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Month view / Week view / Day view

Saturday September 30

Somewhere in Europe - Gaudiopolis
Unit: Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives
Type: Exhibition
Arany Janos u. 32, Galeria Centralis
10:00am to 6:00pm
September 30, 2017 to October 29, 2017

Monday October 02

11th SOMICS Synergy Week
Unit: Social Mind Center
9:30am to 5:30pm
October 2, 2017 to October 6, 2017
How Much SRISK is Too Much?
Robert F. Engle
Unit: School of Public Policy, Department of Economics and Business
Type: Seminar
Nador u. 15, 103
11:00am to 12:30pm
October 2, 2017
Switching Behavior and Electricity Retail Market Liberalization
Martina Iori
Unit: Center for Network Science
Nador u. 11, 616
1:30pm to 3:00pm
October 2, 2017
Evidence-based Policy Making: Challenges and Opportunities
Robert F. Engle, Lajos Bokros, Julius Horvath, Andrea Weber
Unit: School of Public Policy, Department of Economics and Business
Type: Panel Discussion
Nador u. 15, Auditorium A
5:30pm to 6:30pm
October 2, 2017
CryptoParty | 'How to CryptoParty'
Unit: The Human RightS Initiative
Type: Workshop
Nador u. 15, 106
5:30pm to 8:00pm
October 2, 2017

Tuesday October 03

Aristotle and the Master Science of Life
Dorothea Frede (Universitat Hamburg)
Unit: Department of Philosophy
Type: Lecture
Nador u. 15, 103
3:30pm to 5:10pm
October 3, 2017
Meet the CMDS
Unit: Center for Media, Data and Society
Oktober 6 u. 7, Room 210
4:00pm
October 3, 2017
Religion in the Open Society
Tim Crane
Unit: The Office of the President and Rector
Type: Lecture
Nador u. 15, Auditorium A
5:30pm to 7:00pm
October 3, 2017
CryptoParty | 'Train-the-Trainer'
Unit: The Human RightS Initiative
Type: Workshop
Nador u. 15, 102
5:30pm to 8:00pm
October 3, 2017

Wednesday October 04

Calibrations on Compact Manifolds (UNUSUAL TIME!!!)
László Székelyhidi (Leipzig), International Mathematical Congress speaker
Unit: Department of Mathematics and Its Applications
Type: Lecture
Zrinyi u. 14, 310/A
12:00pm
October 4, 2017
Marketing Mega-Projects through Discourse
Itay Fishhendler
Unit: Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy
Nador u. 13, 416
3:30pm to 4:30pm
October 4, 2017
Using Controlled Experiments to Measure the Effects of Advertising
David Reiley
Unit: Department of Economics and Business
Type: Lecture
Nador u. 15, Tiered Room (103)
4:00pm to 5:15pm
October 4, 2017
Departmental Colloquium: Josep Call, University of St Andrews
Unit: Department of Cognitive Science
Oktober 6 u. 7, 101
5:00pm to 6:30pm
October 4, 2017
Departmental Colloquium: Josep Call (University of St Andrews): Why do apes cooperate?
Josep Call
Unit: Department of Cognitive Science
Oktober 6 u. 7, 101
5:00pm to 6:30pm
October 4, 2017
CryptoParty | 'Train-the-Trainer'
Unit: The Human RightS Initiative
Type: Workshop
Nador u. 15, 106
5:30pm to 8:00pm
October 4, 2017
MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) Welcome Event
Dorothea Frede
Unit: Department of Philosophy
Nador u. 15, 203
6:30pm to 8:00pm
October 4, 2017

Thursday October 05

The Rise, Transformation, and Prospects of “the”/“a” Syrian Uprising
Dr Bassam Haddad
Unit: Center for Religious Studies
Type: Seminar
Nador u. 15, Quantum Room
11:00am to 12:30pm
October 5, 2017
CPS Seminar: Experiences from Knowledge Exchanges in Australia and Brazil
Daniela Craciun, Leyla Safta-Zecheria , Violetta Zentai
Unit: Center for Policy Studies
Nador u. 13, 517
11:00am to 12:30pm
October 5, 2017
Racial Cities: The Segregation of Roma in Urban Europe
Angéla Kocze, Judit Bodnar, Daniel Monterescu, Giovanni Picker
Unit: Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
Type: Panel Discussion
Nador u. 9, Monument Building, Gellner
4:00pm to 6:30pm
October 5, 2017
Racial Cities: The Segregation of Roma in Urban Europe
Judit Bodnár, Giovanni Picker, Angéla Kóczé, Daniel Monterescu
Unit: Romani Studies Program
Nador u. 9, Monument Building, Gellner Room
4:00pm
October 5, 2017
Practising Refugee Law in the Heart of a Refugee Crisis: the case of Greece
Athanasia Georgopoulou
Unit: Department of Political Science
Nador u. 13, GO5 VIP Room
4:15pm to 6:00pm
October 5, 2017
Why Europe Still Needs Human Rights
Michael O'Flaherty
Unit: Department of Legal Studies
Type: Lecture
Nador u. 9, Monument Building, Popper
5:00pm
October 5, 2017
Alumni Reception in Warsaw with CEU President Michael Ignatieff
Unit: Alumni Relations
6:00pm to 9:00pm
October 5, 2017

Friday October 06

CryptoParty
Unit: The Human RightS Initiative
Type: University Life
, Off Campus
7:00pm to 10:00pm
October 6, 2017

Monday October 09

Old and New Engines: Shifting Power and Strategic Alternatives for EU and V4 after Brexit?
Unit: Center for European Neighborhood Studies
Type: Conference
Nador u. 15, 103 Tiered
9:30am to 2:00pm
October 9, 2017
Double/Debiased Machine Learning for Treatment and Causal Parameters
Victor Chernozhukov (MIT)
Unit: Department of Economics and Business
Type: Seminar
Nador u. 15, Quantum Room (101)
11:00am to 12:15pm
October 9, 2017
Circadian Rhythms of Urban People – Are We Like Fruit Flies?
Kimmo Kaski
Unit: Center for Network Science
Nador u. 11, 616
1:30pm to 2:30pm
October 9, 2017
Globalization and Political Realignment in Western Europe
Piero Stanig
Unit: Department of Political Science
Type: Lecture
Nador u. 15, Quantum 101
3:30pm to 5:00pm
October 9, 2017
WH + Nádasdy
Unit: Center for Arts and Culture
Type: Concert
Nador u. 15, Auditorium A
7:00pm to 8:30pm
October 9, 2017

Tuesday October 10

Aristotle on Biological Kinds
Nicola Carraro (University of Campina, CEU IAS)
Unit: Department of Philosophy
Type: Seminar
Nador u. 15, 103
3:30pm to 5:10pm
October 10, 2017
The Open Society and the Problem of Corruption: Diagnosis and Remedies
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
Unit: The Office of the President and Rector
Type: Lecture
Nador u. 15, Auditorium A
5:30pm to 7:00pm
October 10, 2017
JS Lecture Series - The Gantse Megillah: Collecting and Displaying Judaica in 18th-Century Central Europe
Michael Korey
Unit: Nationalism Studies Program
Type: Lecture
Nador u. 9, Monument Building, Gellner
6:00pm to 7:30pm
October 10, 2017

Wednesday October 11

Large Higher Rank Locally Symmetric Spaces Are Also Fat
Miklós Abert
Unit: Department of Mathematics and Its Applications
Type: Seminar
Zrinyi u. 14, 310/A
2:00pm
October 11, 2017
Theorising social mechanisms: The return of geopolitics in Europe. A Research Seminar by Stefano Guzzini
Unit: Department of International Relations
Nador u. 15, Quantum 101
3:30pm to 5:15pm
October 11, 2017
Seeing Mental States: An Empirical Approach to the Problem of Mental States Observability
Andrea Cavallo
Unit: Social Mind Center
Type: Lecture
Oktober 6 u. 7, 101
5:00pm to 6:30pm
October 11, 2017
New Light on Old Instruments: An Optical Safari in Search of the World's Oldest Surviving Telescopes
Michael Korey (Dresden State Art Galleries)
Type: Lecture
Nador u. 9, Monument Building, Gellner
5:30pm to 6:55pm
October 11, 2017
Uses, Misuses and Abuses of Historical Periodization
Gabor Klaniczay
Unit: Department of Medieval Studies
Type: Lecture
Nador u. 9, Monument Building, TIGY (203)
5:30pm to 7:00pm
October 11, 2017
Human Rights and the New Patriotism
Unit: School of Public Policy
Type: Academic & Research
Nador u. 15, Auditorium B
6:00pm
October 11, 2017

Thursday October 12

1917: Beyond Two Narratives
Unit: Department of History
Nador u. 9, Monument Building, Hanák (201)
5:40pm
October 12, 2017

Friday October 13

10th In-house Graduate Philosophy Conference
Tim Crane
Unit: Department of Philosophy
Type: Conference
Nador u. 15, 202-203.
10:00am to 4:30pm
October 13, 2017 to October 14, 2017
A Network-Based Approach to Infer Missing Interactions and Functional Behavior in Biological Systems
István Kovács
Unit: Center for Network Science
Nador u. 11, 616
11:00am to 12:30pm
October 13, 2017
The Rule of Law and Academic Freedom
Unit: Department of Legal Studies
Nador u. 9, Monument Building, Gellner
3:00pm to 6:00pm
October 13, 2017
“Decision-making of persons with severe cognitive disabilities – do philosophical conceptions of autonomy matter for law?”
János Fiala-Butora ( HAS)
Unit: Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine
Nador u. 15, 104
3:30pm to 5:00pm
October 13, 2017
The Binary Bind: Inversion, Intersexuality, and a Very Queer Kunstlerroman
Madelyn Detloff
Unit: Department of Gender Studies
Type: Lecture
Nador u. 9, Monument Building, Popper
5:30pm
October 13, 2017

Monday October 16

The Limits to Moral Erosion in Markets: Social Norms and the Replacement Excuse
Björn Bartling (University of Zurich)
Unit: Department of Economics and Business
Type: Seminar
Nador u. 15, 106
11:00am to 12:15pm
October 16, 2017
Network Methods to Detect Cartels in Public Auction Markets
Johannes Wachs
Unit: Center for Network Science
Nador u. 11, 616
1:30pm to 3:00pm
October 16, 2017
Populist or Communist Nostalgia? Peoples’ Economy in Post-Socialist European Union
Juraj Buzalka
Unit: Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
Type: Lecture
Nador u. 9, Monument Building, Gellner
5:30pm to 7:00pm
October 16, 2017

Tuesday October 17

Conceptual Ethics and the Methodology of Normative Inquiry
David Plunkett (Dartmouth College)
Unit: Department of Philosophy
Type: Seminar
Nador u. 15, 103
3:30pm to 5:10pm
October 17, 2017
A New Gas Paradigm in Eastern Europe?
Akos Losz, Andras Deak, Michael LaBelle
Type: Lecture
Nador u. 9, Monument Building, Popper Room
4:30pm to 5:30pm
October 17, 2017
Constitutionalism in Closing Societies
Andras Sajo
Unit: The Office of the President and Rector
Type: Lecture
Nador u. 15, Auditorium A
5:30pm to 7:00pm
October 17, 2017
Empire > State > Media
Lee Grieveson
Type: Lecture
Nador u. 15, Quantum room
5:30pm
October 17, 2017

Wednesday October 18

From Vital Forces to Models of Organism. Reassessing and Reconstructing Enlightenment Vitalism
Charles T. Wolfe
Unit: Institute for Advanced Study
Type: Seminar
Nador u. 15, 103
11:00am to 1:00pm
October 18, 2017
Town Hall meeting
Karoly Boroczky
Unit: Department of Mathematics and Its Applications
Zrinyi u. 14, 310/A
2:00pm
October 18, 2017
‘Back to the Communities’: The Role of Grassroots Initiatives in Sustainability Transitions
Gabriella Doci
Unit: Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy
Type: Lecture
Nador u. 15, 101, Quantum Board room
4:00pm to 5:00pm
October 18, 2017
Departmental Colloquium: Marko Nardini (University of Durham): Perceptual development as optimisation of inference
Unit: Department of Cognitive Science
Oktober 6 u. 7, 101
5:00pm to 6:30pm
October 18, 2017
Kész a leltár – Vásárhelyi Miklós by Gyula Kozák (event in Hungarian)
Unit: Department of Political Science
Type: Book Launch
Nador u. 15, Auditorium
5:00pm
October 18, 2017

Thursday October 19

After the Bundestag Election: What Lies Ahead for German-V4 Cooperation?
Unit: Center for European Neighborhood Studies
Type: Roundtable
Nador u. 15, 103 Tiered
9:30am to 12:30pm
October 19, 2017
CANCELLED: CEU Alumni Breakfast with CEU President and Rector Michael Ignatieff
Unit: Alumni Relations
10:30am to 12:00pm
October 19, 2017
Bashar al-Asad’s Political Engineering and the Rupture of the Social Contract (2000-2010)
Laura Ruiz de Elvira
Unit: Center for Religious Studies
Type: Seminar
Nador u. 15, Quantum Room
11:00am to 12:30pm
October 19, 2017
Visit by Budapest Semester in Mathematics students
Pál Hegedűs
Unit: Department of Mathematics and Its Applications
Zrinyi u. 14, 310/A
4:30pm
October 19, 2017
CANCELLED!! The role of interpreters between refugees and the society. Voicing refugees' claims in Greece
Athina Iliadou
Unit: Department of Political Science
Type: Seminar
Nador u. 15, 101 Quantum
5:30pm to 7:00pm
October 19, 2017
Romani Studies Program Launching Reception
Unit: Romani Studies Program
Nador u. 13, Atrium
5:30pm
October 19, 2017
Haydn, Brahms & Kurtág
Unit: Center for Arts and Culture
Type: Concert
Oktober 6 u. 7, Oktober Hall
7:00pm to 8:30pm
October 19, 2017

Friday October 20

The Political, Legal and Moral Philosophy (POLEMO) seminar meeting
Stanislas Richard
Unit: Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy, and International Relations
Nador u. 13, 302
11:00am to 12:40pm
October 20, 2017
Conversations on the Refugee Crisis: Who is a refugee? What is a refugee?
Unit: Department of Legal Studies
Nador u. 13, 301
3:30pm
October 20, 2017

Tuesday October 24

Simplicity: The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel
PETER ACHINSTEIN (Johns Hopkins University)
Unit: Department of Philosophy
Type: Seminar
Nador u. 15, 103
3:30pm to 5:10pm
October 24, 2017
Figure in the Text: Language and Utterance as Ornaments
Zoltan Szegedy-Maszak
Type: Lecture
Nador u. 11, 004
5:30pm
October 24, 2017
Key to Open Society, Target of Political Hostility?
Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger (WU Vienna), Michael Ignatieff
Type: Panel Discussion
, Venue: Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
6:00pm
October 24, 2017
Alumni Event in Saint Petersburg
Unit: Alumni Relations
7:30pm
October 24, 2017

Wednesday October 25

‘Little’ Slovaks, Jews and the Others in Sečovce: Biography of a Town
Hana Kubátová
Unit: Institute for Advanced Study
Type: Seminar
Nador u. 15, 103
11:00am to 1:00pm
October 25, 2017
SMART Map project Executive Board Meeting
Enikő Demény
Unit: Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine
2:00pm to 5:00pm
October 25, 2017
Generic analytic structures on normal surface singularities
János Nagy
Unit: Department of Mathematics and Its Applications
Zrinyi u. 14, 310/A
2:00pm
October 25, 2017
Ivory-Tower Scholars and Public Intellectuals: How to write a serious non-academic book if you're an academic
Erica Benner
Unit: Department of International Relations
Type: Seminar
Nador u. 15, 103
3:30pm to 5:15pm
October 25, 2017
The Maribor Uprisings
Maple Razsa
Unit: Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
Type: Film Screening
Nador u. 15, Quantum room (Nador 15, room 101)
3:30pm to 6:00pm
October 25, 2017
Departmental Colloquium: The Seeds of Social Learning
Annie E. Wertz
Unit: Department of Cognitive Science
Type: Lecture
Oktober 6 u. 7, 101
5:00pm to 6:30pm
October 25, 2017
'Europe' in the Middle Ages between Past and Present – Historical Period or Identity Concept
Felicitas Schmieder
Unit: Department of Medieval Studies
Type: Lecture
Nador u. 9, Monument Building, Gellner
5:30pm to 7:00pm
October 25, 2017

Thursday October 26

Spontaneous Visuospatial Perspective-taking in Humans
Martin Freundlieb
Unit: Department of Cognitive Science
Type: Defense
Oktober 6 u. 7, 101
10:00am to 1:00pm
October 26, 2017
‘Gypsies and Anarchists’: Autonomy, Solidarity, and Sacrifice in Belgrade, Serbia
Frederick Schulze
Unit: Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
Type: Defense
Nador u. 9, Monument Building, Senate room
11:00am to 2:00pm
October 26, 2017
Gerrymandering the Nation. A Political Transaction Cost Theory of Populism
Zoltan Adam
Unit: Department of Political Science
Type: Seminar
Nador u. 15, 106
1:30pm to 3:10pm
October 26, 2017
Academic Journalism: Writing Research for Readers
Peter Geoghegan
Unit: Department of International Relations
Type: Seminar
Nador u. 15, 106
4:00pm to 5:30pm
October 26, 2017
CEMS COLLOQUIUM: The Poetics of Ambivalence in al-Ma’arri’s Luzumiyyat, and Issues of Freethinking and Persecution
Sona Grigoryan
Unit: Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies
Type: Lecture
Nador u. 15, 101 (Quantum)
5:00pm
October 26, 2017
Go-betweens: Family Resemblances of Collaboration Under Communism
Unit: Pasts Inc., Center for Historical Studies, Department of History
Type: Book Launch
Nador u. 9, Monument Building, Gellner
5:30pm to 7:00pm
October 26, 2017

Friday October 27

European Reforms and the Leadership Deficits of Surplus Germany
Wade Jacoby
Unit: Department of Political Science
Type: Lecture
Nador u. 15, 103 Tiered
3:15pm to 4:45pm
October 27, 2017
SOUNDWALKS (workshop)
Unit: Center for Arts and Culture
Type: Academic & Research
Nador u. 9, Monument Building, 202
3:30pm to 8:30pm
October 27, 2017 to October 30, 2017

Monday October 30

The Origins of Italian NPLs
Luigi Zingales (The University of Chicago Booths School of Business)
Unit: Department of Economics and Business
Nador u. 15, Quantum Room (101)
11:00am to 12:15pm
October 30, 2017
Urban Spatial Politics: Sociality, Community and narratives of Transparency and Corruption in Delhi
Sanjay Srivastava
Unit: Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
Type: Academic & Research
Nador u. 9, Monument Building, Popper room
5:30pm to 8:00pm
October 30, 2017
Julian Casanova: Anarchism: Past and Present
Julian Casanova
Unit: Department of History
Nador u. 11, 004
5:30pm
October 30, 2017

Tuesday October 31

“An Occasional Alliance or a New Power in Europe? The V4’s Coalition Building along the Refugee Issue”
Unit: Center for European Neighborhood Studies
, Oktober Hall
11:00am
October 31, 2017
From substantival to functional vitalism and beyond: souls, organisms—and Margaret Cavendish
CHARLES T. WOLFE
Unit: Department of Philosophy
Nador u. 13, 103
3:30pm to 5:10pm
October 31, 2017