Current Fellows' research
- National Identity in War-Torn UkraineThis project examines how Russia's full-blown invasion of Ukraine has affected the salience and content of Ukrainian national identity. It is based on data from a nationwide survey and a series of focus group discussions in different parts of the country.
- Unveiling the Contradictions in the Governance of Environmental Mobility In African CitiesThis research explores the contradictions in the governance of environmental mobility.
- Beautiful but Useful: An Anthropology of Aesthetic Materialism / Postcolonies of Communism: Soviet Pasts in the Afterlife of EmpireDuring his stay at IWM, Serguei Oushakine plans to work on two book-length projects. One of them is a book on the material production of personal living space in the late Soviet Union.
- GENEX: Practicing Gender in EU External RelationsThe EU often seeks to project its internal identity as a gender equal polity in its external relations normative and policy frameworks. The implementation of these frameworks, however, are dependent on specific knowledge and processes that emerge from the local contexts of the implementers.
- Historicizing Marxist Humanism: The Yugoslav Praxis School, 1964–1974Una Blagojevic's work aims to reconstruct the dense political language that has been historiographically and historically described as "Marxist humanism." The project engages with Marxist humanism and its relation to the context in which it was articulated, those articulations thems
- Political Crises and Conflicts of 1950s–1980s Eastern Europe and Their Influence on Ukraine’s Socio-Political LifeThe aim of the project is to conduct research regarding the development of socio-political crises in the Eastern Bloc (e.g., the East German uprising of 1953; the Hungarian Revolution of 1956; the Prague Spring of 1968; and the Polish crises of 1956, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1976 and 1980–1981), w
Jobs and Open Calls
ERC Mentoring Initiative - Call for Applications
09.03.2023
Deadline for Application:
19 May 2023
Partner Calls
01.09.2021
Here, we offer a list of fellowships and opportunities offered by partners and collaborators of the IWM, which may be of interest to current and past IWM fellows.
News
- Timothy Snyder’s Testimony to the United Nations Security Council on Russian Hate Speech17.03.2023On 14 March 2023, IWM Permanent Fellow Timothy Snyder participated in a session called by the Russian Federation to discuss "russophobia" in which he provided a briefing to the United Nations Security Council.…
- Cultural Prizes Awarded to Three Documenting Ukraine Participants14.03.2023The IWM is happy to congratulate Iryna Tsilyk on receiving the Shevchenko National Prize and Alina Gorlova and Anastasiia Platonova on receiving the Women in Arts Award. All three award recipients, whose prizes were…
- Merav Amir: “Unfastening Israel's Future from the Occupation: Israeli Plans for Partial Annexation of West Bank Territory”10.03.2023Merav Amir’s essay “Unfastening Israel's Future from the Occupation: Israeli Plans for Partial Annexation of West Bank Territory” has appeared in the journal Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography.
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News
- Timothy Snyder’s Testimony to the United Nations Security Council on Russian Hate Speech17.03.2023On 14 March 2023, IWM Permanent Fellow Timothy Snyder participated in a session called by the Russian Federation to discuss "russophobia" in which he provided a briefing to the United Nations Security Council.…
- Cultural Prizes Awarded to Three Documenting Ukraine Participants14.03.2023The IWM is happy to congratulate Iryna Tsilyk on receiving the Shevchenko National Prize and Alina Gorlova and Anastasiia Platonova on receiving the Women in Arts Award. All three award recipients, whose prizes were…
- Merav Amir: “Unfastening Israel's Future from the Occupation: Israeli Plans for Partial Annexation of West Bank Territory”10.03.2023Merav Amir’s essay “Unfastening Israel's Future from the Occupation: Israeli Plans for Partial Annexation of West Bank Territory” has appeared in the journal Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography.
Current Fellows' research
- Digital Humanism and Care: What is Digital Humanism Made of?Access to the digital realm works through the function of technological devices, which over time become objects, documentation and testimony of past human agency.
- Dreaming of Europe: Refugees and the Old ContinentRandall Hansen’s book will examine the work-refugee nexus in Europe. Focusing on five cities––Rome, Vienna, Paris, Berlin, and London––the book will explore refugee journeys to, hopes for, and lives in these five European capitals.
- Political Crises and Conflicts of 1950s–1980s Eastern Europe and Their Influence on Ukraine’s Socio-Political LifeThe aim of the project is to conduct research regarding the development of socio-political crises in the Eastern Bloc (e.g., the East German uprising of 1953; the Hungarian Revolution of 1956; the Prague Spring of 1968; and the Polish crises of 1956, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1976 and 1980–1981), w
- Christian Hajjis: Mobility and Status in the Late Ottoman EmpireThis project explores the formation of Balkan elites in the late Ottoman Empire by focusing on the Christian hajjis—Eastern Orthodox pilgrims to Jerusalem who took as their model the Muslim hajj to Mecca. These pilgrims defy familiar classifications.
- Historicizing Marxist Humanism: The Yugoslav Praxis School, 1964–1974Una Blagojevic's work aims to reconstruct the dense political language that has been historiographically and historically described as "Marxist humanism." The project engages with Marxist humanism and its relation to the context in which it was articulated, those articulations thems
- Beautiful but Useful: An Anthropology of Aesthetic Materialism / Postcolonies of Communism: Soviet Pasts in the Afterlife of EmpireDuring his stay at IWM, Serguei Oushakine plans to work on two book-length projects. One of them is a book on the material production of personal living space in the late Soviet Union.
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