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Open Calls
The majority of IWM fellowships are awarded in open competition, involving calls for application and evaluation by expert juries.
Reaching Back
Continuities and Discontinuities of Democratic State Building in Central and Eastern Europe 30 Nov 18:00, IWM library The countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have gone through great transformations in the last two centuries. Sudden breaks or changes of political regime, experiments with different types of state institutions imposed by rulers ...
Discourse and National Identities:
Austria 1995 - 2005 - 2015
04 Dec 18:00, IWM library Since the 1980s, the transformation of the former Eastern bloc, Germany's reunification, the enlargement and deeper integration of the European Union, together with persistent debates about migration, have focused ever more attention on issues of ...
Ayse Caglar Becomes a New Permanent Fellow
The IWM is pleased to announce that Ayse Caglar, Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Deputy Head of Department at the University of Vienna, joined the IWM as Permanent Fellow in October 2018. Ayse ...
Art Exhibition by Maxim Kantor:
Faust Cycle 2018
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) arbeitete am Faust-Stoff von seinem 24. Lebensjahr bis zu seinem Tod. Er benutzte verschiedene Quellen wie die Volksbücher zur Faustsage aus dem 16. Jahrhundert und die Puppenspiele vom Doktor Faust, ...
Upcoming Events
- 21 NovTimothy Snyder The Nation-State and Europe, 1918 and 2018
2018
Lecture 18:00, Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Prague - 22 NovPavel Barša, Timothy Snyder One Road to Unfreedom or Many?
2018
Debates 16:00, Charles University Prague, Filozoficka Fakulta - 22 NovRobert John Sawers Changing Politics and Geopolitics – Cancelled!
2018
Geopolitical Talks 18:00, IWM library
Fellowships
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Albert Hirschman Fellowships
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Alexander Herzen Fellowships
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Bronisław Geremek Fellowships
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CEU Fellowships
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ERC Mentoring Initiative: Call for Applications
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EURIAS Fellowships
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Graduate Institute Fellowships
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Hebrew University Fellowships
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Jan Patočka Fellowships
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Józef Tischner Fellowships
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Krzysztof Michalski Fellowships
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Milena Jesenská Fellowships for Journalists
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ÖAW Fellowships
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Paul Celan Fellowships for Translators
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Russia in Global Dialogue Fellowships
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Ukraine in European Dialogue Fellowships
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Albert Hirschman Fellowships
The Albert Hirschman Fellowship is given to distinguished senior scholars, who have contributed to re-framing some of the major questions in social sciences.
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Alexander Herzen Fellowships
This program is open to doctoral and post-doctoral researchers in the humanities or social sciences from several districts of the Russian Federation.
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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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CEU 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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ERC Mentoring Initiative: Call for Applications
Together with the Polish Academy of Sciences and supported by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the IWM has established a mentoring initiative for applicants for European Research Council (ERC) Starting and Consolidator Grants in the humanities and social sciences from Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. This mentoring initiative is addressed in particular to researchers in the areas of history, anthropology, political science, sociology, science and technology studies, as well as cultural and literary studies.
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EURIAS Fellowships
The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility programme offering 10-month residencies in one of the 16 participating Institutes.
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Graduate Institute Fellowships
The joint fellowship programme of the Graduate Institute in Geneva and the IWM supports PhD students and young doctoral graduates who would like to pursue research as Junior Visiting Fellows at the IWM.
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Hebrew University Fellowships
The European Forum at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the IWM jointly award a six-month Junior Visiting Fellowship to PhD candidates in the humanities or social sciences.
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Jan Patočka Fellowships
This fellowship program is dedicated to commemorate Jan Patočka's name and work. It aims to foster groundbreaking research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The fellowships enable Czech researchers to work on a project of their own choice.
Deadline: January 11, 2019
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Józef Tischner Fellowships
for Polish and Polish-American ScholarsIn 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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Krzysztof Michalski Fellowships
In memory and honor of its founding Rector, Krzysztof Michalski, the IWM has established a new fellowship program consisting of one senior and two junior positions in the fields of continental philosophy or religion.
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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.
Deadline: January 11, 2019
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ÖAW Fellowships
Each year several PhD candidates and post-doctoral researchers who have been selected by the DOC, DOC-team and APART programs of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) are offered research residencies at the IWM.
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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.
Deadline: February 28, 2019
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Russia in Global Dialogue Fellowships
Scholars and publicists from Russia are invited to spend some months at the IWM in order to engage in a dialogue with the Institute's community and the broader public as well as to develop or intensify their media presence in the West.
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Ukraine in European Dialogue Fellowships
This junior fellowship program aims to support the research of Ukrainian scholars who are completing or have recently completed doctoral studies in a Ukrainian institution of higher education.
Deadline: January 11, 2019
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Videos
U. Lunacek, E. Holzleithner, S. Wagner-Steinrigl: Sexuelle Belästigung – das letzte Tabu?
Viel wurde seit dem Frauenwahlrecht vor mittlerweile 100 Jahren im Kampf für Frauenrechte und Gleichstellung der Geschlechter erreicht. Doch ein Thema ist, obwohl von Feministinnen immer wieder angesprochen, erst 2017 mit #MeToo in den Mittelpunkt ...Publications
Pogroms et Ghetto: Les Musulmans dans l’Inde Contemporaine
En 2002 se sont déroulées dans l’État du Gujarat les plus graves attaques contre des musulmans qu’a connues la République indienne depuis 1947. 2 000 d’entre eux ont péri au cours des violences qui ont ...
Perceptions of Society in Communist Europe: Regime Archives and Popular Opinion
Drawing on archival sources from Czechoslovakia, Poland, East Germany, Romania and Bulgaria, Perceptions of Society in Communist Europe considers whether and to what extent communist regimes cared about popular opinion, how they obtained their information, ...
Populating No Man’s Land: Economic Concepts of Ownership under Communism
This edited volume opening the new series Revisiting Communism: Collectivist Economic Thought in Historical Perspective focuses on the concepts of ownership, the cornerstone of political economy in Soviet-type societies. The authors’ main objective is to ...
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Download Contents Europa im Eiskurs – Debating Europe Placebo oder Am Anfang war das Wort. Am Ende auch. / von Anna Baar Wie wird unsere Republik in 100 Jahren aussehen? Democracy in Question Europe’s Futures / by Ivan Vejvoda ...
The Road to Unfreedom. Russia, Europe, America
With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy seemed final. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. This faith was misplaced. Authoritarianism returned to Russia, as ...
Tomaten. Die wahre Identität unseres Frischgemüses. Eine Reportage
Mehr als sieben Jahre lang verfolgte die Journalistin Annemieke Hendriks den Lebensweg der Tomate vom Samen bis zum Supermarkt. Dabei reiste sie kreuz und quer durch Europa und geriet mitten hinein in die bizarre Welt ...
War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
This edited collection contributes to the current vivid multidisciplinary debate on East European memory politics and the post-communist instrumentalization and re-mythologization of World War II memories. The book focuses on the three Slavic countries of ...
The Ukrainian Night. An Intimate History of Revolution
A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in ...Research
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Decent Society
Modernization and globalization have not only aggravated existing inequalities but have also produced new forms of inequality. This research focus maps not only the realities of injustice under conditions of multi-scalar governance and legal pluralism but also the potential of creating justice.
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Democracy in Question
Globalisation, combined with new opportunities opened up by the digital revolution, have led to a radical questioning of democratic institutions, and sharpened tensions between national democracies and the global market. What then is the future of democracy?
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Europe’s Pasts and Futures
The successful story of overcoming war, the divisions between East and West and the transformation from dictatorship to democracy paved the way for a reunited Europe. However, history also seems to have placed a limit upon solidarity in the EU of the 21st century.
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