A staple of intellectual life at the IWM since its early days, the biannual conference provides an opportunity for early-career visiting researchers from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds to present their work and exchange ideas in a collegial atmosphere. Visiting and Permanent Fellows, alumni and scholars from Viennese institutions act as commentators and discussants.
The Autumn Fellows' Conference 2023 took place on Wednesday, 29 November, from 9:00 to 18:30, and was organized around five themes:
09:00 - 09:30 Opening Remarks by Ayşe Çağlar
Panel 1: Contested (Hi)stories at the European Borderlands (Chair: Stefan Voicu)
09:30 - 10:10
Johana Wyss - Antagonistic Memories and Populist Mobilization: Unraveling Everyday Memory Practices in Central and Eastern Europe's Silesian Borderland
Commentator: Ayşe Çağlar
10:10 - 10:50
Stanislaw Boridczenko - Traitor to the Nation or Defenders of Traditions? Unveiling Nationalism's Grassroots Perspective
Commentator: Börries Kuzmany
10:50 - 11:10 Coffee Break
Panel 2: Emotions in the Making (Chair: Liz Calhoun)
11:10 - 11:50
Jan Musil - Life Is Not a Sausage and Death Is Not the End of It
Commentator: Slobodan Markovich
11:50 - 12:30
Kinga Siewior - "Sensational Content of Revolution": Making Emotional Socialism in Post-War Poland
Commentator: Ludger Hagedorn
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
Panel 3: Making Sense of Sense-Making (Chair: Johana Wyss)
13:30 - 14:10
Natalia Volvach - The Researcher’s Body as a Sensing Agent: Ghost (Auto)Ethnography in Contested Semiotic Landscapes
Commentator: Brigitta Busch
14:10 - 14:50
Anastasiia Omelianiuk - Informing Political Care: Decolonial and Nationalist Stories as Strategies of Ukrainian Activists
Commentator: Mikhail Minakov
14:50 - 15:10 Coffee Break
Panel 4: Humans, Algorithms and Meaning (Chair: Natalia Volvach)
15:10 - 15:50
Hana Kopecka - The Impact of Robot Appearance on Explanation Expectations and Preferences in Human-Robot Interaction
Commentator: Anna Dobrosovestnova
15:50 - 16:30
Liz Calhoun - Debating Risk and Political Community in the Algorithmic Forecasting of Crime
Commentator: George Metakides
16:30 - 16:50 Coffee Break
Panel 5: The Post-War Europe: Solidarity and Democracy (Chair: Kinga Siewior)
16:50 - 17:30
Jan Farfal - Defying the Iron Curtain: Émigré Journals and Their Attempts to Confront the Post-War Reality
Commentator: Misha Glenny
17:30 - 18:10
Stefan Voicu - Friend or Foe? Romanian Farmers and the EU-Ukraine Solidarity Lanes
Commentator: Olesya Yaremchuk
18:10 - 18:30 Closing Remarks by Ludger Hagedorn
