Apply for Visegrad Scholarships at OSA in Budapest

The research topics within the theme “Lessons of the Cold War?” for the Visegrad Scholarships at Open Society Archives in Budapest are published for academic year 2023/24.

Historians, researchers, political scientists, sociologists as well as socially engaged artists have space to research and reflect on the lessons of the Cold War using stimuli from the Blinken OSA collections. Those interested will be invited to explore the connections as well as the differences between the present and the past on the recommended topics such as:

• The importance of homegrown dissident cultures of truth telling and the related counterpropaganda in minimizing them as foreign agents.
• Histories of Soviet invasions (1956, 1968, 1979), their stakes, misunderstandings, and miscalculations.
• The political instrumentalization and hollowing of concepts, such as “fascism”, “Nazism,” and “imperialism”… for other topics and how to apply read more here.