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Popular Revolt, Populist Turn: Turkey’s Critical Turn After a Decade of AKP Rule
27 Jun 18:30, IWM library Political Salon with Soli Özel Recent developments in Turkey had precipitously brought the country into an almost existential crossroads. Will the government heed a widespread, pluralistic, popular outcry and deepen Turkish democracy or be lured by ...
Why Policy Makers Should Care About Job Quality
21 Jun 19:00, IWM library Since 2011 the IWM takes part in the research project NEUJOBS which is financed by the European Commission, under the 7th Framework Program. The objective is to analyze the cultural attributes of the labor market ...
Under Western Eyes.
How meta-narrative shapes our perception of Russia - and why it is time for a qualitative shift
The Great European War, from: A Humorous Atlas of the World (Japan 1914)
Taking a social-constructivist perspective, the article profiles the impact of cognition on Western interpretations of Russian historical development. The starting point is the ...
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Alexander Herzen Junior Visiting Fellowships
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Junior Visiting Fellowship for Scholars from Ukraine
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CEU Junior Visiting Fellowships
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Tsvetan Stoyanov Fellowships for Bulgarian Scholars
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Bronisław Geremek Fellowships
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Józef Tischner Fellowships for Polish and Polish-American Scholars
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Robert Bosch Fellowships on South Eastern Europe
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Paul Celan Fellowships for Translators
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Milena Jesenská Fellowships for Journalists
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EURIAS Fellowships
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Boston University Fellowships
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Alexander Herzen Junior Visiting Fellowships
This program is open to doctoral and post-doctoral researchers in the humanities and social sciences from Sibiria as well as the Ural and Far-Eastern federal districts.
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Junior Visiting Fellowship for Scholars from Ukraine
This program supports research on the legacies of Europe in the history of Ukraine. Doctoral and post-doctoral researchers from Ukraine are eligible to apply.
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CEU Junior Visiting Fellowships
The Central European University (CEU) in Budapest and the IWM are jointly awarding fellowships to young researchers in the humanities and social sciences who are enrolled in a doctoral program at the CEU.
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Tsvetan Stoyanov Fellowships for Bulgarian Scholars
The program, named after the eminent Bulgarian intellectual, writer and literary historian Tsvetan Stoyanov (1930–1971), awards fellowships to young Bulgarian researchers in the humanities and social sciences.
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Bronisław Geremek Fellowships
To commemorate the Polish scholar, intellectual and politician Bronisław Geremek the IWM awards fellowships to Polish researchers studying Polish national heritage in the context of the European tradition.
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Józef Tischner Fellowships for Polish and Polish-American Scholars
In memoriam Józef Tischner, founding President of the IWM, fellowships are awarded to junior researchers from Poland and young Polish-American scholars.
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Robert Bosch Fellowships on South Eastern Europe
This program addresses junior and senior researchers in the humanities or social sciences, who are affiliated with a research institution in the region and pursue research on South-Eastern Europe.
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Paul Celan Fellowships for Translators
The Paul Celan Fellowships support East-West, West-East and East-East translations of canonical texts as well as contemporary key works in the humanities, social sciences and cultural studies.
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Milena Jesenská Fellowships for Journalists
This program offers experienced journalists time off from their professional duties in order to pursue in-depth research on a topic of their choice, which addresses issues of European relevance.
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EURIAS Fellowships
Application deadline: 05 Jul, 2013This program, a joint initiative of 14 European Institutes for Advanced Study, offers fellowships to both early-career and experienced researchers, mainly from the humanities and social sciences.
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Boston University Fellowships
In cooperation with Boston University, fellowship are awarded to Ph.D. students in the humanities and social sciences to pursue their dissertation research at the IWM.
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EURIAS Fellowships 2013/2014
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Under Western Eyes.
How meta-narrative shapes our perception of Russia - and why it is time for a qualitative shift
The Great European War, from: A Humorous Atlas of the World (Japan 1914)
Taking a social-constructivist perspective, the article profiles the impact of cognition on Western interpretations of Russian historical development. The starting point is the ...
Being Normal in Poland
The article discusses the situation of religious and ethnic minorities in Poland in the light of post-1989 historiography and history dissemination. Drawing on Bronisław Geremek’s work on “marginality”, it illustrates the processes that make the ...
Inequality and Solidarity
Discussion with Elsa Fornero, Ira Katznelson, Michael Sandel and Andreas Treichl Chair: Alfred Gusenbauer [ Photo Gallery ] Read more about the debate: "Europa im Diskurs": Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Solidarität Gianluca Wallisch, Der Standard, 7.4.2013 "Die europäische Antwort ...Publications
The Flame of Eternity
An Interpretation of Nietzsche's Thought Translated by Benjamin Paloff Krzysztof Michalski La flamme de l'éternité. Essais sur la pensée de Friedrich Nietzsche Paris: Éditions Zofia de Lannurien 2013 Кшиштоф Михальский Пламень вечности. Девять эссе о мысли Фридриха Ницше Пер.и после ...
The Taste of Ashes | The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe
In the tradition of Timothy Garton Ash’s The File, Yale historian and prize-winning author Marci Shore draws upon intimate understanding to illuminate the afterlife of totalitarianism. The Taste of Ashes spans from Berlin to Moscow, moving ...
In Mistrust We Trust
Can Democracy Survive When We Don't Trust Our Leaders? A recent Gallup poll listed the least-trusted professions in America. At the bottom of the list: car salesmen and members of Congress. It’s not hard to ...
Thinking the Twentieth Century Intellectuals and Politics in the Twentieth Century
Thinking the Twentieth Century is a major new history of modern intellectual life—an original and moving blend of intellectual history, personal reflection, and passionate debate spanning continents and generations. In a dialogue with fellow historian ...
Capitalism from Outside?
Economic Cultures in Eastern Europe after 1989 Does capitalism emerging in Eastern Europe need as solid ethnic or spiritual foundations as some other “Great Transformations” in the past? Apparently, one can become an actor of the ...Research
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Focus I Sources of Inequality
Modernization and globalization have not only aggravated existing social inequalities but have also produced new forms of inequality. The latter as well as their underlying causes lie at the core of the research area “Sources of Inequality”.
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Focus II Religion and Secularism
There are different meanings in which we speak of the present age as “secular”. We sometimes refer to the fact that god or religion is no longer present in public life, or else we refer to the decline of belief and practice in our time.
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Focus III Democracy in Question
The recent collapse of Arab authoritarianism has demonstrated again democracy’s universal appeal. However, the central political paradox of our times is that while the democratic ideal reigns unchallenged, democracies face vigorous criticism almost everywhere.
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Focus IV United Europe – Divided History
In the European Union of the twentyfirst century, history has placed a limit upon solidarity. Even as European integration has progressed in commercial, financial, and political terms, the member states of the European Union continue to educate their citizens in the spirit of the national narratives of the nineteenth century.
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Focus V Cultures and Institutions in Central and Eastern Europe
In the wake of the 1989 revolutions, not only Eastern European but also Western societies have undergone profound institutional change. That change has been intertwined with simultaneous shifts caused by globalization and European integration.
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Focus VI The Philosophical Work of Jan Patočka
The Czech philosopher Jan Patočka (1907–1977) is considered one of the most important Central European thinkers of the twentieth century. Having studied with Husserl and Heidegger in Freiburg in the 1930s...
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