The seven fellows below are joining the Institute this month. Learn more about their fellowships and research projects by clicking on their names. For interview requests or media inquiries, please reach out to iwm-pr@iwm.at.
Khalid Bencherif
Independent investigative journalist
April – June 2026
The Lost Oasis
Milena Jesenská Fellowship for Journalists
Richard Cockett
The Economist, London
April – May 2026
The Intellectual Roots of the Global Turn to the Hard Right—The European Dimension
Guests of the Institute
Naja Dyrendom Graugaard
University of Copenhagen
April 2026
Land, Body, and Healing in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)
Emma Goldman Fellowship
Milorad Ivanovic
BIRN Serbia, Belgrade
April – June 2026
The Geopolitics of False Narratives: Decoding Serbia and Russia’s Emotional Alliance
Milena Jesenská Fellowship for Journalists
Matteo Nebbiai
King's College London
April – June 2026
The EU in a Weaponized Digital World: A Network Analysis
Digital Humanism Fellowship
Thomas Seifert
Journalist, filmmaker, and lecturer
April 2026
Resilience, Resistance, Revolt: Cultural Resilience in Belgrade, Chisinau, Kyiv, and Tbilisi
Guests of the Institute
John C. Swanson
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
April - June 2026
Lili’s World: Lili Jacob, Bilky, and the Auschwitz Album
Lesia Ukraїnka Fellowship
