Events / Misha Glenny

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Tackling Disinformation in Central Europe and the Western Balkans	Tue, 25.10.2022	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Misha GlennyRastislav Káčer, Michal Klíma, Adelheid Wölfl, Jasna Jelisić, Vuk Vuksanović, Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal, Shilten Palathunkal, Katarína Klingová, Stefan Vospernik	Tackling Disinformation in Central Europe and the Western Balkans Tue, 25.10.2022 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Misha GlennyRastislav Káčer, Michal Klíma, Adelheid Wölfl, Jasna Jelisić, Vuk Vuksanović, Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal, Shilten Palathunkal, Katarína Klingová, Stefan Vospernik Series: Panels and Discussions This conference brought to the fore the role of online influences – in particular the covert, malign influences – in shaping political processes in respective regions. Read more
Tackling Disinformation in Central Europe and the Western Balkans Tue, 25.10.2022 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Misha GlennyRastislav Káčer, Michal Klíma, Adelheid Wölfl, Jasna Jelisić, Vuk Vuksanović, Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal, Shilten Palathunkal, Katarína Klingová, Stefan Vospernik Series: Panels and Discussions This conference brought to the fore the role of online influences – in particular the covert, malign influences – in shaping political processes in respective regions. Read more
	Greening Democracy	Tue, 18.10.2022	Lecture	John Keane Misha Glenny	Greening Democracy Tue, 18.10.2022 Speakers: John Keane Misha Glenny Series: Lecture The unparalleled greening of democracy during the past half-century extends well beyond such matters as sustainability and climate justice, and is far more consequential than the birth of green parties, policy disputes about carbon pricing schemes and global emissions targets, this lecture proposes. Suggesting a new way of thinking historically about the relationship among ecosystems, energy regimes and democracy, John Keane asked why people with green sympathies might be expected in our times to embrace democracy for more than tactical reasons. Read more
Greening Democracy Tue, 18.10.2022 Speakers: John Keane Misha Glenny Series: Lecture The unparalleled greening of democracy during the past half-century extends well beyond such matters as sustainability and climate justice, and is far more consequential than the birth of green parties, policy disputes about carbon pricing schemes and global emissions targets, this lecture proposes. Suggesting a new way of thinking historically about the relationship among ecosystems, energy regimes and democracy, John Keane asked why people with green sympathies might be expected in our times to embrace democracy for more than tactical reasons. Read more
	The Idea of Europe	Sat, 08.10.2022	Festivals	Misha GlennyVolodymyr Yermolenko, Philippe Sands, Tetyana Oharkova	The Idea of Europe Sat, 08.10.2022 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 Sat, 08.10.2022 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	Seminars and Colloquia	Ivan Vejvoda Milica Kravić Aksamit Misha Glenny	Surviving Human Trafficking: Activism as a Way Through the Struggle Mon, 03.10.2022 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 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
	Logik, Wahn, Gespenster	Fri, 30.09.2022	Festivals	Ludger Hagedorn Misha GlennyDaniel Kehlmann, Anna Badora, Julia Kreusch, Günther Franzmeier, Markus Meyer	Logik, Wahn, Gespenster Fri, 30.09.2022 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 Fri, 30.09.2022 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	Festivals	Joseph Stiglitz Misha Glenny	An Uncertain Future: The World Economy, Globalization and Resentment Tue, 27.09.2022 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 Tue, 27.09.2022 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
	Semester Opening	Mon, 19.09.2022	Social and Networking Events	Ivan Krastev Misha Glenny	Semester Opening Mon, 19.09.2022 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 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
	Emma Goldman Awards 2022	Tue, 06.09.2022	Other	Misha GlennySara Garbagnoli, Asli Vatansever	Emma Goldman Awards 2022 Tue, 06.09.2022 Speakers: Misha GlennySara Garbagnoli, Asli Vatansever Series: Other The IWM is proud to have hosted the 2022 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 2022 Tue, 06.09.2022 Speakers: Misha GlennySara Garbagnoli, Asli Vatansever Series: Other The IWM is proud to have hosted the 2022 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
	The Return of Yesterday	Fri, 10.06.2022	Lecture	Misha Glenny	The Return of Yesterday Fri, 10.06.2022 Speakers: Misha Glenny Series: Lecture The political and social consequences of the Reformation were intimately linked with profound changes in technology that had taken place in the previous 100 years. Central to the intellectual revolution of the Renaissance was the humanist idea of human scale. Since then, we have struggled to balance the requirements of progress with those of scale. The advent of the personal computer has accentuated this challenge as never before. Not only have crises proliferated since the 1990s, the Decade of Delusion, but the loss of human scale has magnified their impact. The need to control technology and return to human scale is now an imperative. Read more
The Return of Yesterday Fri, 10.06.2022 Speakers: Misha Glenny Series: Lecture The political and social consequences of the Reformation were intimately linked with profound changes in technology that had taken place in the previous 100 years. Central to the intellectual revolution of the Renaissance was the humanist idea of human scale. Since then, we have struggled to balance the requirements of progress with those of scale. The advent of the personal computer has accentuated this challenge as never before. Not only have crises proliferated since the 1990s, the Decade of Delusion, but the loss of human scale has magnified their impact. The need to control technology and return to human scale is now an imperative. Read more
	Civilisations, Barbarity, Conquest, Legitimacy and Crimes of War	Tue, 31.05.2022	Lecture	John Dunn Misha Glenny	Civilisations, Barbarity, Conquest, Legitimacy and Crimes of War Tue, 31.05.2022 Speakers: John Dunn Misha Glenny Series: Lecture The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February of this year has cast a glaring new light on a very old but ever more urgent question. In his lecture John Dunn asked, if there are any terms on which the human population of the world could still hope to live with one another in peace and personal freedom into a future of many generations? Could we still create together a modus vivendi of real duration? We know now, as we did not yet know in the year 1940, in which John Dunn was born, that any future generational horizon is in ever starker jeopardy because of the colossal and ever less controllable harm we are inflicting as a species on our global habitat. We know, as we could have known in much of Europe for at least three centuries, that the world was then, as it mercilessly remains, a vast distance from realising those terms and that it could not in principle realise them at all rapidly. We still have only a tiny repertoire of forms through which to try to act collectively on any scale: international agencies, civilisations, states, peoples (or, if you prefer, nations) – each of doubtful efficacy and eminently questionable legitimacy. Which of these forms could still take how much of the strain and how and why could war still feature as anything but grounds for despair within that ever more desperate struggle? We have never had any clear idea of how the world could be made a just world for its human inhabitants. Do we still have any rational horizon for collective hope over time? Read more
Civilisations, Barbarity, Conquest, Legitimacy and Crimes of War Tue, 31.05.2022 Speakers: John Dunn Misha Glenny Series: Lecture The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February of this year has cast a glaring new light on a very old but ever more urgent question. In his lecture John Dunn asked, if there are any terms on which the human population of the world could still hope to live with one another in peace and personal freedom into a future of many generations? Could we still create together a modus vivendi of real duration? We know now, as we did not yet know in the year 1940, in which John Dunn was born, that any future generational horizon is in ever starker jeopardy because of the colossal and ever less controllable harm we are inflicting as a species on our global habitat. We know, as we could have known in much of Europe for at least three centuries, that the world was then, as it mercilessly remains, a vast distance from realising those terms and that it could not in principle realise them at all rapidly. We still have only a tiny repertoire of forms through which to try to act collectively on any scale: international agencies, civilisations, states, peoples (or, if you prefer, nations) – each of doubtful efficacy and eminently questionable legitimacy. Which of these forms could still take how much of the strain and how and why could war still feature as anything but grounds for despair within that ever more desperate struggle? We have never had any clear idea of how the world could be made a just world for its human inhabitants. Do we still have any rational horizon for collective hope over time? Read more