Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Buildings Communicate: Reading the European Migration Crisis Through Architecture	Mon, 26.01.2026, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Paolo Novak Ayşe Çağlar	Buildings Communicate: Reading the European Migration Crisis Through Architecture Fellows' Colloquium with Paolo Novak Mon, 26.01.2026, 16:00 Speakers: Paolo Novak Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia This talk by Paolo Novak investigated what the buildings of asylum infrastructure communicate about crisis. It traced the institutional mechanisms that have turned ordinary structures into spaces of accommodation, listens to the stories of those who live within them, and unearths the histories of the communities that surround them. Read more
Buildings Communicate: Reading the European Migration Crisis Through Architecture Fellows' Colloquium with Paolo Novak Mon, 26.01.2026, 16:00 Speakers: Paolo Novak Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia This talk by Paolo Novak investigated what the buildings of asylum infrastructure communicate about crisis. It traced the institutional mechanisms that have turned ordinary structures into spaces of accommodation, listens to the stories of those who live within them, and unearths the histories of the communities that surround them. Read more
	Sites of Statelessness	Tue, 20.01.2026, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Paolo Novak Ranabir Samaddar Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury Ayşe ÇağlarYuri Kazepov	Sites of Statelessness Laws, Cities, Seas Tue, 20.01.2026, 18:00 Speakers: Paolo Novak Ranabir Samaddar Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury Ayşe ÇağlarYuri Kazepov Series: Panels and Discussions This discussion addressed the distinctive dynamics of the different sites in the production of statelessness, considers their impact as critical, and does not merely treat them as a backdrop. The speakers argued that these different sites evoke distinct histories and repertoires and also offer different possibilities of alignment with emerging problematics. Read more
Sites of Statelessness Laws, Cities, Seas Tue, 20.01.2026, 18:00 Speakers: Paolo Novak Ranabir Samaddar Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury Ayşe ÇağlarYuri Kazepov Series: Panels and Discussions This discussion addressed the distinctive dynamics of the different sites in the production of statelessness, considers their impact as critical, and does not merely treat them as a backdrop. The speakers argued that these different sites evoke distinct histories and repertoires and also offer different possibilities of alignment with emerging problematics. Read more
	Stolen Childhoods: Russia’s Abduction of Ukrainian Children	Mon, 19.01.2026, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Olesya Khromeychuk Taras Fedirko	Stolen Childhoods: Russia’s Abduction of Ukrainian Children Fellows' Colloquium with Olesya Khromeychuk Mon, 19.01.2026, 16:00 Speakers: Olesya Khromeychuk Taras Fedirko Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this colloquium, IWM Lesia Ukraїnka Visiting Fellow Olesya Khromeychuk examined one of the most disturbing crimes of Russia’s war against Ukraine: the systematic abduction of Ukrainian children. Read more
Stolen Childhoods: Russia’s Abduction of Ukrainian Children Fellows' Colloquium with Olesya Khromeychuk Mon, 19.01.2026, 16:00 Speakers: Olesya Khromeychuk Taras Fedirko Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this colloquium, IWM Lesia Ukraїnka Visiting Fellow Olesya Khromeychuk examined one of the most disturbing crimes of Russia’s war against Ukraine: the systematic abduction of Ukrainian children. Read more
	What Do the Tech Bros Really Want: Money, Power, or Total Information Awareness?	Sun, 18.01.2026, 11:00	Panels and Discussions	Helga Nowotny Misha GlennyFrancesca Bria, Beeban Kidron OBE, Marietje Schaake	What Do the Tech Bros Really Want: Money, Power, or Total Information Awareness? Debating Europe Sun, 18.01.2026, 11:00 Speakers: Helga Nowotny Misha GlennyFrancesca Bria, Beeban Kidron OBE, Marietje Schaake Series: Panels and Discussions In this debate, we brought together some of Europe’s leading experts on the politics of digitalization to discuss whether the Tech Bros will save the world or destroy it. Read more
What Do the Tech Bros Really Want: Money, Power, or Total Information Awareness? Debating Europe Sun, 18.01.2026, 11:00 Speakers: Helga Nowotny Misha GlennyFrancesca Bria, Beeban Kidron OBE, Marietje Schaake Series: Panels and Discussions In this debate, we brought together some of Europe’s leading experts on the politics of digitalization to discuss whether the Tech Bros will save the world or destroy it. Read more
	The Politics of Weakness: A Reverse Perspective on Power and Europe	Mon, 12.01.2026, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Adam Bence Balazs Ivan Krastev	The Politics of Weakness: A Reverse Perspective on Power and Europe Fellows' Colloquium with Adam Bence Balazs Mon, 12.01.2026, 16:00 Speakers: Adam Bence Balazs Ivan Krastev Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows' Colloquium, Adam Bence Balazs proposed a reverse perspective on power, in order to shed new light on a series of seemingly paradoxical European cases where weakness is overriding the traditional measure of power. Read more
The Politics of Weakness: A Reverse Perspective on Power and Europe Fellows' Colloquium with Adam Bence Balazs Mon, 12.01.2026, 16:00 Speakers: Adam Bence Balazs Ivan Krastev Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows' Colloquium, Adam Bence Balazs proposed a reverse perspective on power, in order to shed new light on a series of seemingly paradoxical European cases where weakness is overriding the traditional measure of power. Read more
	Serbia: Democracy, Dissent, and the New European Fault Line	Tue, 16.12.2025, 14:00 - Tue, 16.12.2025, 17:00	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Michael Ignatieff Misha Glenny Paul Stubbs Sanja M. BojanicVladan Đokić, Hedvig Morvai, Filip Ejdus	Serbia: Democracy, Dissent, and the New European Fault Line A Roundtable with Vladan Đokić Tue, 16.12.2025, 14:00 - Tue, 16.12.2025, 17:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Michael Ignatieff Misha Glenny Paul Stubbs Sanja M. BojanicVladan Đokić, Hedvig Morvai, Filip Ejdus Series: Panels and Discussions This roundtable with Vladan Đokić, rector of the University of Belgrade, examined the paradoxes, surprises, risks, and opportunities emerging from Serbia’s year-long protest wave, its student-led democratic awakening, tensions with EU institutions, and Serbia’s place in a world where authoritarian ‘strong men’ are on the rise. Read more
Serbia: Democracy, Dissent, and the New European Fault Line A Roundtable with Vladan Đokić Tue, 16.12.2025, 14:00 - Tue, 16.12.2025, 17:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Michael Ignatieff Misha Glenny Paul Stubbs Sanja M. BojanicVladan Đokić, Hedvig Morvai, Filip Ejdus Series: Panels and Discussions This roundtable with Vladan Đokić, rector of the University of Belgrade, examined the paradoxes, surprises, risks, and opportunities emerging from Serbia’s year-long protest wave, its student-led democratic awakening, tensions with EU institutions, and Serbia’s place in a world where authoritarian ‘strong men’ are on the rise. Read more
	The Fifth Estate: An Urgent Look at the Sociology of Knowledge	Mon, 15.12.2025, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Misha Glenny Peter B. Kaufman	The Fifth Estate: An Urgent Look at the Sociology of Knowledge Fellows' Colloquium with Peter B. Kaufman Mon, 15.12.2025, 16:00 Speakers: Misha Glenny Peter B. Kaufman Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows’ Colloquium, Peter B. Kaufman presented The Fifth Estate: An Urgent Look at the Sociology of Knowledge, exploring what people believe, how they come to believe it, and the interests shaping those beliefs. Drawing on Ludwik Fleck and Karl Mannheim, he called for a renewed focus on Wissenssoziologie to confront future crises of toxic thinking. Read more
The Fifth Estate: An Urgent Look at the Sociology of Knowledge Fellows' Colloquium with Peter B. Kaufman Mon, 15.12.2025, 16:00 Speakers: Misha Glenny Peter B. Kaufman Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows’ Colloquium, Peter B. Kaufman presented The Fifth Estate: An Urgent Look at the Sociology of Knowledge, exploring what people believe, how they come to believe it, and the interests shaping those beliefs. Drawing on Ludwik Fleck and Karl Mannheim, he called for a renewed focus on Wissenssoziologie to confront future crises of toxic thinking. Read more
	What Was Christian Democracy?	Thu, 11.12.2025, 18:00	Lecture	Jan-Werner Müller Misha Glenny	What Was Christian Democracy? Jan Patočka Memorial Lecture Thu, 11.12.2025, 18:00 Speakers: Jan-Werner Müller Misha Glenny Series: Lecture This year’s Jan Patočka Memorial was held by Jan-Werner Müller, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences at Princeton University. His lecture explored the historical development of Christian democracy as an ideology reconciling Catholicism and modern democracy, questioning what remains of it today and how contemporary strands of populism and post-liberalism relate to this tradition. Read more
What Was Christian Democracy? Jan Patočka Memorial Lecture Thu, 11.12.2025, 18:00 Speakers: Jan-Werner Müller Misha Glenny Series: Lecture This year’s Jan Patočka Memorial was held by Jan-Werner Müller, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences at Princeton University. His lecture explored the historical development of Christian democracy as an ideology reconciling Catholicism and modern democracy, questioning what remains of it today and how contemporary strands of populism and post-liberalism relate to this tradition. Read more
	Spaces and Traces of Containment	Wed, 10.12.2025, 09:30 - Wed, 10.12.2025, 17:30	Conferences and Workshops	Paolo Novak Ayşe ÇağlarLaura Guérin, Platon Issaias, Katharyne Michell, Martina Tazzioli, Karin Harreser	Spaces and Traces of Containment Architectures of Extractivism Wed, 10.12.2025, 09:30 - Wed, 10.12.2025, 17:30 Speakers: Paolo Novak Ayşe ÇağlarLaura Guérin, Platon Issaias, Katharyne Michell, Martina Tazzioli, Karin Harreser Series: Conferences and Workshops By exploring the historically produced infrastructures, logistical systems, and their changing assemblages of actors that give these spaces their “afterlives,” the workshop sought to bring together empirical research on the scalar configurations of (im)mobility governance at the intersections of state, capital, and labor. Read more
Spaces and Traces of Containment Architectures of Extractivism Wed, 10.12.2025, 09:30 - Wed, 10.12.2025, 17:30 Speakers: Paolo Novak Ayşe ÇağlarLaura Guérin, Platon Issaias, Katharyne Michell, Martina Tazzioli, Karin Harreser Series: Conferences and Workshops By exploring the historically produced infrastructures, logistical systems, and their changing assemblages of actors that give these spaces their “afterlives,” the workshop sought to bring together empirical research on the scalar configurations of (im)mobility governance at the intersections of state, capital, and labor. Read more
	Let's Agree on Poland	Tue, 09.12.2025, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Maciej KisilowskiAndreas Treichl, Christian Ultsch	Let's Agree on Poland Political Salon with Maciej Kisilowski Tue, 09.12.2025, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Maciej KisilowskiAndreas Treichl, Christian Ultsch Series: Panels and Discussions Launched in 2004 in cooperation with the Austrian daily Die Presse, the Political Salons are a platform for open and informed debate on international affairs. The opening event, featured guest speaker Maciej Kisilowski, who focused on Poland—a country at the center of Europe’s political and economic transformation. The discussion was guided by a trio of renowned interlocutors: Die Presse’s Christian Ultsch, Andreas Treichl from ERSTE Foundation, and IWM Albert Hirschman Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev. Read more
Let's Agree on Poland Political Salon with Maciej Kisilowski Tue, 09.12.2025, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Maciej KisilowskiAndreas Treichl, Christian Ultsch Series: Panels and Discussions Launched in 2004 in cooperation with the Austrian daily Die Presse, the Political Salons are a platform for open and informed debate on international affairs. The opening event, featured guest speaker Maciej Kisilowski, who focused on Poland—a country at the center of Europe’s political and economic transformation. The discussion was guided by a trio of renowned interlocutors: Die Presse’s Christian Ultsch, Andreas Treichl from ERSTE Foundation, and IWM Albert Hirschman Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev. Read more