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Emerging Scholars Presenting at Autumn Fellows' Conference 2023

A staple of intellectual life at the IWM 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…
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Kadri Liik on Russia's Future in Latest Podcast Episode

In this episode of the "Vienna Coffee House Conversations," host Ivan Vejvoda welcomes Kadri Liik, a senior foreign policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Liik, with her extensive background in Russian and Eastern European…
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Documenting Ukraine at this human world — International Human Rights Film Festival

From 30 November to 10 December 2023, the 16th edition of the this human world — International Human Rights Film Festival will take place in various cinemas across Vienna. In a new partnership between the Documenting Ukraine program at the…
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Karel Schwarzenberg (10. Dezember 1937 – 11. November 2023)

Mit Karel Schwarzenberg verliert das IWM einen seiner großen Freunde und Förderer. Er war neben Erhard Busek einer der ersten, die das Institut in seinen Anfangsjahren tatkräftig unterstützten. Und diese Verbundenheit hielt an über mehr als vier…
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Katy Hayward on Northern Ireland’s Uncertain Peace in Latest Podcast Episode

Twenty-five years after the Good Friday Agreement brought an uneasy peace to Northern Ireland, this episode sees Ivan Vejvoda engage in an enlightening conversation with Queen's University Belfast's Katy Hayward as they examine the fragile stability…

New Fellows Starting in November

We are happy to introduce our fellows who will be starting their fellowship in November. You can learn more about their individual fellowships and research projects by clicking on their names. For interview requests and other media-related…
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Neue Publikation des IWM: Co-Evolution von Edward A. Lee

Das Buch von IWM Visiting Fellow Edward Ashford Lee erscheint im Rahmen des Digital Humanism–Programms am IWM und ist das erste Projekt einer neuen Kooperation zwischen dem Institut und dem Mandelbaum Verlag.
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Podcast Episode with Ilir Deda: Serbia and Kosovo at a Crossroads

In the aftermath of troubling recent violence, this episode sees Ivan Vejvoda host Europe's Futures Fellow Ilir Deda for a discussion of the uncertain future facing the Western Balkans as the complex Serbian/Kosovan relationship hangs in the balance…
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Dariusz Stola Delivers 34th Jan Patočka Memorial Lecture

On Wednesday, 25 October, Dariusz Stola, historian, professor at the Institute for Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, and IWM Vice President, will give the 2023 Jan Patočka Memorial Lecture. Established in 1987, the…
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Listen Now: Karolina Wigura on Populism, Trauma, and Polish Democracy

In this fortnight's episode of the Vienna Coffee House Conversations, Ivan Vejvoda welcomes Karolina Wigura to the podcast for an in-depth look at Poland's political trajectory. 

Postponement of the Second Lecture With Seyla Benhabib

Unfortunately, the lecture on "The Changing Fortunes of Cosmopolitanism: Demos, Cosmos, and Globus - From the Hermeneutics of Suspicion to Reconstructing Cosmopolitan Law" by Seyla Benhabib originally scheduled for 11 October 2023 had to be…

Vienna Humanities Festival 2023: Recordings Now Available on YouTube

Under the overarching theme of "Promise & Temptations", this year's Vienna Humanities Festival took place from 25 September to 1 October 2023. The festival brought together leading minds from science, art, literature, philosophy, politics,…