Current Fellows' research
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Communicating and Contesting Climate Change in the Global South: The Zimbabwean and South African TwitterspheresThis research project examines how climate change is communicated and contested on X (previously Twitter) with Zimbabwe and South Africa as the case studies.
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Resistance and Dissidence: Epimeleia in Patočka and FoucaultIn Foucault’s lectures for the Collège de France (The Government of Self and Others; The Courage of Truth) and Patočka’s Plato and Europe, the theme of care of the self / care of the soul is surprisingly central.
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War Crowdfunding and the Digital Economy in UkraineDuring her fellowship at the IWM, Daria Chernousova will work with the PeaceRep-Ukraine project, a collaboration between the IWM and the London School of Economics.
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How to Make the European Union a People’s ProjectAfter 70 years of unprecedented socioeconomic integration, the EU continues to evolve through processes that largely marginalize citizens’ input.
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"(Post)Soviet Union” of National Form and (Post)Socialist Content (Culture, Nation, Class)Ilya Kalinin’s research interest concentrates on reconstructing the tension between the social/ideological and the national/imperial trends in modern post-Soviet culture, as well as in discovering its origin in the national politics of the Bolsheviks.
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A Brief History of Ukrainian Art: Wartime IntroductionLizaveta German will devote this fellowship to drafting a book about key episodes of Ukrainian art history from the 1960s to the present day, providing a road map of Ukrainian art for audiences completely unfamiliar with its history, past and present.
News
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Omri Boehm Delivers Speech to Europe 2024The IWM is pleased to announce that the renowned philosopher and New School professor Omri Boehm will deliver this year's Speech to Europe under the title Shadows of History, Spectres of the Present: The Middle East War…
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Announcing INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange (Lviv)The IWM is launching a new institution based in Ukraine. INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange will open its doors in Lviv later this year. It is intended to support Ukrainians as they document the Russo-…
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Kafkas letzte Tage – Ein Podcast in 53 FolgenDie letzten Wochen seines Lebens, vom 19. April bis zum 3. Juni 1924, verbrachte Franz Kafka in einem kleinen Sanatorium in Kierling bei Klosterneuburg. Kafkas Lebensgefährtin Dora Diamant war bei ihm. Die Zeit ist von…
Upcoming events
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Panels and DiscussionsCET
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Seminars and ColloquiaCET
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Debating EuropePanels and DiscussionsCET
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Seminars and ColloquiaCET
Upcoming events
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Panels and DiscussionsCET
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Seminars and ColloquiaCET
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Debating EuropePanels and DiscussionsCET
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Seminars and ColloquiaCET
News
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Omri Boehm Delivers Speech to Europe 2024The IWM is pleased to announce that the renowned philosopher and New School professor Omri Boehm will deliver this year's Speech to Europe under the title Shadows of History, Spectres of the Present: The Middle East War…
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Announcing INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange (Lviv)The IWM is launching a new institution based in Ukraine. INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange will open its doors in Lviv later this year. It is intended to support Ukrainians as they document the Russo-…
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Kafkas letzte Tage – Ein Podcast in 53 FolgenDie letzten Wochen seines Lebens, vom 19. April bis zum 3. Juni 1924, verbrachte Franz Kafka in einem kleinen Sanatorium in Kierling bei Klosterneuburg. Kafkas Lebensgefährtin Dora Diamant war bei ihm. Die Zeit ist von…
Current Fellows' research
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Tracing Taint: Four Case Studies with Implications for Historical MethodologyThe war in Ukraine has raised a matter of crucial importance: the question of taint.
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The Names of Us: Stories of Ukrainian DiversityIn the book Our Others. Stories of Ukrainian Diversity, Olesya Yaremchuk explored the histories and personal stories of fourteen ethnic minority groups living within the boundaries of present-day Ukraine. Russia´s full-scale war is changing the ethnic landscape of Ukraine.
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Hydropower Infrastructure at the Crossroad of Socialist Development and EU AccessionDragan Đunda's project deals with the political ecology of hydropower infrastructure in Serbia––with its contradictions, path dependency, and alternatives.
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Editorial Roundtable 2024John Palattella will be involved as an organizer in IWM’s annual Editorial Roundtable and the Vienna Humanities Festival. He will also work on translations of essays by the poet Nico Bleutge and offer editorial advice to fellows at IWM.
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"(Post)Soviet Union” of National Form and (Post)Socialist Content (Culture, Nation, Class)Ilya Kalinin’s research interest concentrates on reconstructing the tension between the social/ideological and the national/imperial trends in modern post-Soviet culture, as well as in discovering its origin in the national politics of the Bolsheviks.
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Second Transformation: On Green Transition Narratives in Central-Eastern EuropeAlthough climate awareness is rising all over Europe, positions of the public towards possible solutions differ.
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