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.
- Exploring Leibniz’s View of Infinite Numbers and Its Possible EvolutionThis thesis explores Leibniz’s views on infinity and their potential evolution through engagement with some later philosophies.
- Faith and Flag: Religious Nationalism in the Age of PopulismThe gods are once again afoot in the public square. Across the globe, a toxic mixture of religion and nationalism is upending liberal conventions. In the United States, Christian nationalists have reshaped both the Republican Party and American politics.
- 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.
- 2025 Archival DevelopmentIn 2025, Anastasia Felcher will take part in setting up a digital archive of Russia’s war against Ukraine as a joint INDEX-IWM Archival Development Fellow at the newly launched INDEX Institute for Documentation and Exchange in Lviv.
- 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.
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- New Vienna Coffee House Conversations Podcast Episode: Europe’s Demographic Reckoning with Tim JudahIn this new episode of the Vienna Coffee House Conversations, IWM Permanent Fellow Ivan Vejvoda speaks with British journalist and author Tim Judah about his new book Life and Fate.
- New World Orders: Past, Present, and Future: Rewatch this Year's Krzysztof Michalski Memorial LectureThe Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan delivered the 2025 Krzysztof Michalski Memorial Lecture. Since 2018, the IWM has invited renowned scholars and intellectuals to honor the legacy of its founding rector as part…
- Applications Open for Documenting Ukraine GrantsThe Documenting Ukraine program is glad to launch the 2025 application cycle. Ukrainian academics, creative professionals and public intellectuals are welcome to apply for one-time 5000 EUR grants for projects…
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- New Vienna Coffee House Conversations Podcast Episode: Europe’s Demographic Reckoning with Tim JudahIn this new episode of the Vienna Coffee House Conversations, IWM Permanent Fellow Ivan Vejvoda speaks with British journalist and author Tim Judah about his new book Life and Fate.
- New World Orders: Past, Present, and Future: Rewatch this Year's Krzysztof Michalski Memorial LectureThe Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan delivered the 2025 Krzysztof Michalski Memorial Lecture. Since 2018, the IWM has invited renowned scholars and intellectuals to honor the legacy of its founding rector as part…
- Applications Open for Documenting Ukraine GrantsThe Documenting Ukraine program is glad to launch the 2025 application cycle. Ukrainian academics, creative professionals and public intellectuals are welcome to apply for one-time 5000 EUR grants for projects…
Current Fellows' research
- Exploring Leibniz’s View of Infinite Numbers and Its Possible EvolutionThis thesis explores Leibniz’s views on infinity and their potential evolution through engagement with some later philosophies.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2025 Archival DevelopmentIn 2025, Anastasia Felcher will take part in setting up a digital archive of Russia’s war against Ukraine as a joint INDEX-IWM Archival Development Fellow at the newly launched INDEX Institute for Documentation and Exchange in Lviv.
- 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.
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