Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Inside Tyranny: Belarus and the Power and Non-power of State Terror	Thu, 01.07.2021	Panels and Discussions	Marci Shore Timothy SnyderMaryia Rohava, Aliaksei Kazharski, Radosław Sikorski, Nataliya Gumenyuk, Hanna Komar	Inside Tyranny: Belarus and the Power and Non-power of State Terror Thu, 01.07.2021 Speakers: Marci Shore Timothy SnyderMaryia Rohava, Aliaksei Kazharski, Radosław Sikorski, Nataliya Gumenyuk, Hanna Komar Series: Panels and Discussions Immediately following the hijacking of the Ryanair flight and abduction of Roman Protasevich and Sofia Sapega on 23 May, IWM hosted a discussion posing the question of что делать? (What is to be done?) from the perspective of European Union states: The Hijack. Europe, Belarus, and the Abduction of Roman Protasevich. The following two discussions (the first in German, the second in English) shifted the focus from the European Union to the former Soviet space in an attempt to better understand what is happening inside Belarus itself. In what way is the currently showcased performative-confession-extracted-through-torture reminiscent of Stalinist times, and in what way is there something post-modern about it? What is the relationship between insecurities about masculinity and state terror? How does a “revolution with a woman’s face” open new possibilities for politics, for rebellion against tyranny? Read more
Inside Tyranny: Belarus and the Power and Non-power of State Terror Thu, 01.07.2021 Speakers: Marci Shore Timothy SnyderMaryia Rohava, Aliaksei Kazharski, Radosław Sikorski, Nataliya Gumenyuk, Hanna Komar Series: Panels and Discussions Immediately following the hijacking of the Ryanair flight and abduction of Roman Protasevich and Sofia Sapega on 23 May, IWM hosted a discussion posing the question of что делать? (What is to be done?) from the perspective of European Union states: The Hijack. Europe, Belarus, and the Abduction of Roman Protasevich. The following two discussions (the first in German, the second in English) shifted the focus from the European Union to the former Soviet space in an attempt to better understand what is happening inside Belarus itself. In what way is the currently showcased performative-confession-extracted-through-torture reminiscent of Stalinist times, and in what way is there something post-modern about it? What is the relationship between insecurities about masculinity and state terror? How does a “revolution with a woman’s face” open new possibilities for politics, for rebellion against tyranny? Read more
	Im Innern der Tyrannei: Belarus, oder die Macht und Ohnmacht staatlichen Terrors	Wed, 30.06.2021	Panels and Discussions	Felix Ackermann Jurko Prochasko Ludger Hagedorn Marci ShoreOlga Shparaga, Anna Schor-Tschudnowskaja	Im Innern der Tyrannei: Belarus, oder die Macht und Ohnmacht staatlichen Terrors Wed, 30.06.2021 Speakers: Felix Ackermann Jurko Prochasko Ludger Hagedorn Marci ShoreOlga Shparaga, Anna Schor-Tschudnowskaja Series: Panels and Discussions Unmittelbar nach der Entführung des Ryanair-Fluges und der Verschleppung von Roman Protasewitsch and Sofia Sapega organisierte das IWM am 23. Mai spontan ein Expertenpanel, das sich mit der Frage что делать? (Was tun?) insbesondere aus der Perspektive der Europäischen Union befasste (The Hijack. Europe, Belarus, and the Abduction of Roman Protasevich). Die beiden für den 30 Juni und 1. Juli geplanten Diskussionen (die erste auf Deutsch, die zweite auf Englisch) haben das Augenmerk stärker auf den post-sowjetischen Raum gerichtet und sich insbesondere mit den Auswirkungen des staatlichen Terrors auf die belarusische Gesellschaft befasst: Wie werden die gegenwärtig öffentlich inszenierten (und durch Folter erzwungenen) Geständnisse wahrgenommen? Was erinnert daran an die Schauprozesse der stalinistischen Ära und was ist vielleicht spezifisch postmodern? Wie hängt der staatliche Terror zusammen mit einer tiefgreifenden Krise von Männlichkeit? Wie kann es einer Revolution „mit weiblichem Angesicht“ gelingen, neue Möglichkeiten für die Politik und den Widerstand gegen die Tyrannei zu gewinnen? Read more
Im Innern der Tyrannei: Belarus, oder die Macht und Ohnmacht staatlichen Terrors Wed, 30.06.2021 Speakers: Felix Ackermann Jurko Prochasko Ludger Hagedorn Marci ShoreOlga Shparaga, Anna Schor-Tschudnowskaja Series: Panels and Discussions Unmittelbar nach der Entführung des Ryanair-Fluges und der Verschleppung von Roman Protasewitsch and Sofia Sapega organisierte das IWM am 23. Mai spontan ein Expertenpanel, das sich mit der Frage что делать? (Was tun?) insbesondere aus der Perspektive der Europäischen Union befasste (The Hijack. Europe, Belarus, and the Abduction of Roman Protasevich). Die beiden für den 30 Juni und 1. Juli geplanten Diskussionen (die erste auf Deutsch, die zweite auf Englisch) haben das Augenmerk stärker auf den post-sowjetischen Raum gerichtet und sich insbesondere mit den Auswirkungen des staatlichen Terrors auf die belarusische Gesellschaft befasst: Wie werden die gegenwärtig öffentlich inszenierten (und durch Folter erzwungenen) Geständnisse wahrgenommen? Was erinnert daran an die Schauprozesse der stalinistischen Ära und was ist vielleicht spezifisch postmodern? Wie hängt der staatliche Terror zusammen mit einer tiefgreifenden Krise von Männlichkeit? Wie kann es einer Revolution „mit weiblichem Angesicht“ gelingen, neue Möglichkeiten für die Politik und den Widerstand gegen die Tyrannei zu gewinnen? Read more
	Who Are Russia's National Heroes?	Mon, 28.06.2021	Seminars and Colloquia	Ivan Krastev Maria Lipman	Who Are Russia's National Heroes? Mon, 28.06.2021 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Maria Lipman Series: Seminars and Colloquia In recent years, governments and citizens in countries all over the world, from Eastern Europe to North America and Africa, have torn down historical monuments in pursuit of historical justice.  Russia experienced such paroxysms of iconoclasm three times in the 20th century, but following the collapse of the Soviet Union, it instead embarked on a wave of monument building across the country. What are the dynamics and causes of this monument fever? What does it tell us about nation-building in Russia thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union? Read more
Who Are Russia's National Heroes? Mon, 28.06.2021 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Maria Lipman Series: Seminars and Colloquia In recent years, governments and citizens in countries all over the world, from Eastern Europe to North America and Africa, have torn down historical monuments in pursuit of historical justice.  Russia experienced such paroxysms of iconoclasm three times in the 20th century, but following the collapse of the Soviet Union, it instead embarked on a wave of monument building across the country. What are the dynamics and causes of this monument fever? What does it tell us about nation-building in Russia thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union? Read more
	Byzantium and the Origins of Eurasia	Mon, 28.06.2021	Conferences and Workshops	Alexey Lidov Clemena Antonova Sergey Ivanov Valentina IzmirlievaEndre Sashalmi, Ivan Foletti, Ivan Christov, Vladimir Cvetković	Byzantium and the Origins of Eurasia Mon, 28.06.2021 Speakers: Alexey Lidov Clemena Antonova Sergey Ivanov Valentina IzmirlievaEndre Sashalmi, Ivan Foletti, Ivan Christov, Vladimir Cvetković Series: Conferences and Workshops The aim of this international conference, organized under the auspices of the “Eurasia in Global Dialogue” Programme, was to offer a better understanding of contemporary developments in Eurasia by looking at their origins in Byzantium. The focus fell on the history of the reception of the Byzantine heritage in Russia and Eastern Europe. While addressing a wide range of topics in intellectual history, politics, aesthetics, religion, etc., all papers engaged with the contested nature of the concept of “Eurasia.” Read more
Byzantium and the Origins of Eurasia Mon, 28.06.2021 Speakers: Alexey Lidov Clemena Antonova Sergey Ivanov Valentina IzmirlievaEndre Sashalmi, Ivan Foletti, Ivan Christov, Vladimir Cvetković Series: Conferences and Workshops The aim of this international conference, organized under the auspices of the “Eurasia in Global Dialogue” Programme, was to offer a better understanding of contemporary developments in Eurasia by looking at their origins in Byzantium. The focus fell on the history of the reception of the Byzantine heritage in Russia and Eastern Europe. While addressing a wide range of topics in intellectual history, politics, aesthetics, religion, etc., all papers engaged with the contested nature of the concept of “Eurasia.” Read more
	Yehuda Elkana Fellowship Workshop 2021	Wed, 23.06.2021 - Fri, 25.06.2021	Conferences and Workshops	Helga Nowotny	Yehuda Elkana Fellowship Workshop 2021 Wed, 23.06.2021 - Fri, 25.06.2021 Speakers: Helga Nowotny Series: Conferences and Workshops The inaugural Yehuda Elkana Fellow, Helga Nowotny, conducted a non-public manuscript workshop with invited guests at the Central European University, in cooperation with the IWM and the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. Read more
Yehuda Elkana Fellowship Workshop 2021 Wed, 23.06.2021 - Fri, 25.06.2021 Speakers: Helga Nowotny Series: Conferences and Workshops The inaugural Yehuda Elkana Fellow, Helga Nowotny, conducted a non-public manuscript workshop with invited guests at the Central European University, in cooperation with the IWM and the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. Read more
	In AI We Trust. Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms	Tue, 22.06.2021	Lecture	Helga Nowotny	In AI We Trust. Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms Tue, 22.06.2021 Speakers: Helga Nowotny Series: Lecture The inaugural Yehuda Elkana Fellow, Helga Nowotny, gave a lecture at the Central European University, in cooperation with the IWM and the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. Read more

	Junior Visiting Fellows’ Conference Summer 2021	Mon, 21.06.2021	Conferences and Workshops	Ayşe Çağlar Ezgican Özdemir Iryna Sklokina Jan Vana Jul Tirler Katherine Younger Krystof Dolezal Marci Shore Mariia Hupalo Mykhailo MartynenkoKate Younger, Rosario Forlenza, Dagmar Fink, Oley Kindiy, Costas Constantinou	Junior Visiting Fellows’ Conference Summer 2021 Mon, 21.06.2021 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Ezgican Özdemir Iryna Sklokina Jan Vana Jul Tirler Katherine Younger Krystof Dolezal Marci Shore Mariia Hupalo Mykhailo MartynenkoKate Younger, Rosario Forlenza, Dagmar Fink, Oley Kindiy, Costas Constantinou Series: Conferences and Workshops The Junior Visiting Fellows' Conference is a bi-annual event at the Institute for Human Sciences that gives 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, is always organized by the Junior Fellows themselves and usually includes Senior Fellows, Staff members and Alumni among others as commentators and discussants. Read more
Junior Visiting Fellows’ Conference Summer 2021 Mon, 21.06.2021 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Ezgican Özdemir Iryna Sklokina Jan Vana Jul Tirler Katherine Younger Krystof Dolezal Marci Shore Mariia Hupalo Mykhailo MartynenkoKate Younger, Rosario Forlenza, Dagmar Fink, Oley Kindiy, Costas Constantinou Series: Conferences and Workshops The Junior Visiting Fellows' Conference is a bi-annual event at the Institute for Human Sciences that gives 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, is always organized by the Junior Fellows themselves and usually includes Senior Fellows, Staff members and Alumni among others as commentators and discussants. Read more
	Vienna Meets Prague	Thu, 17.06.2021	Festivals		Vienna Meets Prague Thu, 17.06.2021 Speakers: Series: Festivals Das tschechisch-österreichische Kulturfestival "Vienna meets Prague" widmete sich im Jahr 2021 dem großen Prager Erzähler Bohumil Hrabal mit einem Schwerpunkt, der verschiedene Formate verbindete. Read more

	The Intersections of Syrian Refugees’ Dilemma: Settlement, Onward Movement, and Return	Wed, 16.06.2021	Seminars and Colloquia	Ayşe ÇağlarAhmet Içduygu	The Intersections of Syrian Refugees’ Dilemma: Settlement, Onward Movement, and Return Wed, 16.06.2021 Speakers: Ayşe ÇağlarAhmet Içduygu Series: Seminars and Colloquia The international refugee regime and its national versions increasingly tend to offer a temporary protection mechanism that creates a “limboizing effect” on refugees’ lives. It also appears that these policies use temporariness as a political tool of governance. While these dominant international and national rulings ideally present the three choices of settlement (integration in the first country of asylum), onward movement (resettlement in the third country), and return (repatriation) as durable solutions to the refugee question, none of these choices easily become pertinent in the lives of refugees under their protracted situation and limitations of the international refugee regime. Consequently, refugees face with the challenges of living in an environment of uncertainties that is also labelled with the concept of permanent temporariness. In this presentation, Ahmet Içduygu referred to the concept of permanent temporariness, and answered the question of what is the role of international refugee regime and that of Turkey’s refugee policies towards Syrian refugees in the context of refugees’ aspirations for planning their future. He also questioned the polarized nature of the structure-agency debate, emphasizing the synthesis of these two influences on refugees’ aspirations in the context of settlement, onward movement and return choices. Read more
The Intersections of Syrian Refugees’ Dilemma: Settlement, Onward Movement, and Return Wed, 16.06.2021 Speakers: Ayşe ÇağlarAhmet Içduygu Series: Seminars and Colloquia The international refugee regime and its national versions increasingly tend to offer a temporary protection mechanism that creates a “limboizing effect” on refugees’ lives. It also appears that these policies use temporariness as a political tool of governance. While these dominant international and national rulings ideally present the three choices of settlement (integration in the first country of asylum), onward movement (resettlement in the third country), and return (repatriation) as durable solutions to the refugee question, none of these choices easily become pertinent in the lives of refugees under their protracted situation and limitations of the international refugee regime. Consequently, refugees face with the challenges of living in an environment of uncertainties that is also labelled with the concept of permanent temporariness. In this presentation, Ahmet Içduygu referred to the concept of permanent temporariness, and answered the question of what is the role of international refugee regime and that of Turkey’s refugee policies towards Syrian refugees in the context of refugees’ aspirations for planning their future. He also questioned the polarized nature of the structure-agency debate, emphasizing the synthesis of these two influences on refugees’ aspirations in the context of settlement, onward movement and return choices. Read more
	Democracy - A Fragile Way of Life	Tue, 15.06.2021	Lecture	Shalini Randeria Till van Rahden	Democracy - A Fragile Way of Life Tue, 15.06.2021 Speakers: Shalini Randeria Till van Rahden Series: Lecture After the Cold War ended, liberal democracy was taken for granted. Now it is in crisis: citizens distrust parliamentary politics, the people’s parties are losing members and votes, and social media are crowding out public debates. Challenging the sense of despair that informs recent studies on how democracy dies, Till van Rahden argued that it might prove more useful to explore what keeps it alive. A fruitful point of departure is the insight that democracy is not only a matter of elections and political parties, constitutions and parliaments, but is grounded in democratic experiences. The attention is less on how democratic government works, but on what equality, freedom, and justice feel like. A focus on democratic forms and aesthetics allows us to revisit the cultural and social foundations of democracy. No matter how stable a democracy may seem, it will wither and perish without ways of life that allow for and encourage democratic experiences. Read more
Democracy - A Fragile Way of Life Tue, 15.06.2021 Speakers: Shalini Randeria Till van Rahden Series: Lecture After the Cold War ended, liberal democracy was taken for granted. Now it is in crisis: citizens distrust parliamentary politics, the people’s parties are losing members and votes, and social media are crowding out public debates. Challenging the sense of despair that informs recent studies on how democracy dies, Till van Rahden argued that it might prove more useful to explore what keeps it alive. A fruitful point of departure is the insight that democracy is not only a matter of elections and political parties, constitutions and parliaments, but is grounded in democratic experiences. The attention is less on how democratic government works, but on what equality, freedom, and justice feel like. A focus on democratic forms and aesthetics allows us to revisit the cultural and social foundations of democracy. No matter how stable a democracy may seem, it will wither and perish without ways of life that allow for and encourage democratic experiences. Read more