Registration REQUIRED by 4pm on April 24, 2025 in order to attend this event.

Please join the Harriman Institute for a lecture by Galin Tihanov. Moderated by Valentina Izmirlieva.

In the introductory part of this talk Galin Tihanov explores various meanings of the word “cosmopolitanism” and attempts to attain finer granularity within what has long been taken to be a homogenous discourse. In the second part, he discusses the complex relationship (often also divergence) between two types of cosmopolitanism – political and cultural – that he identifies in the introductory part. Tihanov will do so by analyzing a set of examples drawn from the work of Central and East-European writers and intellectuals in exile who exemplify the struggles of cosmopolitans left without a polis. What is at stake here is a deeper understanding of cosmopolitanism, both as a desideratum but also as a discourse that harbors inner contradictions.