Budapest Open Society Fellowship (Joint Budapest Campus Fellowship)

The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS CEU), together with the Democracy Institute (DI) and the Blinken OSA Archivum (OSA) at the Budapest site of CEU, is pleased to launch their fourth joint call for applications for the Budapest Open Society Fellowship program. The new call for applications for the academic year 2026/27 focuses on the topic of Modalities of Resilience and Resistance: Academia and Society in Illiberal Times.

In various capacities, the three Budapest-based units of CEU are engaged in research, teaching and public program series focusing on the cultural, political, social, legal, economic, aesthetic and epistemic problems posed by the rise of autocratic governments and regimes in the last two decades worldwide. These regimes use new techniques of mobilization and undermine traditional conceptions of truth, verification, and falsification; they merge populist, neoliberal, religious fundamentalist, biopolitical and other ideological components into a new mix that subverts the liberal democratic institutional system.

The present call focuses on analyzing the morphology of these tendencies and regimes, as well as on the ways of defying and resisting them. We seek to pay special attention to the transnational entanglements of these regimes and ideologies as well as of those who contest them. Our aim is to pursue this in a multidisciplinary manner, creating new synergies between different fields and methodological traditions.

The Call for AY 2026/27 is now open; deadline for Applications: September 20, 2025. For details, please refer to the Call for Applications (PDF) document below:

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