February 3, 2018
Gyorgy Gereby, associate professor in CEU's Department of Medieval Studies, is delivering the Isaiah Berlin Lectures at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford this semester as part of the Isaiah Berlin Visiting Professorship, which brings leading scholars in the history of philosophy or history of ideas to Oxford. Named after the great British philosopher and founding president of Wolfson College, Sir Isaiah Berlin, the lectures were established in 2004.
January 31, 2017
March 29, 2016
One of the most important developments or events in the unit's history
CEMS's broadened its scope from Hellenic Traditions to Eastern Mediterranean Studies
The most important development in 2014-15
CEMS Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow Georgina White started a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship in Ancient Political Thought/Classics in fall 2015
Other important developments in 2014-15
CEMS started the Specialization in Eastern Mediterranean Studies in fall 2015
October 6, 2015
Tijana Krstic, associate professor in the Department of Medieval Studies at CEU, won a European Research Council Consolidator Grant. The Ottoconfession project will explore how and why the Ottoman Empire evolved from a fourteenth-century polity where “confessional ambiguity” between Sunnism and Shiism prevailed, into an Islamic state concerned with defining and enforcing a “Sunni orthodoxy” by the early sixteenth century.
June 2, 2015
The Senate approved the following new academic programs at its March 20 meeting. The decisions on new degree programs enter into force only after program registration by the New York State Education Department. This will be announced separately.
The Senate approved the following new academic programs:
- One-year MS program in Mathematics and its Applications;
- Advanced Certificate in Eastern Mediterranean Studies.
April 21, 2015
Video of The Caucasus in Context: 300 -1600
October 7, 2014
The following relocations were completed in the past two weeks:
- The Dean of Students Office has moved to N11 303
Both the entire Student Life Office and the Student Records Office are now located in Nador 11, 3rd floor
- The Admissions Office has moved to Nador utca 9, Mezzanine room 3.
- The Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies has moved to Nador utca 11, 2nd Floor, 208-209.
September 19, 2013
A postdoctoral research fellow with CEU’s Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Christidou died on Sept. 15 in a car accident in Athens, that also killed her father. Our thoughts and sincere condolences are with her husband, who survives her, and with her family.
