Visegrad Scholarship at OSA: winners announced!

We are happy to announce that the evaluation of the July 2024 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 The Language(s) of Freedom(s). We invited historians, researchers, political scientists, sociologists, and socially engaged artists to assess the potential of a genealogical project linking the contemporary epistemic and political crisis of democracy to past modes of inquiry and activism.

We congratulate and look forward to welcoming the following applicants, who received full scholarship to support their research in the Archivum:

• AKEN van, Job (Holland) on his research on A visual ethnography on heroism at Heroes’ Square
• GALMARINI, Cristina (Italy) for her research on Disability and Freedom in Russia from Perestroika to Bolotnaia
• ILCHUK, Natalya (Ukraine) for her research on Lasting commitment. Discourses in the Ukrainian diaspora publications
• KERESZTES, Bence (Hungary) for his research on The concept of dissidence during the Kádár regime
• KIRALY, Edit (Hungary) on her research on The Politics of Nature. Topics of the Hungarian Danube environmentalist movement in the late Kádár era
• KONKOL, Mate (Hungary) on his research on Narrating Gender in the Hungarian Democratic Opposition
• KORTUKOV, Dima (Israel) on his research on 1990 Parliamentary Elections and USSR Dissolution
• LOPATINA, Sofia (Russia) for her research on Groups of young non-conformists and surveillance in Leningrad (1956-1968)
• LUKACS, Nora (Hungary) for her research on “If the Berlin Wind Blows my Flag” (meetings and exchanges in the artistic field during the Cold War)
• PETROVA, Olga (Ukraine) for her research on Freedom in Exile: Munich Institute, Transnational Scholarship, and Ukrainian-Jewish Relations, 1950s-1970s
• SZOKOLAY, Domokos (Hungary) on his research on State-Controlled National Remembrance: Production of the Past and the Remembrance of the Communist Dictatorship in Hungary from the 1980s to the Present Day