Anna Rendl

PhD student at University of Vienna @dshcs_univie #almarosé

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On 13 May, renowned historian and author @anneapplebaum delivered this year’s Speech to Europe, reflecting on the multiple challenges Europe faces but also reminding us of the enormous potential it possesses.
Read the full transcript of her speech in English and German on our website:
https://t.co/C3t7rcNoyT
Photo Credit: ERSTE Stiftung/APA-Fotoservice/Tanzer

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🎬 Böhmen, Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts: Ein macht- und besitzgieriger Inquisitor wird gerufen, um angebliche Hexerei zu beenden. Im Meisterstück "Hexenjagd" von Otakar Vávra aus dem Jahr 1969 dienen reale historische Ereignisse als Spiegel politischer Schauprozesse. Wir zeigen das brisante Drama im Rahmen unseres Festivals Vienna meets Prague, in Kooperation mit dem Prager Národní filmový archiv (NFA), gefolgt von einem Gespräch mit David Havas (NFA und Leiter des Kino Ponrepo in Prag).

📍25. April, 20 Uhr, top Kino, freier Eintritt: https://t.co/83WrOYoONY

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📕 Neue IWM-Publikation 📕

Wie konnte ‚Geschlechtsidentität‘ (gender identity) innerhalb weniger Jahrzehnte zu einem grundlegenden Prinzip gesellschaftlicher Klassifikation avancieren? Wie kam es dazu, dass eine Kategorie, die als Ergänzung zum biologischen Geschlecht eingeführt wurde, in immer mehr Zusammenhängen als grundlegender als das biologische Geschlecht verstanden wird? Und wieso wurde sie ab Mitte der 2010er-Jahre jedoch zum Gegenstand derart hitziger Debatten?

In seinem diese Woche bei @mandelbaumbuch erschienenen Buch geht @UCLA-Soziologe Rogers Brubaker (@wrbucla) diesen und vielen weiteren Fragen nach. Anstatt Partei zu ergreifen, liefert er einen nüchternen Beitrag zur Versachlichung einer Debatte, die in den Sog erbitterter Kulturkämpfe geraten ist.

👉 https://t.co/7XoJvVtwBl

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"Folk art, a universally enduring practice, often forms the foundation of local and national identities. But by championing unmediated creativity outside academic traditions, it not only preserves heritage but can also reinvigorate artistic language. It was this potential that Exter wholeheartedly tapped into when developing her modernist aesthetic." - Art historian and IWM Visiting Fellow Katia Denysova on Alexandra Exter, a trailblazer of Ukrainian modernism: https://t.co/NRkv7232R7

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🎊 Das volle Programm unseres Kulturfestivals Vienna meets Prague ist jetzt online! Klassiker des tschech(oslowak)ischen Kinos treffen heuer auf zeitgenössische Sprachkunst, urbane Soundlandschaften begegnen Harfenklängen nach Bedřich Smetana.

Ein Projekt des IWM in Kooperation mit @CZinVienna, dem Tschechischen Zentrum Wien, dem Nationalen Filmarchiv (NFA) in Prag, der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Literatur, Depot und top Kino, gefördert von der @Stadt_Wien Kultur.

👉 https://t.co/45n7PWf0PC

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Following International Women's Day, we are proud to highlight the recipients of the 2026 Emma Goldman Awards. Presented annually in cooperation with the FLAX Foundation, they honor scholars and activists whose work advances feminist research and critical inquiry.

👉 Watch this year's ceremony to learn more about the awardees and their work: https://t.co/NmxmYOycAe

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📢 New podcast episode out!

How did fin-de-siècle Vienna produce both groundbreaking modernism and the seeds of totalitarianism? In this episode of Future Discontinuous, our podcast co-produced with @falter_at, hosts Misha Glenny and Eva Konzett explore the world of Karl Popper, Lise Meitner, Sigmund Freud, and Karl Lueger.

Together with their guest, author and journalist @CockettRichard, they ask how so many of the ideas shaping the 20th century emerged from one city.

🎙️ Listen now: https://t.co/9kfc8YDRpS

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💡IWM Past & Present:

Research on gender has been part of the IWM's activities since the early 1980s. Accordingly, what started as a small selection of works in our library has grown into a collection of over 2,700 books and journal issues, comprising hidden gems as well as classics of feminist literature. Among them are essays by anarchist writer Emma Goldman (1869–1940), the namesake of our Emma Goldman Awards, an annual ceremony co-organized with the FLAX Foundation in support of talented and engaged scholars of feminist and inequality issues.

👉 Read more about this year's awards here: https://t.co/GA5MPY4XHY

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Lesia Ukraїnka, one of Ukraine’s most distinguished writers and intellectuals, was born 155 years ago today. On this occasion, @TimothyDSnyder, IWM Lesia Ukraїnka Permanent Fellow, met with @OKhromeychuk, director of the @Ukr_Institute and the IWM's inaugural Lesia Ukraїnka Senior Visiting Fellow, to discuss Ukraїnka’s intellectual legacy, her connection to Vienna as part of a broader engagement with the world of culture, and the continued relevance of her writing today.

👉 Watch the full conversation here: https://t.co/Fza9RZ4BUz

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Today marks the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It is a moment to draw attention to the famous words of poet and writer Lesia Ukraїnka: "Contra spem spero"–"Against all hope I hope." In her essay, @OKhromeychuk, the director of @Ukr_Institute and current IWM Lesia Ukraїnka Senior Fellow, reflects on the legacy of 'hopeless hope' shaping Ukraine's fight for freedom: https://t.co/SHA66CfiOe

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How do citizenship policies, border regimes, and immigrant labor economies produce statelessness today? Why do these different “sites of statelessness” matter? And which histories and repertoires do they evoke?

📚 Join our book presentation with @Terminalias, Ranabir Samaddar (@MCRG_CRG), Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, and @YuriKazepov, next Tuesday, moderated by IWM Permanent Fellow Ayşe Çağlar: https://t.co/pt2n0xAaF7

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📣 Call for applications: Jerzy Giedroyc Fellowship 2026-27

Do you work on relations between Poland and Ukraine, Lithuania, or Belarus? Does your research touch on the legacy of Jerzy Giedroyc and/or Kultura? Apply for a four-month stay at the IWM with library access, office space, and a vibrant community of scholars.

💡 Our current Giedroyc Fellow @JMikanowski offers a glimpse into his research: "Czesław Miłosz’s The Captive Mind caused an international firestorm when it was first published in 1953. My project at the Institute examines both the book's composition and reception, centering on the key concept of Ketman, or ideological disguise. Jerzy Giedroyc was a crucial part of this process, serving as Miłosz’s first publisher and interlocutor as the Polish poet spent his first year in exile living in Kultura Paryska’s offices in Maisons-Laffitte."

➡️ More information and to apply: https://t.co/bSY2e4QXcW

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We are delighted that six new fellows will start their research stays this month. Welcome to the IWM, Adam Bence Balazs, @OKhromeychuk, @JMikanowski, @Terminalias, Milica Rašić, and Uldis Tirons!

👉 Find out more about their work here: https://t.co/40OlNA32d8

[Didier Eribon @didiereribon]

Entretiens dans le quotidien autrichien Die Presse et le quotidien allemand Süddeutsche Zeitung à l’occasion de la conférence que je donnerai demain soir à Vienne dans le cadre de l’Institut pour les sciences humaines

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🚨 Program Launch 🚨

The IWM is proud to announce Ukraine and the World, a new research program building on more than a decade of engagement with Ukrainian scholarship.

Headed by IWM Lesia Ukraїnka Permanent Fellow @TimothyDSnyder, the program entails residential fellowships for junior and senior scholars, continues the IWM's archival work chronicling the Russo-Ukrainian War, and advances global dialogue on Ukrainian culture, history, and society.

👉https://t.co/6XDLrES1k6

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What if the fall of an empire reshaped the meaning of sovereignty far beyond its borders?

In her keynote lecture at this year's Vienna Humanities Festival, historian Natasha Wheatly (@natasha_wheatl) traces the legacy of Central Europe’s legal past and how it echoes in global decolonization, followed by a conversation with Wien Museum director @BunzlMatti. Join them on 26 September: https://t.co/GqwuxtHSrV
#VHF #VHF2025 @tttdebates

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The full program of this year's Vienna Humanities Festival, themed ON EDGE / UNBEHAGEN, is now available online:
https://t.co/dkVGzX4pYC

A project by IWM and @tttdebates, in cooperation with @erstefoundation, @Stadt_Wien, Ö1 Intro, Akademie der bildenen Künste Wien, @MUSA_Wien & @Volkstheater_W.

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The 18th episode of the podcast “Transit” @univienna was just released! This time I speak with @LgmSam about her book on Polish Displaced Persons as well as about her more recent research into the ‘hidden history’ of queer Displaced Persons. Listen here: https://t.co/uz5HRnnDeQ

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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.

https://t.co/pDbANUVOkb

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We are delighted that Taras Fedirko, Assistant Professor at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow, who recently joined the IWM as a Senior Research Fellow, will deliver his first public lecture at the IWM: “The World That Drone Wars Made: War Economies and the Remaking of Political Order.”

Register here: https://t.co/3jEyyE01us