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The human rights movement in Soviet Ukraine: new memoirs published with UiED support28.05.2021

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New podcast episode asks: What is the legacy of Egypt’s Arab Spring, 10 years on?04.06.2021

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Introducing our fellows arriving in June28.05.2021

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The human rights movement in Soviet Ukraine: new memoirs published with UiED support28.05.2021

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New podcast episode asks: What is the legacy of Egypt’s Arab Spring, 10 years on?04.06.2021

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Introducing our fellows arriving in June28.05.2021

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The human rights movement in Soviet Ukraine: new memoirs published with UiED support28.05.2021

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CURRENT FELLOWS' RESEARCH

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Guest Fellowship

Invited by the IWM as a non-resident guest scholar to work on his own research project for April 2021. Gáspár Miklós Tamas Invited by the IWM as a non-resident guest scholar to work on his own research project for April 2021.

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Law and Rebellion in Early Modern Istanbul During the second period of his stay at the IWM, Yavuz Aykan will be working on his ongoing monograph on the 18th-century legal history of

the Ottoman Empire.

Yavuz Aykan Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University During the second period of his stay at the IWM, Yavuz Aykan will be working on his ongoing monograph on the 18th-century legal history of the Ottoman

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Thinking Through Migration Thinking Through Migration problematizes the relationship between migration and the transformations of capitalism at a time when economic crises, populism and rising xenophobia are convergent.  It is a multi-scalar ethnography that addresses how East Asian migrant Winnie Lem Trent University, Canada Thinking Through Migration problematizes the relationship between migration and the transformations of capitalism at a time when economic crises, populism and rising xenophobia are convergent.  It is a multi-scalar ethnography that addresses how East Asian migrants in France navigate the invidious terrain of economic restructuring and belonging. The

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The Politics of Affects During my fellowship I will develop my work on the political by examining the process of construction of political identities. Chantal Mouffe University of Westminster During my fellowship I will develop my work on the political by examining the process of construction of political identities.

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Eastern European Temporary Migrants: Fault Lines of Differential Inclusion in the EU Labour and Mobility Regimes Building on her previous research, Neda Deneva Faje, is continuing her research into the fault lines that occur from the contradictory dual position of migrants as a non-resident fellow. Neda Deneva Faje Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca Building on her previous research, Neda Deneva Faje, is continuing her research into the fault lines that occur from the contradictory dual position of migrants as a non-resident fellow.

MADE IN IWM

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Till van Rahden: Demokratie. Eine gefährdete Lebensform Till van

Rahden

Till van Rahden: Demokratie. Eine gefährdete Lebensform Zu ungeduldig für Demokratie?

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Ruth Wodak: The Politics of Fear Ruth Wodak Ruth Wodak: The Politics of Fear Fear Eats the Soul A Commentary by Miloš Vec There are several features I simply love in Ruth Wodak’s work. The recently issued second edition of The Politics of Fear.

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Geoffrey Galt Harpham: Scholarship and Freedom Geoffrey Harpham Geoffrey Galt Harpham: Scholarship and Freedom Why are scholars and scholarship invariably distrusted and attacked by authoritarian regimes? In his latest book Scholarship and Freedom, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that at its core, scholarship is informed by an emancipatory agenda based on a permanent openness to the new, an

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Ranabir Samaddar: The Postcolonial Age of Migration Ranabir Samaddar Ranabir Samaddar: The Postcolonial Age of Migration Looking Back to the Postcolonial Age of Migration

by Ranabir Samaddar

Ranabir Samaddar reflects on his recently published volume The Postcolonial Age of Migration and what he hadn’t yet written on.

NEWS

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New podcast episode asks: What is the legacy of Egypt’s Arab Spring,

10 years on?

04.06.2021

In this new episode of Democracy in Question?, hosted by our Rector Shalini Randeria, Michael Wahid Hanna, Senior fellow at The Century Foundation, helps us understand the turbulent events of 2010 in Egypt, what changes they led to, and why prospects for democracy in the country still appear bleak.

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Indian democracy: successes, failures and the way forward

02.06.2021

by Lipin Ram What is the nature of the current crisis of Indian democracy? Does the contemporary hegemony of right wing ideological and political forces in the country signal the terminal decline of the Indian democratic experiment?  What resources in India’s past and

present provide…

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Introducing our fellows arriving in June

28.05.2021

In June we welcome the following IWM fellows. Find out more information about their projects, affiliations and their associated programs here:

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UPCOMING EVENTS

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8Jun2021

History of the Shoah and Politics of History in Post-Communist

Lithuania

Lecture

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10Jun2021

The Universe behind Barbed Wire Reflections on the Human Rights Movement in Soviet Ukraine Panels and Discussions

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15Jun2021

Democracy - A Fragile Way of Life

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18Jun2021 19Jun2021

Vienna Meets Prague

Das Tschechische Kulturfestival

Festivals

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Podcast What is the legacy of Egypt’s Arab Spring, 10 years on? Democracy in Question

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Podcast What ails Indian democracy today? Democracy in Question

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Podcast Precarity, Risk and Safe Speech with Albena Azmanova Vienna Coffee House Conversations with Ivan Vejvoda

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