Conference: Academics Facing Autocracy:
Devising Sustainable Pedagogical and Institutional Alternatives in Illiberal Times Registration is required for in-person as well as online participation by December 11 here. Zoom link will be sent to registered guests. Date: December 14-15, 2023 Venue: Central European University, Nador str. 13, 1051 Budapest, Hungary. Room 307/A. Entrance from Nador str. 15. building where you…
Research on Scholars at risk and scholars at risk programs
Within the Academics Facing Autocracy program of the CEU Democracy Institute’s “Democracy in History” workgroup, supported by the Open Society University Network, our research team – consisting of Agnes Katalin Kelemen, Michael Kozakowski, Rafael Labanino, Eren Paydas and Maksym Snihyr – examines the experience of scholars at risk (displaced ones as well as of those…
Academics Facing Autocracy 2
A Program by CEU-Democracy Institute’s „Democracy in History” workgroup supported by OSUN Global Visiting Fellowship The concluding conference of Academics Facing Autocracy in April showed the need for new modalities to teach higher education under illiberal rule. As the continuation of the workgroup’s Academics Facing Autocracy program, current deliberations focus on teaching and research in…
Intersecting Histories: Exploring Interdisciplinary Perspectives onFriendship
Central European University Budapest, Quantum Room І 23–24 November 2023What do we talk about when we talk about friendship? The workshop aims to provide avariety of answers to the said question from the humanities and social sciencesperspective. It brings together a group of established scholars and early careerresearchers who will explore recent trends in the…
POSTDOCTORAL JOB CALL
POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS FOR THE PROJECT”OVERCOMING THE AGGRESSOR.SELF-PERCEPTION AND EXTERNALPERCEPTION OF AN ACTOR BETWEEN NATIONS”(Central European University Democracy Institute, Budapest) We invite applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow position within the project “Overcoming theAggressor. Self-Perception and External Perception of an Actor Between Nations.” Directedby Prof. Dr. Thomas Maissen (History Department, Heidelberg University) and supported bya generous grant…
Successful Hungarian book launch
On October 27, 2023 Napvilág publishing house and the Democracy in History workgroup of the CEU Democracy Institute launched a biography of the late Hungarian historian Péter Hanák by Péter Csunderlik: Egy különleges közép-európai történész (A special historian from Central Europe). Not only historians but many intellectuals who remember Péter Hanák as a public intellectual…
Lecture on Early Modern concerns about populism -by Cesare Cuttica
On October 20, Cesare Cuttica, scholar of intellectual history gave a public lecture at the CEU-Democracy Institute on the history of criticisms against democracy as a form of organizing the state. He argued that while most histories of democracy claim that the term as well as the concept of democracy was largely forgotten after the…
Contested Memories: Antifascism, Jews and the Holocaust
The Budapest Jewish Studies Colloquium in cooperation with the CEU-Democracy Institute, the CEU Jewish Studies Program and the Tom Lantos Institute cordially invites you to a roundtable discussion Contested Memories: Antifascism, Jews and the Holocaust Speakers: Tímea Jablonczay, Ágnes Katalin Kelemen, Daniel Véri, Máté Zombory.Moderated by Eszter Susán. on October 19, 5:30 p.m. – 7:00…
New season of the Jeno Szucs Lecture Series was launched by Victor Karády
On September 26, 2023 the second season of our research group’s public lecture series was launched by Victor Karády historical sociologist and professor emeritus. Among other topics, the openness of late 18th-early 19th century Austro-Hungary towards Jewish immigration and its demogrpahic reasons, Jewish integration during the Gründerzeit, assimilation and the decline of acceptance towards Jews…
New Season of the Jenő Szűcs Lecture Series Starts
The Democracy in History workgroup of CEU’s Democracy Institute cordially invites you to a new session of the Jeno Szucs Lecture Series: The Uniqueness of Hungarian Jewry Revisited by Victor Karady on September 26, 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m. in Budapest, Nádor street 15, room 104 or on Zoom. Meeting ID: 983 8238 5277 Passcode: 047171 Registration…
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