Current Fellows' research
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- The Regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in China: How to Compete and Cooperate from a Global PerspectiveAI technologies are increasingly widespread as potent instruments that drive the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and the digitalization of economies and societies, enhancing productivity.
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
- Fellows' Colloquium with Francesca De BenedettiSeminars and Colloquia
- Lesung und Gespräch mit Juri AndruchowytschPanels and Discussions
- IWM Lectures in Human SciencesLecture
- Europa im DiskursPanels and Discussions
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Upcoming events
- Fellows' Colloquium with Francesca De BenedettiSeminars and Colloquia
- Lesung und Gespräch mit Juri AndruchowytschPanels and Discussions
- IWM Lectures in Human SciencesLecture
- Europa im DiskursPanels 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Finding Hope for a Future Without Borders in the Italian Movement for Migrants’ RightsIn an increasingly fractured world, with the emergence of the far right in Europe and beyond and the recent pogroms in the UK, this project articulates a vision of an inclusive future in the narratives of the movement supporting migrants’ rights in Italy in the late 1990s to early 2000s.
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