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.
- Post-Europe and the Ethos of Responsibility. Rethinking Europe since Jan Patočka and CEE’s dissidentsThe aim of this research is to explore the relevance of Jan Patočka’s complex theorization of the concept of Post-Europe.
- 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.
- Aneta Anra: Jehudit. Pasaulis galėtų būti toks gražus [Jehudit. How Beautiful the World Could Be] (LIT > POL)The aim of the project is to translate Aneta Anra’s book into Polish. Jehudit is a documented story about the Shoah, told from the point of view of two women in their declining years: a Holocaust survivor and a Polish savior of Lithuanian Jews.
- Transatlantic Relations over the Next DecadeO'Brien served as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs until January 2025. Since starting work at the State Department 10 days before the Berlin Wall fell, he has spent approximately half his career in the US government, serving at various times as adviser to th
- Female Sexual Agency, Liberatory Advocacies, and the Digital Space in Nigerian Online YouTube PlatformsDeriving from two crucial observations: (1) that a strong “archival impulse,” a phrase Hal Foster uses to describe a compulsive inclination to record or document experiences, characterizes online practices surrounding gender and sexuality among African netizens; and (2) that this arch
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- 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…
- IWMpost 135 Out Now!Perhaps it is due to the tremendous political changes of our time that a majority of the essays in this edition address political issues. Several contributions focus on the current crisis of democracy. In the lead…
- Timothy Snyder to Give a Lecture on Belarus on 27 JuneOn 27 June, IWM Lesya Ukrainka Permanent Fellow Timothy Snyder will hold a lecture at Wien Museum on Belarus: Ancient and Modern. A Reconsideration of a Central European History.
Upcoming events
- Fellows' Colloquium with Manuela BojadžijevSeminars and Colloquia
- A Reconsideration of a Central European HistoryLecture
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Upcoming events
- Fellows' Colloquium with Manuela BojadžijevSeminars and Colloquia
- A Reconsideration of a Central European HistoryLecture
News
- 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…
- IWMpost 135 Out Now!Perhaps it is due to the tremendous political changes of our time that a majority of the essays in this edition address political issues. Several contributions focus on the current crisis of democracy. In the lead…
- Timothy Snyder to Give a Lecture on Belarus on 27 JuneOn 27 June, IWM Lesya Ukrainka Permanent Fellow Timothy Snyder will hold a lecture at Wien Museum on Belarus: Ancient and Modern. A Reconsideration of a Central European History.
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.
- Post-Europe and the Ethos of Responsibility. Rethinking Europe since Jan Patočka and CEE’s dissidentsThe aim of this research is to explore the relevance of Jan Patočka’s complex theorization of the concept of Post-Europe.
- 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.
- Aneta Anra: Jehudit. Pasaulis galėtų būti toks gražus [Jehudit. How Beautiful the World Could Be] (LIT > POL)The aim of the project is to translate Aneta Anra’s book into Polish. Jehudit is a documented story about the Shoah, told from the point of view of two women in their declining years: a Holocaust survivor and a Polish savior of Lithuanian Jews.
- Transatlantic Relations over the Next DecadeO'Brien served as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs until January 2025. Since starting work at the State Department 10 days before the Berlin Wall fell, he has spent approximately half his career in the US government, serving at various times as adviser to th
- Female Sexual Agency, Liberatory Advocacies, and the Digital Space in Nigerian Online YouTube PlatformsDeriving from two crucial observations: (1) that a strong “archival impulse,” a phrase Hal Foster uses to describe a compulsive inclination to record or document experiences, characterizes online practices surrounding gender and sexuality among African netizens; and (2) that this arch
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