Events / Misha Glenny

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Between Populism and Technocracy: Digital Hyperconnectivity and the Transformation of Politics and Governance	Wed, 30.10.2024	Lecture	Misha Glenny Rogers Brubaker	Between Populism and Technocracy: Digital Hyperconnectivity and the Transformation of Politics and Governance Wed, 30.10.2024 Speakers: Misha Glenny Rogers Brubaker Series: Lecture Digital hyperconnectivity has reshaped political life by transforming regimes of knowing, feeling, and governing. In this lecture, Rogers Brubaker discussed the social and political implications of hyperconnectivity and its ability to foster both populism and technocracy. Read more
Between Populism and Technocracy: Digital Hyperconnectivity and the Transformation of Politics and Governance Wed, 30.10.2024 Speakers: Misha Glenny Rogers Brubaker Series: Lecture Digital hyperconnectivity has reshaped political life by transforming regimes of knowing, feeling, and governing. In this lecture, Rogers Brubaker discussed the social and political implications of hyperconnectivity and its ability to foster both populism and technocracy. Read more
	Part I: Tracing the Balkans or Mission Possible: Fallout	Wed, 16.10.2024	Lecture	Maria Todorova Misha Glenny	Part I: Tracing the Balkans or Mission Possible: Fallout Wed, 16.10.2024 Speakers: Maria Todorova Misha Glenny Series: Lecture The titles of Maria Todorova's IWM Lectures in Human Sciences allude to Mission Impossible, the Tom Cruise film series. While it is impossible to perform his physical stunts, the tricky mountainous terrain of the Balkans and their trickier history offer enough vertigo. But Gadamer is there, with his defense of humanities, with his thoughts on tradition, prejudice, experience, dialogue, negotiation, reciprocity, situatedness, and the fusion of horizons. Read more
Part I: Tracing the Balkans or Mission Possible: Fallout Wed, 16.10.2024 Speakers: Maria Todorova Misha Glenny Series: Lecture The titles of Maria Todorova's IWM Lectures in Human Sciences allude to Mission Impossible, the Tom Cruise film series. While it is impossible to perform his physical stunts, the tricky mountainous terrain of the Balkans and their trickier history offer enough vertigo. But Gadamer is there, with his defense of humanities, with his thoughts on tradition, prejudice, experience, dialogue, negotiation, reciprocity, situatedness, and the fusion of horizons. Read more
	Explanation for Everything	Wed, 09.10.2024	Visual and Performing Arts	Misha Glenny Réka Kinga Papp	Explanation for Everything Wed, 09.10.2024 Speakers: Misha Glenny Réka Kinga Papp Series: Visual and Performing Arts Explanation for Everything is a sharp and multi-layered portrait of a socially divided Hungary. In this award-winning film, director Gábor Reisz tells the story of Ábel, a student struggling with his final exams. The film screening was be followed by a discussion between IWM Rector Misha Glenny and Réka Kinga Papp, a Hungarian journalist, author, and broadcaster specializing in environmental, social, and human rights. Read more
Explanation for Everything Wed, 09.10.2024 Speakers: Misha Glenny Réka Kinga Papp Series: Visual and Performing Arts Explanation for Everything is a sharp and multi-layered portrait of a socially divided Hungary. In this award-winning film, director Gábor Reisz tells the story of Ábel, a student struggling with his final exams. The film screening was be followed by a discussion between IWM Rector Misha Glenny and Réka Kinga Papp, a Hungarian journalist, author, and broadcaster specializing in environmental, social, and human rights. Read more
	Rollercoaster: Elections and Diplomacy, 2024	Wed, 25.09.2024	Festivals	Misha GlennyCatherine Ashton	Rollercoaster: Elections and Diplomacy, 2024 Wed, 25.09.2024 Speakers: Misha GlennyCatherine Ashton Series: Festivals In this keynote lecture of the Vienna Humanities Festival 2024, Catherine Ashton drew on her vast experience and current engagement in politics across the globe to elaborate on what impact the numerous elections of 2024 will have on a world already wracked by crises, from Ukraine to Gaza, and growing geopolitical tensions, like those between China and the US. Read more
Rollercoaster: Elections and Diplomacy, 2024 Wed, 25.09.2024 Speakers: Misha GlennyCatherine Ashton Series: Festivals In this keynote lecture of the Vienna Humanities Festival 2024, Catherine Ashton drew on her vast experience and current engagement in politics across the globe to elaborate on what impact the numerous elections of 2024 will have on a world already wracked by crises, from Ukraine to Gaza, and growing geopolitical tensions, like those between China and the US. Read more
	Revolución to Roxy	Tue, 24.09.2024	Festivals	Misha GlennyPhil Manzanera	Revolución to Roxy Tue, 24.09.2024 Speakers: Misha GlennyPhil Manzanera Series: Festivals In the opening keynote event of the Vienna Humanities Festival 2024, legendary musician Phil Manzanera recalled his time during the Cuban Revolution in a discussion with IWM Rector Misha Glenny, and payed tribute to his Latin American musical traditions with a guitar performance. Read more
Revolución to Roxy Tue, 24.09.2024 Speakers: Misha GlennyPhil Manzanera Series: Festivals In the opening keynote event of the Vienna Humanities Festival 2024, legendary musician Phil Manzanera recalled his time during the Cuban Revolution in a discussion with IWM Rector Misha Glenny, and payed tribute to his Latin American musical traditions with a guitar performance. Read more
	The World after 5 November 2024	Mon, 09.09.2024	Seminars and Colloquia	Misha Glenny Soli Özel	The World after 5 November 2024 Mon, 09.09.2024 Speakers: Misha Glenny Soli Özel Series: Seminars and Colloquia With the presidential elections in the USA that will take place on 5 November 2024, this “year of elections,” in which half the world population went to the polls and on many occasions surprised pundits, incumbents and other luminaries, will have its grand finale. In this Fellows' Colloquium, Soli Özel discussed the implications of the results of the upcoming US elections. Read more
The World after 5 November 2024 Mon, 09.09.2024 Speakers: Misha Glenny Soli Özel Series: Seminars and Colloquia With the presidential elections in the USA that will take place on 5 November 2024, this “year of elections,” in which half the world population went to the polls and on many occasions surprised pundits, incumbents and other luminaries, will have its grand finale. In this Fellows' Colloquium, Soli Özel discussed the implications of the results of the upcoming US elections. Read more
	The New Paganism: How the Postmodern Became the Premodern	Wed, 10.07.2024	Lecture	Misha Glenny Timothy Snyder	The New Paganism: How the Postmodern Became the Premodern Wed, 10.07.2024 Speakers: Misha Glenny Timothy Snyder Series: Lecture In his talk, Timothy Snyder addressed current burning issues from a historian's perspective. Read more

	Ideology of Hindutva as It Developed and Its Present Praxis	Mon, 17.06.2024	Seminars and Colloquia	Misha Glenny Subhoranjan Dasgupta	Ideology of Hindutva as It Developed and Its Present Praxis Mon, 17.06.2024 Speakers: Misha Glenny Subhoranjan Dasgupta Series: Seminars and Colloquia Veer Savarkar, considered by many to be a prime proponent of Hindutva, envisioned an India where "people belonging to different religions, sects or races would be treated with perfect equality." Following this, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former prime minister of India, equated the Islamic mazar and the Christian church with a Hindu shrine. However, the relentless persecution of various religious minorities has not stopped. Thus, Professor Dasgupta asked: Has the ideology of Hindutva tried occasionally to amend itself but without attaining any tangible result? Read more
Ideology of Hindutva as It Developed and Its Present Praxis Mon, 17.06.2024 Speakers: Misha Glenny Subhoranjan Dasgupta Series: Seminars and Colloquia Veer Savarkar, considered by many to be a prime proponent of Hindutva, envisioned an India where "people belonging to different religions, sects or races would be treated with perfect equality." Following this, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former prime minister of India, equated the Islamic mazar and the Christian church with a Hindu shrine. However, the relentless persecution of various religious minorities has not stopped. Thus, Professor Dasgupta asked: Has the ideology of Hindutva tried occasionally to amend itself but without attaining any tangible result? Read more
	Who Needs the State? Freedom, Justice, Sovereignty, and (Post)Wartime Ukraine	Tue, 28.05.2024	Lecture	Misha Glenny Yuliya Yurchenko	Who Needs the State? Freedom, Justice, Sovereignty, and (Post)Wartime Ukraine Tue, 28.05.2024 Speakers: Misha Glenny Yuliya Yurchenko Series: Lecture Building on historicized political economy of wartime Ukraine since 2014, the lecture illustrated that the state as an institution must be redefined. Ukraine has changed drastically during some 10 years of war and is in a dire need of a new functioning social contract that would secure constitutional rights and deliver socioeconomic justice. Read more
Who Needs the State? Freedom, Justice, Sovereignty, and (Post)Wartime Ukraine Tue, 28.05.2024 Speakers: Misha Glenny Yuliya Yurchenko Series: Lecture Building on historicized political economy of wartime Ukraine since 2014, the lecture illustrated that the state as an institution must be redefined. Ukraine has changed drastically during some 10 years of war and is in a dire need of a new functioning social contract that would secure constitutional rights and deliver socioeconomic justice. Read more
	Biden or Trump? The US Elections and Their Impact on Europe	Sun, 28.04.2024	Panels and Discussions	Marlene Laruelle Misha GlennyKim Darroch, Mark Medish, Eva Nowotny	Biden or Trump? The US Elections and Their Impact on Europe Sun, 28.04.2024 Speakers: Marlene Laruelle Misha GlennyKim Darroch, Mark Medish, Eva Nowotny Series: Panels and Discussions As America prepares to elect its next president, Europeans look on nervously at this battle of the gerontocrats, Joe Biden and Donald Trump. April’s Debating Europe event at the Burgtheater brought together leading policymakers and scholars from America and Europe to assess the prospects for the election and the impact of its possible outcomes on Europe, Ukraine and the Middle East. Read more
Biden or Trump? The US Elections and Their Impact on Europe Sun, 28.04.2024 Speakers: Marlene Laruelle Misha GlennyKim Darroch, Mark Medish, Eva Nowotny Series: Panels and Discussions As America prepares to elect its next president, Europeans look on nervously at this battle of the gerontocrats, Joe Biden and Donald Trump. April’s Debating Europe event at the Burgtheater brought together leading policymakers and scholars from America and Europe to assess the prospects for the election and the impact of its possible outcomes on Europe, Ukraine and the Middle East. Read more