Budapest Open Society Fellowship on Modalities of Resilience and Resistance 2026-2027 – YOA

Deadline: September 20, 2025

Applications are open for the Budapest Open Society Fellowship on Modalities of Resilience and Resistance 2026-2027. The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS CEU), along with the Democracy Institute (DI) and the Blinken OSA Archivum (OSA) on the Budapest web site of CEU, is happy to launch their fourth joint name for purposes for the Budapest Open Society Fellowship program. The new name for purposes for the tutorial yr 2026/27 focuses on the subject of Modalities of Resilience and Resistance: Academia and Society in Illiberal Times.

In numerous capacities, the three Budapest-based models of CEU are engaged in analysis, instructing and public program sequence focusing on the cultural, political, social, authorized, financial, aesthetic and epistemic issues posed by the rise of autocratic governments and regimes within the final twenty years worldwide. These regimes use new strategies of mobilization and undermine conventional conceptions of fact, verification, and falsification; they merge populist, neoliberal, spiritual fundamentalist, biopolitical and different ideological elements into a brand new combine that subverts the liberal democratic institutional system.

The current name focuses on analyzing the morphology of these tendencies and regimes, in addition to on the methods of defying and resisting them. They search to pay particular consideration to the transnational entanglements of these regimes and ideologies in addition to of those that contest them. Their goal is to pursue this in a multidisciplinary method, creating new synergies between completely different fields and methodological traditions.

Benefits

• Senior Fellows obtain a internet month-to-month stipend of 2,600 Euros, Junior Fellows obtain a internet month-to-month stipend of 1,500 Euros, and Artists in Residence 2,000 Euros to assist help their keep in Budapest.
• In addition, all fellows and their households obtain housing on the Raoul Wallenberg Guesthouse. Utilities on the Guesthouse shall be charged to the Fellows. Fellows are additionally liable for their very own journey and well being care provisions.

Eligibility

• Applicants should maintain a Ph.D. or equal within the social sciences or humanities on the time of their application. Artists ought to maintain a related college diploma.
• Only these with publications in internationally acknowledged scholarly retailers shall be thought-about. Artists ought to present a commensurable robust observe document.
• Junior fellows should have obtained a Ph.D. diploma issued in 2018 or later and should apply for the junior fellowship. Candidates who obtained their Ph.D. earlier than 2018 are thought-about “senior” and should apply for the senior fellowship.
• Former full time CEU workers and college students usually are not eligible to apply for five years after the top of their research/contract (levels should have been acquired and contracts should have ended by December 31, 2020 or earlier).
• Part-time/non permanent workers of CEU usually are not eligible for 1 yr after their contract ends (their contract should have ended by December 31, 2024 or earlier).
• Former fellows of IAS CEU usually are not eligible to apply once more for a interval of 7 years. Applications at an earlier stage could also be thought-about solely in distinctive instances.
• Reapplication is feasible solely 3 occasions inside a interval of 5 years.
• Applicants are anticipated to have the ability to talk fluently in English as that is the working language of the Institute and CEU.
• All nationalities are inspired to apply. However, learn that the eligibility of candidates who require a visa for his or her keep in Hungary might have to be assessed on a person foundation.

Application

All purposes have to be submitted by 11:59 p.m. (CET) on 20 September 2025.

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For extra data, see Official Call or go to Budapest Open Society Fellowship.