Society Uncensored | What About Democracy?
How do we respond to the crisis of democracy? An open discussion at the Upper Stage of Onassis Stegi
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Admission to the event is free and a pre-booking of your seat is required. Places are allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Reserve your seat from Tuesday 14 November.
In case you do not book your seat in time, seats may become available on the day of the event.
By attending this discussion, the audience members consent to their video recording.
The audience's arrival will begin at 18:30 and conclude at 18:45.
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The discussion will be held in Greek and will be simultaneously interpreted in the Greek sign language.
Introduction
In the new live discussion of the “Society Uncensored” series entitled “What About Democracy?" people who have experienced targeting and violence and have demonstrated through their actions and attitude that fear can turn into power, speak openly about authoritarian and reactionary ideas, anti-democratic phenomena, the meaning of freedom today, as well as how democracy lies in crisis. The audience becomes active part in the discussion, which will be filmed and later presented on the Onassis YouTube Channel.
How democratic can we claim to be today? Democracy does not simply actualize within electoral proceedings; it concerns people and society and relies on concepts such as freedom, equality, and solidarity. In an era where we see a surge of anti-democratic phenomena and manifestations of intolerance multiply, questions arise about the state of democracy nowadays and how fascism circulates untethered and receives legitimization for its violent expression. Racism, nationalism, religious fundamentalism, sexism, and toxic masculinity remain multiple facets of the very same phenomenon of intolerance. And intolerance can arm the hands of racist violence groups, mobilize self-proclaimed "vigilantes," and articulate itself as extreme hate rhetoric. Accordingly, it can morph into violent disability hate and xenophobia behaviors on the ramp of a ship or lead to the deaths of Roma teenagers under police gunfire.
And what about us? How do we respond to these phenomena that undermine real democracy? How do people act in dreary times? How do witnesses to such displays of violence and hatred take a decisive step forward? How do they cease to be uninvolved bystanders and turn into active agents?
The new discussion of the “Society Uncensored” series, with guest speakers from the fields of journalism, art, science, and academia, opens up a dialogue about the relationship between people and democracy, its evolution, and the crisis it goes through with time. People who do not remain passive observers and do not turn their gaze away, who have experienced a particular form of violence, discuss countering such phenomena. How do we say no to fascistization and the corrosion of democracy?Watch full discussion
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Photo: Pavlos Fysakis
Manolis Afolanio, Performer, Member of Anasa Cultural Center
Giorgos Avgeropoulos, Documentary Filmmaker, Journalist
Vangelis Kosmatos, Psychologist, Scientific Director of G-All (Gender Alliance Initiative)
Ilirida Musaraj, Coordinator of the Albanian Migration Archive (Contemporary Social History Archives – ASKI), PhD candidate
Lina Papadopoulou, Professor of Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Anastasia Vaitsopoulou, Journalist
Moderator: Kostis Papaioannou, Ηistory Teacher, Director of "Signal" – Researching and Confronting the Far Right
Curated by Kostis Papaioannou, Vangelis Kosmatos, Ioanna Meitani, Giorgos Nikolaidis, Pasqua Vorgia, and Dimitris Theodoropoulos
