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Institute for Advanced Study at CEU
@iasceu.bsky.social
Promoting the free and independent pursuit of scholarly research in the context of an interdisciplinary intellectual community

https://ias.ceu.edu/
Garbage is both materially present and conceptually elusive. In this talk, Anne Berg examines waste that resists classification and explores how waste management conceals and sustains power structures.
🗓️ November 12, 2025
⌚️12:30
📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 13/118 and Zoom
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Garbage Trouble in Paradise
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November 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Reposted by Institute for Advanced Study at CEU
I am a fellow at Central European University’s Institute for Advanced Study. The IAS coordinated my media appearances about the Trump-Putin Budapest summit. Now they’ve put the coverage my comments received on one site:

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It’s a pleasure to be at @iasceu.bsky.social!
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October 31, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Think social science was born only in the “centers”? Think again.
📢 Małgorzata Mazurek uncovers how Polish scholars like Michał Kalecki and Ludwik Landau shaped global knowledge from the “periphery.”
🗓️ October 22, ⌚️12:30
📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 15/103 and Zoom
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The End of Elsewhere: On Writing the Global History of Social Sciences from Eastern Europe
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October 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Join us for Leerom Medovoi's lecture, where he explores how the very real crisis of climate change intertwines with the rise of the far right, and how climate anxiety can animate populist racial politics of threat.
🗓️ October 15
⌚️12:30
📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 15/103 and Zoom
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Climate Disavowal: Toward the Environmental Unconscious of Populist Racism
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October 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Meet Anna Kryvenko, IAS CEU Artist in Residence 2024/25. Her project "This House is Undamaged" explores Mariupol’s transformation under Russian occupation, using hybrid documentary film to deconstruct media images and reveal stories of displacement, survival, and loss.
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Meet Anna Kryvenko – IAS CEU Artist in Residence 2024/25
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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September 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Reminder! The deadline for submitting fellowship applications to @iasceu.bsky.social is coming up soon! If interested, submit your application form and all required documents by September 20, 2025. For more details and how to apply, please visit our website: ias.ceu.edu/calls-fellow...
Calls for fellowship applications at IAS CEU | Institute for Advanced Study
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September 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
@iasceu.bsky.social proudly presents the group of fellows who will be in residence during the 2025-2026 academic year
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Fellows | Institute for Advanced Study
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August 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
IAS CEU have announced the new calls for applications for the 2026/27 academic year, including:
📍 Junior/Senior Core Fellowship
📍 Artist in Residence Fellowship
📍 Budapest Open Society Fellowship
📍 Affiliated Fellowship
For more details and how to apply, see: ias.ceu.edu/calls-fellow...
Calls for fellowship applications at IAS CEU | Institute for Advanced Study
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July 16, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Can ignorance, mistake, failure shape ways of reading, or do they disrupt its proper practice? @saikatmajumdar.bsky.social traces intellectual self-formation beyond the academy, from apartheid-era South Africa to the Caribbean and postcolonial India.
🗓️ June 4, 2025 ⌚️12:30
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The Amateur: Self-Making and the Humanities in the Postcolony
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June 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
In his lecture "Populism in the Flows of Life: Environmentalist Equivalences in the Balkans" Ivan Rajkovic asks what it means to proclaim rivers an inalienable possession of the “people.”
🗓️ May 28, 2025
⌚️12:30-14:00
📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 15 and Zoom
👉https://tinyurl.com/3pff5csc
Populism in the flows of life: environmentalist equivalences in the Balkans
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May 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Join us for a book discussion with Benjamin Nathans, author of "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement," the winner of 2025 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
🗓️ May 22, 2025
⌚️ 5 pm CET
📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 13 and Zoom
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause. The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
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May 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Don't miss Haggag Ali's lecture "Dignity or Dignities? Egyptian Visions of Decolonization" exploring various constructions of Karama (dignity) in post-colonial Egypt as a key term in negotiating Western modernity.
🗓️ May 21
⌚️12:30
📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 13/118 and Zoom
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Dignity or Dignities? Egyptian Visions of Decolonization
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May 20, 2025 at 7:17 AM
In her lecture "The Case of Science-based Dissent during the Cold War" Ioana Macrea-Toma will investigate the relationship between epistemology and politics during the Cold War.
🗓️ May 7, 2025
⌚️12:30-14:00
📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 15 and Zoom
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The case of science-based dissent during the Cold War: transdisciplinary and evidentiary challenges
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May 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
In her lecture "Global Theatre and Cold War Legacies" Viviana Iacob will explore the relationship between the global trajectories of illiberal regimes and their theatre cultures before and after 1989.
🗓️ April 16, 2025
⌚️12:30-14:00
📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 15 and Zoom
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Global Theatre and Cold War Legacies: From State Socialism to Illiberalism
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April 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Join us for Nadieszda Kizenko's lecture examining the role that written confession as autobiographical narrative has played in the religious lives of East European Orthodox Christians.

🗓️ April 9, 2025
⌚️12:30-14:00
📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 15, Room 103 and Zoom
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‘I am too ashamed to say this’: Written Confession in Modern Orthodox Eastern Europe
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April 7, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Don't miss Federico Rossi's lecture "On the Trail of Medieval Readers: Textual Networks and Reading Communities" focusing on meditation texts on the life of Christ, their network, and the manuscripts that preserve them.
🗓️ March 26
⌚️12:30
📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 15/103 and Zoom
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On the Trail of Medieval Readers: Textual Networks and Reading Communities
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March 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
In the new episode of the RevDem Podcast, Dorjana Bojanovska Popovska hosts Marlies Glasius for a discussion of examples of illiberal and authoritarian practices that emerged or peaked in 2024 as well as their diffusion across different contexts.
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Beyond Narratives, Personas and Spectacles: A Conversation on Illiberal and Authoritarian Practices | Review of Democracy
In this episode of the Democracy After 2024 series, Dorjana Bojanovska Popovska hosts Marlies Glasius for a discussion that goes beyond traditional regime-type classifications and the public/private d...
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March 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
We welcome proposals and registrations for the workshop "On the Urgency of Old Ideas: A Counter-Disciplinary Workshop on Theory and Method".
🗓️ June 5, 2025
📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 15
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Open invitation - 'On the Urgency of Old Ideas' a workshop at IAS CEU | Institute for Advanced Study
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March 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Join us for Volodymyr Sklokin's lecture where he revisits the ongoing decolonization debate from the perspective of the Ukrainian-Russian encounter during the early modern period.
🗓️ March 12, 2025
⌚️12:30-14:00
📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 15, Room 103 and Zoom
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Entangled or Colonized? The Ukrainian-Russian Encounter and the 18th-Century Debate on the Origins of the Russian Enlightenment
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March 12, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Read the interview (in Hungarian) with our Senior Core Fellow Marlies Glasius about her research on the attitudes of billionaires towards wealth taxation.
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A demokráciák elvesztették a kontrollt a szupergazdagok felett
Nagyon nehéz a demokráciákban élő topmilliárdosokat rávenni arra, hogy megfelelő mértékben fizessenek adót, 80 százalékuk megpróbálkozik valamiféle adóelkerülési technikával. Az adóparadicsomok egyre ...
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March 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
In a KEEN ON podcast episode, Anna Kryvenko, Artist in Residence at @iasceu.bsky.social explains how Russian authorities are rebuilding and selling properties in Ukraine while erasing Ukrainian history and creating the big lie of Mariupol as a historically Russian city.
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Episode 2246: Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a carnival of hypocrisy
"This House is Undamaged": What Ukrainian buildings would say if they could talk
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March 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Join us for Emma Hemingford's lecture where she will discuss her current play, "Afterwards," a thriller about three migrants fleeing a near-future Britain that has been ravaged by national catastrophe.
🗓️ March 5, 2025
⌚️12:30-14:00
📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 15, Room 103 and Zoom
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Afterwards: Idealised Befores and (Un)avoidable Futures
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March 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Prominent filmmaker and media artist Peter Forgács holds a masterclass at @iasceu.bsky.social
🗓️ February 27, 2025, 13:00-17:00

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Masterclass with Péter Forgács at IAS CEU
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February 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
In her lecure "The Populist City: Imperial Nostalgia and Neoliberal Authoritarianism" Virág Molnár examines Budapest to show how urban space have been instrumentalized in the service of populist rule.
🗓️ February 26, 2025, 12:30-14:00
📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 15, 103 and Zoom
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The Populist City: Imperial Nostalgia and Neoliberal Authoritarianism
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February 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Join us for the next Fellows' Seminar at
@iasceu.bsky.social
Our writer in residence, Natalka Bilotserkivets will introduce her novel in progress, "Life of My Man": The Story of a Generation

🗓️ February 19, 2025
⌚️12:30-14:00
📍 CEU Budapest, Nádor u. 15, Room 103 and on Zoom
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"Life of My Man": The Story of a Generation - Told by the novel in novellas
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February 18, 2025 at 8:04 AM