November 13, 2012
CEU’s Open House, which welcomes prospective students to speak with faculty and staff from across the University, is scheduled for Nov. 16. The Student Recruitment Office, in cooperation with departments and units, plans presentations about CEU’s academic programs, how to apply, scholarship opportunities, and student life.
November 13, 2012
CEU's School of Public Policy, which is recruiting its inaugural group of students to enroll in fall 2013, will host the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA) Graduate Recruitment Fair on Nov. 14. Along with SPP, 15 schools from the U.S., Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland, and Austria will participate. The fair, to be held in the Octagon, Lap Top Area, and in front of the Auditorium will offer prospective students an opportunity to meet with admission officers and alumni to talk about professional degrees and potential career paths in international affairs.
November 13, 2012
Michael LaBelle, assistant professor at CEU Business School and the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, presented a report on shale gas at a special workshop in the European Parliament in Brussels on Oct. 9. He presented a report he had been asked to write for the Citizens' Petitions Committee of the European Parliament, which addressed the concerns of citizens of Bulgaria and Poland about the risks associated with shale gas extraction, analyzing the policy and business risks. The report, and those of other experts, will be published by the European Parliament.
November 13, 2012
Associate professor Martin Kahanec and Visiting Professor Lucia Kurekova of the Department of Public Policy testified as invited experts before the Advisory Committee on Free Movement of Workers of the European Commission’s Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion Directorate General. They spoke in Brussels on Oct. 30 about the impact of European Union enlargement on labor mobility. The Advisory Committee assists the European Commission in the preparation of legislation or policy definition.
November 13, 2012
CEU’s Department of Economics ranks ninth in Europe in the number of European Research Council grants held by current permanent faculty, according to its own calculations based on public data. For more information, including a list of the top 13 schools and research institutes, see https://www.ceu.hu/node/32635.
November 13, 2012
Kiril Sharapov will join the Center for Policy Studies as a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow in January 2013, having secured two years of research funding from the Marie Curie Actions of the European Commission's Seventh Framework Program. Dr Sharapov comes to CEU from Glasgow Caledonian University, where he was a lecturer in sociology. At CPS he will pursue a project to explore how trafficking in human beings is understood by the general public in countries of the enlarged EU and its neighboring states.
November 13, 2012
Miklos Haraszti, visiting professor in the Department of Public Policy, was appointed the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus by the U.N. Human Rights Council. In his new role, effective Nov.
November 13, 2012
CEU’s Human RightS Initiative invites applications to participate in a one-day workshop, Fundraising for NGOs, on Dec. 1. The workshop is part of HRSI’s Capacity-Building Program, aimed at providing students with practical skills needed to work in the not-for-profit sector. The trainer, Ailsa Spindler, development manager at the European Roma Rights Center, will help participants learn how to develop a successful funding strategy, identify potential funding sources, maximize the likelihood of success, and report project progress to funding organizations.
November 13, 2012
Maria Kovacs, professor and director of the Nationalism Studies Program, wrote this book addressing Jewish racial quotas in Hungary leading up to and throughout World War II. Hungary’s racial quota law of 1920 was the first anti-Semitic law passed in Europe after World War I, making the history of this period of particularsignificance.
Published in November by Napvilag Kiado.http://napvilagkiado.eu/webaruhaz/shop.product_details/1-ujdonsagaink/fl...
November 13, 2012
Boldizsar Nagy, associate professor in the Department of International Relations and European Studies, wrote this volume on Hungarian refugee issues from the fall of communism to European Union accession.
Published this fall by Gondolat Kiado. http://www.gondolatkiado.hu/subpages/main.php?page=booklist&tk=1&char=&l...
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