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Die Impfung – ein knappes Gut?
14 Mar 11:00, Online „Niemand ist sicher, bevor wir alle sicher sind“, warnen internationale Organisationen vor dem allerorts aufgekommenen Impfnationalismus. Denn mit den nun verfügbaren Covid-Impfstoffen stellen sich neue drängende Fragen: Wer bestimmt, welche Länder und Bevölkerungsgruppen überhaupt Zugang ...
Episode Five: The Missing Pages of European History with Teresa Reiter
In the latest Vienna Coffee House Conversation, Ivan Vejvoda speaks to political activism expert, Head of Communications at Forum Alpbach and Europe's Futures fellow Teresa Reiter about the way that history is taught, utilized and ...
“We Are All Refugees”
Informal Settlements and Camps as Converging Spaces of Global Displacements 17 Mar 17:00, Online This presentation draws on my co-authored paper with Efad Huq to relationally theorize realities of those living in informal settlements and in camps in the era of intensified global displacements. We organize this relational analytical ...
Episode 10
Democracy from Below: What Real Utopias Can We Build on?
Citizens have a crucial role to play in political life and can have tremendous power, as they come together in associations and social movements. To close this first season, Professor Mary Kaldor (London School of ...

Jan Sokol in memoriam
Am 16. Februar 2021 starb Jan Sokol. Die Nachricht vom Tod des tschechischen Philosophen, Bürgerrechtlers und Politikers erfüllt uns mit großer Trauer. Er war dem Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen seit den Anfangsjahren verbunden. Ich ...
Democratic Vistas, Autocratic Specters:Must We Reinvent Democracy?
In this panel discussion, now available to watch online, our Rector, Shalini Randeria, together with Masha Gessen, Sławomir Sierakowski and Johannes Voelz share their thoughts on “Democratic Vistas, Autocratic Specters: Must We Reinvent Democracy?”. The discussion ...
Imperial Entanglements: Rethinking Modernity with and beyond Zygmunt Bauman
Watch the lecture given by our Rector, Shalini Randeria, now available online. This online lecture series was co-hosted by the Bauman Institute and the Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies (University of Leeds), together with the ...
MADE IN IWM
Ruth Wodak: The Politics of Fear
From September 2018 to May 2019 and from February to September 2020, Ruth Wodak was a Senior Visiting Fellow at the IWM. During her fellowship she worked on the second, revised edition of her book ...
Upcoming Events
- 14 MarRudolf Anschober, Marcus Bachmann, Katharina T. Paul, Barbara Prainsack, Ursula Wiedermann-Schmidt, Shalini Randeria Die Impfung – ein knappes Gut?
2021
Debates at the Burgtheater 11:00, Online - 17 MarFaranak Miraftab “We Are All Refugees”
2021
Informal Settlements and Camps as Converging Spaces of Global Displacements Forced Migration Seminar 17:00, Online - 22 MarNoémi Kiss Marginalized (not only) in Times of Lockdown
2021
Culture, Periphery, and the East-West-Imbalance Fellows Colloquium 16:00, Internal
Fellowships
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Albert Hirschman Fellowships
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Bronisław Geremek Fellowships
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CEU Postdoctoral Fellowships
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Eurasia in Global Dialogue Fellowships
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EURIAS Fellowships
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Hebrew University Fellowships
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Jan Patočka Fellowships
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Józef Tischner Fellowships
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Krzysztof Michalski Fellowships
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Milena Jesenská Fellowships for Journalists
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ÖAW Fellowships
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Paul Celan Fellowships for Translators
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Ukraine in European Dialogue Fellowships
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Albert Hirschman Fellowships
The Albert Hirschman Fellowship is given to distinguished senior scholars, who have contributed to re-framing some of the major questions in social sciences.
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Bronisław Geremek Fellowships
To commemorate the Polish scholar, intellectual and politician Bronisław Geremek the IWM awards fellowships to Polish researchers studying Polish national heritage in the context of the European tradition.
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CEU Postdoctoral Fellowships
The Central European University (CEU) in Budapest and the IWM are jointly awarding fellowships to young researchers in the humanities and social sciences who are enrolled in a doctoral program at the CEU.
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Eurasia in Global Dialogue Fellowships
Scholars and publicists from the Eurasia region are invited to spend some months at the IWM in order to engage in a dialogue with the Institute's community and the broader public as well as to develop or intensify their media presence in the West.
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EURIAS Fellowships
The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility programme offering 10-month residencies in one of the 16 participating Institutes.
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Hebrew University Fellowships
The European Forum at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the IWM jointly award a six-month Visiting Fellowship to a PhD candidate or a faculty member at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Jan Patočka Fellowships
This fellowship program is dedicated to commemorate Jan Patočka's name and work. It aims to foster groundbreaking research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The fellowships enable Czech researchers to work on a project of their own choice.
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Józef Tischner Fellowships
for Polish and Polish-American ScholarsIn memoriam Józef Tischner, founding President of the IWM, fellowships are awarded to junior researchers from Poland and young Polish-American scholars.
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Krzysztof Michalski Fellowships
In memory and honor of its founding Rector, Krzysztof Michalski, the IWM has established a new fellowship program consisting of one senior and two junior positions in the fields of continental philosophy or religion.
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Milena Jesenská Fellowships for Journalists
This program offers experienced journalists time off from their professional duties in order to pursue in-depth research on a topic of their choice, which addresses issues of European relevance.
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ÖAW Fellowships
Each year several PhD candidates and post-doctoral researchers who have been selected by the DOC, DOC-team and APART programs of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) are offered research residencies at the IWM.
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Paul Celan Fellowships for Translators
The Paul Celan Fellowships support East-West, West-East and East-East translations of canonical texts as well as contemporary key works in the humanities, social sciences and cultural studies.
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Ukraine in European Dialogue Fellowships
This junior fellowship program aims to support the research of Ukrainian scholars who are completing or have recently completed doctoral studies in a Ukrainian institution of higher education.
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Zwischen Existentialismus und Politik. Europa und Geschichte im Denken von Krzysztof Michalski
Der polnisch-österreichische Philosoph Krzysztof Michalski (*1948 in Warschau; † 2013 in Wien) legte ein eigenständiges Zeitdenken vor und hat die Impulse seiner Philosophie im Aufbau des europäischen Projekts praktisch umgesetzt. Piotr Kubasiak untersucht in seiner Studie ...
Minima philologic
Werner Hamacher: Minima philologica. 95 tezisov o philologii za philologiiu, St. Petersburg: Ivan Limbakh Press, 2020. Translated from German to Russian to German by Anna Glazova Paul Celan Visiting Fellow 2018 These two texts by Werner Hamacher, the ...
Der andere Anfang
Vladimir Bibikhin: Ein anderer Anfang, philosophische Aufsätze, Berlin: Matthes Seitz, 2020. Translated from Russian to German by Vera Ammer Paul Celan Visiting Fellow 2015 Vladimir Bibichin zählt zu den einflussreichsten russischen Philosophen des letzten Jahrhunderts. Seine Heidegger-Übersetzungen machten ihn ...
Die amerikanische Krankheit. Vier Lektionen der Freiheit aus einem US-Hospital
"Es war schon viel zu leicht, in diesem Land zu sterben, bevor das Coronavirus in die Vereinigten Staaten gelangte. Unser stümperhafter Umgang mit der Pandemie ist das jüngste Symptom unserer Krankheit, einer Politik, die Schmerz ...
The Postcolonial Age of Migration
This book critically examines the question of migration that appears at the intersection of global neo-liberal transformation, postcolonial politics, and economy. It analyses the specific ways in which colonial relations are produced and reproduced in ...
Tischner. Biografia
First complete biography of Joseph Tischner Written by Wojciech Bonowicz, Józef Tischner Visiting Fellow at the IWM in 2020 „Ktoś mi kiedyś powiedział, że jak Tischner wchodził do pokoju, to jakby się drzwi otwierały w człowieku. Drzwi ...
Ist heute schon morgen? Wie die Pandemie Europa verändert
Ein Virus war nötig, um die Welt auf den Kopf zu stellen. Wie wird die Welt danach aussehen? Ivan Krastev, einer der wichtigsten Intellektuellen der Gegenwart, gibt Orientierung in Zeiten der Ungewissheit. »Es gibt Momente, in denen ...Research
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Decent Society
Modernization and globalization have not only aggravated existing inequalities but have also produced new forms of inequality. This research focus maps not only the realities of injustice under conditions of multi-scalar governance and legal pluralism but also the potential of creating justice.
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Democracy in Question
Globalisation, combined with new opportunities opened up by the digital revolution, have led to a radical questioning of democratic institutions, and sharpened tensions between national democracies and the global market. What then is the future of democracy?
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Europe’s Pasts and Futures
The successful story of overcoming war, the divisions between East and West and the transformation from dictatorship to democracy paved the way for a reunited Europe. However, history also seems to have placed a limit upon solidarity in the EU of the 21st century.
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