We are excited to introduce our new fellows, who will arrive at the IWM in September, marking the start of the new academic year after the summer break. Learn more about their fellowships and research projects by clicking on their names. For interview requests or media inquiries, please reach out to iwm-pr@iwm.at.
Perry Anderson
University of California, Los Angeles
September 2025
Two Concerts and Their Fates
Distinguished Guests of the Institute
Inna Berezkina
School of Civic Education (SCE)
September - November 2025
Transitional Justice for Russia and Accountability in the Age of Impunity
The World in Pieces
Stefan Bolea
Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
September – November 2025
Karl Löwith: Nietzsches Philosophie der ewigen Wiederkunft des Gleichen [Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Eternal Recurrence of the Same] (GER > RUM)
Paul Celan Fellowship for Translators
Igor Buljan
Independent translator
September – November 2025
Vasily Grossman: Писатель на войне [A Writer at War] (RUS > CRO)
Paul Celan Fellowship for Translators
Anna Derzhypilska
Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
September – December 2025
Deciphering the Shadows of War: A Legal and Humanistic Inquiry into the Filtration Process in the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict
Lesia Ukraїnka Fellowship
Virginia Dignum
Umeå University
September 2025
Beyond Rationality: A Relational and Feminist Reconceptualization of AI
Digital Humanism Fellowship
Alžběta Dyčková
Charles University Prague
September – December 2025
On the Crises of Metaphysics and Freedom: Patočka’s Negative Platonism and Adorno’s Negative Dialectic
Jan Patočka Fellowship
Halyna Herasym
University College Dublin
September – December 2025
‘Please, Tell Me It’s Not True’: Humanizing a Soldier through Narratives of Grief in Times of Russian War against Ukraine
Lesia Ukraїnka Fellowship
Ula Idzikowska
University College Dublin
September – November 2025
New Beginnings: Poles by Choice
Milena Jesenská Fellowship for Journalists
Bruna Cristina Jaquetto Pereira
Complutense University of Madrid
September 2025
Failing the Promise of Inclusive Universities: Uncovering Racialized Sexual Harassment in Spanish Universities
Emma Goldman Fellowship
Ivan Napoli
Catholic University of Milan
September – November 2025
Humans Behind AI: Analyzing Low-Skilled Job Opportunities on Crowdworking Platforms
Digital Humanism Fellowship
James Rosenberg
University of Wisconsin-Madison and WZB Berlin Social Science Center
September November 2025
The Cybernetic State: How States Use Digital Technology to Govern
Digital Humanism Fellowship
Václav Rut
Charles University Prague
September – November 2025
Europe as an (Impossible) Task: Thinking Emancipation in Relation to Vaclav Hável
Jan Patočka Fellowship
Václav Štětka
Loughborough University
September – November 2025
Platform(ing) Illiberalism? Online Influencers, Digital Platforms, and the Illiberal Public Sphere in Central and Eastern Europe
Guests of the Institute
Katarzyna Wężyk
Newsweek Historia kobiet, Warsaw
September – November 2025
Emancypantki: A Forgotten Herstory Reimagined
Guests of the Institute
