Events / Misha Glenny

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	The Fifth Estate: An Urgent Look at the Sociology of Knowledge	Mon, 15.12.2025	Seminars and Colloquia	Misha Glenny Peter B. Kaufman	The Fifth Estate: An Urgent Look at the Sociology of Knowledge Mon, 15.12.2025 Speakers: Misha Glenny Peter B. Kaufman Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows’ Colloquium, Peter B. Kaufman presents 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 calls 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 Mon, 15.12.2025 Speakers: Misha Glenny Peter B. Kaufman Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows’ Colloquium, Peter B. Kaufman presents 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 calls for a renewed focus on Wissenssoziologie to confront future crises of toxic thinking. Read more
	What Was Christian Democracy?	Thu, 11.12.2025	Lecture	Jan-Werner Müller Ludger Hagedorn Misha Glenny	What Was Christian Democracy? Thu, 11.12.2025 Speakers: Jan-Werner Müller Ludger Hagedorn Misha Glenny Series: Lecture This year’s Jan Patočka Memorial will be held by Jan-Werner Müller, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences at Princeton University. His lecture explores 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? Thu, 11.12.2025 Speakers: Jan-Werner Müller Ludger Hagedorn Misha Glenny Series: Lecture This year’s Jan Patočka Memorial will be held by Jan-Werner Müller, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences at Princeton University. His lecture explores 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
	Homo Academicus-Homo Politicus. A Biography of Philip E. Mosely	Thu, 04.12.2025	Seminars and Colloquia	Maria Todorova Misha Glenny	Homo Academicus-Homo Politicus. A Biography of Philip E. Mosely Thu, 04.12.2025 Speakers: Maria Todorova Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows’ Colloquium, Maria Todorova reconsiders Philip E. Mosely as a historical prism through which broader processes of identity, ideological formation, and generation can be understood. Based on extensive archival materials, the project also examines the specificities of biography, the traps of autobiography, and the challenges of the archive. Read more
Homo Academicus-Homo Politicus. A Biography of Philip E. Mosely Thu, 04.12.2025 Speakers: Maria Todorova Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows’ Colloquium, Maria Todorova reconsiders Philip E. Mosely as a historical prism through which broader processes of identity, ideological formation, and generation can be understood. Based on extensive archival materials, the project also examines the specificities of biography, the traps of autobiography, and the challenges of the archive. Read more
	Überreichtum und Unsterblichkeit	Tue, 18.11.2025	Lecture	Martin Schürz Misha Glenny	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	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 traced 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 addressed 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 traced 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 addressed 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, held a closed conference to examine how Europe, in particular, is managing the scramble for critical raw materials (CRMs). 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, held a closed conference to examine how Europe, in particular, is managing the scramble for critical raw materials (CRMs). 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