Watch Our Webinars and Info Sessions | Central European University

Are you in the middle of applying to CEU? Or thinking about starting an application? We’ve got great news for you!

The next couple of weeks will be packed with webinars, open sessions and roundtable discussions to offer you a taste of studying at CEU, exposure to experts in different fields of research and interesting events you can expect as a CEU students. Check below our ever growing list of various events where you can also meet our students and professors.

Please note that all times refer to Central European Time.

Academic webinar series, October 2022

Cultural Heritage (October 3, 3:40 pm)

RAP & multi-genre productions in Vienna
Guest lecture of Dacid Go8blin/Dafina Sylejmani, aka Dacid Go8blin, artist, rapper, and founder of the Flinta collective Femme Dmc

Economics and Business (October 5, 5:30 pm)
How to help poor households cope with the energy crisis?
Roundtable discussion / Adam Zawadowski, Head of Department; Alice Kügler, assistant professor; Maike Elsäßer, CEU student
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International Relations (October 7, 1:30 pm)
Order-making through productive ambiguity: Locating liberal and others idea and institutions in the use of force and peace operations / Stephanie Hofmann, European University Institute
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Cultural Heritage (October 10, 6 pm)

Mapping Senufo: Art from West Africa, gaps in data, and the contingency of knowledge / Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi, associate professor of art history

Network and Data Science (October 10, 2:30 pm)

MS in Data Science, Meet the Department of Network and Data Science / Marton Karsai, associate professor

Gender Studies (October 10, 11:40 am)

Talking with men: Ethnographic research among transnational labour migrants / Mahua Sarkar, historical sociologist

Cultural Heritage (October 11, 7:30 pm)

Challenging the theater of memory: Yiddish song beyond kitsch and stereotype. A lecture-concert by Benjy Fox-Rosen conductor of the Vienna Stadttempel Choir and researcher of Yiddish and Jewish liturgical music, and Isabel Frey, Yiddish singer and PhD candidate

Public Policy (October 12, 5:30 pm)

EU: Strong and Responsible, but How? / Wilhelm Molterer, former Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister of Austria and chairman of the Austrian People’s Party

Sociology and Social Anthropology (October 12, 13:30 pm)

Infrastructure, im/mobility, and the environment (Open Class) This course delves into some of the recent social scientific approaches to infrastructure. Through grounded studies from across the globe, the event will discuss how infrastructural projects shape and are shaped by global inequalities, and how they intersect with mobility and the environment. Johanna Markkula, Assistant Professor

Legal Studies (October 12, 11 am)
Reproductive justice under pressure: Human rights and constitutional law perspectives– Roundtable discussion / Inga Winkler, associate professor, chair of the Human Rights program; Markus Böckenförde, associate professor, chair of the Constitutional Law program; Juliana Cesario Alvim Gomes, visiting professor; Sruthisagar Yamunan, SJD/Dr.Iur
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Political Science (October 13, 3 pm)

Why should you apply for Political Science Master's at CEU? / Zsolt Enyedi, MA director; Andres Moles, Head of Department; Justyna Montenegro, department coordinator

History (October 13, 8:50 am)
Discourses of order: An introduction to premodern political thought / Matthias Riedl, associate professor

Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations (October 14, 3 pm)
Meet DSPS and the authors of antisemitic tropes, fifth-columnism, and “Soros-bashing”: The curious case of Central European University / Speakers: Michael Merlingen, Erin Kristin Jenne, András Bozóki, Hong Do, Péter Visnovitz
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Sociology and Social Anthropology (October 17, 5:30 pm)
Integrating the arts into social science research on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on racialized communities / Raminder Kaur, University of Sussex
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Business Analytics (October 18, 5:30 pm)

Data engineering vs. data science - find out which fits you better

Miklos Koren

Environmental Sciences and Policy (October 19, 8:50 am)

Targeting colonialism, socio-spatial stigmatization, and exploitation in the quest for environmental justice / Tamara Steger, associate professor; Zoltan Illes, associate professor
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Political Science (October 19, 13:30 pm)

Familiarity with the political role of ethnic minorities reduces voter bias against candidates of immigrant origin / Julia Schulte-Cloos (European University Institute)

POSTPONED: Legal Studies (October 19, 2 pm)
The transformation of international economic adjudication: comparative insights from investment arbitration and WTO dispute settlement / Tommaso Soave, assistant professor, co-director of the doctoral program; Markus Petsche, associate professor, chair of the Global Business Law and Regulation program
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Cognitive Science (October 19, 4 pm)
Where would Waldo have been? Understanding counterfactual language understanding /
Eva Wittenberg
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Sociology and Social Anthropology (October 25, 15:40 pm)

Economic Transformations: Platforms, bots, teams - Balazs Vedres

PREVIOUS EVENTS

Meet CEU Students and the Enrollment Team | webinar on graduate studies (January 18, 2022)
Apply to CEU’s Department of Political Science (January 7, 2022)
Apply to CEU’s Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy, and International Relations (January 7, 2022)
Apply to CEU’s Cultural Heritage Studies Program (January 10, 2022)
Apply to CEU’s Department of Philosophy (January 11, 2022)
Apply to CEU’s Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy (January 11, 2022)
Apply to CEU’s Department of Public Policy (January 12, 2022)
Apply to CEU’s Department of History (January 17, 2022)
Apply to CEU's Nationalism Studies Program (January 18, 2022)
Apply to CEU’s Department of Legal Studies (January 19, 2022)
Apply to CEU’s Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology (January 19, 2022)
Apply to CEU’s Department of International Relations (January 19, 2022)
Apply to CEU’s Department of Cognitive Science (January 20, 2022)
MA vs PhD. Economics vs Economic Policy. Which should I apply to? (January 21, 2022)

On November 19, 2021 the CEU Virtual Open House took place for the second time.

You can watch or re-watch the Introduction to CEU presentation, and the sessions on graduate application requirements and career services to learn about our world-class degree programs, the ins and outs of the application process, and career services.

Do not miss the panel discussion with current graduate students and get a glimpse into what it's like to study at CEU.

Catch up with the Meet Your Department webinars to hear professors and current students introduce their department and share insider application tips: