Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	The Idea of Europe	Sat, 08.10.2022, 10:00	Festivals	Misha GlennyVolodymyr Yermolenko, Philippe Sands, Tetyana Oharkova	The Idea of Europe Part of HAY FESTIVAL Lviv Book Forum Sat, 08.10.2022, 10:00 Speakers: Misha GlennyVolodymyr Yermolenko, Philippe Sands, Tetyana Oharkova Series: Festivals Co-hosted with IWM, this talk explored how the war has changed people’s concept of Europe. How have the boundaries of Europe been defined previously – geographically, religiously, politically? Can we ever see Russia as a European country once again? Read more
The Idea of Europe Part of HAY FESTIVAL Lviv Book Forum Sat, 08.10.2022, 10:00 Speakers: Misha GlennyVolodymyr Yermolenko, Philippe Sands, Tetyana Oharkova Series: Festivals Co-hosted with IWM, this talk explored how the war has changed people’s concept of Europe. How have the boundaries of Europe been defined previously – geographically, religiously, politically? Can we ever see Russia as a European country once again? Read more
	Surviving Human Trafficking: Activism as a Way Through the Struggle	Mon, 03.10.2022, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Ivan Vejvoda Milica Kravić Aksamit Misha Glenny	Surviving Human Trafficking: Activism as a Way Through the Struggle Mon, 03.10.2022, 16:00 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Milica Kravić Aksamit Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia In her talk, Milica Kravić Aksamit presented her recent analyses and work on the television and radio piece “Osnažena” (Empowered), which narrates the stories of female survivors and activists who live in Belgrade but came from various African countries. Besides illustrating their life trajectories, the story reinforces the fact that human trafficking and gender-based violence are important social phenomena. The idea of Kravić Aksamit’s work is to show an uncommon perspective with focus on the bright and inspiring side of survivors’ lives, rather than on problems only. Read more
Surviving Human Trafficking: Activism as a Way Through the Struggle Mon, 03.10.2022, 16:00 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Milica Kravić Aksamit Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia In her talk, Milica Kravić Aksamit presented her recent analyses and work on the television and radio piece “Osnažena” (Empowered), which narrates the stories of female survivors and activists who live in Belgrade but came from various African countries. Besides illustrating their life trajectories, the story reinforces the fact that human trafficking and gender-based violence are important social phenomena. The idea of Kravić Aksamit’s work is to show an uncommon perspective with focus on the bright and inspiring side of survivors’ lives, rather than on problems only. Read more
	Putin’s Roots in KGB and the Road to War in Ukraine	Sat, 01.10.2022, 20:00	Festivals	Catherine Belton, Tessa Szyszkowitz	Putin’s Roots in KGB and the Road to War in Ukraine Eine Wiener Vorlesung im Rahmen des Vienna Humanities Festivals Sat, 01.10.2022, 20:00 Speakers: Catherine Belton, Tessa Szyszkowitz Series: Festivals The talk examined Putin's roots in the KGB and how this was a mindset and modus operandi that became ever more deeply entrenched the longer his rule continued. Former Moscow correspondent and investigative journalist Catherine Belton, author of the bestseller Putin’s People, revealed the untold story of how former KGB men seized power in Russia and built a new league of oligarchs. In conversation with Austrian historian and journalist Tessa Szyszkowitz, she examined the resulting risks now for the west, as well as for Putin's own hold on power. Read more
Putin’s Roots in KGB and the Road to War in Ukraine Eine Wiener Vorlesung im Rahmen des Vienna Humanities Festivals Sat, 01.10.2022, 20:00 Speakers: Catherine Belton, Tessa Szyszkowitz Series: Festivals The talk examined Putin's roots in the KGB and how this was a mindset and modus operandi that became ever more deeply entrenched the longer his rule continued. Former Moscow correspondent and investigative journalist Catherine Belton, author of the bestseller Putin’s People, revealed the untold story of how former KGB men seized power in Russia and built a new league of oligarchs. In conversation with Austrian historian and journalist Tessa Szyszkowitz, she examined the resulting risks now for the west, as well as for Putin's own hold on power. Read more
	Logik, Wahn, Gespenster	Fri, 30.09.2022, 19:00	Festivals	Ludger Hagedorn Misha GlennyDaniel Kehlmann, Anna Badora, Julia Kreusch, Günther Franzmeier, Markus Meyer	Logik, Wahn, Gespenster Teil des Vienna Humanities Festivals 2022 Fri, 30.09.2022, 19:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Misha GlennyDaniel Kehlmann, Anna Badora, Julia Kreusch, Günther Franzmeier, Markus Meyer Series: Festivals Szenische Lesung aus Geister in Princeton, im Anschluss: Daniel Kehlmann im Gespräch mit Ludger Hagedorn über die Bedrohlichkeit von Gespenstern, auch und gerade in Zeiten der Rationalität. Read more
Logik, Wahn, Gespenster Teil des Vienna Humanities Festivals 2022 Fri, 30.09.2022, 19:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Misha GlennyDaniel Kehlmann, Anna Badora, Julia Kreusch, Günther Franzmeier, Markus Meyer Series: Festivals Szenische Lesung aus Geister in Princeton, im Anschluss: Daniel Kehlmann im Gespräch mit Ludger Hagedorn über die Bedrohlichkeit von Gespenstern, auch und gerade in Zeiten der Rationalität. Read more
	An Uncertain Future: The World Economy, Globalization and Resentment	Tue, 27.09.2022, 19:00	Festivals	Joseph Stiglitz Misha Glenny	An Uncertain Future: The World Economy, Globalization and Resentment Part of the Vienna Humanities Festival 2022 Tue, 27.09.2022, 19:00 Speakers: Joseph Stiglitz Misha Glenny Series: Festivals To open the Vienna Humanities Festival 2022, Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz held a lecture addressing the necessity to chart a new course, in which markets and governments operate in tandem, in which corporations don’t dictate vaccine availability and richer countries offer constructive and real help to developing countries. Read more
An Uncertain Future: The World Economy, Globalization and Resentment Part of the Vienna Humanities Festival 2022 Tue, 27.09.2022, 19:00 Speakers: Joseph Stiglitz Misha Glenny Series: Festivals To open the Vienna Humanities Festival 2022, Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz held a lecture addressing the necessity to chart a new course, in which markets and governments operate in tandem, in which corporations don’t dictate vaccine availability and richer countries offer constructive and real help to developing countries. Read more
	Reflections on Mass Violence: War, Excess and Responsibility	Tue, 20.09.2022, 18:00	Lecture	Ludger Hagedorn Nergis Canefe	Reflections on Mass Violence: War, Excess and Responsibility Tue, 20.09.2022, 18:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Nergis Canefe Series: Lecture This talk examined the role of judgment and philosophical engagement in the determination of the scope of international [criminal] law in such crises. Specifically, it examined what Kurt Flasch aptly called "the spiritual mobilization" of philosophy. It revisited Jan Patočka's interpretation of the First World War in the sixth of his Heretical Essays. As Patočka declared, the "excessive" character of the 20th century was best exemplified in the dangerously romantic conception of "force." Read more
Reflections on Mass Violence: War, Excess and Responsibility Tue, 20.09.2022, 18:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Nergis Canefe Series: Lecture This talk examined the role of judgment and philosophical engagement in the determination of the scope of international [criminal] law in such crises. Specifically, it examined what Kurt Flasch aptly called "the spiritual mobilization" of philosophy. It revisited Jan Patočka's interpretation of the First World War in the sixth of his Heretical Essays. As Patočka declared, the "excessive" character of the 20th century was best exemplified in the dangerously romantic conception of "force." Read more
	Semester Opening	Mon, 19.09.2022, 18:00	Social and Networking Events	Ivan Krastev Misha Glenny	Semester Opening Mon, 19.09.2022, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Misha Glenny Series: Social and Networking Events On the occasion of the Semester Opening at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Rector Misha Glenny cordially invited the Fellows who are already in house, and especially those who have arrived in the course of September, the Permanent Fellows, and the Staff to participate in an evening conversation about the current state of politics and society in the IWM Library. Read more
Semester Opening Mon, 19.09.2022, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Misha Glenny Series: Social and Networking Events On the occasion of the Semester Opening at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Rector Misha Glenny cordially invited the Fellows who are already in house, and especially those who have arrived in the course of September, the Permanent Fellows, and the Staff to participate in an evening conversation about the current state of politics and society in the IWM Library. Read more
	A Black Box in Dark Times: Russian Public Opinion in the Midst of Despotism and War	Mon, 19.09.2022, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Ivan Krastev Kirill Rogov	A Black Box in Dark Times: Russian Public Opinion in the Midst of Despotism and War Mon, 19.09.2022, 16:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Kirill Rogov Series: Seminars and Colloquia While not doing too well on the battlefield, Vladimir Putin is taking advantage of the weak resistance to his military venture at home. This allows him to avoid responsibility for failures and wage a protracted war of attrition in Ukraine. But what is behind the poll numbers demonstrating massive support for the war in Russia? Are they relevant, and how should we interpret them? Do they have the same meaning as polls conducted in conditions of political pluralism and freedom of opinion? An analysis of long-term trends in the dynamics of Putin's popularity allows Kirill Rogov to reveal some of the mechanisms of "support inflation" under the authoritarian regime and the role of wars in these dynamics. Read more
A Black Box in Dark Times: Russian Public Opinion in the Midst of Despotism and War Mon, 19.09.2022, 16:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Kirill Rogov Series: Seminars and Colloquia While not doing too well on the battlefield, Vladimir Putin is taking advantage of the weak resistance to his military venture at home. This allows him to avoid responsibility for failures and wage a protracted war of attrition in Ukraine. But what is behind the poll numbers demonstrating massive support for the war in Russia? Are they relevant, and how should we interpret them? Do they have the same meaning as polls conducted in conditions of political pluralism and freedom of opinion? An analysis of long-term trends in the dynamics of Putin's popularity allows Kirill Rogov to reveal some of the mechanisms of "support inflation" under the authoritarian regime and the role of wars in these dynamics. Read more
	Ukraine, the Western Balkans and How to Revive the Broken EU Accession Process	Thu, 15.09.2022, 17:00	Panels and Discussions	Heather Grabbe Ivan Vejvoda Kristof Bender	Ukraine, the Western Balkans and How to Revive the Broken EU Accession Process Thu, 15.09.2022, 17:00 Speakers: Heather Grabbe Ivan Vejvoda Kristof Bender Series: Panels and Discussions In June Ukraine and Moldova got EU candidate status. Hailed as a historic achievement, in practice the accession process is still stuck. Several member states insist that further steps towards enlargement have to be preceeded by internal reforms, in particular of the EU’s decision making structures. This will take many years. Meanwhile, the reluctance of these EU member states has blocked the accession process. This can be vividly observed in the Western Balkans, where reforms have stalled for years and where the frontrunners are hardly better prepared than some of the countries that have not even started accession negotiations yet. The reluctance of EU member states and the failings of the accession process are reinforcing each other and have created a vicious circle. If nothing changes, Ukraine and Moldova are set to join the Balkan club of disillusionment. Read more
Ukraine, the Western Balkans and How to Revive the Broken EU Accession Process Thu, 15.09.2022, 17:00 Speakers: Heather Grabbe Ivan Vejvoda Kristof Bender Series: Panels and Discussions In June Ukraine and Moldova got EU candidate status. Hailed as a historic achievement, in practice the accession process is still stuck. Several member states insist that further steps towards enlargement have to be preceeded by internal reforms, in particular of the EU’s decision making structures. This will take many years. Meanwhile, the reluctance of these EU member states has blocked the accession process. This can be vividly observed in the Western Balkans, where reforms have stalled for years and where the frontrunners are hardly better prepared than some of the countries that have not even started accession negotiations yet. The reluctance of EU member states and the failings of the accession process are reinforcing each other and have created a vicious circle. If nothing changes, Ukraine and Moldova are set to join the Balkan club of disillusionment. Read more
	Digitized Migrants	Thu, 15.09.2022, 09:00 - Fri, 16.09.2022, 16:00	Conferences and Workshops	Giorgia Donà Ranabir Samaddar Ayşe ÇağlarAhmet İçudygu	Digitized Migrants Thu, 15.09.2022, 09:00 - Fri, 16.09.2022, 16:00 Speakers: Giorgia Donà Ranabir Samaddar Ayşe ÇağlarAhmet İçudygu Series: Conferences and Workshops The two Global Compacts on migration have advocated the increased use of digital technologies to enhance the protection, welfare, and development of refugees and migrants. The use of new technologies of surveillance that identify, track, and control the people crossing borders result in the increasing digitalization of borders, migrants, and their management. Biometrics and automated decision-making tools, as well as the surveillance of social media have increasingly become central to migration management technologies. These border security technologies are not simply technological improvement of existing forms of border control or governance. The militarization and computerization of borders raise important questions about the politics of data, data subjects, biopolitics, (scales of) sovereignty, regulation, and different forms of sovereign, regulatory, and disciplinary power. We are yet to fully grasp the social implications of this new regime of automated truth registration. Does it create new inequalities and/or reinforce old ones? Is it only a tool of oppression, appropriation and exclusion, or does it offer any opportunity for emancipation? How can we think about agency and solidarity in a digital word? Read more
Digitized Migrants Thu, 15.09.2022, 09:00 - Fri, 16.09.2022, 16:00 Speakers: Giorgia Donà Ranabir Samaddar Ayşe ÇağlarAhmet İçudygu Series: Conferences and Workshops The two Global Compacts on migration have advocated the increased use of digital technologies to enhance the protection, welfare, and development of refugees and migrants. The use of new technologies of surveillance that identify, track, and control the people crossing borders result in the increasing digitalization of borders, migrants, and their management. Biometrics and automated decision-making tools, as well as the surveillance of social media have increasingly become central to migration management technologies. These border security technologies are not simply technological improvement of existing forms of border control or governance. The militarization and computerization of borders raise important questions about the politics of data, data subjects, biopolitics, (scales of) sovereignty, regulation, and different forms of sovereign, regulatory, and disciplinary power. We are yet to fully grasp the social implications of this new regime of automated truth registration. Does it create new inequalities and/or reinforce old ones? Is it only a tool of oppression, appropriation and exclusion, or does it offer any opportunity for emancipation? How can we think about agency and solidarity in a digital word? Read more