Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Democracy's Dilemmas Reconsidered	Thu, 15.06.2023, 18:00	Lecture	Ewa AtanassowIra Katznelson	Democracy's Dilemmas Reconsidered Books in Perspective Thu, 15.06.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Ewa AtanassowIra Katznelson Series: Lecture Drawing on Tocqueville’s analytical and policy writings, the presentation focused on how urgent questions facing democracies today are rooted in hard-wired tensions Tocqueville identified between the universal scope of democratic principles and the limits of practical attempts to grapple with key issues of sovereignty, nationalism, and globalization. Read more
Democracy's Dilemmas Reconsidered Books in Perspective Thu, 15.06.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Ewa AtanassowIra Katznelson Series: Lecture Drawing on Tocqueville’s analytical and policy writings, the presentation focused on how urgent questions facing democracies today are rooted in hard-wired tensions Tocqueville identified between the universal scope of democratic principles and the limits of practical attempts to grapple with key issues of sovereignty, nationalism, and globalization. Read more
	Elusive Transformations	Wed, 14.06.2023, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Mieke Verloo Toni Haastrup	Elusive Transformations The Limits of Feminism in European Foreign Policy Discourse Wed, 14.06.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Mieke Verloo Toni Haastrup Series: Seminars and Colloquia Toni Haastrup critically scrutinized the EU’s claims to feminist actorship by introducing the analytical concept of “Feminist Power Europe.” In employing FPE as a lens, she examined whether the EU can adopt an FFP and if such an approach upholds the transformative potential of feminism. She demonstrated that the EU’s propensity for a transformative feminist foreign policy is limited by the setup of global politics, which continues to be situated in a traditionally masculine environment with prevailing hierarchies as a result of colonialism and racism. Read more
Elusive Transformations The Limits of Feminism in European Foreign Policy Discourse Wed, 14.06.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Mieke Verloo Toni Haastrup Series: Seminars and Colloquia Toni Haastrup critically scrutinized the EU’s claims to feminist actorship by introducing the analytical concept of “Feminist Power Europe.” In employing FPE as a lens, she examined whether the EU can adopt an FFP and if such an approach upholds the transformative potential of feminism. She demonstrated that the EU’s propensity for a transformative feminist foreign policy is limited by the setup of global politics, which continues to be situated in a traditionally masculine environment with prevailing hierarchies as a result of colonialism and racism. Read more
	Responsible AI	Wed, 07.06.2023, 17:00	Lecture	Hannes Werthner Ludger Hagedorn Ricardo Baeza-YatesGerti Kappel	Responsible AI Part of the Digital Humanism Program Wed, 07.06.2023, 17:00 Speakers: Hannes Werthner Ludger Hagedorn Ricardo Baeza-YatesGerti Kappel Series: Lecture The first part of this presentation covered irresponsible AI. This set the context for the second part, where three main challenges were addressed: (1) principles and governance, (2) regulation, and (3) our cognitive biases. At the end of the talk there was a discussion on responsible AI initiatives and the outlook for the near future. Read more
Responsible AI Part of the Digital Humanism Program Wed, 07.06.2023, 17:00 Speakers: Hannes Werthner Ludger Hagedorn Ricardo Baeza-YatesGerti Kappel Series: Lecture The first part of this presentation covered irresponsible AI. This set the context for the second part, where three main challenges were addressed: (1) principles and governance, (2) regulation, and (3) our cognitive biases. At the end of the talk there was a discussion on responsible AI initiatives and the outlook for the near future. Read more
	Irony in Politics	Mon, 05.06.2023, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Gergely Tóth Misha Glenny	Irony in Politics From Democratic Virtue to Extremist Threat Mon, 05.06.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Gergely Tóth Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia Irony has always fascinated thinkers, artists and frankly, everyone reflecting on the smaller and bigger paradoxes of life. Since the Romantic movement, irony is understood to be more than an “average” trope; it has been framed, variously, as an attitude, a discursive strategy or even the source of freedom. According to Søren Kierkegaard, “[j]ust as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony. […] no genuinely human life is possible without irony.” Read more
Irony in Politics From Democratic Virtue to Extremist Threat Mon, 05.06.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Gergely Tóth Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia Irony has always fascinated thinkers, artists and frankly, everyone reflecting on the smaller and bigger paradoxes of life. Since the Romantic movement, irony is understood to be more than an “average” trope; it has been framed, variously, as an attitude, a discursive strategy or even the source of freedom. According to Søren Kierkegaard, “[j]ust as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony. […] no genuinely human life is possible without irony.” Read more
	Exhibition Opening: Bearing Witness to War	Fri, 02.06.2023, 19:00	Exhibition	Mariia ShynkarenkoKatharina Hasewend	Exhibition Opening: Bearing Witness to War Fri, 02.06.2023, 19:00 Speakers: Mariia ShynkarenkoKatharina Hasewend Series: Exhibition Documenting Ukraine program at the IWM, in cooperation with Bildrecht, presented the exhibition Documenting Ukraine: Bearing Witness to War, which takes place at the Bildraum Studio from 3 June till 1 July 2023. Read more
Exhibition Opening: Bearing Witness to War Fri, 02.06.2023, 19:00 Speakers: Mariia ShynkarenkoKatharina Hasewend Series: Exhibition Documenting Ukraine program at the IWM, in cooperation with Bildrecht, presented the exhibition Documenting Ukraine: Bearing Witness to War, which takes place at the Bildraum Studio from 3 June till 1 July 2023. Read more
	Vienna Meets Prague	Fri, 02.06.2023, 17:00 - Tue, 06.06.2023, 20:30	Festivals	Ludger Hagedorn Misha Glenny Radka DenemarkováJáchym Topol, Martin Pollack, Martin Búřil	Vienna Meets Prague Fri, 02.06.2023, 17:00 - Tue, 06.06.2023, 20:30 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Misha Glenny Radka DenemarkováJáchym Topol, Martin Pollack, Martin Búřil Series: Festivals The fourth edition of the Vienna Meets Prague Festival invited to discover highlights of Czech culture in Vienna. Read more

	The Most Documented War. Symposium for Documentation and Archiving Initiatives	Thu, 01.06.2023, 00:00 - Sat, 03.06.2023, 00:00	Conferences and Workshops		The Most Documented War. Symposium for Documentation and Archiving Initiatives Thu, 01.06.2023, 00:00 - Sat, 03.06.2023, 00:00 Speakers: Series: Conferences and Workshops 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 Center for Urban History in Lviv, Ukraine. Registration is open until April 18, 2023. Read more
The Most Documented War. Symposium for Documentation and Archiving Initiatives Thu, 01.06.2023, 00:00 - Sat, 03.06.2023, 00:00 Speakers: Series: Conferences and Workshops 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 Center for Urban History in Lviv, Ukraine. Registration is open until April 18, 2023. Read more
	Is This the End of American Democracy?	Wed, 31.05.2023, 18:00	Lecture	Misha GlennyRichard Parker	Is This the End of American Democracy? Wed, 31.05.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Misha GlennyRichard Parker Series: Lecture Richard Parker refracted Stephen Skowronek’s observations about transformative presidents and the presidential cycle through the prism of economics, in order to identify how serious the latest threats to American democracy might be. Read more
Is This the End of American Democracy? Wed, 31.05.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Misha GlennyRichard Parker Series: Lecture Richard Parker refracted Stephen Skowronek’s observations about transformative presidents and the presidential cycle through the prism of economics, in order to identify how serious the latest threats to American democracy might be. Read more
	Exhibition Soft Opening: Bearing Witness to War	Fri, 26.05.2023, 19:00	Exhibition	Katherine YoungerKseniya Kharchenko	Exhibition Soft Opening: Bearing Witness to War Fri, 26.05.2023, 19:00 Speakers: Katherine YoungerKseniya Kharchenko Series: Exhibition Documenting Ukraine program at the IWM, in cooperation with Bildrecht, presents the exhibition Documenting Ukraine: Bearing Witness to War, which will take place at the Bildraum Studio from 3 June till 1 July 2023. Read more
Exhibition Soft Opening: Bearing Witness to War Fri, 26.05.2023, 19:00 Speakers: Katherine YoungerKseniya Kharchenko Series: Exhibition Documenting Ukraine program at the IWM, in cooperation with Bildrecht, presents the exhibition Documenting Ukraine: Bearing Witness to War, which will take place at the Bildraum Studio from 3 June till 1 July 2023. Read more
	Junior Visiting Fellows' Conference Summer 2023	Fri, 26.05.2023, 09:15	Conferences and Workshops		Junior Visiting Fellows' Conference Summer 2023 Fri, 26.05.2023, 09:15 Speakers: Series: Conferences and Workshops The Junior Visiting Fellows' Conference is a bi-annual event at the Institute for Human Sciences that allows the Junior Fellows to present their work and research in a day-long conference. A traditional semester-closing celebration of the talented young researchers that is as old as the Institute itself, and is always organized by the Junior Fellows themselves. Usually, it includes Senior Fellows, Staff members, and Alumni, among others, as commentators and discussants. Read more
Junior Visiting Fellows' Conference Summer 2023 Fri, 26.05.2023, 09:15 Speakers: Series: Conferences and Workshops The Junior Visiting Fellows' Conference is a bi-annual event at the Institute for Human Sciences that allows the Junior Fellows to present their work and research in a day-long conference. A traditional semester-closing celebration of the talented young researchers that is as old as the Institute itself, and is always organized by the Junior Fellows themselves. Usually, it includes Senior Fellows, Staff members, and Alumni, among others, as commentators and discussants. Read more