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The IWM promotes intellectual exchange between disciplines, academia and society, through public events, and fellowships for scholars, journalists, translators.
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📣 Call for applications!
We are currently accepting applications for the Milena Jesenská Fellowship, a three‑month residency for cultural journalists from across Europe, offering a monthly stipend, workspace, and access to the IWM community.
More info & to apply: www.iwm.at/calls/milena...
We are currently accepting applications for the Milena Jesenská Fellowship, a three‑month residency for cultural journalists from across Europe, offering a monthly stipend, workspace, and access to the IWM community.
More info & to apply: www.iwm.at/calls/milena...
December 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
📣 Call for applications!
We are currently accepting applications for the Milena Jesenská Fellowship, a three‑month residency for cultural journalists from across Europe, offering a monthly stipend, workspace, and access to the IWM community.
More info & to apply: www.iwm.at/calls/milena...
We are currently accepting applications for the Milena Jesenská Fellowship, a three‑month residency for cultural journalists from across Europe, offering a monthly stipend, workspace, and access to the IWM community.
More info & to apply: www.iwm.at/calls/milena...
The Polish women’s movement turned the legacy of sacrifice into a weapon for suffrage. With nationalism as its ally, it was among the world’s first to secure voting rights. Yet, the doors to power remained firmly shut to women.
🗞️ Katarzyna Wężyk in the latest IWMpost: www.iwm.at/publication/...
🗞️ Katarzyna Wężyk in the latest IWMpost: www.iwm.at/publication/...
December 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The Polish women’s movement turned the legacy of sacrifice into a weapon for suffrage. With nationalism as its ally, it was among the world’s first to secure voting rights. Yet, the doors to power remained firmly shut to women.
🗞️ Katarzyna Wężyk in the latest IWMpost: www.iwm.at/publication/...
🗞️ Katarzyna Wężyk in the latest IWMpost: www.iwm.at/publication/...
How did the Civil War’s unresolved questions shape modern America? In one of our most popular videos this week, historian Gary Gerstle joins Misha Glenny to explore questions of race, power, identity, and the roots of today’s populism.
👉 Rewatch their talk from the #VHF25: youtu.be/P2nGfljbGTk?...
👉 Rewatch their talk from the #VHF25: youtu.be/P2nGfljbGTk?...
GARY GERSTLE - TRACES OF THE CIVIL WAR: AMERICA’S POLITICAL TRAUMA
GARY GERSTLE IN CONVERSATION WITH MISHA GLENNY
SONNTAG / SUNDAY, 28.09.2025 / 14h00
AKADEMIE DER BILDENDEN KÜNSTE WIEN, SITZUNGSSAAL
The North’s decisive military victory in the American Civil War…
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December 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
How did the Civil War’s unresolved questions shape modern America? In one of our most popular videos this week, historian Gary Gerstle joins Misha Glenny to explore questions of race, power, identity, and the roots of today’s populism.
👉 Rewatch their talk from the #VHF25: youtu.be/P2nGfljbGTk?...
👉 Rewatch their talk from the #VHF25: youtu.be/P2nGfljbGTk?...
The IWM will be closed from 24 December to 7 January. As the year draws to a close, here are 12 of our favorite books that shaped 2025 at the Institute:
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December 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The IWM will be closed from 24 December to 7 January. As the year draws to a close, here are 12 of our favorite books that shaped 2025 at the Institute:
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📚 www.iwm.at/news/our-yea...
🎙️New podcast episode out!
Did global order really begin in Europe—and are we now entering a long age of disorder?
Listen to the latest FD episode with IR scholar @aysezarakol.bsky.social on empires, strongmen, and what might come after the nation state: buff.ly/QSFpsSD
🤝 @falter.at
Did global order really begin in Europe—and are we now entering a long age of disorder?
Listen to the latest FD episode with IR scholar @aysezarakol.bsky.social on empires, strongmen, and what might come after the nation state: buff.ly/QSFpsSD
🤝 @falter.at
December 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
🎙️New podcast episode out!
Did global order really begin in Europe—and are we now entering a long age of disorder?
Listen to the latest FD episode with IR scholar @aysezarakol.bsky.social on empires, strongmen, and what might come after the nation state: buff.ly/QSFpsSD
🤝 @falter.at
Did global order really begin in Europe—and are we now entering a long age of disorder?
Listen to the latest FD episode with IR scholar @aysezarakol.bsky.social on empires, strongmen, and what might come after the nation state: buff.ly/QSFpsSD
🤝 @falter.at
Serbia has become one of the focal points in the global struggle to protect academic freedom. The IWM was honored to host a delegation led by University of Belgrade Rector Vladan Đokić for yesterday's roundtable on civic resilience and institutional pushback against the assault on Serbian academia.
December 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Serbia has become one of the focal points in the global struggle to protect academic freedom. The IWM was honored to host a delegation led by University of Belgrade Rector Vladan Đokić for yesterday's roundtable on civic resilience and institutional pushback against the assault on Serbian academia.
📻 What is the future of public service media in an age of deepening polarization, disinformation, and eroding trust? In the latest IWMpost issue, @vstetka.bsky.social argues that its survival depends on its capacity to adapt to the digital era while resisting its harmful impacts.
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👉 buff.ly/g6T1Q3f
December 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
📻 What is the future of public service media in an age of deepening polarization, disinformation, and eroding trust? In the latest IWMpost issue, @vstetka.bsky.social argues that its survival depends on its capacity to adapt to the digital era while resisting its harmful impacts.
👉 buff.ly/g6T1Q3f
👉 buff.ly/g6T1Q3f
In political transitions, nationalism resurges, with reproductive rights often being the first casualty. In one of our most popular videos this week, Marta Bucholc shows why struggles over reproduction sit at the very heart of democracy, justice, and equality.
👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMpU...
👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMpU...
MARTA BUCHOLC: Nationalism and Reproductive Rights in Post-Transitional Societies
Nationalism and Reproductive Rights in Post-Transitional Societies
Marta Bucholc, Ludger Hagedorn
7 October 2025, 18:00 CEST
IWM Library
In many countries that have recently gone through political…
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December 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM
In political transitions, nationalism resurges, with reproductive rights often being the first casualty. In one of our most popular videos this week, Marta Bucholc shows why struggles over reproduction sit at the very heart of democracy, justice, and equality.
👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMpU...
👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMpU...
🗞️ IWMpost 136 Out Now!
From AI governance, public service media, and digital platforms in Africa to the computational visions of society championed by one of the leading intellectuals of the American Right, this issue maps the many dimensions of digital transformation.
➡️ www.iwm.at/publication/...
From AI governance, public service media, and digital platforms in Africa to the computational visions of society championed by one of the leading intellectuals of the American Right, this issue maps the many dimensions of digital transformation.
➡️ www.iwm.at/publication/...
December 11, 2025 at 10:11 AM
🗞️ IWMpost 136 Out Now!
From AI governance, public service media, and digital platforms in Africa to the computational visions of society championed by one of the leading intellectuals of the American Right, this issue maps the many dimensions of digital transformation.
➡️ www.iwm.at/publication/...
From AI governance, public service media, and digital platforms in Africa to the computational visions of society championed by one of the leading intellectuals of the American Right, this issue maps the many dimensions of digital transformation.
➡️ www.iwm.at/publication/...
📢 Call for Applications!
The Jan Patočka Fellowship is open to doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in the humanities and social sciences who work on topics inspired by Jan Patočka’s legacy and his intellectual endeavor to rethink Europe under post-European paradigms.
www.iwm.at/calls/jan-pa...
The Jan Patočka Fellowship is open to doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in the humanities and social sciences who work on topics inspired by Jan Patočka’s legacy and his intellectual endeavor to rethink Europe under post-European paradigms.
www.iwm.at/calls/jan-pa...
December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
📢 Call for Applications!
The Jan Patočka Fellowship is open to doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in the humanities and social sciences who work on topics inspired by Jan Patočka’s legacy and his intellectual endeavor to rethink Europe under post-European paradigms.
www.iwm.at/calls/jan-pa...
The Jan Patočka Fellowship is open to doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in the humanities and social sciences who work on topics inspired by Jan Patočka’s legacy and his intellectual endeavor to rethink Europe under post-European paradigms.
www.iwm.at/calls/jan-pa...
Thank you to everyone who joined today’s workshop "Spaces and Traces of Containment: Architectures of Extractivism." We look forward to welcoming you back to the IWM soon!
@terminalias.bsky.social @smartitaz.bsky.social
@terminalias.bsky.social @smartitaz.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Thank you to everyone who joined today’s workshop "Spaces and Traces of Containment: Architectures of Extractivism." We look forward to welcoming you back to the IWM soon!
@terminalias.bsky.social @smartitaz.bsky.social
@terminalias.bsky.social @smartitaz.bsky.social
There are a few seats left for tonight's Political Salon with Maciej Kisilowski! Register here: civi.iwm.at/form/event-r...
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@erstestiftung.org @diepressecom.bsky.social @paninwien.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
There are a few seats left for tonight's Political Salon with Maciej Kisilowski! Register here: civi.iwm.at/form/event-r...
@erstestiftung.org @diepressecom.bsky.social @paninwien.bsky.social
@erstestiftung.org @diepressecom.bsky.social @paninwien.bsky.social
How did the fall of the Habsburg Empire reshape modern sovereignty?
In one of our most popular videos this week, historian Natasha Wheatley unpacks the roots of 20th-century nation-building.
📺 Watch her keynote from this year's #VHF: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJcn...
In one of our most popular videos this week, historian Natasha Wheatley unpacks the roots of 20th-century nation-building.
📺 Watch her keynote from this year's #VHF: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJcn...
NATASHA WHEATLEY - CENTRAL EUROPE AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN SOVEREIGNTY
FREITAG, 26.09.2025 / 18h30
WIEN MUSEUM, VERANSTALTUNGSSAAL, 3.OG
In her keynote lecture, American historian NATASHA WHEATLEY will elaborate on the main insights from her widely acclaimed book The…
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December 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
How did the fall of the Habsburg Empire reshape modern sovereignty?
In one of our most popular videos this week, historian Natasha Wheatley unpacks the roots of 20th-century nation-building.
📺 Watch her keynote from this year's #VHF: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJcn...
In one of our most popular videos this week, historian Natasha Wheatley unpacks the roots of 20th-century nation-building.
📺 Watch her keynote from this year's #VHF: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJcn...
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All human drama is encounter, and all human communication is translation.
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@sjgarnett.bsky.social
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We live in a world where the borders between one language and another, between reality and non-reality, between the human and the non-human, are all being denied. Translation can be an antidote to this nihilism of borderlessness, writes @marcishore.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/encounters-i...
Encounters in the borderlands
We live in a world where the borders between one language and another, between reality and non-reality, between the human and the non-human, are all being denied. As a reminder of difference and an op...
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December 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
All human drama is encounter, and all human communication is translation.
@sjgarnett.bsky.social
@iwm.at
@sjgarnett.bsky.social
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Join us for the relaunch of our Political Salons on 9 Dec with Maciej Kisilowski, IWM fellow & professor @weareceu.bsky.social. He will discuss Poland’s political fragmentation, its economic “miracle,” and the country’s evolving role in shaping European security policy.
➡️ www.iwm.at/event/lets-a...
➡️ www.iwm.at/event/lets-a...
December 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Join us for the relaunch of our Political Salons on 9 Dec with Maciej Kisilowski, IWM fellow & professor @weareceu.bsky.social. He will discuss Poland’s political fragmentation, its economic “miracle,” and the country’s evolving role in shaping European security policy.
➡️ www.iwm.at/event/lets-a...
➡️ www.iwm.at/event/lets-a...
🎙️ New podcast episode out!
What really drove Soviet leaders? How did China become Moscow’s nightmare? And why is Putin’s war in Ukraine such a catastrophic gamble?
👉 Find out in our latest episode with @radchenko.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/37fa6cs4
@falter.at @evakonzett.bsky.social
What really drove Soviet leaders? How did China become Moscow’s nightmare? And why is Putin’s war in Ukraine such a catastrophic gamble?
👉 Find out in our latest episode with @radchenko.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/37fa6cs4
@falter.at @evakonzett.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🎙️ New podcast episode out!
What really drove Soviet leaders? How did China become Moscow’s nightmare? And why is Putin’s war in Ukraine such a catastrophic gamble?
👉 Find out in our latest episode with @radchenko.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/37fa6cs4
@falter.at @evakonzett.bsky.social
What really drove Soviet leaders? How did China become Moscow’s nightmare? And why is Putin’s war in Ukraine such a catastrophic gamble?
👉 Find out in our latest episode with @radchenko.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/37fa6cs4
@falter.at @evakonzett.bsky.social
We are delighted that six new fellows will start their research stays this month. Welcome to the IWM, Adam Bence Balazs, @okhromeychuk.bsky.social, Jakob Mikanowski, @terminalias.bsky.social, Milica Rašić, and Uldis Tirons!
👉 Find out more about their work here: www.iwm.at/news/new-fel...
👉 Find out more about their work here: www.iwm.at/news/new-fel...
December 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
We are delighted that six new fellows will start their research stays this month. Welcome to the IWM, Adam Bence Balazs, @okhromeychuk.bsky.social, Jakob Mikanowski, @terminalias.bsky.social, Milica Rašić, and Uldis Tirons!
👉 Find out more about their work here: www.iwm.at/news/new-fel...
👉 Find out more about their work here: www.iwm.at/news/new-fel...
Missed @ajwsmall.bsky.social's Geopolitical Talk on Tuesday? Rewatch one of our most popular videos this week, where Small and IWM Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev dissect the US-EU-China power triangle:
youtu.be/dcAdhfQsWq8?...
youtu.be/dcAdhfQsWq8?...
ANDREW SMALL: Deciphering the Triangle: US Disorder, Chinese Ambition, and European Agency
Deciphering the Triangle: US Disorder, Chinese Ambition, and European Agency
Andrew Small, Ivan Krastev
25 November 2025, 18:00 CET
IWM Library
If Europeans expected Trump’s second term to bring a…
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November 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Missed @ajwsmall.bsky.social's Geopolitical Talk on Tuesday? Rewatch one of our most popular videos this week, where Small and IWM Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev dissect the US-EU-China power triangle:
youtu.be/dcAdhfQsWq8?...
youtu.be/dcAdhfQsWq8?...
Are you a translator working on non‑fiction in the humanities, social sciences, cultural studies, between Eastern ↔ Western European languages? Apply for a 2026/2027 Paul Celan Fellowship at the IWM! Deadline: 16 Jan 2026.
➡️ iwm.at/calls/paul-celan-fellowship-26-27
In coop with S. Fischer Stiftung
➡️ iwm.at/calls/paul-celan-fellowship-26-27
In coop with S. Fischer Stiftung
November 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Are you a translator working on non‑fiction in the humanities, social sciences, cultural studies, between Eastern ↔ Western European languages? Apply for a 2026/2027 Paul Celan Fellowship at the IWM! Deadline: 16 Jan 2026.
➡️ iwm.at/calls/paul-celan-fellowship-26-27
In coop with S. Fischer Stiftung
➡️ iwm.at/calls/paul-celan-fellowship-26-27
In coop with S. Fischer Stiftung
Trump’s courting of Europe’s far right may deepen polarization without securing lasting U.S. influence, argues IWM Albert Hirschman Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev in his latest piece for Foreign Affairs 👇
“Trump is not interested in exporting democracy. What he is keen to export is his domestic political agenda—one that is anti-immigration, anti-woke, anti-green,” writes Ivan Krastev.
The Paradox of Europe’s Trumpian Right
How America’s weaponization of ideology could backfire.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Trump’s courting of Europe’s far right may deepen polarization without securing lasting U.S. influence, argues IWM Albert Hirschman Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev in his latest piece for Foreign Affairs 👇
💡 While preparing for this year’s Patočka Memorial Lecture, we dug deep into our archive. Jacques Derrida was among the first to deliver the lecture in 1992. Join us this year on 11 December, when @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social asks what remains of Christian Democracy today.
👉 www.iwm.at/event/what-w...
👉 www.iwm.at/event/what-w...
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
💡 While preparing for this year’s Patočka Memorial Lecture, we dug deep into our archive. Jacques Derrida was among the first to deliver the lecture in 1992. Join us this year on 11 December, when @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social asks what remains of Christian Democracy today.
👉 www.iwm.at/event/what-w...
👉 www.iwm.at/event/what-w...
Could footnotes soon point to videos instead of books?
Read IWM Visiting Fellow @pbkauf.bsky.social's conversation with Russell Harper from the @chicagomanual.bsky.social about Peter B. Kaufman's new book, The Moving Image:
cmosshoptalk.com/2025/11/25/p...
Read IWM Visiting Fellow @pbkauf.bsky.social's conversation with Russell Harper from the @chicagomanual.bsky.social about Peter B. Kaufman's new book, The Moving Image:
cmosshoptalk.com/2025/11/25/p...
Peter B. Kaufman talks about The Moving Image
Peter B. Kaufman is Associate Director of Development at MIT Open Learning. He is the author of The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge (Seven Stories Press, 2021) and founder of Intelli...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Could footnotes soon point to videos instead of books?
Read IWM Visiting Fellow @pbkauf.bsky.social's conversation with Russell Harper from the @chicagomanual.bsky.social about Peter B. Kaufman's new book, The Moving Image:
cmosshoptalk.com/2025/11/25/p...
Read IWM Visiting Fellow @pbkauf.bsky.social's conversation with Russell Harper from the @chicagomanual.bsky.social about Peter B. Kaufman's new book, The Moving Image:
cmosshoptalk.com/2025/11/25/p...
Time to Decide! On 2 December, leading thinkers, policymakers, and experts will gather in Vienna to explore Europe’s place in a shifting world order. Get ready for a day full of bold ideas from some of today's most influential voices!
👉 www.iwm.at/event/time-t...
🤝 @erstestiftung.org
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🤝 @erstestiftung.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Time to Decide! On 2 December, leading thinkers, policymakers, and experts will gather in Vienna to explore Europe’s place in a shifting world order. Get ready for a day full of bold ideas from some of today's most influential voices!
👉 www.iwm.at/event/time-t...
🤝 @erstestiftung.org
👉 www.iwm.at/event/time-t...
🤝 @erstestiftung.org
📖 Last week, the IWM and @tuwien.at co-organized the First Interdisciplinary Science and Research Conference on Digital Humanism here in Vienna. The conference proceedings—30 full and 12 short papers—are available open access on @springernature.com: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
#DigHum2025
#DigHum2025
November 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
📖 Last week, the IWM and @tuwien.at co-organized the First Interdisciplinary Science and Research Conference on Digital Humanism here in Vienna. The conference proceedings—30 full and 12 short papers—are available open access on @springernature.com: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
#DigHum2025
#DigHum2025
How can the Russo-Ukrainian war be brought to an end? IWM Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev weighs in as one of 7 leading experts on @nytimes.com (paywall): www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
Opinion | 7 Experts on How to Actually End the War in Ukraine
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
How can the Russo-Ukrainian war be brought to an end? IWM Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev weighs in as one of 7 leading experts on @nytimes.com (paywall): www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...