Current Fellows' research
- Displaced People from Ukraine in Prague: New Political Subjectivities and Relations of SolidarityBased on ethnographic fieldwork, this project aims to address how, through their political claims and repertoires of actions, Ukrainians displaced by the war enacted new political subjectivities, shaped political alliances, and charged public spaces in Prague with new meanings.
- How to Live a Good Life in a Bad RegimeLiberal democracy is on the defensive and the number of authoritarian regimes is on the rise. Martin Milan Šimečka lives in Slovakia, where the extreme right is in power.
- Resistance, Temporariness and Political (Dis)Continuity: Urban Governance and Refugees’ Labor Market Integration in Hamburg and IzmirThe project explores urban governance of refugee integration through a local-to-local interregional comparison. The interregional dimension is essential for uncovering similar local rationales despite national-level differences.
- Russia 2030 and Beyond: Long-term Military Putinism — What Does It Mean for Russia, Europe and the World?The Putin regime has overcome the turbulence associated with the transformation of the blitzkrieg in Ukraine into a protracted war, the shock of Western sanctions, and internal resistance to the war among elites and the population.
- 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.
- 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.
News
- ERC Mentoring Initiative - Call for ApplicationsThe Institute for Human Sciences (IWM Vienna), together with the Polish Academy of Sciences and generously supported by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, has established a mentoring initiative for…
- This Week: Emma Goldman Awards 2025 and Imagine Feminist Futures WorkshopThe IWM is delighted to host the Emma Goldman Awards 2025 ceremony. The awards are presented annually by the FLAX Foundation to outstanding scholars in the field of gender studies, feminism, and inequality research…
- What Can We Learn from the Peasants' War of 1525, Lyndal Roper?Tune in for a new episode of Future Discontinuous! This time, we go back 500 years to explore the Peasants' War and the lessons to be learned from these tumultuous events.
Upcoming events
- Other
- A One-Day Workshop for Researchers and ActivistsConferences and Workshops
- Fellows' Colloquium with Cameron AbadiSeminars and Colloquia
Recent Media
Upcoming events
- Other
- A One-Day Workshop for Researchers and ActivistsConferences and Workshops
- Fellows' Colloquium with Cameron AbadiSeminars and Colloquia
News
- ERC Mentoring Initiative - Call for ApplicationsThe Institute for Human Sciences (IWM Vienna), together with the Polish Academy of Sciences and generously supported by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, has established a mentoring initiative for…
- This Week: Emma Goldman Awards 2025 and Imagine Feminist Futures WorkshopThe IWM is delighted to host the Emma Goldman Awards 2025 ceremony. The awards are presented annually by the FLAX Foundation to outstanding scholars in the field of gender studies, feminism, and inequality research…
- What Can We Learn from the Peasants' War of 1525, Lyndal Roper?Tune in for a new episode of Future Discontinuous! This time, we go back 500 years to explore the Peasants' War and the lessons to be learned from these tumultuous events.
Current Fellows' research
- Displaced People from Ukraine in Prague: New Political Subjectivities and Relations of SolidarityBased on ethnographic fieldwork, this project aims to address how, through their political claims and repertoires of actions, Ukrainians displaced by the war enacted new political subjectivities, shaped political alliances, and charged public spaces in Prague with new meanings.
- How to Live a Good Life in a Bad RegimeLiberal democracy is on the defensive and the number of authoritarian regimes is on the rise. Martin Milan Šimečka lives in Slovakia, where the extreme right is in power.
- Resistance, Temporariness and Political (Dis)Continuity: Urban Governance and Refugees’ Labor Market Integration in Hamburg and IzmirThe project explores urban governance of refugee integration through a local-to-local interregional comparison. The interregional dimension is essential for uncovering similar local rationales despite national-level differences.
- Russia 2030 and Beyond: Long-term Military Putinism — What Does It Mean for Russia, Europe and the World?The Putin regime has overcome the turbulence associated with the transformation of the blitzkrieg in Ukraine into a protracted war, the shock of Western sanctions, and internal resistance to the war among elites and the population.
- 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.
- 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.
Recent Media
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