Current Fellows' research
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Technocratic MyopiaThat democratic authorities are systematically focused on short-term considerations is a charge often made. This "democratic myopia" thesis typically becomes the basis for advocating the empowerment of technocratic institutions, e.g. in economic or environmental policy.
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Communicating and Contesting Climate Change in the Global South: The Zimbabwean and South African TwitterspheresThis research project examines how climate change is communicated and contested on X (previously Twitter) with Zimbabwe and South Africa as the case studies.
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New Deliberative Institutions as an Antidote to AuthoritarianismCan citizen deliberation and empowered citizens’ assemblies act as an antidote to authoritarianism, and if so, in what ways? To what extent are citizens’ assemblies resilient to potential influence and manipulation (from within or external)?
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The Vienna Black Market, 1943–1948Defeat or liberation are usually understood as a rupture, but important continuities link Vienna’s collaborationist Nazi period to that of liberation and democracy.
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Computer Science, Cybernetics, and the Philosophy of Error: The Humanist Critique of Capitalism in an Age of Artificial IntelligenceThis project returns to developments in early twentieth century mathematics on the one hand, and the Marxian critique of capitalism on the other, in an attempt to critically map the philosophy of humanist freedom at stake in the mid-century practice of cybernetics, the late-century emergence of c
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Beyond the Ideology: Public Opinion in Putin’s Russia and during WartimeThe analysis of public opinion under authoritarianism poses a significant problem.
Jobs and Open Calls
Partner Calls
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News
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Debating Europe This Sunday: Biden or Trump? The US Elections and Their Impact on EuropeThe next edition of the Debating Europe series at the Burgtheater Vienna, a collaboration between the Burgtheater, ERSTE Foundation, the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM Vienna), and DER STANDARD,…
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Announcing INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange (Lviv)The IWM is launching a new institution based in Ukraine. INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange will open its doors in Lviv later this year. It is intended to support Ukrainians as they document the Russo-…
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Kafkas letzte Tage – Ein Podcast in 53 FolgenDie letzten Wochen seines Lebens, vom 19. April bis zum 3. Juni 1924, verbrachte Franz Kafka in einem kleinen Sanatorium in Kierling bei Klosterneuburg. Kafkas Lebensgefährtin Dora Diamant war bei ihm. Die Zeit ist von…
Upcoming events
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Debating EuropePanels and DiscussionsCET
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Seminars and ColloquiaCET
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Panels and DiscussionsCET
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Part of Wiener FestwochenLectureCET
Upcoming events
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Debating EuropePanels and DiscussionsCET
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Seminars and ColloquiaCET
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Panels and DiscussionsCET
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Part of Wiener FestwochenLectureCET
News
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Debating Europe This Sunday: Biden or Trump? The US Elections and Their Impact on EuropeThe next edition of the Debating Europe series at the Burgtheater Vienna, a collaboration between the Burgtheater, ERSTE Foundation, the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM Vienna), and DER STANDARD,…
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Announcing INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange (Lviv)The IWM is launching a new institution based in Ukraine. INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange will open its doors in Lviv later this year. It is intended to support Ukrainians as they document the Russo-…
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Kafkas letzte Tage – Ein Podcast in 53 FolgenDie letzten Wochen seines Lebens, vom 19. April bis zum 3. Juni 1924, verbrachte Franz Kafka in einem kleinen Sanatorium in Kierling bei Klosterneuburg. Kafkas Lebensgefährtin Dora Diamant war bei ihm. Die Zeit ist von…
Current Fellows' research
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Technocratic MyopiaThat democratic authorities are systematically focused on short-term considerations is a charge often made. This "democratic myopia" thesis typically becomes the basis for advocating the empowerment of technocratic institutions, e.g. in economic or environmental policy.
-
Communicating and Contesting Climate Change in the Global South: The Zimbabwean and South African TwitterspheresThis research project examines how climate change is communicated and contested on X (previously Twitter) with Zimbabwe and South Africa as the case studies.
-
New Deliberative Institutions as an Antidote to AuthoritarianismCan citizen deliberation and empowered citizens’ assemblies act as an antidote to authoritarianism, and if so, in what ways? To what extent are citizens’ assemblies resilient to potential influence and manipulation (from within or external)?
-
The Vienna Black Market, 1943–1948Defeat or liberation are usually understood as a rupture, but important continuities link Vienna’s collaborationist Nazi period to that of liberation and democracy.
-
Computer Science, Cybernetics, and the Philosophy of Error: The Humanist Critique of Capitalism in an Age of Artificial IntelligenceThis project returns to developments in early twentieth century mathematics on the one hand, and the Marxian critique of capitalism on the other, in an attempt to critically map the philosophy of humanist freedom at stake in the mid-century practice of cybernetics, the late-century emergence of c
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Beyond the Ideology: Public Opinion in Putin’s Russia and during WartimeThe analysis of public opinion under authoritarianism poses a significant problem.
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