Current Fellows' research
- Critical Raw Materials and Competing Futures on Earth and in SpaceMany human activities exceed the planetary scale, yet all are inescapably grounded in specific places and times. Whether we are discussing the energy transition, space exploration, warfare, or disaster recovery, these activities rely on hardware positioned on Earth or in space.
- Female Sexual Agency, Liberatory Advocacies, and the Digital Space in Nigerian Online YouTube PlatformsDeriving from two crucial observations: (1) that a strong “archival impulse,” a phrase Hal Foster uses to describe a compulsive inclination to record or document experiences, characterizes online practices surrounding gender and sexuality among African netizens; and (2) that this arch
- Post-Europe and the Ethos of Responsibility. Rethinking Europe since Jan Patočka and CEE’s dissidentsThe aim of this research is to explore the relevance of Jan Patočka’s complex theorization of the concept of Post-Europe.
- Political Trade Unionism: Industrial Cooperation and the Construction of the Class Struggle in Fin-de-Siècle EuropeThis project examines a tradition of thought in fin-de-siècle Europe on the role of socialist trade unions in capitalist society.
- Kosovo Specialist Chambers as a New Model of Internationalized Courts: Legal, Political and Discursive Implications for Transitional JusticeThe Kosovo Specialist Chambers are a distinctive entity in international criminal justice, tasked with prosecuting war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army during and after the Kosovo War.
- Exploring the Genesis Moment: Tracking the Making of a New World Order and Europe’s Place in ItAs the existing world order unravels, how the new one will be forged is yet uncertain, as there is no consensus on how to identify the new or upcoming order. Many identifications have been suggested: the world is multipolar, apolar, asymmetrically multipolar, in entropy, or bipolar.
News
- IWM at Hay Festival 2025From 22 May to 1 June, Hay Festival Hay-on-Wye 2025 will take place in Wales. The IWM will be represented at different events.
- A Speech to Europe 2025: Lea Ypi on MigrationOn the occasion of this years's Speech to Europe, philosopher and political scientist Lea Ypi delivered her "Speech to Europe on Migration" on Vienna's Judenplatz on 15 May. Ypi argues that migration is not the…
- Sechstes Vienna meets Prague Festival: 11.-14. Juni 2025Mit Literatur, Kunst, Musik und Film aus dem Nachbarland versprechen 6 Veranstaltungen über 4 Tage hinweg wieder eine intensive Begegnung mit tschechischer Kultur und den Menschen, die sie gestalten. Das IWM, die…
Upcoming events
- An event in the context of Hay FestivalFestivals
- Conferences and Workshops
- Fellows' Colloquium with Philip SchlesingerSeminars and Colloquia
- Monthly Lecture with Cas MuddeLecture
Recent Media
Upcoming events
- An event in the context of Hay FestivalFestivals
- Conferences and Workshops
- Fellows' Colloquium with Philip SchlesingerSeminars and Colloquia
- Monthly Lecture with Cas MuddeLecture
News
- IWM at Hay Festival 2025From 22 May to 1 June, Hay Festival Hay-on-Wye 2025 will take place in Wales. The IWM will be represented at different events.
- A Speech to Europe 2025: Lea Ypi on MigrationOn the occasion of this years's Speech to Europe, philosopher and political scientist Lea Ypi delivered her "Speech to Europe on Migration" on Vienna's Judenplatz on 15 May. Ypi argues that migration is not the…
- Sechstes Vienna meets Prague Festival: 11.-14. Juni 2025Mit Literatur, Kunst, Musik und Film aus dem Nachbarland versprechen 6 Veranstaltungen über 4 Tage hinweg wieder eine intensive Begegnung mit tschechischer Kultur und den Menschen, die sie gestalten. Das IWM, die…
Current Fellows' research
- Critical Raw Materials and Competing Futures on Earth and in SpaceMany human activities exceed the planetary scale, yet all are inescapably grounded in specific places and times. Whether we are discussing the energy transition, space exploration, warfare, or disaster recovery, these activities rely on hardware positioned on Earth or in space.
- Female Sexual Agency, Liberatory Advocacies, and the Digital Space in Nigerian Online YouTube PlatformsDeriving from two crucial observations: (1) that a strong “archival impulse,” a phrase Hal Foster uses to describe a compulsive inclination to record or document experiences, characterizes online practices surrounding gender and sexuality among African netizens; and (2) that this arch
- Post-Europe and the Ethos of Responsibility. Rethinking Europe since Jan Patočka and CEE’s dissidentsThe aim of this research is to explore the relevance of Jan Patočka’s complex theorization of the concept of Post-Europe.
- Political Trade Unionism: Industrial Cooperation and the Construction of the Class Struggle in Fin-de-Siècle EuropeThis project examines a tradition of thought in fin-de-siècle Europe on the role of socialist trade unions in capitalist society.
- Kosovo Specialist Chambers as a New Model of Internationalized Courts: Legal, Political and Discursive Implications for Transitional JusticeThe Kosovo Specialist Chambers are a distinctive entity in international criminal justice, tasked with prosecuting war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army during and after the Kosovo War.
- Exploring the Genesis Moment: Tracking the Making of a New World Order and Europe’s Place in ItAs the existing world order unravels, how the new one will be forged is yet uncertain, as there is no consensus on how to identify the new or upcoming order. Many identifications have been suggested: the world is multipolar, apolar, asymmetrically multipolar, in entropy, or bipolar.
Recent Media
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