Humanities Festival: KENAN MALIK, SUSAN NEIMAN, DAVID RIEFF, GARY YOUNGE - What’s the Matter With Identity Politics?

A specter is haunting the Western world—the specter of identity politics. It widens the field of struggle for individual rights and promises dignity to the oppressed, but it is also a third-rail issue and antagonizes more than a few. It is often dismissively labeled “woke,” is blamed for tearing societies apart, and is even seen as the harbinger of civilization’s end. How progressive is this “woke turn” in Western societies? Can it reinvent the Left and make it fit for the twenty-first century, or does it unwittingly enact a disservice? Can it elevate the conditions of the socially deprived and make Western societies more just?

The closing event of the Vienna Humanities Festival 2023 brings together some of the world’s most prominent thinkers that have reflected on this new phenomenon. The panel discussion will feature the British writer, lecturer and broadcaster, and author of Not So Black and White, KENAN MALIK; the American philosopher, cultural commentator, essayist, and author of Left is not Woke, SUSAN NEIMAN; the British journalist, author and academic, author of Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter, GARY YOUNGE; and the American intellectual and author of Desire and Fate: Notes on a Dying Culture (forthcoming), DAVID RIEFF. It will be moderated by OSF’s Executive Vice President and Ideas Workshop Director, LEONARD BENARDO.

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