About the scholarship
The Visegrad Scholarship in OSA was established to promote a better and deeper understanding of the interdependent recent history of (the center of) Europe. Mr. Jan Kohout, the Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs initiated the scholarship after visiting OSA on July 29, 2009. The joint grant scheme of the International Visegrad Fund (IVF) and the Open Society Archives at the Central European University (OSA) was signed by Petr Vagner, Executive Director of the IVF and Professor Istvan Rév, Director of OSA in the Czernin Palace in Prague on May 7th 2010.
The annually offered 15 grants (20 grants since 2022) are designed to provide access to the Archives for scholars, researchers, artists and journalists. The grant covers travel to and from Budapest, modest subsistence, and accommodation in Budapest for a maximum research period of two months.
6 Continents, 61 Countries - 5 Continents, 32 Countries
Places of origin of all the Visegrad Scholarship candidates and awardees between 2010 and 2023
Reading: Clicking on the map-pins the numbers of submitted and successful applications from pop up in a textbox.
Purple pins indicate countries with over 30 applicants, green pins are for countries with over 20 applicants, red pins mark countries with at least one successful applicant, and countries with black pins are without successful applications.
Since 2010, Blinken OSA (OSA) has been honored to award the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA. The Fund has helped 271 researchers carry out their inquiry into the archival historical collections of OSA. The awardees come from 32 countries from five continents, while candidates gather from all over the globe, with the Visegrad 4 countries heading the lists.
Word cloud of key themes of research proposals
#Archive (18)
2010 - Varadi, Natalia (Ukraine) - The Connection of Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence of the Year 1956 to Transcarpathia through the archival materials in the Open Society Archives
2013 - MAJOR, Virag (Hungary) - Archiving in the archive - art as a means of formulating public opinion
2014 - Dobrovits, Mihaly (Hungary) - The OSA Archives and Central Asia turing the Cold War Period
2014 - Koscielny, Pawel (Poland/Canada) - The Radio Free Europe Archive’s Epistemic Rupture
2014 - Antalfi, Aniko (Hungary) - Archive as Collective Unconscous(1): Visual Culture of the 70s and 80s in Hungary: Rites, Customs and Ceremonies
2015 - Johnston, Rosamund (US) - What can radio archives tell us about listening practices in early Cold War Czechoslovakia?
2015 - Buzatu, Cristinel (Romania) - Documenting human rights abuses under totalitarian regimes – the archives of the early Helsinki Committees.
2016 - Kharkina, Anna (Russia) - The archives of the Cold War: beyond traditional archival paradigm
2016 - Kiss, Gabriella (Hungary) - Parallel realities - Archived social history in the subway of Ferenciek square
2016 - Olosz, Levente (Hungary) - Jews as propaganda tool and bargaining chip in Romania’s foreign policy during the Cold War - What do we learn about the Romanian Jewish minority from the OSA Archive?
2016 - Stavri, George (Cyprus) - Inventing realities passing the test of sustainability and lasting impact through archival material in the Cold War and Cyber Eras
2017 - Safta-Zecheria, Leyla (Romania) - The workings of the humanitarian and human rights epistemologies, as they become visible in the archive’s holdings
2017 - Zolich, Katarzyna (Poland) - Art and politics - constellation of images. Archive as an image.
2018 - Deres, Kornelia (Hungary) - Dictatorship and Theatricality: Performing Memories in the Archive
2011 - group application - VAJDA, Julia (Hungary) - Holocaust Archives
#Art (14)
2010 - LAZAROMS Ilse (Netherlands) - Revolutions of Thought and Sensibility: the politics and art of socialist-communist Jewish intellectuals in Hungary, 1900-1919
2012 - Tompa, Andrea (Hungary) - Can you trust art criticism in the 70ies and 80ies? Criticism of opposition, consensus and subversion
2013 - WEST, Linnea (US) - Neo-avant-garde visual art: a (real and virtual) newspaper-as-exhibition
2013 - MAJOR, Virag (Hungary) - Archiving in the archive - art as a means of formulating public opinion
2013 - GRUN, Daniel (Slovakia) - Notion of public space: underground publishing and participation art
2014 - Radomska, Magdalena (Poland) - Post-communist Art in Post-communist Europe
2015 - Kiesewalter, Georgy (Russia) - Influence of Western Art and Culture on Unofficial Art in the Soviet Union. Information and Communication Permeability of the Iron Curtain in the 1960s-1970s.
2015 - Gazovicova, Nina (Slovakia) - The Collector as Class Enemy vs. the Connoisseur from the Housing Development / transformation of the art market system in The Slovak Republic (1948-1989)
2015 - Honcoopova, Haruna (Czech Republic) - Relics of Communist Architecture (vide-art project)
2015 - Lazar Eszter (Hungary) - Educational turn in the Eastern European Art Universities during the 1990s
2016 - Gazovicova, Nina (Slovakia) - Lesson of Relativity (Conceptual Art in as a Quest for Objectivity)
2017 - Zolich, Katarzyna (Poland) - Art and politics - constellation of images. Archive as an image.
2017 - Rogos Agata (Poland) - The acts of disobedience in art and social practice in communist South-Eastern Europe
#Broadcasting (8)
2010 - SOWINSKI, Pawel (Poland) - Accelerating the peaceful revolution. Polish samzdat and Western broadcasting
2011 - SEGES, Dusan (Slovakia) - The Iron Curtain wasn't soundproof: the Council of Free Cyechoslovakia and the RFE broadcast (1949-1967)
2011 - Tomek, Prokop (Czech Republic) - “The history of Radio Free Europe broadcasting to Czechoslovakia and its domestic political and social significance.”
2012 - EREMEEVA, Anna (Russia) - History of Stalinist Science in the texts of Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Western Broadcasts (1950s-1980s)
2013 - Ritter, Rüdiger (Germany) - RFE popular music broadcasting: US propaganda or mental refuge for listeners?
2015 - Sobczak, Anna (Poland) - Broadcasting freedom – how the information circuit between Radio Free Europe and the Polish samizdat is related.
2015 - Prokopova, Katerina (Czech Republic) - The General Secretary is dead, long live the General Secretary: Interpretation of Radio Free Europe and Czechoslovak Radio broadcasting on the events of the death of Joseph Stalin and Klement Gottwald
2017 - Westlake, Stephen (UK) - Transnational Broadcasting and the Impact of the Helsinki Final Act in Central Europe, 1973-1978
#Central (20)
2010 - ZAJICOVA Helena (Czech Republic) - Faces of Memory – Cultures of Remembrance and Documentary Filmmaking in Central and Eastern Europe
2010 - NOVE Béla (Hungary) - “Righteous of the Region” A Comparative Study of Refugee Crises in East-Central Europe 1939-1989
2010 - KOPECEK, Michal (Czech Republic) - Democracy, Identity, and the "Legacy of Dissidence" in East Central Europe 1975 - 2004
2011 - BOHUS, Kata (Hungary) - Israel’s influence on the situation of Central-European Jews
2011 - CHORVAT, Peter (Slovakia) - Evaluation and Interpretation of Armed Resistanmce aganst Nazi Germany in the Central European countries
2011 - Manoli, Alexandru (Moldova) - The Individual versus the Totalitarian State: The Idea of Liberty and the Dissidence Phenomena in Central and Eastern Europe during the Communist Era
2012 - PAL, Viktor (Hungary) - The Birth of Modern Water Pollution and Water Protection in East Central Europe (ECE), from the industrial beginnings until the end of the 1960s.
2012 - FRANCZYK, Lukasz (Poland) - The emergence of human rights movements and the fall of communist regimes in East-Central Europe
2012 - KERÉNYI, Szabina (Hungary) - Repertories of Resistance in Central and Eastern Europe
2013 - Cucu, Alina-Sandra (Romania) - Producing Knowledge in Productive Spaces: Foundations for Centralization and Planning in a Socialist Economy
2013 - MEZEIOVÁ, Gabriela (Slovakia) - The emergence of human rights movements and the fall of communist regimes in East-Central Europe
2014 - Dobrovits, Mihaly (Hungary) - The OSA Archives and Central Asia turing the Cold War Period
2014 - Brzezinska, Marta (Poland) - Depiction of communist reality in the cinema of Central Europe (in Czech, Polish, Hungarian and German films) after 1989
2014 - Koscielny, Pawel (Poland/Canada) - Transnational intellectual history of Central European dissident thought after 1968
2016 - Abdullayev, Akmaljon (Uzbekistan) - RFE/RL activism in Central Asia during Soviet Union and social movements in Central Asia after independence
2017 - Westlake, Stephen (UK) - Transnational Broadcasting and the Impact of the Helsinki Final Act in Central Europe, 1973-1978
2017 - Pieniazek, Marek (Poland) - Trans-regional education in Central Europe: teaching of mother tongues towards dialogues of cultures
2017 - Santha, Istvan (Hungary) - History of Everyday Life of Forced Labour Camps in Central West Hungary after WWII
2018 - Gashi, Fatlum (Albania) - Documenting the experiences of refugees from Central and Eastern Europe during the 1950s
#Cold War (28)
2010 - MAZURKIEWICZ, Anna (Poland) - (The Cold War Victims or Weapons? The story of the Assembly of Captive European Nations)
2011 - Mehbaliev, Rashad (Azerbaijan) - How the Cold War Propaganda Turned To Be the Real War Propaganda: Nagorno-Karabakh Case
2014 - Dobrovits, Mihaly (Hungary) - The OSA Archives and Central Asia turing the Cold War Period
2014 - Nekola, Martin (Czech Republic) - “East-European Exiles in the Cold War Era in Comparison”
2015 - Johnston, Rosamund (US) - What can radio archives tell us about listening practices in early Cold War Czechoslovakia?
2015 - Spring, Dawn (US) - The role that American advertisers played in creating Cold War propaganda and US information services, and public diplomacy.
2015 - Bell, Inna (Poland) - The Cold War Informational Environment: The Case of Czechoslovak Non-Profit Organizations
2015 - Okhrimenko, Alla (Ukraine) - Political propaganda as the instrument of mass-media manipulation during the Cold War.
2016 - Poenaru, Florin (Romania) - Knowledge about the West. Travelogues during the Cold War
2016 - Rolandi, Francesca (Italy) - The Adriatic Path of Eastern European Asylum Seekers During the Cold War (1945-1969)
2016 - Capotescu, Cristian (Romania/Germany) - Giving in the Cold War and After: Economic Life, Humanitarianism, and Mobility in Europe, 1950s-1990s
2016 - Giustra, Martina (Italy) - The outcomes of social architecture for small communities in Hungary during the Cold War: the example of Imre Makovecz’s work between 1960s and 1980s.
2016 - Iakobashvili, Irakli (Georgia) - “Radio Liberty” and Attempt to change the information environment in the Georgian SSR during the Cold War
2016 - Kharkina, Anna (Russia) - The archives of the Cold War: beyond traditional archival paradigm
2016 - Hanuszko, Konrad (Poland) - The development of technologies of information gathering during the Cold War
2016 - Huseynova, Ulviyya (Azerbaijan) - How Cold War propaganda spreads across and impacts on social and political process
2016 - Olosz, Levente (Hungary) - Jews as propaganda tool and bargaining chip in Romania’s foreign policy during the Cold War - What do we learn about the Romanian Jewish minority from the OSA Archive?
2016 - Petrovic, Dejan (Serbia) - Using film as a tool of official propaganda during Cold War: Yugoslav case
2016 - Roberts, Geoffrey (UK) - The Struggle for Peace and Identity Formation in the Communist Bloc during the Early Cold War
2016 - Stavri, George (Cyprus) - Inventing realities passing the test of sustainability and lasting impact through archival material in the Cold War and Cyber Eras
2017 - Gioielli, Emily Rebecca (US) - Europe Throws a Picnic: the Pan-European Picnic and the End of the Cold War
2017 - Zvada, Lubomir (Slovakia) - Antisemitism in Visegrad Region During Cold War: Origin Manifestations and Differences
2017 - Zasanska, Nadia (Russia) - Propaganda Techniques in the Soviet Media: Focus on the Uprisings during the Cold War Period
2017 - Grutza, Anna (Poland) - Europe's Secret Agents and the Power of Things: A Transnational Media History of Actor-Networks in Times of Cold War and Social Change
2017 - Terenetska, Olga (Ukraine) - "movement", "dissidence" or "non-conformism",Circuits of communication and Consequences of Cold War conceptual schemes
2018 - Balha-Tamas, Etelka (Hungary) - The Iron Gate hydroelectric power station : a strategic tool in shaping the political relations during the Cold War?
2018 - Kutvolgyi-Szabo, Aron (Hungary) - Analogies between the contemporary Post-truth phenomena and similar symptoms of the Cold War era.
2018 - Terentska, Olga (Ukraine) - Differences of persecution, imprisonment, forced migration and displacement of the victims and the survivors during the Cold War period in the CEE
#Communism (8)
2012 - Antal, Attila (Hungary) - Environmental and Energy under Communism: Policy and Efficiency
2012 - KENDE, Tamás (Hungary) - Wer aber ist die Partei? Communism as Conspiration and Counter-conspiration
2012 - WEISS, Oli (UK) - Trade, growth and development under communism
2013 - LITKEI, József (Hungary) - In the shadow of the war: public perception of post-war Hungary, communism and the national self through the lens of rumors circulating during and before the 1956 uprising.
2013 - MORSELLI, Francesca (Italy) - Uniqueness and Multiplicity: how digitisation and new forms of digital access have affected the user interpretation of facts and data under communism.
2017 - Duraj, Anisa (Albania) - Historical analysis of cultural heritage policy under communism regime in Albania
2017 - Revesz, Sandor (Hungary) - Search for Public Opinion under Communism
2011 - group application - APOR, Peter (Bulgaria) - Re-visualizing the Recent Past: Museums of Communism and Recent History in Post-Communist Eastern Europe
#Communist (30)
2010 - LAZAROMS Ilse (Netherlands) - Revolutions of Thought and Sensibility: the politics and art of socialist- communist Jewish intellectuals in Hungary, 1900-1919
2010 - BOHUS, Kata (Hungary) - The Jewish Question in Hungarian Communist Propaganda
2011 - ZAVAČKA, Marina (Slovakia) - Paradise at the Roots: Internal political and social history of the Slovak Communist Party in 1948-1956
2011 - FELCHER, Anastasia (Russia) - Writing and Teaching History of Literature in the SU and Communist Romania (1950-1989)
2011 - Bacevic, Jana (Serbia) - Education Policy in communist /socialist Yugoslavia
2011 - Manoli, Alexandru (Moldova) - The Individual versus the Totalitarian State: The Idea of Liberty and the Dissidence Phenomena in Central and Eastern Europe during the Communist Era
2011 - Wasilevski, Krysztof (Poland) - Radio Free Europe’s Polish Service and its struggle against communist propaganda
2012 - Kiss Gabriella (Hungary) - The alternative theater groups operating in the period of communist plain and formal innovations of the impact of today’s drama
2012 - FRANCZYK, Lukasz (Poland) - The emergence of human rights movements and the fall of communist regimes in East-Central Europe
2012 - SPATARU, Nina (Moldova/Romania) - Towards a minority protection regime in post- communist Romania: the Hungarian and the Roma
2013 - Milanov, Viktor (Bulgaria/Hungary) - Bulgarian conspiracy theories and urban legends under the communist regime
2013 - MEZEIOVÁ, Gabriela (Slovakia) - The emergence of human rights movements and the fall of communist regimes in East-Central Europe
2013 - Raimondo, Paolo (Italy) - Facing a new era. Opinions and descriptions of the Hungarian open gate to the Western world on August, 19, 1989 made by Italian and Spanish communist and far left-wing political groups, press and magazines.
2013 - Stozek, Maria (Poland) - Situation of drug users in communist societies
2013 - JUNES, Tom (Poland) - Between internationalist cooperation and nationalist competition: the relations between the communists of Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, 1956-1989
2014 - Brzezinska, Marta (Poland) - Depiction of communist reality in the cinema of Central Europe (in Czech, Polish, Hungarian and German films) after 1989
2014 - Radomska, Magdalena (Poland) - Post- communist Art in Post- communist Europe
2014 - Metykova, Monika (Slovakia) - Media Policies in Communist Czechoslovakia and Hungary
2014 - West, Linnea (US) - Intersections of the Neo-Avant-Garde Artist and Communist Hungary: Creating a Newspaper that Never Was on the Hungarian Visual Arts of the 1960s and 1970s
2015 - Fuica, Oana (Romania) - Radio Free Europe’s research on religion and state power in Communist Romania
2015 - Honcoopova, Haruna (Czech Republic) - Relics of Communist Architecture (vide-art project)
2015 - Iacob, Raluca (Romania) - Memories of everyday life—Negotiating post- communist time and space
2015 - Onaciu, Vlad (Romania) - Society of Shortage: Romanian Stalinism and its shortages: The Workers of Cluj during the Communist Period.
2016 - Petrinca, Ruxandra Iuliana (Romania/Canada) - Varieties of Dissent Inside and Outside Communist Romania
2016 - Demeter, Laura (Romania/Germany) - Picking up the Pieces from the Communist Past. Transitional Heritage in post 1989 Romania and Germany
2016 - Piotrowska, Anna (Poland) - Media portrayal of the Romany musicians in communistic times–the use and misuse of certain stereotypes in the Eastern European public discourse
2016 - Roberts, Geoffrey (UK) - The Struggle for Peace and Identity Formation in the Communist Bloc during the Early Cold War
2017 - Rogos Agata (Poland) - The acts of disobedience in art and social practice in communist South-Eastern Europe
2011 - group application - APOR, Peter (Bulgaria) - Re-visualizing the Recent Past: Museums of Communism and Recent History in Post- Communist Eastern Europe
#Countries (12)
2010 - HAJDU, Eszter (Hungary) - The Relationship between Jews and the Majority Nation as Depicted in Documentaries of the (Former) Socialist Countries
2011 - CHORVAT, Peter (Slovakia) - Evaluation and Interpretation of Armed Resistanmce aganst Nazi Germany in the Central European countries
2013 - LUCEVIC, Armin (Montenegro) - The Visegrad Group and the Ex-Yugoslavia Countries
2014 - Revazishvili, Tamta (Georgia) - “The truth of Shadow Economy for Post-Soviet countries”
2014 - Koldas, Umut (Turkey) - Insurgencies and prospects for profound transformations in the Middle Eastern countries with a socialist past: Russian foreign policy towards the anti-regime movements in the Soviet type societies (Syria and Egypt) after the Arab Spring
2015 - Takács, Gábor (Hungary) - Discreet Devices: Computer technology and politics in the COMECON countries.
2016 - Walewska, Joanna Marta (Poland) - “Wired Radio Spreads Octopus Tentacles” Development of wired radio in Poland and other countries form the Soviet Block in the eyes of Radio Free Europe
2017 - Shybunko, Kyle (US) - The practices of foreign foundations and development agencies in advising Hungarian elites and civil society organizations on their country’s political and economic transformation.
2017 - Dworaczek, Kamil (Poland) - Political prisoners in Poland on the background of other Soviet bloc countries – position and defence (1956-1989)
2017 - Hoxha Gilda (Albania) - Topic: Influence of self-organized groups in the democratization process: The case of Albania and a comparison with other countries of the region
2017 - Pasirabu, Nindya Miesye Agita (Indonesia) - A Comparison of Open Data Policies in ASEAN and Visegrad countries
2018 - Hasimov, Haji (Azerbaijan) - The work of the humanitarian aid and governmental organizations on documentation and verification of human rights abuses in Eastern European countries and Azerbaijan after the launch of the EU Eastern Partnership Policy
#Cultural (21)
2010 - ZAJICOVA Helena (Czech Republic) - Faces of Memory – Cultures of Remembrance and Documentary Filmmaking in Central and Eastern Europe
2012 - Kiss, Ilona (Hungary) - “The theatre is game, the cinema is life”: The differentiation in the cultural policy on visual arts according to the goals of the propaganda in the period of stagnation in USSR (1964-1984)
2012 - TYLECZ, Ewelina (Poland) - Society against the ‘dictatorship of dunces1’- the movements for the defense of cultural rights in Poland
2013 - Nagy, Szilvia (Hungary) - Cultural policies in changing realities
2014 - Pinkasz, András (Hungary) - „Ideological and cultural aspirations (and their roots) of anti-regime movements in Soviet-type societies”
2014 - Antalfi, Aniko (Hungary) - Archive as Collective Unconscous(1): Visual Culture of the 70s and 80s in Hungary: Rites, Customs and Ceremonies
2014 - Dr Nagy, Andras (Hungary) - Ideological and Cultural Aspirations (and their roots) of anti-regime movements in Soviet-type Societies (the Hedervary collection)
2015 - Kiesewalter, Georgy (Russia) - Influence of Western Art and Culture on Unofficial Art in the Soviet Union. Information and Communication Permeability of the Iron Curtain in the 1960s-1970s.
2015 - Perczel, Júlia (Hungary) - The role of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute in the formation of parallel discourses within the cultural field of Hungary between 1957-1989.
2015 - Veres, Judit Emese (Hungary) - Places of Culture. From Cultural Institutions to Culture-led Urban Development in Budapest.
2015 - Wcislik, Piotr (Poland) - Interrelationship between the underground print culture and Radio Free Europe.
2016 - Khyzhniak, Oleksandr (Ukraine) - Collective Resistance to Destructive Phenomena in the Social Practices: Cross-Cultural Analysis
2016 - Vaneyan, Lena (Russia) - Boris Pasternak in the Grey Zone between the Political Repression and the Cultural Opposition
2016 - Felcher, Anastasia (Moldova) - The Holocaust in Transition: Treatment of the Matter and Jewish Cultural Heritage on (post)Soviet Space
2016 - Glondys, Olga (Spain) - The impact of the FEIE's activities on the anti-dictatorial mobilization of cultural elites in Spain (1967-77)
2017 - Duraj, Anisa (Albania) - Historical analysis of cultural heritage policy under communism regime in Albania
2017 - Laszlo, Zsuzsa (Hungary) - Documents of Exhibition History, Cultural Diplomacy, and International Solidarity Networks in Eastern Europe and Beyond
2017 - Pieniazek, Marek (Poland) - Trans-regional education in Central Europe: teaching of mother tongues towards dialogues of cultures
2011 - group application - BILYK, Kateryna (Poland) - “The Identity in the Period of Components, Forming Factors and the Culture-creative Role (in the Period of Disintegration of the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy (the 1st Half of the 20th Century)”
#Czechoslovakia (13)
2011 - Tomek, Prokop (Czech Republic) - “The history of Radio Free Europe broadcasting to Czechoslovakia and its domestic political and social significance.”
2012 - Horeni, Karina (Czech Republic) - 1989- 1993: Negotiating of Czechoslovakian recent past
2013 - BASARAB, Olexia (Ukraine) - Cooperation of security services of USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary: A coordinated answer to Human Rights movements?
2013 - KRAKOVSKY, Roman (Slovakia) - Building Socialist Community. Social Ties in Czechoslovakia and Poland (1929-1974)
2013 - PINZARI, Svetlana (Moldova) - Natural born of the Visegrad Group: effort of social scientists, journalist and politicians of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland to „return to Europe” at the end of 1980-s – early 1990-s
2013 - JUNES, Tom (Poland) - Between internationalist cooperation and nationalist competition: the relations between the communists of Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, 1956-1989
2013 - ADAMEC, Jan (Czech Republic) - Thirst for power: Czechoslovakia and the development of its energy sector 1955 – 1972
2013 - HUDEK, Adam (Slovakia) - Images of scientists in the socialist Czechoslovakia (1950 – 1974): Pride of the regime or unreliable intellectual
2013 - Toth, Zsuzsanna Napsugar (Slovakia) - Alteration of children’s toys (used both for entertainment and in education) during state Socialism in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, and its societal effects.
2014 - Metykova, Monika (Slovakia) - Media Policies in Communist Czechoslovakia and Hungary
2015 - Johnston, Rosamund (US) - What can radio archives tell us about listening practices in early Cold War Czechoslovakia?
2018 - Olsakova, Doubravka (Czech Republic) - Between Ecological Crisis and Environmental Protection: The Evolution of Social and Political Discourses on Environment in Czechoslovakia in 1980s and 1990s
2018 - Ivancik, Matej (Slovakia) - Shaping the Public Space in Czechoslovakia through the Liberal Democratic Discourses
#Development (8)
2012 - WEISS, Oli (UK) - Trade, growth and development under communism
2013 - ADAMEC, Jan (Czech Republic) - Thirst for power: Czechoslovakia and the development of its energy sector 1955 – 1972
2015 - Veres, Judit Emese (Hungary) - Places of Culture. From Cultural Institutions to Culture-led Urban Development in Budapest.
2015 - Gazovicova, Nina (Slovakia) - The Collector as Class Enemy vs. the Connoisseur from the Housing Development / transformation of the art market system in The Slovak Republic (1948-1989)
2015 - Shikhov, Anatoly (Russia) - Correlations between development of democracy and international economic relations in Europe.
2016 - Walewska, Joanna Marta (Poland) - “Wired Radio Spreads Octopus Tentacles” Development of wired radio in Poland and other countries form the Soviet Block in the eyes of Radio Free Europe
2016 - Hanuszko, Konrad (Poland) - The development of technologies of information gathering during the Cold War
2017 - Shybunko, Kyle (US) - The practices of foreign foundations and development agencies in advising Hungarian elites and civil society organizations on their country’s political and economic transformation.
#Discourse (11)
2012 - BERNÁTH, Gábor (Hungary) - The state controlled public discourse and the official and ‘semi-official’ conceptualization of “gipsy criminality” in the socialist Hungary
2012 - BINO, Blerjana (Albania) - The politics of identity and discourses of human rights: The challenges of political representation and participation of the Roma community in Albania”
2014 - Shmidt, Victoria (Russia) - Child welfare discourses and practices in the Czech lands: the segregation of Roma and disabled children during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
2015 - Perczel, Júlia (Hungary) - The role of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute in the formation of parallel discourses within the cultural field of Hungary between 1957-1989.
2015 - Reshetnikov, Anatoly (Russia) - Evolution of Great Power discourse in Russia: Since the Beginning of Russian Statehood until Today.
2015 - Majtenyi, Gyorgy (Hungary) - Perception of “Others” Poverty, Social Exclusion, Scientific Discourse and Knowledge in the State Socialist
2016 - Piotrowska, Anna (Poland) - Media portrayal of the Romany musicians in communistic times–the use and misuse of certain stereotypes in the Eastern European public discourse
2016 - Rogos, Agata (Poland) - The perception and construction of the “other” as reflected through cataloguing and data classification practices before 1989 – Albanian/Shiptar in the documents and official discourse of the former Yugoslavia
2017 - Markova, Klara (Czech Republic) - First Czechoslovak Republic and foreign political systems in the discourse about the Czechoslovak and Czech constitution
2018 - Olsakova, Doubravka (Czech Republic) - Between Ecological Crisis and Environmental Protection: The Evolution of Social and Political Discourses on Environment in Czechoslovakia in 1980s and 1990s
2018 - Ivancik, Matej (Slovakia) - Shaping the Public Space in Czechoslovakia through the Liberal Democratic Discourses
#Eastern (19)
2010 - ZAJICOVA Helena (Czech Republic) - Faces of Memory – Cultures of Remembrance and Documentary Filmmaking in Central and Eastern Europe
2011 - PARVULESCU, Constantin (Romania) - Orphans of the East: Cinema and the Production of Eastern Europe’s Revolutionary Subject
2011 - Manoli, Alexandru (Moldova) - The Individual versus the Totalitarian State: The Idea of Liberty and the Dissidence Phenomena in Central and Eastern Europe during the Communist Era
2012 - IMRE, Zoltán (Hungary) - Midsummer night’s censors – The visit of the Royal Shakespeare Company to the Eastern-Bloc in 1972-1973
2012 - KERÉNYI, Szabina (Hungary) - Repertories of Resistance in Central and Eastern Europe
2013 - Koldas, Umut (Turkey) - Dynamics of USSR’s and Russian Federation’s the Eastern Mediterranean Policy in the course of reconstruction of the region.
2014 - Parvulescu, Constantin (Romania) - Biopolitical Challenges in Post-Helsinki Socialist Eastern Europe
2014 - Koldas, Umut (Turkey) - Insurgencies and prospects for profound transformations in the Middle Eastern countries with a socialist past: Russian foreign policy towards the anti-regime movements in the Soviet type societies (Syria and Egypt) after the Arab Spring
2015 - Lazar Eszter (Hungary) - Educational turn in the Eastern European Art Universities during the 1990s
2016 - Rolandi, Francesca (Italy) - The Adriatic Path of Eastern European Asylum Seekers During the Cold War (1945-1969)
2016 - Piotrowska, Anna (Poland) - Media portrayal of the Romany musicians in communistic times–the use and misuse of certain stereotypes in the Eastern European public discourse
2017 - Laszlo, Zsuzsa (Hungary) - Documents of Exhibition History, Cultural Diplomacy, and International Solidarity Networks in Eastern Europe and Beyond
2017 - Nagy, Valentyna (Ukraine) - (Dis)connections Between the WWII Eastern European Refugees and their Families Across the Iron Curtain
2017 - Rogos Agata (Poland) - The acts of disobedience in art and social practice in communist South- Eastern Europe
2018 - Gashi, Fatlum (Albania) - Documenting the experiences of refugees from Central and Eastern Europe during the 1950s
2018 - Hasimov, Haji (Azerbaijan) - The work of the humanitarian aid and governmental organizations on documentation and verification of human rights abuses in Eastern European countries and Azerbaijan after the launch of the EU Eastern Partnership Policy
2018 - Ruzyak, Pavel (Czech Republic) - Film: the political and social situation in Eastern Ukraine
2011 - group application - APOR, Peter (Bulgaria) - Re-visualizing the Recent Past: Museums of Communism and Recent History in Post-Communist Eastern Europe
#Era (8)
2010 - SZÉKELY Júlia (Hungary) - he Practice of Erecting Public Monuments as a Form of History Writing. Construction of History During the Socialist and Post-Socialist Era in Budapest
2011 - SZÉKELY, Júlia (Hungary) - Public Statues in Action, Commemorational Practices During and After the Socialist Era in Budapest
2011 - Manoli, Alexandru (Moldova) - The Individual versus the Totalitarian State: The Idea of Liberty and the Dissidence Phenomena in Central and Eastern Europe during the Communist Era
2012 - HAJDU, Eszter (Hungary) - Legends and taboos, concerning Jewish and majority relationship in the Socialist era
2013 - Raimondo, Paolo (Italy) - Facing a new era. Opinions and descriptions of the Hungarian open gate to the Western world on August, 19, 1989 made by Italian and Spanish communist and far left-wing political groups, press and magazines.
2014 - Nekola, Martin (Czech Republic) - “East-European Exiles in the Cold War Era in Comparison”
2016 - Stavri, George (Cyprus) - Inventing realities passing the test of sustainability and lasting impact through archival material in the Cold War and Cyber Eras
2018 - Kutvolgyi-Szabo, Aron (Hungary) - Analogies between the contemporary Post-truth phenomena and similar symptoms of the Cold War era.
#Europe (43)
2010 - ZAJICOVA, Helena (Czech Republic) - Faces of Memory – Cultures of Remembrance and Documentary Filmmaking in Central and Eastern Europe
2010 - NOVE Béla (Hungary) - “Righteous of the Region” A Comparative Study of Refugee Crises in East-Central Europe 1939-1989
2010 - KOPECEK, Michal (Czech Republic) - Democracy, Identity, and the "Legacy of Dissidence" in East Central Europe 1975 - 2004
2011 - PARVULESCU, Constantin (Romania) - Orphans of the East: Cinema and the Production of Eastern Europe’s Revolutionary Subject
2011 - POPESCU, Alina (Romania/France) - The Romanian Cinema in the Radio Free Europe’s Spotlight
2011 - Hagen, Trever (US) - Calling Radio Free Europe: the Czechoslovak Service’s answering
2011 - Manoli, Alexandru (Moldova) - The Individual versus the Totalitarian State: The Idea of Liberty and the Dissidence Phenomena in Central and Eastern Europe during the Communist Era
2011 - Tomek, Prokop (Czech Republic) - “The history of Radio Free Europe broadcasting to Czechoslovakia and its domestic political and social significance.”
2011 - Wasilevski, Krysztof (Poland) - Radio Free Europe’s Polish Service and its struggle against communist propaganda
2012 - PAL, Viktor (Hungary) - The Birth of Modern Water Pollution and Water Protection in East Central Europe (ECE), from the industrial beginnings until the end of the 1960s.
2012 - FEDOTOV, Egor (Russia) - Assessing the Impact of Ideas and Minority Elite Strategies in Ethnic Politics in Europe
2012 - FRANCZYK, Lukasz (Poland) - The emergence of human rights movements and the fall of communist regimes in East-Central Europe
2012 - KERÉNYI, Szabina (Hungary) - Repertories of Resistance in Central and Eastern Europe
2013 - Shyrokova, Iryna (Ukraine) - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Monitoring the Use of the Repressive Medicine in the Soviet Union in the 1960s – 1980s.
2013 - MEZEIOVÁ, Gabriela (Slovakia) - The emergence of human rights movements and the fall of communist regimes in East-Central Europe
2013 - PINZARI, Svetlana (Moldova) - Natural born of the Visegrad Group: effort of social scientists, journalist and politicians of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland to „return to Europe” at the end of 1980-s – early 1990-s
2013 - Drelova, Agata (Slovakia) - Libertas ecclesie or Libertas personae? (The Understanding of ‘Religious Freedom’ at the Radio Free Europe’s Czechoslovak Section)
2014 - Koscielny, Pawel (Poland/Canada) - The Radio Free Europe Archive’s Epistemic Rupture
2014 - Brzezinska, Marta (Poland) - Depiction of communist reality in the cinema of Central Europe (in Czech, Polish, Hungarian and German films) after 1989
2014 - Parvulescu, Constantin (Romania) - Biopolitical Challenges in Post-Helsinki Socialist Eastern Europe
2014 - Radomska, Magdalena (Poland) - Post-communist Art in Post-communist Europe
2015 - Perczel, Júlia (Hungary) - The role of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute in the formation of parallel discourses within the cultural field of Hungary between 1957-1989.
2015 - Sobczak, Anna (Poland) - Broadcasting freedom – how the information circuit between Radio Free Europe and the Polish samizdat is related.
2015 - Fuica, Oana (Romania) - Radio Free Europe’s research on religion and state power in Communist Romania
2015 - Gagyi, Agnes (Hungary) - Social movements as transnational constructs: Hungarian environmental and Romanian workers’ mobilizations in the Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute, 1973-1990
2015 - Shikhov, Anatoly (Russia) - Correlations between development of democracy and international economic relations in Europe.
2015 - Wcislik, Piotr (Poland) - Interrelationship between the underground print culture and Radio Free Europe.
2015 - Prokopova, Katerina (Czech Republic) - The General Secretary is dead, long live the General Secretary: Interpretation of Radio Free Europe and Czechoslovak Radio broadcasting on the events of the death of Joseph Stalin and Klement Gottwald
2016 - Nica, Felicia C. (Romania) - Statelessness in Europe
2016 - Walewska, Joanna Marta (Poland) - “Wired Radio Spreads Octopus Tentacles” Development of wired radio in Poland and other countries form the Soviet Block in the eyes of Radio Free Europe
2016 - Capotescu, Cristian (Romania/Germany) - Giving in the Cold War and After: Economic Life, Humanitarianism, and Mobility in Europe, 1950s-1990s
2016 - Taterova, Eva (Czech Republic) - Rudolf Slánský’s Trial from the Perspective of Radio Free Europe
2017 - Gioielli, Emily Rebecca (US) - Europe Throws a Picnic: the Pan- European Picnic and the End of the Cold War
2017 - Westlake, Stephen (UK) - Transnational Broadcasting and the Impact of the Helsinki Final Act in Central Europe, 1973-1978
2017 - Laszlo, Zsuzsa (Hungary) - Documents of Exhibition History, Cultural Diplomacy, and International Solidarity Networks in Eastern Europe and Beyond
2017 - Noell, David Alen (US) - Religion and Radio Free Europe
2017 - Pieniazek, Marek (Poland) - Trans-regional education in Central Europe: teaching of mother tongues towards dialogues of cultures
2017 - Roth, Sarah, Elisabeth (US) - Operation Focus, the Role of Print Propaganda in Radio Free Europe’s Psychological Warfare Campaign and the Events of October 1956
2017 - Grutza, Anna (Poland) - Europe's Secret Agents and the Power of Things: A Transnational Media History of Actor-Networks in Times of Cold War and Social Change
2017 - Rogos Agata (Poland) - The acts of disobedience in art and social practice in communist South-Eastern Europe
2018 - Gashi, Fatlum (Albania) - Documenting the experiences of refugees from Central and Eastern Europe during the 1950s
2018 - Imre, Zoltan (Hungary) - Radio Free Europe and the Theatre Policy of the Kádár-regime between 1970 and 1982
2011 - group application - APOR, Peter (Bulgaria) - Re-visualizing the Recent Past: Museums of Communism and Recent History in Post-Communist Eastern Europe
#European (13)
2010 - MAZURKIEWICZ, Anna (Poland) - (The Cold War Victims or Weapons? The story of the Assembly of Captive European Nations)
2011 - BOHUS, Kata (Hungary) - Israel’s influence on the situation of Central-European Jews
2011 - CHORVAT, Peter (Slovakia) - Evaluation and Interpretation of Armed Resistanmce aganst Nazi Germany in the Central European countries
2014 - Kriukova, Oksana (Ukraine) - “Euromaydan” in Ukraine: Ukrainian socialism or European solidarism?
2014 - Nekola, Martin (Czech Republic) - “East-European Exiles in the Cold War Era in Comparison”
2014 - Koscielny, Pawel (Poland/Canada) - Transnational intellectual history of Central European dissident thought after 1968
2015 - Heikkilä, Pauli (Finland) - Uniting the Divided Continent – Reception of European Integration across the Iron Curtain.
2015 - Lazar Eszter (Hungary) - Educational turn in the Eastern European Art Universities during the 1990s
2016 - Rolandi, Francesca (Italy) - The Adriatic Path of Eastern European Asylum Seekers During the Cold War (1945-1969)
2016 - Piotrowska, Anna (Poland) - Media portrayal of the Romany musicians in communistic times–the use and misuse of certain stereotypes in the Eastern European public discourse
2017 - Gioielli, Emily Rebecca (US) - Europe Throws a Picnic: the Pan-European Picnic and the End of the Cold War
2017 - Nagy, Valentyna (Ukraine) - (Dis)connections Between the WWII Eastern European Refugees and their Families Across the Iron Curtain
2018 - Hasimov, Haji (Azerbaijan) - The work of the humanitarian aid and governmental organizations on documentation and verification of human rights abuses in Eastern European countries and Azerbaijan after the launch of the EU Eastern Partnership Policy
#Film (10)
2010 - ZAJICOVA Helena (Czech Republic) - Faces of Memory – Cultures of Remembrance and Documentary Filmmaking in Central and Eastern Europe
2012 - HOOFF, Sarah Beckham (US) - “Symbols of Nature and Eco-Nationalism in Soviet Propaganda Films”
2013 - MYRBERG, Miranda (Sweden) - Truth-telling and Truth-Seeking: OSA Documentary Film on the Legacy of the Bosnian 1992-1995 war and its aftermath
2014 - Brzezinska, Marta (Poland) - Depiction of communist reality in the cinema of Central Europe (in Czech, Polish, Hungarian and German films) after 1989
2015 - Bátori, Anna (Hungary) - The (Missing) Representation of the Soviet Labour Camps: Gulag Documentaries and Fiction Films.
2015 - Rosiak-Zieba, Ewa (Poland) - Cursed Soldiers in the the light of documentary film propaganda 1945-1953
2016 - Petrovic, Dejan (Serbia) - Using film as a tool of official propaganda during Cold War: Yugoslav case
2017 - Strausz, Laszlo (Hungary) - State socialism in the mirror: strategies of self-representation in the Hungarian Interior Ministry’s propaganda and educational films between 1955-1989
2018 - Pekun, Didem (Turkey) - Film: Araf
2018 - Ruzyak, Pavel (Czech Republic) - Film: the political and social situation in Eastern Ukraine
#Free (19)
2011 - POPESCU, Alina (Romania/France) - The Romanian Cinema in the Radio Free Europe’s Spotlight
2011 - SEGES, Dusan (Slovakia) - The Iron Curtain wasn't soundproof: the Council of Free Cyechoslovakia and the RFE broadcast (1949-1967)
2011 - Hagen, Trever (US) - Calling Radio Free Europe: the Czechoslovak Service’s answering
2011 - Tomek, Prokop (Czech Republic) - “The history of Radio Free Europe broadcasting to Czechoslovakia and its domestic political and social significance.”
2011 - Wasilevski, Krysztof (Poland) - Radio Free Europe’s Polish Service and its struggle against communist propaganda
2013 - Shyrokova, Iryna (Ukraine) - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Monitoring the Use of the Repressive Medicine in the Soviet Union in the 1960s – 1980s.
2013 - Drelova, Agata (Slovakia) - Libertas ecclesie or Libertas personae? (The Understanding of ‘Religious Freedom’ at the Radio Free Europe’s Czechoslovak Section)
2014 - Koscielny, Pawel (Poland/Canada) - The Radio Free Europe Archive’s Epistemic Rupture
2015 - Perczel, Júlia (Hungary) - The role of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute in the formation of parallel discourses within the cultural field of Hungary between 1957-1989.
2015 - Sobczak, Anna (Poland) - Broadcasting freedom – how the information circuit between Radio Free Europe and the Polish samizdat is related.
2015 - Fuica, Oana (Romania) - Radio Free Europe’s research on religion and state power in Communist Romania
2015 - Gagyi, Agnes (Hungary) - Social movements as transnational constructs: Hungarian environmental and Romanian workers’ mobilizations in the Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute, 1973-1990
2015 - Wcislik, Piotr (Poland) - Interrelationship between the underground print culture and Radio Free Europe.
2015 - Prokopova, Katerina (Czech Republic) - The General Secretary is dead, long live the General Secretary: Interpretation of Radio Free Europe and Czechoslovak Radio broadcasting on the events of the death of Joseph Stalin and Klement Gottwald
2016 - Walewska, Joanna Marta (Poland) - “Wired Radio Spreads Octopus Tentacles” Development of wired radio in Poland and other countries form the Soviet Block in the eyes of Radio Free Europe
2016 - Taterova, Eva (Czech Republic) - Rudolf Slánský’s Trial from the Perspective of Radio Free Europe
2017 - Noell, David Alen (US) - Religion and Radio Free Europe
2017 - Roth, Sarah, Elisabeth (US) - Operation Focus, the Role of Print Propaganda in Radio Free Europe’s Psychological Warfare Campaign and the Events of October 1956
2018 - Imre, Zoltan (Hungary) - Radio Free Europe and the Theatre Policy of the Kádár-regime between 1970 and 1982
#Group (9)
2010 - KISS Judit (Hungary) - The Dialógus peace group in Hungary – history and after-life
2010 - GAWRON Karolina (Poland) - Factors limiting the political cooperation of the Visegrad Group in the years 1992-1997
2010 - BESARABA, Olesya (Ukraine) - (The Historical Background of the Visegrad Group)
2012 - Kiss Gabriella (Hungary) - The alternative theater groups operating in the period of communist plain and formal innovations of the impact of today’s drama
2013 - LUCEVIC, Armin (Montenegro) - The Visegrad Group and the Ex-Yugoslavia Countries
2013 - PINZARI, Svetlana (Moldova) - Natural born of the Visegrad Group: effort of social scientists, journalist and politicians of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland to „return to Europe” at the end of 1980-s – early 1990-s
2013 - Raimondo, Paolo (Italy) - Facing a new era. Opinions and descriptions of the Hungarian open gate to the Western world on August, 19, 1989 made by Italian and Spanish communist and far left-wing political groups, press and magazines.
2015 - Wilson, Natasha (New Zealand) - The history of underground socialist groupings in the 1970s and 80s in the Soviet Union.
2017 - Hoxha Gilda (Albania) - Topic: Influence of self-organized groups in the democratization process: The case of Albania and a comparison with other countries of the region
#History (17)
2010 - SZÉKELY Júlia (Hungary) - he Practice of Erecting Public Monuments as a Form of History Writing. Construction of History During the Socialist and Post-Socialist Era in Budapest
2010 - KISS Judit (Hungary) - The Dialógus peace group in Hungary – history and after-life
2011 - ZAVAČKA, Marina (Slovakia) - Paradise at the Roots: Internal political and social history of the Slovak Communist Party in 1948-1956
2011 - FELCHER, Anastasia (Russia) - Writing and Teaching History of Literature in the SU and Communist Romania (1950-1989)
2011 - Tomek, Prokop (Czech Republic) - “The history of Radio Free Europe broadcasting to Czechoslovakia and its domestic political and social significance.”
2012 - EREMEEVA, Anna (Russia) - History of Stalinist Science in the texts of Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Western Broadcasts (1950s-1980s)
2013 - Saira, Kati (Estonia) - Post war social and economic history in the Balkan states
2014 - Koscielny, Pawel (Poland/Canada) - Transnational intellectual history of Central European dissident thought after 1968
2015 - Vadas, András (Hungary) - The Environmental History of a Damming Project. The Debates around the Construction of the Gabčíkovo–Nagymaros Dams.
2015 - Wilson, Natasha (New Zealand) - The history of underground socialist groupings in the 1970s and 80s in the Soviet Union.
2015 - Danyi, Gábor (Hungary) - The history of Hungarian unofficial publishing
2016 - Kiss, Gabriella (Hungary) - Parallel realities - Archived social history in the subway of Ferenciek square
2017 - Laszlo, Zsuzsa (Hungary) - Documents of Exhibition History, Cultural Diplomacy, and International Solidarity Networks in Eastern Europe and Beyond
2017 - Grutza, Anna (Poland) - Europe's Secret Agents and the Power of Things: A Transnational Media History of Actor-Networks in Times of Cold War and Social Change
2017 - Santha, Istvan (Hungary) - History of Everyday Life of Forced Labour Camps in Central West Hungary after WWII
2011 - group application - APOR, Peter (Bulgaria) - Re-visualizing the Recent Past: Museums of Communism and Recent History in Post-Communist Eastern Europe
#Human Rights(15)
2012 - BINO, Blerjana (Albania) - The politics of identity and discourses of human rights: The challenges of political representation and participation of the Roma community in Albania”
2012 - FRANCZYK, Lukasz (Poland) - The emergence of human rights movements and the fall of communist regimes in East-Central Europe
2013 - De Sutter, Bart (Belgium) - Universalism vs. Particularism in the transnational civil society of human rights organizations: The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights between cooperation and competition (1982-2007)
2013 - Vargova, Eva (Slovakia) - Emancipation of the Hungarian national media agency MTI: reflection and presentation of human rights movements in pre-revolutionary period 1989
2013 - BASARAB, Olexia (Ukraine) - Cooperation of security services of USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary: A coordinated answer to Human Rights movements?
2013 - MEZEIOVÁ, Gabriela (Slovakia) - The emergence of human rights movements and the fall of communist regimes in East-Central Europe
2014 - Korshunov, Igor (Russia) - The law enforcement officials and human rights violations in the USSR and Russia
2014 - Korshunov, Igor (Russia) - Soviet Human Rights Activists and Democratic Rollback in Russia
2014 - Mugabi, Ivan (Uganda) - How human rights can be used to address the disabilities problems that arise during and after times of armed conflict.
2015 - Buzatu, Cristinel (Romania) - Documenting human rights abuses under totalitarian regimes – the archives of the early Helsinki Committees.
2017 - Agbe, Ethel, Dodzie (Ghana) - Assumptions and documentation of human rights abuses
2018 - Hasimov, Haji (Azerbaijan) - The work of the humanitarian aid and governmental organizations on documentation and verification of human rights abuses in Eastern European countries and Azerbaijan after the launch of the EU Eastern Partnership Policy
#Hungarian (18)
2010 - Varadi, Natalia (Ukraine) - The Connection of Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence of the Year 1956 to Transcarpathia through the archival materials in the Open Society Archives
2010 - BOHUS, Kata (Hungary) - The Jewish Question in Hungarian Communist Propaganda
2010 - HEGEDŰS, Andras J (Hungary) - Self Penitence of a Hungarian Prime Minister
2011 - Botyanszky, Alexandra (Hungary) - The image of Samizdat in the Hungarian Official Propaganda
2012 - Baranyi, Tamas Peter (Hungary) - “Circumventing Isolation with Trade Attempts at a New Hungarian Foreign Policy, 1966–1973”
2012 - Barát, Endre (Hungary) - The view of unemployment in the official Hungarian propaganda between 1984 and 1994
2012 - SPATARU, Nina (Moldova/Romania) - Towards a minority protection regime in post-communist Romania: the Hungarian and the Roma
2013 - Cseh, Katalin (Hungary) - Images of the East. Understanding the Hungarian Second Public Sphere from a "West Bloc" perspective
2013 - Vargova, Eva (Slovakia) - Emancipation of the Hungarian national media agency MTI: reflection and presentation of human rights movements in pre-revolutionary period 1989
2013 - Raimondo, Paolo (Italy) - Facing a new era. Opinions and descriptions of the Hungarian open gate to the Western world on August, 19, 1989 made by Italian and Spanish communist and far left-wing political groups, press and magazines.
2014 - Sherwood, Kim (UK) - The legacy of the Holocaust for Hungarian Jews
2014 - West, Linnea (US) - Intersections of the Neo-Avant-Garde Artist and Communist Hungary: Creating a Newspaper that Never Was on the Hungarian Visual Arts of the 1960s and 1970s
2015 - Gagyi, Agnes (Hungary) - Social movements as transnational constructs: Hungarian environmental and Romanian workers’ mobilizations in the Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute, 1973-1990
2015 - Danyi, Gábor (Hungary) - The history of Hungarian unofficial publishing
2016 - Nagy, Zsolt (Hungary/US) - Building a Dialogue: The Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party and the African National Congress, 1960-1990
2017 - Shybunko, Kyle (US) - The practices of foreign foundations and development agencies in advising Hungarian elites and civil society organizations on their country’s political and economic transformation.
2017 - Strausz, Laszlo (Hungary) - State socialism in the mirror: strategies of self-representation in the Hungarian Interior Ministry’s propaganda and educational films between 1955-1989
2011 - group application - BILYK, Kateryna (Poland) - “The Identity in the Period of Components, Forming Factors and the Culture-creative Role (in the Period of Disintegration of the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy (the 1st Half of the 20th Century)”
#Hungary (21)
2010 - KISS Judit (Hungary) - The Dialógus peace group in Hungary – history and after-life
2010 - LAZAROMS Ilse (Netherlands) - Revolutions of Thought and Sensibility: the politics and art of socialist-communist Jewish intellectuals in Hungary, 1900-1919
2012 - Vásárhelyi, Maria (Hungary) - Public opinion and media research in Hungary, 1969-1991.
2012 - BERNÁTH, Gábor (Hungary) - The state controlled public discourse and the official and ‘semi-official’ conceptualization of “gipsy criminality” in the socialist Hungary
2013 - Franczyk, Lukasz (Poland) - Comparison of propaganda in Poland and Hungary in 1945-1990.
2013 - BASARAB, Olexia (Ukraine) - Cooperation of security services of USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary: A coordinated answer to Human Rights movements?
2013 - LITKEI, József (Hungary) - In the shadow of the war: public perception of post-war Hungary, communism and the national self through the lens of rumors circulating during and before the 1956 uprising.
2013 - PINZARI, Svetlana (Moldova) - Natural born of the Visegrad Group: effort of social scientists, journalist and politicians of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland to „return to Europe” at the end of 1980-s – early 1990-s
2013 - JUNES, Tom (Poland) - Between internationalist cooperation and nationalist competition: the relations between the communists of Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, 1956-1989
2013 - Toth, Zsuzsanna Napsugar (Slovakia) - Alteration of children’s toys (used both for entertainment and in education) during state Socialism in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, and its societal effects.
2014 - Antalfi, Aniko (Hungary) - Archive as Collective Unconscous(1): Visual Culture of the 70s and 80s in Hungary: Rites, Customs and Ceremonies
2014 - Metykova, Monika (Slovakia) - Media Policies in Communist Czechoslovakia and Hungary
2014 - West, Linnea (US) - Intersections of the Neo-Avant-Garde Artist and Communist Hungary: Creating a Newspaper that Never Was on the Hungarian Visual Arts of the 1960s and 1970s
2015 - Perczel, Júlia (Hungary) - The role of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute in the formation of parallel discourses within the cultural field of Hungary between 1957-1989.
2015 - Korosi, Suzanne (France) - Petition to defend the right to abortion in Hungary, 1973
2016 - Giustra, Martina (Italy) - The outcomes of social architecture for small communities in Hungary during the Cold War: the example of Imre Makovecz’s work between 1960s and 1980s.
2017 - Klenjanszky, Sarolta (Hungary) - Between class and race. Third World workers and students in socialist Hungary
2017 - Ginelli, Zoltan (Hungary) - Opening the Semi-Periphery: Decolonisation and Socialist Hungary
2017 - Graczynska, Ewa (Poland) - Quasivarieties of universal algebras: recognition of habilitated doctor titles in Poland and in Hungary
2017 - Santha, Istvan (Hungary) - History of Everyday Life of Forced Labour Camps in Central West Hungary after WWII
2018 - Abramoshkikh, Egor (Russia) - The dark mysteries of Russian rule over Hungary
#Image (9)
2011 - Botyanszky, Alexandra (Hungary) - The image of Samizdat in the Hungarian Official Propaganda
2013 - Cseh, Katalin (Hungary) - Images of the East. Understanding the Hungarian Second Public Sphere from a "West Bloc" perspective
2013 - HUDEK, Adam (Slovakia) - Images of scientists in the socialist Czechoslovakia (1950 – 1974): Pride of the regime or unreliable intellectual
2015 - Jurcevic, Marijana (Croatia) - The image of RFE/RL’s influence and importance in Soviet Union
2016 - Comanducci, Carlo (Italy) - Dissensus in the Image: Rodolf Hervé's Experimental Videos.
2016 - Caklos, Michal (Slovakia) - Image of Czech-Slovak cooperation in the contemporary press
2016 - Harlov, Melinda (Hungary) - Image construction of the Borderland
2017 - Zolich, Katarzyna (Poland) - Art and politics - constellation of images. Archive as an image.
#Information (8)
2015 - Kiesewalter, Georgy (Russia) - Influence of Western Art and Culture on Unofficial Art in the Soviet Union. Information and Communication Permeability of the Iron Curtain in the 1960s-1970s.
2015 - Sobczak, Anna (Poland) - Broadcasting freedom – how the information circuit between Radio Free Europe and the Polish samizdat is related.
2015 - Spring, Dawn (US) - The role that American advertisers played in creating Cold War propaganda and US information services, and public diplomacy.
2015 - Bell, Inna (Poland) - The Cold War Informational Environment: The Case of Czechoslovak Non-Profit Organizations
2016 - Hornova, Magdalena (Czech Republic) - Women’s activism through the lens of information science
2016 - Nazarova, Marina (Russia) - Samizdat as Netizdat: the Role of the Information and Communication Technologies in the Dissident Movement of 1960s-1970s
2016 - Iakobashvili, Irakli (Georgia) - “Radio Liberty” and Attempt to change the information environment in the Georgian SSR during the Cold War
2016 - Hanuszko, Konrad (Poland) - The development of technologies of information gathering during the Cold War
#Iron Curtain (9)
2011 - SEGES, Dusan (Slovakia) - The Iron Curtain wasn't soundproof: the Council of Free Cyechoslovakia and the RFE broadcast (1949-1967)
2011 - SCHEIBER, Gergely (Hungary) - Manipulation Techniques on the two sides of the Iron Curtain
2012 - Kuzovkin, Gennadij (Russia) - “Parting Iron Curtain”: Radio Liberty and Its Policy towards Samizdat
2014 - Dekalin, Sergey (Russia) - Nonconformist Artists in the USSR: A Look from Outside of Iron Curtain
2015 - Heikkilä, Pauli (Finland) - Uniting the Divided Continent – Reception of European Integration across the Iron Curtain.
2015 - Kiesewalter, Georgy (Russia) - Influence of Western Art and Culture on Unofficial Art in the Soviet Union. Information and Communication Permeability of the Iron Curtain in the 1960s-1970s.
2015 - Reis Santos, José (Portugal) - The PREC behind the Iron Curtain. Interpretations, anxieties and expectations.
2016 - Novikov, Egor (Russia) - Of Scapegoats and Martyrs: Views on Suffering Subjects through the Iron Curtain
2017 - Nagy, Valentyna (Ukraine) - (Dis)connections Between the WWII Eastern European Refugees and their Families Across the Iron Curtain
#Media (9)
2012 - Vásárhelyi, Maria (Hungary) - Public opinion and media research in Hungary, 1969-1991.
2013 - Vargova, Eva (Slovakia) - Emancipation of the Hungarian national media agency MTI: reflection and presentation of human rights movements in pre-revolutionary period 1989
2013 - Kovacic, Nino (Croatia) - Mediating the Nation: Media propaganda in Croatia during the Homeland War (1991 – 1995)
2014 - Metykova, Monika (Slovakia) - Media Policies in Communist Czechoslovakia and Hungary
2015 - Neimarevic, Vukasin (Serbia) - Media Coverage of the Kosovo War: Comparative Study of the Western Balkans
2015 - Okhrimenko, Alla (Ukraine) - Political propaganda as the instrument of mass-media manipulation during the Cold War.
2016 - Dayoub, Yamama (Syria) - Media Historiography of Conflicts: a Comparative Study of Former Yugoslavia and Syria
2016 - Piotrowska, Anna (Poland) - Media portrayal of the Romany musicians in communistic times–the use and misuse of certain stereotypes in the Eastern European public discourse
2017 - Zasanska, Nadia (Russia) - Propaganda Techniques in the Soviet Media: Focus on the Uprisings during the Cold War Period
2017 - Grutza, Anna (Poland) - Europe's Secret Agents and the Power of Things: A Transnational Media History of Actor-Networks in Times of Cold War and Social Change
#Movements (15)
2012 - FRANCZYK, Lukasz (Poland) - The emergence of human rights movements and the fall of communist regimes in East-Central Europe
2012 - TYLECZ, Ewelina (Poland) - Society against the ‘dictatorship of dunces1’- the movements for the defense of cultural rights in Poland
2013 - Vargova, Eva (Slovakia) - Emancipation of the Hungarian national media agency MTI: reflection and presentation of human rights movements in pre-revolutionary period 1989
2013 - BASARAB, Olexia (Ukraine) - Cooperation of security services of USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary: A coordinated answer to Human Rights movements?
2013 - MEZEIOVÁ, Gabriela (Slovakia) - The emergence of human rights movements and the fall of communist regimes in East-Central Europe
2014 - Pinkasz, András (Hungary) - „Ideological and cultural aspirations (and their roots) of anti-regime movements in Soviet-type societies”
2014 - Svoboda, Petr (Slovakia) - The Impact of the Breakup of Yugoslavia on the Non-aligned Movement 1989-1992.
2014 - Dr Nagy, Andras (Hungary) - Ideological and Cultural Aspirations (and their roots) of anti-regime movements in Soviet-type Societies (the Hedervary collection)
2014 - Koldas, Umut (Turkey) - Insurgencies and prospects for profound transformations in the Middle Eastern countries with a socialist past: Russian foreign policy towards the anti-regime movements in the Soviet type societies (Syria and Egypt) after the Arab Spring
2015 - Gagyi, Agnes (Hungary) - Social movements as transnational constructs: Hungarian environmental and Romanian workers’ mobilizations in the Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute, 1973-1990
2016 - Hoxha, Gilda (Albania) - Dynamics of Social Movements During the Democratization Process of Albania
2016 - Nazarova, Marina (Russia) - Samizdat as Netizdat: the Role of the Information and Communication Technologies in the Dissident Movement of 1960s-1970s
2016 - Abdullayev, Akmaljon (Uzbekistan) - RFE/RL activism in Central Asia during Soviet Union and social movements in Central Asia after independence
2017 - Terenetska, Olga (Ukraine) - "movement", "dissidence" or "non-conformism",Circuits of communication and Consequences of Cold War conceptual schemes
2018 - Hargreaves, Blake (Canada) - Conceptualizing, classifying, and practicing opposition (selection and support for what counts as a “movement”, “dissidence” or “non-conformism”)
#National (9)
2010 - GOLOVATINA, Polina (Russia) - Role of the Prague Spring in the formation of the Czech national consciousness
2011 - OGNANOVA, Irina (Bulgaria) - Catholic Church and the Croation Nationalism (1945-1953)
2012 - HOOFF, Sarah Beckham (US) - “Symbols of Nature and Eco-Nationalism in Soviet Propaganda Films”
2013 - Vargova, Eva (Slovakia) - Emancipation of the Hungarian national media agency MTI: reflection and presentation of human rights movements in pre-revolutionary period 1989
2013 - LITKEI, József (Hungary) - In the shadow of the war: public perception of post-war Hungary, communism and the national self through the lens of rumors circulating during and before the 1956 uprising.
2013 - TROFIMOV, Victor (Russia) - Bodybuilding, Fitness and the Formation of New Class, Gender and National Identities in Late Soviet Russia
2013 - JUNES, Tom (Poland) - Between internationalist cooperation and nationalist competition: the relations between the communists of Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, 1956-1989
2016 - Neimarevic, Vukasin (Serbia) - Nationalism vs. professionalism in covering the war in Kosovo: A comparative study of television programs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia (1996-1999)
2016 - Nagy, Zsolt (Hungary/US) - Building a Dialogue: The Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party and the African National Congress, 1960-1990
#Period (10)
2012 - Kiss Gabriella (Hungary) - The alternative theater groups operating in the period of communist plain and formal innovations of the impact of today’s drama
2012 - Kiss, Ilona (Hungary) - “The theatre is game, the cinema is life”: The differentiation in the cultural policy on visual arts according to the goals of the propaganda in the period of stagnation in USSR (1964-1984)
2013 - Vargova, Eva (Slovakia) - Emancipation of the Hungarian national media agency MTI: reflection and presentation of human rights movements in pre-revolutionary period 1989
2014 - Dobrovits, Mihaly (Hungary) - The OSA Archives and Central Asia turing the Cold War Period
2015 - Onaciu, Vlad (Romania) - Society of Shortage: Romanian Stalinism and its shortages: The Workers of Cluj during the Communist Period.
2016 - Mammadov, Elvir (Azerbaijan) - Theoretical and structural change of a welfare regime in the South Caucasus in post-socialist period
2017 - Zasanska, Nadia (Russia) - Propaganda Techniques in the Soviet Media: Focus on the Uprisings during the Cold War Period
2018 - Terentska, Olga (Ukraine) - Differences of persecution, imprisonment, forced migration and displacement of the victims and the survivors during the Cold War period in the CEE
2011 - group application - BILYK, Kateryna (Poland) - “The Identity in the Period of Components, Forming Factors and the Culture-creative Role (in the Period of Disintegration of the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy (the 1st Half of the 20th Century)”
#Poland (10)
2011 - YAKUBOVA, Natalia (Russia) - ‘Witkacy’ – a Posthumous Life of a Mid-War Avantguard Artist in People’s Republic of Poland
2012 - TYLECZ, Ewelina (Poland) - Society against the ‘dictatorship of dunces1’- the movements for the defense of cultural rights in Poland
2013 - Franczyk, Lukasz (Poland) - Comparison of propaganda in Poland and Hungary in 1945-1990.
2013 - BASARAB, Olexia (Ukraine) - Cooperation of security services of USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary: A coordinated answer to Human Rights movements?
2013 - KRAKOVSKY, Roman (Slovakia) - Building Socialist Community. Social Ties in Czechoslovakia and Poland (1929-1974)
2013 - PINZARI, Svetlana (Moldova) - Natural born of the Visegrad Group: effort of social scientists, journalist and politicians of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland to „return to Europe” at the end of 1980-s – early 1990-s
2013 - JUNES, Tom (Poland) - Between internationalist cooperation and nationalist competition: the relations between the communists of Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, 1956-1989
2016 - Walewska, Joanna Marta (Poland) - “Wired Radio Spreads Octopus Tentacles” Development of wired radio in Poland and other countries form the Soviet Block in the eyes of Radio Free Europe
2017 - Graczynska, Ewa (Poland) - Quasivarieties of universal algebras: recognition of habilitated doctor titles in Poland and in Hungary
2017 - Dworaczek, Kamil (Poland) - Political prisoners in Poland on the background of other Soviet bloc countries – position and defence (1956-1989)
#Policy (16)
2010 - COPILAS Emanuel (Romania) - Directions and Metamorphoses the Romanian Foreign policy 1948-1989
2010 - PINZARI, Svetlana (Moldavian) - Foreign-Policy Concepts in the Polish Opposition Thought in 1980 - 1989
2011 - Bacevic, Jana (Serbia) - Education Policy in communist /socialist Yugoslavia
2012 - Baranyi, Tamas Peter (Hungary) - “Circumventing Isolation with Trade Attempts at a New Hungarian Foreign Policy, 1966–1973”
2012 - Kuzovkin, Gennadij (Russia) - “Parting Iron Curtain”: Radio Liberty and Its Policy towards Samizdat
2012 - Antal, Attila (Hungary) - Environmental and Energy under Communism: Policy and Efficiency
2012 - Kiss, Ilona (Hungary) - “The theatre is game, the cinema is life”: The differentiation in the cultural policy on visual arts according to the goals of the propaganda in the period of stagnation in USSR (1964-1984)
2013 - Koldas, Umut (Turkey) - Dynamics of USSR’s and Russian Federation’s the Eastern Mediterranean Policy in the course of reconstruction of the region.
2013 - Nagy, Szilvia (Hungary) - Cultural policies in changing realities
2014 - Koldas, Umut (Turkey) - Insurgencies and prospects for profound transformations in the Middle Eastern countries with a socialist past: Russian foreign policy towards the anti-regime movements in the Soviet type societies (Syria and Egypt) after the Arab Spring
2014 - Metykova, Monika (Slovakia) - Media Policies in Communist Czechoslovakia and Hungary
2016 - Olosz, Levente (Hungary) - Jews as propaganda tool and bargaining chip in Romania’s foreign policy during the Cold War - What do we learn about the Romanian Jewish minority from the OSA Archive?
2017 - Duraj, Anisa (Albania) - Historical analysis of cultural heritage policy under communism regime in Albania
2017 - Pasirabu, Nindya Miesye Agita (Indonesia) - A Comparison of Open Data Policies in ASEAN and Visegrad countries
2018 - Hasimov, Haji (Azerbaijan) - The work of the humanitarian aid and governmental organizations on documentation and verification of human rights abuses in Eastern European countries and Azerbaijan after the launch of the EU Eastern Partnership Policy
2018 - Imre, Zoltan (Hungary) - Radio Free Europe and the Theatre Policy of the Kádár-regime between 1970 and 1982
#Political (27)
2010 - GAWRON Karolina (Poland) - Factors limiting the political cooperation of the Visegrad Group in the years 1992-1997
2010 - LAZAROMS Ilse (Netherlands) - Revolutions of Thought and Sensibility: the politics and art of socialist-communist Jewish intellectuals in Hungary, 1900-1919
2011 - ZAVAČKA, Marina (Slovakia) - Paradise at the Roots: Internal political and social history of the Slovak Communist Party in 1948-1956
2011 - Tomek, Prokop (Czech Republic) - “The history of Radio Free Europe broadcasting to Czechoslovakia and its domestic political and social significance.”
2012 - BINO, Blerjana (Albania) - The politics of identity and discourses of human rights: The challenges of political representation and participation of the Roma community in Albania”
2012 - FEDOTOV, Egor (Russia) - Assessing the Impact of Ideas and Minority Elite Strategies in Ethnic Politics in Europe
2013 - Fedotov, Egor (Russia) - Ideas, Minority Strategies, and the Uncertain Politics of Ethnic Compromise in Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine and Austria
2013 - Poleschuk, Svetlana (Belarus) - Politics of documentary: from reflexive mode to reflexive disposition
2013 - Raimondo, Paolo (Italy) - Facing a new era. Opinions and descriptions of the Hungarian open gate to the Western world on August, 19, 1989 made by Italian and Spanish communist and far left-wing political groups, press and magazines.
2014 - Koutkova, Karla (Czech Republic) - Politics of Informality in Socialist Yugoslavia: ‘Solidarity` vs. Korupcija, Stela and Mito
2015 - Takács, Gábor (Hungary) - Discreet Devices: Computer technology and politics in the COMECON countries.
2015 - Okhrimenko, Alla (Ukraine) - Political propaganda as the instrument of mass-media manipulation during the Cold War.
2016 - Terenetskaya, Olga (Ukraine) - The politics of memory and differences in Holocaust interpretations in the Ukraine and in Russia
2016 - Kiraly, Kinga Julia (Hungary) - Historical Analogies in Political Propaganda and Collective Memory Regarding the ’56 Dissidents and Current Refugee Crisis
2016 - Vaneyan, Lena (Russia) - Boris Pasternak in the Grey Zone between the Political Repression and the Cultural Opposition
2016 - Huseynova, Ulviyya (Azerbaijan) - How Cold War propaganda spreads across and impacts on social and political process
2016 - Vukcevic, Jovana (Montenegro) - Consuming Contested Heritage: Nostalgia, Political Negotiation and Disneyfication of the Socialist Memorial Sites in former Yugoslavia
2017 - Boiarintseva, Uliana (Russia) - Reconstructing the political and ideological context, in which Vladimir Bibler's (1918-2000) pedagogical projects were pursued
2017 - Shybunko, Kyle (US) - The practices of foreign foundations and development agencies in advising Hungarian elites and civil society organizations on their country’s political and economic transformation.
2017 - Zolich, Katarzyna (Poland) - Art and politics - constellation of images. Archive as an image.
2017 - Dworaczek, Kamil (Poland) - Political prisoners in Poland on the background of other Soviet bloc countries – position and defence (1956-1989)
2017 - Markova, Klara (Czech Republic) - First Czechoslovak Republic and foreign political systems in the discourse about the Czechoslovak and Czech constitution
2017 - Novikov, Egor (Russia) - Body of Political Prisoner in Subversive Narratives of Soviet Political Resistance
2018 - Olsakova, Doubravka (Czech Republic) - Between Ecological Crisis and Environmental Protection: The Evolution of Social and Political Discourses on Environment in Czechoslovakia in 1980s and 1990s
2018 - Ruzyak, Pavel (Czech Republic) - Film: the political and social situation in Eastern Ukraine
2018 - Balha-Tamas, Etelka (Hungary) - The Iron Gate hydroelectric power station : a strategic tool in shaping the political relations during the Cold War ?
#Practices (10)
2010 - SZÉKELY Júlia (Hungary) - The Practice of Erecting Public Monuments as a Form of History Writing. Construction of History During the Socialist and Post-Socialist Era in Budapest
2011 - SZÉKELY, Júlia (Hungary) - Public Statues in Action, Commemorational Practices During and After the Socialist Era in Budapest
2014 - Shmidt, Victoria (Russia) - Child welfare discourses and practices in the Czech lands: the segregation of Roma and disabled children during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
2014 - Marginean Mara (Romania) - Policing good life: Ambiguous practices of social well being during the 1950s in Romania.
2015 - Johnston, Rosamund (US) - What can radio archives tell us about listening practices in early Cold War Czechoslovakia?
2016 - Khyzhniak, Oleksandr (Ukraine) - Collective Resistance to Destructive Phenomena in the Social Practices: Cross-Cultural Analysis
2016 - Rogos, Agata (Poland) - The perception and construction of the “other” as reflected through cataloguing and data classification practices before 1989 – Albanian/Shiptar in the documents and official discourse of the former Yugoslavia
2017 - Shybunko, Kyle (US) - The practices of foreign foundations and development agencies in advising Hungarian elites and civil society organizations on their country’s political and economic transformation.
2017 - Rogos Agata (Poland) - The acts of disobedience in art and social practice in communist South-Eastern Europe
2018 - Hargreaves, Blake (Canada) - Conceptualizing, classifying, and practicing opposition (selection and support for what counts as a “movement”, “dissidence” or “non-conformism”)
#Propaganda (24)
2010 - BOHUS, Kata (Hungary) - The Jewish Question in Hungarian Communist Propaganda
2011 - Botyanszky, Alexandra (Hungary) - The image of Samizdat in the Hungarian Official Propaganda
2011 - Mehbaliev, Rashad (Azerbaijan) - How the Cold War Propaganda Turned To Be the Real War Propaganda: Nagorno-Karabakh Case
2011 - Wasilevski, Krysztof (Poland) - Radio Free Europe’s Polish Service and its struggle against communist propaganda
2012 - HOOFF, Sarah Beckham (US) - “Symbols of Nature and Eco-Nationalism in Soviet Propaganda Films”
2012 - Cingerova, Nina (Slovakia) - Enemies in Cassocks and the New Saints. Anti-religious Propaganda and the Creation of Religion for the “new man”.
2012 - Barát, Endre (Hungary) - The view of unemployment in the official Hungarian propaganda between 1984 and 1994
2012 - Kiss, Ilona (Hungary) - “The theatre is game, the cinema is life”: The differentiation in the cultural policy on visual arts according to the goals of the propaganda in the period of stagnation in USSR (1964-1984)
2013 - Franczyk, Lukasz (Poland) - Comparison of propaganda in Poland and Hungary in 1945-1990.
2013 - Kovacic, Nino (Croatia) - Mediating the Nation: Media propaganda in Croatia during the Homeland War (1991 – 1995)
2013 - Ritter, Rüdiger (Germany) - RFE popular music broadcasting: US propaganda or mental refuge for listeners?
2015 - Gazovic, Nina (Slovakia) - Official artwork as an effective tool in the system of a state propaganda in The Slovak Republic (1948-1989)
2015 - Spring, Dawn (US) - The role that American advertisers played in creating Cold War propaganda and US information services, and public diplomacy.
2015 - Brzozka, Marek (Hungary) - Social realism and its propaganda-nature
2015 - Okhrimenko, Alla (Ukraine) - Political propaganda as the instrument of mass-media manipulation during the Cold War.
2015 - Rosiak-Zieba, Ewa (Poland) - Cursed Soldiers in the the light of documentary film propaganda 1945-1953
2016 - Kiraly, Kinga Julia (Hungary) - Historical Analogies in Political Propaganda and Collective Memory Regarding the ’56 Dissidents and Current Refugee Crisis
2016 - Huseynova, Ulviyya (Azerbaijan) - How Cold War propaganda spreads across and impacts on social and political process
2016 - Olosz, Levente (Hungary) - Jews as propaganda tool and bargaining chip in Romania’s foreign policy during the Cold War - What do we learn about the Romanian Jewish minority from the OSA Archive?
2016 - Petrovic, Dejan (Serbia) - Using film as a tool of official propaganda during Cold War: Yugoslav case
2017 - Strausz, Laszlo (Hungary) - State socialism in the mirror: strategies of self-representation in the Hungarian Interior Ministry’s propaganda and educational films between 1955-1989
2017 - Roth, Sarah, Elisabeth (US) - Operation Focus, the Role of Print Propaganda in Radio Free Europe’s Psychological Warfare Campaign and the Events of October 1956
2017 - Zasanska, Nadia (Russia) - Propaganda Techniques in the Soviet Media: Focus on the Uprisings during the Cold War Period
#Public (13)
2010 - SZÉKELY Júlia (Hungary) - he Practice of Erecting Public Monuments as a Form of History Writing. Construction of History During the Socialist and Post-Socialist Era in Budapest
2011 - GORDEEVA, Irina (Russia) - Nonviolence and peaceful methods of protest in the public thought and historical experience
2011 - SZÉKELY, Júlia (Hungary) - Public Statues in Action, Commemorational Practices During and After the Socialist Era in Budapest
2012 - Vásárhelyi, Maria (Hungary) - Public opinion and media research in Hungary, 1969-1991.
2012 - BERNÁTH, Gábor (Hungary) - The state controlled public discourse and the official and ‘semi-official’ conceptualization of “gipsy criminality” in the socialist Hungary
2013 - Cseh, Katalin (Hungary) - Images of the East. Understanding the Hungarian Second Public Sphere from a "West Bloc" perspective
2013 - LITKEI, József (Hungary) - In the shadow of the war: public perception of post-war Hungary, communism and the national self through the lens of rumors circulating during and before the 1956 uprising.
2013 - MAJOR, Virag (Hungary) - Archiving in the archive - art as a means of formulating public opinion
2013 - GRUN, Daniel (Slovakia) - Notion of public space: underground publishing and participation art
2015 - Spring, Dawn (US) - The role that American advertisers played in creating Cold War propaganda and US information services, and public diplomacy.
2016 - Piotrowska, Anna (Poland) - Media portrayal of the Romany musicians in communistic times–the use and misuse of certain stereotypes in the Eastern European public discourse
2017 - Revesz, Sandor (Hungary) - Search for Public Opinion under Communism
2018 - Ivancik, Matej (Slovakia) - Shaping the Public Space in Czechoslovakia through the Liberal Democratic Discourses
#Radio (27)
2011 - POPESCU, Alina (Romania/France) - The Romanian Cinema in the Radio Free Europe’s Spotlight
2011 - Hagen, Trever (US) - Calling Radio Free Europe: the Czechoslovak Service’s answering
2011 - Tomek, Prokop (Czech Republic) - “The history of Radio Free Europe broadcasting to Czechoslovakia and its domestic political and social significance.”
2011 - Wasilevski, Krysztof (Poland) - Radio Free Europe’s Polish Service and its struggle against communist propaganda
2012 - Kuzovkin, Gennadij (Russia) - “Parting Iron Curtain”: Radio Liberty and Its Policy towards Samizdat
2013 - Shyrokova, Iryna (Ukraine) - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Monitoring the Use of the Repressive Medicine in the Soviet Union in the 1960s – 1980s.
2013 - Drelova, Agata (Slovakia) - Libertas ecclesie or Libertas personae? (The Understanding of ‘Religious Freedom’ at the Radio Free Europe’s Czechoslovak Section)
2014 - Koscielny, Pawel (Poland/Canada) - The Radio Free Europe Archive’s Epistemic Rupture
2015 - Johnston, Rosamund (US) - What can radio archives tell us about listening practices in early Cold War Czechoslovakia?
2015 - Perczel, Júlia (Hungary) - The role of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute in the formation of parallel discourses within the cultural field of Hungary between 1957-1989.
2015 - Sobczak, Anna (Poland) - Broadcasting freedom – how the information circuit between Radio Free Europe and the Polish samizdat is related.
2015 - Fuica, Oana (Romania) - Radio Free Europe’s research on religion and state power in Communist Romania
2015 - Gagyi, Agnes (Hungary) - Social movements as transnational constructs: Hungarian environmental and Romanian workers’ mobilizations in the Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute, 1973-1990
2015 - Wcislik, Piotr (Poland) - Interrelationship between the underground print culture and Radio Free Europe.
2015 - Prokopova, Katerina (Czech Republic) - The General Secretary is dead, long live the General Secretary: Interpretation of Radio Free Europe and Czechoslovak Radio broadcasting on the events of the death of Joseph Stalin and Klement Gottwald
2016 - Walewska, Joanna Marta (Poland) - “Wired Radio Spreads Octopus Tentacles” Development of wired radio in Poland and other countries form the Soviet Block in the eyes of Radio Free Europe
2016 - Iakobashvili, Irakli (Georgia) - “Radio Liberty” and Attempt to change the information environment in the Georgian SSR during the Cold War
2016 - Taterova, Eva (Czech Republic) - Rudolf Slánský’s Trial from the Perspective of Radio Free Europe
2017 - Noell, David Alen (US) - Religion and Radio Free Europe
2017 - Roth, Sarah, Elisabeth (US) - Operation Focus, the Role of Print Propaganda in Radio Free Europe’s Psychological Warfare Campaign and the Events of October 1956
2018 - Imre, Zoltan (Hungary) - Radio Free Europe and the Theatre Policy of the Kádár-regime between 1970 and 1982
#Regime (9)
2012 - SPATARU, Nina (Moldova/Romania) - Towards a minority protection regime in post-communist Romania: the Hungarian and the Roma
2013 - Milanov, Viktor (Bulgaria/Hungary) - Bulgarian conspiracy theories and urban legends under the communist regime
2013 - HUDEK, Adam (Slovakia) - Images of scientists in the socialist Czechoslovakia (1950 – 1974): Pride of the regime or unreliable intellectual
2014 - Pinkasz, András (Hungary) - „Ideological and cultural aspirations (and their roots) of anti-regime movements in Soviet-type societies”
2014 - Dr Nagy, Andras (Hungary) - Ideological and Cultural Aspirations (and their roots) of anti-regime movements in Soviet-type Societies (the Hedervary collection)
2014 - Koldas, Umut (Turkey) - Insurgencies and prospects for profound transformations in the Middle Eastern countries with a socialist past: Russian foreign policy towards the anti-regime movements in the Soviet type societies (Syria and Egypt) after the Arab Spring
2016 - Mammadov, Elvir (Azerbaijan) - Theoretical and structural change of a welfare regime in the South Caucasus in post-socialist period
2017 - Duraj, Anisa (Albania) - Historical analysis of cultural heritage policy under communism regime in Albania
2018 - Imre, Zoltan (Hungary) - Radio Free Europe and the Theatre Policy of the Kádár-regime between 1970 and 1982
#Role (9)
2010 - GOLOVATINA, Polina (Russia) - Role of the Prague Spring in the formation of the Czech national consciousness
2011 - SAPAROV, Arsene (Armenia) - The Role of Autonomy in the Post-Soviet Conflicts
2012 - CALIN, Goina (Romania) - The role of the urban legends in the Romanian collectivization process: 1949-1962
2013 - POZHARLIEV, Lyubomir (Bulgaria) - Auto-Transport Infrastructure and its Role for Social Cohesion and Personal Emancipation in Socialist Bulgaria and Yugoslavia
2015 - Perczel, Júlia (Hungary) - The role of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute in the formation of parallel discourses within the cultural field of Hungary between 1957-1989.
2015 - Spring, Dawn (US) - The role that American advertisers played in creating Cold War propaganda and US information services, and public diplomacy.
2016 - Nazarova, Marina (Russia) - Samizdat as Netizdat: the Role of the Information and Communication Technologies in the Dissident Movement of 1960s-1970s
2017 - Roth, Sarah, Elisabeth (US) - Operation Focus, the Role of Print Propaganda in Radio Free Europe’s Psychological Warfare Campaign and the Events of October 1956
2011 - group application - BILYK, Kateryna (Poland) - “The Identity in the Period of Components, Forming Factors and the Culture-creative Role (in the Period of Disintegration of the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy (the 1st Half of the 20th Century)”
#Samizdat (8)
2011 - PARISI, Valentina (Italy) - Samizdat/tamizdat in an interdisciplinary perspective
2011 - Botyanszky, Alexandra (Hungary) - The image of Samizdat in the Hungarian Official Propaganda
2012 - Kuzovkin, Gennadij (Russia) - “Parting Iron Curtain”: Radio Liberty and Its Policy towards Samizdat
2012 - EREMEEVA, Anna (Russia) - History of Stalinist Science in the texts of Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Western Broadcasts (1950s-1980s)
2015 - Rusina, Yulia (Russia) - The interpretation of the Soviet samizdat texts: the comparative source study.
2015 - Sobczak, Anna (Poland) - Broadcasting freedom – how the information circuit between Radio Free Europe and the Polish samizdat is related.
2015 - Tykhonova, Olya (Ukraine) - Proliferation of self-organized structures that exist outside of mainstream institutions as seen through the OSA samizdat collection
2016 - Nazarova, Marina (Russia) - Samizdat as Netizdat: the Role of the Information and Communication Technologies in the Dissident Movement of 1960s-1970s
#Social (31)
2011 - ZAVAČKA, Marina (Slovakia) - Paradise at the Roots: Internal political and social history of the Slovak Communist Party in 1948-1956
2011 - Tomek, Prokop (Czech Republic) - “The history of Radio Free Europe broadcasting to Czechoslovakia and its domestic political and social significance.”
2012 - SHTYBEL,, Ulyana (Ukraine) - Formation of social-oriented financial system: A New Approach to Poverty and Economic Inequality Problem-Solving
2012 - NARANTSETSEG, Purev (Mongolia) - The social welfare state: Its financial foundations and social consequences
2013 - Saira, Kati (Estonia) - Post war social and economic history in the Balkan states
2013 - KRAKOVSKY, Roman (Slovakia) - Building Socialist Community. Social Ties in Czechoslovakia and Poland (1929-1974)
2013 - PINZARI, Svetlana (Moldova) - Natural born of the Visegrad Group: effort of social scientists, journalist and politicians of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland to „return to Europe” at the end of 1980-s – early 1990-s
2013 - POZHARLIEV, Lyubomir (Bulgaria) - Auto-Transport Infrastructure and its Role for Social Cohesion and Personal Emancipation in Socialist Bulgaria and Yugoslavia
2013 - SABANOVA, Inga (Latvia) - The dynamics of social class and family migration ( Baltic families in Ireland)
2013 - Jarzynska, Katarzyna (Poland) - Social solidarity or possible explanations of the lack of it under socialism versus social solidarity in contemporary Russia.
2013 - Klepková, Adela (Slovakia) - Social solidarity in healthcare systems
2014 - Kirzyuk, Anna (Russia) - Social Solidarity and Social Confidence under Late Socialism
2014 - Marginean Mara (Romania) - Policing good life: Ambiguous practices of social well being during the 1950s in Romania.
2015 - Brzozka, Marek (Hungary) - Social realism and its propaganda-nature
2015 - Gagyi, Agnes (Hungary) - Social movements as transnational constructs: Hungarian environmental and Romanian workers’ mobilizations in the Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute, 1973-1990
2015 - Majtenyi, Gyorgy (Hungary) - Perception of “Others” Poverty, Social Exclusion, Scientific Discourse and Knowledge in the State Socialist
2016 - Hoxha, Gilda (Albania) - Dynamics of Social Movements During the Democratization Process of Albania
2016 - Khyzhniak, Oleksandr (Ukraine) - Collective Resistance to Destructive Phenomena in the Social Practices: Cross-Cultural Analysis
2016 - Giustra, Martina (Italy) - The outcomes of social architecture for small communities in Hungary during the Cold War: the example of Imre Makovecz’s work between 1960s and 1980s.
2016 - Abdullayev, Akmaljon (Uzbekistan) - RFE/RL activism in Central Asia during Soviet Union and social movements in Central Asia after independence
2016 - Huseynova, Ulviyya (Azerbaijan) - How Cold War propaganda spreads across and impacts on social and political process
2016 - Kiss, Gabriella (Hungary) - Parallel realities - Archived social history in the subway of Ferenciek square
2016 - Voinea, Andrei Răzvan (Romania) - “Each Family with its own House and Garden”: Social Housing in Bucharest (1906 – 1952)
2017 - Kloczko-Gajewska, Anna (Poland) - Patterns on the border of economic and social issues in rural areas
2017 - Grutza, Anna (Poland) - Europe's Secret Agents and the Power of Things: A Transnational Media History of Actor-Networks in Times of Cold War and Social Change
2017 - Rogos Agata (Poland) - The acts of disobedience in art and social practice in communist South-Eastern Europe
2018 - Olsakova, Doubravka (Czech Republic) - Between Ecological Crisis and Environmental Protection: The Evolution of Social and Political Discourses on Environment in Czechoslovakia in 1980s and 1990s
2018 - Ruzyak, Pavel (Czech Republic) - Film: the political and social situation in Eastern Ukraine
#Socialist (26)
2010 - SZÉKELY Júlia (Hungary) - The Practice of Erecting Public Monuments as a Form of History Writing. Construction of History During the Socialist and Post-Socialist Era in Budapest
2010 - LAZAROMS Ilse (Netherlands) - Revolutions of Thought and Sensibility: the politics and art of socialist-communist Jewish intellectuals in Hungary, 1900-1919
2010 - HAJDU, Eszter (Hungary) - The Relationship between Jews and the Majority Nation as Depicted in Documentaries of the (Former) Socialist Countries
2011 - SZÉKELY, Júlia (Hungary) - Public Statues in Action, Commemorational Practices During and After the Socialist Era in Budapest
2011 - Bacevic, Jana (Serbia) - Education Policy in communist /socialist Yugoslavia
2012 - BERNÁTH, Gábor (Hungary) - The state controlled public discourse and the official and ‘semi-official’ conceptualization of “gipsy criminality” in the socialist Hungary
2012 - HAJDU, Eszter (Hungary) - Legends and taboos, concerning Jewish and majority relationship in the Socialist era
2013 - Cucu, Alina-Sandra (Romania) - Producing Knowledge in Productive Spaces: Foundations for Centralization and Planning in a Socialist Economy
2013 - KRAKOVSKY, Roman (Slovakia) - Building Socialist Community. Social Ties in Czechoslovakia and Poland (1929-1974)
2013 - POZHARLIEV, Lyubomir (Bulgaria) - Auto-Transport Infrastructure and its Role for Social Cohesion and Personal Emancipation in Socialist Bulgaria and Yugoslavia
2013 - STANOEVA, Elitza (Bulgaria) - Inventing the Socialist Consumer: Worker, Citizen or Customer? Mass Consumption in the Soviet Bloc in the 1960s
2013 - Stanoeva, Elitza Valentinova (Bulgaria) - Socialist welfare provision of housing and the issue of property ownership
2013 - HUDEK, Adam (Slovakia) - Images of scientists in the socialist Czechoslovakia (1950 – 1974): Pride of the regime or unreliable intellectual
2014 - Parvulescu, Constantin (Romania) - Biopolitical Challenges in Post-Helsinki Socialist Eastern Europe
2014 - Koldas, Umut (Turkey) - Insurgencies and prospects for profound transformations in the Middle Eastern countries with a socialist past: Russian foreign policy towards the anti-regime movements in the Soviet type societies (Syria and Egypt) after the Arab Spring
2014 - Koutkova, Karla (Czech Republic) - Politics of Informality in Socialist Yugoslavia: ‘Solidarity` vs. Korupcija, Stela and Mito
2015 - Wilson, Natasha (New Zealand) - The history of underground socialist groupings in the 1970s and 80s in the Soviet Union.
2015 - Majtenyi, Gyorgy (Hungary) - Perception of “Others” Poverty, Social Exclusion, Scientific Discourse and Knowledge in the State Socialist
2016 - Nagy, Zsolt (Hungary/US) - Building a Dialogue: The Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party and the African National Congress, 1960-1990
2016 - Mammadov, Elvir (Azerbaijan) - Theoretical and structural change of a welfare regime in the South Caucasus in post-socialist period
2016 - Vukcevic, Jovana (Montenegro) - Consuming Contested Heritage: Nostalgia, Political Negotiation and Disneyfication of the Socialist Memorial Sites in former Yugoslavia
2017 - Buhin, Anita (Croatia) - Mediterranean Yugoslavia as a liberal socialist paradise? International perspectives
2017 - Klenjanszky, Sarolta (Hungary) - Between class and race. Third World workers and students in socialist Hungary
2017 - Ginelli, Zoltan (Hungary) - Opening the Semi-Periphery: Decolonisation and Socialist Hungary
2017 - Erdodi, Katalin (Hungary) - Artistic and curatorial strategies as tools for knowledge production about transformation processes in post-socialist rural space
#Society (9)
2010 - Varadi, Natalia (Ukraine) - The Connection of Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence of the Year 1956 to Transcarpathia through the archival materials in the Open Society Archives
2012 - TYLECZ, Ewelina (Poland) - Society against the ‘dictatorship of dunces1’- the movements for the defense of cultural rights in Poland
2013 - De Sutter, Bart (Belgium) - Universalism vs. Particularism in the transnational civil society of human rights organizations: The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights between cooperation and competition (1982-2007)
2013 - Stozek, Maria (Poland) - Situation of drug users in communist societies
2014 - Pinkasz, András (Hungary) - „Ideological and cultural aspirations (and their roots) of anti-regime movements in Soviet-type societies”
2014 - Dr Nagy, Andras (Hungary) - Ideological and Cultural Aspirations (and their roots) of anti-regime movements in Soviet-type Societies (the Hedervary collection)
2014 - Koldas, Umut (Turkey) - Insurgencies and prospects for profound transformations in the Middle Eastern countries with a socialist past: Russian foreign policy towards the anti-regime movements in the Soviet type societies (Syria and Egypt) after the Arab Spring
2015 - Onaciu, Vlad (Romania) - Society of Shortage: Romanian Stalinism and its shortages: The Workers of Cluj during the Communist Period.
2017 - Shybunko, Kyle (US) - The practices of foreign foundations and development agencies in advising Hungarian elites and civil society organizations on their country’s political and economic transformation.
#Solidarity (8)
2013 - Chushak, Nadiya (Ukraine) - Alternative spaces and solidarities created in SFRY by representatives of working class
2013 - Jarzynska, Katarzyna (Poland) - Social solidarity or possible explanations of the lack of it under socialism versus social solidarity in contemporary Russia.
2013 - Klepková, Adela (Slovakia) - Social solidarity in healthcare systems
2014 - Kriukova, Oksana (Ukraine) - “Euromaydan” in Ukraine: Ukrainian socialism or European solidarism?
2014 - Kirzyuk, Anna (Russia) - Social Solidarity and Social Confidence under Late Socialism
2014 - Koutkova, Karla (Czech Republic) - Politics of Informality in Socialist Yugoslavia: ‘Solidarity` vs. Korupcija, Stela and Mito
2017 - Laszlo, Zsuzsa (Hungary) - Documents of Exhibition History, Cultural Diplomacy, and International Solidarity Networks in Eastern Europe and Beyond
#Soviet (26)
2011 - SAPAROV, Arsene (Armenia) - The Role of Autonomy in the Post-Soviet Conflicts
2012 - HOOFF, Sarah Beckham (US) - “Symbols of Nature and Eco-Nationalism in Soviet Propaganda Films”
2013 - Shyrokova, Iryna (Ukraine) - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Monitoring the Use of the Repressive Medicine in the Soviet Union in the 1960s – 1980s.
2013 - STANOEVA, Elitza (Bulgaria) - Inventing the Socialist Consumer: Worker, Citizen or Customer? Mass Consumption in the Soviet Bloc in the 1960s
2013 - TROFIMOV, Victor (Russia) - Bodybuilding, Fitness and the Formation of New Class, Gender and National Identities in Late Soviet Russia
2013 - VIKULINA, Ekaterina (Latvia) - The Power, the Body and the Soviet “Sixties”
2013 - Hansen, Claus Bech (Germany) - The Ambivalent Empire. Soviet Rule in the Uzbek SSR 1945-1964
2014 - Pinkasz, András (Hungary) - „Ideological and cultural aspirations (and their roots) of anti-regime movements in Soviet-type societies”
2014 - Revazishvili, Tamta (Georgia) - “The truth of Shadow Economy for Post-Soviet countries”
2014 - Dr Nagy, Andras (Hungary) - Ideological and Cultural Aspirations (and their roots) of anti-regime movements in Soviet-type Societies (the Hedervary collection)
2014 - Koldas, Umut (Turkey) - Insurgencies and prospects for profound transformations in the Middle Eastern countries with a socialist past: Russian foreign policy towards the anti-regime movements in the Soviet type societies (Syria and Egypt) after the Arab Spring
2014 - Korshunov, Igor (Russia) - Soviet Human Rights Activists and Democratic Rollback in Russia
2015 - Bátori, Anna (Hungary) - The (Missing) Representation of the Soviet Labour Camps: Gulag Documentaries and Fiction Films.
2015 - Kiesewalter, Georgy (Russia) - Influence of Western Art and Culture on Unofficial Art in the Soviet Union. Information and Communication Permeability of the Iron Curtain in the 1960s-1970s.
2015 - Rusina, Yulia (Russia) - The interpretation of the Soviet samizdat texts: the comparative source study.
2015 - Wilson, Natasha (New Zealand) - The history of underground socialist groupings in the 1970s and 80s in the Soviet Union.
2015 - Jurcevic, Marijana (Croatia) - The image of RFE/RL’s influence and importance in Soviet Union
2016 - Walewska, Joanna Marta (Poland) - “Wired Radio Spreads Octopus Tentacles” Development of wired radio in Poland and other countries form the Soviet Block in the eyes of Radio Free Europe
2016 - Abdullayev, Akmaljon (Uzbekistan) - RFE/RL activism in Central Asia during Soviet Union and social movements in Central Asia after independence
2016 - Felcher, Anastasia (Moldova) - The Holocaust in Transition: Treatment of the Matter and Jewish Cultural Heritage on (post)Soviet Space
2017 - Terenetskaya, Olga (Greece) - Human survival and fight against Soviet propagandistic and repressive machines.
2017 - Voronovici, Alexandr (Moldova) - Shades and Facets of “Dissent” in Soviet Ukraine: Contextualization, Comparisons, and Entanglements
2017 - Astrouskaya, Tatsiana (Belarus) - "As if we had disappeared from this world forever." Tracing the lost connections of the Belarusian intelligentsia in the Soviet Union and abroad
2017 - Zasanska, Nadia (Russia) - Propaganda Techniques in the Soviet Media: Focus on the Uprisings during the Cold War Period
2017 - Dworaczek, Kamil (Poland) - Political prisoners in Poland on the background of other Soviet bloc countries – position and defence (1956-1989)
2017 - Novikov, Egor (Russia) - Body of Political Prisoner in Subversive Narratives of Soviet Political Resistance
#State (9)
2011 - Manoli, Alexandru (Moldova) - The Individual versus the Totalitarian State: The Idea of Liberty and the Dissidence Phenomena in Central and Eastern Europe during the Communist Era
2012 - BERNÁTH, Gábor (Hungary) - The state controlled public discourse and the official and ‘semi-official’ conceptualization of “gipsy criminality” in the socialist Hungary
2012 - NARANTSETSEG, Purev (Mongolia) - The social welfare state: Its financial foundations and social consequences
2013 - Saira, Kati (Estonia) - Post war social and economic history in the Balkan states
2013 - Toth, Zsuzsanna Napsugar (Slovakia) - Alteration of children’s toys (used both for entertainment and in education) during state Socialism in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, and its societal effects.
2015 - Gazovic, Nina (Slovakia) - Official artwork as an effective tool in the system of a state propaganda in The Slovak Republic (1948-1989)
2015 - Fuica, Oana (Romania) - Radio Free Europe’s research on religion and state power in Communist Romania
2015 - Majtenyi, Gyorgy (Hungary) - Perception of “Others” Poverty, Social Exclusion, Scientific Discourse and Knowledge in the State Socialist
2017 - Strausz, Laszlo (Hungary) - State socialism in the mirror: strategies of self-representation in the Hungarian Interior Ministry’s propaganda and educational films between 1955-1989
#War (14)
2010 - Varadi, Natalia (Ukraine) - The Connection of Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence of the Year 1956 to Transcarpathia through the archival materials in the Open Society Archives
2010 - GRIGORYAN, Armen (Armenia) - (Interpretations of the causes of World War II)
2011 - YAKUBOVA, Natalia (Russia) - ‘Witkacy’ – a Posthumous Life of a Mid-War Avantguard Artist in People’s Republic of Poland
2011 - Kiss-KOSTYAN, Aniko (Serbia) - Relief - dance performance about the war in the former Yugoslav Republic and in Kosovo
2011 - Mehbaliev, Rashad (Azerbaijan) - How the Cold War Propaganda Turned To Be the Real War Propaganda: Nagorno-Karabakh Case
2013 - Saira, Kati (Estonia) - Post war social and economic history in the Balkan states
2013 - LITKEI, József (Hungary) - In the shadow of the war: public perception of post-war Hungary, communism and the national self through the lens of rumors circulating during and before the 1956 uprising.
2013 - MYRBERG, Miranda (Sweden) - Truth-telling and Truth-Seeking: OSA Documentary Film on the Legacy of the Bosnian 1992-1995 war and its aftermath
2013 - Kovacic, Nino (Croatia) - Mediating the Nation: Media propaganda in Croatia during the Homeland War (1991 – 1995)
2015 - Neimarevic, Vukasin (Serbia) - Media Coverage of the Kosovo War: Comparative Study of the Western Balkans
2016 - Neimarevic, Vukasin (Serbia) - Nationalism vs. professionalism in covering the war in Kosovo: A comparative study of television programs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia (1996-1999)
2016 - Houwink ten Cate, Lotte Françoise Maria (US) - The aftermath of the Second World War, and its repercussions in postwar debates about law
2017 - Kukielko-Rogozinska, Kalina (Poland) - Humanity versus Technology - “The Beauty” of war in the Global Village
#Yugoslavia (11)
2011 - Bacevic, Jana (Serbia) - Education Policy in communist /socialist Yugoslavia
2013 - Grujic, Marija (Serbia) - Facts and Impressions of Entertaining Business in the Last Days of Yugoslavia: Attempts of Moderating the Collapse
2013 - LUCEVIC, Armin (Montenegro) - The Visegrad Group and the Ex-Yugoslavia Countries
2013 - POZHARLIEV, Lyubomir (Bulgaria) - Auto-Transport Infrastructure and its Role for Social Cohesion and Personal Emancipation in Socialist Bulgaria and Yugoslavia
2014 - Svoboda, Petr (Slovakia) - The Impact of the Breakup of Yugoslavia on the Non-aligned Movement 1989-1992.
2014 - Koutkova, Karla (Czech Republic) - Politics of Informality in Socialist Yugoslavia: ‘Solidarity` vs. Korupcija, Stela and Mito
2016 - Dayoub, Yamama (Syria) - Media Historiography of Conflicts: a Comparative Study of Former Yugoslavia and Syria
2016 - Jovchevski, Perica (Macedonian) - What is new in old news?: analysis of the mechanisms behind the mis(recognition) of identities in TV newscasts in former Yugoslavia
2016 - Rogos, Agata (Poland) - The perception and construction of the “other” as reflected through cataloguing and data classification practices before 1989 – Albanian/Shiptar in the documents and official discourse of the former Yugoslavia
2016 - Vukcevic, Jovana (Montenegro) - Consuming Contested Heritage: Nostalgia, Political Negotiation and Disneyfication of the Socialist Memorial Sites in former Yugoslavia
2017 - Buhin, Anita (Croatia) - Mediterranean Yugoslavia as a liberal socialist paradise? International perspectives
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The Call for the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA is updated every year. OSA is in charge of the grant administration. Applications are evaluated by the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA jury including representatives from the IVF, the OSA, the CEU and finally the CEU Press, whose involvement facilitates instant publication of outstanding research. The Council of V4 Ambassadors is mandated to give final approval based on the merit-based recommendation. In the case of equal results, candidates coming from V4 countries take precedence. The two-month scholarship grant is EUR 3,000, but stipends for shorter research periods are pro-rated.
Research and proceedings
The Visegrad Scholarship at OSA supports fellows at different stages of their research towards widely varied research aims ranging from articles, PhD theses through novels, films, exhibitions to plays. Research and publication topics cover an extensive area of history, literature, performing and fine arts, philosophy and sociology with a focus on media and objectivity, conceptualization of opposition, techno-science and mass communication, information gathering, production and dissemination, documentation and verification of human rights abuses, political ‘facts’ and socio-economic issues among others.
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Books, journal and daily paper articles, performances and conference proceedings
During their stay in OSA researchers are encouraged to participate in the life of the OSA and the CEU community and also to share thoughts, ideas, and research results with one another. Many multilateral professional connections and relationships have been established during the many years of the scheme, including the Radio Free Europe Research Group, which was formed by Visegrad Scholarship at OSA researchers in 2017, presenting themselves as a team at conferences and in publications.
The research theme of the recent calls e.g. "Lessons of the Cold War" (2022/2023) are aimed to keep research topics relevant to current developments and to help both researchers and the supervisor to integrate the individual projects into an integrated research program. Following this principle the fellows' presentations are becoming the building blocks of a series that may grow into a conference, a methodological workshop or publication. In the case of "Methodologies of Working in Cold War Archives" after a successful conference and methodological workshop, a publication with selected former Visegrad fellows is underway to appear in a peer reviewed journal special thematic issue.
Towards the end of their research in OSA awardees present their findings at the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA lecture series, which is open to the general public. Final reports and the list of new publications are continuously updated and accessible on the Blinken OSA dedicated website.
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Research results have been published far and wide with publishers like Université Sorbonne, Routledge, Indiana University Press, BBC Historical Magazine and Palgrave Macmillan. Besides traditional printed publications, research in OSA found its way to online publications, films, exhibitions and performances.
During the research period in the OSA original research plans evolve through incorporating new archival material and through cooperating with fellow researchers and the OSA/CEU community.
Evolution is not a one-way process. Through cooperating with the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA fellows, through critical self-observation and the valuable comments, suggestions and recommendations from the fellows as well as from the OSA curators and external experts, the grant scheme and the institute itself keeps evolving. The permanent value of the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA lies not only in the individual academic or artistic enrichment of each and every scholar with the knowledge they extract from the OSA collections and use in their research but in their continuous effort to come back to the source of their findings. The Visegrad Scholarship at OSA scholars thus represent an important epistemic community whose findings will be visible in years to come.