Current Fellows' research
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Defying the Iron Curtain: Émigré Journals and their Attempts to Confront the Post-War RealityThis project investigates the role of émigré intellectuals from Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia, and the ways in which they addressed their home societies behind the Iron Curtain.
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Thanatography and the Modes of GriefIn the context of the aestheticization and capitalization of happiness, health, success, and youth in the global mainstream culture, thanatographies––or, writing about death––have during the last half century embarked on the difficult task of bringing death, diminished wit
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Hydropower Infrastructure at the Crossroad of Socialist Development and EU AccessionDragan Đunda's project deals with the political ecology of hydropower infrastructure in Serbia––with its contradictions, path dependency, and alternatives.
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Beyond the Ideology: Public Opinion in Putin’s Russia and during WartimeThe analysis of public opinion under authoritarianism poses a significant problem.
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The Impact of the EU-Sponsored Basic Agreement between Kosovo and Serbia on Stabilization, Democratization, and Integration of the Western BalkansThe Russian invasion of Ukraine has mobilized the transatlantic community to address the unresolved issues, with destabilizing potential, in Southeast Europe.
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The Big Data Hole: Why the Russian State Knows Everything about Us and How All This Data LeaksRussia is associated with a high level of control in all spheres: Cameras with face recognition in every residential building in Moscow, the effective system of state firewall, and a digital system of army mobilization.
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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New Fellows Starting in December01.12.2023We are happy to introduce our last fellows who will be starting their fellowship this year. You can learn more about their individual fellowships and research projects by clicking on their names. For interview…
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Emerging Scholars Presenting at Autumn Fellows' Conference 202323.11.2023A staple of intellectual life at the IWM since its early days, the biannual conference provides an opportunity for early-career visiting researchers from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds to present their work…
Upcoming events
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This Human World - International Human Rights Film FestivalVisual and Performing ArtsCET
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this human world - International Human Rights Film FestivalVisual and Performing ArtsCET
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this human world - International Human Rights Film FestivalPanels and DiscussionsCET
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this human world - International Human Rights Film FestivalVisual and Performing ArtsCET
Upcoming events
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This Human World - International Human Rights Film FestivalVisual and Performing ArtsCET
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this human world - International Human Rights Film FestivalVisual and Performing ArtsCET
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this human world - International Human Rights Film FestivalPanels and DiscussionsCET
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this human world - International Human Rights Film FestivalVisual and Performing ArtsCET
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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New Fellows Starting in December01.12.2023We are happy to introduce our last fellows who will be starting their fellowship this year. You can learn more about their individual fellowships and research projects by clicking on their names. For interview…
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Emerging Scholars Presenting at Autumn Fellows' Conference 202323.11.2023A staple of intellectual life at the IWM since its early days, the biannual conference provides an opportunity for early-career visiting researchers from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds to present their work…
Current Fellows' research
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Lived Experiences of Ukrainian Female Activists: Gender and Nationalism in a Civic Society Under ThreatThrough the research of the lived experiences of Ukrainian female volunteer initiatives after Russian re-invasion, Ansastasiia Omelianiuk speaks on a matter of political urgency.
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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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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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Defying the Iron Curtain: Émigré Journals and their Attempts to Confront the Post-War RealityThis project investigates the role of émigré intellectuals from Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia, and the ways in which they addressed their home societies behind the Iron Curtain.
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Gendering Ukrainian Dissent: Human Rights and the Rights of Women (1960s–1980s)The aim of Galyna Babak’s research project is to study the birth and development of feminist thought and women’s rights discourse in the Ukrainian dissident movement of the 1960s–1980s.
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Political History of Post-Soviet SocietiesMikhail Minakov’s research project aims at an analysis of how the political cultures and systems of eastern European and northern Eurasian societies changed between 1989 and 2022.
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