Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Following Anti-Gender Movements in Europe: What’s Next?	Mon, 06.03.2023, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Mieke Verloo Tatev Hovhannisyan	Following Anti-Gender Movements in Europe: What’s Next? Mon, 06.03.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Mieke Verloo Tatev Hovhannisyan Series: Seminars and Colloquia Over the past 20 years, anti-democratic transnational movements against women’s rights and gender equality have grown in strength across Europe. In this talk, Tatev Hovhannisyan presented a number of openDemocracy’s investigations, according to which the backlash in Europe is well-organized and extensively funded by transnational actors, including US Christian conservatives. Read more
Following Anti-Gender Movements in Europe: What’s Next? Mon, 06.03.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Mieke Verloo Tatev Hovhannisyan Series: Seminars and Colloquia Over the past 20 years, anti-democratic transnational movements against women’s rights and gender equality have grown in strength across Europe. In this talk, Tatev Hovhannisyan presented a number of openDemocracy’s investigations, according to which the backlash in Europe is well-organized and extensively funded by transnational actors, including US Christian conservatives. Read more
	The Russo-Ukrainian War One Year On	Sun, 05.03.2023, 11:00	Panels and Discussions	Mischa Gabowitsch Misha Glenny Nathalie TocciOlga Tokariuk, Ursula Plassnik, Michael Clarke	The Russo-Ukrainian War One Year On The Military Situation and its Political Implications Sun, 05.03.2023, 11:00 Speakers: Mischa Gabowitsch Misha Glenny Nathalie TocciOlga Tokariuk, Ursula Plassnik, Michael Clarke Series: Panels and Discussions A year after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Debating Europe series brought together five leading experts to examine to what degree the Russo-Ukrainian War is shifting the geo-political landscape. Read more
The Russo-Ukrainian War One Year On The Military Situation and its Political Implications Sun, 05.03.2023, 11:00 Speakers: Mischa Gabowitsch Misha Glenny Nathalie TocciOlga Tokariuk, Ursula Plassnik, Michael Clarke Series: Panels and Discussions A year after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Debating Europe series brought together five leading experts to examine to what degree the Russo-Ukrainian War is shifting the geo-political landscape. Read more
	Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative Vienna Research Symposium	Wed, 01.03.2023, 09:20 - Thu, 02.03.2023, 19:00	Conferences and Workshops	Achilles Kallergis Ayşe ÇağlarColleen Thouez, Alex Aleinikoff, Liav Orgad, Lucy Earle, Gianluca Gatta	Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative Vienna Research Symposium Wed, 01.03.2023, 09:20 - Thu, 02.03.2023, 19:00 Speakers: Achilles Kallergis Ayşe ÇağlarColleen Thouez, Alex Aleinikoff, Liav Orgad, Lucy Earle, Gianluca Gatta Series: Conferences and Workshops The Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative held a two-day symposium presenting new research at the intersection of cities, citizenship, migration, and displacement. The symposium brought together scholars and practitioners from around the globe with the objective to advance knowledge that contributes to a greater understanding of the role of cities in accommodating human mobility. Read more
Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative Vienna Research Symposium Wed, 01.03.2023, 09:20 - Thu, 02.03.2023, 19:00 Speakers: Achilles Kallergis Ayşe ÇağlarColleen Thouez, Alex Aleinikoff, Liav Orgad, Lucy Earle, Gianluca Gatta Series: Conferences and Workshops The Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative held a two-day symposium presenting new research at the intersection of cities, citizenship, migration, and displacement. The symposium brought together scholars and practitioners from around the globe with the objective to advance knowledge that contributes to a greater understanding of the role of cities in accommodating human mobility. Read more
	Move Over, Mona Lisa. Move Over, Jane Eyre: Making the World’s Universities, Museums, and Libraries More Welcoming to Everyone	Mon, 27.02.2023, 18:00	Lecture	Ayşe Çağlar Peggy Levitt	Move Over, Mona Lisa. Move Over, Jane Eyre: Making the World’s Universities, Museums, and Libraries More Welcoming to Everyone Mon, 27.02.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Peggy Levitt Series: Lecture Across the world, calls for greater equity in the halls of academia, museum galleries, and libraries are loud and clear. If everyone agrees that business as usual is no longer acceptable, why is progress so slow? In this presentation, Peggy Levitt argued that the simple answer is that the lack of diversity in intellectual and cultural institutions is the product of a supply chain of exclusions that leave out a broader set of experiences at every turn. Read more
Move Over, Mona Lisa. Move Over, Jane Eyre: Making the World’s Universities, Museums, and Libraries More Welcoming to Everyone Mon, 27.02.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Peggy Levitt Series: Lecture Across the world, calls for greater equity in the halls of academia, museum galleries, and libraries are loud and clear. If everyone agrees that business as usual is no longer acceptable, why is progress so slow? In this presentation, Peggy Levitt argued that the simple answer is that the lack of diversity in intellectual and cultural institutions is the product of a supply chain of exclusions that leave out a broader set of experiences at every turn. Read more
	Non-Territorial Autonomy and National Minorities in Interwar Europe	Mon, 20.02.2023, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Börries Kuzmany Katherine Younger Marina Germane	Non-Territorial Autonomy and National Minorities in Interwar Europe Mon, 20.02.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Börries Kuzmany Katherine Younger Marina Germane Series: Seminars and Colloquia This talk examined the concept of non-territorial autonomy (NTA) as a common ideological platform shared by numerous ethnic minorities in interwar Europe, with a particular focus on Jews and Germans. Through a reflection upon the advantages and pitfalls of NTA, Marina Germane explored the limits to minorities’ cooperation in a world of nation-states. Read more
Non-Territorial Autonomy and National Minorities in Interwar Europe Mon, 20.02.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Börries Kuzmany Katherine Younger Marina Germane Series: Seminars and Colloquia This talk examined the concept of non-territorial autonomy (NTA) as a common ideological platform shared by numerous ethnic minorities in interwar Europe, with a particular focus on Jews and Germans. Through a reflection upon the advantages and pitfalls of NTA, Marina Germane explored the limits to minorities’ cooperation in a world of nation-states. Read more
	End of the Near Abroad	Fri, 17.02.2023, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Vejvoda Thomas de Waal	End of the Near Abroad Fri, 17.02.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Thomas de Waal Series: Panels and Discussions Europe’s Futures Fellow Thomas de Waal spoke about how the Russo-Ukrainian War has ended the concepts of “the Near Abroad” and the “post-Soviet space” and what this means in the longer term for Russia’s own cohesion, state identity and relations with its neighbours. Read more
End of the Near Abroad Fri, 17.02.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Thomas de Waal Series: Panels and Discussions Europe’s Futures Fellow Thomas de Waal spoke about how the Russo-Ukrainian War has ended the concepts of “the Near Abroad” and the “post-Soviet space” and what this means in the longer term for Russia’s own cohesion, state identity and relations with its neighbours. Read more
	Geopolitical Talks: The Role of Sanctions in US Foreign Policy	Thu, 16.02.2023, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Misha GlennyJames O'Brien	Geopolitical Talks: The Role of Sanctions in US Foreign Policy Thu, 16.02.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Misha GlennyJames O'Brien Series: Panels and Discussions In this Geopolitical Talk, Ambassador James O’Brien, Head of the Office of Sanctions Coordination at the U.S. Department of State, discussed the role of sanctions in US foreign policy with IWM Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev. Read more
Geopolitical Talks: The Role of Sanctions in US Foreign Policy Thu, 16.02.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Misha GlennyJames O'Brien Series: Panels and Discussions In this Geopolitical Talk, Ambassador James O’Brien, Head of the Office of Sanctions Coordination at the U.S. Department of State, discussed the role of sanctions in US foreign policy with IWM Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev. Read more
	Europe’s Migrants and Refugees: Integrating into European Societies	Tue, 14.02.2023, 09:00	Panels and Discussions	Ivan VejvodaDaniela Kraus, Mirjana Tomic	Europe’s Migrants and Refugees: Integrating into European Societies Tue, 14.02.2023, 09:00 Speakers: Ivan VejvodaDaniela Kraus, Mirjana Tomic Series: Panels and Discussions What are the criteria for becoming an integrated migrant/refugee? Realities and perceptions, lessons and debates in Sweden, Italy, Austria, France, and Germany. Read more
Europe’s Migrants and Refugees: Integrating into European Societies Tue, 14.02.2023, 09:00 Speakers: Ivan VejvodaDaniela Kraus, Mirjana Tomic Series: Panels and Discussions What are the criteria for becoming an integrated migrant/refugee? Realities and perceptions, lessons and debates in Sweden, Italy, Austria, France, and Germany. Read more
	Krzysztof Michalski In Memoriam	Mon, 13.02.2023, 18:30	Social and Networking Events	Agnieszka Pasieka James Dodd Klaus Nellen Ludger Hagedorn Marci Shore Piotr Kubasiak Timothy SnyderMonika Szmigiel-Turlej	Krzysztof Michalski In Memoriam Mon, 13.02.2023, 18:30 Speakers: Agnieszka Pasieka James Dodd Klaus Nellen Ludger Hagedorn Marci Shore Piotr Kubasiak Timothy SnyderMonika Szmigiel-Turlej Series: Social and Networking Events Im Februar 2023 ist der 10. Todestag von Krzysztof Michalski, weltgewandter Philosoph, charismatische Persönlichkeit mit Organisationstalent und, nicht zuletzt, Gründer und langjähriger Rektor des IWM. Freunde und Wegbegleiter, die ihn kannten, schätzten und bisweilen kritisierten, erinnerten an eine herausragende Person der polnischen und österreichischen Zeitgeschichte, an einen Brückenbauer mit großen Verdiensten für Europa Ost und West. Read more
Krzysztof Michalski In Memoriam Mon, 13.02.2023, 18:30 Speakers: Agnieszka Pasieka James Dodd Klaus Nellen Ludger Hagedorn Marci Shore Piotr Kubasiak Timothy SnyderMonika Szmigiel-Turlej Series: Social and Networking Events Im Februar 2023 ist der 10. Todestag von Krzysztof Michalski, weltgewandter Philosoph, charismatische Persönlichkeit mit Organisationstalent und, nicht zuletzt, Gründer und langjähriger Rektor des IWM. Freunde und Wegbegleiter, die ihn kannten, schätzten und bisweilen kritisierten, erinnerten an eine herausragende Person der polnischen und österreichischen Zeitgeschichte, an einen Brückenbauer mit großen Verdiensten für Europa Ost und West. Read more
	Enver Hoxha: Biography of a Balkan Tyrant	Mon, 13.02.2023, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Nikolai Antoniadis Robert Austin Misha Glenny	Enver Hoxha: Biography of a Balkan Tyrant Mon, 13.02.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Nikolai Antoniadis Robert Austin Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows Colloquium, Robert C. Austin presented his research on Albania’s Enver Hoxha (1908-1985), who is likely the least understood of the twentieth century’s communist dictators that took power in the aftermath of the Second World War in Europe. Hoxha was also one of the most violent, ruthless, and repressive communist leaders. Albanians could easily claim that they endured the worst type of communist rule: Hoxha’s form of (violent) communism was without parallel in Europe. Read more
Enver Hoxha: Biography of a Balkan Tyrant Mon, 13.02.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Nikolai Antoniadis Robert Austin Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this Fellows Colloquium, Robert C. Austin presented his research on Albania’s Enver Hoxha (1908-1985), who is likely the least understood of the twentieth century’s communist dictators that took power in the aftermath of the Second World War in Europe. Hoxha was also one of the most violent, ruthless, and repressive communist leaders. Albanians could easily claim that they endured the worst type of communist rule: Hoxha’s form of (violent) communism was without parallel in Europe. Read more