Peter Molnar, senior research fellow in CEU’s Center for Media and Communication Studies, co-edited a book on hate speech that is being published this month. In The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses, scholars analyze hate speech and its effects and consider potential responses, including criminal-law bans and punishment.
May 8, 2012
April 24, 2012
CEU Business School Professor Peter Hardi is leading CEU's participation in the IMPACT (Impact Measurement and Performance Analysis of CSR) project, the European Commission's largest-ever research and knowledge-development initiative on corporate social responsibility (CSR). Hardi is a professor of business ethics and corporate social responsibility and director of CEU’s Center for Integrity in Business and Government and Center for Business and Society.
April 10, 2012
As countries in Central and Eastern Europe continue to develop after state socialism, CEU Associate Professor of Gender Studies Eva Fodor wants to know how this so-called progress is affecting gender inequality among the poor. In some countries like Estonia and the Czech Republic, women far outnumber men among those who are destitute, but this is not true everywhere. In Hungary and Poland, women are no more likely than men to be poor.
March 26, 2012
Late last year, Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences and Policy Tamara Steger was transfixed by Internet videos showing hundreds of people descending on Wall Street to protest social inequality. From her office in Budapest, she wondered how the Occupy Wall Street movement might represent a new kind of social activism.
“Was it really any different from how people had been talking about social and environmental justice issues?” she says. “Were people thinking differently about these issues now?”
March 12, 2012
Stereotypes and the narratives that accompany them are often hard to dispel. But Martin Kahanec, associate professor in CEU's Department of Public Policy, is using statistical analysis to quell the widely held belief that immigrants move to countries that offer liberal welfare benefits in order to abuse social systems. Kahanec and three colleagues from the Institute for the Study of Labor analyzed data from 1993 to 2008 from 19 EU countries including reports on migration flows, gross domestic product, unemployment, and expenditures on unemployment benefits.
February 24, 2012
Despite policies of inclusion, compulsory education for all, and attempts at establishing multiculturalist arrangements in schools across Europe, minority ethnic students face segregation and discrimination that reinforce, perpetuate, and often even deepen their socio-economic disadvantages. This is the overall conclusion of a comparative research project conducted in nine European countries led by Associate Professor Julia Szalai, a sociologist and recognized expert on Roma and minority rights.
February 13, 2012
This is a key question in today’s economy, where collaboration in teams is increasingly important in many fields, from academia to business to the arts. A three-person CEU research team sought the answer through a study focused on a relatively new and very creative industry – video game development.
January 27, 2012
Erno Teglas, a research fellow in CEU’s Cognitive Development Center, has conducted research demonstrating that dogs follow human communication signals in a similar way to human infants. The resulting paper, written in collaboration with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Eotvos Lorand University, appeared in the Jan. 5, 2012, issue of the scientific journal Current Biology.
December 19, 2011
Andrea Peto, associate professor in CEU’s Department of Gender Studies, delivered the keynote address at the “Women and the Holocaust: New Perspectives and Challenges” conference in Warsaw Nov.17-19. The conference, hosted by the Gender Center Foundation and the Polish Academy of Sciences in partnership with CEU’s Gender Studies Department, brought together historians, researchers, and academics from around the world. The conference was supported by the International Visegrad Fund, Heinrich Boell Stiftung, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and the Beit Warsaw Foundation.
December 19, 2011
Diana Urge-Vorsatz, professor in CEU’s Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, was a contributing author of the United Nations Environment Program’s comprehensive new study on climate change. The study concluded that it is technologically and economically feasible to cut emissions by 2020 to a level that would cap the 21st-century global temperature increase at 2 degrees Celsius.
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