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Art Exhibition by Maxim Kantor: Faust Cycle 2018
'Faust 2018' is one of Maxim Kantors “livres d’artiste” productions.
ERC Mentoring Initiative: Call for Applications
Together with the Polish Academy of Sciences and supported by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the IWM has established a mentoring initiative for applicants for European Research Council (ERC) Starting and Consolidator Grants in…
ERC Mentoring Initiative: Call for Applications
Together with the Polish Academy of Sciences and supported by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the IWM has established a mentoring initiative for applicants for European Research Council (ERC) Starting and Consolidator Grants in…
Art Exhibition by András J. Nagy: No One Saw It Twice
The black-and-white photographs András J. Nagy created as he roamed the planet not only document the diverse environments in which he found himself; more importantly, they tease out the subtile compositions of those places.
IWM Permanent Fellow Charles Taylor receives the Blue Metropolis’s International Literary Grand Prix
The IWM warmly congratulates Charles Taylor for the Blue Metropolis International Literary Grand Prix.
Marci Shore wins Guggenheim Fellowship 2018
The IWM is happy to announce that Marci Shore, associate Professor of History at Yale University, who will be back as a Visiting Fellow at the IWM in summer 2018, has been awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Moishe Postone (1942-2018)
The IWM deeply mourns the passing away of its Visiting Fellow, Moishe Postone, after a valiant battle against cancer. A renowned Marxist historian, critical theorist and political philosopher, he was the Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of Modern…
Video Installation: Zsófia Meller
The primary theme of this work ist a personal interview with the leftist philosopher Ágnes Heller. The origninal intent of the artist was to focus on the roles of exceptional women through their family stories. The Zsófia Meller Movie brings the…
From Delhi to Vienna: Globalizing the IWM
Born in Washington D.C., Shalini Randeria studied psychology, sociology and social anthropology at the Universities of Delhi, Oxford and Heidelberg. Her research and teaching took her to Berlin, Zurich, Geneva, Paris and Budapest before she came to…
Filming the Revolution: Ukrainian Film Posters of the 1920s
In contrast to late-1920s Russian graphic design, Ukrainian film posters remain practically unknown to the broader public, both in Ukraine and internationally. Only in the last five years have publications on Ukrainian poster design of the 1920s –…
Was bleibt von 1989? Jubiläumsausgabe von Transit zieht Bilanz
Das Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) feiert in diesem Jahr sein 35-jähriges Bestehen. Pünktlich zum Jubiläum ist nun die 50. und letzte Ausgabe der renommierten Zeitschrift Transit – Europäische Revue erschienen. Herausgegeben von…
35 Jahre IWM: Jubiläumsfeierlichkeiten in der Hofburg
Das Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM), 1982 als eine geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Forschungseinrichtung in Wien gegründet, feiert im November sein 35.-jähriges Bestehen. Bundespräsident Alexander Van der Bellen hat…