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New Visiting Fellows Starting in February

In February, seven visiting fellows will start their fellowship. You can learn more about their individual fellowships and research projects by clicking on their names. 
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New podcast episode on China, Europe and the Belt and Road Initiative

In this episode, Ivan Vejvoda talks with Valbona Zeneli, professor of national security studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch, Germany. 
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When history makes sense in practice

Lidiia Akryshora, Research Assistant in our Ukraine in European Dialogue Program, interviewed former fellow Mykola Balaban, a young Ukrainian historian. They discussed how obtaining a fellowship within this program has influenced his…

How to Think About War in Ukraine

As concern over Russian military escalation against Ukraine mounts, IWM Permanent Fellow Timothy Snyder reflects on the current situation, its roots, and its consequences in a Substack essay from 18 January 2022.
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Soli Özel in latest episode of Coffeehouse Conversations with Ivan Vejvoda

Europe's Futures Fellow, Soli Özel and IWM Acting Rector Ivan Vejvoda wrestle with the implications of a truly epochal shift in the geopolitical status quo in this latest episode of the Coffeehouse Conversations podcast.

Change of Date for Jeremy Adelman Monthly Lecture

The date for the Monthly Lecture with Jerey Adelman on "Patient Earth: The Rise and Fall of Globalization" had to be changed to 8 March 2022. 

New Visiting Fellows Starting in January

We are happy to introduce the first fellows of the new year 2022. 
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"Everybody is so much now for democracy..." IWM Photography Exhibition

In 1990, IWM organized the landmark conference Central Europe on the Way to Democracy, bringing together leading intellectuals and politicians from across Europe, North America and the Soviet Union to discuss Europe’s future prospects at a time of…
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IWMpost 128 Out Now!

  The latest issue of the IWM's magazine, IWMpost, is now available in both digital and hard copies. “Statelessness” make up the central focus of this issue. 

New Visiting Fellows Starting in December

We are happy to announce our three Visiting Fellows who will join us at the Institute in December. 
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Newly published: “Faith in the World.” Post-Secular Readings of Hannah Arendt

Why not rescue the world, even while God seems completely irretrievable? A collective monograph edited by former fellow Rafael Zawisza and IWM Permanent Fellow Ludger Hagedorn explores the tacit though influential theological undercurrents in the…
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Ein neues IWM Buch: Kapitalismus im 21. Jahrhundert

Ein neues Buch aus der Zusammenarbeit des IWM mit dem Passagen Verlag ist gerade erschienen:„Kapitalismus im 21. Jahrhundert“, herausgegeben von der ehemaligen IWM-Rektorin Shalini Randeria. Mit Beiträgen von Nancy Fraser, Wolfgang Merkel, Branko…