Upcoming Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers	Register
	Der Bauernkrieg 1525	Wed, 24.09.2025, 18:30	Festivals	Misha GlennyLyndal Roper	REGISTRIERUNG	Der Bauernkrieg 1525 Vienna Humanities Festival 2025 Wed, 24.09.2025, 18:30 Speakers: Misha GlennyLyndal Roper Series: Festivals Die erste Keynote Lecture im Rahmen des Vienna Humanities Festival 2025 hält die Historikerin Lyndal Roper über das politische Erbe des Deutschen Bauernkriegs. Nach eingehender Recherche aller verfügbaren Archivquellen beleuchtet Roper die wirkliche Tragweite dieser dramatischen Ereignisse. Dem Vortrag folgt eine Diskussion mit IWM Rektor Misha Glenny. Read more
Der Bauernkrieg 1525 Vienna Humanities Festival 2025 Wed, 24.09.2025, 18:30 Speakers: Misha GlennyLyndal Roper Series: Festivals Die erste Keynote Lecture im Rahmen des Vienna Humanities Festival 2025 hält die Historikerin Lyndal Roper über das politische Erbe des Deutschen Bauernkriegs. Nach eingehender Recherche aller verfügbaren Archivquellen beleuchtet Roper die wirkliche Tragweite dieser dramatischen Ereignisse. Dem Vortrag folgt eine Diskussion mit IWM Rektor Misha Glenny. Read more
	Love Troubles: How Love Drives Transformation	Thu, 25.09.2025, 19:00	Festivals	Federica Gregoratto, Dessy Gavrilova	REGISTRATION VIA WIENER VORLESUNGEN	Love Troubles: How Love Drives Transformation Vienna Humanities Festival 2025 Thu, 25.09.2025, 19:00 Speakers: Federica Gregoratto, Dessy Gavrilova Series: Festivals In her talk at the Vienna Humanities Festival 2025, philosopher Federica Gregoratto explores how love has been conceptualized throughout Western philosophy—from Plato and Hegel to the Frankfurt School, Simone de Beauvoir, and Audre Lorde. Drawing on this tradition, she offers an original perspective on how eros shapes individual freedom and social transformation in the context of contemporary power struggles. Read more
Love Troubles: How Love Drives Transformation Vienna Humanities Festival 2025 Thu, 25.09.2025, 19:00 Speakers: Federica Gregoratto, Dessy Gavrilova Series: Festivals In her talk at the Vienna Humanities Festival 2025, philosopher Federica Gregoratto explores how love has been conceptualized throughout Western philosophy—from Plato and Hegel to the Frankfurt School, Simone de Beauvoir, and Audre Lorde. Drawing on this tradition, she offers an original perspective on how eros shapes individual freedom and social transformation in the context of contemporary power struggles. Read more
	Central Europe and the Birth of Modern Sovereignty	Fri, 26.09.2025, 18:30	Festivals	Natasha Wheatley, Matti Bunzl	FULLY BOOKED	Central Europe and the Birth of Modern Sovereignty Vienna Humanities Festival 2025 Fri, 26.09.2025, 18:30 Speakers: Natasha Wheatley, Matti Bunzl Series: Festivals In her keynote lecture at the Vienna Humanities Festival 2025, American historian Natasha Wheatley will present insights from her acclaimed book The Life and Death of States, exploring how the Habsburg Empire’s legal legacy shaped modern sovereignty and offered a model for new states to claim legitimacy in Central Europe and beyond. Read more
Central Europe and the Birth of Modern Sovereignty Vienna Humanities Festival 2025 Fri, 26.09.2025, 18:30 Speakers: Natasha Wheatley, Matti Bunzl Series: Festivals In her keynote lecture at the Vienna Humanities Festival 2025, American historian Natasha Wheatley will present insights from her acclaimed book The Life and Death of States, exploring how the Habsburg Empire’s legal legacy shaped modern sovereignty and offered a model for new states to claim legitimacy in Central Europe and beyond. Read more
	Who Can Speak? Reflections on Social Movements and Their Limits	Sat, 27.09.2025, 19:30	Festivals	Ivan KrastevDidier Eribon	Purchase ticket	Who Can Speak? Reflections on Social Movements and Their Limits Vienna Humanities Festival 2025 Sat, 27.09.2025, 19:30 Speakers: Ivan KrastevDidier Eribon Series: Festivals At the Vienna Humanities Festival 2025, renowned French sociologist Didier Eribon returns to the themes of his latest book The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman. Reflecting on the political invisibility of the elderly and others excluded from mobilization, he examines the deeper question of who gets to speak in the public sphere. Read more
Who Can Speak? Reflections on Social Movements and Their Limits Vienna Humanities Festival 2025 Sat, 27.09.2025, 19:30 Speakers: Ivan KrastevDidier Eribon Series: Festivals At the Vienna Humanities Festival 2025, renowned French sociologist Didier Eribon returns to the themes of his latest book The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman. Reflecting on the political invisibility of the elderly and others excluded from mobilization, he examines the deeper question of who gets to speak in the public sphere. Read more
	Inequality and Knowledge Production: Gender and Race in European Academia	Mon, 29.09.2025, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Bruna Cristina Jaquetto Pereira Misha Glenny		Inequality and Knowledge Production: Gender and Race in European Academia Fellows' Colloquium with Bruna Cristina Jaquetto Pereira Mon, 29.09.2025, 16:00 Speakers: Bruna Cristina Jaquetto Pereira Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia European universities have long been at the forefront of producing groundbreaking science, theories, and concepts that shape our understanding of the world. In this talk, Bruna Cristina Jaquetto Pereira will examine how European academia sustains pervasive hierarchies that determine who participates in, benefits from, and is recognized as capable or deserving of taking part in knowledge production. Read more
Inequality and Knowledge Production: Gender and Race in European Academia Fellows' Colloquium with Bruna Cristina Jaquetto Pereira Mon, 29.09.2025, 16:00 Speakers: Bruna Cristina Jaquetto Pereira Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia European universities have long been at the forefront of producing groundbreaking science, theories, and concepts that shape our understanding of the world. In this talk, Bruna Cristina Jaquetto Pereira will examine how European academia sustains pervasive hierarchies that determine who participates in, benefits from, and is recognized as capable or deserving of taking part in knowledge production. Read more
	Poles by Choice: How Returnees, Migrants, and Refugees Are Shaping the New Poland	Mon, 06.10.2025, 17:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Taras Fedirko Ula Idzikowska		Poles by Choice: How Returnees, Migrants, and Refugees Are Shaping the New Poland Fellows' Colloquium with Ula Idzikowska Mon, 06.10.2025, 17:00 Speakers: Taras Fedirko Ula Idzikowska Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellow's Colloquium, Ula Idzikowska will present initial findings from her research on Poland’s redefinition as a destination country, also reflecting on the ways in which political discourse has instrumentalized migration within populist rhetoric. Read more
Poles by Choice: How Returnees, Migrants, and Refugees Are Shaping the New Poland Fellows' Colloquium with Ula Idzikowska Mon, 06.10.2025, 17:00 Speakers: Taras Fedirko Ula Idzikowska Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellow's Colloquium, Ula Idzikowska will present initial findings from her research on Poland’s redefinition as a destination country, also reflecting on the ways in which political discourse has instrumentalized migration within populist rhetoric. Read more
	Nationalism and Reproductive Rights in Post-Transitional Societies	Tue, 07.10.2025, 18:00	Lecture	Ludger Hagedorn Marta Bucholc	REGISTER HERE	Nationalism and Reproductive Rights in Post-Transitional Societies Tue, 07.10.2025, 18:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Marta Bucholc Series: Lecture In many countries that have recently gone through political transitions, nationalism has re-emerged as a powerful force. Nationalist politics cast women’s and minorities’ rights as threats to the nation’s survival, tying them to fears of migration, low birth rates, or religious tradition. Marta Bucholc argues that reproductive rights are a central arena where the future of democracy and equality is being decided. Read more
Nationalism and Reproductive Rights in Post-Transitional Societies Tue, 07.10.2025, 18:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Marta Bucholc Series: Lecture In many countries that have recently gone through political transitions, nationalism has re-emerged as a powerful force. Nationalist politics cast women’s and minorities’ rights as threats to the nation’s survival, tying them to fears of migration, low birth rates, or religious tradition. Marta Bucholc argues that reproductive rights are a central arena where the future of democracy and equality is being decided. Read more
	Part I: Rethinking Gender Identity	Tue, 21.10.2025, 18:30	Lecture	Rogers Brubaker	Register here	Part I: Rethinking Gender Identity IWM Lectures in Human Sciences Tue, 21.10.2025, 18:30 Speakers: Rogers Brubaker Series: Lecture Rogers Brubaker’s IWM Lectures in Human Sciences will trace 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 first lecture analyzes the performative, productive, interactive, and regulative workings of the gender identity category. Read more
Part I: Rethinking Gender Identity IWM Lectures in Human Sciences Tue, 21.10.2025, 18:30 Speakers: Rogers Brubaker Series: Lecture Rogers Brubaker’s IWM Lectures in Human Sciences will trace 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 first lecture analyzes the performative, productive, interactive, and regulative workings of the gender identity category. Read more
	Part II: A Quiet Revolution	Thu, 23.10.2025, 18:30	Lecture	Rogers Brubaker	Register here	Part II: A Quiet Revolution IWM Lectures in Human Sciences Thu, 23.10.2025, 18:30 Speakers: Rogers Brubaker Series: Lecture Rogers Brubaker’s IWM Lectures in Human Sciences will trace 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 second lecture will identify five intertwined processes that have shaped the “gender identity” category: the depathologization, universalization, vernacularization, legalization, and promotion of the category. Read more
Part II: A Quiet Revolution IWM Lectures in Human Sciences Thu, 23.10.2025, 18:30 Speakers: Rogers Brubaker Series: Lecture Rogers Brubaker’s IWM Lectures in Human Sciences will trace 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 second lecture will identify five intertwined processes that have shaped the “gender identity” category: the depathologization, universalization, vernacularization, legalization, and promotion of the category. Read more
	Part III: A Decade of Contestation	Tue, 28.10.2025, 18:30	Lecture	Misha Glenny Rogers Brubaker	Register here	Part III: A Decade of Contestation IWM Lectures in Human Sciences Tue, 28.10.2025, 18:30 Speakers: Misha Glenny Rogers Brubaker Series: Lecture Rogers Brubaker’s IWM Lectures in Human Sciences will trace 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 will address 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 IWM Lectures in Human Sciences Tue, 28.10.2025, 18:30 Speakers: Misha Glenny Rogers Brubaker Series: Lecture Rogers Brubaker’s IWM Lectures in Human Sciences will trace 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 will address 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