Current Fellows' research
- Amnesia International: What World Leaders Keep Forgetting about World PoliticsStephen Walt's project examines the mistakes that world leaders make when they ignore some enduring truths about world politics.
- Resistance, Temporariness and Political (Dis)Continuity: Urban Governance and Refugees’ Labor Market Integration in Hamburg and IzmirThe project explores urban governance of refugee integration through a local-to-local interregional comparison. The interregional dimension is essential for uncovering similar local rationales despite national-level differences.
- Developing the Concept of an “Emergency Response Archive”This project aims to initiate the development of a concept and future strategy for a comprehensive archive that represents various aspects of the Russo-Ukrainian war. The main goal is to make gathered materials accessible to researchers in real time while safeguarding them for the future.
- Genocide, Memory, Identity: Holodomor Narratives during Russia's Full-Scale War against UkraineKristina Hook is an anthropologist and scholar-practitioner specializing in genocides and mass atrocities, Ukrainian identity, and Ukraine-Russia relations, past and present. Her research contextualizes the 1932–1933 Holodomor’s generational impact and memory in modern Ukraine,
- Russia 2030 and Beyond: Long-term Military Putinism — What Does It Mean for Russia, Europe and the World?The Putin regime has overcome the turbulence associated with the transformation of the blitzkrieg in Ukraine into a protracted war, the shock of Western sanctions, and internal resistance to the war among elites and the population.
- The Balkans: Mission PossibleNo, this is not a mistake. Intellectually obscene as it may sound, the titles of the IWM lectures in Human Sciences at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna were inspired by Mission Impossible, the Tom Cruise film series.
News
- Star Historian and Balkan Expert Maria Todorova Delivers This Year’s IWM Lectures in Human SciencesThe IWM is honored to welcome Maria Todorova as the speaker of this year's IWM Lectures in Human Sciences, The Balkans: Mission Possible, held in cooperation with the University of Vienna. Todorova is professor emerita…
- New “Vienna Coffee House Conversations With Ivan Vejvoda” Podcast Season Starts Next WeekThe „Vienna Coffee House Conversations with Ivan Vejvoda“ podcast series is back with a new episode set for release on 16 October 2024. During the academic year 2024/25, the podcast will offer informed opinion, lived…
- Paul Celan Fellow Svetla Kioseva Receives Award for TranslationThe IWM extends heartfelt congratulations to Svetla Kioseva, who received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Bulgarian Translators’ Association for her translation of László F. Földényi's Melancholy, published…
Upcoming events
- IWM Lectures in Human SciencesLecture
- Europa im DiskursPanels and Discussions
- Fellows' Colloquium with Małgorzata MazurekSeminars and Colloquia
- Twenty-First Century VertigoPanels and Discussions
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Upcoming events
- IWM Lectures in Human SciencesLecture
- Europa im DiskursPanels and Discussions
- Fellows' Colloquium with Małgorzata MazurekSeminars and Colloquia
- Twenty-First Century VertigoPanels and Discussions
News
- Star Historian and Balkan Expert Maria Todorova Delivers This Year’s IWM Lectures in Human SciencesThe IWM is honored to welcome Maria Todorova as the speaker of this year's IWM Lectures in Human Sciences, The Balkans: Mission Possible, held in cooperation with the University of Vienna. Todorova is professor emerita…
- New “Vienna Coffee House Conversations With Ivan Vejvoda” Podcast Season Starts Next WeekThe „Vienna Coffee House Conversations with Ivan Vejvoda“ podcast series is back with a new episode set for release on 16 October 2024. During the academic year 2024/25, the podcast will offer informed opinion, lived…
- Paul Celan Fellow Svetla Kioseva Receives Award for TranslationThe IWM extends heartfelt congratulations to Svetla Kioseva, who received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Bulgarian Translators’ Association for her translation of László F. Földényi's Melancholy, published…
Current Fellows' research
- Amnesia International: What World Leaders Keep Forgetting about World PoliticsStephen Walt's project examines the mistakes that world leaders make when they ignore some enduring truths about world politics.
- Resistance, Temporariness and Political (Dis)Continuity: Urban Governance and Refugees’ Labor Market Integration in Hamburg and IzmirThe project explores urban governance of refugee integration through a local-to-local interregional comparison. The interregional dimension is essential for uncovering similar local rationales despite national-level differences.
- Developing the Concept of an “Emergency Response Archive”This project aims to initiate the development of a concept and future strategy for a comprehensive archive that represents various aspects of the Russo-Ukrainian war. The main goal is to make gathered materials accessible to researchers in real time while safeguarding them for the future.
- Genocide, Memory, Identity: Holodomor Narratives during Russia's Full-Scale War against UkraineKristina Hook is an anthropologist and scholar-practitioner specializing in genocides and mass atrocities, Ukrainian identity, and Ukraine-Russia relations, past and present. Her research contextualizes the 1932–1933 Holodomor’s generational impact and memory in modern Ukraine,
- Russia 2030 and Beyond: Long-term Military Putinism — What Does It Mean for Russia, Europe and the World?The Putin regime has overcome the turbulence associated with the transformation of the blitzkrieg in Ukraine into a protracted war, the shock of Western sanctions, and internal resistance to the war among elites and the population.
- The Balkans: Mission PossibleNo, this is not a mistake. Intellectually obscene as it may sound, the titles of the IWM lectures in Human Sciences at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna were inspired by Mission Impossible, the Tom Cruise film series.
Recent Media
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