Upcoming Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers	Register
	Vienna Meets Prague	Fri, 02.06.2023 - Tue, 06.06.2023	Festivals	Ludger Hagedorn Radka Denemarková Misha Glenny Jáchym Topol, Martin Pollack, Martin Búřil		Vienna Meets Prague Fri, 02.06.2023 - Tue, 06.06.2023 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Radka Denemarková Misha Glenny Jáchym Topol, Martin Pollack, Martin Búřil Series: Festivals The fourth edition of the Vienna Meets Prague Festival is inviting to discover highlights of Czech culture in Vienna. Read more

	Exhibition Opening: Bearing Witness to War	Fri, 02.06.2023	Exhibition	Mariia ShynkarenkoMariia Shynkarenko, Katharina Hasewend		Exhibition Opening: Bearing Witness to War Fri, 02.06.2023 Speakers: Mariia ShynkarenkoMariia Shynkarenko, Katharina Hasewend Series: Exhibition Documenting Ukraine program at the IWM, in cooperation with Bildrecht, presents the exhibition Documenting Ukraine: Bearing Witness to War, which will take place at the Bildraum Studio from 3 June till 1 July 2023. Read more
Exhibition Opening: Bearing Witness to War Fri, 02.06.2023 Speakers: Mariia ShynkarenkoMariia Shynkarenko, Katharina Hasewend Series: Exhibition Documenting Ukraine program at the IWM, in cooperation with Bildrecht, presents the exhibition Documenting Ukraine: Bearing Witness to War, which will take place at the Bildraum Studio from 3 June till 1 July 2023. 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
	Responsible AI	Wed, 07.06.2023	Lecture	Hannes Werthner Ludger Hagedorn Ricardo Baeza-YatesGerti Kappel	I want to attend	Responsible AI Wed, 07.06.2023 Speakers: Hannes Werthner Ludger Hagedorn Ricardo Baeza-YatesGerti Kappel Series: Lecture The first part of this presentation will cover irresponsible AI. This will set the context for the second part, where three main challenges will be addressed: (1) principles and governance, (2) regulation, and (3) our cognitive biases. At the end of the talk there will be a discussion on responsible AI initiatives and the outlook for the near future. Read more
Responsible AI Wed, 07.06.2023 Speakers: Hannes Werthner Ludger Hagedorn Ricardo Baeza-YatesGerti Kappel Series: Lecture The first part of this presentation will cover irresponsible AI. This will set the context for the second part, where three main challenges will be addressed: (1) principles and governance, (2) regulation, and (3) our cognitive biases. At the end of the talk there will be a discussion on responsible AI initiatives and the outlook for the near future. Read more
	Reading Russian Philosophy in the Age of Putin	Tue, 13.06.2023	Lecture	Clemena Antonova Nikolay Mitrokhin Serguei OushakineRandall A. Poole, Dessy Gavrilova	REGISTRATION	Reading Russian Philosophy in the Age of Putin Tue, 13.06.2023 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Nikolay Mitrokhin Serguei OushakineRandall A. Poole, Dessy Gavrilova Series: Lecture The third part of the lecture series, “Reading Russian Philosophy in the Age of Putin,” will offer contemporary readings of topics relating to religion and human rights. In the afternoon session, the two speakers will consider the official rhetoric of the Russian Orthodox Church on the Russo-Ukrainian War. They will look closely and critique some of the positions of the Church, frequently identified with the pronouncements of Patriarch Kirill, which make intentional associations with a long intellectual tradition of Eastern Orthodox and Russian thought. The evening lecture will consider the contemporary demise of a nineteenth-century Russian intellectual tradition of human dignity and human rights. Read more
Reading Russian Philosophy in the Age of Putin Tue, 13.06.2023 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Nikolay Mitrokhin Serguei OushakineRandall A. Poole, Dessy Gavrilova Series: Lecture The third part of the lecture series, “Reading Russian Philosophy in the Age of Putin,” will offer contemporary readings of topics relating to religion and human rights. In the afternoon session, the two speakers will consider the official rhetoric of the Russian Orthodox Church on the Russo-Ukrainian War. They will look closely and critique some of the positions of the Church, frequently identified with the pronouncements of Patriarch Kirill, which make intentional associations with a long intellectual tradition of Eastern Orthodox and Russian thought. The evening lecture will consider the contemporary demise of a nineteenth-century Russian intellectual tradition of human dignity and human rights. Read more
	Mahler's Vienna and New York. Reflections on Modernism and Antisemitism	Fri, 16.06.2023	Lecture	Ira Katznelson		Mahler's Vienna and New York. Reflections on Modernism and Antisemitism Fri, 16.06.2023 Speakers: Ira Katznelson Series: Lecture Krzysztof Michalski, philosopher, charismatic personality, founder, and long-time rector of IWM. For this year's Krzysztof Michalski Memorial Lecture, we have invited the political scientist and historian Ira Katznelson. Listen to his reflection on the topic "Mahler's Vienna and New York: Reflections on Modernism and Antisemitism." Read more
Mahler's Vienna and New York. Reflections on Modernism and Antisemitism Fri, 16.06.2023 Speakers: Ira Katznelson Series: Lecture Krzysztof Michalski, philosopher, charismatic personality, founder, and long-time rector of IWM. For this year's Krzysztof Michalski Memorial Lecture, we have invited the political scientist and historian Ira Katznelson. Listen to his reflection on the topic "Mahler's Vienna and New York: Reflections on Modernism and Antisemitism." Read more