Humanities Festival - Tomáš Sedláček – The Spirit of Europe: Beyond Economics and Geography
Tomáš Sedláček In Conversation With Taras Fedirko With bleak economic prospects, declining productive competitiveness, an aging population and a war on its eastern border, the short- to mid-term future of Europe does not look particularly bright right now. But could we be misguided in our thinking about what lies ahead? Could a historical anomaly like the European Union—a leaderless, peaceful, and prosperous superpower—in fact become a Salvator Mundi, despite the massive geopolitical shifts we are currently witnessing? In conversation with IWM Senior Research Fellow TARAS FEDIRKO, the renowned Czech economist TOMÁŠ SEDLÁČEK will argue that the European model could indeed become the basis for a peaceful and prosperous future for our planet. Part of the Vienna Humanities Festival 2025. 27.09.2025 AKADEMIE DER BILDENDEN KÜNSTE WIEN, AULA In 2025, the Vienna Humanities Festival was organized by the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM Vienna) and Time To Talk (TTT) in cooperation with ERSTE Foundation, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the City of Vienna, the Open Society Foundations, Ö1 Intro, the Volkstheater, and the Wien Museum. Learn more about the Vienna Humanities Festival here: https://www.humanitiesfestival.at