Twenty years after the last study into Hungarian Jewry, Andras Kovacs, professor in the Nationalism Studies Program and director of Jewish Studies at CEU, led a research project to learn about how Jewish identity and worldviews have changed since the late '90s. Kovacs co-edited the resulting volume, entitled Jews and Jewry in Hungary in 2017: Results of Sociological Research with Ildiko Barna, associate professor of sociology at Eotvos Lorand University, published in June 2018.
July 4, 2018
Twenty years after the last study into Hungarian Jewry, Andras Kovacs, professor in the Nationalism Studies Program and director of Jewish Studies at CEU, led a research project to learn about how Jewish identity and worldviews have changed since the late '90s. Kovacs co-edited the resulting volume, entitled Jews and Jewry in Hungary in 2017: Results of Sociological Research with Ildiko Barna, associate professor of sociology at Eotvos Lorand University, published in June 2018.
January 5, 2018
Damian Aleksiev, doctoral student in the Department of Philosophy, and Ana Lolua, master's student in the Nationalism Studies program at CEU, have recently created a blog, entitled ‘Academics and Their Books,’ featuring a series of conversations and photographs of CEU academics in their offices.
September 26, 2017
In "Extra-Territorial Ethnic Politics, Discourses and Identities in Hungary", Szabolcs Pogonyi, associate professor in the Nationalism Studies Program at CEU, explores the causes and consequences of the discursive and legal construction of the Hungarian transborder nation through the institutionalization of non-resident citizenship and voting. Through the in-depth analysis of Hungarian transborder and diaspora politics, this book investigates how the political engagement of non-resident Hungarians impacts inter- and intra-state ethnic relations.
December 13, 2016
Three CEU professors and an alumnus presented recently published books dealing with various aspects of Jewish history at a book launch December 6 hosted by the Jewish Studies Program at CEU.
June 14, 2016
The Holocaust in Hungary represented a unique chapter in the singular history of the Final Solution of the “Jewish question” in Europe. In the fifth year of the Second World War Hungary still had a Jewish population of approximately 800,000.
June 14, 2016
Luca Varadi, visiting professor at CEU’s Nationalism Studies Program, has been awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie individual fellowship at CEU’s Nationalism Studies Program for her project entitled Dynamics of Development: Understanding Adolescents' Intergroup Attitudes, National Feelings, and Perception of Social Norms. The two-year project started on June 1 2016, and is supervised by Andras Kovacs, professor in the Nationalism Studies Program and Department of History at CEU.
March 22, 2016
Name: Maria Kovacs
Title: Professor, Nationalism Studies
Number of years at CEU: 20
Home city/town & country: Budapest
What’s your favorite Hungarian food?
Fogas (perch)
Whose works of art or design have had the greatest impression on you?
Paul Klee
What’s your favorite language, whether you speak it or not?
French
What’s your favorite quote or idiom?
June 30, 2015
Exceptional master's and doctoral students were recognized in June for their academic achievements with awards presented on June 18. Scroll down for the slide show of photos of the ceremony.
May 18, 2015
CEU is again taking part in the Allianz Summer Academy (ASA). The theme this year is Europe at a Turning Point: Economic Crisis, Social Disintegration, Political Change. Teams from five universities are preparing reports on topics related to this theme that will be presented and discussed during the first days of the Summer Academy at the Allianz Management Institute (Kempfenhausen).