Events / Misha Glenny

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	The Vienna Black Market 1943-1948	Mon, 11.03.2024	Seminars and Colloquia	Misha Glenny Nathan Marcus	The Vienna Black Market 1943-1948 Mon, 11.03.2024 Speakers: Misha Glenny Nathan Marcus Series: Seminars and Colloquia Historians have long argued against understanding the end of the Second World War in Germany or Austria as one of complete rupture. The popular concept of “Stunde Null,” which implied a total break with the past and a completely new beginning, rather served to obscure problematic continuities in both societies. Read more
The Vienna Black Market 1943-1948 Mon, 11.03.2024 Speakers: Misha Glenny Nathan Marcus Series: Seminars and Colloquia Historians have long argued against understanding the end of the Second World War in Germany or Austria as one of complete rupture. The popular concept of “Stunde Null,” which implied a total break with the past and a completely new beginning, rather served to obscure problematic continuities in both societies. Read more
	Human Rights and Republicanism in Central European Dissent, 1968-1989	Tue, 20.02.2024	Lecture	Misha Glenny Michal Kopeček	Human Rights and Republicanism in Central European Dissent, 1968-1989 Tue, 20.02.2024 Speakers: Misha Glenny Michal Kopeček Series: Lecture In this Monthly Lecture, Michal Kopeček argued that the republican language of human rights (and the related concept of freedom) was not only one of the available human rights languages in Central and Eastern Europe 1968-1989, but a prominent one. Kopeček elaborated his arguments based on concrete examples of prominent dissident thinkers Jan Patočka, Václav Havel, Jacek Kuroń, and Ágnes Heller. Read more
Human Rights and Republicanism in Central European Dissent, 1968-1989 Tue, 20.02.2024 Speakers: Misha Glenny Michal Kopeček Series: Lecture In this Monthly Lecture, Michal Kopeček argued that the republican language of human rights (and the related concept of freedom) was not only one of the available human rights languages in Central and Eastern Europe 1968-1989, but a prominent one. Kopeček elaborated his arguments based on concrete examples of prominent dissident thinkers Jan Patočka, Václav Havel, Jacek Kuroń, and Ágnes Heller. Read more
	Is There a Chance for Peace in the Middle East?	Sun, 21.01.2024	Panels and Discussions	Misha GlennyGudrun Harrer, Dahlia Scheindlin, Alexander Schallenberg, Rula Hardal	Is There a Chance for Peace in the Middle East? Sun, 21.01.2024 Speakers: Misha GlennyGudrun Harrer, Dahlia Scheindlin, Alexander Schallenberg, Rula Hardal Series: Panels and Discussions A prominent international panel discussed this and related questions on Sunday, 21 January, on the stage of Vienna’s Burgtheater. Read more

	Autumn Fellows' Conference 2023	Wed, 29.11.2023	Conferences and Workshops	Anastasiia Omelianiuk Börries Kuzmany George Metakides Hana Kopecka Jan Farfal Jan Musil Johana Wyss Kinga Siewior Liz Calhoun Ludger Hagedorn Mikhail Minakov Misha Glenny Natalia Volvach Olesya Yaremchuk Slobodan Markovich Stanisław Boridczenko Stefan Voicu Ayşe ÇağlarBrigitta Busch, Anna Dobrosovestnova	Autumn Fellows' Conference 2023 Wed, 29.11.2023 Speakers: Anastasiia Omelianiuk Börries Kuzmany George Metakides Hana Kopecka Jan Farfal Jan Musil Johana Wyss Kinga Siewior Liz Calhoun Ludger Hagedorn Mikhail Minakov Misha Glenny Natalia Volvach Olesya Yaremchuk Slobodan Markovich Stanisław Boridczenko Stefan Voicu Ayşe ÇağlarBrigitta Busch, Anna Dobrosovestnova Series: Conferences and Workshops A staple of intellectual life at the IWM since its early days, the biannual conference provides an opportunity for early-career visiting researchers from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds to present their work and exchange ideas in a collegial atmosphere. Visiting and Permanent Fellows, alumni and scholars from Viennese institutions act as commentators and discussants. Read more
Autumn Fellows' Conference 2023 Wed, 29.11.2023 Speakers: Anastasiia Omelianiuk Börries Kuzmany George Metakides Hana Kopecka Jan Farfal Jan Musil Johana Wyss Kinga Siewior Liz Calhoun Ludger Hagedorn Mikhail Minakov Misha Glenny Natalia Volvach Olesya Yaremchuk Slobodan Markovich Stanisław Boridczenko Stefan Voicu Ayşe ÇağlarBrigitta Busch, Anna Dobrosovestnova Series: Conferences and Workshops A staple of intellectual life at the IWM since its early days, the biannual conference provides an opportunity for early-career visiting researchers from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds to present their work and exchange ideas in a collegial atmosphere. Visiting and Permanent Fellows, alumni and scholars from Viennese institutions act as commentators and discussants. Read more
	Deserved. Economic Memories After the Fall of the Iron Curtain	Mon, 27.11.2023	Other	Misha Glenny Philipp TherTill Hilmar, Dorit Geva, Anna Durnová, Anna-Marie Kroupová	Deserved. Economic Memories After the Fall of the Iron Curtain Mon, 27.11.2023 Speakers: Misha Glenny Philipp TherTill Hilmar, Dorit Geva, Anna Durnová, Anna-Marie Kroupová Series: Other After the fall of the Iron Curtain, people across the former socialist world saw their lives transformed. In just a few years, labor markets were completely disrupted, and the meanings attached to work were drastically altered. How did people who found themselves living under state socialism one day and capitalist democracy the next adjust to the changing social order and its new system of values? Read more
Deserved. Economic Memories After the Fall of the Iron Curtain Mon, 27.11.2023 Speakers: Misha Glenny Philipp TherTill Hilmar, Dorit Geva, Anna Durnová, Anna-Marie Kroupová Series: Other After the fall of the Iron Curtain, people across the former socialist world saw their lives transformed. In just a few years, labor markets were completely disrupted, and the meanings attached to work were drastically altered. How did people who found themselves living under state socialism one day and capitalist democracy the next adjust to the changing social order and its new system of values? Read more
	Migration – Rechtspopulismus – Autoritarismus	Thu, 23.11.2023 - Fri, 24.11.2023	Conferences and Workshops	Misha GlennyFrank Wolff, Hannes Swoboda	Migration – Rechtspopulismus – Autoritarismus Thu, 23.11.2023 - Fri, 24.11.2023 Speakers: Misha GlennyFrank Wolff, Hannes Swoboda Series: Conferences and Workshops In dieser Tagung wollten wir uns in Vorträgen und einer Podiumsdiskussion den verschiedenen Facetten des Nexus von Migration und Autoritarismus annähern – verbunden mit der Frage, inwieweit die Gestaltung der Migrationspolitik, im Spannungsfeld zwischen offener Gesellschaft und autoritären Tendenzen, den Charakter einer Gesellschaft beeinflusst. Read more
Migration – Rechtspopulismus – Autoritarismus Thu, 23.11.2023 - Fri, 24.11.2023 Speakers: Misha GlennyFrank Wolff, Hannes Swoboda Series: Conferences and Workshops In dieser Tagung wollten wir uns in Vorträgen und einer Podiumsdiskussion den verschiedenen Facetten des Nexus von Migration und Autoritarismus annähern – verbunden mit der Frage, inwieweit die Gestaltung der Migrationspolitik, im Spannungsfeld zwischen offener Gesellschaft und autoritären Tendenzen, den Charakter einer Gesellschaft beeinflusst. Read more
	Democratic and Autocratic Outcomes of the Post-Soviet Political Development (1991–2022)	Tue, 21.11.2023	Lecture	Mikhail Minakov Misha Glenny	Democratic and Autocratic Outcomes of the Post-Soviet Political Development (1991–2022) Tue, 21.11.2023 Speakers: Mikhail Minakov Misha Glenny Series: Lecture Mikhail Minakov compared the outcomes of post-Soviet political development across four country cases: Estonia (a stable democracy with strong Western influence), Russia (a short-lived democracy turned aggressive autocracy with competing external influences), Ukraine (an unstable democracy with competing external influences), and Uzbekistan (a stable autocracy with a minimum of external influences). Read more
Democratic and Autocratic Outcomes of the Post-Soviet Political Development (1991–2022) Tue, 21.11.2023 Speakers: Mikhail Minakov Misha Glenny Series: Lecture Mikhail Minakov compared the outcomes of post-Soviet political development across four country cases: Estonia (a stable democracy with strong Western influence), Russia (a short-lived democracy turned aggressive autocracy with competing external influences), Ukraine (an unstable democracy with competing external influences), and Uzbekistan (a stable autocracy with a minimum of external influences). Read more
	Gender Bias in Psychiatry: A Critical Examination	Mon, 30.10.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Misha Glenny Prune Antoine	Gender Bias in Psychiatry: A Critical Examination Mon, 30.10.2023 Speakers: Misha Glenny Prune Antoine Series: Seminars and Colloquia This presentation examined the gender gap in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders in women throughout history, the surge in mental health issues following the Covid-19 pandemic, and future best practices, such as the emerging field of “reproductive psychiatry” currently booming in the U.S. Read more
Gender Bias in Psychiatry: A Critical Examination Mon, 30.10.2023 Speakers: Misha Glenny Prune Antoine Series: Seminars and Colloquia This presentation examined the gender gap in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders in women throughout history, the surge in mental health issues following the Covid-19 pandemic, and future best practices, such as the emerging field of “reproductive psychiatry” currently booming in the U.S. Read more
	Part II: The Changing Fortunes of Cosmopolitanism: Demos, Cosmos, and Globus. From the Hermeneutics of Suspicion to Reconstructing Cosmopolitan Law	Tue, 17.10.2023	Lecture	Misha Glenny Seyla Benhabib	Part II: The Changing Fortunes of Cosmopolitanism: Demos, Cosmos, and Globus. From the Hermeneutics of Suspicion to Reconstructing Cosmopolitan Law Tue, 17.10.2023 Speakers: Misha Glenny Seyla Benhabib Series: Lecture This lecture series defended cosmopolitanism from below by engaging with the postcolonial critiques of Kantian thought. Distinguishing between liberal nationalism, liberal internationalism, neoliberal globalism and cosmopolitanism, Seyla Benhabib argued in the second lecture that only cosmopolitanism from below can incorporate the advances in international human rights law advocated by third-world scholars of international law. Read more
Part II: The Changing Fortunes of Cosmopolitanism: Demos, Cosmos, and Globus. From the Hermeneutics of Suspicion to Reconstructing Cosmopolitan Law Tue, 17.10.2023 Speakers: Misha Glenny Seyla Benhabib Series: Lecture This lecture series defended cosmopolitanism from below by engaging with the postcolonial critiques of Kantian thought. Distinguishing between liberal nationalism, liberal internationalism, neoliberal globalism and cosmopolitanism, Seyla Benhabib argued in the second lecture that only cosmopolitanism from below can incorporate the advances in international human rights law advocated by third-world scholars of international law. Read more
	Fourth Annual International Editors’ Roundtable - Part 2	Sat, 30.09.2023	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Misha Glenny	Fourth Annual International Editors’ Roundtable - Part 2 Sat, 30.09.2023 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Misha Glenny Series: Panels and Discussions The Annual International Editors’ Roundtable was established in 2018. This year it was held at the Josephinum and at the IWM under the leadership of Rector Misha Glenny and Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev. The event brought together a small group of editors, freelance writers, and academics from the most prestigious publications worldwide with diverse political orientations, among them: FAZ, New Statesmen, Süddeutsche, NZZ, Die Presse, The Guardian, FT, Die Zeit, Gazeta Wyborcza, Telex.hu, Politico, Der Standard, NYT. Read more
Fourth Annual International Editors’ Roundtable - Part 2 Sat, 30.09.2023 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Misha Glenny Series: Panels and Discussions The Annual International Editors’ Roundtable was established in 2018. This year it was held at the Josephinum and at the IWM under the leadership of Rector Misha Glenny and Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev. The event brought together a small group of editors, freelance writers, and academics from the most prestigious publications worldwide with diverse political orientations, among them: FAZ, New Statesmen, Süddeutsche, NZZ, Die Presse, The Guardian, FT, Die Zeit, Gazeta Wyborcza, Telex.hu, Politico, Der Standard, NYT. Read more