The Institute for Human Sciences’ (IWM) rector interviewed the author of Rare Earth Frontiers: From terrestrial subsoils to lunar landscapes during the Vienna Humanities Festival 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPifMMVAjuo Misha Glenny: We are going to be talking about rare earths, rare...
Cerium, praseodymium, scandium – silvery, malleable, flammable, exhilaratingly versatile. Listening back to Julie Klinger, author of Rare Earth Frontiers, in conversation with Misha Glenny, at the Vienna Humanities Festival 2024, one can’t help but feel the thrill of rare earths...
How do I write above the clouds my kin’s will? And my kin / leave time behind …, and my kin / whenever they build a fortress they raze it to erect above it / a tent of longing Hug,...
The last three hundred years represent a unique historical eccentricity. For the first and probably the last time in human history, global transformations in the widest sense – from societal developments to climate change – have largely been determined by...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHobyGy12aY In the Western European imagination, Muslims are often conceived as some foreign body from Europe. This couldn’t be further from the truth: Islam has been a part of European history for a thousand and three hundred years. Today, it’s...
The following interview took place at the Vienna Humanities Festival 2024 between Gavrilova, the festival’s co-founder, and Azmanova, the multiple award-winning author and ex-fellow from the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM). Dessy Gavrilova: In your most recent book, Capitalism on...
If the figures are to be believed, there has never been a better time to be a publisher. In 2022, British publishers sold 669 million physical books, the highest number ever recorded. 2023 was tougher for many, with the post-COVID...
I was at a Holiday Inn just off a Los Angeles highway when the Gulf War started. We were on holiday in the US for the first time, and I was looking forward to everything that a nine-year-old who lived...
Surprise correlations between distinct texts are like chemistry. They spark transformations of thought. When reading Agri Ismaïl’s personally informed writing for Glänta on warfare in the Kurdistan Region in Iraq, I was compelled to revisit Anthony Downey’s academic text for...
My life’s work is literature, which has humanity at its very centre. I am therefore accustomed to viewing history not so much as an account of events but as the stories of people who create events. The year 2020 was...
