17.05.2021

STIPENDIENAUSSCHREIBUNG: Blinken OSA’s open call for Visegrad Scholarships 2021/22

Eine Stipendienausschreibung, die für Student*innen und Absolvent*Innen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung relevant sein kann:

Applicants from the fields of history, archival studies, the arts, philosophy, and sociology are invited to reflect on the conditions of knowledge production during and after the Cold War. Scholars and artists are invited to analyze the documentary practices of different agencies and persons on both sides of the Iron Curtain and assess the truth value of related documents/artifacts. This year’s main topic is:

Possibilities of knowing: Truth seeking in a polarized world and [in] its aftermath

The following related thematic areas are recommended, including:

  • Conceptualizing and reporting about opposition or social movements
  • Circuits of communication and (anti-)propaganda techniques: information gathering and classification, textual and visual dissemination
  • Problems of documentation and verification of human rights abuses
  • Intellectual debates in a polarized world and their aftermath
  • Reflection on the (Cold War) receptions, instrumentalizations and revisions of the history and the notion of the Revolution

For more details visit Visegrad Scholarships at Blinken OSA.