Workshops 2025/2026 ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** Accepted applications from candidates w18hin the call 2024/2025: Approved projects within the call 2024/8025: Total budget for implemenation of works€ 96 664 Anthropocene Ruptures: Crossing Borders, Building ConnectionsDate and place of realisation 2025, Prague/ Spring 2026, Vienna Summary of the proposal: The workshops Anthropocene Ruptures: Crossing Borders, Building Connections, explore how t Anthropocene shapes our understanding of planetary environmental and societal change. Brin researchers from diverse disciplines, the workshops examine topics such as landscape trans ecological memory, and consider effective ways to communicate these pressing issues. The m the role of Central Europe in the global discourse on the Anthropocene. The program features roundtable discussions, field visits, and collaborative sessions on i Anthropocene themes into education and public engagement. Junior researchers will have the elaborate their research projects, exchange ideas, and network acros status groups. A dedi session will explore ways to incorporate Anthropocene topics into university curricula. Be workshops, this initiative strengthens interdisciplinary education by linking existing pro the Anthropocene: The Contemporary World in a Transdisciplinary Perspective micro-credenti University, the Vienna Anthropocene Network lecture series, and a planned new study progra University in Berlin. By fostering long-term collaboration, the workshops aim to advance r education on the Anthropocene, building lasting connections across institutions and discip (Post)colonialism and Race in Central and Eastern EuropeDate and place of realisation: 16 2025, Vienna / ?9 - 10 April 2026, Warsaw Summary of the proposal: Can we speak of colonialism in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)? And can we use categories (post-)colonialism to analyze the history and present of the region? The Russian full-scal Ukraine since 2022 has brought these questions to the fore with urge. They tie in with a b about the place of the region in global political geography, as a former "Second World" of War era and economic "semi-periphery" in past and present. Here, the issue of race also ac significance: given the region's in-between position, are Central and East Europeans "full global hierarchies of race? And how do they, in turn, negotiate racial difference within a region? Bringing together senior and junior scholars working on the global history of CEE history of race in the region, these workshops will discuss these key topics of historical analysis. The importance of Pharmacology education in the age of misinformation and disinformation”? realisation: Autumn 2025, Warsaw / Spring / Summer 2026?, Vienna Summary of the proposal: The importance of Pharmacology education in the age of misinformation and disinformation The workshop aims to bring together established researchers and Ph.D. students to create a will be helpful in sharing topics regarding drugs and dietary supplements that might be de the public health. We would like to identify the misleading statements that are shared in social media and increase the role of pharmacologists and pharmacists in educational activ public. The extent of dissemination of medical misinformation is rapidly growing with the we perceive this risk even more intensely with the development of artificial intelligence. Together we want to find ways for universities to be actively involved in the entire proce participate in transmission of relevant and true information about medication according to medicine, and educate the public about risk of inappropriate use of medicines. There are three main aims of the workshop: • description and identification of problematic topics that represent the most common misi the public space • finding ways how professionals can approach the public in the field of pharmacy, pharmac humanities and how to improve health education among people of all ages • proposals for possible cooperation on education towards the public, especially towards t Translating Human Creativity into Algorithms: Translatology through AI and Machine Transla Texts in Focus?Date and place of realisation: 5 - 7 November 2025, Prague Summary of the proposal: Interpretation, Overinterpretation, Underinterpretation: Critical Approaches to Meaning-Ma EgyptologyDate and place of realisation: 9 - 12 December 2025, Berlin Summary of the proposal: Interpretation lies at the core of scholarly inquiry in Egyptology, where textual, materia iconographic sources are often fragmentary, ambiguous, or detached from their original con critically with these sources allows researchers to reconstruct aspects of the ancient wor also requires methodological transparency and ongoing self-reflection. While innovative ap generate new insights, they also carry the risk of overinterpretation – especially when mo or ideological biases are projected onto the past. At the same time, a narrow focus on rec describing objects, cultural characteristics, and textual or linguistic phenomena can also a significant lack of interpretation, i.e. under-interpretation, and restrict research fro meaningful insights. The key challenge, therefore, is to strike a balance between necessar and scholarly restraint. Interdisciplinary methodologies have expanded the analytical scope of ancient studies, off perspectives on historical phenomena. However, they also require scholars to remain aware boundaries and methodological limitations. The selective transmission and preservation of complicate interpretation, making it risky to rely too heavily on isolated data points. Gi challenges, it is essential to critically examine the conditions under which knowledge is interpreted. The influence of contemporary intellectual paradigms and cultural assumptions of ancient evidence highlights the need for self-reflective scholarship. Digital tools and AI offer new possibilities but can reinforce biases and heuristic models analysis is becoming increasingly popular in academic research, scrutinizing its epistemic the more crucial. Simultaneously, post-truth discourse and pseudo-scientific narratives th expertise, necessitating scholarly vigilance. For young scholars, the ability to critically engage with interpretative frameworks is fun independent research. In this context, a dedicated workshop on the challenges of interpret pitfalls of over- and underinterpretation – provides a valuable forum to discuss methodolo interdisciplinary collaboration, and the ethical dimensions of scholarly analysis. By fost examination of interpretative practices, the event aims to equip participants with the the methodological tools necessary to navigate the complexities of meaning-making in ancient s The power of voices and silences?Date and place of realisation: 18 - 21 March 2026?, Budap Summary of the proposal: Within the CENTRAL project, in which we have been participating since 2016 with annual wor organize an onsite academic workshop in humanities and social sciences, entitled “The powe silences”, taking place at the Eötvös Loránd University in March 2026. The event – organiz (ELTE Budapest) in cooperation with Dr. Júlia Székely (ELTE), Prof. Kater?ina Králová (CUN Hannes Gradits (HU Berlin), Dr. Tomasz Rawski (Uni Warsaw) and Dr. Jelena Dureinovic (Uni give the opportunity to present research of both senior and junior scholars, including Ph. the core group. This workshop is a follow-up to the previous CENTRAL workshops that focused on transformat cultures and politics, on discourses and narratives of victimhood concurrence, on public m institutionalization of memory, as well as on the materialities of memory in Central, East Europe. This workshop will centre on the individual and collective dynamics of remembering and for Central and Southeast Europe. In every society, practices of remembering and forgetting pl in shaping history, culture and identities. Within this process various public and private which historical events and figures are celebrated, which traumas are acknowledged, and wh are marginalized or erased: individuals, communities and institutions can all amplify cert silencing others. In this sense, practices of remembering and forgetting are closely intertwined: instead of and passive processes, they can be understood as interrelated and active – social, politic – tools. Political leaders and institutions often instrumentalize historical memory to jus consolidate national unity, or mobilize support in times of crisis, but also to strengthen legitimacy, frame political opponents, and shape collective emotions such as pride, resent selectively emphasizing or downplaying historical events, they construct narratives that s agendas and influence public discourse. At the same time, competing memory narratives can and political tensions, as different groups seek recognition for their versions of history contested interpretations of the past. The workshop will explore what happens when certain histories are remembered, celebrated, and others are excluded or forgotten? We seek to undertand the complex and intertwined dyn remembering and forgetting and to reveal how voices – both vocal and silent – shape collec memory, what narratives emerge through these voices, and how silences function in the cons histories. The workshop brings together contributions discussing the conceptual approaches and challe practices of remembering and forgetting in Central and Southeastern Europe and studying sp memory, mnemonic agents and practices. Praedoc Student Workshop: Towards a Central European School in Modern HistoryDate and plac 19 - 20 March 2026, Vienna? Summary of the proposal: Based on the great success of the previous trilateral graduate student workshops in Prague Vienna (2022-25) we have expanded our joint activities by integrating a new partner univer (Eötves Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary). The relatively open format is producing ever more interest and applications each year we a Central workshop. Each university will be represented by three ompetitively selected gradu and 1-2 senior researchers. The main objective of the workshop is to enhance the internati exchange of PhD students in the humanities and social sciences between four Central Europe Based on their respective PhD projects, but adapted to the general theme of the workshop, will be based on the US model of short presentations of pre-written papers. This will allo for discussion of each paper. The workshop will explore topics related to comparative and approaches, focusing on the history of transformations after 1918/1945/1989. A Polanyian p be used to look beyond the Central European region and reach out for global connections. The four main objectives of the workshop are 1) to enhance the quality of PhD programs in and related social sciences by strengthening the international exchange of knowledge and s PhD students as well as senior researchers in the field; 2) to promote cooperation between European universities (Charles University in Prague, University of Vienna, University of W Loránd University Budapest); 3) to further strengthen this cooperation by developing a joi degree PhD programme (co-tutelle). This has already materialized (see below), but it depen doctoral students for our cotutelles scheme by our productive workshop format; 4) The feed workshop is also important to turn the submitted papers into journal publications The two-day workshop will take place at University of Vienna and will be attended by six s and up to 12 PhD students from the partner universities. The event will be organised by Pr Ther and Prof. Claudia Kraft (University of Vienna), Prof. Ota Konrád and Dr. Václav Šmidr University, Prague), Prof. Jerzy Kochanowski (University of Warsaw) and Ass. Prof. Márkus Loránd University, Budapest). Workshop series: Translating the NationDate and place of realisation: 7 - 8 November 2025, April 2026 ? Summary of the proposal: Our CENTRAL workshop series, titled "Translating the Nation," continues its core mission o cultures through Modern Greek (MG) literature and language, underlining synergies between research. The CENTRAL workshop "Translating the Nation" facilitates cultural and literary exchange a Greek departments/faculties in Central European universities through collaborative researc cultural translation, language, and literature. This year the network is extended with the Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest). Two workshops organized for the year address (1) the of AI in translation practices, in educational contexts and in research into literature an reach and reception of Modern Greek literature and regional literary traditions resonating digitalized literary environment of the contemporary world. Junior researchers at BA, MA, levels are actively engaged, present their original research, and are given structured men of the programme for the sustainability and academic growth of this dynamic research netwo If you are interested in next call for 2026/2027, check CENTRAL Joint Workshops Call [ URL