Current Fellows' research
- Human-Centered AI: Culturally Responsive AI-Enabled Mobile Applications for Women Micro-Entrepreneurs in KenyaThis project explores how Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled mobile applications can better support female micro-entrepreneurs operating in Kenya’s informal economy.
- Growing Up Algorithmic: Children, Power, and the Politics of Digital RegulationDigital technologies are an inextricable part of the public sphere, yet their impact is not inevitable but instead shaped by deliberate choices, ones that are often masked as technological necessity.
- Liberalism and Its DiscontentsFrancis Fukuyama will examine the philosophical foundations, historical evolution, and current discontents with liberalism, and analyze strategies - such as addressing economic inequality, building social cohesion, and defending democratic institutions - to preserve its core principles in the per
- Between Floating and Empty Signifiers in the Post-Transition Discourse on ‘Solidarity’ (1989-2024)This project sets out to analyze recent conceptual makeovers in political and academic discourse that have appropriated Poland’s Solidarity movement in the service of various specific agendas, despite its former heterogeneity.
- Revolutionary Conservatism: Liberalism’s Next Grand RivalAt the IWM, Maciej Kisilowski will build on his recently published co-edited book, Let’s Agree on Poland: A Case Study in Strategic Constitutional Design (Oxford University Press, 2025), to examine revolutionary conservatism as a coherent global ideological rival to liberal democra
- Philosophical Foundations of American Populism in the third Decade of the 21st CenturyDuring his stay at the IWM, Wojciech Engelking will be working on the philosophical foundations of the latest incarnation of American populism.
News
- ERC Mentoring Initiative: Call for ApplicationsThe Institute for Human Sciences (IWM Vienna), together with the Polish Academy of Sciences and generously supported by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, has established a mentoring initiative for…
- Congratulations to the Recipients of the 2026 Emma Goldman AwardsOn 5 March, the IWM hosted the annual Emma Goldman Awards, co-organized with the independent, Netherlands-based FLAX Foundation. The awards are named after feminist Emma Goldman (1869-1940), who is considered one of the…
- Did Vienna Invent the Modern World, Richard Cockett?So many of us seem to be scrambling to understand where the world is heading. Decade-old certainties seem to crumble before our eyes. Perhaps we are reaching the moment that Karl Marx predicted when all that is solid…
Upcoming events
- Monthly Lecture with Andrii PortnovLecture
- Book Talk with Toby WalshSeminars and Colloquia
- IWM Digital Humanism Fellowship Lecture with Toby WalshLecture
- Fellows' Colloquium with Richard CockettSeminars and Colloquia
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Upcoming events
- Monthly Lecture with Andrii PortnovLecture
- Book Talk with Toby WalshSeminars and Colloquia
- IWM Digital Humanism Fellowship Lecture with Toby WalshLecture
- Fellows' Colloquium with Richard CockettSeminars and Colloquia
News
- ERC Mentoring Initiative: Call for ApplicationsThe Institute for Human Sciences (IWM Vienna), together with the Polish Academy of Sciences and generously supported by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, has established a mentoring initiative for…
- Congratulations to the Recipients of the 2026 Emma Goldman AwardsOn 5 March, the IWM hosted the annual Emma Goldman Awards, co-organized with the independent, Netherlands-based FLAX Foundation. The awards are named after feminist Emma Goldman (1869-1940), who is considered one of the…
- Did Vienna Invent the Modern World, Richard Cockett?So many of us seem to be scrambling to understand where the world is heading. Decade-old certainties seem to crumble before our eyes. Perhaps we are reaching the moment that Karl Marx predicted when all that is solid…
Current Fellows' research
- Human-Centered AI: Culturally Responsive AI-Enabled Mobile Applications for Women Micro-Entrepreneurs in KenyaThis project explores how Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled mobile applications can better support female micro-entrepreneurs operating in Kenya’s informal economy.
- Growing Up Algorithmic: Children, Power, and the Politics of Digital RegulationDigital technologies are an inextricable part of the public sphere, yet their impact is not inevitable but instead shaped by deliberate choices, ones that are often masked as technological necessity.
- Liberalism and Its DiscontentsFrancis Fukuyama will examine the philosophical foundations, historical evolution, and current discontents with liberalism, and analyze strategies - such as addressing economic inequality, building social cohesion, and defending democratic institutions - to preserve its core principles in the per
- Between Floating and Empty Signifiers in the Post-Transition Discourse on ‘Solidarity’ (1989-2024)This project sets out to analyze recent conceptual makeovers in political and academic discourse that have appropriated Poland’s Solidarity movement in the service of various specific agendas, despite its former heterogeneity.
- Revolutionary Conservatism: Liberalism’s Next Grand RivalAt the IWM, Maciej Kisilowski will build on his recently published co-edited book, Let’s Agree on Poland: A Case Study in Strategic Constitutional Design (Oxford University Press, 2025), to examine revolutionary conservatism as a coherent global ideological rival to liberal democra
- Philosophical Foundations of American Populism in the third Decade of the 21st CenturyDuring his stay at the IWM, Wojciech Engelking will be working on the philosophical foundations of the latest incarnation of American populism.
Recent Media
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