Events / Misha Glenny

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers	Register
	Überreichtum und Unsterblichkeit	Tue, 18.11.2025	Lecture	Martin Schürz Misha Glenny	REGISTRIERUNG	Überreichtum und Unsterblichkeit Tue, 18.11.2025 Speakers: Martin Schürz Misha Glenny Series: Lecture Auf Basis von sozialpsychologischen Ansätzen und Überlegungen von Sigmund Freud zum Tod untersucht Martin Schürz, wie Vermögenskonzentration, Endlichkeit und Unsterblichkeitsprojekte zusammenhängen. Sigmund Freud ging davon aus, dass das Unbewusste den Tod nicht kennt. Andererseits verhindere die Todesangst wichtige, aber riskante Unterfangen. Und letztlich gehe es darum, das endliche Leben zu ertragen. Read more
Überreichtum und Unsterblichkeit Tue, 18.11.2025 Speakers: Martin Schürz Misha Glenny Series: Lecture Auf Basis von sozialpsychologischen Ansätzen und Überlegungen von Sigmund Freud zum Tod untersucht Martin Schürz, wie Vermögenskonzentration, Endlichkeit und Unsterblichkeitsprojekte zusammenhängen. Sigmund Freud ging davon aus, dass das Unbewusste den Tod nicht kennt. Andererseits verhindere die Todesangst wichtige, aber riskante Unterfangen. Und letztlich gehe es darum, das endliche Leben zu ertragen. Read more
	Part III: A Decade of Contestation	Tue, 28.10.2025	Lecture	Misha Glenny Rogers Brubaker	Register here	Part III: A Decade of Contestation Tue, 28.10.2025 Speakers: Misha Glenny Rogers Brubaker Series: Lecture Rogers Brubaker’s IWM Lectures in Human Sciences will trace how gender identity evolved from its mid-20th century beginnings in psychological assessments of intersex individuals into a fundamental “principle of vision and division of the world,” embedded in laws, regulations, and organizational policies. The third lecture will address the questions around controversies on bathroom access, eligibility for women’s sports, pronoun policies, school curricula, and gender medicine for youth as a moral panic. Read more
Part III: A Decade of Contestation Tue, 28.10.2025 Speakers: Misha Glenny Rogers Brubaker Series: Lecture Rogers Brubaker’s IWM Lectures in Human Sciences will trace how gender identity evolved from its mid-20th century beginnings in psychological assessments of intersex individuals into a fundamental “principle of vision and division of the world,” embedded in laws, regulations, and organizational policies. The third lecture will address the questions around controversies on bathroom access, eligibility for women’s sports, pronoun policies, school curricula, and gender medicine for youth as a moral panic. Read more
	The Vienna Convergence on the Energy Transition and Critical Raw Materials	Mon, 13.10.2025 - Tue, 14.10.2025	Conferences and Workshops	Julie Klinger Misha Glenny		The Vienna Convergence on the Energy Transition and Critical Raw Materials Mon, 13.10.2025 - Tue, 14.10.2025 Speakers: Julie Klinger Misha Glenny Series: Conferences and Workshops The IWM, together with its partners from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was hosting a closed conference to examine how Europe, in particular, is managing the scramble for CRMs. With limited local resources and underdeveloped networks, Europe is more vulnerable to disruptions and crises than other regions. The conference explored new ideas for establishing sustainable supply chains that can be insulated against the prospect of geopolitical shocks. Read more
The Vienna Convergence on the Energy Transition and Critical Raw Materials Mon, 13.10.2025 - Tue, 14.10.2025 Speakers: Julie Klinger Misha Glenny Series: Conferences and Workshops The IWM, together with its partners from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was hosting a closed conference to examine how Europe, in particular, is managing the scramble for CRMs. With limited local resources and underdeveloped networks, Europe is more vulnerable to disruptions and crises than other regions. The conference explored new ideas for establishing sustainable supply chains that can be insulated against the prospect of geopolitical shocks. Read more
	Inequality and Knowledge Production: Gender and Race in European Academia	Mon, 29.09.2025	Seminars and Colloquia	Bruna Cristina Jaquetto Pereira Misha Glenny		Inequality and Knowledge Production: Gender and Race in European Academia Mon, 29.09.2025 Speakers: Bruna Cristina Jaquetto Pereira Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia European universities have long been at the forefront of producing groundbreaking science, theories, and concepts that shape our understanding of the world. In this talk, Bruna Cristina Jaquetto Pereira examined how European academia sustains pervasive hierarchies that determine who participates in, benefits from, and is recognized as capable or deserving of taking part in knowledge production. Read more
Inequality and Knowledge Production: Gender and Race in European Academia Mon, 29.09.2025 Speakers: Bruna Cristina Jaquetto Pereira Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia European universities have long been at the forefront of producing groundbreaking science, theories, and concepts that shape our understanding of the world. In this talk, Bruna Cristina Jaquetto Pereira examined how European academia sustains pervasive hierarchies that determine who participates in, benefits from, and is recognized as capable or deserving of taking part in knowledge production. Read more
	Der Bauernkrieg 1525	Wed, 24.09.2025	Festivals	Misha GlennyLyndal Roper		Der Bauernkrieg 1525 Wed, 24.09.2025 Speakers: Misha GlennyLyndal Roper Series: Festivals Die erste Keynote Lecture im Rahmen des Vienna Humanities Festival 2025 hielt die Historikerin Lyndal Roper über das politische Erbe des Deutschen Bauernkriegs. Nach eingehender Recherche aller verfügbaren Archivquellen beleuchtete Roper die wirkliche Tragweite dieser dramatischen Ereignisse. Dem Vortrag folgte eine Diskussion mit IWM Rektor Misha Glenny. Read more
Der Bauernkrieg 1525 Wed, 24.09.2025 Speakers: Misha GlennyLyndal Roper Series: Festivals Die erste Keynote Lecture im Rahmen des Vienna Humanities Festival 2025 hielt die Historikerin Lyndal Roper über das politische Erbe des Deutschen Bauernkriegs. Nach eingehender Recherche aller verfügbaren Archivquellen beleuchtete Roper die wirkliche Tragweite dieser dramatischen Ereignisse. Dem Vortrag folgte eine Diskussion mit IWM Rektor Misha Glenny. Read more
	Streaming Illiberalism: Alternative Digital Ecosystems and Democratic Erosion in Central and Eastern Europe	Mon, 22.09.2025	Seminars and Colloquia	Misha Glenny Václav Štětka		Streaming Illiberalism: Alternative Digital Ecosystems and Democratic Erosion in Central and Eastern Europe Mon, 22.09.2025 Speakers: Misha Glenny Václav Štětka Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellow's Colloquium Václav Štětka addressed the growing prominence of right-wing media ecosystems built around online influencers and amplified by platforms like TikTok and YouTube. The presentation examined how this environment will affect democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on the Czech Republic ahead of the 2025 elections, and explored the disruptive role of global digital platforms through the lens of platform capitalism. Read more
Streaming Illiberalism: Alternative Digital Ecosystems and Democratic Erosion in Central and Eastern Europe Mon, 22.09.2025 Speakers: Misha Glenny Václav Štětka Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellow's Colloquium Václav Štětka addressed the growing prominence of right-wing media ecosystems built around online influencers and amplified by platforms like TikTok and YouTube. The presentation examined how this environment will affect democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on the Czech Republic ahead of the 2025 elections, and explored the disruptive role of global digital platforms through the lens of platform capitalism. Read more
	The World That Drone Wars Made: War Economies and the Remaking of Political Order	Mon, 30.06.2025	Lecture	Misha Glenny Taras Fedirko		The World That Drone Wars Made: War Economies and the Remaking of Political Order Mon, 30.06.2025 Speakers: Misha Glenny Taras Fedirko Series: Lecture Wars have made the world we live in—from nation-states and tax systems to international law and intergovernmental organisations—through war economies: the political, material, and moral arrangements for organising labour and resources for political violence, amid the resurgence of war and genocide. This talk explored the emerging global economies of drone warfare and how they rely on and transform local social orders. Drawing on ethnographic research during the Russo-Ukrainian War, Taras Fedirko examined how new war economies emerged, endured, and reshaped political and moral orders in their wake. Read more
The World That Drone Wars Made: War Economies and the Remaking of Political Order Mon, 30.06.2025 Speakers: Misha Glenny Taras Fedirko Series: Lecture Wars have made the world we live in—from nation-states and tax systems to international law and intergovernmental organisations—through war economies: the political, material, and moral arrangements for organising labour and resources for political violence, amid the resurgence of war and genocide. This talk explored the emerging global economies of drone warfare and how they rely on and transform local social orders. Drawing on ethnographic research during the Russo-Ukrainian War, Taras Fedirko examined how new war economies emerged, endured, and reshaped political and moral orders in their wake. Read more
	New World Orders: Past, Present, and Future	Wed, 18.06.2025	Lecture	Misha GlennyMargaret MacMillan		New World Orders: Past, Present, and Future Wed, 18.06.2025 Speakers: Misha GlennyMargaret MacMillan Series: Lecture The Michalski Memorial Lecture was an annual tribute to Krzysztof Michalski, the founding rector of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM Vienna), an outstanding philosopher and ardent advocate of intellectual exchange between East and West. In this lecture, the renowned Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan helped us understand our present situation by drawing upon historical examples of systemic crisis and the mechanisms through which world orders have evolved. Read more
New World Orders: Past, Present, and Future Wed, 18.06.2025 Speakers: Misha GlennyMargaret MacMillan Series: Lecture The Michalski Memorial Lecture was an annual tribute to Krzysztof Michalski, the founding rector of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM Vienna), an outstanding philosopher and ardent advocate of intellectual exchange between East and West. In this lecture, the renowned Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan helped us understand our present situation by drawing upon historical examples of systemic crisis and the mechanisms through which world orders have evolved. Read more
	The Geopolitics of Digital Regulation	Mon, 02.06.2025	Seminars and Colloquia	Misha Glenny Philip Schlesinger		The Geopolitics of Digital Regulation Mon, 02.06.2025 Speakers: Misha Glenny Philip Schlesinger Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows' Colloquium, Philip Schlesinger discussed the far-reaching transformation of the post-World War II media-political order, marked by the shift from “legacy media” to a digitalized and increasingly decentered landscape (“post-public sphere”). Read more
The Geopolitics of Digital Regulation Mon, 02.06.2025 Speakers: Misha Glenny Philip Schlesinger Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows' Colloquium, Philip Schlesinger discussed the far-reaching transformation of the post-World War II media-political order, marked by the shift from “legacy media” to a digitalized and increasingly decentered landscape (“post-public sphere”). Read more
	Europe After Trump	Sat, 24.05.2025	Festivals	Misha GlennyAnne Applebaum, Alastair Campbell, Edi Rama		Europe After Trump Sat, 24.05.2025 Speakers: Misha GlennyAnne Applebaum, Alastair Campbell, Edi Rama Series: Festivals What does the return of Trump to the U.S. presidency mean for Europe? In this Hay Festival panel discussion, IWM Rector Misha Glenny was joined by historian Anne Applebaum, campaigner and strategist Alastair Campbell, and Albanian prime minister Edi Rama to discuss how Europe might respond. Read more
Europe After Trump Sat, 24.05.2025 Speakers: Misha GlennyAnne Applebaum, Alastair Campbell, Edi Rama Series: Festivals What does the return of Trump to the U.S. presidency mean for Europe? In this Hay Festival panel discussion, IWM Rector Misha Glenny was joined by historian Anne Applebaum, campaigner and strategist Alastair Campbell, and Albanian prime minister Edi Rama to discuss how Europe might respond. Read more