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"Dialogues for Tomorrow" - Recording Now Available

28.03.2023
On 15 March, this year's first event in the Dialogues for Tomorrow series took place at the AIL – Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab.
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The Most Documented War. Symposium for Documentation and Archiving Initiatives

24.03.2023
We are inviting individual and collective projects, regardless of discipline or methodology, to participate in The Most Documented War. Symposium for Documentation and Archiving Initiatives that will take place on 1—3 June 2023 at the…

Timothy Snyder’s Testimony to the United Nations Security Council on Russian Hate Speech

17.03.2023
On 14 March 2023, IWM Permanent Fellow Timothy Snyder participated in a session called by the Russian Federation to discuss "russophobia" in which he provided a briefing to the United Nations Security Council. 
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Cultural Prizes Awarded to Three Documenting Ukraine Participants

14.03.2023
The IWM is happy to congratulate Iryna Tsilyk on receiving the Shevchenko National Prize and Alina Gorlova and Anastasiia Platonova on receiving the Women in Arts Award. All three award recipients, whose prizes were announced last week, are taking…
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Merav Amir: “Unfastening Israel's Future from the Occupation: Israeli Plans for Partial Annexation of West Bank Territory”

10.03.2023
Merav Amir’s essay “Unfastening Israel's Future from the Occupation: Israeli Plans for Partial Annexation of West Bank Territory” has appeared in the journal Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography.

"Debating Europe" now available on YouTube

10.03.2023
On 5 March 2023, this year's second event as part of the Debating Europe series took place.

ERC Mentoring Initiative - Call for Applications

09.03.2023
The Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, IWM), Vienna is an independent institute of advanced study in the humanities and social sciences. Together with the Polish Academy of Sciences (Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN…

Help Us Improve Your Website Experience

02.03.2023
We are always striving to provide the best possible experience for our users, and as part of our ongoing efforts to improve, we are conducting a survey to gather feedback and insights on our website performance. 

New Fellows Starting in March

01.03.2023
We are happy to introduce our fellows who will begin their fellowships in March. You can learn more about their individual fellowships and research projects by clicking on their names. 
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Applications Now Open for Documenting Ukraine Grants

20.02.2023
We are now accepting applications for Documenting Ukraine grants. These one-time grants of 5000 EUR enable Ukrainian intellectuals and creative professionals to work on documentation projects that establish and preserve a factual record - whether…

Next Debating Europe Discussion Taking Place on 5 March 2023

20.02.2023
On 5 March 2023, the next event as part of the Debating Europe series is taking place. A year after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the discussion brings together five leading experts to examine to what degree the Russo-Ukrainian War is…

Krzysztof Michalski in Memoriam. Stimmen der Gedenkveranstaltung

16.02.2023
Am 11. Februar 2013 starb Krzysztof Michalski, Gründungsrektor des IWM, der mehr als 30 Jahre maßgeblich die Geschicke des Instituts prägte und dessen Geist noch heute fortwirkt.