Advanced Academia Project

Period of activity: 2009-2014

Through this independent fellowship programme CAS will ensure possibilities for conducting independent research in an international, interdisciplinary environment, without restrictions in the selected areas of study - an approach intended to stimulate excellent scholarship at the highest international level.

Negotiating Modernity: History of Modern Political Thought in East-Central Europe

Period of activity: 2008-2013

The Negotiating Modernity Project will map the history of East-Central European political thought from the late eighteenth to the early twenty-first century. Paying attention to both the intra- and extra-regional interferences, and breaking the duality of Western “core” and Eastern “periphery”, it is meant to contribute to the emergence of a truly European perspective of intellectual history. The researchers will answer questions about the key components of European political thought, formulated on the basis of a regional and trans-regional comparative analysis.

European Regions and Boundaries: A Conceptual History

Period of activity: 2012-2013

A key feature of the project is to go beyond both the usual discussions on the heuristics of historical regions, but also expand the toolkit of conceptual history and not just follow a conceptual itinerary per se, but also contextualize this itinerary in terms of the changing political, cultural and especially disciplinary contexts. On the whole, this would help us “temporalize” our spatial terminology, and in turn, analyze the ways historical change is encapsulated by spatial categories.

CAS Newsletter / No 1-2 / 2011

'Shaken Order'

Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770-1945) / Vol.III/2. / Modernism - Representations of National Culture