Location: India; project-based with no residency requirement. Open to Indian nationals only.

Award: Up to INR 500,000 (around USD 5,700 / EUR 4,900) per project. Honorarium is capped at 35 percent of the budget. Institutional overhead, building costs, infrastructure and equipment purchases are excluded. No application fee.

Duration: Minimum 12 months, maximum 18 months.

Deadline: 10 Aug 2026

IFA's Arts Research Programme funds research into forms of knowing and thinking rooted in creative, scholarly or cultural practice. It explicitly welcomes experimental and self-reflexive methodologies, practice-based inquiry, interdisciplinary dialogue, community engagement, translation studies and work on marginalised narratives, with a shareable public outcome expected. Open to artists, scholars, curators, translators, educators and practitioner-researchers. ELIGIBILITY IS RESTRICTED: Indian nationals only, and PIO and OCI card holders are explicitly excluded; any collaborators must also be Indian nationals. Applicants need a PAN card and valid ID. PROCESS NOTE: this is a two-stage email application, not a web form. Applicants were expected to discuss the project concept with the Programme Officer (harshita@indiaifa.org) by 11 July 2026, with the final proposal, CV and budget breakdown emailed by 10 August 2026 at 23:59 IST, in an email no larger than 25 MB. Proposals may be written in any Indian language, including English.

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Location: Fukuoka, Japan (Kyushu University Ohashi Campus, in person)

Award: Unpaid, and self-funded. POM explicitly cannot provide financial support for travel, accommodation, registration or other participation costs, and authors of accepted abstracts must register for the conference in order to present. No abstract submission fee.

Duration: Conference in 2027; accepted authors are later invited to submit a full paper of up to 4,000 words

Deadline: 30 Aug 2026

Call for abstracts for the POM (Politics of the Machines) conference in Fukuoka, hosted on Kyushu University's Ohashi Campus, organised around the theme of transduction. TRACKS: 01 The Landscape of Transduction: Infrastructural Entanglements of Energy, Data, and More-than-Human Life; 02 Parasitic Transductions Beyond the Human; 03 Real Machines: Computation, Subjectivity, and the Politics of Reality-Production; 04 Technogenetic Transductions across Fields of Experience: Affective Politics in/for Times of Crisis; 05 Transducing Disgust: Bodies, Technologies, and the Synthetic Uncanny; 06 Methoding Transduction: Sound, Data, Sonic Research; 07 Metabolic Worldviews and Hybrid Intelligences; 08 Fermentative Systems; 09 Unhearing Bodies: Life as Transduction; and 10, an open track for Speculations and Culturing Immature Ideas. FORMATS: academic papers, lecture-performances, artistic interventions and workshops, with proposals for alternative formats also encouraged; indicate the intended format in the submission. FACILITIES: beyond the Multi Purpose Building and Design Library, the campus offers a BioFoodLab (a Biolab and a Foodlab, each holding roughly 20 people) and an Acoustic Research Center (recording studio for up to 50, anechoic chamber for up to 15, echo chamber / reverberation room for up to 10, and semi-anechoic chamber for up to 20), which the organisers flag as relevant to tracks engaging sound, food, perception, signal and technological mediation. SUBMIT: an abstract of up to 500 words under one of the tracks; submissions without a track will be assigned to the most appropriate one. All submissions go through double-blind peer review, and authors of accepted abstracts are invited to present. The submission platform is described as opening soon. AFTER: accepted authors are invited to submit a full paper of up to 4,000 words including references, with a formal call for papers to follow. COSTS: note that this is a self-funded opportunity. Presenting requires paid conference registration, and POM cannot cover travel, accommodation, registration or other participation expenses. DEADLINE: 30 August 2026.

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Location: Tokyo, Japan

Award: Fully funded: round-trip economy airfare, accommodation in a single 25 sqm room at TOKAS Residency (49 sqm twin for duos), per-diem living expenses, plus assistance for research and public relations. No application fee.

Duration: 6 to 12 weeks within one of three 2027/28 periods

Deadline: Closed 16 Jun 2026

TOKAS Research Residency Program 2027 supports international and local creators to conduct research on arts and culture in Tokyo. ELIGIBILITY: practitioners with considerable experience in their specialised area; applicants must not be students at the time of participation (PhD candidates are eligible). DISCIPLINES: visual arts, design, architecture, music, performing arts, curation, art criticism, cultural research and writing. FUNDED: TOKAS covers round-trip economy airfare from the nearest airport to Narita or Haneda, single-occupancy 25 sqm accommodation at TOKAS Residency (49 sqm twin for duo applicants), per-diem living expenses, and provides research and public-relations assistance plus an Open Studio presentation. APPLY: download the Outline and Application Package; submit Application Form (PDF), two letters of recommendation and a portfolio via the Online Submission Form. TIMELINE: open call 19 May to 16 June 2026 (18:00 JST); residency periods are May to July 2027, September to November 2027, or January to March 2028.

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Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (in-person at CBPS office)

Award: INR 25,000 per month stipend, plus access to office space, internet and the CBPS library. The fellowship does NOT cover housing, transportation or any other financial support. No application fee.

Duration: One year (1 August 2026 to 31 July 2027)

Deadline: Closed 31 May 2026

One-year research fellowship at the Centre for Budget and Policy Studies (CBPS), a non-partisan public policy research institution in Bengaluru, mentoring early-career researchers across CBPS's focus areas: education, gender, governance, health and nutrition, public finance, livelihoods and social security. Fellows work alongside CBPS research staff in a collegial academic environment with in-house talks, seminars, workshops and public events, joining ongoing research projects with mentor guidance. ELIGIBILITY: primarily geared toward scholars who have recently completed their Bachelor's or are in the final year of an undergraduate programme; applications especially encouraged from historically underrepresented groups (class, caste, gender, religion, linguistic affiliation, first-generation scholars); scholars from various disciplines and methodological approaches welcome. Apply by emailing a Statement of Purpose (max 1,500 words), CV/resume in MS Word format, and two letters of reference to fellows@cbps.in. Fellowship awards announced 3 July 2026.

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Location: Beijing, China (on-site engagement at PKU expected)

Award: 200,000 CNY annual stipend, paid monthly before tax. Fellows are responsible for their own income tax. No application fee.

Duration: One year, part-time, running 2026 to 2027

Deadline: Closed 31 May 2026

Part-time research fellowship at the Berggruen Institute's Research Center at Peking University, working within one of three core themes (Frontier Science, Technology and Philosophy; Creative Futures; Ancient Wisdom and Planetary Governance), with strong overlap for AI policy, philosophy of technology and computational practice. ELIGIBILITY: open to applicants from any research background; selection is based on the proposal's fit with the Center's themes.

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Location: Fully remote; applicants must be early-career human rights professionals based in the Asia Pacific region

Award: AUD 200-400 per month depending on the fellow's location. This is a low-stipend research fellowship; the work itself is full-time over three months.

Duration: 3 months full-time, 15 June - 11 September 2026 (remote)

Deadline: Closed 25 May 2026

Inaugural 2026 SEAP Fellowship Programme from Nationality for All (NFA) for early-career human rights professionals based in the Asia Pacific region. Two full-time, three-month remote fellows will support the updating and verification of the Second Edition of the Statelessness Encyclopedia Asia Pacific (SEAP) - a regional knowledge resource on statelessness, nationality rights, legal identity and exclusion in the Asia-Pacific region. The three sub-regions (Southeast Asia, East Asia, Central Asia) are divided between the two fellows. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: factchecking and additional desk research on existing SEAP country factsheets; updating SEAP website and report content; integrating and verifying citations across SEAP outputs. TIMELINE: Month 1 onboarding and factchecking; Month 2 website and report updates; Month 3 citation integration. ELIGIBILITY: early-career human rights professionals based in the Asia Pacific region with strong desk research, writing and organisational skills; background in human rights, law, public policy, international relations or related disciplines; knowledge of citizenship rights, statelessness and legal identity systems is desirable but not mandatory. Persons with lived experience of statelessness will be prioritised. APPLY: send CV, cover letter and one original writing sample to info@nationalityforall.org with subject line 'Application - SEAP Fellows 2026' by 25 May 2026 (EOD Bangkok time).

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