Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Who Are Russia's National Heroes?	Mon, 28.06.2021, 15:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Ivan Krastev Maria Lipman	Who Are Russia's National Heroes? Politics of History and Monument Building in Putin’s Russia Mon, 28.06.2021, 15:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Maria Lipman Series: Seminars and Colloquia In recent years, governments and citizens in countries all over the world, from Eastern Europe to North America and Africa, have torn down historical monuments in pursuit of historical justice.  Russia experienced such paroxysms of iconoclasm three times in the 20th century, but following the collapse of the Soviet Union, it instead embarked on a wave of monument building across the country. What are the dynamics and causes of this monument fever? What does it tell us about nation-building in Russia thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union? Read more
Who Are Russia's National Heroes? Politics of History and Monument Building in Putin’s Russia Mon, 28.06.2021, 15:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Maria Lipman Series: Seminars and Colloquia In recent years, governments and citizens in countries all over the world, from Eastern Europe to North America and Africa, have torn down historical monuments in pursuit of historical justice.  Russia experienced such paroxysms of iconoclasm three times in the 20th century, but following the collapse of the Soviet Union, it instead embarked on a wave of monument building across the country. What are the dynamics and causes of this monument fever? What does it tell us about nation-building in Russia thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union? Read more
	Byzantium and the Origins of Eurasia	Mon, 28.06.2021, 10:00	Conferences and Workshops	Alexey Lidov Clemena Antonova Sergey Ivanov Valentina IzmirlievaEndre Sashalmi, Ivan Foletti, Ivan Christov, Vladimir Cvetković	Byzantium and the Origins of Eurasia International conference, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna Mon, 28.06.2021, 10:00 Speakers: Alexey Lidov Clemena Antonova Sergey Ivanov Valentina IzmirlievaEndre Sashalmi, Ivan Foletti, Ivan Christov, Vladimir Cvetković Series: Conferences and Workshops The aim of this international conference, organized under the auspices of the “Eurasia in Global Dialogue” Programme, was to offer a better understanding of contemporary developments in Eurasia by looking at their origins in Byzantium. The focus fell on the history of the reception of the Byzantine heritage in Russia and Eastern Europe. While addressing a wide range of topics in intellectual history, politics, aesthetics, religion, etc., all papers engaged with the contested nature of the concept of “Eurasia.” Read more
Byzantium and the Origins of Eurasia International conference, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna Mon, 28.06.2021, 10:00 Speakers: Alexey Lidov Clemena Antonova Sergey Ivanov Valentina IzmirlievaEndre Sashalmi, Ivan Foletti, Ivan Christov, Vladimir Cvetković Series: Conferences and Workshops The aim of this international conference, organized under the auspices of the “Eurasia in Global Dialogue” Programme, was to offer a better understanding of contemporary developments in Eurasia by looking at their origins in Byzantium. The focus fell on the history of the reception of the Byzantine heritage in Russia and Eastern Europe. While addressing a wide range of topics in intellectual history, politics, aesthetics, religion, etc., all papers engaged with the contested nature of the concept of “Eurasia.” Read more
	Yehuda Elkana Fellowship Workshop 2021	Wed, 23.06.2021, 14:00 - Fri, 25.06.2021, 18:00	Conferences and Workshops	Helga Nowotny	Yehuda Elkana Fellowship Workshop 2021 Wed, 23.06.2021, 14:00 - Fri, 25.06.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Helga Nowotny Series: Conferences and Workshops The inaugural Yehuda Elkana Fellow, Helga Nowotny, conducted a non-public manuscript workshop with invited guests at the Central European University, in cooperation with the IWM and the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. Read more
Yehuda Elkana Fellowship Workshop 2021 Wed, 23.06.2021, 14:00 - Fri, 25.06.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Helga Nowotny Series: Conferences and Workshops The inaugural Yehuda Elkana Fellow, Helga Nowotny, conducted a non-public manuscript workshop with invited guests at the Central European University, in cooperation with the IWM and the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. Read more
	In AI We Trust. Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms	Tue, 22.06.2021, 17:00	Lecture	Helga Nowotny	In AI We Trust. Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms Yehuda Elkana Fellowship Lecture 2021 Tue, 22.06.2021, 17:00 Speakers: Helga Nowotny Series: Lecture The inaugural Yehuda Elkana Fellow, Helga Nowotny, gave a lecture at the Central European University, in cooperation with the IWM and the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. Read more
In AI We Trust. Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms Yehuda Elkana Fellowship Lecture 2021 Tue, 22.06.2021, 17:00 Speakers: Helga Nowotny Series: Lecture The inaugural Yehuda Elkana Fellow, Helga Nowotny, gave a lecture at the Central European University, in cooperation with the IWM and the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. Read more
	Junior Visiting Fellows’ Conference Summer 2021	Mon, 21.06.2021, 09:00	Conferences and Workshops	Ayşe Çağlar Ezgican Özdemir Iryna Sklokina Jan Vana Jul Tirler Katherine Younger Ludger Hagedorn Marci Shore Mariia Hupalo Mykhailo Martynenko Gabriela Vicanova Krystof DolezalRosario Forlenza, Dagmar Fink, Oley Kindiy, Costas Constantinou, Sina Farzin	Junior Visiting Fellows’ Conference Summer 2021 Mon, 21.06.2021, 09:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Ezgican Özdemir Iryna Sklokina Jan Vana Jul Tirler Katherine Younger Ludger Hagedorn Marci Shore Mariia Hupalo Mykhailo Martynenko Gabriela Vicanova Krystof DolezalRosario Forlenza, Dagmar Fink, Oley Kindiy, Costas Constantinou, Sina Farzin Series: Conferences and Workshops The Junior Visiting Fellows' Conference is a bi-annual event at the Institute for Human Sciences that gives the Junior Fellows to present their work and research in a day-long conference. A traditional, semester-closing, celebration of the talented young researchers that is as old as the Institute itself, is always organized by the Junior Fellows themselves and usually includes Senior Fellows, Staff members and Alumni among others as commentators and discussants. Read more
Junior Visiting Fellows’ Conference Summer 2021 Mon, 21.06.2021, 09:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Ezgican Özdemir Iryna Sklokina Jan Vana Jul Tirler Katherine Younger Ludger Hagedorn Marci Shore Mariia Hupalo Mykhailo Martynenko Gabriela Vicanova Krystof DolezalRosario Forlenza, Dagmar Fink, Oley Kindiy, Costas Constantinou, Sina Farzin Series: Conferences and Workshops The Junior Visiting Fellows' Conference is a bi-annual event at the Institute for Human Sciences that gives the Junior Fellows to present their work and research in a day-long conference. A traditional, semester-closing, celebration of the talented young researchers that is as old as the Institute itself, is always organized by the Junior Fellows themselves and usually includes Senior Fellows, Staff members and Alumni among others as commentators and discussants. Read more
	Vienna Meets Prague	Thu, 17.06.2021, 08:00	Festivals		Vienna Meets Prague Das Tschechische Kulturfestival Thu, 17.06.2021, 08:00 Speakers: Series: Festivals Das tschechisch-österreichische Kulturfestival "Vienna meets Prague" widmete sich im Jahr 2021 dem großen Prager Erzähler Bohumil Hrabal mit einem Schwerpunkt, der verschiedene Formate verbindete. Read more

	The Intersections of Syrian Refugees’ Dilemma: Settlement, Onward Movement, and Return	Wed, 16.06.2021, 17:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Ayşe ÇağlarAhmet İçduygu	The Intersections of Syrian Refugees’ Dilemma: Settlement, Onward Movement, and Return Seminar Series on Forced Migration with Ahmet Içduygu and Ayşe Çağlar Wed, 16.06.2021, 17:00 Speakers: Ayşe ÇağlarAhmet İçduygu Series: Seminars and Colloquia The international refugee regime and its national versions increasingly tend to offer a temporary protection mechanism that creates a “limboizing effect” on refugees’ lives. It also appears that these policies use temporariness as a political tool of governance. While these dominant international and national rulings ideally present the three choices of settlement (integration in the first country of asylum), onward movement (resettlement in the third country), and return (repatriation) as durable solutions to the refugee question, none of these choices easily become pertinent in the lives of refugees under their protracted situation and limitations of the international refugee regime. Consequently, refugees face with the challenges of living in an environment of uncertainties that is also labelled with the concept of permanent temporariness. In this presentation, Ahmet Içduygu referred to the concept of permanent temporariness, and answered the question of what is the role of international refugee regime and that of Turkey’s refugee policies towards Syrian refugees in the context of refugees’ aspirations for planning their future. He also questioned the polarized nature of the structure-agency debate, emphasizing the synthesis of these two influences on refugees’ aspirations in the context of settlement, onward movement and return choices. Read more
The Intersections of Syrian Refugees’ Dilemma: Settlement, Onward Movement, and Return Seminar Series on Forced Migration with Ahmet Içduygu and Ayşe Çağlar Wed, 16.06.2021, 17:00 Speakers: Ayşe ÇağlarAhmet İçduygu Series: Seminars and Colloquia The international refugee regime and its national versions increasingly tend to offer a temporary protection mechanism that creates a “limboizing effect” on refugees’ lives. It also appears that these policies use temporariness as a political tool of governance. While these dominant international and national rulings ideally present the three choices of settlement (integration in the first country of asylum), onward movement (resettlement in the third country), and return (repatriation) as durable solutions to the refugee question, none of these choices easily become pertinent in the lives of refugees under their protracted situation and limitations of the international refugee regime. Consequently, refugees face with the challenges of living in an environment of uncertainties that is also labelled with the concept of permanent temporariness. In this presentation, Ahmet Içduygu referred to the concept of permanent temporariness, and answered the question of what is the role of international refugee regime and that of Turkey’s refugee policies towards Syrian refugees in the context of refugees’ aspirations for planning their future. He also questioned the polarized nature of the structure-agency debate, emphasizing the synthesis of these two influences on refugees’ aspirations in the context of settlement, onward movement and return choices. Read more
	Democracy - A Fragile Way of Life	Tue, 15.06.2021, 18:00	Lecture	Shalini Randeria Till van Rahden	Democracy - A Fragile Way of Life Tue, 15.06.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Shalini Randeria Till van Rahden Series: Lecture After the Cold War ended, liberal democracy was taken for granted. Now it is in crisis: citizens distrust parliamentary politics, the people’s parties are losing members and votes, and social media are crowding out public debates. Challenging the sense of despair that informs recent studies on how democracy dies, Till van Rahden argued that it might prove more useful to explore what keeps it alive. A fruitful point of departure is the insight that democracy is not only a matter of elections and political parties, constitutions and parliaments, but is grounded in democratic experiences. The attention is less on how democratic government works, but on what equality, freedom, and justice feel like. A focus on democratic forms and aesthetics allows us to revisit the cultural and social foundations of democracy. No matter how stable a democracy may seem, it will wither and perish without ways of life that allow for and encourage democratic experiences. Read more
Democracy - A Fragile Way of Life Tue, 15.06.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Shalini Randeria Till van Rahden Series: Lecture After the Cold War ended, liberal democracy was taken for granted. Now it is in crisis: citizens distrust parliamentary politics, the people’s parties are losing members and votes, and social media are crowding out public debates. Challenging the sense of despair that informs recent studies on how democracy dies, Till van Rahden argued that it might prove more useful to explore what keeps it alive. A fruitful point of departure is the insight that democracy is not only a matter of elections and political parties, constitutions and parliaments, but is grounded in democratic experiences. The attention is less on how democratic government works, but on what equality, freedom, and justice feel like. A focus on democratic forms and aesthetics allows us to revisit the cultural and social foundations of democracy. No matter how stable a democracy may seem, it will wither and perish without ways of life that allow for and encourage democratic experiences. Read more
	What is the outlook for EU enlargement in the Western Balkans?	Mon, 14.06.2021, 10:00	Panels and Discussions	Ioannis Armakolas Ivan Vejvoda Srdjan Cvijic	What is the outlook for EU enlargement in the Western Balkans? Mon, 14.06.2021, 10:00 Speakers: Ioannis Armakolas Ivan Vejvoda Srdjan Cvijic Series: Panels and Discussions The state of play in the Western Balkans shows signs of political deterioration. There is uncertainty over opening accession negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia, whilst those already open with Serbia and Montenegro progress sluggishly. Implementation of the Prespa Agreement is slow and the dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia is at a standstill. Overall, it is not a very promising picture even without the growth of popular frustration. Is the European Union awakening to the need for a more robust engagement in the Western Balkans? Read more
What is the outlook for EU enlargement in the Western Balkans? Mon, 14.06.2021, 10:00 Speakers: Ioannis Armakolas Ivan Vejvoda Srdjan Cvijic Series: Panels and Discussions The state of play in the Western Balkans shows signs of political deterioration. There is uncertainty over opening accession negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia, whilst those already open with Serbia and Montenegro progress sluggishly. Implementation of the Prespa Agreement is slow and the dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia is at a standstill. Overall, it is not a very promising picture even without the growth of popular frustration. Is the European Union awakening to the need for a more robust engagement in the Western Balkans? Read more
	The Universe behind Barbed Wire	Thu, 10.06.2021, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Katherine Younger Timothy SnyderMyroslav Marynovych	The Universe behind Barbed Wire Reflections on the Human Rights Movement in Soviet Ukraine Thu, 10.06.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Katherine Younger Timothy SnyderMyroslav Marynovych Series: Panels and Discussions In the 1970s, the notion of human rights transformed the landscape of dissent in the Soviet Union. Buoyed by the signing of the Helsinki Final Act in 1975, dissidents embraced this new framework, holding the Soviet regime to account and asserting their right to live in such a way that their outer conduct reflected their inner convictions. The regime found this new challenge to the worldview it sought to impose on its citizens deeply threatening and responded with harsh repressive measures, including the arrest of many of the movement's leaders. Read more
The Universe behind Barbed Wire Reflections on the Human Rights Movement in Soviet Ukraine Thu, 10.06.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Katherine Younger Timothy SnyderMyroslav Marynovych Series: Panels and Discussions In the 1970s, the notion of human rights transformed the landscape of dissent in the Soviet Union. Buoyed by the signing of the Helsinki Final Act in 1975, dissidents embraced this new framework, holding the Soviet regime to account and asserting their right to live in such a way that their outer conduct reflected their inner convictions. The regime found this new challenge to the worldview it sought to impose on its citizens deeply threatening and responded with harsh repressive measures, including the arrest of many of the movement's leaders. Read more

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