Current Fellows' research
- Philosophical Foundations of American Populism in the third Decade of the 21st CenturyDuring his stay at the IWM, Wojciech Engelking will be working on the philosophical foundations of the latest incarnation of American populism.
- ‘According to the Nature of That Race’: The Persecution and Murder of Europe’s Roma and Sinti, 1933-1945Michael Stewart is currently completing a comprehensive history of the persecution of Europe’s Romany peoples from 1933-1945 and the campaigns for restitution and acknowledgement which followed.
- Czesław Miłosz, ‘Kultura,’ and Ketman: Dissimulation and Dissidence Across the Polish DiasporaCzesław Miłosz’s 1953 book The Captive Mind made Ketman—a term originally derived from Islamic law, describing the duty of believers to conceal their true beliefs when threatened with persecution—a byword for the myriad strategies of self-effacement used by the
- (Central) European Self in the (Latin) American and Russian Other: Geopoetic and Sensory Topographies of East-Central EuropeThis project’s overarching aim is to problematize the concept of (Central) Europe in a transregional, global perspective in relation to (Latin) America, Russia, and Asia, through the phenomenological prism of individual experiences of travel and life in exile (the self as mirrored by the ot
- Growing Up Algorithmic: Children, Power, and the Politics of Digital RegulationDigital technologies are an inextricable part of the public sphere, yet their impact is not inevitable but instead shaped by deliberate choices, ones that are often masked as technological necessity.
- Revolutionary Conservatism: Liberalism’s Next Grand RivalAt the IWM, Maciej Kisilowski will build on his recently published co-edited book, Let’s Agree on Poland: A Case Study in Strategic Constitutional Design (Oxford University Press, 2025), to examine revolutionary conservatism as a coherent global ideological rival to liberal democra
News
- Vienna meets Prague Festival 2026: 22.–25. AprilBereits das siebte Jahr in Folge bringt Vienna meets Prague ein facettenreiches Kulturprogramm aus Österreichs Nachbarland nach Wien. Gemeinsam mit den Partnerinstitutionen präsentiert das IWM über fünf Tage hinweg…
- ERC Mentoring Initiative: Call for ApplicationsThe Institute for Human Sciences (IWM Vienna), together with the Polish Academy of Sciences and generously supported by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, has established a mentoring initiative for…
- Congratulations to the Recipients of the 2026 Emma Goldman AwardsOn 5 March, the IWM hosted the annual Emma Goldman Awards, co-organized with the independent, Netherlands-based FLAX Foundation. The awards are named after feminist Emma Goldman (1869-1940), who is considered one of the…
Upcoming events
- Monthly Lecture with Andrii PortnovLecture
- Book Talk with Toby WalshSeminars and Colloquia
- IWM Digital Humanism Fellowship Lecture with Toby WalshLecture
- Fellows' Colloquium with Naja Dyrendom GraugaardSeminars and Colloquia
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Upcoming events
- Monthly Lecture with Andrii PortnovLecture
- Book Talk with Toby WalshSeminars and Colloquia
- IWM Digital Humanism Fellowship Lecture with Toby WalshLecture
- Fellows' Colloquium with Naja Dyrendom GraugaardSeminars and Colloquia
News
- Vienna meets Prague Festival 2026: 22.–25. AprilBereits das siebte Jahr in Folge bringt Vienna meets Prague ein facettenreiches Kulturprogramm aus Österreichs Nachbarland nach Wien. Gemeinsam mit den Partnerinstitutionen präsentiert das IWM über fünf Tage hinweg…
- ERC Mentoring Initiative: Call for ApplicationsThe Institute for Human Sciences (IWM Vienna), together with the Polish Academy of Sciences and generously supported by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, has established a mentoring initiative for…
- Congratulations to the Recipients of the 2026 Emma Goldman AwardsOn 5 March, the IWM hosted the annual Emma Goldman Awards, co-organized with the independent, Netherlands-based FLAX Foundation. The awards are named after feminist Emma Goldman (1869-1940), who is considered one of the…
Current Fellows' research
- Growing Up Algorithmic: Children, Power, and the Politics of Digital RegulationDigital technologies are an inextricable part of the public sphere, yet their impact is not inevitable but instead shaped by deliberate choices, ones that are often masked as technological necessity.
- Parallel Monitoring: Intellectual Approaches to Radio and Digital Wartime PropagandaThe project compares intellectual debates on the use of cutting-edge technologies in wartime propaganda. After invading Ukraine in 2022, Russia mobilized bots and AI for disinformation, while back in the heyday of broadcasting Nazi Germany developed a comprehensive radio system.
- Political Concepts in Chinese International RelationsVincent Mo’s project explores how Chinese scholars of international relations (IR) theorize and present “what China is” and “China’s relations with others” through key political concepts: state, civilization, morality, and relationality.
- Racialization and Enslavement in Interimperial MoldaviasFor over 500 years, Roma were enslaved on the territory of today’s Romania as part of a labor regime with an elaborate infrastructure.
- Trustworthy AI and Digital HumanismArtificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming every aspect of modern life, from how we work and learn to how we govern and connect.
- Revolutionary Conservatism: Liberalism’s Next Grand RivalAt the IWM, Maciej Kisilowski will build on his recently published co-edited book, Let’s Agree on Poland: A Case Study in Strategic Constitutional Design (Oxford University Press, 2025), to examine revolutionary conservatism as a coherent global ideological rival to liberal democra
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