Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	The Role of Sanctions in US Foreign Policy	Thu, 16.02.2023	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Misha Glenny James O'Brien	The Role of Sanctions in US Foreign Policy Thu, 16.02.2023 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Misha Glenny James O'Brien Series: Panels and Discussions In this Geopolitical Talk, Ambassador James O’Brien, Head of the Office of Sanctions Coordination at the U.S. Department of State, discussed the role of sanctions in US foreign policy with IWM Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev. Read more
The Role of Sanctions in US Foreign Policy Thu, 16.02.2023 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Misha Glenny James O'Brien Series: Panels and Discussions In this Geopolitical Talk, Ambassador James O’Brien, Head of the Office of Sanctions Coordination at the U.S. Department of State, discussed the role of sanctions in US foreign policy with IWM Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev. Read more
	Europe’s Migrants and Refugees: Integrating into European Societies	Tue, 14.02.2023	Panels and Discussions	Ivan VejvodaDaniela Kraus, Mirjana Tomić	Europe’s Migrants and Refugees: Integrating into European Societies Tue, 14.02.2023 Speakers: Ivan VejvodaDaniela Kraus, Mirjana Tomić Series: Panels and Discussions What are the criteria for becoming an integrated migrant/refugee? Realities and perceptions, lessons and debates in Sweden, Italy, Austria, France, and Germany. Read more

	Krzysztof Michalski In Memoriam	Mon, 13.02.2023	Social and Networking Events	Agnieszka Pasieka James Dodd Ludger Hagedorn Marci Shore Piotr Kubasiak Timothy Snyder Klaus NellenMonika Szmigiel-Turlej	Krzysztof Michalski In Memoriam Mon, 13.02.2023 Speakers: Agnieszka Pasieka James Dodd Ludger Hagedorn Marci Shore Piotr Kubasiak Timothy Snyder Klaus NellenMonika Szmigiel-Turlej Series: Social and Networking Events Im Februar 2023 ist der 10. Todestag von Krzysztof Michalski, weltgewandter Philosoph, charismatische Persönlichkeit mit Organisationstalent und, nicht zuletzt, Gründer und langjähriger Rektor des IWM. Freunde und Wegbegleiter, die ihn kannten, schätzten und bisweilen kritisierten, erinnern an eine herausragende Person der polnischen und österreichischen Zeitgeschichte, an einen Brückenbauer mit großen Verdiensten für Europa Ost und West. Read more
Krzysztof Michalski In Memoriam Mon, 13.02.2023 Speakers: Agnieszka Pasieka James Dodd Ludger Hagedorn Marci Shore Piotr Kubasiak Timothy Snyder Klaus NellenMonika Szmigiel-Turlej Series: Social and Networking Events Im Februar 2023 ist der 10. Todestag von Krzysztof Michalski, weltgewandter Philosoph, charismatische Persönlichkeit mit Organisationstalent und, nicht zuletzt, Gründer und langjähriger Rektor des IWM. Freunde und Wegbegleiter, die ihn kannten, schätzten und bisweilen kritisierten, erinnern an eine herausragende Person der polnischen und österreichischen Zeitgeschichte, an einen Brückenbauer mit großen Verdiensten für Europa Ost und West. Read more
	Enver Hoxha: Biography of a Balkan Tyrant	Mon, 13.02.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Nikolai Antoniadis Robert Austin Misha Glenny	Enver Hoxha: Biography of a Balkan Tyrant Mon, 13.02.2023 Speakers: Nikolai Antoniadis Robert Austin Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows Colloquium, Robert C. Austin presented his research on Albania’s Enver Hoxha (1908-1985), who is likely the least understood of the twentieth century’s communist dictators that took power in the aftermath of the Second World War in Europe. Hoxha was also one of the most violent, ruthless, and repressive communist leaders. Albanians could easily claim that they endured the worst type of communist rule: Hoxha’s form of (violent) communism was without parallel in Europe. Read more
Enver Hoxha: Biography of a Balkan Tyrant Mon, 13.02.2023 Speakers: Nikolai Antoniadis Robert Austin Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows Colloquium, Robert C. Austin presented his research on Albania’s Enver Hoxha (1908-1985), who is likely the least understood of the twentieth century’s communist dictators that took power in the aftermath of the Second World War in Europe. Hoxha was also one of the most violent, ruthless, and repressive communist leaders. Albanians could easily claim that they endured the worst type of communist rule: Hoxha’s form of (violent) communism was without parallel in Europe. Read more
	“Arrival” Infrastructures of the Displaced from Ukraine in Vienna	Thu, 09.02.2023	Panels and Discussions	Ayşe ÇağlarDavid Himler-Preukschat, Nina Andresen, Tanja Maier, Nataliia Kolchanova, Saskia Schwaiger	“Arrival” Infrastructures of the Displaced from Ukraine in Vienna Thu, 09.02.2023 Speakers: Ayşe ÇağlarDavid Himler-Preukschat, Nina Andresen, Tanja Maier, Nataliia Kolchanova, Saskia Schwaiger Series: Panels and Discussions Reviewing the outcomes of the research, the IWM organized a panel discussion with different stakeholders from the city, NGOs, civil initiatives, and people from Ukraine to present key findings and discuss the most salient questions about ‘arrival infrastructures’ in Vienna. Read more
“Arrival” Infrastructures of the Displaced from Ukraine in Vienna Thu, 09.02.2023 Speakers: Ayşe ÇağlarDavid Himler-Preukschat, Nina Andresen, Tanja Maier, Nataliia Kolchanova, Saskia Schwaiger Series: Panels and Discussions Reviewing the outcomes of the research, the IWM organized a panel discussion with different stakeholders from the city, NGOs, civil initiatives, and people from Ukraine to present key findings and discuss the most salient questions about ‘arrival infrastructures’ in Vienna. Read more
	Bearing Witness to War	Wed, 08.02.2023	Exhibition	Katherine Younger Timothy Snyder Volodymyr Yermolenko	Bearing Witness to War Wed, 08.02.2023 Speakers: Katherine Younger Timothy Snyder Volodymyr Yermolenko Series: Exhibition With 200 projects now funded by the Documenting Ukraine program, this event was designed to highlight the work of the Documenting Ukraine grantees and present early results from the program. It was an opportunity for grantees and roundtable participants to network with the wider IWM community. The evening brought together a variety of interested publics, including those who influence opinion and craft policy, to foster a greater understanding of both the program and the work of those it supports, who are bearing witness to war. The evening also included the opening of a preview exhibition of art and photography from Documenting Ukraine projects. From eight artists working in different media, the exhibition is a preview of a larger exhibition to take place later in 2023. Read more
Bearing Witness to War Wed, 08.02.2023 Speakers: Katherine Younger Timothy Snyder Volodymyr Yermolenko Series: Exhibition With 200 projects now funded by the Documenting Ukraine program, this event was designed to highlight the work of the Documenting Ukraine grantees and present early results from the program. It was an opportunity for grantees and roundtable participants to network with the wider IWM community. The evening brought together a variety of interested publics, including those who influence opinion and craft policy, to foster a greater understanding of both the program and the work of those it supports, who are bearing witness to war. The evening also included the opening of a preview exhibition of art and photography from Documenting Ukraine projects. From eight artists working in different media, the exhibition is a preview of a larger exhibition to take place later in 2023. Read more
	Who Tells Ukraine’s Story and How Should it be Told?	Wed, 08.02.2023	Panels and Discussions	Katherine Younger Nataliya Gumenyuk Volodymyr Yermolenko Misha Glenny Anna Ilchenko, Bohdana Neborak, Oksana Sarkisova, Sasha Dovzhyk, Svitlana Oslavska, Tetyana Ogarkova, Cathrin Kahlweit	Who Tells Ukraine’s Story and How Should it be Told? Wed, 08.02.2023 Speakers: Katherine Younger Nataliya Gumenyuk Volodymyr Yermolenko Misha Glenny Anna Ilchenko, Bohdana Neborak, Oksana Sarkisova, Sasha Dovzhyk, Svitlana Oslavska, Tetyana Ogarkova, Cathrin Kahlweit Series: Panels and Discussions This roundtable was part of the two-day event Documenting Ukraine: Bearing Witness to War. With easily available technologies that give access to audiences of millions, coupled with changes in attitudes to trusted news sources, there has been a disruption of traditional models of war reporting and who is able to tell the stories of war. Despite persistent gatekeeping, how reporting on war works and who it empowers and leaves out has been transformed. This roundtable considered the changing media landscape as it pertains to the Russo-Ukrainian War. In the first session, the focus was on new approaches to storytelling and the technologies that make them possible; the second session concentrated on questions of authorship, agency, and representation. Read more
Who Tells Ukraine’s Story and How Should it be Told? Wed, 08.02.2023 Speakers: Katherine Younger Nataliya Gumenyuk Volodymyr Yermolenko Misha Glenny Anna Ilchenko, Bohdana Neborak, Oksana Sarkisova, Sasha Dovzhyk, Svitlana Oslavska, Tetyana Ogarkova, Cathrin Kahlweit Series: Panels and Discussions This roundtable was part of the two-day event Documenting Ukraine: Bearing Witness to War. With easily available technologies that give access to audiences of millions, coupled with changes in attitudes to trusted news sources, there has been a disruption of traditional models of war reporting and who is able to tell the stories of war. Despite persistent gatekeeping, how reporting on war works and who it empowers and leaves out has been transformed. This roundtable considered the changing media landscape as it pertains to the Russo-Ukrainian War. In the first session, the focus was on new approaches to storytelling and the technologies that make them possible; the second session concentrated on questions of authorship, agency, and representation. Read more
	Recording the Present for the Sake of the Future	Wed, 08.02.2023	Panels and Discussions	Katherine Younger Sofiya Dyak Winfried GarschaMaksym Demydenko, Sebastian Majstorovic, Stephen Naron	Recording the Present for the Sake of the Future Wed, 08.02.2023 Speakers: Katherine Younger Sofiya Dyak Winfried GarschaMaksym Demydenko, Sebastian Majstorovic, Stephen Naron Series: Panels and Discussions The roundtable on the morning of February 7 brought together scholars, archive specialists, and preservation experts who discussed the challenges and opportunities and exchanged best practice examples of preservation and archive building during war. They reflected on the importance of balancing the exigencies of the present moment with the need to build secure and lasting collections, the ethics of inclusion and exclusion, and questions of access and interpretation. Seeking to learn from and build upon other archival initiatives that document experiences of war, this session considered the technical, intellectual, and ethical guiding principles that should govern how to manage building archives under extreme time pressure and extreme circumstances. Discussants considered ways of defining the purpose and scope of collections, who does the collecting, and what resources are needed to make collecting possible. Other questions explored included identifying whom a particular archive is intended to serve and managing access and rights. Read more
Recording the Present for the Sake of the Future Wed, 08.02.2023 Speakers: Katherine Younger Sofiya Dyak Winfried GarschaMaksym Demydenko, Sebastian Majstorovic, Stephen Naron Series: Panels and Discussions The roundtable on the morning of February 7 brought together scholars, archive specialists, and preservation experts who discussed the challenges and opportunities and exchanged best practice examples of preservation and archive building during war. They reflected on the importance of balancing the exigencies of the present moment with the need to build secure and lasting collections, the ethics of inclusion and exclusion, and questions of access and interpretation. Seeking to learn from and build upon other archival initiatives that document experiences of war, this session considered the technical, intellectual, and ethical guiding principles that should govern how to manage building archives under extreme time pressure and extreme circumstances. Discussants considered ways of defining the purpose and scope of collections, who does the collecting, and what resources are needed to make collecting possible. Other questions explored included identifying whom a particular archive is intended to serve and managing access and rights. Read more
	Protecting Ukraine’s Heritage: What Heritage and Whose?	Tue, 07.02.2023	Panels and Discussions	Katherine YoungerAnna Ilchenko, Bohdana Neborak, Natalka Diachenko, Sasha Dovzhyk, Svitlana Oslavska, Serhiy Klymko	Protecting Ukraine’s Heritage: What Heritage and Whose? Tue, 07.02.2023 Speakers: Katherine YoungerAnna Ilchenko, Bohdana Neborak, Natalka Diachenko, Sasha Dovzhyk, Svitlana Oslavska, Serhiy Klymko Series: Panels and Discussions This first roundtable reflected one of the Russian Federation’s war aims being precisely the destruction of Ukrainian heritage and culture, making the understanding and preservation of this heritage a particularly urgent task. Material objects as well as intangible cultural heritage are under threat. Who decides what needs to be preserved? What is in danger of being overlooked? What resources are needed? How should we think about layers of the past being erased through selective preservation? What are the dangers at issue in approaching the past – essentializing, instrumentalizing, sanitizing? Read more
Protecting Ukraine’s Heritage: What Heritage and Whose? Tue, 07.02.2023 Speakers: Katherine YoungerAnna Ilchenko, Bohdana Neborak, Natalka Diachenko, Sasha Dovzhyk, Svitlana Oslavska, Serhiy Klymko Series: Panels and Discussions This first roundtable reflected one of the Russian Federation’s war aims being precisely the destruction of Ukrainian heritage and culture, making the understanding and preservation of this heritage a particularly urgent task. Material objects as well as intangible cultural heritage are under threat. Who decides what needs to be preserved? What is in danger of being overlooked? What resources are needed? How should we think about layers of the past being erased through selective preservation? What are the dangers at issue in approaching the past – essentializing, instrumentalizing, sanitizing? Read more
	Finissage zur Austellung: Jan Patočka. Philosoph und Staatsfeind	Thu, 02.02.2023	Exhibition		Finissage zur Austellung: Jan Patočka. Philosoph und Staatsfeind Thu, 02.02.2023 Speakers: Series: Exhibition Am 3. Februar endete die Ausstellung „Jan Patočka. Philosoph und Staatsfeind“, die mit großem Erfolg für mehr als vier Monate in den Räumen des Tschechischen Zentrums in Wien gezeigt wurde. Der feierliche Kehraus zu dieser Schau fand am Abend des 2. Februar ab 18:30 h statt. Read more
Finissage zur Austellung: Jan Patočka. Philosoph und Staatsfeind Thu, 02.02.2023 Speakers: Series: Exhibition Am 3. Februar endete die Ausstellung „Jan Patočka. Philosoph und Staatsfeind“, die mit großem Erfolg für mehr als vier Monate in den Räumen des Tschechischen Zentrums in Wien gezeigt wurde. Der feierliche Kehraus zu dieser Schau fand am Abend des 2. Februar ab 18:30 h statt. Read more