Upcoming Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers	Register
	Let's Agree on Poland	Tue, 09.12.2025, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Maciej KisilowskiAndreas Treichl, Christian Ultsch	REGISTER HERE	Let's Agree on Poland Political Salon with Maciej Kisilowski Tue, 09.12.2025, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Maciej KisilowskiAndreas Treichl, Christian Ultsch Series: Panels and Discussions Launched in 2004 in cooperation with the Austrian daily Die Presse, the Political Salons are a platform for open and informed debate on international affairs. The opening event, featuring guest speaker Maciej Kisilowski, will focus on Poland—a country at the center of Europe’s political and economic transformation. The discussion is guided by a trio of renowned interlocutors: Die Presse’s Christian Ultsch, Andreas Treichl from ERSTE Foundation, and IWM Albert Hirschman Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev. Read more
Let's Agree on Poland Political Salon with Maciej Kisilowski Tue, 09.12.2025, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Maciej KisilowskiAndreas Treichl, Christian Ultsch Series: Panels and Discussions Launched in 2004 in cooperation with the Austrian daily Die Presse, the Political Salons are a platform for open and informed debate on international affairs. The opening event, featuring guest speaker Maciej Kisilowski, will focus on Poland—a country at the center of Europe’s political and economic transformation. The discussion is guided by a trio of renowned interlocutors: Die Presse’s Christian Ultsch, Andreas Treichl from ERSTE Foundation, and IWM Albert Hirschman Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev. Read more
	Spaces and Traces of Containment: Architectures of Extractivism	Wed, 10.12.2025, 09:30 - Wed, 10.12.2025, 17:30	Conferences and Workshops	Paolo NovakLaura Guérin, Platon Issaias, Katharyne Michell, Martina Tazzioli		Spaces and Traces of Containment: Architectures of Extractivism Wed, 10.12.2025, 09:30 - Wed, 10.12.2025, 17:30 Speakers: Paolo NovakLaura Guérin, Platon Issaias, Katharyne Michell, Martina Tazzioli Series: Conferences and Workshops By exploring the historically produced infrastructures, logistical systems, and their changing assemblages of actors that give these spaces their “afterlives,” the workshop seeks to bring together empirical research on the scalar configurations of (im)mobility governance at the intersections of state, capital, and labor. Read more
Spaces and Traces of Containment: Architectures of Extractivism Wed, 10.12.2025, 09:30 - Wed, 10.12.2025, 17:30 Speakers: Paolo NovakLaura Guérin, Platon Issaias, Katharyne Michell, Martina Tazzioli Series: Conferences and Workshops By exploring the historically produced infrastructures, logistical systems, and their changing assemblages of actors that give these spaces their “afterlives,” the workshop seeks to bring together empirical research on the scalar configurations of (im)mobility governance at the intersections of state, capital, and labor. Read more
	What Was Christian Democracy?	Thu, 11.12.2025, 18:00	Lecture	Jan-Werner Müller Ludger Hagedorn Misha Glenny		What Was Christian Democracy? Jan Patočka Memorial Lecture Thu, 11.12.2025, 18:00 Speakers: Jan-Werner Müller Ludger Hagedorn Misha Glenny Series: Lecture This year’s Jan Patočka Memorial will be held by Jan-Werner Müller, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences at Princeton University. His lecture explores the historical development of Christian democracy as an ideology reconciling Catholicism and modern democracy, questioning what remains of it today and how contemporary strands of populism and post-liberalism relate to this tradition. Read more
What Was Christian Democracy? Jan Patočka Memorial Lecture Thu, 11.12.2025, 18:00 Speakers: Jan-Werner Müller Ludger Hagedorn Misha Glenny Series: Lecture This year’s Jan Patočka Memorial will be held by Jan-Werner Müller, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences at Princeton University. His lecture explores the historical development of Christian democracy as an ideology reconciling Catholicism and modern democracy, questioning what remains of it today and how contemporary strands of populism and post-liberalism relate to this tradition. Read more
	The Fifth Estate: An Urgent Look at the Sociology of Knowledge	Mon, 15.12.2025, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Misha Glenny Peter B. Kaufman		The Fifth Estate: An Urgent Look at the Sociology of Knowledge Fellows' Colloquium with Peter B. Kaufman Mon, 15.12.2025, 16:00 Speakers: Misha Glenny Peter B. Kaufman Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows’ Colloquium, Peter B. Kaufman presents The Fifth Estate: An Urgent Look at the Sociology of Knowledge, exploring what people believe, how they come to believe it, and the interests shaping those beliefs. Drawing on Ludwik Fleck and Karl Mannheim, he calls for a renewed focus on Wissenssoziologie to confront future crises of toxic thinking. Read more
The Fifth Estate: An Urgent Look at the Sociology of Knowledge Fellows' Colloquium with Peter B. Kaufman Mon, 15.12.2025, 16:00 Speakers: Misha Glenny Peter B. Kaufman Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows’ Colloquium, Peter B. Kaufman presents The Fifth Estate: An Urgent Look at the Sociology of Knowledge, exploring what people believe, how they come to believe it, and the interests shaping those beliefs. Drawing on Ludwik Fleck and Karl Mannheim, he calls for a renewed focus on Wissenssoziologie to confront future crises of toxic thinking. Read more