Current Fellows' research
- Postfeminism in Poland? The Black Protests and the Women’s Strikes between Conservative Modernization and Feminist PopulismTwo recent waves of protests against attempts to restrict Poland’s abortion law were hailed as an exemplary response to antifeminist right-wing populism rising all over the world and a breakthrough in the Polish women’s movement.
- The Death of Europe and its FutureThis project revolves around editorial preparations for an English translation of some key texts on the problem of Europe by the Czech philosopher Jan Patočka.
- The West: The History of an IdeaGeorgios Varouxakis is completing a substantial book monograph on the history of the idea of “the West” (to be published by Princeton University Press in 2025).
- Digital Hyperconnectivity and Politics: Between Populism and TechnocracyRogers Brubaker’s project will analyze the ways in which digital hyperconnectivity—a regime of communication in which everyone and everything is connected to everyone and everything else, everywhere and all the time—paradoxically fosters both populism and its seeming antit
- Blues and RoutesAdam Shatz is working on a book of interlinked essays about the history of black avant-garde music in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
- 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.
News
- 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…
- New Fellows Starting in OctoberWe are excited to introduce our new fellows arriving at the Institute in October. Learn more about their fellowships and research projects by clicking on their names. For interview requests or media inquiries, please…
- Neue Publikation: Durch Widersprüche Hindurch. Europa in einer ambivalenten WeltDas am Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen herausgegebene Buch von Nathalie Tocci Durch Widersprüche hindurch: Europa in einer ambivalenten Welt ist bei mandelbaum erschienen.
Upcoming events
- Monthly Lecture with Rogers BrubakerLecture
- Film Screening and DiscussionVisual and Performing Arts
- Fellows' Colloquium with Francesca De BenedettiSeminars and Colloquia
- IWM Lectures in Human SciencesLecture
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Upcoming events
- Monthly Lecture with Rogers BrubakerLecture
- Film Screening and DiscussionVisual and Performing Arts
- Fellows' Colloquium with Francesca De BenedettiSeminars and Colloquia
- IWM Lectures in Human SciencesLecture
News
- 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…
- New Fellows Starting in OctoberWe are excited to introduce our new fellows arriving at the Institute in October. Learn more about their fellowships and research projects by clicking on their names. For interview requests or media inquiries, please…
- Neue Publikation: Durch Widersprüche Hindurch. Europa in einer ambivalenten WeltDas am Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen herausgegebene Buch von Nathalie Tocci Durch Widersprüche hindurch: Europa in einer ambivalenten Welt ist bei mandelbaum erschienen.
Current Fellows' research
- 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.
- Postfeminism in Poland? The Black Protests and the Women’s Strikes between Conservative Modernization and Feminist PopulismTwo recent waves of protests against attempts to restrict Poland’s abortion law were hailed as an exemplary response to antifeminist right-wing populism rising all over the world and a breakthrough in the Polish women’s movement.
- 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.
- Ukrainische Bibliothek in deutscher SpracheDie klassische ukrainische Literatur wurde bisher kaum ins Deutsche übersetzt. Die wenigen Übersetzungen, die es gibt, sind entweder ideologisch gefärbt (z.B.
- Digital HumanismWe live in a “digital” world, the separation between physical and virtual makes (almost) no sense anymore.
- The Social (Half)Life of Depleted Uranium in Serbia: From “Cancer Epidemics” to Energy TransitionsNuclear energy is in global focus, experiencing a resurgence as a solution to the energy crisis. At the same time, the possibility of nuclear conflict, revived by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, brings Cold War nuclear anxieties back to the global stage.
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