Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Passion for Ukraine	Sun, 19.11.2023, 11:00	Visual and Performing Arts	Lena Belkina, Oleksandra Saienko, Leah Batstone, Helmut Jasbar	Passion for Ukraine Charity Concert with Lena Belkina Sun, 19.11.2023, 11:00 Speakers: Lena Belkina, Oleksandra Saienko, Leah Batstone, Helmut Jasbar Series: Visual and Performing Arts Matinee with a concert by Lena Belkina and a panel discussion with musicologist Leah Batstone. The matinee was organized in cooperation with the Ehrbar Saal in Vienna. Read more
Passion for Ukraine Charity Concert with Lena Belkina Sun, 19.11.2023, 11:00 Speakers: Lena Belkina, Oleksandra Saienko, Leah Batstone, Helmut Jasbar Series: Visual and Performing Arts Matinee with a concert by Lena Belkina and a panel discussion with musicologist Leah Batstone. The matinee was organized in cooperation with the Ehrbar Saal in Vienna. Read more
	Can Machines Save the World?	Thu, 16.11.2023, 09:00 - Fri, 17.11.2023, 19:00	Conferences and Workshops	Allison Stanger Edward Lee George Metakides Hannes Werthner Helga Nowotny Ludger HagedornAnita Eichinger, Erich Prem, Ivona Brandic, Felix Creutzig, Stavros Makris, Cristiano Codagnone, Thomas Bugnyar, Thomas Haigh, Joseph Sifakis, Julia Neidhardt, Gerti Kappel, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Michael Wiesmüller, Stefan Woltran	Can Machines Save the World? The Digital Humanism Fellowship Conference Thu, 16.11.2023, 09:00 - Fri, 17.11.2023, 19:00 Speakers: Allison Stanger Edward Lee George Metakides Hannes Werthner Helga Nowotny Ludger HagedornAnita Eichinger, Erich Prem, Ivona Brandic, Felix Creutzig, Stavros Makris, Cristiano Codagnone, Thomas Bugnyar, Thomas Haigh, Joseph Sifakis, Julia Neidhardt, Gerti Kappel, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Michael Wiesmüller, Stefan Woltran Series: Conferences and Workshops When it comes to the impact of machines, robots, and Artificial Intelligence, commentators easily adopt a doom-and-gloom perspective. This conference asked, rather provocatively, Can Machines Save the World? Read more
Can Machines Save the World? The Digital Humanism Fellowship Conference Thu, 16.11.2023, 09:00 - Fri, 17.11.2023, 19:00 Speakers: Allison Stanger Edward Lee George Metakides Hannes Werthner Helga Nowotny Ludger HagedornAnita Eichinger, Erich Prem, Ivona Brandic, Felix Creutzig, Stavros Makris, Cristiano Codagnone, Thomas Bugnyar, Thomas Haigh, Joseph Sifakis, Julia Neidhardt, Gerti Kappel, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Michael Wiesmüller, Stefan Woltran Series: Conferences and Workshops When it comes to the impact of machines, robots, and Artificial Intelligence, commentators easily adopt a doom-and-gloom perspective. This conference asked, rather provocatively, Can Machines Save the World? Read more
	What Did Russia Build Within—the Digital Gulag or the Cyberpunk?	Mon, 13.11.2023, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Andrei Zakharov Clemena Antonova Kirill Rogov	What Did Russia Build Within—the Digital Gulag or the Cyberpunk? Fellows' Colloquium with Andrei Zakharov Mon, 13.11.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Andrei Zakharov Clemena Antonova Kirill Rogov Series: Seminars and Colloquia After the full-scale invasion the Kremlin is pushing Russia closer to the digital Gulag, where the state controls every part of a human's life. But the cyberpunk, where the state has no monopoly access to digital data, nor any control over citizens sharing it, still dominates. How can this happen? How does the digital Gulag help the Kremlin to control society, and how does cyberpunk help those who still try to oppose Putin? Will Russia become a fully fledged digital Gulag state amd if so, when? Read more
What Did Russia Build Within—the Digital Gulag or the Cyberpunk? Fellows' Colloquium with Andrei Zakharov Mon, 13.11.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Andrei Zakharov Clemena Antonova Kirill Rogov Series: Seminars and Colloquia After the full-scale invasion the Kremlin is pushing Russia closer to the digital Gulag, where the state controls every part of a human's life. But the cyberpunk, where the state has no monopoly access to digital data, nor any control over citizens sharing it, still dominates. How can this happen? How does the digital Gulag help the Kremlin to control society, and how does cyberpunk help those who still try to oppose Putin? Will Russia become a fully fledged digital Gulag state amd if so, when? Read more
	Eurodonbas	Fri, 10.11.2023, 20:00	Visual and Performing Arts	Kornii Hrytsiuk	Eurodonbas A Film by Kornii Hrytsiuk Fri, 10.11.2023, 20:00 Speakers: Kornii Hrytsiuk Series: Visual and Performing Arts The investigative documentary Eurodonbas aims to debunk Soviet myths and brings to light that more than 100 years ago, Donbas was an integral part of the European economy. Read more

	Ukraine's Altered Landscapes - Day 2	Fri, 10.11.2023, 10:00	Conferences and Workshops	Darya Tsymbalyuk Oleksandra DemianenkoNadia Iermakov, Oleksandra Deineko, Kateryna Botanova, Iryna Zamuruieva, Monica Eppinger, Kateryna Didenko, Nadiia Antonenko, Susanne Krasmann	Ukraine's Altered Landscapes - Day 2 Losing and Recovering Alterity in the Face of War Fri, 10.11.2023, 10:00 Speakers: Darya Tsymbalyuk Oleksandra DemianenkoNadia Iermakov, Oleksandra Deineko, Kateryna Botanova, Iryna Zamuruieva, Monica Eppinger, Kateryna Didenko, Nadiia Antonenko, Susanne Krasmann Series: Conferences and Workshops An interdisciplinary conference organized by the Ukraine in European Dialogue program at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) was held at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna on 8-10 November 2023. Read more
Ukraine's Altered Landscapes - Day 2 Losing and Recovering Alterity in the Face of War Fri, 10.11.2023, 10:00 Speakers: Darya Tsymbalyuk Oleksandra DemianenkoNadia Iermakov, Oleksandra Deineko, Kateryna Botanova, Iryna Zamuruieva, Monica Eppinger, Kateryna Didenko, Nadiia Antonenko, Susanne Krasmann Series: Conferences and Workshops An interdisciplinary conference organized by the Ukraine in European Dialogue program at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) was held at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna on 8-10 November 2023. Read more
	Ukraine's Altered Landscapes - Day 1	Thu, 09.11.2023, 09:45	Conferences and Workshops	Lizaveta German Mischa Gabowitsch Olesya YaremchukMykola Homanyuk, Anna Ivanova, Magdalena Baran-Szoltys, Oksana Semenik, Yuliya Ladygina, Svitlana Pidoprygora, Yuliia Yurchuk, Svitlana Matviyenko, Nina Direnko	Ukraine's Altered Landscapes - Day 1 Losing and Recovering Alterity in the Face of War Thu, 09.11.2023, 09:45 Speakers: Lizaveta German Mischa Gabowitsch Olesya YaremchukMykola Homanyuk, Anna Ivanova, Magdalena Baran-Szoltys, Oksana Semenik, Yuliya Ladygina, Svitlana Pidoprygora, Yuliia Yurchuk, Svitlana Matviyenko, Nina Direnko Series: Conferences and Workshops An interdisciplinary conference organized by the Ukraine in European Dialogue program at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) was held at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna on 8-10 November 2023. Read more
Ukraine's Altered Landscapes - Day 1 Losing and Recovering Alterity in the Face of War Thu, 09.11.2023, 09:45 Speakers: Lizaveta German Mischa Gabowitsch Olesya YaremchukMykola Homanyuk, Anna Ivanova, Magdalena Baran-Szoltys, Oksana Semenik, Yuliya Ladygina, Svitlana Pidoprygora, Yuliia Yurchuk, Svitlana Matviyenko, Nina Direnko Series: Conferences and Workshops An interdisciplinary conference organized by the Ukraine in European Dialogue program at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) was held at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna on 8-10 November 2023. Read more
	The Sources of Suprematism	Mon, 06.11.2023, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Eva Forgacs Tatiana Levina	The Sources of Suprematism Kazimir Malevich in Ukraine and Belarus Mon, 06.11.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Eva Forgacs Tatiana Levina Series: Seminars and Colloquia In recent years, many interesting studies have appeared that shed light on the Kyiv period of Malevich's work (1928–30) and the avant-garde context in Ukraine. In 2015, several of Malevich’s texts were found in the archive of Marian Kropyvnytsky in Kyiv. Levina analyzed recently published books and articles by Tetyana Filevska, Myroslava M. Mudrak, Myroslav Shkandrij, and others to get a deeper insight into his Ukrainian heritage. Read more
The Sources of Suprematism Kazimir Malevich in Ukraine and Belarus Mon, 06.11.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Eva Forgacs Tatiana Levina Series: Seminars and Colloquia In recent years, many interesting studies have appeared that shed light on the Kyiv period of Malevich's work (1928–30) and the avant-garde context in Ukraine. In 2015, several of Malevich’s texts were found in the archive of Marian Kropyvnytsky in Kyiv. Levina analyzed recently published books and articles by Tetyana Filevska, Myroslava M. Mudrak, Myroslav Shkandrij, and others to get a deeper insight into his Ukrainian heritage. Read more
	Sacrifice and the Body beyond Metaphysics	Fri, 03.11.2023, 09:30	Conferences and Workshops	Caecille Varslev Pedersen, Isabella Guanzini, Luka Trebežnik, Robert Yelle, Dietmar Regensburger, Gertrud Koch	Sacrifice and the Body beyond Metaphysics Fri, 03.11.2023, 09:30 Speakers: Caecille Varslev Pedersen, Isabella Guanzini, Luka Trebežnik, Robert Yelle, Dietmar Regensburger, Gertrud Koch Series: Conferences and Workshops This workshop examined the concept of sacrifice and its relationship to the body from the perspectives of philosophy, theology and gender studies. Read more
Sacrifice and the Body beyond Metaphysics Fri, 03.11.2023, 09:30 Speakers: Caecille Varslev Pedersen, Isabella Guanzini, Luka Trebežnik, Robert Yelle, Dietmar Regensburger, Gertrud Koch Series: Conferences and Workshops This workshop examined the concept of sacrifice and its relationship to the body from the perspectives of philosophy, theology and gender studies. Read more
	Sacrifice and Natality: Surrogacy Structures	Thu, 02.11.2023, 18:00	Lecture	Yvonne Sherwood	Sacrifice and Natality: Surrogacy Structures Thu, 02.11.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Yvonne Sherwood Series: Lecture This opening lecture of the conference "Sacrifice and the Body beyond Metaphysics" addressed the following questions: Why do so many texts with no agenda on ‘gender’–created long before the rise of feminist theology and philosophy—force the mother into the foreground, next to or superimposed upon the sacrificial altar? Why have histories of sacrifice been so haunted (though ‘haunted’ is too thin a word for such visceral figures of birth and the maternal body) by the uncanny mimesis—and repulsion—between mortality and natality? And how does the strange kinship between sacrifice and birth affect the old theological/philosophical debate over the ends and edges of ‘man’, in his fragile position between animalplus and divinityminus (and distinct from ‘woman’—always elsewhere, somewhere)? Read more
Sacrifice and Natality: Surrogacy Structures Thu, 02.11.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Yvonne Sherwood Series: Lecture This opening lecture of the conference "Sacrifice and the Body beyond Metaphysics" addressed the following questions: Why do so many texts with no agenda on ‘gender’–created long before the rise of feminist theology and philosophy—force the mother into the foreground, next to or superimposed upon the sacrificial altar? Why have histories of sacrifice been so haunted (though ‘haunted’ is too thin a word for such visceral figures of birth and the maternal body) by the uncanny mimesis—and repulsion—between mortality and natality? And how does the strange kinship between sacrifice and birth affect the old theological/philosophical debate over the ends and edges of ‘man’, in his fragile position between animalplus and divinityminus (and distinct from ‘woman’—always elsewhere, somewhere)? Read more
	Europe as Project, a Collection of Documents and Counter-Institution	Tue, 31.10.2023, 18:00	Other	Ivan VejvodaPetar Bojanić	Europe as Project, a Collection of Documents and Counter-Institution Book Presentation Tue, 31.10.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan VejvodaPetar Bojanić Series: Other In the book In-Statuere. Figures of Institutional Building (Frankfurt am Main, Vittorio Klostermann, 2022), Peter Bojanić sets out to show how an institution is created or how an institution is institutionalized from a group conducting engaged acts. At the same time, these engaged acts are characterized by a projective mind; they hold critical potential and protocols of resistance that necessarily produce something new. A counter-institution (Europe, for example), for its part, is an institution that alters and deconstructs all other existing institutions. In the lecture, Bojanić focused especially on the conversion of violence (military action and massacres fall under “extreme” violence), into right, justice, and institutions. He is interested in whether the “institution of victory” and its various figures can truly transform violence into long-term stable peace. Read more
Europe as Project, a Collection of Documents and Counter-Institution Book Presentation Tue, 31.10.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan VejvodaPetar Bojanić Series: Other In the book In-Statuere. Figures of Institutional Building (Frankfurt am Main, Vittorio Klostermann, 2022), Peter Bojanić sets out to show how an institution is created or how an institution is institutionalized from a group conducting engaged acts. At the same time, these engaged acts are characterized by a projective mind; they hold critical potential and protocols of resistance that necessarily produce something new. A counter-institution (Europe, for example), for its part, is an institution that alters and deconstructs all other existing institutions. In the lecture, Bojanić focused especially on the conversion of violence (military action and massacres fall under “extreme” violence), into right, justice, and institutions. He is interested in whether the “institution of victory” and its various figures can truly transform violence into long-term stable peace. Read more