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...

Join us for the next Fellows' Seminar at @iasceu.bsky.social Socialist Scandals: Corruption, Revolution and the Quest for Justice in Poland and East Germany, by Jakub Szumski. 🗓️ February 12, 2025 ⌚️12:30-14:00 📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 15, Room 103 and on Zoom tinyurl.com/5s256377

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