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  • Geopolitical Talk with Dr. Comfort Ero: Overlapping Crises
    The geopolitical reverberations of the Russo-Ukrainian War have been felt far beyond Europe. The conflict has further complicated an already daunting set of challenges facing the global order. It has simultaneously worsened big-power polarization,…
  • Die Macht der Demografie
    Ein Abend am IWM mit Sozialwissenschaftler Rainer Münz und Politologe Ivan Krastev über das politische Trauma einer schrumpfenden Gesellschaft.
  • Ivan Krastev to Give Cycle Europe Lectures at the Collège de France
    IWM Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev will give a series of lectures at the Collège de France, as part of the 'Cycle Europe' Conference. These four lectures will be given over the course of a month, in English with simultaneous translation into French.
  • IWM Visiting Fellows presenting at the Memory Studies Association Conference
    Two IWM Visiting Fellows and IWM Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev, will be presenting at the fifth annual Memory Studies Association Conference.
  • Ivan Krastev gave 2021 Schuman Lecture
    The 2021 Schuman Lecture was streamed on Monday from the IWM library, with our Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev speaking on “Europe After the Pandemic”. 
  • The New Republic of Letters. Central Europe after COVID-19
    The first iteration of the dialogue over distance embodied in the idea of the new Republic of Letters concerns the visions of future Central Europe in view of the COVID-19 crisis that confronts societies of the region with new or newly dynamized…
  • IWM Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev wins Jean Améry Prize for European Essay Writing
    The publisher Klett-Cotta and the Allianz Kulturstiftung award the Jean Améry Prize for European Essay Writing 2020 to the outstanding intellectual and publicist Ivan Krastev.
  • Was bleibt von 1989? Jubiläumsausgabe von Transit zieht Bilanz
    Das Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) feiert in diesem Jahr sein 35-jähriges Bestehen. Pünktlich zum Jubiläum ist nun die 50. und letzte Ausgabe der renommierten Zeitschrift Transit – Europäische Revue erschienen. Herausgegeben von…
  • Ivan Krastev wins Elemér Hantos Prize 2017
    The Bulgarian political scientist and bestselling author Ivan Krastev from the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna has been awarded the Elemér Hantos Prize 2017. The Elemér Hantos Prize, named after the Hungarian economist and politician…