On 16 and 17 May, the IWM community will gather for the Spring Fellows’ Conference. The event, followed later this year by the Autumn Fellows’ Conference, has a longstanding tradition at the IWM. Providing early-career visiting scholars with diverse backgrounds with an opportunity to introduce their work to a larger audience, this biannual conference has become one of the major events in the IWM calendar.
The presenters are joined by visiting and permanent fellows, alumni and researchers from local institutions who act as commentators and discussants, facilitating the exchange of ideas and providing invaluable feedback for the conference participants.
While the conference is an internal event for the IWM community, external visitors are very welcome to join this intellectual exchange. Should you wish to participate, please reach out to the IWM’s Fellowship Program Coordinator Kasper Nowak at nowak@iwm.at.
This year's Spring Fellows' Conference is organized around 6 themes:
Thursday, 16 May
14:15 - 14:30 Opening remarks by Misha Glenny
Panel 1: Encounters with 20th Century History
Chair: Marek Kettner
14:30 - 15:15
Milana Sribniak: Repatriation of Ukrainian POWs from Austria (1918-1920): (In)Significant Others Amid the Crushing World
Commentator: Ayşe Çağlar
15:15 - 16:00
Dorota Michalska: The Open Veins of The Earth. Władysław Hasior (1928-1999), Post-War Marxism and Decoloniality Between Poland and Uruguay
Commentator: Éva Forgács
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
Panel 2: Investigations of German Philosophy
Chair: Petra Hlaváčková
16:30 - 17:15
Bartosz Wójcik: Hegelian Politics of Contradictions
Commentator: Maciej Sosnowski
17:15 - 18:00
Marek Kettner: Walter Benjamin and His Concept of Naturgeschichte
Commentator: Darren Gardner
Friday, 17 May
Panel 3: The Politics of Climate Crisis
Chair: Lachlan Kermode
9:00 - 9:45
Dragan Djunda: The Historical-Materialist Reading of the Serbian Energy Transition
Commentator: Yuliya Yurchenko
9:45 - 10:30
Tendai Ganduri: Whose Views Matter? COP and Climate Debates in Africa
Commentator: Philipp Budka
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
Panel 4: Predicaments of the Digital Era
Chair: Milana Sribniak
11:00 - 11:45
Angelika Adensamer: Algorithmic Evidence and the Right to an Effective Remedy: Lie Detection, Dialect Analysis and Other Border Technologies
Commentator: Holly Case
11:45 - 12:30
Lachlan Kermode: Love's First Site
Commentator: Amanda Holmes
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Panel 5: Is There a Feminist Research Method?
Chair: Iryna Zamuruieva
14:00 - 14:45
Petra Hlaváčková: Silence about Gender: Tools of Gender Analysis and Architectural History
Commentator: Zsófia Lóránd
14:45 - 15:30 Coffee Break
Panel 6: Reflections on Literary Forms
Chair: Adrian Cvitanović
15:30 - 16:15
Anna Schubertová: Tragedy in the Realist Novel
Commentator: Wolfgang Müller-Funk
16:15 - 17:00
Maryna Shoda: Between Mythmaking and Social Engagement: A Comparative Analysis of Narrative Techniques in the Novels of Olga Tokarczuk and Eva Vezhnavets
Commentator: Ludger Hagedorn
