Current Fellows' research
- Rabbi Nachman: Sipurei Maasiyot [The Tales of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav] (YID > UKR)This project is a translation of The Tales of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav from Yiddish into Ukrainian, with a foreword for the Ukrainian readership. Rabbi Nachman (1772–1810) was a Ukrainian tzadik, the founder of Bratslav Hasidism.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Transatlantic Relations over the Next DecadeJames C.
- 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).
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
- Rabbi Nachman: Sipurei Maasiyot [The Tales of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav] (YID > UKR)This project is a translation of The Tales of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav from Yiddish into Ukrainian, with a foreword for the Ukrainian readership. Rabbi Nachman (1772–1810) was a Ukrainian tzadik, the founder of Bratslav Hasidism.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Transatlantic Relations over the Next DecadeJames C.
- 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).
Recent Media
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