Events / Misha Glenny

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	An Uncertain Future: The World Economy, Globalization and Resentment	Tue, 27.09.2022	Festivals	Joseph Stiglitz Misha Glenny		An Uncertain Future: The World Economy, Globalization and Resentment Tue, 27.09.2022 Speakers: Joseph Stiglitz Misha Glenny Series: Festivals To open the Vienna Humanities Festival 2022, Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz held a lecture addressing the necessity to chart a new course, in which markets and governments operate in tandem, in which corporations don’t dictate vaccine availability and richer countries offer constructive and real help to developing countries. Read more
An Uncertain Future: The World Economy, Globalization and Resentment Tue, 27.09.2022 Speakers: Joseph Stiglitz Misha Glenny Series: Festivals To open the Vienna Humanities Festival 2022, Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz held a lecture addressing the necessity to chart a new course, in which markets and governments operate in tandem, in which corporations don’t dictate vaccine availability and richer countries offer constructive and real help to developing countries. Read more
	Angst und Angstmacherei	Thu, 03.11.2022	Other	Martin Schürz Shalini Randeria Misha Glenny		Angst und Angstmacherei Thu, 03.11.2022 Speakers: Martin Schürz Shalini Randeria Misha Glenny Series: Other Wie bezahlen wir die wirtschaftlichen Folgen von Pandemie und Krieg? Martin Schürz präsentierte sein Buch Angst und Angstmacherei (Schürz/Marterbauer 2022) ein Plädoyer für einen besseren Sozialstaat. 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
	Biden or Trump? The US Elections and Their Impact on Europe	Sun, 28.04.2024	Panels and Discussions	Marlene Laruelle Misha GlennyKim Darroch, Mark Medish, Eva Nowotny	Tickets can be purchased here	Biden or Trump? The US Elections and Their Impact on Europe Sun, 28.04.2024 Speakers: Marlene Laruelle Misha GlennyKim Darroch, Mark Medish, Eva Nowotny Series: Panels and Discussions As America prepares to elect its next president, Europeans look on nervously at this battle of the gerontocrats, Joe Biden and Donald Trump. April’s Debating Europe event at the Burgtheater brings together leading policymakers and scholars from America and Europe to assess the prospects for the election and the impact of its possible outcomes on Europe, Ukraine and the Middle East. Read more
Biden or Trump? The US Elections and Their Impact on Europe Sun, 28.04.2024 Speakers: Marlene Laruelle Misha GlennyKim Darroch, Mark Medish, Eva Nowotny Series: Panels and Discussions As America prepares to elect its next president, Europeans look on nervously at this battle of the gerontocrats, Joe Biden and Donald Trump. April’s Debating Europe event at the Burgtheater brings together leading policymakers and scholars from America and Europe to assess the prospects for the election and the impact of its possible outcomes on Europe, Ukraine and the Middle East. Read more
	Can Beauty Save the World? On Historical Injustice, Reconciliation and the Role of Aesthetic Education	Tue, 09.04.2024	Lecture	Lea Ypi Misha Glenny		Can Beauty Save the World? On Historical Injustice, Reconciliation and the Role of Aesthetic Education Tue, 09.04.2024 Speakers: Lea Ypi Misha Glenny Series: Lecture “Beautiful world! Where hast thou gone?" asks Friedrich Schiller in his famous poem “The Gods of Greece.” He laments the loss of harmony in a world divided by injustice both past and present. In this lecture, Lea Ypi read from her forthcoming book on human dignity. Read more
Can Beauty Save the World? On Historical Injustice, Reconciliation and the Role of Aesthetic Education Tue, 09.04.2024 Speakers: Lea Ypi Misha Glenny Series: Lecture “Beautiful world! Where hast thou gone?" asks Friedrich Schiller in his famous poem “The Gods of Greece.” He laments the loss of harmony in a world divided by injustice both past and present. In this lecture, Lea Ypi read from her forthcoming book on human dignity. 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
	Civilisations, Barbarity, Conquest, Legitimacy and Crimes of War	Tue, 31.05.2022	Lecture	John Dunn Misha Glenny		Civilisations, Barbarity, Conquest, Legitimacy and Crimes of War Tue, 31.05.2022 Speakers: John Dunn Misha Glenny Series: Lecture The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February of this year has cast a glaring new light on a very old but ever more urgent question. In his lecture John Dunn asked, if there are any terms on which the human population of the world could still hope to live with one another in peace and personal freedom into a future of many generations? Could we still create together a modus vivendi of real duration? We know now, as we did not yet know in the year 1940, in which John Dunn was born, that any future generational horizon is in ever starker jeopardy because of the colossal and ever less controllable harm we are inflicting as a species on our global habitat. We know, as we could have known in much of Europe for at least three centuries, that the world was then, as it mercilessly remains, a vast distance from realising those terms and that it could not in principle realise them at all rapidly. We still have only a tiny repertoire of forms through which to try to act collectively on any scale: international agencies, civilisations, states, peoples (or, if you prefer, nations) – each of doubtful efficacy and eminently questionable legitimacy. Which of these forms could still take how much of the strain and how and why could war still feature as anything but grounds for despair within that ever more desperate struggle? We have never had any clear idea of how the world could be made a just world for its human inhabitants. Do we still have any rational horizon for collective hope over time? Read more
Civilisations, Barbarity, Conquest, Legitimacy and Crimes of War Tue, 31.05.2022 Speakers: John Dunn Misha Glenny Series: Lecture The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February of this year has cast a glaring new light on a very old but ever more urgent question. In his lecture John Dunn asked, if there are any terms on which the human population of the world could still hope to live with one another in peace and personal freedom into a future of many generations? Could we still create together a modus vivendi of real duration? We know now, as we did not yet know in the year 1940, in which John Dunn was born, that any future generational horizon is in ever starker jeopardy because of the colossal and ever less controllable harm we are inflicting as a species on our global habitat. We know, as we could have known in much of Europe for at least three centuries, that the world was then, as it mercilessly remains, a vast distance from realising those terms and that it could not in principle realise them at all rapidly. We still have only a tiny repertoire of forms through which to try to act collectively on any scale: international agencies, civilisations, states, peoples (or, if you prefer, nations) – each of doubtful efficacy and eminently questionable legitimacy. Which of these forms could still take how much of the strain and how and why could war still feature as anything but grounds for despair within that ever more desperate struggle? We have never had any clear idea of how the world could be made a just world for its human inhabitants. Do we still have any rational horizon for collective hope over time? 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
	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
	Destroying Democracy by Law	Tue, 25.04.2023	Lecture	Kim Scheppele Misha Glenny		Destroying Democracy by Law Tue, 25.04.2023 Speakers: Kim Scheppele Misha Glenny Series: Lecture Until 2005, the number of democracies in the world had been steadily increasing; however, since that date, the number has declined. Even robust democracies are now showing signs of weakness and some have turned into hybrid regimes suspended between democracy and autocracy. What is killing off the world’s democracies, and what can be done about it? Read more
Destroying Democracy by Law Tue, 25.04.2023 Speakers: Kim Scheppele Misha Glenny Series: Lecture Until 2005, the number of democracies in the world had been steadily increasing; however, since that date, the number has declined. Even robust democracies are now showing signs of weakness and some have turned into hybrid regimes suspended between democracy and autocracy. What is killing off the world’s democracies, and what can be done about it? Read more