A Speech to Europe 2024 - Omri Boehm
Tuesday, May 7, 1:00pm - 2:00pm (EDT)
In the third Speech to Europe, following historian Timothy Snyder and human rights activist Oleksandra Matviichuk, philosopher Omri Boehm will address the pressing questions of why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict poses a threat to European identity and how a constitutional crisis in the European Union can be averted.
Omri Boehm is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. He holds a PhD from Yale University and has conducted research in the US, Germany, and Israel. His commentaries on Israeli politics and philosophy are regularly published in Haaretz, Die Zeit, and The New York Times. His critically acclaimed book Radikaler Universalismus. Jenseits von Identität. Universalismus als rettende Alternative was awarded the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding in 2024. Recently, Der bestirnte Himmel über mir: Ein Gespräch über Kant, a conversation between Omri Boehm and Daniel Kehlmann, was published with Ullstein.
A Speech to Europe is a joint event by Wiener Festwochen | Freie Republik Wien, ERSTE Stiftung and Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen
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Omri Boehm is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. He holds a PhD from Yale University and has conducted research in the US, Germany, and Israel. His commentaries on Israeli politics and philosophy are regularly published in Haaretz, Die Zeit, and The New York Times. His critically acclaimed book Radikaler Universalismus. Jenseits von Identität. Universalismus als rettende Alternative was awarded the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding in 2024. Recently, Der bestirnte Himmel über mir: Ein Gespräch über Kant, a conversation between Omri Boehm and Daniel Kehlmann, was published with Ullstein.
A Speech to Europe is a joint event by Wiener Festwochen | Freie Republik Wien, ERSTE Stiftung and Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen
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