Current Fellows' research
- Russia’s Church Under PutinThe invasion of Ukraine has become a holy war for Russia. At the outset, some hoped Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, would call for peace. Instead, he told Russian troops, committing daily atrocities in Ukraine, that God is on their side.
- Cultural (De-)Colonization Through Satire: Gendered Humor in Ukraine Between 1990 and 2000During her research stay, Daryna Korkach will work on the history of satire and comedy shows broadcast on Ukrainian television during the first decade of Ukrainian independence.
- 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.
- ‘A Melancholy Enterprise’? Revisiting German and Jewish Minority Cooperation in Interwar EuropeThis project examines the short-lived cooperation between the German and Jewish minorities, who spearheaded the European minority rights movement during the interwar period.
- 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
- Kateryna Sergatskova: ПрощKateryna Sergatskova: Прощай, "Исламское Государство": остается только будущее. Истории террористов Восточной Европы [Goodbye, ISIS: Only the Future Remains. Stories from of Eastern European Terrorists] (RUS > ENG)This book describes how people from across the post-Soviet space became involved in the so-called Islamic State. Ukrainian journalist Kateryna Sergatskova spent years interviewing women who were married to militants, as well as militants themselves and the people who radicalized them.
Jobs and Open Calls
The Most Documented War. Symposium for Documentation and Archiving Initiatives
24.03.2023
Deadline for Application: 18 April 2023
ERC Mentoring Initiative - Call for Applications
09.03.2023
Deadline for Application:
19 May 2023
News
- The Most Documented War. Symposium for Documentation and Archiving Initiatives24.03.2023We are inviting individual and collective projects, regardless of discipline or methodology, to participate in The Most Documented War. Symposium for Documentation and Archiving Initiatives that will take…
- 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…
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Upcoming events
- Seminars and ColloquiaCET
- Seminars and ColloquiaCET
- Conferences and WorkshopsCET
- Seminars and ColloquiaCET
News
- The Most Documented War. Symposium for Documentation and Archiving Initiatives24.03.2023We are inviting individual and collective projects, regardless of discipline or methodology, to participate in The Most Documented War. Symposium for Documentation and Archiving Initiatives that will take…
- 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…
Current Fellows' research
- Russia’s Church Under PutinThe invasion of Ukraine has become a holy war for Russia. At the outset, some hoped Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, would call for peace. Instead, he told Russian troops, committing daily atrocities in Ukraine, that God is on their side.
- Cultural (De-)Colonization Through Satire: Gendered Humor in Ukraine Between 1990 and 2000During her research stay, Daryna Korkach will work on the history of satire and comedy shows broadcast on Ukrainian television during the first decade of Ukrainian independence.
- 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.
- ‘A Melancholy Enterprise’? Revisiting German and Jewish Minority Cooperation in Interwar EuropeThis project examines the short-lived cooperation between the German and Jewish minorities, who spearheaded the European minority rights movement during the interwar period.
- 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
- Kateryna Sergatskova: ПрощKateryna Sergatskova: Прощай, "Исламское Государство": остается только будущее. Истории террористов Восточной Европы [Goodbye, ISIS: Only the Future Remains. Stories from of Eastern European Terrorists] (RUS > ENG)This book describes how people from across the post-Soviet space became involved in the so-called Islamic State. Ukrainian journalist Kateryna Sergatskova spent years interviewing women who were married to militants, as well as militants themselves and the people who radicalized them.
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