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CFA | Oszkár Sárkány Fellowship 2025/2026

22 July 2025 CEFRES CEFRES

Fellowship for CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences & IAS CEU Budapest Fellows

Initiated in 2025, the Oszkár Sárkány fellowship commemorates a Hungarian Bohemist (1912–1943), working for a new inclusive and transnational perspective on cultural history with strong ties to French developments in humanities and social sciences, who died tragically young during World War II in a punishment battalion where he was sent because of his oppositional stance to the Horthy regime.

Central European University Institute for Advances Studies (CEU IAS) & Parisian Institut d’études avancées (Paris IEA) in partnership with the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES) offer mobility grants to Budapest (for IEA fellows) and Paris (for CEU IAS fellows) starting from the academic year 2025/2026.

SCHEDULES

For IAS CEU fellows → Paris:

July 14, 2025: Opening of the call
September 15, 2025, 23:59 CET: Deadline for submissions
September 30, 2025: Publication of the results
Duration: 1 month in Paris
Suggested period of mobility: 2025/2026 academic year, preferably in Spring 2026

For CNRS fellows → IAS CEU Budapest:

July 20, 2025: Opening of the call
October 15, 2025: Deadline for submissions
October 25, 2025: Publication of the results
Duration: 15 days in Budapest
Suggested period of mobility: 2025/2026 academic year, preferably in Spring 2026

ELIGIBILITY

At IAS CEU: all 2024/2025 & 2025/2026 fellows
At CNRS: all permanent members of CNRS SHS research units

FELLOWSHIPS

For IAS CEU fellows in Paris:

1-month accommodation at the Cité Universitaire
Travel costs
Lump sum for daily expenses

For CNRS fellows in Budapest:

15-day accommodation at Wallenberg Guesthouse
Travel costs offered by CEFRES
Office at IAS CEU

A joint workshop with 2025–2026 fellows & researchers from CEU, CNRS & CEFRES will be organized in Budapest in Spring 2026 around one of the themes developed by the 2025–2026 fellows.

PREFERRED RESEARCH SCOPE 2025

Central-Eastern Europe
Illiberalism, global and local
Scholars at risks, academic freedom & invisible university

APPLICATION PACKAGE (in English or French)

Letter of motivation (up to 2 pages)
CV with a list of publications and papers
Applications must be submitted electronically to:
- IAS CEU: Balázs Trencsényi, director, trencsenyib@ceu.edu
- Paris IEA: William Berthomière, CNRS SHS IR director, william.berthomiere@cnrs.fr
- CEFRES: Mateusz Chmurski, director, mateusz.chmurski@cefres.cz

Calls for Applications, Mobility

CFA | Research Grants in Balkan Studies 2025–2026

2 July 2025 CEFRES CEFRES

Research grants for French-speaking doctoral students (6 months)

Le ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères, le réseau des UMIFRE et le réseau des Écoles françaises à l’étranger (EFE – MESR) soutiennent la jeune recherche en études balkaniques en proposant des bourses de terrain d’une durée de six mois à destination de doctorant/es et jeunes docteur/es poursuivant des recherches dans ce domaine. Les boursiers et boursières seront accueilli/es dans un ou plusieurs des centres membres du réseau des UMIFRE ou EFE partenaires du programme (Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes d’Istanbul (IFEA), École française d’Athènes (EFA), Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales de Prague (CEFRES), École française de Rome (EFR). Continue reading CFA | Research Grants in Balkan Studies 2025–2026 →

CEFRES Actions for Ukraine, Join us, Non classé

UMIFRE fellowships for Ukrainian researchers | Results

2 July 2025 CEFRES CEFRES

1. 1. ANKHYM, Oleksii (Ivan Franko State University)
    Between Languages and Cultures: on Contemporary German-language literature by authors of Ukrainian origin
  2. KARABIN, Tetiana (Uzhhorod State University)
    Anti-Corruption Potential of Ukraine’s New Law on Administrative Procedure
  3. NAMESTIUK, Svitlana (Medical University Chernivtsi )
    Conceptualisation littéraire de la guerre et réception française du mythe du Donbass. Vers une poétique de la mémoire dans la littérature ukrainienne contemporaine
  4. PALIICHUK, Elina (Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University)
    The development of the concept of the translation ecosystem in Ukraine for accession to the EU
  5. YANENKO, Anna (Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and Museums)
    Art and Photo (in) History: Museum of the History of Religion(s) of the Kyiv All-Ukrainian Museum Town in the early 1930s
  6. SHUMYLOVYCH, Bohdan (Lviv Centre for Urban History)
    “Quiet Trauma”: Wartime Violence and Mediatized Gaze
  7. BILOKON, Alona (Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University)
    Focuses on the intersection of energy transition, international relations, and regional development, with particular attention to the socio-economic and geopolitical dimensions of energy transition and the green economy.
  8. FISUN, Oleksandr (Karazin University Kharkiv)
    Resilience, and Local Governance in Ukraine’s Frontline Regions
  9. MYKHALCHUK, Roman (Rivne State University of Humanities)
    The Holocaust in the general district of “Voly-Podillia”: bystanders, victims, executioners, 1941-1944
  10. SHUMYTSKA, Halyna (Uzhhorod State University)
    Diversity, Identities and Language Integration
  11. KUDRYAVSTEVA, Natalia (State Pedagogical University Kryvyi Rih)
    Building Ukraine’s Multilingual Policy from Below
  12. ROMANYSHYM, Nataliya (Lviv Polytechnic National University)
    Ukrainian National Identity and Memory in Wartime Discourse: Literary Strategies and Symbolic Reconfiguration

WAITING LIST

1. 1. 1. Gnatiuk, Mykola (National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)
      Integration of Ukraine into the EU: Social Representations in the Context of War
    2. Razyhraev, Oleh (Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University)
      Daily life in the prisons of interwar Poland (1918–1939)
    3. Stefurak, Olena (University of Tchernivtsi)
      Les traductrices de la diaspora ukrainienne : circulation et réception de la littérature ukrainienne en France (XXe–XXIe siècles)
    4. Chemerys, Hanna (Zaporizhzhia National University)
      Feminist Strategies in Ukrainian Wartime Art as a Soft Resistance

Calls for Applications, Join us

CFA: Two Postdoctoral positions at CEFRES 2026–2027

16 June 2025 Cefres

Call opens June 16, 2025
Deadline for submission: September 15, 2025
Publication of the results: beginning of October 2025
Period: January 1, 2026-December 31, 2027
Application Language: English
Address for submission: mateusz.chmurski@cefres.cz (send a copy to: claire.madl@cefres.cz)

Two postdoctoral researchers will be recruited from January 1, 2026 for two years at CEFRES. They will be both affiliated to CEFRES and to a relevant department for their research at Charles University (UK). The selection of both postdoctoral researchers will be based on the quality of their research project and its adequation to the research area or the research project it intends to contribute to. Continue reading CFA: Two Postdoctoral positions at CEFRES 2026–2027 →

Calls for Applications, Mobility, Visegrad > France

French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme

9 June 2025 Claire Madl

The French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme offers 10-month fellowships at the seven Institutes of Aix-Marseille, Cergy, Loire Valley (Orléans-Tours), Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes and Paris. It welcomes applications from high-level international scholars and scientists to develop their innovative research projects in France.

Application deadline: July 16th, 2025 – 6:00 pm

Applications are submitted online via www.fias-fp.eu where you will find detailed information regarding the content of the application, eligibility criteria and selection procedure.

Find more info here.

For the 2026-2027 academic year, FIAS offers 28 fellowship positions: 7 in Aix Marseille, 3 in Cergy, 2 in Loire Valley (Orléans-Tours), 3 in Lyon, 2 in Montpellier, 4 in Nantes and 7 in Paris. Continue reading French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme →

Join us, Mobility

CEFRES PhD grants 2025 | Results

26 May 2025 CEFRES CEFRES

France & Visegrád PhD mobility grants

KOZIIENKO Ruslana, CEU: The Effects and Affects of the (Im)mobility of Men During Russia’s Full-Scale War against Ukraine
FROMONT Garance, Université Paris-Cité: Too Loud a Freedom: Emergence of a Cinematographic New Wave in Communist Czechoslovakia (1956-1968)

Waiting list (gives the right to become associate)

3. SCAGLIUSI Domenico, Sorbonne Université: The Tribunal of the Heirs: The Memory of the Gulag in contemporary Russophone Literature (2000-2022)

4. QUELVENNEC Natasza, EHESS: (Battle)fields of Gender and Democracy. Relational Sociology of the Politicization of Abortion in Poland 2015-2025

CEFRES-SAV PhD mobility grants

PAPCUNOVÁ Nina, ÚSL SAV: Nature in Modernism

CEFRES Platform PhD grants

VASSILEVA Sabina, FSV UK–SOÚ AVČR: Gender of Metabolism. Enacting Sexed Bodies at the Intersection of Metabolic and Sex Hormones
RUMPIKOVA Michaela, FF UK: A Phenomenological Reading of the Young Gerl in First-Person Coming-of-Age Novels: Becoming Through Orientation, Objects, and Others

Waiting list
MYCHKA Katerina, FF UK-La Sapienza: Serhij Žadan’s Work in the Context of Transformative Dynamics

CEFRES-CEU mobility grants

POLLAK, Markus: Evaluating Democracies. International Election Observers and the Contestation of Liberal Ordering (2 500 €)
AKSNOWICZ, Adam: Towards What Homeland? (Trans)national Armies in Exile and Renegotiations of Polish and Czechoslovak National Narratives, 1939-1947 (2 000 €)
RAEHME, Sophie: Intersectional & Gendered Subjects of Transitional Justice and the Right to Reparation. A Case Study on the Negotiation and Recognition of Gendered Victimhood in Colombia since 1997 (500 €)