Events / Misha Glenny

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers	Register
	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
	Can Beauty Save the World? On Historical Injustice, Reconciliation and the Role of Aesthetic Education	Tue, 09.04.2024	Lecture	Lea Ypi Misha Glenny		Can Beauty Save the World? On Historical Injustice, Reconciliation and the Role of Aesthetic Education Tue, 09.04.2024 Speakers: Lea Ypi Misha Glenny Series: Lecture “Beautiful world! Where hast thou gone?" asks Friedrich Schiller in his famous poem “The Gods of Greece.” He laments the loss of harmony in a world divided by injustice both past and present. In this lecture, Lea Ypi read from her forthcoming book on human dignity. Read more
Can Beauty Save the World? On Historical Injustice, Reconciliation and the Role of Aesthetic Education Tue, 09.04.2024 Speakers: Lea Ypi Misha Glenny Series: Lecture “Beautiful world! Where hast thou gone?" asks Friedrich Schiller in his famous poem “The Gods of Greece.” He laments the loss of harmony in a world divided by injustice both past and present. In this lecture, Lea Ypi read from her forthcoming book on human dignity. Read more
	Russlands Krieg Gegen die Ukraine	Mon, 08.04.2024	Other	Misha Glenny Tanja MaljartschukEmil Brix, Wolfgang Mueller, Oksana Stavrou, Holger Hestermeyer, Alfred F. Praus	Anmeldung erforderlich bis 03.04.2024	Russlands Krieg Gegen die Ukraine Mon, 08.04.2024 Speakers: Misha Glenny Tanja MaljartschukEmil Brix, Wolfgang Mueller, Oksana Stavrou, Holger Hestermeyer, Alfred F. Praus Series: Other Eine ereignisreiche Veranstaltung unterstützt durch die Stadt Wien und in Kooperation mit der Diplomatischen Akademie Wien uvm. Read more

	The Vienna Black Market 1943-1948	Mon, 11.03.2024	Seminars and Colloquia	Misha Glenny Nathan Marcus		The Vienna Black Market 1943-1948 Mon, 11.03.2024 Speakers: Misha Glenny Nathan Marcus Series: Seminars and Colloquia Historians have long argued against understanding the end of the Second World War in Germany or Austria as one of complete rupture. The popular concept of “Stunde Null,” which implied a total break with the past and a completely new beginning, rather served to obscure problematic continuities in both societies. Read more
The Vienna Black Market 1943-1948 Mon, 11.03.2024 Speakers: Misha Glenny Nathan Marcus Series: Seminars and Colloquia Historians have long argued against understanding the end of the Second World War in Germany or Austria as one of complete rupture. The popular concept of “Stunde Null,” which implied a total break with the past and a completely new beginning, rather served to obscure problematic continuities in both societies. Read more
	Human Rights and Republicanism in Central European Dissent, 1968-1989	Tue, 20.02.2024	Lecture	Misha Glenny Michal Kopeček		Human Rights and Republicanism in Central European Dissent, 1968-1989 Tue, 20.02.2024 Speakers: Misha Glenny Michal Kopeček Series: Lecture In this Monthly Lecture, Michal Kopeček argued that the republican language of human rights (and the related concept of freedom) was not only one of the available human rights languages in Central and Eastern Europe 1968-1989, but a prominent one. Kopeček elaborated his arguments based on concrete examples of prominent dissident thinkers Jan Patočka, Václav Havel, Jacek Kuroń, and Ágnes Heller. Read more
Human Rights and Republicanism in Central European Dissent, 1968-1989 Tue, 20.02.2024 Speakers: Misha Glenny Michal Kopeček Series: Lecture In this Monthly Lecture, Michal Kopeček argued that the republican language of human rights (and the related concept of freedom) was not only one of the available human rights languages in Central and Eastern Europe 1968-1989, but a prominent one. Kopeček elaborated his arguments based on concrete examples of prominent dissident thinkers Jan Patočka, Václav Havel, Jacek Kuroń, and Ágnes Heller. Read more
	Is There a Chance for Peace in the Middle East?	Sun, 21.01.2024	Panels and Discussions	Misha GlennyGudrun Harrer, Dahlia Scheindlin, Alexander Schallenberg, Rula Hardal		Is There a Chance for Peace in the Middle East? Sun, 21.01.2024 Speakers: Misha GlennyGudrun Harrer, Dahlia Scheindlin, Alexander Schallenberg, Rula Hardal Series: Panels and Discussions A prominent international panel discussed this and related questions on Sunday, 21 January, on the stage of Vienna’s Burgtheater. Read more

	Autumn Fellows' Conference 2023	Wed, 29.11.2023	Conferences and Workshops	Anastasiia Omelianiuk Börries Kuzmany George Metakides Hana Kopecka Jan Farfal Jan Musil Johana Wyss Kinga Siewior Liz Calhoun Ludger Hagedorn Mikhail Minakov Misha Glenny Natalia Volvach Olesya Yaremchuk Slobodan Markovich Stanisław Boridczenko Stefan Voicu Ayşe ÇağlarBrigitta Busch, Anna Dobrosovestnova		Autumn Fellows' Conference 2023 Wed, 29.11.2023 Speakers: Anastasiia Omelianiuk Börries Kuzmany George Metakides Hana Kopecka Jan Farfal Jan Musil Johana Wyss Kinga Siewior Liz Calhoun Ludger Hagedorn Mikhail Minakov Misha Glenny Natalia Volvach Olesya Yaremchuk Slobodan Markovich Stanisław Boridczenko Stefan Voicu Ayşe ÇağlarBrigitta Busch, Anna Dobrosovestnova Series: Conferences and Workshops A staple of intellectual life at the IWM since its early days, the biannual conference provides an opportunity for early-career visiting researchers from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds to present their work and exchange ideas in a collegial atmosphere. Visiting and Permanent Fellows, alumni and scholars from Viennese institutions act as commentators and discussants. Read more
Autumn Fellows' Conference 2023 Wed, 29.11.2023 Speakers: Anastasiia Omelianiuk Börries Kuzmany George Metakides Hana Kopecka Jan Farfal Jan Musil Johana Wyss Kinga Siewior Liz Calhoun Ludger Hagedorn Mikhail Minakov Misha Glenny Natalia Volvach Olesya Yaremchuk Slobodan Markovich Stanisław Boridczenko Stefan Voicu Ayşe ÇağlarBrigitta Busch, Anna Dobrosovestnova Series: Conferences and Workshops A staple of intellectual life at the IWM since its early days, the biannual conference provides an opportunity for early-career visiting researchers from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds to present their work and exchange ideas in a collegial atmosphere. Visiting and Permanent Fellows, alumni and scholars from Viennese institutions act as commentators and discussants. Read more
	Deserved. Economic Memories After the Fall of the Iron Curtain	Mon, 27.11.2023	Other	Misha Glenny Philipp TherTill Hilmar, Dorit Geva, Anna Durnová, Anna-Marie Kroupová		Deserved. Economic Memories After the Fall of the Iron Curtain Mon, 27.11.2023 Speakers: Misha Glenny Philipp TherTill Hilmar, Dorit Geva, Anna Durnová, Anna-Marie Kroupová Series: Other After the fall of the Iron Curtain, people across the former socialist world saw their lives transformed. In just a few years, labor markets were completely disrupted, and the meanings attached to work were drastically altered. How did people who found themselves living under state socialism one day and capitalist democracy the next adjust to the changing social order and its new system of values? Read more
Deserved. Economic Memories After the Fall of the Iron Curtain Mon, 27.11.2023 Speakers: Misha Glenny Philipp TherTill Hilmar, Dorit Geva, Anna Durnová, Anna-Marie Kroupová Series: Other After the fall of the Iron Curtain, people across the former socialist world saw their lives transformed. In just a few years, labor markets were completely disrupted, and the meanings attached to work were drastically altered. How did people who found themselves living under state socialism one day and capitalist democracy the next adjust to the changing social order and its new system of values? Read more
	Migration – Rechtspopulismus – Autoritarismus	Thu, 23.11.2023 - Fri, 24.11.2023	Conferences and Workshops	Misha GlennyFrank Wolff, Hannes Swoboda		Migration – Rechtspopulismus – Autoritarismus Thu, 23.11.2023 - Fri, 24.11.2023 Speakers: Misha GlennyFrank Wolff, Hannes Swoboda Series: Conferences and Workshops In dieser Tagung wollten wir uns in Vorträgen und einer Podiumsdiskussion den verschiedenen Facetten des Nexus von Migration und Autoritarismus annähern – verbunden mit der Frage, inwieweit die Gestaltung der Migrationspolitik, im Spannungsfeld zwischen offener Gesellschaft und autoritären Tendenzen, den Charakter einer Gesellschaft beeinflusst. Read more
Migration – Rechtspopulismus – Autoritarismus Thu, 23.11.2023 - Fri, 24.11.2023 Speakers: Misha GlennyFrank Wolff, Hannes Swoboda Series: Conferences and Workshops In dieser Tagung wollten wir uns in Vorträgen und einer Podiumsdiskussion den verschiedenen Facetten des Nexus von Migration und Autoritarismus annähern – verbunden mit der Frage, inwieweit die Gestaltung der Migrationspolitik, im Spannungsfeld zwischen offener Gesellschaft und autoritären Tendenzen, den Charakter einer Gesellschaft beeinflusst. Read more