Current Fellows' research
- Kosovo Specialist Chambers as a New Model of Internationalized Courts: Legal, Political and Discursive Implications for Transitional JusticeThe Kosovo Specialist Chambers are a distinctive entity in international criminal justice, tasked with prosecuting war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army during and after the Kosovo War.
- Exploring Leibniz’s View of Infinite Numbers and Its Possible EvolutionThis thesis explores Leibniz’s views on infinity and their potential evolution through engagement with some later philosophies.
- Transatlantic Relations over the Next DecadeO'Brien served as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs until January 2025. Since starting work at the State Department 10 days before the Berlin Wall fell, he has spent approximately half his career in the US government, serving at various times as adviser to th
- Kyiv Frescoes: A Personal and Cultural History of Ukraine’s CapitalNotably overlooked in literary nonfiction, Kyiv serves as a powerful symbol of Ukraine’s diversity and complexity.
- Female Sexual Agency, Liberatory Advocacies, and the Digital Space in Nigerian Online YouTube PlatformsDeriving from two crucial observations: (1) that a strong “archival impulse,” a phrase Hal Foster uses to describe a compulsive inclination to record or document experiences, characterizes online practices surrounding gender and sexuality among African netizens; and (2) that this arch
- Exploring the Genesis Moment: Tracking the Making of a New World Order and Europe’s Place in ItAs the existing world order unravels, how the new one will be forged is yet uncertain, as there is no consensus on how to identify the new or upcoming order. Many identifications have been suggested: the world is multipolar, apolar, asymmetrically multipolar, in entropy, or bipolar.
News
- New World Orders: Past, Present, and Future: Rewatch this Year's Krzysztof Michalski Memorial LectureThe Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan delivered the 2025 Krzysztof Michalski Memorial Lecture. Since 2018, the IWM has invited renowned scholars and intellectuals to honor the legacy of its founding rector as part…
- Applications Open for Documenting Ukraine GrantsThe Documenting Ukraine program is glad to launch the 2025 application cycle. Ukrainian academics, creative professionals and public intellectuals are welcome to apply for one-time 5000 EUR grants for projects…
- IWMpost 135 Out Now!Perhaps it is due to the tremendous political changes of our time that a majority of the essays in this edition address political issues. Several contributions focus on the current crisis of democracy. In the lead…
Upcoming events
- A Reconsideration of a Central European HistoryLecture
- Lecture
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Upcoming events
- A Reconsideration of a Central European HistoryLecture
- Lecture
News
- New World Orders: Past, Present, and Future: Rewatch this Year's Krzysztof Michalski Memorial LectureThe Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan delivered the 2025 Krzysztof Michalski Memorial Lecture. Since 2018, the IWM has invited renowned scholars and intellectuals to honor the legacy of its founding rector as part…
- Applications Open for Documenting Ukraine GrantsThe Documenting Ukraine program is glad to launch the 2025 application cycle. Ukrainian academics, creative professionals and public intellectuals are welcome to apply for one-time 5000 EUR grants for projects…
- IWMpost 135 Out Now!Perhaps it is due to the tremendous political changes of our time that a majority of the essays in this edition address political issues. Several contributions focus on the current crisis of democracy. In the lead…
Current Fellows' research
- Kosovo Specialist Chambers as a New Model of Internationalized Courts: Legal, Political and Discursive Implications for Transitional JusticeThe Kosovo Specialist Chambers are a distinctive entity in international criminal justice, tasked with prosecuting war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army during and after the Kosovo War.
- Exploring Leibniz’s View of Infinite Numbers and Its Possible EvolutionThis thesis explores Leibniz’s views on infinity and their potential evolution through engagement with some later philosophies.
- Transatlantic Relations over the Next DecadeO'Brien served as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs until January 2025. Since starting work at the State Department 10 days before the Berlin Wall fell, he has spent approximately half his career in the US government, serving at various times as adviser to th
- Kyiv Frescoes: A Personal and Cultural History of Ukraine’s CapitalNotably overlooked in literary nonfiction, Kyiv serves as a powerful symbol of Ukraine’s diversity and complexity.
- Female Sexual Agency, Liberatory Advocacies, and the Digital Space in Nigerian Online YouTube PlatformsDeriving from two crucial observations: (1) that a strong “archival impulse,” a phrase Hal Foster uses to describe a compulsive inclination to record or document experiences, characterizes online practices surrounding gender and sexuality among African netizens; and (2) that this arch
- Exploring the Genesis Moment: Tracking the Making of a New World Order and Europe’s Place in ItAs the existing world order unravels, how the new one will be forged is yet uncertain, as there is no consensus on how to identify the new or upcoming order. Many identifications have been suggested: the world is multipolar, apolar, asymmetrically multipolar, in entropy, or bipolar.
Recent Media
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