Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Belarus ein Jahr nach den Massenprotesten: Wie weiter?	Fri, 10.09.2021, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Vejvoda Ludger HagedornOlga Shparaga	Belarus ein Jahr nach den Massenprotesten: Wie weiter? Fri, 10.09.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Ludger HagedornOlga Shparaga Series: Panels and Discussions Im Sommer und Herbst 2020 erlebte Belarus die größten Massenproteste seiner Geschichte. Sie richteten sich gegen die manipulierten Präsidentschaftswahlen und das autokratische Regime von Aljaksandr Lukaschenka, der das Land seit 1994 regiert. Die Proteste erzeugten eine Aufbruchstimmung im ganzen Land und die Hoffnung auf politischen Wandel. Von der EU wird Lukaschenka seit den Wahlen nicht mehr als rechtmäßiger Staatspräsident anerkannt. Read more
Belarus ein Jahr nach den Massenprotesten: Wie weiter? Fri, 10.09.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Ludger HagedornOlga Shparaga Series: Panels and Discussions Im Sommer und Herbst 2020 erlebte Belarus die größten Massenproteste seiner Geschichte. Sie richteten sich gegen die manipulierten Präsidentschaftswahlen und das autokratische Regime von Aljaksandr Lukaschenka, der das Land seit 1994 regiert. Die Proteste erzeugten eine Aufbruchstimmung im ganzen Land und die Hoffnung auf politischen Wandel. Von der EU wird Lukaschenka seit den Wahlen nicht mehr als rechtmäßiger Staatspräsident anerkannt. Read more
	Europe’s Futures Colloquium	Wed, 08.09.2021, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Ivan Vejvoda Oana Popescu-Zamfir Wojciech Przybylski	Europe’s Futures Colloquium with Oana Popescu-Zamfir and Wojciech Przybylski Wed, 08.09.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Oana Popescu-Zamfir Wojciech Przybylski Series: Seminars and Colloquia The first Europe’s Futures Fellows Colloquium investigated the nexus of issues around the European Union’s balancing act between a peace project it has been and a “strategically autonomous” superpower it seemingly wants to become. Read more
Europe’s Futures Colloquium with Oana Popescu-Zamfir and Wojciech Przybylski Wed, 08.09.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Oana Popescu-Zamfir Wojciech Przybylski Series: Seminars and Colloquia The first Europe’s Futures Fellows Colloquium investigated the nexus of issues around the European Union’s balancing act between a peace project it has been and a “strategically autonomous” superpower it seemingly wants to become. Read more
	Emma Goldman Awards Ceremony	Thu, 02.09.2021, 18:00	Other	Agata LisiakAkwugo Emejulu	Emma Goldman Awards Ceremony FLAX Foundation Award 2021 for Research on Feminism and Inequality Thu, 02.09.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Agata LisiakAkwugo Emejulu Series: Other The IWM was proud to host the second Emma Goldman Awards ceremony, awarded since 2020 by the FLAX Foundation. These awards are given to talented and engaged scholars working on feminist and inequality issues in Europe, to support their research and development. The FLAX Foundation issues two types of awards: the Emma Goldman Awards and the Emma Goldman Snowball Awards for earlier-career researchers nominated by the Emma Goldman awardees. Read more
Emma Goldman Awards Ceremony FLAX Foundation Award 2021 for Research on Feminism and Inequality Thu, 02.09.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Agata LisiakAkwugo Emejulu Series: Other The IWM was proud to host the second Emma Goldman Awards ceremony, awarded since 2020 by the FLAX Foundation. These awards are given to talented and engaged scholars working on feminist and inequality issues in Europe, to support their research and development. The FLAX Foundation issues two types of awards: the Emma Goldman Awards and the Emma Goldman Snowball Awards for earlier-career researchers nominated by the Emma Goldman awardees. Read more
	Polish Politics of Memory and Poetics of Unlived Future	Mon, 12.07.2021, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Justyna Tabaszewska Timothy Snyder	Polish Politics of Memory and Poetics of Unlived Future Mon, 12.07.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Justyna Tabaszewska Timothy Snyder Series: Seminars and Colloquia Polish politics of memory has undergone significant change in the past several years, becoming more entrenched and preoccupied with projecting an image of Poland as the victim of successive historical catastrophes. At the same time, Polish politics relies increasingly more often on visions of happy “futures past” that are deeply rooted in Polish culture and builds social resentment by accusing subsequent social groups of squandering away chances for development. Therefore, it seems necessary to ask what are these versions of Polish alternate history embedded in Polish culture and in what way do they influence contemporary politics of memory? Read more
Polish Politics of Memory and Poetics of Unlived Future Mon, 12.07.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Justyna Tabaszewska Timothy Snyder Series: Seminars and Colloquia Polish politics of memory has undergone significant change in the past several years, becoming more entrenched and preoccupied with projecting an image of Poland as the victim of successive historical catastrophes. At the same time, Polish politics relies increasingly more often on visions of happy “futures past” that are deeply rooted in Polish culture and builds social resentment by accusing subsequent social groups of squandering away chances for development. Therefore, it seems necessary to ask what are these versions of Polish alternate history embedded in Polish culture and in what way do they influence contemporary politics of memory? Read more
	Inside Tyranny: Belarus and the Power and Non-power of State Terror	Thu, 01.07.2021, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Marci Shore Nataliya Gumenyuk Timothy SnyderMaryia Rohava, Aliaksei Kazharski, Radosław Sikorski, Hanna Komar	Inside Tyranny: Belarus and the Power and Non-power of State Terror Thu, 01.07.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Marci Shore Nataliya Gumenyuk Timothy SnyderMaryia Rohava, Aliaksei Kazharski, Radosław Sikorski, Hanna Komar Series: Panels and Discussions Immediately following the hijacking of the Ryanair flight and abduction of Roman Protasevich and Sofia Sapega on 23 May, IWM hosted a discussion posing the question of что делать? (What is to be done?) from the perspective of European Union states: The Hijack. Europe, Belarus, and the Abduction of Roman Protasevich. The following two discussions (the first in German, the second in English) shifted the focus from the European Union to the former Soviet space in an attempt to better understand what is happening inside Belarus itself. In what way is the currently showcased performative-confession-extracted-through-torture reminiscent of Stalinist times, and in what way is there something post-modern about it? What is the relationship between insecurities about masculinity and state terror? How does a “revolution with a woman’s face” open new possibilities for politics, for rebellion against tyranny? Read more
Inside Tyranny: Belarus and the Power and Non-power of State Terror Thu, 01.07.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Marci Shore Nataliya Gumenyuk Timothy SnyderMaryia Rohava, Aliaksei Kazharski, Radosław Sikorski, Hanna Komar Series: Panels and Discussions Immediately following the hijacking of the Ryanair flight and abduction of Roman Protasevich and Sofia Sapega on 23 May, IWM hosted a discussion posing the question of что делать? (What is to be done?) from the perspective of European Union states: The Hijack. Europe, Belarus, and the Abduction of Roman Protasevich. The following two discussions (the first in German, the second in English) shifted the focus from the European Union to the former Soviet space in an attempt to better understand what is happening inside Belarus itself. In what way is the currently showcased performative-confession-extracted-through-torture reminiscent of Stalinist times, and in what way is there something post-modern about it? What is the relationship between insecurities about masculinity and state terror? How does a “revolution with a woman’s face” open new possibilities for politics, for rebellion against tyranny? Read more
	Im Innern der Tyrannei: Belarus, oder die Macht und Ohnmacht staatlichen Terrors	Wed, 30.06.2021, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Felix Ackermann Jurko Prochasko Ludger Hagedorn Marci ShoreOlga Shparaga, Anna Schor-Tschudnowskaja	Im Innern der Tyrannei: Belarus, oder die Macht und Ohnmacht staatlichen Terrors Wed, 30.06.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Felix Ackermann Jurko Prochasko Ludger Hagedorn Marci ShoreOlga Shparaga, Anna Schor-Tschudnowskaja Series: Panels and Discussions Unmittelbar nach der Entführung des Ryanair-Fluges und der Verschleppung von Roman Protasewitsch and Sofia Sapega organisierte das IWM am 23. Mai spontan ein Expertenpanel, das sich mit der Frage что делать? (Was tun?) insbesondere aus der Perspektive der Europäischen Union befasste (The Hijack. Europe, Belarus, and the Abduction of Roman Protasevich). Die beiden für den 30 Juni und 1. Juli geplanten Diskussionen (die erste auf Deutsch, die zweite auf Englisch) haben das Augenmerk stärker auf den post-sowjetischen Raum gerichtet und sich insbesondere mit den Auswirkungen des staatlichen Terrors auf die belarusische Gesellschaft befasst: Wie werden die gegenwärtig öffentlich inszenierten (und durch Folter erzwungenen) Geständnisse wahrgenommen? Was erinnert daran an die Schauprozesse der stalinistischen Ära und was ist vielleicht spezifisch postmodern? Wie hängt der staatliche Terror zusammen mit einer tiefgreifenden Krise von Männlichkeit? Wie kann es einer Revolution „mit weiblichem Angesicht“ gelingen, neue Möglichkeiten für die Politik und den Widerstand gegen die Tyrannei zu gewinnen? Read more
Im Innern der Tyrannei: Belarus, oder die Macht und Ohnmacht staatlichen Terrors Wed, 30.06.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Felix Ackermann Jurko Prochasko Ludger Hagedorn Marci ShoreOlga Shparaga, Anna Schor-Tschudnowskaja Series: Panels and Discussions Unmittelbar nach der Entführung des Ryanair-Fluges und der Verschleppung von Roman Protasewitsch and Sofia Sapega organisierte das IWM am 23. Mai spontan ein Expertenpanel, das sich mit der Frage что делать? (Was tun?) insbesondere aus der Perspektive der Europäischen Union befasste (The Hijack. Europe, Belarus, and the Abduction of Roman Protasevich). Die beiden für den 30 Juni und 1. Juli geplanten Diskussionen (die erste auf Deutsch, die zweite auf Englisch) haben das Augenmerk stärker auf den post-sowjetischen Raum gerichtet und sich insbesondere mit den Auswirkungen des staatlichen Terrors auf die belarusische Gesellschaft befasst: Wie werden die gegenwärtig öffentlich inszenierten (und durch Folter erzwungenen) Geständnisse wahrgenommen? Was erinnert daran an die Schauprozesse der stalinistischen Ära und was ist vielleicht spezifisch postmodern? Wie hängt der staatliche Terror zusammen mit einer tiefgreifenden Krise von Männlichkeit? Wie kann es einer Revolution „mit weiblichem Angesicht“ gelingen, neue Möglichkeiten für die Politik und den Widerstand gegen die Tyrannei zu gewinnen? Read more
	Who Are Russia's National Heroes?	Mon, 28.06.2021, 15:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Ivan Krastev Maria Lipman	Who Are Russia's National Heroes? Politics of History and Monument Building in Putin’s Russia Mon, 28.06.2021, 15:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Maria Lipman Series: Seminars and Colloquia In recent years, governments and citizens in countries all over the world, from Eastern Europe to North America and Africa, have torn down historical monuments in pursuit of historical justice.  Russia experienced such paroxysms of iconoclasm three times in the 20th century, but following the collapse of the Soviet Union, it instead embarked on a wave of monument building across the country. What are the dynamics and causes of this monument fever? What does it tell us about nation-building in Russia thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union? Read more
Who Are Russia's National Heroes? Politics of History and Monument Building in Putin’s Russia Mon, 28.06.2021, 15:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Maria Lipman Series: Seminars and Colloquia In recent years, governments and citizens in countries all over the world, from Eastern Europe to North America and Africa, have torn down historical monuments in pursuit of historical justice.  Russia experienced such paroxysms of iconoclasm three times in the 20th century, but following the collapse of the Soviet Union, it instead embarked on a wave of monument building across the country. What are the dynamics and causes of this monument fever? What does it tell us about nation-building in Russia thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union? Read more
	Byzantium and the Origins of Eurasia	Mon, 28.06.2021, 10:00	Conferences and Workshops	Alexey Lidov Clemena Antonova Sergey Ivanov Valentina IzmirlievaEndre Sashalmi, Ivan Foletti, Ivan Christov, Vladimir Cvetković	Byzantium and the Origins of Eurasia International conference, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna Mon, 28.06.2021, 10:00 Speakers: Alexey Lidov Clemena Antonova Sergey Ivanov Valentina IzmirlievaEndre Sashalmi, Ivan Foletti, Ivan Christov, Vladimir Cvetković Series: Conferences and Workshops The aim of this international conference, organized under the auspices of the “Eurasia in Global Dialogue” Programme, was to offer a better understanding of contemporary developments in Eurasia by looking at their origins in Byzantium. The focus fell on the history of the reception of the Byzantine heritage in Russia and Eastern Europe. While addressing a wide range of topics in intellectual history, politics, aesthetics, religion, etc., all papers engaged with the contested nature of the concept of “Eurasia.” Read more
Byzantium and the Origins of Eurasia International conference, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna Mon, 28.06.2021, 10:00 Speakers: Alexey Lidov Clemena Antonova Sergey Ivanov Valentina IzmirlievaEndre Sashalmi, Ivan Foletti, Ivan Christov, Vladimir Cvetković Series: Conferences and Workshops The aim of this international conference, organized under the auspices of the “Eurasia in Global Dialogue” Programme, was to offer a better understanding of contemporary developments in Eurasia by looking at their origins in Byzantium. The focus fell on the history of the reception of the Byzantine heritage in Russia and Eastern Europe. While addressing a wide range of topics in intellectual history, politics, aesthetics, religion, etc., all papers engaged with the contested nature of the concept of “Eurasia.” Read more
	Yehuda Elkana Fellowship Workshop 2021	Wed, 23.06.2021, 14:00 - Fri, 25.06.2021, 18:00	Conferences and Workshops	Helga Nowotny	Yehuda Elkana Fellowship Workshop 2021 Wed, 23.06.2021, 14:00 - Fri, 25.06.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Helga Nowotny Series: Conferences and Workshops The inaugural Yehuda Elkana Fellow, Helga Nowotny, conducted a non-public manuscript workshop with invited guests at the Central European University, in cooperation with the IWM and the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. Read more
Yehuda Elkana Fellowship Workshop 2021 Wed, 23.06.2021, 14:00 - Fri, 25.06.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Helga Nowotny Series: Conferences and Workshops The inaugural Yehuda Elkana Fellow, Helga Nowotny, conducted a non-public manuscript workshop with invited guests at the Central European University, in cooperation with the IWM and the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. Read more
	In AI We Trust. Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms	Tue, 22.06.2021, 17:00	Lecture	Helga Nowotny	In AI We Trust. Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms Yehuda Elkana Fellowship Lecture 2021 Tue, 22.06.2021, 17:00 Speakers: Helga Nowotny Series: Lecture The inaugural Yehuda Elkana Fellow, Helga Nowotny, gave a lecture at the Central European University, in cooperation with the IWM and the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. Read more
In AI We Trust. Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms Yehuda Elkana Fellowship Lecture 2021 Tue, 22.06.2021, 17:00 Speakers: Helga Nowotny Series: Lecture The inaugural Yehuda Elkana Fellow, Helga Nowotny, gave a lecture at the Central European University, in cooperation with the IWM and the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. Read more