Join us tomorrow for the symposium “Staying with the Trouble. Art, Race, and Coloniality in Interwar Eastern Europe.” This event explores the interwar period as a critical moment when Eastern European states navigated their precarious status as (semi)peripheries. events.ceu.edu/2026-05-14/s...

Join us for our next Fellows’ Seminar with Costică Brădăţan, who explores why dissent is essential to democracy, and how going against the crowd preserves freedom, diversity of thought, and intellectual vitality. ⏰13 May, 2026, 12:30 pm tinyurl.com/yx576aar

Balázs Trencsényi, Director of @iasceu.bsky.social, offers a timely and thought-provoking analysis of the fall of the Orbán regime, the dynamics of democratic change in Hungary, and the vital role of societal resilience in moments of political transformation. lareviewofbooks.org/article/hung...

Join us today for a lecture by Conny Roggeband & Andrea Krizsan. They discuss how autocratising regimes strategically attack gender equality, dismantle feminist institutions, restrict civic space, and use gendered political violence as a tool of power. ⏰6 May, 2026, 12:30 pm tinyurl.com/y58m2sb8

What drives democratic breakthroughs in post-Soviet Eurasia? Join Oleksandr Fisun for a talk on informal institutions, oligarchic power-sharing, and the paradox of “Machiavellian moments” shaping competitive politics across the region. ⏰29 April 2026, 12:30 pm tinyurl.com/4tcawym5

Join us for the next IAS CEU seminar, where Rajshree Chandra will explore the aesthetics of democratic authoritarianism in India, examining how postcolonial histories, religion, and caste shape contemporary political expression. ⏰22 April 2026, 12:30 pm tinyurl.com/56y2zmzh

Join us today for New Breath: Iranian Underground Short Films — a powerful selection of bold, independent voices from a new generation of Iranian filmmakers. Register here: forms.office.com/e/NL0DFv2YdY

Join Lucia Szemetova for a talk on the complex journeys of footage from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Her presentation explores hidden histories of audiovisual materials and raises questions about archives and cultural memory in a transnational context. ⏰25 March 2026, 12:30 pm tinyurl.com/4swbnn9m

For our next IAS CEU seminar, join Péter Krekó for a lecture on how modern “spin dictatorships” manage information and shape discourse in polarized media environments. Why is there a demand for deceit, and why do citizens embrace misleading narratives? ⏰18 March 2026, 12:30 pm tinyurl.com/22bex2yr

Join us for a talk by Dariia Kuzmych sharing fieldwork from workshops with Ukrainian defenders in post-combat hospital settings. The project explores recovery through collective artistic processes: sketches, collages, and reflection as part of healing. ⏰11 March 2026, 12:30 pm tinyurl.com/mtpxwcn2

How did writers and artists working under authoritarianism respond to a widespread sense of political failure in the decades after 1968? Join us for a lecture by Brian K. Goodman @briankgoodman.bsky.social on "the antipolitical imagination". ⏰4 March 2026, 12:30 pm tinyurl.com/2rkvcr4m

We’re delighted to welcome three new fellows joining IAS CEU this March: Rajshree Chandra, Michael Robinson, and Benedek Totth.

Join us for a lecture by John C. Swanson exploring his new book project, a powerful triple biography of Lili Jacob, her home village of Bilky (now in Ukraine), and the Auschwitz Album, illuminating lives and histories too often left unseen. ⏰February 25, 2026, 12:30 pm tinyurl.com/dewrz3pa

Join us tomorrow for a talk by Marc Loustau as he explores the responses of Hungary’s far-right recruiters among the Hungarian minority in Serbia's Vojvodina region. Don’t miss the opportunity to dive into the dynamics of far-right politics across borders! ⏰February 18, 12:30 pm tinyurl.com/mr3zw6nx

Joseph Tanke, IAS CEU Affiliated Fellow, will be giving a talk today at CEU Vienna. Don't miss his insightful discussion on "Three Ways of Thinking AI Philosophically."

Don’t forget to join us for Ümit Kurt’s talk on the micro-history of three perpetrators of the Armenian genocide in Aintab (Gaziantep). Through social network analysis, the lecture explores motives, networks, and responsibility at the local level. ⏰ February 11, 12:30 pm CET 👉 tinyurl.com/ycxavw5n

Next month, I'm giving a lecture on "The Antipolitical Imagination" at the Institute for Advanced Study at CEU (@iasceu.bsky.social). If you're in Budapest, join us! events.ceu.edu/2026-03-04/a...

Join us for a talk by Michał Pospiszyl, in which he explores “escape ecologies” in 18th–early 19th c. Eastern Europe, when climate change (the Little Ice Age), war, epidemics, and economic disruption reshaped Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine. ⏰ 3 February, 12:30 pm CET 👉 tinyurl.com/3r5dfbbw

A warm welcome to our new fellows joining us in February: Dariia Kuzmych, Conny Roggeband, and Péter Krekó. 🎉#iasceu #CEU

Join us for Csaba Jelinek’s lecture on the role of the construction sector in the global housing crisis. Using Hungary as a case study, this talk explores skyrocketing construction costs, housing politics, and their links to autocratic power. ⏰ 21 January, 12:30 pm CET 👉 tinyurl.com/4ktp3em3

A warm welcome to our new fellows joining us in January: Brian K. Goodman, Lucy Szemetova, Ümit Kurt, Lisa McCormick, and Michał Pospiszyl. We kicked off 2026 with our Introductory Seminar, bringing together the new fellows and the wider cohort. We’re delighted to have you with us! #iasceu #CEU

🔜 Don’t forget to join us for Dorota Jagoda Michalska’s lecture on Polish artist Władysław Hasior and for a discussion of class within the allegedly ‘classless’ society of the Polish People’s Republic after 1956. ⏰ 3 December, 12:30 pm CET 📍 Budapest,Nador u. 13, Zoom 👉 tinyurl.com/234szupn #IASCEU

🎬 Rear Shadow – Lecture with Kaveh Mazaheri ⏰November 26, 2025, 12:30–2:00 PM Join us for a talk by Kaveh Mazaheri (Artist Protection Fund, Fellow at @iasceu.bsky.social ), who will present his work-in-progress on Rear Shadow. a hybrid screenplay/film project. 👉 tinyurl.com/46wkf9xu

Making Trouble with Email: The Intimate Legacies of Attachment 🔜 Don’t forget to join us for Cait McKinney’s lecture that approaches email attachment as loaded with queer potential. ⏰ Nov 19, 12:30 pm CET 📍 Budapest, Nador u. 13 Details: events.ceu.edu/2025-11-19/m...

Garbage is both materially present and conceptually elusive. In this talk, Anne Berg examines waste that resists classification and explores how waste management conceals and sustains power structures. 🗓️ November 12, 2025 ⌚️12:30 📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 13/118 and Zoom 👉 tinyurl.com/3z4pv9d7 #IASCEU

I am a fellow at Central European University’s Institute for Advanced Study. The IAS coordinated my media appearances about the Trump-Putin Budapest summit. Now they’ve put the coverage my comments received on one site: ias.ceu.edu/article/2025... It’s a pleasure to be at @iasceu.bsky.social!

Think social science was born only in the “centers”? Think again. 📢 Małgorzata Mazurek uncovers how Polish scholars like Michał Kalecki and Ludwik Landau shaped global knowledge from the “periphery.” 🗓️ October 22, ⌚️12:30 📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 15/103 and Zoom tinyurl.com/4jka4fa7

Join us for Leerom Medovoi's lecture, where he explores how the very real crisis of climate change intertwines with the rise of the far right, and how climate anxiety can animate populist racial politics of threat. 🗓️ October 15 ⌚️12:30 📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 15/103 and Zoom tinyurl.com/v6hth47t

Meet Anna Kryvenko, IAS CEU Artist in Residence 2024/25. Her project "This House is Undamaged" explores Mariupol’s transformation under Russian occupation, using hybrid documentary film to deconstruct media images and reveal stories of displacement, survival, and loss. 👉 tinyurl.com/2t2csfky

Reminder! The deadline for submitting fellowship applications to @iasceu.bsky.social is coming up soon! If interested, submit your application form and all required documents by September 20, 2025. For more details and how to apply, please visit our website: ias.ceu.edu/calls-fellow...

@iasceu.bsky.social proudly presents the group of fellows who will be in residence during the 2025-2026 academic year 👉 ias.ceu.edu/fellows?year...

IAS CEU have announced the new calls for applications for the 2026/27 academic year, including: 📍 Junior/Senior Core Fellowship 📍 Artist in Residence Fellowship 📍 Budapest Open Society Fellowship 📍 Affiliated Fellowship For more details and how to apply, see: ias.ceu.edu/calls-fellow...

Can ignorance, mistake, failure shape ways of reading, or do they disrupt its proper practice? @saikatmajumdar.bsky.social traces intellectual self-formation beyond the academy, from apartheid-era South Africa to the Caribbean and postcolonial India. 🗓️ June 4, 2025 ⌚️12:30 👉 tinyurl.com/5n8ab9r3

In his lecture "Populism in the Flows of Life: Environmentalist Equivalences in the Balkans" Ivan Rajkovic asks what it means to proclaim rivers an inalienable possession of the “people.” 🗓️ May 28, 2025 ⌚️12:30-14:00 📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 15 and Zoom 👉https://tinyurl.com/3pff5csc

Join us for a book discussion with Benjamin Nathans, author of "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement," the winner of 2025 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. 🗓️ May 22, 2025 ⌚️ 5 pm CET 📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 13 and Zoom 👉 tinyurl.com/4bdyyppf

Don't miss Haggag Ali's lecture "Dignity or Dignities? Egyptian Visions of Decolonization" exploring various constructions of Karama (dignity) in post-colonial Egypt as a key term in negotiating Western modernity. 🗓️ May 21 ⌚️12:30 📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 13/118 and Zoom tinyurl.com/44c6m7vy

In her lecture "The Case of Science-based Dissent during the Cold War" Ioana Macrea-Toma will investigate the relationship between epistemology and politics during the Cold War. 🗓️ May 7, 2025 ⌚️12:30-14:00 📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 15 and Zoom 👉 tinyurl.com/43xks6k3

In her lecture "Global Theatre and Cold War Legacies" Viviana Iacob will explore the relationship between the global trajectories of illiberal regimes and their theatre cultures before and after 1989. 🗓️ April 16, 2025 ⌚️12:30-14:00 📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 15 and Zoom 👉 tinyurl.com/x7hazxfs

Join us for Nadieszda Kizenko's lecture examining the role that written confession as autobiographical narrative has played in the religious lives of East European Orthodox Christians. 🗓️ April 9, 2025 ⌚️12:30-14:00 📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 15, Room 103 and Zoom 👉 tinyurl.com/2e36kj4v

Don't miss Federico Rossi's lecture "On the Trail of Medieval Readers: Textual Networks and Reading Communities" focusing on meditation texts on the life of Christ, their network, and the manuscripts that preserve them. 🗓️ March 26 ⌚️12:30 📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 15/103 and Zoom tinyurl.com/2s43aa4h

In the new episode of the RevDem Podcast, Dorjana Bojanovska Popovska hosts Marlies Glasius for a discussion of examples of illiberal and authoritarian practices that emerged or peaked in 2024 as well as their diffusion across different contexts. tinyurl.com/37enwh2b

We welcome proposals and registrations for the workshop "On the Urgency of Old Ideas: A Counter-Disciplinary Workshop on Theory and Method". 🗓️ June 5, 2025 📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 15 tinyurl.com/mwvmncz4

Join us for Volodymyr Sklokin's lecture where he revisits the ongoing decolonization debate from the perspective of the Ukrainian-Russian encounter during the early modern period. 🗓️ March 12, 2025 ⌚️12:30-14:00 📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 15, Room 103 and Zoom tinyurl.com/4znutwy5

Read the interview (in Hungarian) with our Senior Core Fellow Marlies Glasius about her research on the attitudes of billionaires towards wealth taxation. tinyurl.com/4tjeuw7p

In a KEEN ON podcast episode, Anna Kryvenko, Artist in Residence at @iasceu.bsky.social explains how Russian authorities are rebuilding and selling properties in Ukraine while erasing Ukrainian history and creating the big lie of Mariupol as a historically Russian city. tinyurl.com/4827vke2

Join us for Emma Hemingford's lecture where she will discuss her current play, "Afterwards," a thriller about three migrants fleeing a near-future Britain that has been ravaged by national catastrophe. 🗓️ March 5, 2025 ⌚️12:30-14:00 📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 15, Room 103 and Zoom tinyurl.com/28ztx6kh

Prominent filmmaker and media artist Peter Forgács holds a masterclass at @iasceu.bsky.social 🗓️ February 27, 2025, 13:00-17:00 👉 tinyurl.com/3v2tejap

In her lecure "The Populist City: Imperial Nostalgia and Neoliberal Authoritarianism" Virág Molnár examines Budapest to show how urban space have been instrumentalized in the service of populist rule. 🗓️ February 26, 2025, 12:30-14:00 📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 15, 103 and Zoom tinyurl.com/z6vwa7ey

Join us for the next Fellows' Seminar at @iasceu.bsky.social Our writer in residence, Natalka Bilotserkivets will introduce her novel in progress, "Life of My Man": The Story of a Generation 🗓️ February 19, 2025 ⌚️12:30-14:00 📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 15, Room 103 and on Zoom tinyurl.com/4am7a9mf

Call for papers: A workshop on Theatre and Illiberal Regimes at the Institute for Advanced Study at CEU in mid-April. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent to Viviana Iacob at the following address [email protected] - by February 27, 2025. Learn more: ias.ceu.edu/article/2025...