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The IWM promotes intellectual exchange between disciplines, academia and society, through public events, and fellowships for scholars, journalists, translators.
Watch one of this week's most-watched IWM YouTube videos, in which IWM Senior Research Fellow and anthropologist Taras Fedirko traces how drone warfare is reshaping waar economies and redefining political order on the ground: youtube.com/watch?v=XoxZYE…
In today's lecture, IWM Senior Research Fellow Taras Fedirko will explore how drone warfare is reshaping global war economies and political orders. You can still register here: iwm.at/event/the-worl…
In this piece, written by Anton Hauk, wartime graffiti in Ukraine is explored as a vital form of public expression. From defiant symbols in occupied regions to spontaneous acts of mourning and resistance, these inscriptions mark a society under siege and a culture asserting…
Katy Hessel, one of today's most exciting voices in art history, joined the 2024 Vienna Humanities Festival for a conversation about creativity, visibility and her commitment to rewriting the male-centred art canon. Watch the full video here: youtube.com/watch?v=PMQsUO… #TBT
The full program of this year's Vienna Humanities Festival, themed ON EDGE / UNBEHAGEN, is now available online: humanitiesfestival.at/programm-2025 A project by IWM and @tttdebates, in cooperation with @erstefoundation, @Stadt_Wien, Ö1 Intro, Akademie der bildenen Künste Wien, @MUSA_Wien &…
In this Vienna Coffee House Conversation, IWM Permanent Fellow @IVejvoda interviews @rumeliobserver, founding chairman of the European Stability Initiative (@ESI_eu), about the origins, achievements & current challenges of Europe’s border-free Schengen zone. Listen in here:…
Rewatch Stephen Kotkin's talk from last year's Vienna Humanities Festival at @Volkstheater_W in which he sets out a series of propositions to help us understand the contemporary world order: youtube.com/watch?v=3Odt-z…
The call for applications for our Documenting Ukraine grants ends in 3 days! Learn more about this opportunity here: iwm.at/blog/documenti…
Listen to the most recent Vienna Coffeehouse Conversation podcast, where @IVejvoda and @timjudah1 demographic megatrends, their implications, and political narratives surrounding them, as well as frontline insights from Ukraine: iwm.at/news/new-vienn…
In their latest essay for @ForeignPolicy, Ivan Krastev, IWM Albert Hirschman Permanent Fellow, and @leonardbenardo1, Senior Vice President at @OpenSociety, explore why we turn to historical analogies to navigate today’s uncertainties and upheavals. foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/30/his…
Applications are open for our Digital Humanism Fellowship! Deadline for application: 21 September 2025 For more information, have a look at our website: iwm.at/program/digita… In cooperation with the Austrian Federal Ministry of Innovation, Mobility and Infrastructure
As our world tilts into uncertainty, this year’s Vienna Humanities Festival brings together @didiereribon, Federica Gregoratto (@FeffaGre), Lyndal Roper, @natasha_wheatl, and many more to explore how we might sustain our humanity in a time of profound change.…
In a recent lecture in Vienna, @TimothyDSnyder, IWM Lesya Ukrainka Fellow, showed how authoritarianism erases a nation's distinctiveness, as seen in Belarus under Russian sway. Yet still, Belarus' vivid past suggests other possible futures. Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=4ab5qR…
What insights emerge when we think of Palestine and Ukraine in conversation with one another? In this dialogue, @svitlanax and @MalakaShwaikh examined “resilience” - a term that often obscures the structural conditions of violence. #TBT youtube.com/watch?v=GrYrll…
The deadline for applications for the Documenting Ukraine grants of 5,000 EUR is 20 July! Ukrainian intellectuals and creatives who are working on documentation projects to establish and preserve a factual record are invited to submit their applications. iwm.at/documenting-uk…
In this episode of Vienna Coffee House Conversations, host @IvanVejvoda talks to British journalist and author Tim Judah about his new book, 'Life and Fate', which examines demographic changes across Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe in detail. iwm.at/europes-future…
In this year's Krzysztof Michalski Memorial Lecture, renowned historian Margaret MacMillan explored how global orders emerge, face challenges, and evolve. Watch one of these week's most popular posts here: youtube.com/live/Y6lnqQ6g_…
The registration for tonight's lecture by @TimothyDSnyder "Belarus: Ancient and Modern" has reopened for a short period of time. Secure one of the few remaining seats by following this link: wienmuseum.at/event/1971 A cooperation between @iipvienna, @MUSA_Wien and the IWM.
Ahead of IWM Senior Research Fellow Taras Fedirko’s (@peasantpedant) talk on war economies, we’re revisiting a panel on “Liberty after Liberalism: Emancipatory Struggles in Ukrainian Journalism” with @TimothyDSnyder, Mary Kaldor & Kate Younger. #TBT youtube.com/watch?v=UKuukq…