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…
Conference on the image(s) of the United States in 20th century Hungary
The Institute of Political History and the “Democracy in History” workgroup of the CEU-Democracy Institute held a conference on Spetember 15, 2023 on how the United States was seen in 20th century Hungary. A wide range of topics were discussed mainly by historians but not only: beyond diplomatic and cultural relations also American humanitarianism in…
The Academics Facing Autocracy Program continues
ACADEMICS FACING AUTOCRACY 2.0TURNING “SCHOLARS AT RISK” PROGRAMS INTO ASUSTAINABLE ALTERNATIVE Autocracy attacking universities and research institutions severs the educational sectortwofold. Most visibly, it pushes educators abroad or into inner exile. Less accounted for butwith dire consequences as well is the fact that students lose any access to critical scholarshipunder autocracy. While projects in support…
Political Time Traveling – Middle Ages Reloaded
In the last session of the Jeno Szucs Lecture Series in the current academic year (2022-2023), our workgroup’s medievalists – Prof. Gabor Klaniczay, Nikita Bogachev, Ferenc Kanyo – and Tatiana Szafonova social anthropologist, research fellow of CEU’s Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) provided an interdisciplinary insight in varied representations of medieval history used in literature,…
Democracy and utopianism in East Central Europe: the Jeno Szucs public lecture series continued
In the May edition of the Jeno Szucs lecture series, Zsolt Cziganyik and Iva Dimovska introduced the audience into the theoretical background and novelties of their research project “Democracy in East Central European utopianism” including their original choice of geographic region, as research on utopianism often focuses on the Western, particularly on the Anglo-Saxon world.…
Conference report by our interns: Academics Facing Autocracy: Alternative Modalities and Transnational Resilience in Higher Education
The event took place at CEU Vienna: https://events.ceu.edu/2023-04-17/academics-facing-autocracy-alternative-modalities-and-transnational-resilience-higher Autocratic and illiberal practices are present at many levels in numerous societies, even outside their countries of origin. Academic circles across the globe have been victims of a sustained autocratic effort to suppress their freedom in order to consolidate power and eliminate the seeds of opposition and…
Second Jenő Szűcs Lecture by Alexandr Voronovici
Our research fellow, Alexandr Voronovici, gave a lecture in the framework of the Jenő Szűcs Lecture Series on March 21, 2023, entitled: Secessionism and Historical Politics: Instrumentalizing the Past in the Unrecognized Republics of Donbas and Transnistria. The speaker compared these two para-states (also called “de facto” or separatist states) and their historical-cultural narratives. The…
Upcoming Public Lecture: Secessionism and Historical Politics
The Democracy Institute’s historians launched a public lecture series–Jenő Szűcs Lecture Series–to bring together international as well as local scholars of history and related fields in Budapest as well as online to exchange their results on the interplay between democracy and histor(iograph)y in a broad sense. The series’ title honors the legacy of Jenő Szűcs…
New Lecture Series dedicated to Jenő Szűcs
The Democracy Institute’s historians launched a public lecture series–Jenő Szűcs Lecture Series–to bring together international as well as local scholars of history and related fields in Budapest as well as online to exchange their results on the interplay between democracy and histor(iograph)y in a broad sense. The series’ title honors the legacy of Jenő Szűcs…
“Lost in Transition” – Closing conference
On March 3-4, 2023, the Democracy in History working group hosted the closing conference of a four-years long (2019-2023) research project entitled Lost in Transition: Social Sciences, Scenarios of Transformation, and Cognitive Dissonances in East Central Europe after 1989 coordinated by the Centre for Advanced Study in Sofia, financed by the Porticus Foundation. DI’s lead…
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