January 31, 2018
Professor Andrea Peto of the Department of Gender Studies at CEU has been elected chair of the subcommittee on History of WWII of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The committee aims to become a hub of dialogue and discussion, driven by academic excellence.
January 31, 2018
Aziz Al-Azmeh of the Department of History has been appointed to the rank of Professor Emeritus, effective December 1, 2017.
January 31, 2018
Botond Koszegi of the Department of Economics and Business has been promoted to a rank of University Professor, effective December 1, 2017.
In 2015, Koszegi won the Yrjo Jahnsson Award for his contribution to the theoretical foundations of behavioral economics, and its application to public finance and contract theory. He also received the CEU Award for Outstanding Research the same year.
January 31, 2018
Senate decisions taken at the December 1, 2017 meeting of the Senate:
Academic initiatives:
Advanced Certificate in Data Analysis and Advanced Certificate in Data Science
January 30, 2018
CEU Press's 2016 publication, "The Last Superpower Summits. Gorbachev, Reagan, and Bush. Conversations that Ended the Cold War," has been selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2017.
January 30, 2018
This book by Helga Nowotny, former president of the European Research Council, was triggered by the recent geopolitical shifts and the turn towards an allegedly post-factual era. An Orderly Mess is a timely diagnosis of the current dissolution of the modern order, while highlighting the opportunities of messiness.For more information, see http://ceupress.com/books/html/Orderly_Mess.htm
January 30, 2018
Edited by historian lldiko Csepregi, CEU Professor Gabor Klaniczay, and researcher Bence Peterfi, this bilingual volume (Latin text with English translation) contains the most important hagiographical corpus of medieval Hungarian history: that of Saint Margaret (1242–1270), daughter of King Bela IV, who lived her life as a Dominican nun. Margaret’s cult started immediately after her death and the demand to examine her sanctity was first formulated in 1272. The canonization process recommenced in 1276, followed by further initiatives across the centuries.
January 30, 2018
Why do tyrants of all people often have a poetic vein? Where do terror and fiction meet? The cultural history of totalitarian regimes is unwrapped in ten case studies, edited by Albrecht Koschorke and Konstantin Kaminskij of the University of Konstanz, studying the artistic ambitions of Nero, Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Saparmyrat Nyyazow, and Radovan Karadzic.
January 30, 2018
In this book, Balazs Apor, lecturer in European Studies at the Trinity College Dublin, offers a detailed analysis of the construction, reception, and eventual decline of the cult of the Hungarian Communist Party Secretary, Matyas Rakosi, one of the most striking examples of orchestrated adulation in the Soviet bloc. The monograph is primarily concerned with techniques and methods of cult construction, as well as the role various institutions played in the creation of mythical representations of political figures.
January 30, 2018
This book describes the process of the Czech economic transformation from the beginning of the 1990s to the country’s entry into the European Union in 2004. Libor Zidek, associate professor at the Department of Economics at Masaryk University, also compares Czech development in this transformative era to those of Poland and Hungary.For more information, see http://ceupress.com/books/html/From_Central_Planning_to_the_Market.htm
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