April 23, 2014
CEU's Center for Media and Communication Studies is participating in VOX-Pol, a five-year, €5.1 million research consortium that will focus on researching the prevalence, contours, functions, and impacts of violent online political extremism and responses to it.
April 22, 2014
The weekend-long Budapest100 event celebrating buildings turning 100 years old was initiated by OSA Archivum and the Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre (KÉK) in 2011. Its goal is to draw attention to the buildings surrounding us and the human values that are around us every day. The program is a civil urban festival that brings people of different social backgrounds and generations closer together. Since 2011, a new set of 100-year-old buildings have opened their doors every year.
April 22, 2014
Following an initiative by CEU’s Center for European Union Research (CEUR), a group of students from the Department of International Relations and European Studies and the Department of Public Policy who took this year's Jean Monnet Module on European Integration submitted questions to the frontrunners in the upcoming European Parliament elections. These questions will contribute to a debate organized by the University of Maastricht in
April 22, 2014
The first meeting of the Mobilization and Mutual Learning (MML) exercise under the Neuro-Enhancement: Responsible Research and Innovation (Grant Agreement No: 321464) EU 7th Framework research project was organized by CEU’s Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine (CELAB) on April 11.
April 22, 2014
Diana Urge-Vorsatz, professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, served as one of the 33 Coordinating Lead Authors from around the world for the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Nobel Laureate Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that was released in Berlin on April 13. Urge-Vorsatz led the building sector related work of the IPCC. The report, titled “Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change,” shows that global emissions of greenhouse gases have risen to unprecedented levels despite a growing number of policies to reduce climate change.
April 22, 2014
CEU Business School and the Embassy of Ireland, in association with the Irish Hungarian Business Circle and Enterprise Ireland, hosted their first Business Forum titled “Doing Business in Central Europe: Some Comparisons with Ireland” on April 9.
April 22, 2014
CEU's School of Public Policy hosted the “Rolling Back the Rollback” conference on April 7 to analyze recent events and developments in a number of European countries that give rise to serious concerns about the stability of democracy in parts of the continent and pose growing challenges to the prospects of open societies in Europe. The conference was conducted in partnership with the Hertie School of Governance and was supported by the Open Society Initiative For Europe (Open Society Foundations) and Robert Bosch Stiftung (Robert Bosch Foundation).
April 22, 2014
CEU hosted “The Hungarian Holocaust: Seventy Years Later” conference on April 6, bringing together the top scholars in the field to share their research on the leadup to the atrocity, the responsible actors, the effects of the destruction, and the ways in which the Hungarian Holocaust is remembered and commemorated. For more information, see http://www.ceu.hu/article/2014-04-10/hungarian-holocaust-70-years-later
April 22, 2014
The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility programme offering 10-month residencies at one of the 16 participating Institutes: Berlin, Bologna, Budapest, Cambridge, Delmenhorst, Edinburgh, Freiburg, Helsinki, Jerusalem, Lyon, Marseille, Paris, Uppsala, Vienna, Wassenaar, Zurich. The Institutes for Advanced Study support the focused, self-directed work of outstanding researchers.
April 22, 2014
In CEU Press’ latest book, Gabor Vermes (Rutgers University) tells the story of how dominant Habsburgs and subjugated Hungarians evolved into becoming near equal partners in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, demonstrating the deep cultural differences between the two halves of the Monarchy, which were nevertheless closely linked by economic and administrative ties and by a mutual recognition that co-existence was preferable to any major rupture.
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