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Will the Human Race Become Redundant?
What History and Economics can Tell us About the Impact of Automation on Work 25 Apr 18:00, ORF Radiokulturhaus, Großer Sendesaal Ever since the advent of machinery, work has been associated with wage labour. Machinery brought promise of both higher wages and redundancy. What do economics and history tell us about the fate of these promises? ...
IWM Permanent Fellow Charles Taylor receives the Blue Metropolis’s International Literary Grand Prix
The IWM warmly congratulates Charles Taylor for the Blue Metropolis International Literary Grand Prix. The Blue Metropolis Literary Grand Prix, 20th anniversary edition, is awarded to Charles Taylor, one of the most eminent philosophers of our ...
The Polysemy of 'Religion'
17 May 18:00, IWM library What people mean by religion covers a wide spectrum: not only because of the differences between different faiths, but also because the category "religion" is hard to separate from that of "culture", and is also ...
Dilemmas of Post-liberalism
08 May 18:00, IWM library Why do we change our mind about political positions? In his Financial Times article “Why I left my liberal London tribe”, the British public intellectual David Goodhart reflects upon his own trajectory of ideological shift. ...
Marci Shore wins Guggenheim Fellowship 2018
The IWM is happy to announce that Marci Shore, Associate Professor of History at Yale University, who will be back as a Visiting Fellow at the IWM in summer 2018, has been awarded a fellowship ...
Who is the People?
Reflections on Popular Sovereignty 03 May 18:00, IWM library What does it mean for a people to be sovereign? In an age of Brexit and Catalonia, Orbán and Trump, it seems timely to return to the once exceptional and presently paradigmatic concept of popular ...
Hungary’s Real Indians
Native Americans have long been beloved in Hungary, where ‘Indians’ stand for what is real, endangered, and exceptional. Viktor Orbán has used the trope to channel demographic anxiety and bolster his anti-migrant rhetoric, but it could ...
Art Exhibition by András J. Nagy:
No One Saw It Twice
András J. Nagy started taking pictures of graffiti using his father’s Leica M4 at the young age of eight. Born in Hungary, he grew up in the South Bronx and South Brooklyn and subsequently lived ...
Upcoming Events
- 25 AprLord Robert Skidelsky Will the Human Race Become Redundant?
2018
What History and Economics can Tell us About the Impact of Automation on Work Patočka Memorial Lecture 18:00, ORF Radiokulturhaus, Großer Sendesaal - 03 MayIra Katznelson Who is the People?
2018
Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Lecture 18:00, IWM library - 08 MayDavid Goodhart Dilemmas of Post-liberalism
2018
Political Salons 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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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 ...
Sustainable Food Consumption, Urban Waste Management and Civic Activism
This special e-issue of International Development Policy focuses on practices and policies that link sustainable food consumption with challenges in urban solid waste management in one of India’s fastest growing metropoles, Bangalore. Home to the ...
After Europe
In this provocative book, renowned public intellectual Ivan Krastev reflects on the future of the European Union—and its potential lack of a future. With far-right nationalist parties on the rise across the continent and the ...
Heft 50: Ein Zeitalter wird besichtigt. 1989 revisited
Sommer 2017 Die erste Ausgabe von Transit erschien kurz nach 1989, in einem historischen Moment, der das Ende des Kalten Krieges markierte, Europa wiedervereinigte und für seinen östlichen Teil eine Wende zu Demokratie und Marktwirtschaft versprach. ...
Europa in der Falle
Die Krise zeigt, wie unbedacht es war, einem heterogenen Wirtschaftsraum eine Einheitswährung zu verordnen, ohne ihn politisch zu einen. Die Eurozone ist nun gespalten in Gewinner und Verlierer. Der Süden ächzt unter dem verheerenden Spardiktat, ...
IWMpost 120
Contents Research at the IWM Die Globalisierung hält Einzug am IWM / Interview mit Shalini Randeria Dressing Right: Die Mode der „neuen Rechten“ / von Miloš Vec Modern Tyrants in the Age of Trump / by ...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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