Programm-Typ: lecture

Closing speech of the Dachstein Dialoge 2025 with Kwame Anthony Appiah.

Everything, whether ideas, things or objects, migrates from one country to another, where the foreign then becomes our own; nothing that is ours really comes from here.

The historian Wolfgang Maderthaner will focus on the context between the religious wars of history and the conflicts and traumas of the present.

The well-known writer Eva Menasse will open the Dachstein Dialoge 2025 | International Festival for Tolerance.

Michael Ignatieff, former rector of the Central European University, author of philosophical and biographical bestsellers and committed Canadian politician, formulates a fiery appeal for tolerance in times of war and polarisation.

“For Peace and Understanding: Teaching and Learning History” is a project of The Seagull Foundation for the Arts, a network of educators and members of civil society.

There are repeated calls for a new Enlightenment. Does that make sense? Yes, says Philipp Blom, historian and director of Dachstein Dialoge, it is more necessary and more relevant than ever.