Current Fellows' research
- New Institutional DesignsAnna Wojciuk’s current research focuses on the future of liberal democracy in the context of deep political polarization, democratic backsliding, and the growing challenge posed by contemporary radical rightwing movements: what happens when the traditional center right—historically on
- Extending Geopolitical Risk AnalysisThe project focuses on geopolitical risk, a subject on which Thomas Gomart began publishing in 2016 with the ambition of helping companies improve their forecasting.
- Turning an International Crisis against Empires: Political Expressions in Kyiv and Lviv in 1875-1878This project aims to exemplify the prominence of provincial imperial centers and the agency of imperial subjects in relation to major international crises in the 19th century.
- Scripts That Don’t Fit: The Hidden Bias of NLP in South Asian LanguagesThis project examines linguistic inequality in digital infrastructures through the lens of Urdu, a low-resource South Asian language, in Natural Language Processing (NLP).
- History of Ukraine: The Long 20th Century (1914–2022)The aim of this project is to write a new synthesis of the 20th-century history of Ukraine under the working title History of Ukraine: The Long 20th Century (1914–2022).
- Engaged Institutions: Friction, Depletion, and the Common GoodInstitutions are indispensable for collective life, yet many contemporary institutions continue to function while gradually losing their orientation toward the common good.
News
- New Fellows Joining the IWM in OctoberThis month, 14 fellows are joining the Institute. Learn more about their fellowships and research projects by clicking on their names. For interview requests or media inquiries, please contact [email protected].
- A Small World War? Editors, Analysts, and Scholars Discuss the Changing Story of Ukraine and the WorldWhat, exactly, are the “lessons” of Ukraine’s decade of war? Drones and technological innovation are perhaps the most common and obvious answers. But at the IWM’s first International Editors’ Roundtable on Ukraine, one…
- Pankaj Mishra's VHF Keynote on 24 September Moved to MuThDue to the unfavorable weather forecast, the venue for Pankaj Mishra's September 24 keynote at the Vienna Humanities Festival—originally planned as an outdoor event—has been changed.
Upcoming events
- Conferences and Workshops
- Fellows' Colloquium with Daria BadiorSeminars and Colloquia
- IWM Lectures in Human SciencesLecture
- IWM Digital Humanism Fellowship Lecture with Carlo GhezziLecture
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Upcoming events
- Conferences and Workshops
- Fellows' Colloquium with Daria BadiorSeminars and Colloquia
- IWM Lectures in Human SciencesLecture
- IWM Digital Humanism Fellowship Lecture with Carlo GhezziLecture
News
- New Fellows Joining the IWM in OctoberThis month, 14 fellows are joining the Institute. Learn more about their fellowships and research projects by clicking on their names. For interview requests or media inquiries, please contact [email protected].
- A Small World War? Editors, Analysts, and Scholars Discuss the Changing Story of Ukraine and the WorldWhat, exactly, are the “lessons” of Ukraine’s decade of war? Drones and technological innovation are perhaps the most common and obvious answers. But at the IWM’s first International Editors’ Roundtable on Ukraine, one…
- Pankaj Mishra's VHF Keynote on 24 September Moved to MuThDue to the unfavorable weather forecast, the venue for Pankaj Mishra's September 24 keynote at the Vienna Humanities Festival—originally planned as an outdoor event—has been changed.
Current Fellows' research
- Almanacs and the Everyday Roots of Coexistence in the Polish–Lithuanian CommonwealthHow did cheap vernacular print facilitate the integration of Poland–Lithuania’s multilingual and multiconfessional population?
- Culture, Politics, and State: Ukraine's Post-Maidan GenerationDuring her IWM residency, Daria Badior will be working on a collection of 10 essays devoted to the generation of Ukrainian culture makers, curators, and managers whose careers blossomed right after the Revolution of Dignity and the first phase of the Russian war on Ukraine (2014–2022).
- Republicanism, Neighborhood, and the Unalienated Public SpaceThis project aims to develop republican political thought by emphasizing the role of the materiality of public space. Thus, it will consider republicanism a (public) space-centered ideology (in contrast to liberalism as a rights-centered and populism as an identity-centered ideology).
- The Politics of Bras as Consumer Goods in Socialist and Postsocialist PolandThis project examines how bras, as intimate, gendered consumer goods, became entangled with broader political and economic transformations in Poland from the 1960s to the early 2000s.
- The Choices Facing EuropeThe liberal, Enlightenment framework for modern democracy is widely acknowledged to be under serious stress: new technology, growing economic inequality, problems requiring solutions beyond the nation-state, and the resurgence of populist and authoritarian political movements all threaten the mod
- Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: A Global HistorySergey Radchenko will use his time at the IWM to work on a major book project tentatively titled “Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: A Global History.” The project seeks to provide the first comprehensive scholarly history of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukrai
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