Current Fellows' research
- The Idea of Moral SocialismWhat Is Moral Socialism?
- The Lost OasisThis project explores the human impact of climate change through Morocco’s disappearing oases of Tafilalt, interweaving personal narrative with investigative journalism to document how environmental degradation intersects with social inequality.
- 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.
- Human-Centered AI: Inclusive Innovations that Strategically Empower African Women Through Co-designThis project explores how Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled mobile applications can better support female micro-entrepreneurs operating in Kenya’s informal economy.
- After the Aftermath? A New Genealogy of Audiovisual TestimonyThis project aims to develop a new genealogy of Holocaust video testimony that re-embeds the genre in a wider social and historical context connecting it to earlier efforts to gather testimony, before, during, and after the war.
- The Geopolitics of False Narratives: Decoding Serbia and Russia’s Emotional AllianceThis project investigates the emotional manipulation underpinning the relationship between Serbia and Russia, challenging the prevailing myth of an unshakable Slavic-Orthodox brotherhood.
Jobs and Open Calls
News
- Reconsidering the Polish-Language Legacy of Belarus: Florian Czarnyszewicz on His Identity and HomelandIn this essay, writer, literary scholar, and IWM fellow Hanna Yankuta explores the complex cultural and national identities reflected in the Polish-language literary legacy of Belarus through the life and work of…
- Applications Open for Documenting Ukraine GrantsDocumenting Ukraine is honored to announce the start of its 2026 application cycle, with a deadline of 31 May 2026. Ukrainian scholars, filmmakers, journalists, archivists and librarians, writers and poets, and artists…
- "The European Moment": Anne Applebaum to Deliver This Year's Speech to EuropeWe are delighted to announce that the award-winning American-Polish historian and author Anne Applebaum will deliver this year's Speech to Europe, marking the event's fifth edition. It will take place on the evening of…
Upcoming events
- Fellows' Colloquium with Kia VahlandSeminars and Colloquia
- Tischner Debates 2026Panels and Discussions
- Fellows' Colloquium with Gábor EgrySeminars and Colloquia
- Part of Wiener FestwochenLecture
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Upcoming events
- Fellows' Colloquium with Kia VahlandSeminars and Colloquia
- Tischner Debates 2026Panels and Discussions
- Fellows' Colloquium with Gábor EgrySeminars and Colloquia
- Part of Wiener FestwochenLecture
News
- Reconsidering the Polish-Language Legacy of Belarus: Florian Czarnyszewicz on His Identity and HomelandIn this essay, writer, literary scholar, and IWM fellow Hanna Yankuta explores the complex cultural and national identities reflected in the Polish-language literary legacy of Belarus through the life and work of…
- Applications Open for Documenting Ukraine GrantsDocumenting Ukraine is honored to announce the start of its 2026 application cycle, with a deadline of 31 May 2026. Ukrainian scholars, filmmakers, journalists, archivists and librarians, writers and poets, and artists…
- "The European Moment": Anne Applebaum to Deliver This Year's Speech to EuropeWe are delighted to announce that the award-winning American-Polish historian and author Anne Applebaum will deliver this year's Speech to Europe, marking the event's fifth edition. It will take place on the evening of…
Current Fellows' research
- The Idea of Moral SocialismWhat Is Moral Socialism?
- The Lost OasisThis project explores the human impact of climate change through Morocco’s disappearing oases of Tafilalt, interweaving personal narrative with investigative journalism to document how environmental degradation intersects with social inequality.
- 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.
- Human-Centered AI: Inclusive Innovations that Strategically Empower African Women Through Co-designThis project explores how Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled mobile applications can better support female micro-entrepreneurs operating in Kenya’s informal economy.
- After the Aftermath? A New Genealogy of Audiovisual TestimonyThis project aims to develop a new genealogy of Holocaust video testimony that re-embeds the genre in a wider social and historical context connecting it to earlier efforts to gather testimony, before, during, and after the war.
- The Geopolitics of False Narratives: Decoding Serbia and Russia’s Emotional AllianceThis project investigates the emotional manipulation underpinning the relationship between Serbia and Russia, challenging the prevailing myth of an unshakable Slavic-Orthodox brotherhood.
Recent Media
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