Results! Visegrad Scholarship at OSA – July 2025

We are happy to announce that the evaluation of the July 2025 call of the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA has finished, and the final list of winners has been approved!

This academic year, the recommended theme of the proposals was Living in dystopian times: Lessons from the Cold War (and after). We would like to thank all applicants for their submissions.

The following candidates received full support:

ANDERSON, Richard (UK) for his research on Semantic Destabilization in Architecture; or, the Function of Socialist Realism, 1947–1955

HENDL, Teresa (Czech Republic) for her research on Nothing About Us Without Us: Recentering and Reconnecting Dissent Knowledges of Europe’s East

HORVATH, Aladar (Hungary) for his research on "Autonomy from the Margins”, a Critical Analysis of the Archives of the Roma Parliament and the Roma Civil Rights Foundation

LUKIANYCHEVA, Vasilisa (Russia) for her research on Amateur photography as a form of visual hidden transcript: an examination of the discarded images of Főfotó for an exhibition

NABAKHTEVELI, Elena (Georgia) for her research on Physics and Power: Soviet Ideology and Transnational Science in the 1970s–80s

SCHVARTZ, Niv Nissim (France) for his research on Words in Ruins: Lexical Disintegration and the Afterlife of Cold War Rhetoric

The following candidates received partial support:

FARSKA-HAJKOVA, Jana (Czech Republic) for her research on Gallery as an outstretched hand: Galerie Lambert and Czechoslovak exhibitions in 1960s

FAWN, Rick (Canada) for his research on Living in dystopian times: Dissident thinking on moral foreign policies before 1989 as the bases for foreign policy after

GESIARTZ, Michal (Poland) for his research on Transnational Solidarities in Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War

HARISCH, Immanuel R. (Austria) for his research on Discussions and Propaganda at World Congresses: The Communist-dominated World Federation of Trade Unions and the Decolonisation of Africa (1953–1978)

KHOKHLOVA, Daria (Russia) for her research on “Soros’ textbooks:” The Rise and Demise of Liberal Education in 1990s Russia

NAKAI, Anna (Japan) on her research on Translating “Solidarność” into Japanese—Editorial Activism and Utopian Resistance in the Global Transfer of Ideas

ROMANDASH, Anna (Ukraine) for her research on Verses of Defiance: Ukrainian Dissident Poetry as Cultural Resistance in the USSR

RUPCIC, Tijana (Serbia) for her research on Technocracy and the Dystopian Past: Revisiting Yugoslavia’s 1970s Reckoning Through Political Nostalgia and Authoritarian Fragility

SCHELLENS, Dorine (the Netherlands) for her research on Beyond Post-Communism: Imagining the Future in Times of Transition

SZEKELY, Julia (Hungary) for her research on Resistance and Control on the Walls The Social Practices of Producing and Investigating Graffiti during Socialism in Hungary

YAKOVENKO, Iryna (Ukraine) for her research on Intellectual and Literary Heritage of Ukrainian Émigrés in Post-World War II Europe