Current Fellows' research
- Christian Democratic Option: Tracing Ideological Persistence from Postwar to Present in Czechoslovakia and Successor StatesRecent scholarship in comparative politics suggests that the stability of the center-right and its ability to counter hard-right challenges are crucial for the survival of European liberal democracy.
- The Regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in China: How to Compete and Cooperate from a Global PerspectiveAI technologies are increasingly widespread as potent instruments that drive the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and the digitalization of economies and societies, enhancing productivity.
- Economics of Hereness: The Polish Origins of Global Developmentalism (1918–1968)Economics of Hereness examines the east-central European origins of development concepts that came to dominate the postwar world.
- The White Cliffs of VinnytsiaVinnytsia Khimprom factory was once one of Ukraine’s largest chemical plants during the Soviet era. After going bankrupt in the late 1990s, it left behind a toxic phosphogypsum stack.
- Ukraine, A PolyphonyAriel Rosé is writing a book about Ukrainian poets and their attitude to language, mainly Russian and Ukrainian. As a poet, Rosé notices how Ukrainian poets are now struggling with language.
- Provincial Perversions: Class, Ethnicity, and Cultures of Sexual Knowledge in Lviv and Galicia, 1885-1914The project focuses on previously unexplored questions about the production of sexual knowledge in a multiethnic context.
Jobs and Open Calls
News
- Apply Now: Currently Open IWM Fellowship CallsThe IWM currently has numerous calls for applications for its various fellowship programs. Here you will find an overview of all currently open calls.
- Nicole Koenig on the Evolving Landscape of European SecurityIn this episode of the Vienna Coffee House Conversations, host Ivan Vejvoda welcomes Nicole Koenig, Head of Policy at the Munich Security Conference, to discuss the evolving landscape of European security.
- New Issue: London Ukrainian ReviewWe are pleased to share the autumn issue of the London Ukrainian Review entitled “Justice for Ukraine,” produced in collaboration with the Ukraine in European Dialogue program at the IWM.
Upcoming events
- Fellows' Colloquium with Filip MilačićSeminars and Colloquia
- Conferences and Workshops
- Digital Humanism WorkshopConferences and Workshops
- this human worldVisual and Performing Arts
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Upcoming events
- Fellows' Colloquium with Filip MilačićSeminars and Colloquia
- Conferences and Workshops
- Digital Humanism WorkshopConferences and Workshops
- this human worldVisual and Performing Arts
News
- Apply Now: Currently Open IWM Fellowship CallsThe IWM currently has numerous calls for applications for its various fellowship programs. Here you will find an overview of all currently open calls.
- Nicole Koenig on the Evolving Landscape of European SecurityIn this episode of the Vienna Coffee House Conversations, host Ivan Vejvoda welcomes Nicole Koenig, Head of Policy at the Munich Security Conference, to discuss the evolving landscape of European security.
- New Issue: London Ukrainian ReviewWe are pleased to share the autumn issue of the London Ukrainian Review entitled “Justice for Ukraine,” produced in collaboration with the Ukraine in European Dialogue program at the IWM.
Current Fellows' research
- Remembering Eastern Europe through the Motion Pictures: Polish and Lithuanian Film Diaries in ExileThis research project focuses on the film diaries made by Eastern European artists and thinkers in exile. Focusing on the Polish and Lithuanian perspectives of Marian Marzyński and Jonas Mekas, the project aims to analyze the historical, cultural, and personal narratives embedded in their films.
- Artificial Intelligence. The History of a BrandThe history of artificial intelligence (AI) is the history of an intellectual brand, now almost seven decades old, that has somehow survived cycles of hype, disillusion, contestation, and redefinition to reemerge stronger than ever.
- Ukraine, A PolyphonyAriel Rosé is writing a book about Ukrainian poets and their attitude to language, mainly Russian and Ukrainian. As a poet, Rosé notices how Ukrainian poets are now struggling with language.
- The Regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in China: How to Compete and Cooperate from a Global PerspectiveAI technologies are increasingly widespread as potent instruments that drive the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and the digitalization of economies and societies, enhancing productivity.
- Bella Chagall: Brenendike Likht [Burning Lights] and Di Ershte Bagegnish [The First Encounter] (YID > BEL)Bella Rosenfeld Chagall’s memoirs consist of two parts, Brenendike likht (Burning Lights, 1945) and Di ershte bagegnish (The First Encounter, 1947); both parts were only published after her death.
- Exploring the Genesis Moment: Tracking the Making of a New World Order and Europe’s Place in ItAs the existing world order unravels, how the new one will be forged is yet uncertain, as there is no consensus on how to identify the new or upcoming order. Many identifications have been suggested: the world is multipolar, apolar, asymmetrically multipolar, in entropy, or bipolar.
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