Programs / Research Programs

Research Programs

The IWM's research programs invite fellows or research associates to work together on a specific subject. Our research programs follow objectives, questions, and themes consistent with the Institute's mission and history, and are led by a permanent fellow or research director.

Digital Humanism Program A program which explores the urgent intellectual challenges at the complex interplay of humans and machines.
Documenting Ukraine Creating a record of the war in Ukraine, capturing the human experience of the war, and making it accessible and comprehensible to the broader world.
Europe’s Futures Europe finds itself confronted with challenges of a magnitude it has not experienced since the crises of the 1930s.
Jan Patočka Research Program The oldest research focus at the Institute: The Jan Patočka Archive as a place for philosophical reflections on Europe
Migrants and Urban Politics: Governing the Displaced and Cities Focusing on the containment, housing, and provision of services to displaced populations, revealing how these processes become sites of value extraction from those seeking protection.
Migrants in City-Making and Urban Politics Examining the challenges that migrants pose to urban governance and to the struggle for social and historical justice in city-making processes
Religion and Secularism Exploring the ways in which globalization impacts the relationship between religion and secularism, thus intertwining the perspectives of different cultures, religions and theoretical backgrounds
The World in Pieces Considering the triumph of identity politics over ideological politics on a global level will change the nature of international relations and of political regimes.
Ukraine in European Dialogue A program dedicated to enabling sustained contact and exchange between scholars, public intellectuals, journalists, activists and policymakers from Ukraine and the rest of Europe.
Woman Without a Name: Gender Identity in Sacrificial Stories Looking at the human experience of sacrifice through difference disciplines: phenomenology, existentialism, psychoanalysis, and gender studies.