Current Fellows' research
- 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.
- Industry-led MigrationMigration has long been a topic of discussion in political discourse, and experiences of racism are part of the everyday life of migrant workers in Germany.
- Experts in Post-Imperial Transitions: Entanglements and Diverging Trajectories of Eugenicists between the Habsburg Empire and the Nation States, c. 1900–1939The project proposes a new integrative narrative about the history of eugenics in Habsburg and post-Habsburg territories, interpreted through imperial and post-imperial lenses.
- Digital Pathways and Transnational Frames: The Mobilization of Georgia’s Young Far RightThis study sheds light on the multidimensionality of contemporary far-right mobilization, examining how digital pathways facilitate the intersection of local and transnational narratives.
- Transatlantic Relations over the Next DecadeO'Brien served as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs until January 2025. Since starting work at the State Department 10 days before the Berlin Wall fell, he has spent approximately half his career in the US government, serving at various times as adviser to th
- Female Sexual Agency, Liberatory Advocacies, and the Digital Space in Nigerian Online YouTube PlatformsDeriving from two crucial observations: (1) that a strong “archival impulse,” a phrase Hal Foster uses to describe a compulsive inclination to record or document experiences, characterizes online practices surrounding gender and sexuality among African netizens; and (2) that this arch
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News
- IWMpost 135 Out Now!Perhaps it is due to the tremendous political changes of our time that a majority of the essays in this edition address political issues. Several contributions focus on the current crisis of democracy. In the lead…
- Timothy Snyder to Give a Lecture on Belarus on 27 JuneOn 27 June, IWM Lesya Ukrainka Permanent Fellow Timothy Snyder will hold a lecture at Wien Museum on Belarus: Ancient and Modern. A Reconsideration of a Central European History.
- New IWM Publication – »Life and Fate« by Tim JudahTim Judah's new book Life and Fate. All you need to know about the changing demography of central, eastern and south-eastern Europe was published under the auspices of the Europe's Futures project by the Institute for…
Upcoming events
- Krzysztof Michalski Memorial LectureLecture
- Fellows' Colloquium with Manuela BojadžijevSeminars and Colloquia
- A Reconsideration of a Central European HistoryLecture
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Upcoming events
- Krzysztof Michalski Memorial LectureLecture
- Fellows' Colloquium with Manuela BojadžijevSeminars and Colloquia
- A Reconsideration of a Central European HistoryLecture
News
- IWMpost 135 Out Now!Perhaps it is due to the tremendous political changes of our time that a majority of the essays in this edition address political issues. Several contributions focus on the current crisis of democracy. In the lead…
- Timothy Snyder to Give a Lecture on Belarus on 27 JuneOn 27 June, IWM Lesya Ukrainka Permanent Fellow Timothy Snyder will hold a lecture at Wien Museum on Belarus: Ancient and Modern. A Reconsideration of a Central European History.
- New IWM Publication – »Life and Fate« by Tim JudahTim Judah's new book Life and Fate. All you need to know about the changing demography of central, eastern and south-eastern Europe was published under the auspices of the Europe's Futures project by the Institute for…
Current Fellows' research
- 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.
- Industry-led MigrationMigration has long been a topic of discussion in political discourse, and experiences of racism are part of the everyday life of migrant workers in Germany.
- Experts in Post-Imperial Transitions: Entanglements and Diverging Trajectories of Eugenicists between the Habsburg Empire and the Nation States, c. 1900–1939The project proposes a new integrative narrative about the history of eugenics in Habsburg and post-Habsburg territories, interpreted through imperial and post-imperial lenses.
- Digital Pathways and Transnational Frames: The Mobilization of Georgia’s Young Far RightThis study sheds light on the multidimensionality of contemporary far-right mobilization, examining how digital pathways facilitate the intersection of local and transnational narratives.
- Transatlantic Relations over the Next DecadeO'Brien served as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs until January 2025. Since starting work at the State Department 10 days before the Berlin Wall fell, he has spent approximately half his career in the US government, serving at various times as adviser to th
- Female Sexual Agency, Liberatory Advocacies, and the Digital Space in Nigerian Online YouTube PlatformsDeriving from two crucial observations: (1) that a strong “archival impulse,” a phrase Hal Foster uses to describe a compulsive inclination to record or document experiences, characterizes online practices surrounding gender and sexuality among African netizens; and (2) that this arch
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