Current Fellows' research
- Movement, Acceptance, Being-With: Structures of Human Existence in Patočka and HeideggerThis project examines Patočka’s contribution to the critique of early Heideggerian phenomenology through the conceptual lens of "existential structures": essential features which structure every case of human existence.
- Middle Eastern Maze: Israel, The Arabs and The Region 1948–2022The aim of Itamar Rabinovich's fellowship is the completion and publication in three languages (Hebrew, English and Portuguese) of his new book. The book’s title is Middle Eastern Maze: Israel, The Arabs and The Region 1948–2022.
- Beyond the Ideology: Public Opinion in Putin’s Russia and during WartimeThe analysis of public opinion under authoritarianism poses a significant problem.
- Understanding and Evaluating Machine Learning ErrorsNowadays, machine learning (ML) models are evaluated based on their success. For example, a good model has an accuracy of over 90%. However, less attention is paid to the impact of the errors.
- Value Polytheism during the Pandemic: Philosophical Questions on Value Problems in Light of Recent EventsYannis Ktenas’s research program uses the Weberian concept of “value polytheism” to examine the ethico-political debates around the Coronavirus pandemic.
- Reinvigorating the European Integration of the Western Balkans: Policy Development and AdvocacyBy the all out brutal war against Ukraine, a sovereign European country, without any provocation, Putin’s Russia attacked the European security order.
Jobs and Open Calls
ERC Mentoring Initiative - Call for Applications
09.03.2023
Deadline for Application:
19 May 2023
Partner Calls
01.09.2021
Here, we offer a list of fellowships and opportunities offered by partners and collaborators of the IWM, which may be of interest to current and past IWM fellows.
News
- Timothy Snyder’s Testimony to the United Nations Security Council on Russian Hate Speech17.03.2023On 14 March 2023, IWM Permanent Fellow Timothy Snyder participated in a session called by the Russian Federation to discuss "russophobia" in which he provided a briefing to the United Nations Security Council.…
- Cultural Prizes Awarded to Three Documenting Ukraine Participants14.03.2023The IWM is happy to congratulate Iryna Tsilyk on receiving the Shevchenko National Prize and Alina Gorlova and Anastasiia Platonova on receiving the Women in Arts Award. All three award recipients, whose prizes were…
- Merav Amir: “Unfastening Israel's Future from the Occupation: Israeli Plans for Partial Annexation of West Bank Territory”10.03.2023Merav Amir’s essay “Unfastening Israel's Future from the Occupation: Israeli Plans for Partial Annexation of West Bank Territory” has appeared in the journal Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography.
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Upcoming events
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News
- Timothy Snyder’s Testimony to the United Nations Security Council on Russian Hate Speech17.03.2023On 14 March 2023, IWM Permanent Fellow Timothy Snyder participated in a session called by the Russian Federation to discuss "russophobia" in which he provided a briefing to the United Nations Security Council.…
- Cultural Prizes Awarded to Three Documenting Ukraine Participants14.03.2023The IWM is happy to congratulate Iryna Tsilyk on receiving the Shevchenko National Prize and Alina Gorlova and Anastasiia Platonova on receiving the Women in Arts Award. All three award recipients, whose prizes were…
- Merav Amir: “Unfastening Israel's Future from the Occupation: Israeli Plans for Partial Annexation of West Bank Territory”10.03.2023Merav Amir’s essay “Unfastening Israel's Future from the Occupation: Israeli Plans for Partial Annexation of West Bank Territory” has appeared in the journal Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography.
Current Fellows' research
- Beyond the Ideology: Public Opinion in Putin’s Russia and during WartimeThe analysis of public opinion under authoritarianism poses a significant problem.
- Unveiling the Contradictions in the Governance of Environmental Mobility In African CitiesThis research explores the contradictions in the governance of environmental mobility.
- Historicizing Marxist Humanism: The Yugoslav Praxis School, 1964–1974Una Blagojevic's work aims to reconstruct the dense political language that has been historiographically and historically described as "Marxist humanism." The project engages with Marxist humanism and its relation to the context in which it was articulated, those articulations thems
- Cultural (De-)Colonization Through Satire: Gendered Humor in Ukraine Between 1990 and 2000During her research stay, Daryna Korkach will work on the history of satire and comedy shows broadcast on Ukrainian television during the first decade of Ukrainian independence.
- GENEX: Practicing Gender in EU External RelationsThe EU often seeks to project its internal identity as a gender equal polity in its external relations normative and policy frameworks. The implementation of these frameworks, however, are dependent on specific knowledge and processes that emerge from the local contexts of the implementers.
- Illustrated Books of Poetry: Textual and Visual Aspects of Serbian Avant-Garde PoetryTijana Koprivica focuses on Serbian avant-garde illustrated books of poetry as a specific composite art form that emerges from the intertwining of text with visual elements.
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