Results! Visegrad Scholarship at OSA – November 2025

We are happy to announce that the evaluation of the November 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:

BAZ, Liubov (Ukraine) for research on Propaganda Patterns: Soviet Information Strategies and Their Re-emergence in 21st-Century Hybrid Warfare Against Ukraine

DMITRIEV, Alexander ( Russia) for research on Soviet higher education and mechanisms of its Soviet loyalty: a comparative study and reflections in the media during the Cold War (1965-1985)

HACHMEISTER, Maren (Germany) for research on Ageing and the Making of Public Debate in East-Central Europe

KELDIJAN ETCHESSARRY, Julieta (Uruguay) for research on A transnational reassessment of the Super 8 format, focusing on its counter-hegemonic uses during the Cold War

LEIFER, Joshua (US ) for research on The Politics of Antisemitism and the Crisis of the Liberal Order

MENZELEVSKYI, Stanislav ( Ukraine) for research on Chornobyl Cinema: Ecology, Technology, and Film in Ukraine

SARTANIA, Ketevan (Georgia) for research on From Survival to Resistance: The Rise of Oppositional Legal Cultures in Soviet Georgia

SZABO-REZNEK, Eszter (Romania) for research on Between Planned Economy and Artistic Creation. Hungarian Theatre in Romania in the Early Years of Socialism

SOSNOVSKII, Ivan (Russia) for research on Religious Seminars and the Ethics of Truth: Alternative Discourses of Faith and National Imagination in the Late Soviet Underground

The following candidates received partial support:

GAWRON-TABOR, Karolina (Poland) for research on Legacies of the 1989–1991 Energy Crisis: Path Dependency and the Formation of Energy Security Regimes in Central Europe

TURCZAN-LIPETS, Lucien (US) for research on Forums of Dissidence: Ukrainian and Jewish Thinkers in Kyiv and Lviv, 1960s-1980s

WINTER, dr Bethan (UK ) for research on Building Détente from Below: Underground Philosophy Seminars and East–West Cooperation from Oxford to Prague, 1979–1993

On the Reserve List are the following candidates:

BESSAI, John W. (Canada) for research on Helsinki’s Afterlives: Compliance Infrastructures from CSCE to OSCE (1980s–1990s) and Their Contemporary Relevance

CELIKASLAN, Ozge (Turkey) for research on Documenting Dissent: Aesthetics of Political Rupture in Dystopian Times