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.
Wednesday, 27 November
09:00 - 09:10 Welcome and Coffee
09:10 - 09:20 Opening Remarks by Ayşe Çağlar (IWM Vienna)
Panel 1: Past and Future Innovations
Chair: Gražina Bielousova
09:20 - 10:00
Francesco Striano: Trusting Technology? A Critical Humanist Approach
Commentator: Hannes Werthner (TU Wien)
10:00 - 10:40
Michał Narożniak: Galician Frontiers: Ethnic Tensions and Sexual Knowledge Production
Commentator: Florian Kührer-Wielach (LMU München)
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee Break
Panel 2: Visibility of Displacement
Chair: Astrea Nikolovska
11:10 - 11:50
Łukasz Kiełpiński: Making the Ordinary Visible: Circulation of Written and Visual Memoirs Between Eastern Europe and America in the 20th Century
Commentator: Nadja Gernalzick (independent researcher/University of Mainz/University of Vienna)
11:50 - 12:30
Natalia Dziadyk: The Battleground of (Poly)crisis: Contentious Politics and the Political Acts of Displaced Ukrainians in Prague
Commentator: Ayşe Çağlar (IWM Vienna)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
Panel 3: Voices from Central and Eastern European Feminism(s)
Chair: Michał Narożniak
13:30 - 14:10
Gražina Bielousova: Feminism under Fire: Ukrainian Leftist Feminist Critiques and Strategies since Russia's Full Scale Invasion
Commentator: Alyona Tkalich (Social Movement/Be Like Nina)
14:10 - 14:50
Joanna Sieracka: Ruptures and Continuities: Three Stories about the Beginning of Feminism in Contemporary Poland
Commentator: Dietlind Hüchtker (University of Vienna)
14:50 - 15:10 Coffee Break
Panel 4: Representative Democracy: Ideas and Institutions
Chair: Natalia Dziadyk
15:10 - 15:50
Kristina Broučková: Rethinking the Role of Elections in Democracy: From Conflict-Staging to Uncertainty-Taming
Commentator: Ivan Krastev (IWM Vienna)
15:50 - 16:30
Krystof Dolezal: Christian Democratic Party Formation In Post-Socialist Czechoslovakia
Commentator: Balázs Trencsényi (CEU)
16:30 - 16:50 Coffee Break
Panel 5: Technological Entanglements: Between Fears and Hopes
Chair: Francesco Striano
16:50 - 17:30
Astrea Nikolovska: The Social (Half)Life of Depleted Uranium in Serbia: From “Cancer Epidemics” to Energy Transitions
Commentator: Misha Glenny (IWM Vienna)
17:30 - 18:10
Yi Li: The Regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in China: How to Compete and Cooperate from a Global Perspective
Commentator: Thomas Haigh (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
18:10 - 18:30 Closing Remarks by Ludger Hagedorn (IWM Vienna)
