November 27, 2015
The First World War was more than a battle between rival alliances – there were dissenters and families divided by conflicting loyalties, according to Adam Hochschild, who tells their stories in "To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918" and spoke about them at CEU Nov. 25.
October 20, 2015
Central European University (CEU) is offering a number of full scholarship packages for Syrian citizens at the master's and doctoral level for Academic Year 2016/2017. Applications are welcome for all academic areas for the full length of the program. Scholarships are awarded based on academic merit.
October 7, 2015
Arpad Goncz, the first democratically elected president of the Republic of Hungary after the fall of communism, was a prominent member of the group of European intellectuals and other key figures who conceptualized and founded Central European University in 1991. Goncz, Vaclav Havel, who was then president of Czechoslovakia, and Bronislaw Geremek, co-founder of Solidarity, were among those who supported financier and philanthropist George Soros’s vision of a university that would train post-communist leaders in the principles and practice of open society, democracy, and human rights.
October 5, 2015
Translation of the interview CEU President and Rector John Shattuck gave
to Hungarian daily Nepszabadsag, published on October 5, 2015
A Feeling of Isolation and Exclusion is Noticeable
September 22, 2015
CEU’s Opening Ceremony, held September 21, celebrated the start of the 2015-2016 academic year and also launched the University’s 25th Anniversary. The incoming class, more than 600 students from a record 107 countries, received a special welcome from President and Rector John Shattuck.
July 13, 2015
In this NPR piece marking the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, CEU President and Rector John Shattuck, former U.S. assistant secretary of state for human rights, speaks at a press conference in July 1995 in Bosnia regarding his interviews with survivors of the genocide that led to NATO's intervention and the Dayton Peace Agreement.
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/07/11/422211165/despite-srebr...
July 9, 2015
This November will mark 20 years since the Dayton Peace Agreement ended the war in Bosnia. International intervention happened too late, according to CEU President and Rector John Shattuck and his former colleague John Kornblum, who participated in the Dayton negotiations and discussed the process in Budapest on July 6 at the opening of the 2015 session of the Jozsef Antall Summer School.
June 24, 2015
More than 600 CEU students from nearly 80 countries received their master's or doctoral degrees at this year's graduation ceremony on June 21, the University's twenty-fourth commencement. These graduates join a body of 12,000 CEU alumni who are distinguishing themselves as the next generation of leaders and scholars in the region and beyond.
June 22, 2015
Ambassador Eleni Kounalakis, who served in Budapest from 2010 to 2013, presented her book about these exciting and engaging years, “Madam Ambassador: Three Years of Diplomacy, Dinner Parties, and Democracy in Budapest,” at an event at CEU June 18.
May 4, 2015
Former Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Janos Martonyi and CEU President and Rector John Shattuck were guest speakers at the inaugural Euro-Atlantic Cafe series hosted by the Centre for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy (CEID) April 30.
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