We are delighted to welcome eight visiting fellows to the Institute in February. 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.
Manuela Boatcă
Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
February – March 2026
Racialization and Enslavement in Interimperial Moldavias
Guests of the Institute
Georgi Georgiev
Central European University, Vienna
February – June 2026
Parallel Monitoring: Intellectual Approaches to Radio and Digital Wartime Propaganda
CEU-IWM Postdoctoral Fellowship
Nigel Inkster
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London
February 2026
Concepts of Humanity in an Age of AGI
Guests of the Institute
Věra Jourová
Charles University Prague
February 2026
New Challenges, Trends, and Uncertainty: How Will Society Adapt?
Karel Schwarzenberg Fellowship
Sašo Ordanoski
Center for Strategic Research and Documentation, Skopje
February - November 2026
Justice Denied as a Key Failure of Post-Autocratic Democratic Reforms: A Case Study of the Macedonian Special Prosecutor’s Office
Guests of the Institute
Emilia Sieczka
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
February - May 2026
Between Floating and Empty Signifiers in the Post-Transition Discourse on ‘Solidarity’ (1989-2024)
Józef Tischner Fellowship
Michael Stewart
University College London
February - April 2026
According to the Nature of That Race’: The Persecution and Murder of Europe’s Roma and Sinti, 1933-1945
Guests of the Institute
Hanna Yankuta
Independent researcher, writer, translator, and literary theorist
February - April 2026
Nostalgia for the Unknown: Polish-Speaking Émigré Writers from the Belarusian Lands and their Reflections on Identity and Home
Jerzy Giedroyc Fellowship
