Reflections on the Concept of Academic Freedom

Academic freedom is a core principle of the modern university. It is linked to the liberty of thought as a means of fighting political absolutism and religious intolerance. The present lecture intends to give a restrictive concept of academic freedom, which must not be reduced to free speech. It is a professional freedom which allows academics to do their job correctly. It is a guarantee against many exterior threats, and its substance has a triple dimension: freedom of research, freedom of intramural expression, and freedom of extramural expression.

Instrumentalizing Persuasion: Governmentality and Subjectivity in the BM Studio Films 1955-1988

In his public talk, VSP teaching fellow László Strausz will discuss the focus of his ongoing research project: the analysis of the propaganda- and educational films produced by the film studio of the Hungarian Ministry of Interior between 1958 and 1988 from the perspective of the changes in the applied ideological methods and the rhetoric of persuasion. According to the hypothesis of his research project, the traditional-archaic ideological language of the films produced during the 1950s and early 1960s gradually gives way during the mid-1960s to a technical language that emphasizes the spe

Ambassadors‘ Lectures series “Dreams in Politics“: The Moldovan Dream

The School of Public Policy, Department of International Relations, and Department of Political Science at CEU jointly invite you to the Ambassadors‘ Lectures series “Dreams in Politics“

H.E. Oleg Tulea

Ambassador of Moldova

The Moldovan Dream

Chair: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Bettzuege German Ambassador ret.

Regional Security in Central and Eastern Europe: Trump’s NATO vs PESCO?

The European security environment has undergone radical changes in the past five years. The policy and academic communities are buzzing with talk about a “new Cold War” with Russia, the stalemate in Ukraine has no end in sight, prevalent securitization of the so-called migration crisis is reshaping how Europe sees itself and its security, and US president Trump’s confrontative and often contradictory statements have upended what member states believed to be stable truths about NATO and collective security.

New Intergovernmentalism and EU External Action: From the European Security Strategy to the EU Global Strategy

New intergovernmentalism and EU external action: from the European Security Strategy to the EU Global Strategy

Lead presentation: Professor Pol Morillas,  Barcelona Centre for International Affairs

Chair: Uwe Puetter, Professor, SPP and CEUR Director