April 26, 2013
Open Society Foundations, a sister organization of CEU, has launched an initiative called Solidarity Now to support people affected by the economic crisis in Greece. Based on the belief that Europe must reclaim its vision of a community based on unity, Solidarity Now is a collaborative funding initiative, accepting donations small and large from individuals and organizations in Europe and elsewhere.
April 26, 2013
In April, two of the University’s senior leaders gave interviews to mainstream Hungarian media outlets. President and Rector John Shattuck spoke with the third largest news portal in Hungary, hvg.hu, about human rights and the rule of law. Shattuck commented, among other topics, on the debate in the United States about the use of drones, the results of the Arab Spring from a human rights perspective, and the greatest challenges that face democracies today.
April 26, 2013
Philosophy Professor Matthew Braham of University of Bayreuth is the winner of the second annual European Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The award, initiated by CEU Chief Operating Officer Liviu Matei and overseen by the University’s Center for Teaching and Learning aims to promote excellence in teaching across the European Higher Education Area.
April 26, 2013
Carl Nordlund, a member of the Political Economy Research Group and a post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for Network Science, won the World Society Foundation Award of Excellence 2013, a biannual award given to papers on world society research. The award was presented at the "Structure of the World Political Economy" conference held this month at the University of California-Riverside, co-hosted by the World Society Foundation and the Political Economy of the World-System section of the American Sociological Association.
April 26, 2013
A paper submitted by doctoral student Imre Gergely Szabo to the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics was selected to receive the Awards Committee Prize for its outstanding scholarship at the society’s annual conference, June 27-29. The prize, for the paper titled "Labour Politics in a Weak Institutional Environment: Structural Power and Strategic Alliances of Healthcare and Education Employees in East Central Europe," is to be presented at the conference’s gala soirée. Szabo is a second-year PhD student in political science with a concentration in political economy.
April 23, 2013
A paper submitted by doctoral student Imre Gergely Szabo to the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics was selected to receive the Awards Committee Prize for its outstanding scholarship at the society’s annual conference, June 27-29. The prize, for the paper titled "Labour Politics in a Weak Institutional Environment: Structural Power and Strategic Alliances of Healthcare and Education Employees in East Central Europe," is to be presented at the conference’s gala soirée. Szabo is a second-year PhD student in political science with a concentration in political economy.
April 23, 2013
Following last year's highly successful first call for applications, CEU and the Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, IWM) in Vienna have launched a new call for applications for CEU doctoral students to pursue a three-month visiting fellowship at IWM. The application deadline is April 30. For details, see http://acro.ceu.hu/news/2013-02-14/ceu-iwm-junior-visiting-fellowship-fo....
April 23, 2013
CEU’s History Department Research Initiative on “Labor History for the 21st Century in a Global Perspective” and fellow conference organizers seek paper proposals on Central, Southeastern and Eastern European labor history for the 10th European Social Science History Conference in Vienna, April, 23-26, 2014. Two panels, one on rural labor and another on labor and state socialism are planned, and more are possible. A roundtable discussion on how research from the region can help promote integration into a global labor history is also planned.
April 23, 2013
CEU Summer University invites innovative, research-based and/or policy-oriented course proposals from faculty members at CEU or elsewhere. SUN courses are usually taught by a team of five to seven faculty members representing a wide range of geographical, disciplinary, and institutional backgrounds. The target audience is master’s and PhD students, junior faculty and researchers, and professionals. The program aims to help strengthen CEU’s research capacity and academic network-building efforts.
April 23, 2013
More and more CEU Press titles are available through BiblioRossica, a portal for academics and scholars that offers expertly selected collections devoted to the most relevant areas of modern Russian, Jewish, Eastern European, and Eurasian humanities. See http://www.bibliorossica.com/index.html.
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