Guests of the Institute

Distinguished Guests

Guests of the Institute have been invited to be a fellow here at the IWM to carry out their own research. Invitations are extended by the IWM Collegium, which is made up of the Permanent Fellows and the Executive Director and chaired by the Rector.

Contact

Kasper Nowak
Fellowship Program Coordinator
fellowships@iwm.at

Fellowships

  • Digital Regulation and the Defense of Democracy, -
    Philip Schlesinger
  • An Anti-Nationalist Organic Wholeness? Walter Benjamin and the Body of Humankind at the Turn of the 1920s, -
    Karolina Jesień
  • Critical Raw Materials and Competing Futures on Earth and in Space , -
    Julie Klinger
  • What Did It Mean to Be “European” in Early Modern Florence? , -
    Klaudia Kuchno
  • Růžena Vacková as a Critic of the 1930s and early 1940s, -
    Nikola Bečanová
  • Shatters, -
    Katja Petrowskaja
  • Why are People Abandoning Democracy for the Nation , -
    Filip Milačić
  • Developing the Concept of an “Emergency Response Archive”, -
    Liana Blikharska
  • Christian Democratic Option: Tracing Ideological Persistence from Postwar to Present in Czechoslovakia and Successor States, -
    Krystof Dolezal
  • The Balkans: Mission Possible, -
    Maria Todorova
  • Digital Hyperconnectivity and Politics: Between Populism and Technocracy, -
    Rogers Brubaker
  • Early Cold War Political Trials Across the East-West Divide, -
    Barbara Falk
  • Exploring the Genesis Moment: Tracking the Making of a New World Order and Europe’s Place in It , -
    Soli Özel
  • The West: The History of an Idea, -
    Georgios Varouxakis
  • Blues and Routes, -
    Adam Shatz
  • Amnesia International: What World Leaders Keep Forgetting about World Politics, -
    Stephen Walt
  • A Place to Exist: Histories of Statelessness from Empire to European Integration, -
    Sara Silverstein
  • The Dollfuss Regime as a Political Model for Religious Conservatives in the United States, -
    H. David Baer
  • Theory and Practice of Hindutva , -
    Subhoranjan Dasgupta
  • Minority and Majority as Asymmetrical Concepts: The Perils of Democratic Equality and Fantasies of National Purity, -
    Till van Rahden
  • Resistance and Dissidence: Epimeleia in Patočka and Foucault , -
    Darren Gardner
  • Technocratic Myopia, -
    Jonathan White
  • Indignity, -
    Lea Ypi
  • The Vienna Black Market, 1943–1948, -
    Nathan Marcus
  • Border-Thinking: Contemporary Art, Coloniality, and Migration between Poland and Ukraine, -
    Dorota Michalska
  • Émigrés as Aneks: Polish Intellectuals Between East and West, 1968–1989, -
    Łukasz Chełmiński
  • Theorizing Solidarity Using the Example of “Solidarity Citizenship”, -
    Sevasti Trubeta
  • Making Them Make Babies: Policy Design, Discursive Representation, and Socioeconomic Implications of (Pronatalist) Child Benefits in (Eastern) Europe, -
    Kristijan Fidanovski
  • Ideology as a Market: Ideological Engineering in Today’s Russia , -
    Marlene Laruelle
  • Tracing Taint: Four Case Studies with Implications for Historical Methodology, -
    Holly Case
  • Editorial Roundtable 2024, -
    John Palattella
  • Rose, The Human Story of a Scent, -
    Yavor Siderov
  • The Role of Progress in Politics, -
    Richard Bourke
  • ‘Architects of the Better World’: The Birth of the International Parliamentary Complex (1919-1998), -
    Daniel Quiroga-Villamarin
  • Degenerations of Democracy, -
    Dilip Gaonkar
  • Philosophy and the Cold War, -
    James Dodd
  • Christian Hajjis: Mobility and Status in the Late Ottoman Empire, -
    Valentina Izmirlieva
  • Reimagining the World After Empire: India and the Cold War, 1950-1970s, -
    Gyan Prakash
  • Power of Tech Companies and Artificial Intelligence in Directing the Public: Recommender Algorithms as Public Good and Virtual Identity as Human Right, -
    Ljubiša Bojić
  • Exodus: Fragments of Lives, Random Cities and Temporary Havens, -
    Katja Petrowskaja
  • Beautiful but Useful: An Anthropology of Aesthetic Materialism / Postcolonies of Communism: Soviet Pasts in the Afterlife of Empire, -
    Serguei Oushakine
  • Destroying Democracy by Law, -
    Kim Scheppele
  • Russia’s Church Under Putin, -
    Lucy Ash
  • Dreaming of Europe: Refugees and the Old Continent, -
    Randall Hansen
  • Value Polytheism during the Pandemic: Philosophical Questions on Value Problems in Light of Recent Events, -
    Yannis Ktenas
  • Music in Flight: Refugees, Exiles, Fugitives, and the Politics of Music in Latin America, -
    Andrea Orzoff
  • ‘A Melancholy Enterprise’? Revisiting German and Jewish Minority Cooperation in Interwar Europe, -
    Marina Germane
  • Move Over, Mona Lisa. Move Over, Jane Eyre: Making Room for Everyone in the World's Museums, Libraries, and Universities, -
    Peggy Levitt
  • Enver Hoxha: Biography of a Balkan Tyrant, -
    Robert Austin
  • Rethinking the History of the Future of Democracy, -
    John Keane
  • Turkey in the Cold War: Anti-communism, Political Islam and the Western Alliance, -
    Behlül Özkan
  • Haruki Murakami und die Weltliteratur , -
    Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
  • Invited by the IWM Rector as Guest of the Institute in September 2022, -
    Anya Schiffrin
  • Invited by the IWM Rector as Guest of the Institute in September 2022, -
    Joseph Stiglitz
  • The War on Porn: The International Campaign to Prohibit the Spread of Obscene Publications in the Twentieth Century, -
    David Petruccelli
  • Middle Eastern Maze: Israel, The Arabs and The Region 1948–2022, -
    Itamar Rabinovich
  • Mea culpa, Sua culpa, Tua Maxima Culpa: Collective Responsibility and Judgment in the Addressing of Mass Atrocities and War Crimes, -
    Nergis Canefe
  • Victory Day: Commemorating the Soviet Experience in WWII, 1945—2055, -
    Mischa Gabowitsch
  • Tomorrow Belongs to Me: Coming of Age in the Other Europe, 1890-1968, -
    Orel Beilinson
  • Gadflies, Stargazers, Sages in Barrels: Can Ancient Philosophers Help us Navigate Confusing Times?, -
    Carlos Fraenkel
  • "Comrade Selo is a capricious and quarrelsome adventurer…": Private Letters to Enver Hoxha, -
    Nikolai Antoniadis
  • Sovereignty in Miniature, -
    Yfaat Weiss
  • Fascism as a Social Kind, -
    Jason Stanley
  • Invited by the IWM Rector as Guest of the Institute in June 2022, -
    Robert Skidelsky
  • Consciousness in Dostoevsky and Marx in the Light of Mamardashvili's Metaphilosophy: a Comparative Analysis, -
    Rodion Garshin
  • Philosophy and the Cold War, -
    James Dodd
  • Phenomenology of Imagination: Feeling the Otherness of the Other, -
    Anna Yampolskaya
  • How Putin’s War is Reordering the World, -
    Stephen Holmes
  • Rule by Law and the Making of Authoritarian Democracies, -
    Rajshree Chandra
  • Acts of Entitlement: Elites and Affects in India and Elsewhere, -
    Saurabh Dube
  • "Imagining Democracy": Towards a Cultural Reading of Democracy in Postcolonial Sri Lanka, -
    Harshana Rambukwella
  • Eradicating the Written Word: Power and Symbolism through the Lens of Book Burnings, -
    Frances Pinter
  • Study on the Typology and Principles of Regional Integration, -
    Mario Apostolov
  • The Anthropocene as Philosophy of History: Thinking Historically in the Age of Climate Disaster, -
    Aner Barzilay
  • Informalization: The Aesthetics of Populism, -
    Johannes Völz
  • The Rule of Law: Bridle of Power, -
    Martin Krygier
  • Authoritarianism, Democracy and Political Crises in the Periphery of the Modern Capitalist World-System: the Brazilian Case, -
    Ricardo Pagliuso Regatieri
  • On Narratives of Polish History, -
    Robert Kostro
  • The Anti-Zionist Campaign in Poland, 1967-1968, as a Populist Project, -
    Dariusz Stola
  • Ideological Fluidity of Collective National Rights: The Case of Josip Wilfan, -
    Oskar Mulej
  • Models, Metaphors, Values: A Conversation with Technology, -
    Mukul Patel
  • The Three Professions Entitled to Wear the Gown: A Morally Perfectionist Defense of Academic Freedom, -
    Adam Sitze
  • Atlas Unbound: Internationalism and the Future of Human Rights, -
    Micheline Ishay
  • Security Institutions, State Transformation, and the "Insecurity Trap", -
    Keith Krause
  • Labor, Migration, and Differential Inclusion on Inter-Asia’s Capitalist Frontiers, -
    Geoffrey Aung
  • Governing through Contradictions: An Anthropological Study of Soft Authoritarian Government in Turkey, -
    Ulrike Flader
  • Solving Multiclass Classification for Social Research, -
    Miklós Sebök
  • Invited by the IWM Rector as Guest of the Institute in October 2021, -
    Robert Skidelsky
  • Archival Imaginaries and the Politics of History in South Asia, -
    Mallika Leuzinger
  • The Ghetto Houses of Budapest, 1944, -
    András Lénárt
  • The Entanglements Between Wars and Economic Relations in Late Capitalism in the Context of the Semi-Autonomous Region of Iraqi Kurdistan, -
    Umut Kuruüzüm
  • Regional Free Movement of People Law: A New Field of Study for International Migration Law, -
    Diego Acosta
  • The Art and Potential of Assembly: Harnessing the Power of Collective Experience through the Performing Arts to Support Societal Transformation, -
    Gloria Benedikt
  • Law and Rebellion in Early Modern Istanbul, -
    Yavuz Aykan
  • The Politics of Language, -
    Jason Stanley
  • Sounds of Anti-Jewish Persecution in Early Post-War Accounts, -
    Christoph Dieckmann
  • The “World's Conscience” and the “World's Guru”, -
    Sebastian Haug
  • From the Social Engine, -
    Martin Burckhardt
  • Populism, Elites and Expertise, -
    Dennis Patterson
  • Guest Fellowship, -
    Gáspár Miklós Tamás
  • Postcolonial Critique of Democratic Theory, -
    Martin Nonhoff
  • The Rule of Law in the Dynamics of EU Integration, -
    Albena Azmanova
  • Women in Rural Kazakhstan: Reports on Everyday Life in Post-Soviet Central Asia, -
    Noémi Kiss
  • Carceral Statehood: Russian, Prussian, and Habsburg Prisons in Partitioned Poland and Lithuania, -
    Felix Ackermann
  • Not Your Ordinary BRIC: China’s Distinct Path to Engaging International Courts, -
    Thomas Stephan Eder
  • Borders and Mobilities in Europe and the Middle East, -
    Alessandro Monsutti
  • Acts of Writing: Racial Overdetermination, Psychiatric Rationality, Aesthetic Suspension, -
    Eric Reinhart
  • Crisis, Moral, and Politics in the 21st Century: How crises change our democracies, -
    Wolfgang Merkel
  • Exploitation as Labour Under a Regime of Disenfranchisement: Resituating Exploitation Within the Basic Structure of Society, -
    Stanislas Richard
  • Jan Patočka as a Political Thinker and Charter 77 as a Social Movement: The Origins of a New Politics in a Non-Western Context, -
    Matyáš Křížkovský
  • Rule by Law and the Making of Authoritarian Democracies, -
    Rajshree Chandra
  • The Ghetto Houses of Budapest, 1944, -
    András Lénárt
  • Political Communication 4.0: Tracing Recent Changes in Political Communication, -
    Markus Rheindorf
  • Political Communication 4.0: Tracing Recent Changes in Political Communication, -
    Ruth Wodak
  • “The Dawn Rose on a Dead Man.” A Political Anthropology of Armed Violence and Poppy Cultivation in Badiraguato (Sinaloa, Mexico), -
    Adele Blazquez
  • Parenting Beyond the Social and Cultural Divide in Turkey, -
    Biray Kolluoglu
  • Liberal Sympathies: Justice, Upward Mobility, and Adam Smith’s Moral Sentiments, -
    Jack Russell Weinstein
  • The New Rise of Utopian Thinking, -
    Andrzej Waskiewicz
  • Geschichtsphilosophische Forschungen, -
    Tamas Miklos
  • The Rehabilitation of Deception: an Anticartesian Turn, -
    Walther Ch. Zimmerli
  • The World to Be, -
    Avrum Burg
  • Michel Foucault and First Philosophy, -
    Aner Barzilay
  • Embodied Geopolitics of Fear: October Residency, -
    Luiza Bialasiewicz
  • The Changing Consumption Practices and Consumption Policies of the State in Russia: Socio-Political Subjectivities and the Modes of Citizenship of the New Middle Classes, -
    Volha Biziukova
  • Tyranny and Self-Determination, -
    Michael Geyer
  • A Jewish Life Through War and Revolution: The Memoir of Morris Greenfield, -
    Laura Engelstein
  • Editor’s Roundtable and IWM Summer School, -
    John Palattella
  • Migration Narratives Juxtaposed: A Sociological Analysis of Photos, Letters and Biographies of ´Guest Workers´ from Turkey Living in Austria, -
    Faime Alpagu
  • Law and Rebellion in Early Modern Istanbul, -
    Yavuz Aykan
  • Guest Fellowship, -
    Mary Kaldor
  • Guest Fellowship, -
    Orsolya Salat
  • The Hermeneutical Legacy of Krzysztof Michalski, -
    Alicja Rybkowska
  • Embodied Geopolitics of Fear, -
    Luiza Bialasiewicz
  • The Gravity of Truth: Disenchantment, Disappointment, Democracy, -
    Aishwary Kumar
  • Book project "Head Hand Heart", -
    David F Goodhart
  • Scholarship and Freedom, -
    Geoffrey Harpham
  • Economy of Cruelty. A Short Discourse Story of Calculated Violence, -
    Wolfgang Müller-Funk
  • Revisiting the Age of Migration, -
    Ranabir Samaddar
  • Towards a Universal Literary Canon, -
    Ilija Trojanow
  • Guest Fellowship 2018, -
    Wojciech Bonowicz
  • Guest Fellowship, -
    Mark Leonard
  • Embodied Geopolitics of Fear, -
    Luiza Bialasiewicz
  • Die Schicksalsfrage, -
    Andrei Plesu
  • Political Mobilizations of Indian Muslims, -
    Charlotte Thomas
  • Clemens Heller und Wien, -
    Joachim Nettelbeck
  • An Inquiry into the Importance of Supporting the Struggle for Equality and Justice through Academic Engagement, -
    Ana Mishkovska Kajevska
  • Gender Equality in Times of Closure and Backsliding, -
    Cornelia Roggeband
  • Post-War Sri Lanka: Just Settlements, Contested Spaces, -
    Neloufer De Mel
  • Post-Shame Politics, -
    Ruth Wodak
  • The Decade of Intellectuals:Reformism, Liberalism, and Democratic Elitism (Hungary 1982-1993), -
    András Bozoki
  • Vices and Virtues of the Rich—Emotional Legitimations of Wealth Concentration, -
    Martin Schürz
  • Africa – the Unruly Continent, -
    Lexi Alexander
  • Measuring Science, -
    Thomas König
  • Philosophy and Modern Arab Intellectual Issues: A Critical Assessment, -
    Elisabeth Kassab
  • Urban Theory North by East/West, -
    Judit Bodnar
  • Spiritual Foundations and New Fields of Research, -
    Klaudia Rottenschlager
  • Editorial Roundtable 2018: Junk Time, -
    John Palattella
  • Reden wir über Reinheit: Normen, Körper, Bilder, -
    Valentin Groebner
  • The Anthropology of Closed Societies, -
    Irina Prokhorova
  • Guest Fellowship, -
    Ranabir Samaddar
  • Crimes and compensations in North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Sudan), -
    Yazid Ben Hounet
  • Urban Theory North by East/West, -
    Judit Bodnar
  • Property as Process? An Anthropological Perspective on the Politics of Housing, -
    Tobias Bernet
  • Mechanisms of Modernization and Nation-State Institutionalization inCentral and Eastern Europe (19th – 21st Century), -
    Veronica Anghel
  • Mechanisms of Modernization and Nation-State Institutionalization inCentral and Eastern Europe (19th–21st Century), -
    Mihai-Răzvan Ungureanu
  • The Long Shadow of European Self-Interpretation in a Another Modernity, -
    Ken'ichi Mishima
  • Was auf dem Spiel steht, -
    Philipp Blom
  • Guest, -
    Mihai-Răzvan Ungureanu
  • Building Sustainable Opposition in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes, -
    Sofie Bedford
  • The Normative System of the Chinese Communist Party, -
    Ling Li
  • Marx Rethought, -
    Moishe Postone
  • From Political Theology to Philosophy of History, -
    Gáspár Miklós Tamás
  • Integration and Fragmentation, -
    Walter A. Kemp
  • City of Letters: The Making of Literary Life in Berlin, -
    Andrew Brandel
  • Natalism as a Third Attempt to Overcome Gnosis, -
    Rafał Zawisza
  • Forms, Style and Manners: Democracy as a Way of Life, -
    Till van Rahden
  • Future in the Past? Regimes of Nostalgia in post-communist Romania, -
    Eugen Stancu
  • Zum Umgang mit religiöser Pluralität in säkularen Gesellschaften, -
    Gunnar Folke Schuppert
  • Insurgent Law: Judging in a Time of Civil War, -
    Adam Baczko
  • Krise und Aufgebehren – Zum Wandel des Sozialen Konflikts in der Postdemokratie, -
    Ulrich Brinkmann
  • Eurasia Re-Negotiated: Chinese Academic Discourse on International Dispute Resolution and Sovereignty, -
    Thomas Stephan Eder
  • The State Capitalism Alternative. Insights from the Analysis of Real Life Socialist Systems, -
    Paul Dragos Aligica
  • Moments of Monetary Politics, -
    Stefan Eich
  • 25 Years of Polish Transformation: Conditions of Mainstream Journalism and Challenges for the Future, -
    Magdalena Bledowska
  • Cine-Art, -
    Jakub Majmurek
  • Contemporary Practices in NGO Management, -
    Dorota Glazewska
  • The Genealogy of Impartiality, -
  • Simon Reynolds: Rip It Up and Start Again – Postpunk 1978-1984, -
    Jakub Bozek
  • Guest Fellowship 2013, -
    Jack Russell Weinstein
  • The Nation Writes. Polish ‘Social Memoir’ and the Project of Everyman Autobiography from the Great Depression to the Holocaust, -
    Katherine Lebow
  • Innovation and Democracy, -
    Ludger Helms
  • Die Natur als Gegenwelt. Modernes Bauen und die naturästhetische Kultivierung des Fremden, -
    Albert Kirchengast
  • Homecoming: Jan Patočka and the First World War, -
    Nicolas de Warren
  • The Ideology of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists in the European Context, -
    Anton Shekhovtsov
  • The Nation Writes. Polish ‘Social Memoir’ and the Project of Everyman Autobiography from the Great Depression to the Holocaust, -
    Katherine Lebow
  • Socio-Scientific Controversies on Gender and Gender Differences in Context, -
    Nora Ruck
  • ‘Quiet Invaders’ Revisited, -
    Günter Bischof
  • Ban Marriage! Ambivalenzen der Normalisierung aus queer-feministischer Perspektive, -
    Sushila Mesquita
  • How Religious are the Non-religious? Non-believing and belonging in Modernity, -
    Lois Lee
  • Documentary “4 CITIES: Johannesburg, Helsinki, Vienna, New York City”, -
    Jyoti Mistry
  • Guest, -
    Kristof Jacobs
  • Archives as an ‘artifacts of history’; or, How the history of recent past has been preserved, -
    Olga Zaslavskaya
  • Geschichte und Zukunft der Kritik, -
    Ruth Sonderegger
  • Grundlagen einer Ontologie aus dem Glauben, -
    Sandra Lehmann
  • Husserlian Concept of Intersubjectivity and its Interpretation by Patočka and Schütz, -
    ENCARNA LLAMAS
  • Jan Patočkas These vom Verfall Europas und seiner Überwindung im Opfer, -
    Ana C. Santos
  • The Symbolic Power of Biology: Articulations of Biological Knowledge in “Naturphilosophie” around 1800, -
    Susanne Lettow
  • Guest of the Institute in November 2007, -
    Martin Weinmann
  • Achsen sozialer Ungleichheit, -
    Regina Becker-Schmidt
  • Guest Fellowship 2007, -
    Jack Russell Weinstein
  • Regional Differences in Historical Identities and Their Impact on the Formation of Current Political Orientations in Ukraine., -
    Viktoriya Sereda
  • “Judenforschung” in the Third Reich: Scholarship – Propaganda – Ideology – Politics, -
    Dirk Rupnow
  • Identitäten in der Literatur, -
    Tymofiy Havryliv
  • Fin de siècle of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, -
    Frits Bolkestein
  • Guest Fellowship 2004, -
    Jack Russell Weinstein
  • Erinnerung und Lebenswelt. Juden und Nichtjuden in Osteuropa, -
    Heiko Haumann
  • Psychologische Aspekte der Medien, -
    Julia Chiabudini
  • Feminist Ethics of Conflict, -
    Robin May Schott
  • Feminist Theory in Global Techno Culture, -
    Jodi Dean
  • Inventing Memory in Turn-of-the Century Vienna, -
    Abigail Gillman
  • Nationalism in Eastern and Central Europe in 19th Century; National and ethnic stereotypes in postCommunist European countries, -
    Alexei Miller
  • Die Restitution von Privateigentum und ihre sozialen Konsequenzen in Polen und Deutschland, -
    Hartmut Häußermann
  • Guest Fellowship, -
    Hugh Silverman
  • The political implications of globalization, -
    Hans-Georg Betz
  • The relationship between nationalism and the women's question, -
    Joanna Kurczewska
  • Legality and Legitimation: Political Justice in the Aftermath of World War II, -
    Winfried Garscha
  • Public Policy Making in the Czech Republic: Developmental Threats and Opportunities, -
  • Connecting Citizenship and Gender: The Possibilities of the Arendtian Perspective, -
    Vlasta Jalusic
  • Essaysammlung Jürgen Habermas, -
    Peter Dews
  • IWM Vorlesung zur Geschlechterforschung, -
    Teresa de Lauretis
  • Die Neuschreibung der kommunistischen Vergangenheit im post-totalitären Polen, -
    Leszek Koczanowicz
  • The Limits of Solidarity, -
    Christoph Sachße
  • A Dialogue on Ethics, -
    Ernst Tugendhat
  • Law of Privatization in Eastern Europe, -
    Tamás Sarközy
  • Sects, lntelligentsia and Revolution, -
    Alexander M. Etkind
  • Circulation of Elites in Post-communist Transition in Eastern Europe, -
    Ivan Szelenyi
  • Modernization from Above, -
    Janos Kochanowicz
  • Herausgabe eines Handbuchs zur FrauenRechtsgeschichte in der Neuzeit, -
    Ute Gerhard-Teuscher
  • Three Whys of the Russian Revolution, -
    Richard Pipes
  • The Social Economic Situation in the Slovak Republic, -
    Iveta Radicova
  • Der Sozialismus und die Frauenfrage in der Zwischenkriegszeit, -
    Helmut Gruber
  • History of the international Monetary Fund, -
  • Political-economic transformation processes in post-communist societies, -
    Hans-Jürgen Wagener
  • Probleme des Übergangs von der alten Ordnung zur neuen in soziologischer Hinsicht, -
  • Visiting Fellowship, -
  • Visiting Fellowship, -
    Pawel Hertz
  • Visiting Fellowship, -
    Dorota Lachowska
  • Visiting Fellowship, -
    Pawel Hertz
  • Visiting Fellowship, -
    Gabor Berenyi
  • Metaphorische Sichtbarkeit, -
    Wolfram Morath-Vogel
  • Visiting Fellowship, -
    Dorota Lachowska

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Fellows' Publications