2026/2027 Tandem Fellow Ana Blandiana Awarded Poland’s 2026 Herbert Prize for Poetry

The prize, awarded annually by the Zbigniew Herbert Foundation to a living author for their entire body of work, will be presented on 27 May 2026, at the National Library of Poland in Warsaw. The award marks the second major recognition of Blandiana’s poetry in Poland, following the 2016 European Poet of Freedom Award, granted by the city of Gdańsk for her poetry volume, My Homeland A4.

CfA: The DigiHum Fellowships at NEC (deadline 15 January 2021)

The ‘Relevance of the Humanities in the Digital Age’ (DigiHum) fellowship program aims to underscore the cognitive functions of the humanities and their potential as critical disciplines by opening them up to issues relevant in/for the contemporary digital world – issues that are “practical”, but also epistemological, ethical, philosophical, etc.

CfA: Ukraine in European Dialogue Fellowships, IWM (Deadline: 31 January 2021)

This Junior Visiting Fellowships aim to support the research of Ukrainian scholars who are completing or have recently completed doctoral studies in a Ukrainian institution of higher education. It offers access to the resources of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna to younger researchers who have demonstrated exceptional talent to allow them to work on a research project of their own choice.

Learning a Different Language: Reading Shubhangi Swarup’s ‘The Latitudes of Longing’ and Aimee Liu’s ‘Glorious Boy’ in the Context of Anthropological Documentation and the Consolidation of the Indian Nation State

On Thursday, November 19, at 5:00 pm, Arunima Bhattacharya will give on Zoom the lecture entitled Learning a Different Language: Reading Shubhangi Swarup’s ‘The Latitudes of Longing’ and Aimee Liu’s ‘Glorious Boy’ in the Context of Anthropological Documentation and the Consolidation of the Indian Nation State.