Current Fellows' research
- Růžena Vacková as a Critic of the 1930s and early 1940sIn this project, Nikola Bečanová explores Růžena Vacková’s (1901–1982) critical writings from the 1930s and 1940s, focusing on her contributions to Národní střed and contrasting them with her engagement in right-wing magazines.
- ShattersInvited as a guest for the months of November, December 2024 and January 2025.
- Exploring Leibniz’s View of Infinite Numbers and Its Possible EvolutionThis thesis explores Leibniz’s views on infinity and their potential evolution through engagement with some later philosophies.
- Europe, Post-Europe, and the Pathic Limitation of the PoliticalThe European project sees itself as Europe’s lesson learned from the devastating mistakes of its own history.
- The Soviet Jews of the Stagnation Era and Their Dual Identity: "Jewishness" and Russian CultureJournalist and curator Anna Narinskaya is preparing her second non-fiction book at the intersection of cultural studies and memoirs.
- 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.
Jobs and Open Calls
News
- Apply Now: Currently Open IWM Fellowship CallsThe IWM currently has numerous calls for applications for its various fellowship programs. Here you will find an overview of all currently open calls.
- Listen Now: Stefan Lehne on Europe’s Strategic AutonomyIn this episode of the Vienna Coffee House Conversations podcast, Ivan Vejvoda speaks with Stefan Lehne, Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe and former Austrian diplomat, to examine the challenges facing the European Union…
- Welcome to Our New Documenting Ukraine Grantees!We are pleased to announce the new cohort of grantees selected for the Documenting Ukraine Grant.
Upcoming events
- Fellows' Colloquium with Albert DikovichSeminars and Colloquia
- WERTE – Ein Kompass Für Die ZukunftPanels and Discussions
- Monthly Lecture with Martin Milan ŠimečkaLecture
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Upcoming events
- Fellows' Colloquium with Albert DikovichSeminars and Colloquia
- WERTE – Ein Kompass Für Die ZukunftPanels and Discussions
- Monthly Lecture with Martin Milan ŠimečkaLecture
News
- Apply Now: Currently Open IWM Fellowship CallsThe IWM currently has numerous calls for applications for its various fellowship programs. Here you will find an overview of all currently open calls.
- Listen Now: Stefan Lehne on Europe’s Strategic AutonomyIn this episode of the Vienna Coffee House Conversations podcast, Ivan Vejvoda speaks with Stefan Lehne, Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe and former Austrian diplomat, to examine the challenges facing the European Union…
- Welcome to Our New Documenting Ukraine Grantees!We are pleased to announce the new cohort of grantees selected for the Documenting Ukraine Grant.
Current Fellows' research
- 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.
- The Soviet Jews of the Stagnation Era and Their Dual Identity: "Jewishness" and Russian CultureJournalist and curator Anna Narinskaya is preparing her second non-fiction book at the intersection of cultural studies and memoirs.
- 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.
- 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.
- City of Utopia, City of Empire. Performative Practices of PowerThis research project looks at how various social doctrines, specifically manifestations of "right" and "left" ideas, influenced the city, its aesthetics and urban planning concepts. The focus of research is on the Soviet city of the 1920s–1950s.
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