Rethinking 1918: Interventions into the Future

Recorded March 21, 2019. A public lecture by Dr Peter Apor
(Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) as part of
the '1918 and the New Europe' Lecture Series. This talk explores
the ways of imagining and planning of possible futures that emerged
in the postwar period of Europe in 1918. Elites, intellectuals and
large proportions of European societies believed that it was
possible to anticipate the future and foresee decisive trends of
socio-developments, therefore it was possible to plan for even
large systematic changes. However, the multiplication of ideas
about what form that future would take suggests much uncertainty
about the “future” of Europe itself and brings to the fore the deep
layers of individual identities present at the time. Learn more at:
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