November 30, 2015
Edited by Vladimir Tismaneanu, professor at the University of Maryland, and Bogdan Iacob, research fellow at New Europe College, this volume is an up-to-date reassessment of how the interplay between memory, history, and justice generates insights that examine the present and future of democracy without becoming limited to a Europe-centric framework of understanding. The analysis is structured on three complementary and interconnected trajectories: the public use of history, politics of memory, and transitional justice.
November 30, 2015
Edited by Michal Kopecek, head of the Department of Late- and Post-Socialism Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History and assistant professor of at Charles University, and Piotr Wcislik, doctoral student in CEU’s Department of History, this volume consist of eighteen essays by authors from the region, discussing how major domains of political thought (liberalism, conservatism, the Left, populism and memory politics) have been fairing in their countries.
November 30, 2015
Lech Mroz, head of the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw, analyses 166 original and previously unpublished documents dating from the very first mention of a Gypsy in 1401 up to the year 1765. These documents range from royal decrees through lawsuits to entries in municipal records. Some were written in Polish but many are in Latin, German or Ruthenian. They tell the story of not only the Gypsies living in Poland, but also of those who now live in Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia and Ukraine.
November 30, 2015
This book by Agnieszka Halemba, associate professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw, explores the politics of religion, as expressed through apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Dzhublyk in Transcarpathia, a multi-ethnic area lying on Ukraine’s western border with Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania. In 2002, it was reported that an apparition of Mary was witnessed on several occasions and is now a popular destination for religious pilgrims.
November 12, 2015
Editors of “The Hungarian Patient: Social Opposition to an Illiberal Democracy” discussed the lessons learned from organizing civil movements in recent years at the launch of the book, published by CEU Press, on November 5.




