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Jens Siegert - Where is Russia heading? Message of 03. March 2025

Vladimir Putin has ruled Russia for 25 years. There is no end in sight to his dictatorship. He relies on repression at home and is waging a war of annihilation against a neighboring country. The conflict with the West has long since become a systemic conflict between an illiberal-autocratic ideology and liberal-democratic principles. As long as Putin is in power, nothing will change. Nevertheless, as far as can be ascertained under unfree conditions, the majority of the population seems to be behind Putin. Does this mean that too many people in Russia want neither democracy nor peace? Will everything remain the same after Putin? Or is there a chance that Russia will take a different, more democratic path at some point?  No matter how the war in Ukraine ends, Russia will not disappear. We will still have to deal with our big neighbor to the east in the future. This makes it all the more important to look at longer-term developments. The fact that the systemic conflict has now also reached the West and the transatlantic community itself, with Trump, Orban and others in government, and many right-wing populist parties on the rise, does not make the task any easier. Mon, March 17, 2025, 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. Admission is free. Mark Twain Center for Transatlantic Relations | Römerstraße 162, 69126 Heidelberg, Germany 
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the bust of a North African man lies on the shelf of a museum archive

SEEING TRUTH - in conversation: Message of 22. January 2025

In his photographic works, the American artist Ben Ripley questions the role of the visual arts in the spread of white dominance. Four of his works from the AMITY | ENMITY project in the MTC's current exhibition “Seeing Truth” open up new and surprising perspectives on the sculptural work of the American artist Malvina Hoffmann from the early 1930s, which was extremely successful in conveying ideas of racial theory. In conversation with art historian Alexis Boylan from the University of Connecticut and the director of the MTC, Uwe Wenzel, Ben Ripley discusses the historical background and approaches of his works and the role of museums in the production of truths.
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Vehicle inspection by MPs (Stadtarchiv Heidelberg, Nachlass S. Kresin)

History Harvest with Thomas Curtis Jones Message of 17. October 2023

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