Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	“Arrival” Infrastructures of the Displaced from Ukraine in Vienna	Thu, 09.02.2023, 17:00	Panels and Discussions	Ayşe ÇağlarDavid Himler-Preukschat, Nina Andresen, Tanja Maier, Nataliia Kolchanova, Saskia Schwaiger	“Arrival” Infrastructures of the Displaced from Ukraine in Vienna Thu, 09.02.2023, 17:00 Speakers: Ayşe ÇağlarDavid Himler-Preukschat, Nina Andresen, Tanja Maier, Nataliia Kolchanova, Saskia Schwaiger Series: Panels and Discussions Reviewing the outcomes of the research, the IWM organized a panel discussion with different stakeholders from the city, NGOs, civil initiatives, and people from Ukraine to present key findings and discuss the most salient questions about ‘arrival infrastructures’ in Vienna. Read more
“Arrival” Infrastructures of the Displaced from Ukraine in Vienna Thu, 09.02.2023, 17:00 Speakers: Ayşe ÇağlarDavid Himler-Preukschat, Nina Andresen, Tanja Maier, Nataliia Kolchanova, Saskia Schwaiger Series: Panels and Discussions Reviewing the outcomes of the research, the IWM organized a panel discussion with different stakeholders from the city, NGOs, civil initiatives, and people from Ukraine to present key findings and discuss the most salient questions about ‘arrival infrastructures’ in Vienna. Read more
	Bearing Witness to War	Wed, 08.02.2023, 18:30	Exhibition	Katherine Younger Timothy Snyder Volodymyr Yermolenko	Bearing Witness to War Documenting Ukraine Wed, 08.02.2023, 18:30 Speakers: Katherine Younger Timothy Snyder Volodymyr Yermolenko Series: Exhibition With 200 projects now funded by the Documenting Ukraine program, this event was designed to highlight the work of the Documenting Ukraine grantees and present early results from the program. It was an opportunity for grantees and round table participants to network with the wider IWM community. The evening brought together a variety of interested publics, including those who influence opinion and craft policy, to foster a greater understanding of both the program and the work of those it supports, who are bearing witness to war. The evening also included the opening of a preview exhibition of art and photography from Documenting Ukraine projects. From eight artists working in different media, the exhibition is a preview of a larger exhibition to take place later in 2023. Read more
Bearing Witness to War Documenting Ukraine Wed, 08.02.2023, 18:30 Speakers: Katherine Younger Timothy Snyder Volodymyr Yermolenko Series: Exhibition With 200 projects now funded by the Documenting Ukraine program, this event was designed to highlight the work of the Documenting Ukraine grantees and present early results from the program. It was an opportunity for grantees and round table participants to network with the wider IWM community. The evening brought together a variety of interested publics, including those who influence opinion and craft policy, to foster a greater understanding of both the program and the work of those it supports, who are bearing witness to war. The evening also included the opening of a preview exhibition of art and photography from Documenting Ukraine projects. From eight artists working in different media, the exhibition is a preview of a larger exhibition to take place later in 2023. Read more
	Who Tells Ukraine’s Story and How Should it be Told?	Wed, 08.02.2023, 13:30	Panels and Discussions	Katherine Younger Nataliya Gumenyuk Misha GlennyAnna Ilchenko, Bohdana Neborak, Oksana Sarkisova, Sasha Dovzhyk, Svitlana Oslavska, Tetyana Ogarkova, Volodymyr Yermolenko, Cathrin Kahlweit	Who Tells Ukraine’s Story and How Should it be Told? Documenting Ukraine: Bearing Witness to War Wed, 08.02.2023, 13:30 Speakers: Katherine Younger Nataliya Gumenyuk Misha GlennyAnna Ilchenko, Bohdana Neborak, Oksana Sarkisova, Sasha Dovzhyk, Svitlana Oslavska, Tetyana Ogarkova, Volodymyr Yermolenko, Cathrin Kahlweit Series: Panels and Discussions This round table was part of the two-day event Documenting Ukraine: Bearing Witness to War. With easily available technologies that give access to audiences of millions, coupled with changes in attitudes to trusted news sources, there has been a disruption of traditional models of war reporting and who is able to tell the stories of war. Despite persistent gatekeeping, how reporting on war works and who it empowers and leaves out has been transformed. This round table considered the changing media landscape as it pertains to the Russo-Ukrainian War. In the first session, the focus was on new approaches to storytelling and the technologies that make them possible; the second session concentrated on questions of authorship, agency, and representation. Read more
Who Tells Ukraine’s Story and How Should it be Told? Documenting Ukraine: Bearing Witness to War Wed, 08.02.2023, 13:30 Speakers: Katherine Younger Nataliya Gumenyuk Misha GlennyAnna Ilchenko, Bohdana Neborak, Oksana Sarkisova, Sasha Dovzhyk, Svitlana Oslavska, Tetyana Ogarkova, Volodymyr Yermolenko, Cathrin Kahlweit Series: Panels and Discussions This round table was part of the two-day event Documenting Ukraine: Bearing Witness to War. With easily available technologies that give access to audiences of millions, coupled with changes in attitudes to trusted news sources, there has been a disruption of traditional models of war reporting and who is able to tell the stories of war. Despite persistent gatekeeping, how reporting on war works and who it empowers and leaves out has been transformed. This round table considered the changing media landscape as it pertains to the Russo-Ukrainian War. In the first session, the focus was on new approaches to storytelling and the technologies that make them possible; the second session concentrated on questions of authorship, agency, and representation. Read more
	Recording the Present for the Sake of the Future	Wed, 08.02.2023, 09:30	Panels and Discussions	Katherine Younger Sofiya DyakMaksym Demydenko, Sebastian Majstorovic, Stephen Naron, Winfried Garscha	Recording the Present for the Sake of the Future Documenting Ukraine: Bearing Witness to War Wed, 08.02.2023, 09:30 Speakers: Katherine Younger Sofiya DyakMaksym Demydenko, Sebastian Majstorovic, Stephen Naron, Winfried Garscha Series: Panels and Discussions The round table on the morning of February 7 brought together scholars, archive specialists, and preservation experts who discussed the challenges and opportunities and exchanged best practice examples of preservation and archive building during war. They reflected on the importance of balancing the exigencies of the present moment with the need to build secure and lasting collections, the ethics of inclusion and exclusion, and questions of access and interpretation. Seeking to learn from and build upon other archival initiatives that document experiences of war, this session considered the technical, intellectual, and ethical guiding principles that should govern how to manage building archives under extreme time pressure and extreme circumstances. Discussants considered ways of defining the purpose and scope of collections, who does the collecting, and what resources are needed to make collecting possible. Other questions explored included identifying whom a particular archive is intended to serve and managing access and rights. Read more
Recording the Present for the Sake of the Future Documenting Ukraine: Bearing Witness to War Wed, 08.02.2023, 09:30 Speakers: Katherine Younger Sofiya DyakMaksym Demydenko, Sebastian Majstorovic, Stephen Naron, Winfried Garscha Series: Panels and Discussions The round table on the morning of February 7 brought together scholars, archive specialists, and preservation experts who discussed the challenges and opportunities and exchanged best practice examples of preservation and archive building during war. They reflected on the importance of balancing the exigencies of the present moment with the need to build secure and lasting collections, the ethics of inclusion and exclusion, and questions of access and interpretation. Seeking to learn from and build upon other archival initiatives that document experiences of war, this session considered the technical, intellectual, and ethical guiding principles that should govern how to manage building archives under extreme time pressure and extreme circumstances. Discussants considered ways of defining the purpose and scope of collections, who does the collecting, and what resources are needed to make collecting possible. Other questions explored included identifying whom a particular archive is intended to serve and managing access and rights. Read more
	Protecting Ukraine’s Heritage: What Heritage and Whose?	Tue, 07.02.2023, 14:30	Panels and Discussions	Katherine YoungerAnna Ilchenko, Bohdana Neborak, Natalka Diachenko, Sasha Dovzhyk, Svitlana Oslavska, Serhiy Klymko	Protecting Ukraine’s Heritage: What Heritage and Whose? Documenting Ukraine: Bearing Witness to War Tue, 07.02.2023, 14:30 Speakers: Katherine YoungerAnna Ilchenko, Bohdana Neborak, Natalka Diachenko, Sasha Dovzhyk, Svitlana Oslavska, Serhiy Klymko Series: Panels and Discussions This first round table reflected one of the Russian Federation’s war aims being precisely the destruction of Ukrainian heritage and culture, making the understanding and preservation of this heritage a particularly urgent task. Material objects as well as intangible cultural heritage are under threat. Who decides what needs to be preserved? What is in danger of being overlooked? What resources are needed? How should we think about layers of the past being erased through selective preservation? What are the dangers at issue in approaching the past – essentializing, instrumentalizing, sanitizing? Read more
Protecting Ukraine’s Heritage: What Heritage and Whose? Documenting Ukraine: Bearing Witness to War Tue, 07.02.2023, 14:30 Speakers: Katherine YoungerAnna Ilchenko, Bohdana Neborak, Natalka Diachenko, Sasha Dovzhyk, Svitlana Oslavska, Serhiy Klymko Series: Panels and Discussions This first round table reflected one of the Russian Federation’s war aims being precisely the destruction of Ukrainian heritage and culture, making the understanding and preservation of this heritage a particularly urgent task. Material objects as well as intangible cultural heritage are under threat. Who decides what needs to be preserved? What is in danger of being overlooked? What resources are needed? How should we think about layers of the past being erased through selective preservation? What are the dangers at issue in approaching the past – essentializing, instrumentalizing, sanitizing? Read more
	Finissage zur Austellung: Jan Patočka. Philosoph und Staatsfeind	Thu, 02.02.2023, 18:30	Exhibition		Finissage zur Austellung: Jan Patočka. Philosoph und Staatsfeind Thu, 02.02.2023, 18:30 Speakers: Series: Exhibition Am 3. Februar endete die Ausstellung „Jan Patočka. Philosoph und Staatsfeind“, die mit großem Erfolg für mehr als vier Monate in den Räumen des Tschechischen Zentrums in Wien gezeigt wurde. Der feierliche Kehraus zu dieser Schau fand am Abend des 2. Februar ab 18:30 Uhr statt. Read more
Finissage zur Austellung: Jan Patočka. Philosoph und Staatsfeind Thu, 02.02.2023, 18:30 Speakers: Series: Exhibition Am 3. Februar endete die Ausstellung „Jan Patočka. Philosoph und Staatsfeind“, die mit großem Erfolg für mehr als vier Monate in den Räumen des Tschechischen Zentrums in Wien gezeigt wurde. Der feierliche Kehraus zu dieser Schau fand am Abend des 2. Februar ab 18:30 Uhr statt. Read more
	Europas Grenzen, Österreichs Verantwortung	Thu, 02.02.2023, 18:00	Other	Gerald Knaus Ivan VejvodaFlorian Klenk	Europas Grenzen, Österreichs Verantwortung Books in Perspective Thu, 02.02.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Gerald Knaus Ivan VejvodaFlorian Klenk Series: Other Der Flüchtlingsschutz ist global in der Krise, denn der Kern der Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention – das Non-refoulement-(Nichtzurückweisungs-)Gebot – wird weltweit missachtet, auch in Demokratien. Regelmäßig – in Australien, den USA, Griechenland, Kroatien oder Polen – entscheiden sich Regierungen für Pushbacks. Diese verstoßen zwar gegen nationale und internationale Rechtsnormen, doch werden sie immer weiter normalisiert, auch in der EU. Doch wenn Gesetze und Konventionen offen missachtet werden und dies geleugnet wird, kann dies nicht ohne Auswirkung auf unsere Demokratien bleiben. Denn der Grundwert, der in einer Rechtsgemeinschaft wie der EU alles zusammenhält, ist die Rechtsstaatlichkeit. Read more
Europas Grenzen, Österreichs Verantwortung Books in Perspective Thu, 02.02.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Gerald Knaus Ivan VejvodaFlorian Klenk Series: Other Der Flüchtlingsschutz ist global in der Krise, denn der Kern der Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention – das Non-refoulement-(Nichtzurückweisungs-)Gebot – wird weltweit missachtet, auch in Demokratien. Regelmäßig – in Australien, den USA, Griechenland, Kroatien oder Polen – entscheiden sich Regierungen für Pushbacks. Diese verstoßen zwar gegen nationale und internationale Rechtsnormen, doch werden sie immer weiter normalisiert, auch in der EU. Doch wenn Gesetze und Konventionen offen missachtet werden und dies geleugnet wird, kann dies nicht ohne Auswirkung auf unsere Demokratien bleiben. Denn der Grundwert, der in einer Rechtsgemeinschaft wie der EU alles zusammenhält, ist die Rechtsstaatlichkeit. Read more
	Who Is in Putin’s Army? Talking to Russian Prisoners of War in Ukraine and What We Can Learn From It	Mon, 30.01.2023, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Kirill Rogov Peter Ruzavin	Who Is in Putin’s Army? Talking to Russian Prisoners of War in Ukraine and What We Can Learn From It Mon, 30.01.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Kirill Rogov Peter Ruzavin Series: Seminars and Colloquia Peter Ruzavin is a Russian journalist, who has been reporting from Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion. Peter conducted several interviews with Russian prisoners of war in Ukrainian captivity. He believes that the conversations he had are important in giving a sense of a range of questions. Read more
Who Is in Putin’s Army? Talking to Russian Prisoners of War in Ukraine and What We Can Learn From It Mon, 30.01.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Kirill Rogov Peter Ruzavin Series: Seminars and Colloquia Peter Ruzavin is a Russian journalist, who has been reporting from Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion. Peter conducted several interviews with Russian prisoners of war in Ukrainian captivity. He believes that the conversations he had are important in giving a sense of a range of questions. Read more
	Rolling Transition and the Role of Intellectuals	Thu, 26.01.2023, 18:00	Lecture	Katherine Younger András Bozoki Misha Glenny	Rolling Transition and the Role of Intellectuals Books in Perspective Thu, 26.01.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Katherine Younger András Bozoki Misha Glenny Series: Lecture Book presentation by András Bozóki, the author of Rolling Transition and the Role of Intellectuals (2022, CEU Press). The model of rolling transition offers a new account of dissident intellectuals’ contribution to the literature of regime change, following neither the vanguard model, nor the New Class explanation. The account focuses on the exceptionally influential political role of Hungarian intellectuals in the period of 1977–1994. Read more
Rolling Transition and the Role of Intellectuals Books in Perspective Thu, 26.01.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Katherine Younger András Bozoki Misha Glenny Series: Lecture Book presentation by András Bozóki, the author of Rolling Transition and the Role of Intellectuals (2022, CEU Press). The model of rolling transition offers a new account of dissident intellectuals’ contribution to the literature of regime change, following neither the vanguard model, nor the New Class explanation. The account focuses on the exceptionally influential political role of Hungarian intellectuals in the period of 1977–1994. Read more
	Frontline Reporting on Ukraine's War for Democracy	Wed, 25.01.2023, 18:00	Lecture	Nataliya Gumenyuk Misha Glenny	Frontline Reporting on Ukraine's War for Democracy Wed, 25.01.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Nataliya Gumenyuk Misha Glenny Series: Lecture In this Monthly Lecture Nataliya Gumenyuk presented her journalistic work during the Russo-Ukrainian war. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Gumenyuk has pivoted to frontline media reporting in order to document Ukrainians' wartime stories. Read more
Frontline Reporting on Ukraine's War for Democracy Wed, 25.01.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Nataliya Gumenyuk Misha Glenny Series: Lecture In this Monthly Lecture Nataliya Gumenyuk presented her journalistic work during the Russo-Ukrainian war. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Gumenyuk has pivoted to frontline media reporting in order to document Ukrainians' wartime stories. Read more