Workshop: Dialogue, Polis, and Democracy

The workshop Dialogue, Polis, and Democracy took place at the Ideal Spaces foundation’s venue in Karlsruhe, on April 19. Together with Pezhman Golchin from the Writers in Exile group, PEN Club Germany, basic understandings of democracy according to our Western cultural heritage have been addressed, and discussed with the participants, together with our understanding of democracy today.  In this context, socio-political and economic forces threatening democracy today have been intensively discussed, too, together with perspectives of how to tackle them.

It was a vivid and intense discussion, with participants from different professional fields and standpoints. The Online-participants came from Europe as well as the USA, both “homelands” of democracy, which ensured a broad spectrum of perspectives.