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.
Friday, 10 April
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome adress
Panel 1: Renegotiating Economic and Epistemic Inequalities: A Global Perspective
9:10 - 10:55
Matteo Nebbiai: The EU in a Weaponized World: A Club-Based Blueprint for a Post-WTO World
Commentator: Ivan Krastev, IWM Albert Hirschman Permanent Fellow
Vincent F. MO: Political Concepts and Conceptual Effects in Chinese IR
Commentator: Thomas Eder, University of Vienna
Mary Onguko: Human-Centered AI: Inclusive AI Innovations that strategically empower African Women through Co-Design
Commentator: Richard Cockett, IWM Visiting Fellow
10:55 – 11:15 Coffee break
Panel 2: Mediating and Performing Identities: Towards a Decolonization of Art, Literature, and Media
11:15 - 13:00
Katia Denysova: Vernacular Debts in the Modernist Art of Alexandra Exter and Kultur Lige Artists
Commentator: Katalin Cseh-Varga, University of Vienna
Aleksandra Tobiasz: (Central) European Self in the Mirrors of the West and the East (Alma M. Karlin)
Commentator: Hanna Yankuta, IWM Visiting Fellow
Georgi Georgiev: Parallel Monitoring: Intellectual Approaches to Radio and Digital Disinformation
Commentator: Taras Fedirko, IWM Senior Research Fellow
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break
Panel 3: Liberalism vs. Illiberalism: Between Divergence and Convergence
14:30 - 15:40
Wojciech Engelking: Common-Good Constitutionalism as Responsive Law in the New American Anti-Liberalism
Commentator: Maciej Kisilowski, Central European University Vienna, IWM Non-resident Fellow
Emilia Sieczka: Between Floating and Empty Signifiers in the Post-Transition Discourse on ‘Solidarity’: Towards a Genealogy of Populism in Poland
Commentator: Vito Laterza, IWM Visiting Fellow
15:20 – 15:40 Coffee break
Panel 4: Contesting Hegemonic Narrative-Making: Critical Histories
15:40 - 17:25
Maksym Snihyr: Unwanted yet Documented: The Legal Status of Refugees from Soviet Ukraine in 1930s Romania
Commentator: Ayşe Çağlar, IWM Permanent Fellow
Edward Knudsen: Tariffs, Technology, and Transfer Unions: The Historical Origins of European Economic (Dis)Unity
Commentator: Johannes Sebastian Leitner, LM Political Risk and Strategy Advisory, Vienna
Tomasz Wiśniewski: Postsecular Criticism of History.
Commentator: Ludger Hagedorn, IWM Permanent Fellow
17:25 – 17:35 Conclusions
