A staple of intellectual life at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM Vienna) since its early days, the biannual conference provides an opportunity for early-career visiting researchers from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds to present their work and exchange ideas in a collegial atmosphere. IWM Visiting and Permanent Fellows, alumni, and scholars from Viennese institutions act as commentators and discussants.
Wednesday, 28 May
9:00 - 9:10: Opening remarks by IWM Rector Misha Glenny
Panel 1: Reclaiming Agency and Solidarity Through Digital Humanities
Chair: Vojtěch Pojar
09:10 - 9:45
Gwendolyn Murphy: An Energy Transition Critical Raw Repository. Toward Data Sovereignty and Solidarity in the Age of Deep & Twin Transitions
Commentator: Misha Glenny, IWM Rector
9:45 - 10:20
Ayobami Onanuga: Reimagining Agency, Reconfiguring Sexuality: Resistance Discourses in Yoruba Women’s Digital Narratives
Commentator: Martina Kopf (University of Vienna)
10:20 - 10:55
Arbër Ahmeti: Kosovo Specialist Chambers as a New Model of Internationalized Courts. Legal and Political Implications for Transitional Justice
Commentator: Ivan Vejvoda, IWM Permanent Fellow
10:55 - 11:20 Coffee Break
Panel 2: Building Institutions and Translating Across Borders
Chair: Nino Gozalishvili
11:20 - 11:55
Çağla Güner: Institutionalizing Solidarity. Urban Refugee Integration Governance in Hamburg and Izmir
Commentator: Ayşe Çağlar, IWM Permanent Fellow
11:55 - 12:30
Sophia Korn: The Kabbalistic Tales by Nachman of Bratslav and Their Mundane Challenges
Commentator: Yuval Katz-Wilfing (University of Vienna)
12:30 - 13:30: Lunch Break
Panel 3: Historicizing Phenomenological Inquiry
Chair: Karolina Jesień
13:30 - 14:05
Filip Borek: Husserl's Phenomenology of History and the Question of Invention
Commentator: Ludger Hagedorn, IWM Permanent Fellow
14:05 - 14:40
Sofia Merli: Reconceptualizing the Political. Responsibility and the Case of Charta 77
Commentator: Ludger Hagedorn, IWM Permanent Fellow
14:40 - 15:05: Coffee Break
Panel 4: Political Speech and Mobilization. Translations and Alternative Paradigms
Moderator: Gwendolyn Murphy
15:05 - 15:40
Peter Giraudo: Union Representation and Socialist Speech in Democracy. The Independent Tradition in French Socialism
Commentator: Fabio Wolkenstein (University of Vienna)
15:40 - 16:15
Nino Gozalishvili: Digital Pathways and Transnational Frames. The Mobilisation of Georgia’s Young Far Right
Commentator: Stefan Meister
16:15 - 16:40: Coffee Break
Panel 5: Negotiating Human Nature(s). Between the Social, the Biological, and the Planetary
Moderator: Peter Giraudo
16:40- 17:15
Karolina Jesień: A Planetary Body of Humankind Against the Nationalist Organic Wholeness. Walter Benjamin and the Politics of German Environmentalism in the Aftermath of WWI
Commentator: Carlo Salzani (Messerli Research Institute; University of Vienna)
17:15 - 17:50
Vojtěch Pojar: Strategies of Rural Regeneration. State-Building, Biopolitics, and Political Radicalization in the Post-Habsburg Countryside
Commentator: Franziska Davies
