Workshops 2026/2027 ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** Accepted applications from candidates w15hin the call 2026/2027: Approved projects within the call 2026/9 (8 + 1 virtual) Total budget for implemenation of works75 809 € Labour in Times of Transformation: Social Relations / Labour in Times of Transformation: S and place of realisation: 2-3 December 2026, Vienna / 22-23 April 2027, Prague Summary of the proposal: Labour history has undergone significant renewal, moving beyond institutional and economic analyse labour as a social relation embedded in changing political, social, and spatial co of transformation in politics, the economy, technology, and shifting social orders have re conditions while opening new arenas of negotiation for workers and institutions. Our workshops bring together scholars exploring labour as both an object and an agent of t Participants examine how labour relations are constituted, experienced, and contested acro moments and spatial scales, from transregional entanglements to everyday workplace practic The aim is to foster dialogue across historiographical traditions and rethink labour histo Europe through interconnected transformations and multi-scalar experiences of work Topographies of Memory in East Central and Southeastern EuropeDate and place of realisatio 2027, Vienna Summary of the proposal: Within the CENTRAL project (annual workshops since 2016), we will organize "Topographies o Central and Southeastern Europe" at the University of Vienna in April 2027. Building on Le we understand space as a social product interwoven with collective memory cultures and ima The workshop examines how places in East Central and Southeastern Europe construct memory promote disintegration, or surface marginal memories, and discusses narrative strategies t topographical situatings of memory and uncover suppressed spatial memories. Given the regi disproportionate exposure to territorial contestations, violence, and displacement, we exp remembered and which memories spaces produce as consolidations or negotiations of collecti memory-cultural imaginaries that reinforce or counteract geopolitical positionings. Comparative Discussion of National Case Studies on Housing and Emotions in Visegrad Countr of realisation: 23-24 November 2026, Prague Summary of the proposal: Emotions are increasingly recognized as a key dimension of social policy, yet they remain in Central European public policy. This two-day hybrid workshop, hosted in Prague by Charl in collaboration with the University of Warsaw, and Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, researchers, doctoral students, and early-career academics from across the region, with pa joining remotely from other countries. Participants will compare national case studies, identify shared regional patterns, and di emotions shape — and are shaped by — social policy. Through presentations, moderated discu collaborative group work, the workshop builds a common foundation for a comparative resear open-access typology of emotional strategies in housing policy. The event strengthens cross-border cooperation and supports more inclusive, emotionally in to policymaking across Central Europe. Bridging Philological Traditions and Multidisciplinary Innovation in Ukrainian Studies in EuropeDate and place of realisation: 8-9 December 2026, Prague Summary of the proposal: The growing political, social and cultural significance of Ukraine calls for broader and m multidisciplinary Ukrainian Studies in Central Europe. This workshop will bring together s candidates and early-career researchers from Charles University, Eötvös Loránd University, of Warsaw and the University of Vienna. Building on two previous CENTRAL workshops, it will discuss curriculum reform, interdiscip approaches, practice-oriented teaching with NGOs, think-tank and media organisations, and such as online courses and summer schools. The workshop aims to strengthen academic networ researchers, and develop concrete proposals for collaborative teaching and research, offer European perspective to the wider international debate on Ukrainian Studies. Plural Identities: Family, Gender, and Minorities in Central Europe / Boundaries and Belon Family and Minority Dynamics in Central EuropeDate and place of realisation: 18-19 Februar Budapest / 10-11 June 2027, Prague Summary of the proposal: This workshop brings together sociologists, anthropologists and historians to explore plur and ethnic/religious mixing. In doing so, it connects studies on gender and minorities, ce phenomenon of mixed families. Participants include established scholars and junior researchers from Central European hub knowledge transfer and future collaborations. Key goals include planning joint publication or a special issue) and developing capacity for joint project applications. Through thematic panels, the workshop posits Central Europe as a rich site for transdiscip while situating it in a global context. It provides a platform for early career researcher refine their research profiles. The event concludes with a collective discussion on schola concrete steps for future project cooperation. Hypotaxis Across Languages. Translatability of long sentences in the work of László Kraszn place of realisation: 11-13 November 2026, Budapest Summary of the proposal: László Krasznahorkai was awarded with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2025 “for his comp visionary oeuvre“, according to the official statement of the Academy. His style is charac long, seemingly endless sentences with complex syntax, that poses a challenge when transla languages. This workshop explores the linguistic, stylistic, and philosophical challenges of translat “endless” sentences across several languages, including English, German, Polish, and Czech workshop is to enable the participants to have a deeper understanding of how syntax works text and how it affects translation. They can see what strategies are used by translators just the meaning, but also the form of the text in the target language. In the preparatory phase, participants will get acquainted with the source text (short sto Krasznahorkai and their translations in the analysed languages), analyzing them from a lin and stylistic perspective, and they will familiarize themselves with the literature of tra Krasznahorkai and translating complex syntax. During the workshop, the groups will use the system of translation strategies to analyse h re-created the complex and innovative Hungarian syntax of Krasznahorkai in the target lang the workshop, they will also have the opportunity to meet (on-line or in-person) with tran translated Krasznahorkai’s works and gain an insider’s perspective on the task of a litera translator. As an additional aspect, the participants will also test how AI translation tools are hand complexity of Krasznahorkai’s language through translating a short story with an AI transl identifying the differences between AI and human translation. This will enable them to bui of a previous workshop on AI translation in literature, connecting the subject to a modern-day phenomena. Praedoc Student Workshop: Towards a Central European School in Modern HistoryDate and plac March 2027, Budapest Summary of the proposal: As a continuation of our collaboration since 2022, the aim of our present proposal is to f international academic exchange between postgraduate students and senior researchers by or thematic workshop on the history of formative social and political processes in Central an in the late 19th and 20th centuries, using comparative and transnational approaches. We designed the event to give equal emphasis to the presentation, feedback, and the discus issues. Four main objectives are identified. 1) to enhance the quality of PhD programs in modern history and related social sciences by the international exchange of knowledge and skills among PhD students and researchers in t 2) to promote cooperation between CEE universities (Charles University in Prague, Universi University of Warsaw, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest); 3) to further strengthen this cooperation by developing joint educational programs on both levels, as well as by initiating a new Erasmus Mundus program (see below). 4) to give valuable feedback to students to turn their submitted papers into journal publi Digital and AI-Based Innovations in Slavic Lexicography / Corpus-Driven Approaches to Slav LexicographyDate and place of realisation: Autumn 2026 / Spring 2027, workshops takes plac Summary of the proposal: The proposed workshops explore modern approaches to lexicography in Slavic languages, comb linguistics, digital methods and artificial intelligence with cognitive and pedagogical pe project addresses how large language datasets and new technologies are reshaping the way w phraseology and culturally embedded concepts are described across languages such as Polish Czech. The workshops will be held online and will bring together researchers at different career strong focus on PhD students. Participants will engage in practical sessions (e.g. corpus analysis and lexicographic des collaborative work and mentoring activities, supporting skills development and internation The project will also foster long-term cooperation between CENTRAL universities, leading t publications and future funding applications, as well as the development of shared researc digital lexicographic resources. Credible Science in the Age of AI: Towards a Central European Metascience HubDate and plac December 2026, Prague Summary of the proposal: Social sciences have spent the past decade confronting a credibility crisis. Although awar causes has grown, and concrete countermeasures exist, improvements remain slow, held back institutional incentives and the rigidity of established workflows. In addition, advances models now threaten to compound these problems, enabling the production of low-quality or studies at scale. The same technology, however, makes feasible many previously impractical innovations like protocol-fidelity and reproducibility audits, and even entirely new forms of scientific wo evaluation. In this critical time, the workshop brings together Central European researche the practices, norms, and workflows that will turn AI into a force for more credible scien