🗞️ 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.

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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...

💡 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.

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📣 Call for applications 📣

Are you a (post-) doctoral researcher in the humanities and social sciences, a journalist, or a translator? We are currently accepting applications for seven (!) different fellowship programs for the academic year 2026-2027.

👉 More info: www.iwm.at/news/seven-n...

📖 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

📖 This Saturday, renowned philosopher, sociologist, and author Didier Eribon takes the stage at Volkstheater Vienna. In this final #VHF25 keynote, he will explore questions of voice, visibility, and agency, based on his latest book. @suhrkamp.de

👉 www.humanitiesfestival.at/didier-eribon

📣 Vienna Humanities Festival kicking off today 📣

We look forward to five days of thought-provoking lectures and discussions with some of the world's leading minds from academia, journalism, literature, and the arts.

👉 Check out the full program: www.humanitiesfestival.at

⚔️ Der Deutsche Bauernkrieg von 1525 war kein bloßer Nebenschauplatz der Reformation. Im Eröffnungsvortrag des #VHF beleuchtet Historikerin Lyndal Roper (@ox.ac.uk) die wahre Tragweite dieses Aufstands, gefolgt von einem Gespräch mit @mishaglenny.bsky.social.

➡️ www.humanitiesfestival.at/lyndal-roper

🚨 Program Launch 🚨

The IWM is proud to announce Ukraine and the World, a new research program building on more than a decade of engagement with Ukrainian scholarship, headed by IWM Lesia Ukraїnka Permanent Fellow @timothysnyder.bsky.social.

👉 iwm.at/news/ukraine...

What if the fall of an empire reshaped the meaning of sovereignty far beyond its borders?

Join historian Natasha Wheatly on 26 September, as she traces the legacy of Central Europe's legal past as part of this year's Vienna Humanities Festival: www.humanitiesfestival.at/natasha-whea... #VHF2025

The full program of this year's Vienna Humanities Festival, themed ON EDGE / UNBEHAGEN, is now available online:
www.humanitiesfestival.at/programm-2025

A project by IWM and Time to talk; in cooperation with @erstestiftung.org, @wien.gv.at, Ö1 Intro, @akbild.bsky.social, Wien Museum & Volkstheater.

We are delighted that @peasantpedant.bsky.social, who recently joined the IWM as a Senior Research Fellow, will deliver his first public lecture at the IWM: “The World That Drone Wars Made: War Economies and the Remaking of Political Order.”

Register here: www.iwm.at/event/the-wo...

Institutionelle Aushöhlung, fehlende Strategien & Kapazitäten. Wie der schwache "starke" Mann Donald Trump mit seiner Politik den Feinden Amerikas in die Hände spielt, analysiert @timothysnyder.bsky.social, IWM Lesya Ukrainka Permanent Fellow, in @derstandard.at

www.derstandard.at/story/300000...