbora Bulantová
The Politics of Intimacy: Exploring the Intersections of Policies and Emotions
The Institute of International Relations Prague and the journal New Perspectives organized seminar with Dr. Anna Durnová, Senior Research Fellow, University of Vienna.
In her research, Dr. Durnová explores how emotions inform particular arguments or narratives leading to policies. Her speech was broadly based on the forthcoming book The Politics of Intimacy: Rethinking the End-of-Life Controversy. This book turns to the intimacy of dying and discloses it as a site where policies are formulated, negotiated and implemented.
Through interviews with mourners, stakeholders and medical professionals, as well as through an extensive examination of media debates, policy papers, and speeches in France and the Czech Republic, Dr. Durnová comes with the claim that liberal democratic institutions, while trying to accommodate and acknowledge the emotional experience with the end of life, ultimately fail in this respect and enter a dynamic of deadlock - so called “politics of intimacy”.
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Dr. Benjamin Tallis, Research Fellow & Editor in Chief of New Perspectives, Institute of International Relations
Speaker:
Dr. Anna Durnová, Senior Research Fellow, University of Vienna (4:45)
Discussant: Jakub Eberle, Research Fellow, Institute of International Relations
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Mueller report release is imminent; Trump joins Democrats in pushing to have the entire report made public. #Tucker #FoxNews
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Is Fascism Right Or Left?
Every Republican president since the 1970s has been called a fascist. Ironic, no? After all, fascism has its roots in the left. Dinesh D'Souza, author of The Big Lie, explains.
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“He’s a fascist!”
For decades, this has been a favorite smear of the left, aimed at those on the right. Every Republican president—for that matter, virtually every Republican—since the 1970s has been called a fascist; now, more than ever.
This label is based on the idea that fascism is a phenomenon of the political right. The left says it is, and some self-styled white supremacists and neo-Nazis embrace the label.
But are they correct?
To answer this question, we have to ask what fascism really means: What is its underlying ideology? Where does it even come from?
These are not easy questions to answer. We know the name of the philosopher of capitalism: Adam Smith. We know the name of the philosopher of Marxism: Karl Marx. But who’s the philosopher of fascism?
Yes—exactly. You don’t know. Don’t feel bad. Almost no one knows. This is not because he doesn’t exist, but because historians, most of whom are on the political left, had to erase him from history in order to avoid confronting fascism’s actual beliefs. So, let me introduce him to you. His name is Giovanni Gentile.
Born in 1875, he was one of the world’s most influential philosophers in the first half of the twentieth century. Gentile believed that there were two “diametrically opposed” types of democracy. One is liberal democracy, such as that of the United States, which Gentile dismisses as individualistic—too centered on liberty and personal rights—and therefore selfish. The other, the one Gentile recommends, is “true democracy,” in which individuals willingly subordinate themselves to the state.
Like his philosophical mentor, Karl Marx, Gentile wanted to create a community that resembles the family, a community where we are “all in this together.” It’s easy to see the attraction of this idea. Indeed, it remains a common rhetorical theme of the left.
For example, at the 1984 convention of the Democratic Party, the governor of New York, Mario Cuomo, likened America to an extended family where, through the government, people all take care of each other.
Nothing’s changed. Thirty years later, a slogan of the 2012 Democratic Party convention was, “The government is the only thing we all belong to.” They might as well have been quoting Gentile.
Now, remember, Gentile was a man of the left. He was a committed socialist. For Gentile, fascism is a form of socialism—indeed, its most workable form. While the socialism of Marx mobilizes people on the basis of class, fascism mobilizes people by appealing to their national identity as well as their class. Fascists are socialists with a national identity. German Fascists in the 1930s were called Nazis—basically a contraction of the term “national socialist.”
For Gentile, all private action should be oriented to serve society; there is no distinction between the private interest and the public interest. Correctly understood, the two are identical. And who is the administrative arm of the society? It’s none other than the state. Consequently, to submit to society is to submit to the state—not just in economic matters, but in all matters. Since everything is political, the state gets to tell everyone how to think and what to do.
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New Topics in Armenian History & Culture (afternoon)
22nd Vardanants Day Armenian lecture series, titled New Topics in Armenian History and Culture explored the linguistic, artistic, social and musical history of Armenia. (Afternoon session)
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The Limits and Misuses of Mindfulness by Ronald E.Purser & Daniel Simpson
Author of “McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality”, Ronald E. Purser (Mindful Cranks podcast host + Professor of Management at San Francisco University) here is in conversation with yoga teacher Daniel Simpson, to shine a critical light on the so-called ‘mindfulness revolution’.
From celebrity endorsements to monks, neuroscientists and meditation coaches rubbing shoulders with CEOs at the World Economic Forum in Davos, it is clear that mindfulness has gone mainstream. Some have even called it a revolution. But what if, instead of changing the world, mindfulness has become a banal form of capitalist spirituality that mindlessly avoids social and political transformation, reinforcing the neoliberal status quo?
In “McMindfulness”, Ronald Purser debunks the so-called “mindfulness revolution”, exposing how corporations, schools, governments and the military have coopted it as technique for social control and self-pacification.
If we are to harness the truly revolutionary potential of mindfulness, we have to cast off its neoliberal shackles, liberating mindfulness for a collective awakening.
Ronald E. Purser is a Professor of Management at San Francisco State University. He is the author of McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality (Repeater Books).
Daniel Simpson teaches yoga philosophy at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, and at Triyoga in London. He holds an MA in Traditions of Yoga and Meditation from SOAS (University of London), where he wrote his dissertation on the teaching of mindfulness in schools. A former foreign correspondent, he also freelances as an editor.
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Croatia: Adriatic Delights
Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide | A fascinating land with a hard-fought history in a complex corner of Europe, Croatia is emerging as one of Europe's top destinations. Sampling the very best of Croatia, we start by exploring the fabled Dalmatian Coast from dramatic Dubrovnik to crusty Adriatic island ports. Heading inland, we hike through Plitvice Lakes National Park and enjoy the thriving capital city Zagreb. Our Croatian finale: the Istrian Peninsula and its enchanting port town of Rovinj.
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Art III: Modern 1800–2000, with Rick Steves
Subscribe at for more new travel talks! When France erupts in Revolution, the modern world is born. Art styles follow the march of history: Neoclassical artists celebrate democracy while passionate Romantics champion the individual. The 20th century brings two World Wars, ideological turmoil, and equally wild art. Finally, Rick brings you right up to date with the birth of the European Union and the vibrant world of Europe today. Download the PDF handout for this talk:
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Czech Antisemitic Movements towards the Muslim World - Zbynek Tarant - ISGAP
Professor of Mideast Studies at the University of West Bohemia Zbynek Tarant details the beliefs, actions, and inherent contradictions of antisemitic movements in the Czech Republic, especially considering them within the context of the Syrian Civil War and current refugee crisis. A program of ISGAP and the University of West Bohemia, from Columbia University in New York.