Monday, 27 May 2013, 6.00 – 8.00 p.m.
Braucht die Wissenschaft ein Museum?

Prof. Dr. Martin Roth
Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Workshop, 10 June, 18 & 19 June 2013

Despite periodic reassurances, the hope that was promised and guaranteed by the twin processes of modernization and secularization has amounted to very little in the 20th and the 21st centuries. The force of ethnic, racial, religious and national identities remains as potent as ever, transcending, and often nullifying, the combined influence of factors such as reason, science and democracy. It is also ironical that despite the universal claims of the secularization and modernization thesis, the persistence of violence has remained one of the most powerful elements that casts its spell unmindful of ideologies, regimes and nationalities. (read more ...)