November 18, 2014
Pal Baross, director of CEU’s Campus Redevelopment Office, fellow at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS), and chairman of the board at the Budapest Capital Asset Management Agency (BFVK), the government body handling the real estate belonging to the capital, discusses his move from the private sector to heading a local government body in an interview in the Budapest Business Journal. For the complete interview, see attachment.
November 18, 2014
Edit Kalman has been appointed Acting Head of Recruitment, effective November 1.
November 18, 2014
Janka Jozsef has been appointed Director of Student Life, effective October 1.
November 18, 2014
The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany, invites suitable candidates to apply for postdoctoral fellowships in economic sociology, political economy, or contemporary history. Applicants must hold a PhD degree or be scheduled to receive it by August 2015. Fellowships will usually start on Oct. 1, 2015, and will be awarded for one year.
Applications must be submitted by Jan. 31, 2015.
November 18, 2014
Google features Open Society Archives' exhibit entitled “1956-301-1989, Prehistory to the 1989 Fall of Communism of Hungary” on its Cultural Institute website from Nov. 13, as part of a series of exhibits commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Fall of the Iron Curtain.
November 18, 2014
Truth and Objectivity Film Laboratory, is a unique film series that runs through November 20 and aims to explore documentaries associated with historical truthfulness and objectivity. It's related to the CEU course Historiography: Themes in Its History and Approaches to Its Theory.
Program directors: Ioana Macrea-Toma, Istvan Rev and Zsuzsanna Zadori.
Thursday, November 20 at 6:00 p.m.
November 18, 2014
This volume, written by Friederike Kind-Kovacs, assistant professor in the Department for the History of Southeastern and Eastern Europe at the University of Regensburg, is based on extensive archival research, oral history interviews, and contemporary literature. It offers a new perspective on the role of underground literature in the Cold War and challenges readers to recognize gaps in the Iron Curtain.
November 18, 2014
This new overview of Spanish social and political history sets developments in 20th-century Spain within a broader European context. Julian Casanova, visiting professor in the Department of History at CEU, and Carlos Gil Andres, professor of history at the University of Zaragoza, chart the country's experience of democracy, dictatorship and civil war and its dramatic transformation from an agricultural and rural society to an industrial and urban society fully integrated into Europe.
November 18, 2014
A group of 43 students from the rural teaching school in a small town in Mexico were taken away by municipal police on Sept. 26. Shocked by the violent abduction, a group of Mexican CEU students (Marcela Figueroa Franco, Ursula Sanchez, Ana Isabel Enriquez Vargas, Victor Mercader Lara, and Isaac Guzman Estrada) approached Human RightS Initiative, asking to organize a campaign against violence from Mexico.
November 18, 2014
In sixteenth-century Marrakesh, a young Flemish merchant converts to Judaism and takes his Catholic brother on a subversive reading of the Gospels and an exploration of the Jewish faith. Their antagonistic, yet frank and fraternal debate meanders between the themes of clerical oppression, religious imposture, education, true piety, male happiness, social honor, and the course of world history towards its predicted apocalyptic end.
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