June 16, 2014
European Commissioner of International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response Kristalina Georgieva has been named the 2014 CEU Open Society Prize winner. The CEU Open Society Prize is awarded to an outstanding individual whose achievements have contributed substantially to the creation of an open society. Sir Karl Popper received the first prize in 1994, followed by Vaclav Havel, Arpad Goncz, Ricardo Lagos, Carla Del Ponte, Kofi Annan, Javier Solana, Richard C. Holbrooke and others.
May 23, 2014
Diplomacy can take many forms and it can be conducted in a variety of venues. Geoffrey Cowan visited CEU on May 21 to describe the famous “shirtsleeves” summit between U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
May 15, 2014
In honor of the late Dutch Ambassador Robert Milders, CEU hosted the inaugural Milders Lecture Series at CEU, featuring Dutch professor Jan Pronk. The May 8 lecture “Preventing Conflict Escalation. Hearts & Minds. Boots & Brains” highlighted Pronk's extensive experience as a politician and diplomat and included lessons learned from his UN mission in Sudan.
April 30, 2014
CEU President and Rector John Shattuck spoke at the International Book Festival of Budapest on April 25 about Nobel Prize-winning author and Burmese democracy fighter Aung San Suu Kyi. Suu Kyi's book "Letters from Burma" is the author's first piece to be translated into Hungarian. See link for full article in both English and Hungarian.
November 28, 2013
“The way I expect universities to behave is to constantly look for new ways of understanding reality,” CEU Founder and Honorary Chairman George Soros said at the launch of the Hungarian translation of his book “The Soros Lectures: George Soros at Central European University” on Nov. 27. “I hope that CEU is doing that already and will do it even more... I think CEU is now mature enough that it can be at the cutting edge.”
November 11, 2013
November 11, 2013
Finding common ground and refusing to accept hate speech and stereotypes would help reverse anti-Roma sentiment in Hungary, panelists concluded at a Nov. 5 discussion at CEU.
October 24, 2013
President and Rector John Shattuck spoke with Hungarian weekly magazine Figyelo about the state of higher education in Hungary and the entrepreneurial spirit.
October 16, 2013
It’s natural that liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, are finding it difficult to make compromises to solve the current budget crisis in the U.S., according to cognitive linguist George Lakoff, professor at the University of California, Berkeley who spoke Oct. 15 at CEU. It’s because the two groups view the world based on vastly different metaphors that are wired into our cognitive functioning, he said.
September 12, 2013
In an op-ed piece in USA Today Sept. 12, CEU President and Rector John Shattuck recommends comparing the atrocities in Syria to Bosnia, where diplomatic efforts were backed by force, bringing warring parties to the negotiating table.
Shattuck is a former U.S. State Department assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor. In that role, he was a member of the U.S. negotiating team at the 1995 Dayton Peace Conference.
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