Current Fellows' research
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From Dr. Freud to "Reproductive Psychiatry": an Exploration of Women's MindsWhile investigating a criminal case that rocked Germany, a fivefold infanticide during the Covid-19 pandemic, Prune Antoine discovered that gender inequalities in women’s mental health are chronically underexplored.
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Victor Klemperer: LTI. Notizbuch eines Philologen [The Language of the Third Reich] (GER > BEL)The Language of the Third Reich is a collection of personal observations by philologist Victor Klemperer who lived in Nazi Germany. Today this text seems more relevant than ever in Belarus.
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Politik der Fürsorge: Eine vergleichende Perspektive, ausgehend von BelarusOlga Shparaga setzt in diesem Projekt ihre Arbeit an Dokumentation und Analyse jener fürsorglichen Praktiken fort, welche durch Belarus:innen während der Massenproteste 2020 und danach entfaltet wurden und werden - in einer Situation sowohl der verstärkten staatlichen Repression, a
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Down Njegoš’s StreetNjegoševa street, a central and also very lively artery of the whole neighborhood in Belgrade, scattered with cafes, shops and public buildings, has been saturated with various graffiti, stencils and wall paintings.
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Mapping the Future: Debating Harm and Political Community in the Algorithmic Forecasting of CrimeThis project undertakes an analysis of how crime risk forecasting software used by police departments produces outcomes, directs decision-making, and is evaluated for accuracy and efficacy.
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The Making of Emotional Socialism: Politics and Poetics of Feelings in Post-war Poland (1944–1989)The project proposes to look at post-war socialist Poland, understood as a political and cultural formation, from the perspective of the theory of cultural emotions.
Jobs and Open Calls
Ukraine in European Dialogue Junior Fellowship
08.11.2023
Deadline for Applications:
28 January 2023
Paul Celan Fellowship for Translators
08.11.2023
Deadline for Applications:
4 February 2023
News
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Apply Now: Currently Open IWM Fellowship Calls08.11.2023The IWM currently has numerous calls for applications for its various fellowship programs. Here you will find an overview of all currently open calls.
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Perspectives on the Autumn Fellows' Conference 202306.12.2023On Wednesday, 29 November, the IWM hosted the 2023 Autumn Fellows' Conference. Organized by and for emerging scholars, it constitutes a forum for exchange across disciplinary boundaries and affords researchers an…
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Culture and Cooperation in the Western Balkans with Vladimir Arsenijević06.12.2023In this episode of the Vienna Coffee House Conversations, host Ivan Vejvoda welcomes IWM and ERSTE Foundation's Europe's Futures Fellow Vladimir Arsenijević for an insightful dialogue on the cultural and political…
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Upcoming events
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Seminars and ColloquiaCET
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LectureCET
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Panels and DiscussionsCET
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Weil wir eine Welt zu gewinnen habenPanels and DiscussionsCET
News
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Apply Now: Currently Open IWM Fellowship Calls08.11.2023The IWM currently has numerous calls for applications for its various fellowship programs. Here you will find an overview of all currently open calls.
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Perspectives on the Autumn Fellows' Conference 202306.12.2023On Wednesday, 29 November, the IWM hosted the 2023 Autumn Fellows' Conference. Organized by and for emerging scholars, it constitutes a forum for exchange across disciplinary boundaries and affords researchers an…
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Culture and Cooperation in the Western Balkans with Vladimir Arsenijević06.12.2023In this episode of the Vienna Coffee House Conversations, host Ivan Vejvoda welcomes IWM and ERSTE Foundation's Europe's Futures Fellow Vladimir Arsenijević for an insightful dialogue on the cultural and political…
Current Fellows' research
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From Words to Voids: Absencing and Haunting in Crimean Semiotic LandscapesThis project seeks to contribute to ethnographically oriented semiotic landscape research by addressing linguistic and non-linguistic signs in the landscapes of contemporary Crimea.
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Rethinking Psychoanalytic Anthropology and Theory of CulturePeter Gay’s observation that “for good or ill, Sigmund Freud, more than any other explorer of the psyche, has shaped the mind of the twentieth century” seems to be well-founded, whether someone is an admirer or harsh critic of Freud.
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Collective Emotions in Times of Global CrisesKarolina Wigura will devote her time during the Europe’s Futures Fellowship working on the following questions: What are the most important collective emotions in today’s Europe? How can we understand and work with them?
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Victor Klemperer: LTI. Notizbuch eines Philologen [The Language of the Third Reich] (GER > BEL)The Language of the Third Reich is a collection of personal observations by philologist Victor Klemperer who lived in Nazi Germany. Today this text seems more relevant than ever in Belarus.
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The Political Spectrum of the Right, Authoritarianism and the Reaction to the Russo-Ukrainian WarIn the last decade, there has been an increase in right-wing and far-right political sentiments in many European countries, including Turkey. Some gravitate towards authoritarianism, some towards populism.
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Balkan Cruelty: Analysis of Art Representational Forms of Violence Against WomenLana Čmajčanin's project follows the red thread of women’s individual and collective experiences of war violence, tracing the gray zones of national borders that were inscribed by all brutal reversals throughout the history of the Balkans, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Yugoslavia, and Bo
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