CEU Open House 2018

Join us at the CEU Open House on Thursday, December 6, 2018!

We have a whole day of events planned for you, including presentations about our academic programs, how to apply to CEU, scholarship opportunities, and student life. Get a first-hand experience of what it is like to be a CEU student at our Open Classes and make sure you visit your department or school’s booth at the Meet your Department/ School session.

Kutatók Éjszakája a CEU-n / Researchers' Night at CEU

(scroll down for English)

Érdekel a CEU-n folyó tudományos munka? Várunk szeptember 28-án, a Kutatók Éjszakáján a CEU magyar nyelvű előadásaira!

Interested in CEU's scientific work? We're looking forward to seeing you at Researchers' Night at CEU on September 28! The lectures will be in Hungarian, but the interactive games and exhibitions will be available in English as well.

Előadások a CEU Nádor u. 15. Auditorium A termében:

Exhibition: Suicide – Hungary 1956-1986

“Suicide is an event of human nature, which… in every epoch must be discussed anew.”
                                                            Goethe

SUICIDE – Hungary 1956–1968

An exhibition at Galeria Centralis, Blinken OSA, from September 28  to November 4, 2018

Opening Ceremony: September 28, 2018, 6 p.m.

Opening remarks by Krisztina Toth

Transforming Academia: New Tools for Transnational Analysis in Postgraduate Intersectional Gender Research

In the midst of the current attacks on Gender Studies, which are aiming to undermine its academic legitimization, this round table proposes to discuss the significance of research in the field from an interdisciplinary perspective. The focus of this discussion is on intersectional approaches and transnational perspectives, to be interrogated as productive theoretical and methodological starting points in creating new tools for research across disciplines.

Second World War family memory cultures and femininity constructions: The diary of an NSDAP member.

Family memories of the Second World War in Germany remain a research desiderata, even though there is some on transgenerational story telling. The focus of the talk will be the analysis of a war diary and two autobiographical accounts of a woman who used to be a member of the NSDAP and an active supporter of the war. The diary was written for her husband who as a soldier was missing from 1943 onwards.

Historical Geographers and Pre-Modern Regions : A Complicated Relationship, by András Vadas (Eötvös Loránd University)

Human and historical geography from their beginnings was using the term ‘region’ frequently. Both in the English and the French historical tradition ‘region’ is deeply imbedded and has been considered as a cornerstone in the historical analyses from the late nineteenth century onwards but writing regional histories has a much longer traditions rooting in medieval historiography.

Building Economies of Well-being Discovering Genuine Wealth and Happiness

By
Mark Anielski

Author (An Economy of Well-being & The Economics of Happiness)
and Well-being Economist

Introduction: Dr. Laszlo Pinter, Professor and Head of Department, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy and Senior Fellow, International Institute for Sustainable Development