Current Fellows' research
- Aneta Anra: Jehudit. Pasaulis galėtų būti toks gražus [Jehudit. How Beautiful the World Could Be] (LIT > POL)The aim of the project is to translate Aneta Anra’s book into Polish. Jehudit is a documented story about the Shoah, told from the point of view of two women in their declining years: a Holocaust survivor and a Polish savior of Lithuanian Jews.
- 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.
- Kyiv Frescoes: A Personal and Cultural History of Ukraine’s CapitalNotably overlooked in literary nonfiction, Kyiv serves as a powerful symbol of Ukraine’s diversity and complexity.
- Rethinking the Far RightThe starting point of this project builds on one of the main arguments of Mudde’s 2019 book The Far Right Today, namely that we are currently in a different (fourth) phase of the postwar far right, which is both qualitatively and quantitatively different.
- Industry-led MigrationMigration has long been a topic of discussion in political discourse, and experiences of racism are part of the everyday life of migrant workers in Germany.
- Beyond Empire: Poland, Ukraine, and the End of Moscow’s Hegemony in Central Eastern Europe, 1980-1991When telling the story of the end of the Soviet Union, the focus is still mostly on events in Russia and Moscow.
News
- Applications Open for Documenting Ukraine GrantsThe Documenting Ukraine program is glad to launch the 2025 application cycle. Ukrainian academics, creative professionals and public intellectuals are welcome to apply for one-time 5000 EUR grants for projects…
- IWMpost 135 Out Now!Perhaps it is due to the tremendous political changes of our time that a majority of the essays in this edition address political issues. Several contributions focus on the current crisis of democracy. In the lead…
- Timothy Snyder to Give a Lecture on Belarus on 27 JuneOn 27 June, IWM Lesya Ukrainka Permanent Fellow Timothy Snyder will hold a lecture at Wien Museum on Belarus: Ancient and Modern. A Reconsideration of a Central European History.
Upcoming events
- Fellows' Colloquium with Manuela BojadžijevSeminars and Colloquia
- A Reconsideration of a Central European HistoryLecture
- Lecture
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Upcoming events
- Fellows' Colloquium with Manuela BojadžijevSeminars and Colloquia
- A Reconsideration of a Central European HistoryLecture
- Lecture
News
- Applications Open for Documenting Ukraine GrantsThe Documenting Ukraine program is glad to launch the 2025 application cycle. Ukrainian academics, creative professionals and public intellectuals are welcome to apply for one-time 5000 EUR grants for projects…
- IWMpost 135 Out Now!Perhaps it is due to the tremendous political changes of our time that a majority of the essays in this edition address political issues. Several contributions focus on the current crisis of democracy. In the lead…
- Timothy Snyder to Give a Lecture on Belarus on 27 JuneOn 27 June, IWM Lesya Ukrainka Permanent Fellow Timothy Snyder will hold a lecture at Wien Museum on Belarus: Ancient and Modern. A Reconsideration of a Central European History.
Current Fellows' research
- 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
- The End of Russian Hegemony: Changing Regional Order in Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus, and Central AsiaThis research and book project will investigate the end of Russian hegemony in the post-Soviet region as a result of the Russian large-scale war against Ukraine.
- Faith and Flag: Religious Nationalism in the Age of PopulismThe gods are once again afoot in the public square. Across the globe, a toxic mixture of religion and nationalism is upending liberal conventions. In the United States, Christian nationalists have reshaped both the Republican Party and American politics.
- Sense in the Making: Husserl's The Origin of Geometry and the Question of InventionSense in the Making analyzes one of Husserl’s most enigmatic and, at the same time, frequently discussed texts, namely, The Origin of Geometry.
- Digital Pathways and Transnational Frames: The Mobilization of Georgia’s Young Far RightThis study sheds light on the multidimensionality of contemporary far-right mobilization, examining how digital pathways facilitate the intersection of local and transnational narratives.
- Aneta Anra: Jehudit. Pasaulis galėtų būti toks gražus [Jehudit. How Beautiful the World Could Be] (LIT > POL)The aim of the project is to translate Aneta Anra’s book into Polish. Jehudit is a documented story about the Shoah, told from the point of view of two women in their declining years: a Holocaust survivor and a Polish savior of Lithuanian Jews.
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