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Changing Politics and Geopolitics
What does it mean for Europe? 26 Feb 18:00, IWM library President Trump has now survived his first test as US President and, barring serious findings from the Mueller Inquiry, he will run for a second term with reasonable prospects of winning. Like him or not, ...
Statelessness in South Asia
11 Mar 18:00, IWM library The lecture examines the entanglements of citizenship policies and practices with the spread of statelessness today. It discusses the genesis of the Rohingya question in Myanmar in the broader context of citizenship registration drives in ...
Brexit: Deal or No Deal? What's next for Britain and the EU?
Europa im Diskurs - Debating Europe 24 Mar 11:00, Burgtheater In June 2016, the majority of the British population voted in favour of the UK's withdrawal from the European Union. Since then, this decision has created enormous political waves within Great Britain – it has ...
Democracy and Demography
Call for Applications 18 Aug 10:00, Burg Feistritz To exist in a democracy means to be counted, and ideally to feel as if what one does truly counts. At this summer school, we will discuss how the demography of a polity is presumed ...
Between Predation and Protection
Violence, Order, and the “Insecurity Trap” 14 Mar 18:00, IWM library Why, despite long-term and general declines in all forms of lethal violence, are some states and regions caught in an “insecurity trap”? What are the processes and mechanisms that facilitated the emergence of pacific states ...
Open Calls
The majority of IWM fellowships are awarded in open competition, involving calls for application and evaluation by expert juries.
Ausstellung von Svätopluk Mikyta: Die Monochrome. Überdenken der Vergangenheit, Interpretation der Gegenwart
In Kooperation mit dem Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen zeigt die Knoll Galerie Wien in den IWM Räumlichkeiten eine Werkauswahl des slowakischen Künstlers Svätopluk Mikyta, aus seiner Serie „Die Monochrome“. Eröffnung: 12. Februar 2019 [Details] Ausstellungsdauer: ...Upcoming Events
- 25 FebTobias Haberkorn Democracy and Conspiracy
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On Contemporary Paranoia Fellows Colloquium 16:00, IWM library - 26 FebRobert John Sawers Changing Politics and Geopolitics
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What does it mean for Europe? Geopolitical Talks 18:00, IWM library - 04 MarGeoffrey Harpham How Does Scholarship Persuade?
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Fellows Colloquium 16:00, 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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Eurasia in Global Dialogue 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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IWM Summer School: Democracy and Demography
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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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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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Eurasia in Global Dialogue Fellowships
Scholars and publicists from the Eurasia region 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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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 Visiting Fellowship to a PhD candidate or a faculty member at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Deadline: March 17, 2019
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IWM Summer School: Democracy and Demography
To exist in a democracy means to be counted, and ideally to feel as if what one does truly count. At this summer school, we will discuss how the demography of a polity is presumed to impact its form of government.
Deadline: March 31, 2019
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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.
Deadline: February 28, 2019
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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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Publications
Principes de politique
[Benjamin Constant: Principy politiky] Translated into Czech by Hana Fořtová Paul Celan Visiting Fellow 2016 Benjamin Constant de Rebecque se narodil v Lausanne v protestantské rodině. Mládí strávil na cestách se svým otcem. Pobýval střídavě v Holandsku, Belgii, ...
La città post-secolare. Il nuovo dibattito sulla secolarizzazione
In breve Il tema con cui questo libro si misura è il passato prossimo della teoria della secolarizzazione. Ha quindi a che fare con il destino della religione, e pure della laicità, oggi. L’Autore intende offrire ...
IWMpost 122
Download Contents Vienna Humanities Festival 2018 Der Weg in die Unfreiheit / von Timothy Snyder Macht und Ohnmacht / Vienna Humanities Festival Signal or Noise? Power and Powerlessness in the Media / by John Palattella Women's Empowerment Sexuelle Belästigung: ...
Widening the Context: The Eurozine Anthology
What started thirty-five years ago as an informal meeting of European editors became the basis for Eurozine, founded in 1998 as an online cultural journal and editorial network. To celebrate this double anniversary, Eurozine has ...
Korespondencja Jana Patočki z Ireną Krońską i Krzysztofem Michalskim (wraz z listami Tadeusza Krońskiego)
Korespondencja Jana Patočki z Ireną Krońską i Krzysztofem Michalskim (wraz z listami Tadeusza Krońskiego) Z francuskiego i czeskiego przełożył Wojciech Starzyński Z niemieckiego przełożył Daniel R. Sobota Wstępem opatrzył Wojciech Starzyński Wydawnictwo IFIS PAN Warszawa 2018 „Nie były to oczywiście łatwe ...
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 ...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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