February 24, 2015
The New York State Education Department (NYSED) has approved the proposed changes of degree names at the Department of History, Department of Medieval Studies, and Department of Mathematics and its Applications.
February 18, 2015
CEU’s campus redevelopment project, now underway on Nador utca in downtown Budapest, provides fertile ground for the study of historic buildings and the challenge of renovating them for modern use in an urban environment. Students in CEU’s Cultural Heritage Studies Program donned hard hats and reflective vests for a tour of the Nador utca 13 and 15 buildings to explore the history and plans.
February 10, 2015
Stanislava Kuzmova (MEDS'03) received the 2014 Kuczynski Book Award in Poland for “Preaching Saint Stanislaus: Medieval Sermons on St. Stanislaus of Cracow, His Image and Cult .” The book was published in the framework of the OTKA Saints Project based at the Department of Medieval Studies at CEU. The Stefan Krzysztof Kuczynski Award honors publications related to historical sources and auxiliary historical sciences in Poland. The prize is awarded by the editorial board of scholarly journal Studia Zrodloznawcze.
February 10, 2015
Zsuzsa Peto, doctoral student in the Department of Medieval Studies, has been awarded the junior prize of the Andras Kubinyi Foundation for the Study of the Middle Ages. She received this award for her MA thesis “The Medieval Landscape of the Pauline Monasteries in the Pilis Forest,” which she defended at CEU last year. For more information, see http://medievalstudies.ceu.hu/news/2015-02-02/zsuzsa-peto-has-been-award...
February 9, 2015
2014 was an especially prolific year for the Department of History: as authors and (co-)editors, faculty members published altogether 12 books with leading international academic publishers.
The chronological coverage is from late antiquity to communist times, the geographic spread is truly transnational (even transcontinental and global), and the topics and approaches range from religious studies, political thought and intellectual history, through history of science and history of empires, to questions of identity, social and political history.
January 27, 2015
Emilia Jamroziak (MA'97) has been promoted to the rank of Professor of Medieval Religious History at Leeds University. She graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and Central European University in Budapest and received her PhD from the University of Leeds in 2001. She’s also a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. See more: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/profile/20046/392/emilia_jamroziak
January 27, 2015
Mihail Mitrea, doctoral student in the Department of Medieval Studies, was the seventh doctoral student to give intensive classes at one of CEU’s partner institutions. Mitrea spent two weeks each in Yerevan and Tbilisi in December 2014 teaching a tutorial course on "Greek Paleography and Byzantine Manuscript Studies," hosted by Professor Erna Shirinian (Matenadaran, Yerevan) and Professor Rismag Gordeziani (Tbilisi State University).
January 27, 2015
Luka Spoljaric (MEDS ’08, MEDS PhD ’13) has been awarded a prestigious one-year postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University’s Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti in Florence for Academic Year 2015-16..
January 26, 2015
Video of Why Medieval Studies at CEU?
January 3, 2015
Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet – Hetvege Magazin carries an interview with CEU PhD alumnus Benedek Lang (MED ‘03) about his research and upcoming new book on cryptography.
Due to copyright regulations the interview is available in the daily (Magyar Nemzet Melleklet - Hetvegi magazin, 03.01.2015., p.22, Slendrian Rakoczi-kod).
Other item of Hungarian coverage:
Demokrata, 21.01.2015. (pp.46-47, Kodok nyomaban)
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