Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University
Hungary
We offer residential fellowships to highly accomplished senior and promising young scholars seeking to spend 3-9 months in an interdisciplinary intellectual community of their peers while pursuing their own research. These scholarships are available in the social sciences and humanities, in the fields that contribute to the development of the Global Invisible University (GIU) curricular and research priorities. Residential fellows can be hosted for a 9-month period (October-June), for a 3-month short fall semester (October-December), a 5-month fall semester (October-February) or a 6-month spring semester (January-June). Fellows receive a stipend and accommodation at the Raoul Wallenberg Guesthouse in Budapest. Non-residential fellowships of 6 to 12 months are exclusively available to Threatened Scholars during the period of August 2027 to July 2028.
Our fellowship programs are meant to contribute to the formation of a Global Invisible University, integrating research, teaching, and civic engagement. GIU is a strategic initiative designed to build a new model of a “university for the future” that responds to the global crisis facing higher education, scholarship and production of and access to knowledge in contexts of war, displacement, autocratization, commercialization, and repression.
Key thematic areas
Applicants are expected to relate to at least one of the following key thematic areas:
1. Democratization, de-democratization and re-democratization
2. Politics of history, memory and culture wars, nationalist and transnationalist discourses
3. Political economy and global inequalities
4. Human rights and justice in the context of international and comparative law
5. Crisis of multilateralism, politics and dynamics of regional and global institutions and alliances
6. The politics of the Anthropocene, climate justice, natural resources
7. Old and new media and their networks (information warfare, safer use, securitization)
8. Epistemological problems of social sciences in the digital age (the problem of evidentiary procedures, truth-claims, archival practices, “forensic social sciences”)