One of the most important developments or events in the unit's history
The Center has edited East Central Europe, a peer-reviewed journal of social sciences and humanities with a focus on the region between the Baltic and the Adriatic, since 2004.
Pasts, Inc. launched a book series with Brill in 2012, to promote disciplinary and interdisciplinary research on all aspects of Central and Eastern Europe: history, society, politics, economy, religion, culture, literature, languages and gender, with a focus on the region between the Baltic and the Adriatic in local and global context. Five volumes have been published since 2012.
The Center participated in a number of considerable projects, several of which resulted in book publication, such as:
- European National Museums: Identity Politics, the Uses of the Past and the European Citizen
- Europe and Beyond: Transfers, Networks and Markets for Musical Theatre in Modern Europe
- CEU-HESP Comparative History Project
- Shared/Entangled Histories: Comparative Perspectives on Hungary and Romania
- Narratives Unbound: Historical studies in post-communist Eastern Europe
- Between Home and Host Cultures: Twentieth-Century East European Writers in Exile
The most important development in 2014-15
The Center has been hosting guest researchers from Japan in the framework of a partnership between Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and the Department of History at CEU.
Other important developments in 2014-15
Pasts, Inc. founded and co-organized a number of conferences and workshops, with a special regard to encouraging young scientists' initiatives. From AY 2015-16, the Center will host the Specialization in Political Thought.
Engagement with external entities in 2014-15
- The Mapping the System of National Cooperation conference on June 26-27, 2015 in Vienna was organized by the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in cooperation with Pasts, Inc.
- The Center hosted Canons of Hungarian Historiography: Conference in Tribute to Agnes R. Varkonyi on November 21-22, 2014, in cooperation with the Istvan Bibo Center for Advanced Studies.
Faculty distinctions in 2014-15
Constantin Iordachi was promoted to Professor, effective August 1, 2015.
Major events in 2014-15
- East Central Europe, the journal edited by Pasts, Inc. faculty, celebrated its 40th anniversary.
- The Center published the fifth volume in the series "Central and Eastern Europe:" Gabor Almasi and Lav Subaric. Eds. "Latin at the Crossroads of Identity. The Evolution of Linguistic nationalism in the Kingdom of Hungary."
