This month, we welcome nine new fellows to the Institute. 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.
Wojciech Engelking
University of Warsaw and Kultura Liberalna, Warsaw
March – June 2026
Philosophical Foundations of American Populism in the 3rd Decade of the 21st Century
Józef Tischner Fellowship
Vito Laterza
University of Agder
March – May 2026
Un-Making and Re-Making the Nation: The Anti-Democratic Effects of ‘Red-Brown’ Political Communication in Italy
Guests of the Institute
Fei Vincent Mo
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London
March – July 2026
Political Concepts in Chinese International Relations
CEU-IWM Fellowship
Mary Onguko
Daystar University in Nairobi
March – May 2026
Human-Centered AI: Culturally Responsive AI-Enabled Mobile Applications for Women Micro-Entrepreneurs in Kenya
Digital Humanism Fellowship
Andrii Portnov
European University Viadrina
March 2026
A Historian With Many Faces: Dmytro Yavornytsky and His Competing Images in 20th and 21st-century Ukraine
Lesia Ukraїnka Fellowship
Aleksandra Tobiasz
The Institute of Civilisation and Culture (ICK), Ljubljana
March - June 2026
(Central) European Self in the (Latin) American and Russian Other: Geopoetic and Sensory Topographies of East-Central Europe
Jerzy Giedroyc Fellowship
Kia Vahland
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich / Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU), Munich / Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin
March - May 2026
How Images Create Politics in the 21st Century
Milena Jesenská Fellowship for Journalists
Toby Walsh
University of New South Wales, Sydney
March 2026
Trustworthy AI and Digital Humanism
Digital Humanism Fellowship
Tomasz Wiśniewski
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
March - June 2026
Dipesh Chakrabarty and the Postsecular Criticism of Historicity
Józef Tischner Fellowship
