Current Fellows' research
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How Should Robots Explain Themselves? The Role of Robots’ Appearance in Users’ Explanation PreferenceThe objective of Hana Kopecka’s project is to study whether users have different expectations and preferences for robot explanations based on the appearance of the robot.
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Defying the Iron Curtain: Émigré Journals and their Attempts to Confront the Post-War RealityThis project investigates the role of émigré intellectuals from Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia, and the ways in which they addressed their home societies behind the Iron Curtain.
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Friend or Foe? Romanian Farmers and the EU-Ukraine Solidarity LanesOne of the consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is the looming threat of a global food crisis. To counter this, the EU has established so-called “Solidarity Lanes”—transport corridors through the member states neighboring Ukraine.
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Russia’s Capacity for Self-Correction: Where Did It Come From and Where Did It Go?Kadri Liik's research will take a closer look at the societal factors that made it possible for Soviet Russia to embark on positive change, to attempt democratization and a reckoning with the past. What were the factors that enabled these changes in the late 1980s and early 1990s?
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The Practices of Protection, Care and Treatment of Refugees in NepalNepal has provided asylum to refugees from Bhutan, Tibet, Burma, as well as from other countries in South Asia and Africa.
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Politik der Fürsorge: Eine vergleichende Perspektive, ausgehend von BelarusOlga Shparaga setzt in diesem Projekt ihre Arbeit an Dokumentation und Analyse jener fürsorglichen Praktiken fort, welche durch Belarus:innen während der Massenproteste 2020 und danach entfaltet wurden und werden - in einer Situation sowohl der verstärkten staatlichen Repression, a
News
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New Season of the Vienna Coffee House Conversations28.09.2023The new season of the Vienna Coffee House Conversations opens with Ivan Vejvoda speaking with Hanna Shelest, foreign affairs and security policy expert from Ukraine, for an inside perspective on the Russo-Ukrainian war.
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Vienna Humanities Festival 2023 ist Eröffnet25.09.2023Der feierliche Auftakt zum diesjährigen Festival fand am Montagabend vor rund 500 Gästen im Wiener Rathaus statt. Janina Loh von der Stabsstelle Ethik bei der Stiftung Liebenau warf im Eröffnungsvortrag ein kritisches…
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Meet the 2023 Emma Goldman Awardees20.09.2023On 8 September, the IWM hosted the 4th Emma Goldman Awards, awarded by the FLAX Foundation to support innovative research on feminist and inequality issues.
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Upcoming events
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IWM Lectures in Human SciencesLectureCET
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Seminars and ColloquiaCET
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LectureCET
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IWM Lectures in Human SciencesLectureCET
News
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New Season of the Vienna Coffee House Conversations28.09.2023The new season of the Vienna Coffee House Conversations opens with Ivan Vejvoda speaking with Hanna Shelest, foreign affairs and security policy expert from Ukraine, for an inside perspective on the Russo-Ukrainian war.
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Vienna Humanities Festival 2023 ist Eröffnet25.09.2023Der feierliche Auftakt zum diesjährigen Festival fand am Montagabend vor rund 500 Gästen im Wiener Rathaus statt. Janina Loh von der Stabsstelle Ethik bei der Stiftung Liebenau warf im Eröffnungsvortrag ein kritisches…
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Meet the 2023 Emma Goldman Awardees20.09.2023On 8 September, the IWM hosted the 4th Emma Goldman Awards, awarded by the FLAX Foundation to support innovative research on feminist and inequality issues.
Current Fellows' research
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How Should Robots Explain Themselves? The Role of Robots’ Appearance in Users’ Explanation PreferenceThe objective of Hana Kopecka’s project is to study whether users have different expectations and preferences for robot explanations based on the appearance of the robot.
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Defying the Iron Curtain: Émigré Journals and their Attempts to Confront the Post-War RealityThis project investigates the role of émigré intellectuals from Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia, and the ways in which they addressed their home societies behind the Iron Curtain.
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Friend or Foe? Romanian Farmers and the EU-Ukraine Solidarity LanesOne of the consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is the looming threat of a global food crisis. To counter this, the EU has established so-called “Solidarity Lanes”—transport corridors through the member states neighboring Ukraine.
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Russia’s Capacity for Self-Correction: Where Did It Come From and Where Did It Go?Kadri Liik's research will take a closer look at the societal factors that made it possible for Soviet Russia to embark on positive change, to attempt democratization and a reckoning with the past. What were the factors that enabled these changes in the late 1980s and early 1990s?
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The Practices of Protection, Care and Treatment of Refugees in NepalNepal has provided asylum to refugees from Bhutan, Tibet, Burma, as well as from other countries in South Asia and Africa.
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Politik der Fürsorge: Eine vergleichende Perspektive, ausgehend von BelarusOlga Shparaga setzt in diesem Projekt ihre Arbeit an Dokumentation und Analyse jener fürsorglichen Praktiken fort, welche durch Belarus:innen während der Massenproteste 2020 und danach entfaltet wurden und werden - in einer Situation sowohl der verstärkten staatlichen Repression, a
Recent Media
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