Current Fellows' research
- Remembering Eastern Europe through the Motion Pictures: Polish and Lithuanian Film Diaries in ExileThis research project focuses on the film diaries made by Eastern European artists and thinkers in exile. Focusing on the Polish and Lithuanian perspectives of Marian Marzyński and Jonas Mekas, the project aims to analyze the historical, cultural, and personal narratives embedded in their films.
- 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.
- 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.
- Christian Democratic Option: Tracing Ideological Persistence from Postwar to Present in Czechoslovakia and Successor StatesRecent scholarship in comparative politics suggests that the stability of the center-right and its ability to counter hard-right challenges are crucial for the survival of European liberal democracy.
- Why are People Abandoning Democracy for the NationFilip Milacic will conduct research on his new book, Political Entrepreneurs vs. Democracy: Why are People Abandoning Democracy for the Nation, which will be published by Cambridge University Press.
- 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.
Jobs and Open Calls
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- Apply Now: Currently Open IWM Fellowship CallsThe IWM currently has numerous calls for applications for its various fellowship programs. Here you will find an overview of all currently open calls.
- Why Do We Need a World Government, Nils Gilman?So many of us seem to be scrambling to understand where the world is heading. Decade-old certainties seem to crumble before our eyes. Perhaps we are reaching the moment that Karl Marx predicted when all that is solid…
- The Standpoint of Moral Progress: Jan Patočka Memorial Lecture 2024 by Axel HonnethThe IWM is delighted to welcome Axel Honneth as the speaker of this year's Jan Patočka Memorial Lecture. On Monday, 16 December 2024, the distinguished sociologist, Columbia professor, and former director of the…
Upcoming events
- Fellows' Colloquium with Anna NarinskayaSeminars and Colloquia
- Jan Patočka Memorial Lecture with Axel HonnethLecture
- Debating EuropePanels and Discussions
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Upcoming events
- Fellows' Colloquium with Anna NarinskayaSeminars and Colloquia
- Jan Patočka Memorial Lecture with Axel HonnethLecture
- Debating EuropePanels and Discussions
News
- Apply Now: Currently Open IWM Fellowship CallsThe IWM currently has numerous calls for applications for its various fellowship programs. Here you will find an overview of all currently open calls.
- Why Do We Need a World Government, Nils Gilman?So many of us seem to be scrambling to understand where the world is heading. Decade-old certainties seem to crumble before our eyes. Perhaps we are reaching the moment that Karl Marx predicted when all that is solid…
- The Standpoint of Moral Progress: Jan Patočka Memorial Lecture 2024 by Axel HonnethThe IWM is delighted to welcome Axel Honneth as the speaker of this year's Jan Patočka Memorial Lecture. On Monday, 16 December 2024, the distinguished sociologist, Columbia professor, and former director of the…
Current Fellows' research
- Remembering Eastern Europe through the Motion Pictures: Polish and Lithuanian Film Diaries in ExileThis research project focuses on the film diaries made by Eastern European artists and thinkers in exile. Focusing on the Polish and Lithuanian perspectives of Marian Marzyński and Jonas Mekas, the project aims to analyze the historical, cultural, and personal narratives embedded in their films.
- Kosovo Specialist Chambers as a New Model of Internationalized Courts: Legal, Political and Discursive Implications for Transitional JusticeThe Kosovo Specialist Chambers are a distinctive entity in international criminal justice, tasked with prosecuting war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army during and after the Kosovo War.
- Exploring the Genesis Moment: Tracking the Making of a New World Order and Europe’s Place in ItAs the existing world order unravels, how the new one will be forged is yet uncertain, as there is no consensus on how to identify the new or upcoming order. Many identifications have been suggested: the world is multipolar, apolar, asymmetrically multipolar, in entropy, or bipolar.
- 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.
- Christian Democratic Option: Tracing Ideological Persistence from Postwar to Present in Czechoslovakia and Successor StatesRecent scholarship in comparative politics suggests that the stability of the center-right and its ability to counter hard-right challenges are crucial for the survival of European liberal democracy.
- The Soviet Jews of the Stagnation Era and Their Dual Identity: "Jewishness" and Russian CultureJournalist and curator Anna Narinskaya is preparing her second non-fiction book at the intersection of cultural studies and memoirs.
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