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Public Health & Migrant Workers
21 Aug 14:30, Online The nationwide lockdown declared by the government in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic ruptured the country’s society and economy in unforeseen ways. The long march of migrant workers to their towns and villages in ...
ERC Mentoring Initiative: Call for Applications
The IWM, an independent institute of advanced study in the humanities and social sciences, has established a mentoring initiative for applicants for European Research Council (ERC) Starting and Consolidator Grants in the humanities and social sciences ...
The New Republic of Letters. Central Europe after COVID-19
The IWM has launched a new project in cooperation with the Institute of International Relations (IIR) in Prague: The New Republic of Letters. The first iteration of the dialogue over distance concerns the visions of future ...Fellowships
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Albert Hirschman Fellowships
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Bronisław Geremek Fellowships
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CEU Fellowships
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ERC Mentoring Initiative: Call for Applications
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Eurasia in Global Dialogue Fellowships
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EURIAS Fellowships
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Graduate Institute Fellowships
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Hebrew University Fellowships
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Jan Patočka Fellowships
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Józef Tischner Fellowships
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Krzysztof Michalski Fellowships
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Milena Jesenská Fellowships for Journalists
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ÖAW Fellowships
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Paul Celan Fellowships for Translators
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Ukraine in European Dialogue Fellowships
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Albert Hirschman Fellowships
The Albert Hirschman Fellowship is given to distinguished senior scholars, who have contributed to re-framing some of the major questions in social sciences.
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Bronisław Geremek Fellowships
To commemorate the Polish scholar, intellectual and politician Bronisław Geremek the IWM awards fellowships to Polish researchers studying Polish national heritage in the context of the European tradition.
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CEU Fellowships
The Central European University (CEU) in Budapest and the IWM are jointly awarding fellowships to young researchers in the humanities and social sciences who are enrolled in a doctoral program at the CEU.
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ERC Mentoring Initiative: Call for Applications
The IWM, an independent institute of advanced study in the humanities and social sciences, has established a mentoring initiative for applicants for European Research Council (ERC) Starting and Consolidator Grants in the humanities and social sciences from Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe since 2016.
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Eurasia in Global Dialogue Fellowships
Scholars and publicists from the Eurasia region are invited to spend some months at the IWM in order to engage in a dialogue with the Institute's community and the broader public as well as to develop or intensify their media presence in the West.
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EURIAS Fellowships
The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility programme offering 10-month residencies in one of the 16 participating Institutes.
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Graduate Institute Fellowships
The joint fellowship programme of the Graduate Institute in Geneva and the IWM supports PhD students and young doctoral graduates who would like to pursue research as Junior Visiting Fellows at the IWM.
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Hebrew University Fellowships
The European Forum at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the IWM jointly award a six-month Visiting Fellowship to a PhD candidate or a faculty member at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Jan Patočka Fellowships
This fellowship program is dedicated to commemorate Jan Patočka's name and work. It aims to foster groundbreaking research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The fellowships enable Czech researchers to work on a project of their own choice.
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Józef Tischner Fellowships
for Polish and Polish-American ScholarsIn memoriam Józef Tischner, founding President of the IWM, fellowships are awarded to junior researchers from Poland and young Polish-American scholars.
Deadline: October 5, 2020
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Krzysztof Michalski Fellowships
In memory and honor of its founding Rector, Krzysztof Michalski, the IWM has established a new fellowship program consisting of one senior and two junior positions in the fields of continental philosophy or religion.
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Milena Jesenská Fellowships for Journalists
This program offers experienced journalists time off from their professional duties in order to pursue in-depth research on a topic of their choice, which addresses issues of European relevance.
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ÖAW Fellowships
Each year several PhD candidates and post-doctoral researchers who have been selected by the DOC, DOC-team and APART programs of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) are offered research residencies at the IWM.
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Paul Celan Fellowships for Translators
The Paul Celan Fellowships support East-West, West-East and East-East translations of canonical texts as well as contemporary key works in the humanities, social sciences and cultural studies.
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Ukraine in European Dialogue Fellowships
This junior fellowship program aims to support the research of Ukrainian scholars who are completing or have recently completed doctoral studies in a Ukrainian institution of higher education.
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Upcoming Events
- 02 SepLubomír Zaorálek, Timothy Snyder A New World (Dis-)Order
2020
Current Political and Social Challenges Panel Discussion 18:00, Czech Embassy Vienna - 07 SepMariana Verbovska How to Be a Climate Change Journalist in Ukraine and Why Environmental Storytelling Can Help Spread Important Ideas
2020
Fellows Colloquium 16:00, Internal - 14 SepRuth Wodak, Markus Rheindorf “Blame-Games” and “Blame Avoidance”
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Discursive Strategies in Times of COVID-19 Fellows Colloquium 16:00, Internal - 22 SepWolfgang Merkel COVID-19 and Democracy: A New Mode of Governance?
2020
The German Case in Comparison Monthly Lectures 18:00, Online
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Die amerikanische Krankheit. Vier Lektionen der Freiheit aus einem US-Hospital
"Es war schon viel zu leicht, in diesem Land zu sterben, bevor das Coronavirus in die Vereinigten Staaten gelangte. Unser stümperhafter Umgang mit der Pandemie ist das jüngste Symptom unserer Krankheit, einer Politik, die Schmerz ...
The Postcolonial Age of Migration
This book critically examines the question of migration that appears at the intersection of global neo-liberal transformation, postcolonial politics, and economy. It analyses the specific ways in which colonial relations are produced and reproduced in ...
Tischner. Biografia
First complete biography of Joseph Tischner Written by Wojciech Bonowicz, Józef Tischner Visiting Fellow at the IWM in 2020 „Ktoś mi kiedyś powiedział, że jak Tischner wchodził do pokoju, to jakby się drzwi otwierały w człowieku. Drzwi ...
Ist heute schon morgen? Wie die Pandemie Europa verändert
Ein Virus war nötig, um die Welt auf den Kopf zu stellen. Wie wird die Welt danach aussehen? Ivan Krastev, einer der wichtigsten Intellektuellen der Gegenwart, gibt Orientierung in Zeiten der Ungewissheit. »Es gibt Momente, in denen ...
Und wie elektrische Schafe träumen wir: Humanität, Sexualität, Digitalität
So wie ein lädierter Apfel Fliegen anlockt, zieht menschlicher Leichtsinn Algorithmen an. Digitale Wesen nutzen unsere Selbstüberschätzung aus, bestärken unsere falschen Überzeugungen, instrumentalisieren unsere sexuellen Ängste, reduzieren uns auf isolierte Tiere und veranlassen uns schließlich ...
Österreichische Identitäten im Wandel.
Wie andere nationale Identitäten werden auch österreichische Identitäten über eine Vielzahl von Diskursen hergestellt und verhandelt, darunter Debatten über relevante, manchmal kontroversielle politische, historische, juristische Fragen. Diese Identitätsentwürfe erweisen sich als dynamisch und veränderlich. Fünf ...
Automatisierung der Arbeit: Segen oder Fluch?
“Die Politik sollte ständig das Ziel vor Augen haben, den „notwendigen“ Arbeitsaufwand zu reduzieren. Dies war das Hauptversprechen der Mechanisierung, nicht ein unbegrenztes Konsumwachstum. (…) Wir haben das Wachstum des Bruttoinlandprodukts zum Selbstzweck gemacht – ...
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Contents Lessons from the Coronavirus Is It Tomorrow, Yet? Learning to Live with the Unthinkable / by Ivan Krastev Lessons from an Unfolding Emergency / by Jiří Přibáň In the Wake of the Pandemic: The Ethics and ...Research
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Decent Society
Modernization and globalization have not only aggravated existing inequalities but have also produced new forms of inequality. This research focus maps not only the realities of injustice under conditions of multi-scalar governance and legal pluralism but also the potential of creating justice.
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Democracy in Question
Globalisation, combined with new opportunities opened up by the digital revolution, have led to a radical questioning of democratic institutions, and sharpened tensions between national democracies and the global market. What then is the future of democracy?
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Europe’s Pasts and Futures
The successful story of overcoming war, the divisions between East and West and the transformation from dictatorship to democracy paved the way for a reunited Europe. However, history also seems to have placed a limit upon solidarity in the EU of the 21st century.
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