Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Warum wir am Frauentag auch über Männer reden sollten…	Sun, 08.03.2020, 11:00	Panels and Discussions	Kathrin Röggla, Paul M. Zulehner, Kenan Güngör, Maria Windhager, Petra Stuiber	Warum wir am Frauentag auch über Männer reden sollten… Sun, 08.03.2020, 11:00 Speakers: Kathrin Röggla, Paul M. Zulehner, Kenan Güngör, Maria Windhager, Petra Stuiber Series: Panels and Discussions Der internationale Frauentag war eine gute Gelegenheit, um auch über Männer zu sprechen. Das lange gepflegte Ideal von Männlichkeit, das Stärke und Härte voraussetzt, ist längst nicht mehr gültig. Frauen wehren sich gegen die Ausprägungen dieser „toxischen Männlichkeit“ – mit immer mehr Erfolg. Das hilft auch den Männern. Read more
Warum wir am Frauentag auch über Männer reden sollten… Sun, 08.03.2020, 11:00 Speakers: Kathrin Röggla, Paul M. Zulehner, Kenan Güngör, Maria Windhager, Petra Stuiber Series: Panels and Discussions Der internationale Frauentag war eine gute Gelegenheit, um auch über Männer zu sprechen. Das lange gepflegte Ideal von Männlichkeit, das Stärke und Härte voraussetzt, ist längst nicht mehr gültig. Frauen wehren sich gegen die Ausprägungen dieser „toxischen Männlichkeit“ – mit immer mehr Erfolg. Das hilft auch den Männern. Read more
	In guter Verfassung?	Wed, 04.03.2020, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Miloš Vec Elisabeth Holzleithner, Heinz Fischer, Clemens Jabloner, Christoph Grabenwarter	In guter Verfassung? 100 Jahre Bundes-Verfassungsgesetz Wed, 04.03.2020, 18:00 Speakers: Miloš Vec Elisabeth Holzleithner, Heinz Fischer, Clemens Jabloner, Christoph Grabenwarter Series: Panels and Discussions In diesem Jahr wird das österreichische Bundes-Verfassungsgesetz (B-VG) 100 Jahre alt. Es gründete auf Verfassungskämpfen von 1848, übernahm Grundrechte von 1867 und stellte 1920 die Weichen für einen Aufbruch der jungen ersten österreichischen Republik in eine ungewisse Zukunft. Seither wurde es vielfach diskutiert, reformiert – und zwischenzeitlich sogar demontiert. 1934 wurde das B-VG durch die autoritäre Maiverfassung ersetzt, die Nationalsozialisten verabschiedeten sich erst recht von jeder rechtsstaatlichen Verfassungsidee. 1945 trat das B-VG wieder in Kraft und gab die Spielregeln der Zweiten Republik zwischen Recht und Politik vor. Welche zentrale Rolle und Bedeutung der Verfassung zukommt, haben die Ereignisse des letzten Jahres einmal mehr unter Beweis gestellt. Der 100-jährige Geburtstag sollte Anlass sein, ausgewählte Aspekte des B-VG in Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft zu diskutieren. Read more
In guter Verfassung? 100 Jahre Bundes-Verfassungsgesetz Wed, 04.03.2020, 18:00 Speakers: Miloš Vec Elisabeth Holzleithner, Heinz Fischer, Clemens Jabloner, Christoph Grabenwarter Series: Panels and Discussions In diesem Jahr wird das österreichische Bundes-Verfassungsgesetz (B-VG) 100 Jahre alt. Es gründete auf Verfassungskämpfen von 1848, übernahm Grundrechte von 1867 und stellte 1920 die Weichen für einen Aufbruch der jungen ersten österreichischen Republik in eine ungewisse Zukunft. Seither wurde es vielfach diskutiert, reformiert – und zwischenzeitlich sogar demontiert. 1934 wurde das B-VG durch die autoritäre Maiverfassung ersetzt, die Nationalsozialisten verabschiedeten sich erst recht von jeder rechtsstaatlichen Verfassungsidee. 1945 trat das B-VG wieder in Kraft und gab die Spielregeln der Zweiten Republik zwischen Recht und Politik vor. Welche zentrale Rolle und Bedeutung der Verfassung zukommt, haben die Ereignisse des letzten Jahres einmal mehr unter Beweis gestellt. Der 100-jährige Geburtstag sollte Anlass sein, ausgewählte Aspekte des B-VG in Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft zu diskutieren. Read more
	Liberalism in Crisis: Between Totalitarian Responses and Progressive Dreams	Tue, 25.02.2020, 10:00	Panels and Discussions	Adam Ramsay Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Shalini Randeria Venelin GanevJacques Rupnik, Ana Blazeva, Katerina Kolozova	Liberalism in Crisis: Between Totalitarian Responses and Progressive Dreams Tue, 25.02.2020, 10:00 Speakers: Adam Ramsay Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Shalini Randeria Venelin GanevJacques Rupnik, Ana Blazeva, Katerina Kolozova Series: Panels and Discussions In the past decade, many have spoken of the “crisis of democracy” due to the rise of populism in Europe, both in the East and the West, in the Union’s member states and in the aspiring member countries. But is democracy really what is at stake and in crisis nowadays, or is it a whole set of political-ideological values that are termed “liberal”? Can we argue that democracy is not a value system but an empty form of a political organization, a syntax that can be furnished with different semantics, including that of the illiberal world view as Viktor Orban has proposed years ago? Read more
Liberalism in Crisis: Between Totalitarian Responses and Progressive Dreams Tue, 25.02.2020, 10:00 Speakers: Adam Ramsay Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Shalini Randeria Venelin GanevJacques Rupnik, Ana Blazeva, Katerina Kolozova Series: Panels and Discussions In the past decade, many have spoken of the “crisis of democracy” due to the rise of populism in Europe, both in the East and the West, in the Union’s member states and in the aspiring member countries. But is democracy really what is at stake and in crisis nowadays, or is it a whole set of political-ideological values that are termed “liberal”? Can we argue that democracy is not a value system but an empty form of a political organization, a syntax that can be furnished with different semantics, including that of the illiberal world view as Viktor Orban has proposed years ago? Read more
	Manufactured Alienation	Mon, 24.02.2020, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Adam Ramsay Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda	Manufactured Alienation The Construction of Political Distrust and the Rise of Oligarch Power Mon, 24.02.2020, 16:00 Speakers: Adam Ramsay Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Series: Seminars and Colloquia Boris Johnson turned the recent UK election into a referendum on the character of politics, and won by making democracy miserable. Based on years of investigating the dark money funded institutions which drove Brexit in the UK, undercover reporting across Europe, and street interviews with voters from Hungary to Spain and Scotland to Italy, openDemocracy’s Adam Ramsay detailed how elite networks of the super-rich and ultra-conservatives are sewing discontent with (neo)liberal democracy, and argued that progressives must embrace radical democracy. Read more
Manufactured Alienation The Construction of Political Distrust and the Rise of Oligarch Power Mon, 24.02.2020, 16:00 Speakers: Adam Ramsay Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Series: Seminars and Colloquia Boris Johnson turned the recent UK election into a referendum on the character of politics, and won by making democracy miserable. Based on years of investigating the dark money funded institutions which drove Brexit in the UK, undercover reporting across Europe, and street interviews with voters from Hungary to Spain and Scotland to Italy, openDemocracy’s Adam Ramsay detailed how elite networks of the super-rich and ultra-conservatives are sewing discontent with (neo)liberal democracy, and argued that progressives must embrace radical democracy. Read more
	Freedom and Solidarity	Mon, 17.02.2020, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Piotr Kubasiak Wojciech Bonowicz	Freedom and Solidarity Józef Tischner’s Life and Thinking Mon, 17.02.2020, 16:00 Speakers: Piotr Kubasiak Wojciech Bonowicz Series: Seminars and Colloquia In Poland he is remembered as an intriguing personality and a spiritual leader of the Solidarity movement. Abroad, mostly as co-founder of the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna. A boy from a Polish village who became a profound interpreter of Husserl, Heidegger and Levinas. A Catholic priest inspired by a Jewish philosophy of dialogue, trying to bridge different philosophical and religious traditions. What should we know about Józef Tischner? Can he still inspire those trying to understand what’s going on in Poland, in Europe, in the Catholic Church? Read more
Freedom and Solidarity Józef Tischner’s Life and Thinking Mon, 17.02.2020, 16:00 Speakers: Piotr Kubasiak Wojciech Bonowicz Series: Seminars and Colloquia In Poland he is remembered as an intriguing personality and a spiritual leader of the Solidarity movement. Abroad, mostly as co-founder of the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna. A boy from a Polish village who became a profound interpreter of Husserl, Heidegger and Levinas. A Catholic priest inspired by a Jewish philosophy of dialogue, trying to bridge different philosophical and religious traditions. What should we know about Józef Tischner? Can he still inspire those trying to understand what’s going on in Poland, in Europe, in the Catholic Church? Read more
	Award Ceremony for the Inaugural Emma Goldman Awards	Thu, 13.02.2020, 18:00	Visual and Performing Arts	Cornelia Klinger Mieke Verloo Shalini RanderiaFlorian Duijsens	Award Ceremony for the Inaugural Emma Goldman Awards Thu, 13.02.2020, 18:00 Speakers: Cornelia Klinger Mieke Verloo Shalini RanderiaFlorian Duijsens Series: Visual and Performing Arts The IWM is pleased to announce a collaboration with the FLAX Foundation, a newly founded independent foundation. Starting in 2020, the FLAX Foundation will issue awards to talented and engaged scholars of feminist and inequality issues in Europe, to support their research and development. The IWM will host two Emma Goldman Fellows each year, beginning in 2020, until 2025, funded by the FLAX Foundation. Read more
Award Ceremony for the Inaugural Emma Goldman Awards Thu, 13.02.2020, 18:00 Speakers: Cornelia Klinger Mieke Verloo Shalini RanderiaFlorian Duijsens Series: Visual and Performing Arts The IWM is pleased to announce a collaboration with the FLAX Foundation, a newly founded independent foundation. Starting in 2020, the FLAX Foundation will issue awards to talented and engaged scholars of feminist and inequality issues in Europe, to support their research and development. The IWM will host two Emma Goldman Fellows each year, beginning in 2020, until 2025, funded by the FLAX Foundation. Read more
	Becoming ....	Mon, 10.02.2020, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Ayşe Çağlar Lucy Ashton	Becoming .... Experiences of Unaccompanied Young Afghans in Austria Mon, 10.02.2020, 16:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Lucy Ashton Series: Seminars and Colloquia Embraced, helped, distrusted, rejected – the refugees of 2015/16 have endured a vicious cycle of popular opinion. In Austria, young Afghans often carry the worst reputation. Nearly five years on, many are still in the asylum process while claims from other nationalities have long since been finalised. Meanwhile, the rejection rate for Afghan claims has almost doubled and Austria has begun deportations to Kabul. In the midst of this prolonged uncertainty, asylum seekers are expected to intergrate from Day 1. Read more
Becoming .... Experiences of Unaccompanied Young Afghans in Austria Mon, 10.02.2020, 16:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Lucy Ashton Series: Seminars and Colloquia Embraced, helped, distrusted, rejected – the refugees of 2015/16 have endured a vicious cycle of popular opinion. In Austria, young Afghans often carry the worst reputation. Nearly five years on, many are still in the asylum process while claims from other nationalities have long since been finalised. Meanwhile, the rejection rate for Afghan claims has almost doubled and Austria has begun deportations to Kabul. In the midst of this prolonged uncertainty, asylum seekers are expected to intergrate from Day 1. Read more
	Facing Post-Truth in Central-Eastern Europe	Mon, 27.01.2020, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Arvydas Grišinas Ludger Hagedorn	Facing Post-Truth in Central-Eastern Europe Historical Heritage and Contemporary Challenges Mon, 27.01.2020, 16:00 Speakers: Arvydas Grišinas Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia The main challenge that post-truth poses, as the concept itself suggests, is the alleged end of centrality of the idea of truth in politics. Central and Eastern Europe finds itself in a political culture where claims, ideas and utterances must no longer necessarily be grounded in proven empirical facts, in order to be held true by the broader public. This situation, however, is by no means new or unheard of. In this regard, it resembles Soviet social reality, where officially held narratives also had scant empirical grounding. Furthermore, while it were Central-Eastern European dissidents who problematized these issues and set out to successfully counter them, resulting in the events of 1989, the same dissident heritage is also used nowadays to promote agendas of populist illiberal regimes in the region. The talk explored the prospects and challenges to utilizing the dissident heritage to tackling these contemporary issues. Read more
Facing Post-Truth in Central-Eastern Europe Historical Heritage and Contemporary Challenges Mon, 27.01.2020, 16:00 Speakers: Arvydas Grišinas Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia The main challenge that post-truth poses, as the concept itself suggests, is the alleged end of centrality of the idea of truth in politics. Central and Eastern Europe finds itself in a political culture where claims, ideas and utterances must no longer necessarily be grounded in proven empirical facts, in order to be held true by the broader public. This situation, however, is by no means new or unheard of. In this regard, it resembles Soviet social reality, where officially held narratives also had scant empirical grounding. Furthermore, while it were Central-Eastern European dissidents who problematized these issues and set out to successfully counter them, resulting in the events of 1989, the same dissident heritage is also used nowadays to promote agendas of populist illiberal regimes in the region. The talk explored the prospects and challenges to utilizing the dissident heritage to tackling these contemporary issues. Read more
	The Dangers of Digital Democracy	Sun, 26.01.2020, 11:00	Panels and Discussions	Ingrid Brodnig, Franco Berardi, John Frank, Eric Frey	The Dangers of Digital Democracy Sun, 26.01.2020, 11:00 Speakers: Ingrid Brodnig, Franco Berardi, John Frank, Eric Frey Series: Panels and Discussions All over the world, elections are manipulated by fake news, public opinion is radicalized via social media and electronic voting processes are subject to hacker attacks. The Internet was once seen as an opportunity for more democracy, but today concerns about the future of free elections prevail. Eric Frey, editor of Der Standard, spoke with his guests about the transformation of mass media and the (in)steerability of the Internet. Read more
The Dangers of Digital Democracy Sun, 26.01.2020, 11:00 Speakers: Ingrid Brodnig, Franco Berardi, John Frank, Eric Frey Series: Panels and Discussions All over the world, elections are manipulated by fake news, public opinion is radicalized via social media and electronic voting processes are subject to hacker attacks. The Internet was once seen as an opportunity for more democracy, but today concerns about the future of free elections prevail. Eric Frey, editor of Der Standard, spoke with his guests about the transformation of mass media and the (in)steerability of the Internet. Read more
	Religion and Revolution	Thu, 23.01.2020, 18:00	Lecture	Clemena AntonovaGayle Lonergan	Religion and Revolution Two Projects of Modernity in Early 20th Century Russia Thu, 23.01.2020, 18:00 Speakers: Clemena AntonovaGayle Lonergan Series: Lecture While the “Russian religious renaissance” at the beginning of the 20th century and the political fervour, which culminated in the October Revolution of 1917, took place at the same period, these two developments are rarely studied alongside each other. In their joint book presentations, the two speakers considered a tradition of religious philosophy, on the one hand and the political history of the early years of the Bolshevik Party, on the other as two responses to the crisis of modernity. Interestingly, with all their differences, the religious and the Marxist-Leninist projects – both of which displayed utopian and illiberal features – shared common concerns and themes. It is, thus, not surprising that some of the most prominent religious thinkers had started as Marxists. It is exactly these common themes that can be relevant to contemporary debates on the critical issues of the early 21st century. Read more
Religion and Revolution Two Projects of Modernity in Early 20th Century Russia Thu, 23.01.2020, 18:00 Speakers: Clemena AntonovaGayle Lonergan Series: Lecture While the “Russian religious renaissance” at the beginning of the 20th century and the political fervour, which culminated in the October Revolution of 1917, took place at the same period, these two developments are rarely studied alongside each other. In their joint book presentations, the two speakers considered a tradition of religious philosophy, on the one hand and the political history of the early years of the Bolshevik Party, on the other as two responses to the crisis of modernity. Interestingly, with all their differences, the religious and the Marxist-Leninist projects – both of which displayed utopian and illiberal features – shared common concerns and themes. It is, thus, not surprising that some of the most prominent religious thinkers had started as Marxists. It is exactly these common themes that can be relevant to contemporary debates on the critical issues of the early 21st century. Read more