BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.1.7//EN TZID:Europe/Vienna X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Vienna BEGIN:VEVENT UID:344@buendnis2025.at DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20260526T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20260526T190000 DTSTAMP:20260506T142257Z URL:https://buendnis2025.at/veranstaltungen/states-of-solidarity/ SUMMARY:States of Solidarity DESCRIPTION:How to Build a Society\n \;\n\nmit Hendrik Wagenaar\, Barba ra Prainsack\, Donna Andrews\n\n \;\n\nSolidarity is essential for add ressing the defining challenges of our time. While many societies engage i n debates about justice and fair institutions\, they have often failed to create the conditions for social and planetary flourishing. A key reason i s the neglect of solidarity: the horizontal ties that bind people together beyond kinship\, love\, or friendship. Without this ‘social glue’\, s ocieties struggle with declining trust\, eroded democratic legitimacy\, an d increasing social and political fragmentation. The book explores the con cept of solidarity and its entanglement with justice\, trust\, and care. I t then examines three major societal challenges—climate change\, the los s of democratic control in economic governance\, and the rise of artificia l intelligence and digital infrastructures—through the lens of solidarit y. Rather than offering merely new policy tools\, this perspective reshape s the questions we ask and opens up new possibilities for action. Concludi ng with a vision for the ‘good state’ in the twenty-first century\, th e book makes a compelling case that solidarity is not a nostalgic ideal bu t a vital\, generative force for democratic resilience and social cohesion in an age of uncertainty.\n\n \;\n\nBarbara Prainsack is a professor of comparative policy analysis at the University of Vienna\, where she he ads the Contemporary Solidarity Studies research group and serves as co-di rector of the Vienna Centre for Advanced Studies (ViCAS)\; she is a Fellow of the British Royal Society of Arts\, an elected foreign member of the R oyal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters\, an elected member of the Aca demia Europaea (AE)\, an elected member of the German Academy of Science a nd Engineering (acatec)\, and a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sci ences\n\n \;\n\nDonna Andrews is Senior Researcher for the Global Hea lth Solidarity Index Project at the EthicsLab\, Department of Medicine\, U niversity of Cape Town (UCT). She is a political economist and holds an MA in Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)\, Erasmus University Rotterdam\, and a PhD in Political Theory from UCT\n\n \;\n\nModeration:\nHendrik Wagenaar is Senior Academic Advis or\, International School for Government\, King’s College London\, Adjun ct Professor\, Center for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance\, T he University of Canberra\, Fellow\, Center for the Study of Contemporary Solidarity\, University of Vienna.\n\n \;\nWeitere Infos ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://buendnis2025.at/wp-content/uploads/2026/ 05/soli-scaled.png LOCATION:Bruno Kreisky Forum\, Armbrustergasse 15\, Wien\, Wien\, 1190\, Wi en\, Österreich GEO:48.254841;16.354709 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Armbrustergasse 15\, Wien\, Wien\, 1190\, Wien\, Österreich;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Bruno Kreisky Forum:geo:48.254841,16.354709 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Vienna X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Vienna BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260329T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR