The year 2015 marked a new beginning at the Institute of Human Sciences. This issue of the IWMpost reflects the thematic continuity at the IWM despite several personnel changes. I have been privileged to receive a warm and enthusiastic welcome in Vienna since taking office as Rector in January this year. It has been a pleasure to get to know, and work with, the excellent and dedicated administrative and academic staff at IWM which has been expanded through the incorporation of Carl Henrik Fredriksson from Eurozine as the new Head of Publications and of Ludger Hagedorn, who is now in charge of the IWM’s Patočka Archives. I would like to extend a warm welcome to Knut Neumayer, who has taken over as Executive Director from Susanne Fröschl. For her many years of service to the IWM I thank her and wish her the best for a new start at the Öko-Institut Freiburg, where she is a member of the Executive Board. I look forward to working with the entire IWM team including the Permanent Fellows to realise our mission to support critical scholarly reflection, foster political engagement and contribute to public debate.
I would also like to express my sincere gratitude to Prof. Dieter Simon, who served for several years as the President of the IWM’s Board of Trustees till he resigned in December 2014. Annette Laborey graciously agreed to replace him as President of the Board until a new Board of Trustees will be constituted in May 2015. I am indebted to her for her support as well as for accepting to continue as a Member on the Board in the future. I am equally grateful to Aleksander Smolar for agreeing to remain a Member of the Board and Vice Chair of the Institute’s Academic Advisory Board. I would also like to express my deep appreciation to Cornelia Klinger, one of the three founding members of the Institute, who took over as IWM’s Acting Rector—together with Michael Sandel—after Krzysztof Michalski’s untimely death in 2013. She retired at the end of last year as Permanent Fellow but continues to be a Member of the Board. I not only wish her a fruitful new start in Hamburg but also look forward to realising projects with her in Vienna in the future.
Last but not least I am extremely grateful to our many partner institutionsin academia and the media, funding organisations and a growing circle of alumni, whose support enables the IWM to maintain and diversify its work.
Shalini Randeria
Rector
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Contents
Lectures and Debates
Entrechtung & Verrechtlichung: Entpolitisierung der Demokratie? / von Shalini Randeria
IWM Lectures in Human Sciences / Report by Magdalena Nowicka
Jan Patočka Memorial Lecture / Tischner Debate
Change of the Guard
Three Photos / by János Mátyás Kovács
Welcome to the IWM
Transparency
Security versus Freedom: A Misleading Trade-Off / by Ilija Trojanow
How much Transparency Does Democracy Need? / Debating Europe
From the Fellows
Modern Slavery and the Long Reign of Hypocrisy / by Paweł Marczewski
Out of Sight, Roma Need not Be out of Mind / by Benjamin Cunningham
Marc Chagall: Vitebsk’s Unwanted Son / by Victor Martinovich
Events in Retrospect
Fellows and Guests
Religion and Secularism
The Disconnect between Religion and Culture / by Olivier Roy
Publications
Books, Articles and Talks
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