Eight projects received funding in the CEMES November Call
On 16 December 2025 the Steering Committee reviewed the applications for the CEMES November Call. We received 13 applications addressing a wide variety of themes, fields and interdisciplinary activities. We distributed grants for a total of approximately 296.000 DKK.
The Committee decided to support the following applications (in alphabetical order):
1. Workshop: “The history of labour migration in the southern Baltic region”
Main applicant: Pål Brunnström
CEMES host-institution: Malmö University.
2. Project: “The age of Prohibition’ in Europe”
Main applicant: Sidsel Eriksen
CEMES host-institution: University of Copenhagen.
3. Workshop: “Non-Ethnic Collaborations in Performance Arts”
Main applicant: Maja Povrzanović Frykman
CEMES host-institution: Malmö University.
4. Academic event: “EU–Georgia Days 2026: Democracy, Europeanisation and the Future of Europe’s Neighbourhood”
Main applicant: Iveri Kekenadze Gustafsson
CEMES host-institution: Lund University.
5. “Exploratory Workshop and Conference Planning: Apprehending Democracy: Ambivalences and Anxieties in Modern Democratic Societies”
Main applicant: Nikolaj Olesen
CEMES host-institution: University of Copenhagen.
6. Workshop: “War Memory and Memory Politics in Republika Srpska”
Main Applicant: Sofie Poulia
CEMES host-institution: University of Copenhagen.
7. Author meets Critics-event: “Rethinking the 1990s – Europe and the Liberal World Order-Building in the Aftermath of the Cold War”.
Main applicant: Morten Rasmussen
CEMES Host-institution: University of Copenhagen.
8. Workshop: “Cold War Spirituality: Emotional Regimes and Religious Life, 1945-1991”
Main Applicant: Erik Sidenwall
CEMES Host-institution: Lund University.
We congratulate all who received funding and very much encourage all to apply to our future calls, the next of which will be in the spring of 2026 for 2026-projects. Please follow the website and LinkedIn for news.
The CEMES Steering Committee.