Events / Misha Glenny

	Title	Date	Type Sort ascending	Speakers
	Semester Opening	Mon, 19.09.2022	Social and Networking Events	Ivan Krastev Misha Glenny	Semester Opening Mon, 19.09.2022 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Misha Glenny Series: Social and Networking Events On the occasion of the Semester Opening at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Rector Misha Glenny cordially invited the Fellows who are already in house, and especially those who have arrived in the course of September, the Permanent Fellows, and the Staff to participate in an evening conversation about the current state of politics and society in the IWM Library. Read more
Semester Opening Mon, 19.09.2022 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Misha Glenny Series: Social and Networking Events On the occasion of the Semester Opening at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Rector Misha Glenny cordially invited the Fellows who are already in house, and especially those who have arrived in the course of September, the Permanent Fellows, and the Staff to participate in an evening conversation about the current state of politics and society in the IWM Library. Read more
	To be in Contact with the World	Thu, 05.05.2022	Social and Networking Events	Charles Taylor Misha GlennyRajeev Bhargava, Hartmut Rosa, Elisabeth von Thadden	To be in Contact with the World Thu, 05.05.2022 Speakers: Charles Taylor Misha GlennyRajeev Bhargava, Hartmut Rosa, Elisabeth von Thadden Series: Social and Networking Events Charles Taylor, one of the outstanding philosophers of our age, turned 90 on November 5, 2021. Taylor has been closely associated with the Institute for Human Sciences for more than three decades. His life and work have always been inseparably bound up with one another. He is a scholar, a committed citizen, and a public intellectual. Many researchers owe him an immense debt of gratitude being the intellectual inspiration behind their own work and, most importantly, for his generosity and charming esprit. Rajeev Bhargava and Hartmut Rosa, two of Taylor’s long time intellectual companions, honored his work and personality. Read more
To be in Contact with the World Thu, 05.05.2022 Speakers: Charles Taylor Misha GlennyRajeev Bhargava, Hartmut Rosa, Elisabeth von Thadden Series: Social and Networking Events Charles Taylor, one of the outstanding philosophers of our age, turned 90 on November 5, 2021. Taylor has been closely associated with the Institute for Human Sciences for more than three decades. His life and work have always been inseparably bound up with one another. He is a scholar, a committed citizen, and a public intellectual. Many researchers owe him an immense debt of gratitude being the intellectual inspiration behind their own work and, most importantly, for his generosity and charming esprit. Rajeev Bhargava and Hartmut Rosa, two of Taylor’s long time intellectual companions, honored his work and personality. Read more
	Grounding a ‘Geopolitical Europe’	Mon, 03.04.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Ayşe Çağlar Luiza Bialasiewicz Misha Glenny	Grounding a ‘Geopolitical Europe’ Mon, 03.04.2023 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Luiza Bialasiewicz Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia Examining a number of different European national contexts, Luiza Bialasiewicz argued in this talk that without a grounded and democratic geopolitics, other geopolitical stories will inevitably rush in to fill the void to help EU citizens make sense of the vertigo of the current moment. Such geopolitical stories include the conspiratorial geopolitical imaginations fed by extremist parties and movements, but not solely. They also increasingly manifest themselves across a range of issue areas and spaces: most visibly in urban contexts, where they have begun to frame various forms of contestation, including protests against refugee reception. Read more
Grounding a ‘Geopolitical Europe’ Mon, 03.04.2023 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Luiza Bialasiewicz Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia Examining a number of different European national contexts, Luiza Bialasiewicz argued in this talk that without a grounded and democratic geopolitics, other geopolitical stories will inevitably rush in to fill the void to help EU citizens make sense of the vertigo of the current moment. Such geopolitical stories include the conspiratorial geopolitical imaginations fed by extremist parties and movements, but not solely. They also increasingly manifest themselves across a range of issue areas and spaces: most visibly in urban contexts, where they have begun to frame various forms of contestation, including protests against refugee reception. 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
	Surviving Human Trafficking: Activism as a Way Through the Struggle	Mon, 03.10.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	Ivan Vejvoda Milica Kravić Aksamit Misha Glenny	Surviving Human Trafficking: Activism as a Way Through the Struggle Mon, 03.10.2022 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Milica Kravić Aksamit Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia In her talk, Milica Kravić Aksamit presented her recent analyses and work on the television and radio piece “Osnažena” (Empowered), which narrates the stories of female survivors and activists who live in Belgrade but came from various African countries. Besides illustrating their life trajectories, the story reinforces the fact that human trafficking and gender-based violence are important social phenomena. The idea of Kravić Aksamit’s work is to show an uncommon perspective with focus on the bright and inspiring side of survivors’ lives, rather than on problems only. Read more
Surviving Human Trafficking: Activism as a Way Through the Struggle Mon, 03.10.2022 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Milica Kravić Aksamit Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia In her talk, Milica Kravić Aksamit presented her recent analyses and work on the television and radio piece “Osnažena” (Empowered), which narrates the stories of female survivors and activists who live in Belgrade but came from various African countries. Besides illustrating their life trajectories, the story reinforces the fact that human trafficking and gender-based violence are important social phenomena. The idea of Kravić Aksamit’s work is to show an uncommon perspective with focus on the bright and inspiring side of survivors’ lives, rather than on problems only. Read more
	From Biopolitics of Care to Necropolitics of War	Mon, 08.05.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Sergei Medvedev Misha Glenny	From Biopolitics of Care to Necropolitics of War Mon, 08.05.2023 Speakers: Sergei Medvedev Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia The Russio-Ukrainian War in Ukraine can be interpreted in many ways: as a geopolitical grab of territory; as an institutional fight for the new world order; or as a making of Russian identity and a manifestation of post-imperial ressentiment. The presentation took on an alternate view, suggesting that it is an extension of the biopolitical discourse that has shaped Russia’s authoritarian drift of the past decade. Read more
From Biopolitics of Care to Necropolitics of War Mon, 08.05.2023 Speakers: Sergei Medvedev Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia The Russio-Ukrainian War in Ukraine can be interpreted in many ways: as a geopolitical grab of territory; as an institutional fight for the new world order; or as a making of Russian identity and a manifestation of post-imperial ressentiment. The presentation took on an alternate view, suggesting that it is an extension of the biopolitical discourse that has shaped Russia’s authoritarian drift of the past decade. Read more
	Irony in Politics	Mon, 05.06.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Gergely Tóth Misha Glenny	Irony in Politics Mon, 05.06.2023 Speakers: Gergely Tóth Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia Irony has always fascinated thinkers, artists and frankly, everyone reflecting on the smaller and bigger paradoxes of life. Since the Romantic movement, irony is understood to be more than an “average” trope; it has been framed, variously, as an attitude, a discursive strategy or even the source of freedom. According to Søren Kierkegaard, “[j]ust as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony. […] no genuinely human life is possible without irony.” Read more
Irony in Politics Mon, 05.06.2023 Speakers: Gergely Tóth Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia Irony has always fascinated thinkers, artists and frankly, everyone reflecting on the smaller and bigger paradoxes of life. Since the Romantic movement, irony is understood to be more than an “average” trope; it has been framed, variously, as an attitude, a discursive strategy or even the source of freedom. According to Søren Kierkegaard, “[j]ust as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony. […] no genuinely human life is possible without irony.” Read more
	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
	Enver Hoxha: Biography of a Balkan Tyrant	Mon, 13.02.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Nikolai Antoniadis Robert Austin Misha Glenny	Enver Hoxha: Biography of a Balkan Tyrant Mon, 13.02.2023 Speakers: Nikolai Antoniadis Robert Austin Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows Colloquium, Robert C. Austin presented his research on Albania’s Enver Hoxha (1908-1985), who is likely the least understood of the twentieth century’s communist dictators that took power in the aftermath of the Second World War in Europe. Hoxha was also one of the most violent, ruthless, and repressive communist leaders. Albanians could easily claim that they endured the worst type of communist rule: Hoxha’s form of (violent) communism was without parallel in Europe. Read more
Enver Hoxha: Biography of a Balkan Tyrant Mon, 13.02.2023 Speakers: Nikolai Antoniadis Robert Austin Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows Colloquium, Robert C. Austin presented his research on Albania’s Enver Hoxha (1908-1985), who is likely the least understood of the twentieth century’s communist dictators that took power in the aftermath of the Second World War in Europe. Hoxha was also one of the most violent, ruthless, and repressive communist leaders. Albanians could easily claim that they endured the worst type of communist rule: Hoxha’s form of (violent) communism was without parallel in Europe. Read more
	Christ the Savior – Orthodoxy’s Ground Zero	Mon, 27.03.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Lucy Ash Misha Glenny	Christ the Savior – Orthodoxy’s Ground Zero Mon, 27.03.2023 Speakers: Lucy Ash Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia Using stories of individual priests, individual churches and individual cities, Ash traced the story of the Russian Orthodox Church back to its roots one thousand years ago and to show that, whatever the violent and extreme changes of political power, those at the top of the church have done whatever it takes to curry favor. Read more
Christ the Savior – Orthodoxy’s Ground Zero Mon, 27.03.2023 Speakers: Lucy Ash Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia Using stories of individual priests, individual churches and individual cities, Ash traced the story of the Russian Orthodox Church back to its roots one thousand years ago and to show that, whatever the violent and extreme changes of political power, those at the top of the church have done whatever it takes to curry favor. Read more