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. 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 European Union and its neighboring states.
November 13, 2012
Miklos Haraszti, visiting professor in the Department of Public Policy, was appointed 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
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 Visting 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.
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 schools and research institutes, see https://www.ceu.hu/node/32635.
November 6, 2012
The CEU Alumni Campaign has raised more than $55,000 this year, enabling CEU to award 21 student scholarships for the 2012-13 academic year—the largest number of recipients since the scholarship’s inception. The scholarship is awarded to students with a demonstrated commitment to community service and leadership potential. The scholarship is funded exclusively by donations from CEU alumni and friends to the Alumni Campaign. A new video produced by the Alumni Relations and Career Services office highlights the 2012-2013 scholarship winners and the causes that motivate them.
October 30, 2012
Name: Stuart DurrantCEU title/role: Director, Campus Redevelopment Office, and faculty member at CEU Business SchoolNumber of years at CEU: 5Home city/town & country: St. Albans, UK
What’s the most fascinating place you’ve ever been?
Chewacla State Park, Alabama
What movie would you most like to recommend?
12 Angry Men
What food did you hate as a child but grew up to love?
Onions
October 30, 2012
This October, the Semester Restaurant on the ground floor of Nador 9 served 1,100 kilos of meat, 600 kilos of potatoes, 900 kilos of other fresh vegetables, 600 kilos of fresh fruit, and 120 kilos of bread. Open for breakfast and lunch, the restaurant feeds some 400 people every weekday.
October 30, 2012
Open Society Archives presents the 9th Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival from Nov. 6 through 11. The films address topics including Ukrainian child laborers, Swedish transsexuals, Chilean political prisoners, Italian homeless, Russian anarchist artists, Zambian polygamists, and Hungarian prisoners. The festival also features meetings with filmmakers and producers, roundtable discussions and late-night concerts.
October 30, 2012
OSA will hold a workshop on Nov. 5 to exchange knowledge in the field of digitizing cultural heritage collections in non-state institutions in Central Europe. The workshop will showcase two of OSA’s EU-supported Best Practices Network projects. One is the HOPE project, which brings together European social history institutions aiming to improve access to the vast and growing amount of significant but scattered digital collections on social history.
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