Current Fellows' research
- An Anti-Nationalist Organic Wholeness? Walter Benjamin and the Body of Humankind at the Turn of the 1920sThis project builds on undeveloped tropes in Karolina Jesień’s PhD thesis and aims to analyze Walter Benjamin’s early post-WWI writings (1918–1923).
- 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.
- The Balkans: Thirty Years after the Dayton Peace AccordsThe Dayton Peace Accords, which were reached in November 1995, remain the seminal peace process in the post-Cold War, post-Yugoslav era. Ambassador Hill, himself a member of the U.S.
- Identity Looted: Tracing Ukraine's Lost Art in Russia’s Black HoleFor more than three decades, members of the international art community have suspected Russia to be a “black hole of art crime.” Icons, ancient books, manuscripts, engravings, medals, orders, old musical instruments and jewelry have allegedly been stolen.
- 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.
- Digital Regulation and the Defense of DemocracyIn an increasingly fragmented post-public sphere, communicative space is continually being reconstituted in response to developments in digital technologies.
News
- A Speech to Europe 2025: Lea Ypi on MigrationOn the occasion of this years's Speech to Europe, philosopher and political scientist Lea Ypi delivered her "Speech to Europe on Migration" on Vienna's Judenplatz on 15 May. Ypi argues that migration is not the…
- Sechstes Vienna meets Prague Festival: 11.-14. Juni 2025Das Festival geht heuer in seine sechste Runde. Vom 11. bis 14. Juni bietet es erneut die Gelegenheit, ausgewählte Höhepunkte der tschechischen Kultur in Wien zu erleben. In insgesamt 6 Veranstaltungen über 4 Tage…
- Visiting Fellows Arriving at the IWM in MayWe are pleased to introduce the new fellows arriving at the Institute in May. Learn more about their fellowships and research projects by clicking on their names. For interview requests or media inquiries, please reach…
Upcoming events
- Fellows' Colloquium with Christopher R. HillSeminars and Colloquia
- An event in the context of Hay FestivalFestivals
- Conferences and Workshops
- Fellows' Colloquium with Philip SchlesingerSeminars and Colloquia
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Upcoming events
- Fellows' Colloquium with Christopher R. HillSeminars and Colloquia
- An event in the context of Hay FestivalFestivals
- Conferences and Workshops
- Fellows' Colloquium with Philip SchlesingerSeminars and Colloquia
News
- A Speech to Europe 2025: Lea Ypi on MigrationOn the occasion of this years's Speech to Europe, philosopher and political scientist Lea Ypi delivered her "Speech to Europe on Migration" on Vienna's Judenplatz on 15 May. Ypi argues that migration is not the…
- Sechstes Vienna meets Prague Festival: 11.-14. Juni 2025Das Festival geht heuer in seine sechste Runde. Vom 11. bis 14. Juni bietet es erneut die Gelegenheit, ausgewählte Höhepunkte der tschechischen Kultur in Wien zu erleben. In insgesamt 6 Veranstaltungen über 4 Tage…
- Visiting Fellows Arriving at the IWM in MayWe are pleased to introduce the new fellows arriving at the Institute in May. Learn more about their fellowships and research projects by clicking on their names. For interview requests or media inquiries, please reach…
Current Fellows' research
- Political Trade Unionism: Industrial Cooperation and the Construction of the Class Struggle in Fin-de-Siècle EuropeThis project examines a tradition of thought in fin-de-siècle Europe on the role of socialist trade unions in capitalist society.
- An Anti-Nationalist Organic Wholeness? Walter Benjamin and the Body of Humankind at the Turn of the 1920sThis project builds on undeveloped tropes in Karolina Jesień’s PhD thesis and aims to analyze Walter Benjamin’s early post-WWI writings (1918–1923).
- Resistance, Temporariness and Political (Dis)Continuity: Urban Governance and Refugees’ Labor Market Integration in Hamburg and IzmirThe project explores urban governance of refugee integration through a local-to-local interregional comparison. The interregional dimension is essential for uncovering similar local rationales despite national-level differences.
- The End of Russian Hegemony: Changing Regional Order in Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus, and Central AsiaThis research and book project will investigate the end of Russian hegemony in the post-Soviet region as a result of the Russian large-scale war against Ukraine.
- 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.
- What Did It Mean to Be “European” in Early Modern Florence?The primary focus of this project is to understand how the idea of Europe was conceptualized in early modern Florence and to discern the place Poland-Lithuania occupied within this framework.
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