Events / Misha Glenny

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers	Register
	Democracies Under Stress	Thu, 19.02.2026	Panels and Discussions	Misha Glenny Věra JourováAnna Durnová, Jiří Šitler	REGISTER HERE	Democracies Under Stress Thu, 19.02.2026 Speakers: Misha Glenny Věra JourováAnna Durnová, Jiří Šitler Series: Panels and Discussions Democracies worldwide are under stress: populist leaders are questioning and even denying the principles of the rule of law and shared governance; visions of equality are being silenced amid the fuss of cultural wars; and the search for evidence-based truth has been weakened. It is up to our societies to switch on their self-protective instincts and activate civic engagement. But who could be the main drivers of these changes, and what paths would they need to follow? Read more
Democracies Under Stress Thu, 19.02.2026 Speakers: Misha Glenny Věra JourováAnna Durnová, Jiří Šitler Series: Panels and Discussions Democracies worldwide are under stress: populist leaders are questioning and even denying the principles of the rule of law and shared governance; visions of equality are being silenced amid the fuss of cultural wars; and the search for evidence-based truth has been weakened. It is up to our societies to switch on their self-protective instincts and activate civic engagement. But who could be the main drivers of these changes, and what paths would they need to follow? Read more
	China oder USA: Wer hat die technologische Vorherrschaft?	Wed, 11.02.2026	Lecture	Helga Nowotny Misha GlennyVeronica Kaup-Hasler, Anita Eichinger		China oder USA: Wer hat die technologische Vorherrschaft? Wed, 11.02.2026 Speakers: Helga Nowotny Misha GlennyVeronica Kaup-Hasler, Anita Eichinger Series: Lecture Die USA und China befinden sich in einem intensiven Wettbewerb um die Vorherrschaft in allen Hightech-Branchen. Misha Glenny und Helga Nowotny diskutieren darüber, wer das Rennen gewinnen wird und was das für Europa bedeutet. Read more
China oder USA: Wer hat die technologische Vorherrschaft? Wed, 11.02.2026 Speakers: Helga Nowotny Misha GlennyVeronica Kaup-Hasler, Anita Eichinger Series: Lecture Die USA und China befinden sich in einem intensiven Wettbewerb um die Vorherrschaft in allen Hightech-Branchen. Misha Glenny und Helga Nowotny diskutieren darüber, wer das Rennen gewinnen wird und was das für Europa bedeutet. Read more
	What Is a ‘World Order’? (And What Would a Planetary One Look Like?)	Tue, 10.02.2026	Lecture	Misha Glenny Nils Gilman	Register here	What Is a ‘World Order’? (And What Would a Planetary One Look Like?) Tue, 10.02.2026 Speakers: Misha Glenny Nils Gilman Series: Lecture Drawing on his work, Nils Gilman argues in this Monthly Lecture that the liberal international order is dead, and that any viable successor must be a planetary order centered on ecological survival, planetary habitability, and multiscalar governance. He outlines the material foundations of such an order, from a global technosphere to enforced transparency, treating planetary stability as a non-negotiable security requirement. Read more
What Is a ‘World Order’? (And What Would a Planetary One Look Like?) Tue, 10.02.2026 Speakers: Misha Glenny Nils Gilman Series: Lecture Drawing on his work, Nils Gilman argues in this Monthly Lecture that the liberal international order is dead, and that any viable successor must be a planetary order centered on ecological survival, planetary habitability, and multiscalar governance. He outlines the material foundations of such an order, from a global technosphere to enforced transparency, treating planetary stability as a non-negotiable security requirement. Read more
	What Do the Tech Bros Really Want: Money, Power, or Total Information Awareness?	Sun, 18.01.2026	Panels and Discussions	Helga Nowotny Misha GlennyFrancesca Bria, Beeban Kidron OBE, Marietje Schaake		What Do the Tech Bros Really Want: Money, Power, or Total Information Awareness? Sun, 18.01.2026 Speakers: Helga Nowotny Misha GlennyFrancesca Bria, Beeban Kidron OBE, Marietje Schaake Series: Panels and Discussions In this debate, we brought together some of Europe’s leading experts on the politics of digitalization to discuss whether the Tech Bros will save the world or destroy it. Read more
What Do the Tech Bros Really Want: Money, Power, or Total Information Awareness? Sun, 18.01.2026 Speakers: Helga Nowotny Misha GlennyFrancesca Bria, Beeban Kidron OBE, Marietje Schaake Series: Panels and Discussions In this debate, we brought together some of Europe’s leading experts on the politics of digitalization to discuss whether the Tech Bros will save the world or destroy it. Read more
	Serbia: Democracy, Dissent, and the New European Fault Line	Tue, 16.12.2025 - Tue, 16.12.2025	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Michael Ignatieff Misha Glenny Paul Stubbs Sanja M. BojanicVladan Đokić, Hedvig Morvai, Filip Ejdus		Serbia: Democracy, Dissent, and the New European Fault Line Tue, 16.12.2025 - Tue, 16.12.2025 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Michael Ignatieff Misha Glenny Paul Stubbs Sanja M. BojanicVladan Đokić, Hedvig Morvai, Filip Ejdus Series: Panels and Discussions This roundtable with Vladan Đokić, rector of the University of Belgrade, examined the paradoxes, surprises, risks, and opportunities emerging from Serbia’s year-long protest wave, its student-led democratic awakening, tensions with EU institutions, and Serbia’s place in a world where authoritarian ‘strong men’ are on the rise. Read more
Serbia: Democracy, Dissent, and the New European Fault Line Tue, 16.12.2025 - Tue, 16.12.2025 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Michael Ignatieff Misha Glenny Paul Stubbs Sanja M. BojanicVladan Đokić, Hedvig Morvai, Filip Ejdus Series: Panels and Discussions This roundtable with Vladan Đokić, rector of the University of Belgrade, examined the paradoxes, surprises, risks, and opportunities emerging from Serbia’s year-long protest wave, its student-led democratic awakening, tensions with EU institutions, and Serbia’s place in a world where authoritarian ‘strong men’ are on the rise. Read more
	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 presented 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 called 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 presented 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 called 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 Misha Glenny		What Was Christian Democracy? Thu, 11.12.2025 Speakers: Jan-Werner Müller Misha Glenny Series: Lecture This year’s Jan Patočka Memorial was held by Jan-Werner Müller, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences at Princeton University. His lecture explored 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 Misha Glenny Series: Lecture This year’s Jan Patočka Memorial was held by Jan-Werner Müller, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences at Princeton University. His lecture explored 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 reconsidered 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 examined 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 reconsidered 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 examined 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