The six visiting fellows listed below will be joining the Institute in January. Learn more about their fellowships and research projects by clicking on their names. For interview requests or media inquiries, please reach out to iwm-pr@iwm.at.
Maria Baramova
Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
January – June 2026
Staging the Border: The Symbolic Creation of the Danube Monarchy in Southeastern Europe before 1791
Guests of the Institute
Katia Denysova
University of Basel and University of Tübingen
January – April 2026
Universal and Vernacular, Abstract and Decorative: Non-Figurative Art from Kyiv
Lesia Ukraїnka Fellowship
Nils Gilman
Berggruen Institute, Los Angeles
January – February 2026
The Architecture of Planetary Realism
Guests of the Institute
Edward Knudsen
University of Oxford and Hertie School, Berlin
January – March 2026
Tariffs, Technology, and Transfer Unions: The Historical Origins of European Economic (Dis)Unity
Jan Patočka Fellowship
Martin Malek
Federal Ministry of Defence, Vienna
January – February 2026
State Failure in the Post-Soviet Space
Guests of the Institute
Maksym Snihyr
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
January – April 2026
Unwanted yet Documented: The Legal Status of Refugees from Soviet Ukraine in 1930s Romania
Lesia Ukraїnka Fellowship
