Department of Medieval Studies

The most important development in 2014-15:

• Empire and Nation: Undergraduate Conference, August 6-9 2015.
• Perspectives on Medieval Social Dynamics and Contacts (Real and Imagined) in China and the West, November 12, 2014 - http://medievalstudies.ceu.edu/events/2014-11-10/perspectives-medieval-s...

Other important developments in 2014-15:

• EU Horizon 2020 – European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant: Tijana Krstic: OTTOCONFESSION: The Fashioning of a Sunni Orthodoxy and the Entangled Histories of Confession-Building in the Ottoman Empire, 15th-17th Centuries http://www.ceu.edu/project/ottoconfession-fashioning-sunni-orthodoxy-and...
• EU Horizon 2020 - ERC Consolidator Grant : István Perczel: JEWSEAST: Jews and Christians in the East: Strategies of Interaction between the Mediterranean and the Indian
• MECERN, Medieval Central Europe Research Network: http://mecern.eu/

Engagement with external entities in 2014-15:

• Communication and knowledge transfer in medieval monastic networks
• Duration: March, 2015 to December, 2016
• Main researcher(s) at CEU: Gábor Klaniczay, József Laszlovszky
• Funding: DAAD, Hungarian Scholarship Board Office
• Research Area: History and Medieval Studies

Major events in 2014-15:

• Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture Series, Averil Cameron, October 2014
• Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture Series, December 2015: Leslie P. Peirce (Silver Professor of History. New York University)
• Piroska and the Pantokrator: Dynastic Memory, Healing and Salvation in Komnenian Constantinople, 3 June 2015