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.
- An Anti-Nationalist Organic Wholeness? Walter Benjamin and the Body of Humankind at the Turn of the 1920sThis project builds on undeveloped tropes in Karolina Jesień’s PhD thesis and aims to analyze Walter Benjamin’s early post-WWI writings (1918–1923).
- 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
- Digital Regulation and the Defense of DemocracyIn an increasingly fragmented post-public sphere, communicative space is continually being reconstituted in response to developments in digital technologies.
- 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.
- 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.
Jobs and Open Calls
News
- Reflections on the Spring Fellows' Conference 2025On 28 May, fellows and guests of the Institute gathered for the spring 2025 edition of IWM’s biennial Fellow’s Conference. On this occasion, 11 presenters explored the themes of solidarity and crisis through time and…
- New Fellows Arriving at the IWM in JuneWe are pleased to introduce the new fellows arriving at the Institute in June. Learn more about their fellowships and research projects by clicking on their names. For interview requests or media inquiries, please reach…
- 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.
Upcoming events
- Monthly Lecture with Cas MuddeLecture
- Festivals
- Toyen. První dáma surrealismu // First Lady des SurrealismusFestivals
- Lesung und Gespräch mit Dora KaprálováFestivals
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Upcoming events
- Monthly Lecture with Cas MuddeLecture
- Festivals
- Toyen. První dáma surrealismu // First Lady des SurrealismusFestivals
- Lesung und Gespräch mit Dora KaprálováFestivals
News
- Reflections on the Spring Fellows' Conference 2025On 28 May, fellows and guests of the Institute gathered for the spring 2025 edition of IWM’s biennial Fellow’s Conference. On this occasion, 11 presenters explored the themes of solidarity and crisis through time and…
- New Fellows Arriving at the IWM in JuneWe are pleased to introduce the new fellows arriving at the Institute in June. Learn more about their fellowships and research projects by clicking on their names. For interview requests or media inquiries, please reach…
- 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.
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.
- An Anti-Nationalist Organic Wholeness? Walter Benjamin and the Body of Humankind at the Turn of the 1920sThis project builds on undeveloped tropes in Karolina Jesień’s PhD thesis and aims to analyze Walter Benjamin’s early post-WWI writings (1918–1923).
- 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
- Digital Regulation and the Defense of DemocracyIn an increasingly fragmented post-public sphere, communicative space is continually being reconstituted in response to developments in digital technologies.
- 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.
- 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.
Recent Media
Jobs and Open Calls
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