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Seminar by Sam Shuman: A Saint Against the State? The Contemporary Revival of a Hasidic Miracle Worker  

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 public lecture:  A Saint Against the State? The Contemporary Revival of a Hasidic Miracle Worker   by Sam Shuman   on May 15, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.   Central European University  1051 Budapest,…

Budapest Jewish Studies Colloquium Series: lecture on Jewish armed agency by Jan Rybak

(Event postponed from April 18 to June 25.) 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 public lecture:  Can the Subaltern Fight?  Jewish Armed Agency from the Second Partition of Poland to the Wars of Galician Succession  by…

Sam Shuman: A Saint Against the State? Invitation to Budapest Jewish Studies Colloquium 

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 public lecture:  A Saint Against the State? The Contemporary Revival of a Hasidic Miracle Worker   by Sam Shuman   on May 15, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.   Central European University  1051 Budapest,…

CANCELLED: Ágnes Flóra: The citizenship between dues and rights in medieval and early modern urban context. Invitaiton to next Jeno Szucs Lecture

Dear All, Unfortunately, the lecture by Ágnes Flóra (see the invitation below) is cancelled due to health problems. We hope that we can host her in the not distant future. Apologies for any inconvenience caused, The Democracy in History workgroup of the CEU Democracy Institute cordially invites you to a new session of the Jeno…

The Aggressor: Self-Perception and External Perception of an Actor Between Nations

Based on historical case studies, the planned project aims to comparatively research and systematise the perception and interpretation of concrete enemy actors as aggressors. It examines the aggressor not as an (international-) legal actor, but as an ideal type and social figure who represents the hostile group in collective memory as an individual. Aggressors serve…

Launching of ‘BENASTA’ ERC project on minority nationalisms in late 19th-century Eastern Europe

We are happy to announce that the CEU Democracy Institute is launching the ERC Starting Grant BENASTA – Becoming National against the State: Popular discontent and adherence to minority nationalisms in late nineteenth-century Eastern Europe.  The project, probing into non-elite adherence to minority nationalisms in rural Eastern Europe between the 1870s and the First World War,…

Budapest Jewish Studies Colloquium Series

In order to revive the tradition of the popular Jewish Studies public lecture series of CEU’s (Central European University) Jewish Studies Program in Budapest after the university’s move to Vienna , the Democracy in History workgroup of the Budapest-based CEU-Democracy Institute in cooperation with CEU’s Jewish Studies Program (now based in Vienna) and with the…

Yugonostalgia: de- and reconstructing the Yugoslav dream – Public lecture by Milica Popovic

Text and photos by Zsolt Cziganyik On the first day of February, Milica Popovic, political scientist, researcher of Sciences Po (Paris) gave a lecture in the framework of CEU Democracy Institute’s Democracy in History Workgroup’s Jenő Szűcs lecture series. The talk and the discussion centred around the phenomenon of yugonostalgia. Dr. Popovic explained the various uses…

Academics Facing Autocracy: Devising Sustainable Pedagogical and Institutional Alternatives in Illiberal Times. Conference Report.

Conference report by Daniel Palm research fellow, team leader of “Decolonization” team within the Academics Facing Autocracy Program. The Academics Facing Autocracy program presented and discussed the outcomes of its work realized throughout the year 2023. Starting from the understanding that abstract notions of academic freedom and university autonomy lend little protection from contemporary attacks…

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