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Leon Botstein (right), Bard College, New York, who had previously served as the Vice-Chair of the CEU Board, was elected as new Board Chairman for a two-year term. George Soros stepped down as Chairman of the CEU Board of Trustees on October 14, 2007. He remains as a life-CEU Trustee and serves as Honorary Chairman of the Board. Soros re-iterated his full trust that the university will continue to develop and flourish.

The October Board meeting also saw the conclusion of the terms of two other distinguished Board members, Gyorgy Enyedi, Hungarian Academy

of Sciences, and Donald Blinken, former Ambassador of the United States to Hungary. Elected to serve on the Board were Gary Poliner, Chief Finance Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Northwestern Mutual Life

Insurance Company along with Monica Macovei (CEU, Legal Studies 1993), currently advisor on Anti-Corruption to the Prime Minister of Macedonia, and the first member of the CEU alumni community to become a mem-ber of the Board. Macovei acquired an outstanding international reputation for the very successful reform she implemented between 2004 and 2006 as the Minister of Justice of Romania.

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Tom Lantos, who died on February 11, had been a loyal advisor, friend and supporter of Central European University for much of the university’s existence. After nearly 30 years of an illustrious career of public service as a Congressman in the United States, Lantos had just last month announced

he would be retiring at the end of the year, due to a serious illness. Among his many achievements Lantos founded the Congressional Human Rights Caucus and became Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He was an avid and tireless champion of human rights, also consis-tent in his efforts to protect the environment and alleviate the suffering caused by HIV/AIDS.

Lantos gave several distinguished public lectures at CEU, the first in 1998. He had served on the university’s International Advisory Council and continued to assist the university till his last days. On the occasion of his 75th birthday, a “Workshop in Honor of Tom Lantos: Atlantic Crossings—European Perspectives” took place at CEU. In that year he was also awarded the CEU Open Society Prize (2003).

He will be greatly missed by his many colleagues, admirers and friends around the world, not least here at CEU.

Diana Urge-Vorsatz, Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, CEU, is a mem-ber of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize-winning United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Within the IPCC, Urge-Vorsatz has been a part of the consistent effort to signal the importance of global warming. She was a Coordinating Lead Author for IPCC’s “Fourth Assessment Report” and also one of the two Hungarians to be in charge of a chapter. Urge-Vorsatz led a team of 19 scientists which authored the chapter of the report dealing with the reduction of CC emissions in buildings.

Said Urge-Vorsatz; “I would like to believe that we had a major role in changing the rhetoric about climate change mitigation around the world: cutting emissions to stabilize the climate, while a Herculean task, is pos-sible, without necessarily making major sacrifices in the economy. We show in our chapter that the largest low-cost reduction opportunities, many of which come at a net profit, are in buildings.”

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Allaine Cerwonka has been appointed Professor in the Department of Gender Studies, effective October 1, 2007

Niels Gaul has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Medieval Studies, effective November 1, 2007

Attila Ratfai has been appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, effec-tive October 1, 2007

Paul Roe has been appointed Head of the Department of International Relations and European Studies, effective January 1, 2008

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Gyorgy Gereby has been appointed Head of the Department of Medieval Studies, effective October 1, 2007

The EU Commission decided last year to establish in Beijing, in agreement with the Chinese government, a European-China School of Law (ECSL). The establishment and the management of ECSL have been conferred to a consortium, led by the School of Law, University of Hamburg, and con-sisting of three Chinese and 12 European law schools, among them the Department of Legal Studies, CEU. The ECSL will start its activities in summer 2008, consisting of teaching, research and training of Chinese judges, procurators and law-

yers in European law, and European law students and lawyers in Chinese law.

At the first General Meeting of Consortium Members held from January 28-30, 2008 in Hamburg, Stefan Messmann, Head, Department of Legal Studies, CEU, was elected Chair, Professional Training Committee, in charge of the organization of the first professional training of European lawyers, to be held in Beijing from June 9-14, 2008.

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Gunter Stock, Member, CEU Board of Trustees/Chairman/President, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, was announced in early February 2008 as a member of the Identification Committee for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). The EIT will be a

flagship for excellence at the European level, aimed to ensure development of the “knowledge triangle” (research—education—innovation) in the EU and bring together the best scientific, business and education resources to boost the Union's innovation capac-ity. The Identification Committee will

recommend members of the future EIT Governing Board and is composed of four professionals of the highest stand-ing and unquestionable independence, providing a balance of expertise in dif-ferent areas, and coming from across the European Union.

CEU held its annual Open House event on November 21, 2007. Visitors were able to get acquainted with the uni-versity’s admissions require-ments, programs and research support units. The program included presentations on compiling application pack-ages and writing statements of purpose. The organizers also planned campus tours and meetings with current CEU Master’s and doctoral students during the course of the scheduled events. On the same day, over 50 CEU public

lectures and seminars were open to the public.

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Jacek Rostowski, Professor, Department of Economics, was appointed Minister of Finance, Republic of Poland, in November 2007. During his years at CEU, he had served as Department

Head and had also taught cours-es focusing on Economics of the Law; Economics of Monetary and Banking Institutions and Markets; Comparative Macroeconomic Policy.

Andras Sajo, CEU University Professor, was elected in early fall 2007 to serve as a judge on the European Court of Human

Rights in Strasbourg. The mandate is valid for a peri-od of six years with the possibility of re-election for another term.

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Renata Uitzhas been appointed Chair of the Comparative Constitutional Law Stream, Department of Legal Studies, effective November 1, 2007

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On November 8, 2007, His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan delivered a lecture at CEU entitled “The Mediterranean and Europe—a Good Neighborhood Policy”. The event, organized by the CEU Rectorate was chaired by Aziz Al-Azmeh, CEU University Professor. In his lecture, HRH spoke about the current status of the Mediterranean region, highlighting the cri-sis its members are facing. He emphasized the need for communication and called for peaceful resolutions and activating part-nerships in solving the economic, political and social problems neighbors face in the Middle East and in the Mediterranean world.

Additionally, HRH depicted the reali-ties governing Jordan and the need for a rational exploitation of human, natural and economic resources. The aspects of an eco-social Marshall Plan for the Mediterranean countries and a call for developing social and sustainability poli-cies were also discussed. The Q&A ses-sion following the lecture allowed the large audience (consisting of diplomatic corps representatives, CEU community members, media and other guests) to also address issues such as citizenship identity or the problem of emigration in the context of the evolving demographics in the Middle Eastern region.

On January 15, 2008, Peter Ackerman, Chairman, Freedom House, delivered a lecture at CEU entitled “How Freedom Is Won and How to Keep It: Lessons from Democratic Breakthroughs and the Current Challenges to Freedom in the post-Soviet Space.” The event was co-organized by the CEU Human Rights Students’ Initiative and Freedom House Europe.

Ackerman analyzed the con-cepts of non-violence and non-violent conflict or civil resistance as distinct from conflict pre-vention and conflict resolution. He then presented results of a study labeled “Freedom in the

World” embracing analysis of transitional factors contributing to durability of democracy.

Matteo Fumagalli, Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations and European Studies, provid-ed comments and Carsten Schneider, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, served as moderator. A vivid open discussion ses-sion with the audience followed the lecture and comments. The screening of the award-winning 2007 documentary “Orange Revolution” which investigates the highly controversial 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, followed the event.

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On November 28, 2007, Natalie Zemon Davis, one of the finest and most creative historians of the early mod-ern world, was awarded with an honorary doctorate by Central European University. Natalie Zemon Davis, who had served for many years as a member of the CEU Board, is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emerita, Princeton University, and a Senior Fellow in the Center for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto.

At the awarding ceremo-ny, Gabor Klaniczay, CEU University Professor, deliv-ered the laudatio and Yehuda

Elkana, CEU President and Rector, offered a few words of his own, and presented the award in the name of the Senate of the university. The event coincided with the last lecture in the second Annual “Natalie Zemon Davis Lectures” which were deliv-ered by Miri Rubin, Profesor of Early Modern History, Queen Mary, University of London. This was the sev-enth occasion upon which an honorary doctorate was awarded by CEU; previ-ous recipients were Paul Ricoeur, Shmuel Eisenstadt, Janos Kornai, Peter Brown, Hayden White and Leszek Kolakowski.

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Urge-Vorsatz’ work was helped by that of several CEU students. Among these Aleksandra Novikova (ENVS ‘04/Doctoral Candidate, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy) has earned the recognition of being invited as a Lead Author in IPCC.

The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, announced on Friday, October 12, was awarded jointly to former US Vice President Al Gore and to the IPCC for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foun-dations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change on global warming.

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On October 13, 2007, CEU hosted a public lecture by Monica Macovei (CEU, LEGS ‘93), currently seconded by the UK as an Advisor on Anti-corruption to the Prime Minister of Macedonia. Entitled “Fighting Political Corruption. Before and After Accession” the lecture attracted a distinguished audience, including stu-dents, board members and representa-tives of the diplomatic corps, as well as the media. Macovei focused on the aspects of the justice reforms which new

and potential EU member countries need. In her speech and the discussion that fol-lowed, she drew heavily on her experience

as Minister of Justice of Romania (from 2004-2007). Macovei is widely credited with implementing justice reforms that allowed Romania to enter the European Union on January 1, 2007. The lecture was chaired by Stefan Messmann, Head, Department of Legal Studies, and was fol-lowed by a lively session within the “CEU Alumni Speaker Series” which focused on career prospects for CEU students and graduates.

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On October 30, 2007, Vartan Oskanian, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Armenia, delivered a public lecture at CEU enti-tled “The Diplomacy of Small States”, in an event organized by the CEU Center for EU Enlargement Studies (CENS). Peter Balazs, Director, CENS/Professor, Department of International Relations and European Studies, chaired the lecture which focused on the key issues which Armenian diplomacy is facing, as well as the country’s international pol-icy. Oskanian summarized the difficulties and trials which Armenia had to face since gaining its independence from the Soviet Union, highlighting the existing economic, politi-cal and diplomatic factors which influenced the coun-try’s course of action over the last decade and a half. He also identified further opportuni-

ties for development which could be achieved through engagement in regional proj-ects.

The subsequent questions raised by the audience cov-ered the Nagorno-Karabakh situation, Armenian-Turkish diplomatic relations and ener-gy diversification. Oskanian emphasized the need for a peaceful resolution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and drew attention to the fact that self-determination should be granted to the people of the region, which however did not automatically imply indepen-dence. Regarding Armenia's relations with Turkey, the min-ister highlighted the opportu-nity which European Union enlargement could bring for Armenia’s Western neighbor to play a bridging role between the Caucasus and Europe.

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On September 19, 2007, Benjamin Ferencz, one of the Nuremberg Trials chief prosecutors delivered a public lecture at CEU entitled “The Nuremberg Trials—Observations of a Participant 60 Years Later”. The event was facilitat-ed by the CEU Rectorate and the CEU Department of Legal Studies, and was chaired by Tibor Varady, CEU University Professor. In front of a packed audito-rium, Ferencz recounted his experiences in the famous Nazi war crimes trial, allow-ing the audience to catch a glimpse of the preparations made after the end of WWII for the Nuremberg trials and

the reality of the immediate post-war period.

The Q&A session which fol-lowed the lecture allowed for further discussions vis-a-vis the International Criminal Court and the US military action in Iraq as well as Benjamin Ferencz’s thoughts on the present legal and civic system governing today’s inter-national community.

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On January 7, 2008, in a lecture co-organized by CEU and the US Embassy, Katalin Marton introduced her most recent work, entitled “The Great Escape: Nine Hungarians Who Escaped Hitler and Changed the World.” The book depicts the fates of nine extraordinary Hungarian Jews whose talents and influence reached full expression out-side their homeland. Katalin Marton highlighted her efforts to acknowledge and exam-ine each of these geniuses individually, placing them in

context and helping her read-ers see how their roots in Hungary contributed both to their monumental talent and to their decisions to emigrate.

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CEU will host the 38th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology (IIS). Themed “Sociology Looks at the Twenty-first Century: ‘From Local Universalism to Global Contextualism’ and sponsored jointly by CEU and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, (SCAS) the event is scheduled to take place from June 26-30, 2008.

The congress aims at setting landmarks for the further development of sociology and the social sciences at large. Approximately 400 participants are anticipated, among whom are well-known scholars who will give lectures and lead discussions in nine plenary sessions. The opening session will include addresses by Michel Wieviorka, President, International Sociological Association (ISA)), Helga Nowotny, Vice-President, European Research Council (ERC), the eminent sociologist, Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt, and Bjorn Wittrock, President, IIS/Principal, SCAS. The chair will be Yehuda Elkana, President and Rector, CEU.

Members of the Organizing Committee are: Yehuda Elkana, President and Rector, CEU, Bjorn Wittrock, President, IIS/Principal, SCAS, Prem Kumar Rajaram, Head, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, CEU, Don Kalb, Professor, CEU, Ivan Szelenyi, Professor, Yale University/CEU, Shalini Randeria, Professor, University of Zurich. The committee is assisted by Katalin Lassu, CEU, and Sandra Rekanovic, SCAS.

Founded in 1893, the International Institute of Sociology (IIS) was intended to enable regular meetings and working relations of scholars from various countries.

For more information visit: www.iisoc.org/iis2008

The CEU Department of History is the location of a new editori-al office of the European Review of History/Revue Europeenne d’histoire (ERH/REh), a bilingual, international refereed jour-nal published in six issues annually by Routledge. The office is the journal’s third, operating parallel with the bureaus located at the University of Manchester (the central site) and at the European University Institute in Florence. The ERH/REh was launched 15 years ago with the specific intention of enhanc-ing communication between different generations of historians and different (national, methodological, epistemological, etc.) traditions of historical studies. It provides an essential platform for exchanges, and its thematic approach enables comparisons across the continent and throughout the ages. Scholarly articles of both an empirical and a theoretical kind, interviews, debat-ing key questions of historiography, research and practical information, and a rich and diverse review section comprise the published output.

Established in January 2008, the Budapest office has as its edi-tors Laszlo Kontler, Professor, and Doctoral Candidate, Adam Mestyan, both from CEU’s Department of History.

For more information visit: www.hist.ceu.hu and www.tandf.co.uk/journals/

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From May 22-24, 2008, CEU will host an interna-tional research conference on “Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data (CAED)” The event is organized by the CEU Labor Project and the CEU Department of Economics together with the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, and co-sponsored by the Hungarian National Bank, the Institute for Labor Research (IAB), the Hungarian Competition Authority, the US Census Bureau, the National Opinion Research Center (NORC), the OECD, and the European Science Foundation. At the

event, papers focusing on firm behavior using firm-level data will be presented. The total number of participants expected is 150, from 40 countries. The topics covered will include, among others: Entrepreneurship and Start-up Firm Growth; Corporate Governance, Competition, and Efficiency; Energy and Environment; Workforce Aging and Productivity; Financial Constraints, Growth, and Investment, and many more.

For more information visit: www.upjohninstitute.org/caed/

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I n s t i t u t e o f S o c i o l o g yCEU will host an international academic conference entitled “Gandhi in a Globalized World: Contemporary Relevance of Gandhian Thought”, in com-memoration of the 60th anni-versary of Mahatma Gandhi’s death in 1948. Scheduled for December 1-3 2008, the pri-mary aim of the conference is to prove the contemporary relevance of Gandhiji’s phi-losophy and political thought and present the Gandhian legacy as a valid alternative for solving the problems of the globalized world. Special emphasis will also be given to the impact and relevance of Gandhian ideas in the coun-tries of Central and Eastern Europe, including Hungary, countries that have transited/continue to transit to liberal

democratic models. Economic and environmental challenges of the contemporary world and the possible and actual Gandhian approaches to these problems will also be a priority of the conference.

The event is organized by Central European University in cooperation with the Embassy of India in Hungary and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR); also with the support of the Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture, the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Municipality of Budapest, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, the Csoma de Koros Society, the Open Society Institute, Budapest, and Le Meridien Budapest.

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Last November, the newly−integrated Alumni Relations and Career Services (ARCS) at CEU conducted the First Destination Survey 2007. The initiative, with its launch, opens doors for continuous communication with recent CEU graduates, sharing information about employment and educational activities, as well as personal career perspectives.

This time 143 respondents from 11 departments, all members of the 2007 class, shared their “life after CEU” experience, in the online survey. Besides updated contact and employment data, the survey gave details about these graduates’ career status six months after graduation, the sectors they work in, sources of information for job searching, etc. According to the survey, an encouraging 82.7% of the respondents were either employed (64.1%) or had continued their studies (18.6%) by December 2007.

Out of those who were employed full- or, part-time, self-employed or served as interns, the largest group chose to start their career in the private sector. Among the most popular careers were strategic management consulting, the legal and banking fields, as well as environment protection. Those who worked in edu-cation and research institutions follow them, as the survey report reveals.

The relevance of CEU studies to the careers of the current graduates was very evident, in fact in 76.6% of the cases, the job relates directly to the field studied at

CEU. This can serve as proof of the high quality instruction pro-cess, which empowers graduates to immediately apply on a practi-cal level the knowledge and skills acquired at the university.

Another important conclusion drawn from the survey relates to the length of the job search period. More than 80% of the respondents were employed or enrolled within less than two months after graduation. For more than half of the students, accepting a job offer happened after only a maximum of five CVs were sent out and/or three job interviews attended, all in less than a month.

ARCS plans to reiterate the First Destination Survey in an attempt to assess CEU students’ employability, their career progress and job market trends relevant to CEU graduates. In addition to university-wide marketing and recruitment aspects, the data collected will help the Alumni Relations and Career Services team to provide efficient services to students, alumni and employers.

As of January 2008, ARCS is the princi-pal office coordinating all the alumni and career support programs. Its mission is to engage students and alumni in a mutual-ly beneficial, lifelong connection to each other and the university. Also, ARCS aims at engaging leading employers, thus connecting talent with opportunity, and empowering students and alumni with the information and skills necessary to succeed in their professional lives.

O f f T o a G r e a t S t a r t : C a r e e r P a t h s S i x M o n t h s a f t e r G r a d u a t i o n

Tamas Matrai (MATH PhD ’06) was awarded the Junior Prima Prize, which recognizes talented Hungarian young individu-als under 30 years of age.

Matrai is known to be a multi-faceted researcher, who had already won the first prize at the State Student Scientific

Conference while a student. The Junior Prima Prize for Hungarian Science is co-financed by the Hungarian Development Bank, with each young winner receiving 7,000 EUR. Nominees are distributed into three categories: Hungarian Science, Hungarian Education and Hungarian Sport, with a special committee then selecting the winners. The prize is a

newly-added award to the already estab-lished Prima Primissima Prize, founded by entrepreneur Sandor Demjan, with the support of the Hungarian Entrepreneurs Association. The latter distinction is awarded each year to those outstanding doctors, engineers, architects, sportsman, writers etc. who have found or discovered new directions in their field of research.

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Lecture by US Under Secretary, Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs

Central European University hosted on October 1, 2007, a public lecture by Karen P. Hughes, Under Secretary, Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, US Department of State. The event was part of the “Distinguished Speakers Series” organized jointly by CEU and the Embassy of the United States of America. Entitled “The Trans-Atlantic Agenda: Common Values, Common Concerns” the lecture tackled various issues ranging from the US visa regime for Hungary, the common political goals shared by the US and the EU, and US-Russian cooperation, to women’s empowerment in Hungary. A Q&A session followed Hughes’ speech and allowed the discussion of topics such as the status of the Hungarian minorities living abroad, Kosovo independence and the lack of transparency in Hungary regarding the archives of the Communist regime. The opening note for the lecture was delivered by HE April H. Foley, US Ambassador to Hungary, with Lajos Bokros, Chief Operating Officer/Professor, Department of Economics/Department of Public Policy, CEU, chairing the event.

Renowned Political Commentator Speaks on the Return of History

The second lecture of the “Distinguished Speakers Series” in Academic Year 2007/2008, organized jointly by CEU and the Embassy of the United States of America, was held on November 19, 2007, in a packed Auditorium. Guest speaker Robert Kagan, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, delivered a lecture entitled “Trans-Atlantic Relations: The Return of History”. In his speech, Kagan focused on the status of the international power arena after the end of the Cold War period and how it gave way to new challenges and conflicts. The event was chaired by Howard Robinson, Provost/Academic Pro-Rector, CEU; opening remarks were delivered by HE April H. Foley, US Ambassador to Hungary.

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A l u m n i a n d F r i e n d s G i v e G e n e r o u s l y t o C E U

Graduates, as well as regular visitors and friends who have attended events at the university, or have even had the chance to meet its outstanding young students, know firsthand that CEU is a unique institu-tion and that it genuinely is hard to find any other like it in the world. For these same reasons, CEU has been able, and fortunate, to develop a supportive group of Alumni and Friends who recognize its dis-tinctive character and generously donate to provide opportunities for students, and to further the mission of the university.

A question often asked in this regard is whether CEU really needs their financial support, and whether such contributions do make a difference. The answer is definitely “yes”. Donations from alumni and friends increase the university’s ability to attract the brightest students, as well as recruit and retain world-class faculty. Contributions also help fund many of the public lectures and academic events offered to the CEU community and the broader public.

Alumni frequently view giving as a chance to help provide the same opportunity they had, to study at CEU, to other talented students from around the globe. In 2007, CEU alumni donated a total of 17,858 USD, providing important scholarship support for students unable to pay for their studies at CEU. In addition to the funds raised for scholarships, the Department of Legal Studies successfully ran a cam-paign among their alumni to support the department’s students and activities. Their

efforts raised gifts totaling 8,718 USD, with several individuals giving more than 1,000 USD each.

The Friends of CEU are also a strong source of funding. Gregor Medinger, of New York, a member of the International Advisory Board of the CEU Business School, recently agreed to contribute 50,000 USD to the university to fund a special institutional project. The motiva-tions of friends, like Medinger, to give vary from person to person. Some give to further the university’s mission to achieve excellence in teaching, research and policy in order to become a change maker in the region and beyond. Others donate because of the university’s special focus on contemporary challenges of open soci-ety and democratization. Regardless of their motivation, CEU is grateful to all

of its donors for their generosity as they provide opportunities for students as well as the resources needed for important research dealing with compelling issues of our times.

For more information on how to make a donation to CEU please visit the web-site: www.ceu.hu/about/supportceu. Alumni may also contact: Serge Sych, +36 (1) 235-6132, e-mail sychs@ceu.hu and CEU Friends are welcome to get in touch with Ildiko Moran, +36 (1) 327-3076, e-mail: morani@ceu.hu

May 3, 2002: Linas Turauskas (SOCI ’95), drawing the winning department for the first ever CEU fellowship funded by CEU alumni.

Alumni Scholarship recipients 2007/08. From left: Eleonora Turkia (Georgia, Department of International Relations and European Studies), Filip Kijowski (Poland, Department of Legal Studies), Tomas Cakl (Czech Republic, Department of International Relations and European Studies), Daiva Repeckaite (Lithuania, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology), Alexey Tyumenin (Russia, Department of International Relations and European Studies), Kateryna Ruban (Ukraine, Department of History).

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The CEU Department of Medieval Studies hosted an international workshop on his-torical ecology and environmental history, from 26-27 October 2007. The event was sponsored by the Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office, Brno, Czech Republic, and organized in cooperation with the Department of Ecology, Botanical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno and the Center for Environmental History, University of Klagenfurt, Austria.

The workshop featured altogether 27 presentations by Czech, Austrian and Hungarian researchers as well as graduate and undergraduate students. Topics ranged from the history of calcareous grassland through the aesthetics of natural beauty to historical climate studies, palaeoenvi-ronmental research or woodland history. The participants also attended a session on teaching and curriculum development, the results of which will be utilized when designing the new Environmental and Landscape History specialization at the

Department of Medieval Studies.

The main goal of the organizers was to provide a common platform for historical ecologists and environmental historians in Central Europe, allowing them to learn about each other’s work (both in a disci-plinary and a national sense) and to create a network, where future co-operation can develop.

As a result of this workshop, some par-ticipants will continue their co-operation in the field of environmental and land-scape history in the framework of the Long Term Socio-Ecological Research of an European Watershed—Towards an Environmental History of the Danube’s Riverine Landscapes (ENVIRDANUBE) project, supported by the European Science Fund.

For more information visit: http://medstud.ceu.hu

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PAst iN the MAkiNGhistorical Revisionism in Central europe after 1989Edited by Michal KopecekCEU Press, 2007

Historical revisionism, far from being restricted to small groups of ‘nega-tionists,’ has galvanized debates in the realm of recent history. The studies in this book range from

general accounts of the background of recent historical revisionism to focused analyses of particular debates or social-cultural phenomena in individual Central European countries, from Germany to Ukraine and Estonia.

PAst foR the eyeseast european Representations of Communism in Cinema and Museums after 1989

Edited by Peter Apor and Oksana SarkisovaCEU Press, 2007

How do museums and cin-ema shape the image of the Communist past in today’s

Central and Eastern Europe? This vol-ume is the first systematic analysis of how visual techniques are used to understand the former regimes and put them into context. Thirteen essays from scholars around the region take a fresh look at the subject as they address the strategies of fashioning popular perceptions of the recent past.

MUltiPle MeANiNGs of GeNdeR eqUAlity A Critical frame Analysis of Gender Policies in europe Edited by Mieke VerlooCPS Books/CEU Press, 2007

This book aims to map the diversity of meanings of gender equality across Europe and reflects on the contested concept of gen-der equality.

The policy frames analyzed express particu-lar representations of what the problem of gender inequality is and what the solution could be. They also include traces about how gender and other inequalities are con-ceptualized; who has/should have a voice in the framing of gender equality problems and solutions; for whom is gender inequali-

ty seen to be a problem; who is represented as the normative group; and who are the target groups of the policy measures pro-posed. In the discussion of the different ways of framing gender equality in Europe, each chapter provides insights on the ongoing theoretical and political debate about “what is gender equality?,” disclos-ing the visions, debates, and contexts that move around and contribute to shape such a complex and contested concept.

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Karoly Bard, CEU’s Pro-Rector for Hungarian and European Union Affairs/Chair, Human Rights Program, Department of Legal Studies, has recently published a new book investigating the ways in which the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg contributes to the approxima-tion of the justice systems of European countries. Entitled “Human Rights and Criminal Justice in Europe” (published by Magyar Kozlony Kiado, 2007), it discusses such fundamental questions as the role of the administration of justice in democracy, the status of the right to a fair trial within the system of fundamental rights, or the waiver of rights and its limits. The book is currently only available in Hungarian.

B o o k C o r n e r

In November 2007, the Human Right Students’ Initiative at CEU (HRSI) ini-tiated a series of four lectures entitled “Lectures in Democracy and Human Rights Promotion: The Visegrad Experience”. The aim of the project was to raise awareness among Visegrad NGOs, as well as the CEU commu-nity and beyond, about each country’s experience with democratic transition as well as their activities in the area of human rights and/or democracy promo-tion and protection both domestically and abroad.

The lectures included NGO speak-ers focusing on this topic in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary.

The lecture series was organized by HRSI in cooperation with People in Need (Czech Republic) and Pontis Foundation (Slovakia), and was sup-ported by the International Visegrad Fund.

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The Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine (CELAB) organized a public lecture on December 4, 2007 on “Sameness and Difference: Twin Track Empowerment for Women with Disabilities” by Amita Dhanda, Professor of Law, National Academy of Legal Studies and Research, Hyderabad, India. Dhanda, author and editor of numerous books on the rights of persons with disabilities has actively engaged with the UN Ad Hoc Committee in negotiating the final text of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In her presenta-tion she gave insights as to

how the Convention has been drafted and, more particularly, how the special issue of com-bined discrimination against women who are disabled has been addressed. The lecture also elaborated on the viability of the twin track approach to address the problem of double discrimination and dwelled on the crusade of women with disabilities for the learning it provides on sex stereotypes and gender discrimina-tion. Petra Bard, Researcher, CELAB, commented the lec-ture, exploring the different understandings of equality and addressing the problems of intragroup discrimination.

E m p o w e r m e n t f o r W o m e n w i t h

D i s a b i l i t i e sIn January 2008, the beta ver-sion of the new CEU website came online—a result of the Web Redesign Project that was initiated in early 2007. The ongoing project, jointly under-taken by the IT Department and External Relations Office, comprised six teams, member-ship of each selected from within cross-sections of the university. While the external website now enters its contin-uous operation and improve-ment phase, the project is shifting focus onto develop-ment of the CEU Intranet, which is set to come online on May 1, 2008. Website visi-

tors will encounter a slew of new functionalities on both the CEU Internet, and the future Intranet.

Parallel to the launch, a new Web Supervisory Committee has been formed in order to oversee content of both the institutional, and departmen-tal, websites.

From December 8-14 2007, CEU hosted an exhibition which unveiled some 300 materials from the archives of the Romanian secret police, the Securitate. Entitled “The (Un)open Society”, the event was organized together with the Romanian Cultural Institute of Budapest and the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives (CNSAS). The documents displayed official reports and statements of the Securitate, focused on the relationship between ordinary people and the secret police. It provided a detailed picture of how peo-ple were recruited and award-ed, and also how they could leave the Securitate, as well as the reasons and methods for keeping individuals under observation.

The exhibition opening speech-es were delivered by Laszlo Csendes, President, National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives (CNSAS); Brindusa Armanca, Director, Romanian Cultural Institute of Budapest (RKI) and Istvan Rev, Director, Open Society Archives at CEU (OSA).

An Evening with Peter Forgacs

On December 4, 2007 the Center for Arts and Culture, the Open Society Archives at CEU and the CEU Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies, in collaboration with the Erasmus Prize Foundation organized an evening with the renowned Hungarian documentary film maker, Peter Forgacs, laureate of the Erasmus Prize 2007. Entitled, “Speak, Memory!” the event included a film screen-ing as well as a panel discus-sion with Forgacs and Kristian Feigelson (University Paris 3), Laszlo Foldenyi (Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest), Istvan Rev (Open Society Archives at CEU), and moder-ated by Dragan Klaic (Leiden University/ CEU).

Tone Paths

The Center for Arts and Culture organized from February 5-22, 2007 an exhi-bition in CEU’s Octagon entitled “Tone Paths”, by sculptor Katalin Csanyi. The works presented reflected the artist’s fascination with structures as a means to dis-cover the essence and work-ing principles of things. The opening event also hosted a marimba concert by Ben Niran (below), percussionist and composer, currently a student at Bar Ilan University, Israel, which complement-ed the exhibits. The event was part of the “Encounters: Young Arts from Central Europe” series and was sup-ported by the International Visegrad Fund.

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Professor Judit Sandor’s long-standing research interests focus on the interactions of law, science, gender, and politics. Her works explore, more closely, the ethical, legal, and political implications of sci-

entific and technological change. This inter-disciplinary interest led her to the idea of establising the Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine (CELAB) at CEU in 2005.

Could you highlight the academic involvement of CELAB?

The idea behind establishing this center was related to the recognition of a new and increasingly developing interdisci-plinary field: ethical, legal, and social implications of biotechnological advanc-es. Life sciences, especially biomedicine, traditionally focused on the restoration of health and ‘normality’. Entering the age of the human genome project, biobanks, stem cell research, and nanotechnology, the role of science has shifted toward the purposeful transformation of various human capacities. For instance, while new reproductive technologies over-

come some problems of infertility, they also pose new questions of what sexual-ity, gender, and kinship mean in soci-ety. Genetic testing and preimplantation diagnosis allow for enhancement. And all these changes force the various social sciences and the practice of governance, to rethink decision-making in science policy, the way resources are allocated, and the ethical and legal concerns related to the various uses of genetic data. Our main field of work at CELAB is research and we participate now in six EU-funded projects. All these projects involve mainly European researchers in the fields of law, ethics, political science, and other social sciences.

How would you describe the interna-tional profile of CELAB?

CELAB works on national, regional, and international levels. In European research consortia knowledge about the Hungarian and Central European legal system is often required while it is also essential to be familiar with other European legal and ethical approaches. But more and more international research projects have a strong global and comparative focus. We try to integrate this knowledge and skills in our teaching. I strongly believe that at the graduate level of studies, the

selection of a viable, relevant and feasible topic is essential. But recently, many students have reached graduate school without any previous work experience, without significant research experience or simply without ‘life experience’. This is, of course, reflected by the choice of disser-tation topics that are sometimes old-fash-ioned, reiterative, or inspired exclusively by the literature. In the fields of law, political science and gender, especially, I think students should be familiarized also with the latest issues, the most advanced approaches and refined methodologies so that we can give them the best chance to work on something that is original and new, and will be relevant in the field of their discipline and also across the disci-plinary boundaries.

Can you mention some of the new fields of research?

We are very excited to start soon a new EU-funded project, on regenerative med-icine in Europe: emerging needs and challenges in a global context (Acronym: RemediE). This field of research is based on transnational scientific networks when norms, institutions and scientists move between countries. International col-laborations may also have some negative effects such as the well-known Hwang

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Research is fundamental to both the CEU historic mission and to its main val-ues of critical, objective and comparative thinking. Moreover, research excellence is a precondition for recruiting good students, attracting funding, and earning recognition and respect in the academic world and beyond. That is why CEU seeks to be a research-intensive univer-sity. But what does it mean in practice?

This section of the Gazette will be a platform for addressing this question. It will regularly present perspectives on research at CEU ranging from views and ideas on how to achieve research excel-lence to concrete illustrations of such achievements. This discussion will be complemented by the CEU Research Webportal, currently being created as part of the new CEU website.

CEU has made considerable progress towards becoming a research-intensive university. It has faculty with interna-tional research credentials, several suc-cessful research centers, and an effec-

tive Research Development and Support Office (RDSO). In addition, more than one-third of our students are pursuing doctoral degrees and our faculty engages in numerous international research proj-ects. This Gazette is publishing a list of such projects starting in the next few months. I would like to especially con-gratulate the Center for Policy Studies led by Violetta Zentai, who will coordi-nate a major FP7 project and the Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine, led by Judit Sandor, who will participate in no less than three new FP7 projects and one sponsored by UNESCO.

Of course, more can be done to strength-en research at CEU. Clear expectations for research activities and results should be backed by necessary institutional resources and accountability such as mandatory registration of academic pub-lications. A more complex goal is to stimulate not only individual but also collective research that would integrate interests and capabilities of several fac-ulty members. Our research centers,

research groups and emerging research programs serve precisely this goal, but it can also be targeted within CEU departments and schools. Such collec-tive research activities should naturally involve doctoral students and thus con-tribute to PhD education. If we are suc-cessful in stimulating both individual, independent research and collective, interdependent knowledge generation we would be well positioned to achieve the third goal: to make CEU unmistakably come across as a center of research excellence and a reliable research part-ner with a clearly defined research mis-sion, profile, and competencies. Plainly speaking, we should enable each mem-ber of the CEU community to clearly and easily answer the question “What is the research at CEU all about” and to be proud of that answer!

Aleh Cherp, CEU Director for Research and International Academic Cooperation/Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy

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affair in South Korea. That scandal illus-trated well that international networks may also create interdependence not only in terms of exchange expertise but also in terms of norms and resources. Economically speaking, regenerative medicine is likely to have significant impact on the future development of the world healthcare industry. At the present time this market is estimated to be 500 billion USD by 2010.

Another new and stimulating research area is ethics of nanotechnology. When in the 1980’s Eric Drexler used the word ‘nano-technology’, he was talking about building machines on the scale of molecules, a few nanometers-motors, robot arms and computers. By now nanotechnology has become an accepted concept, the meaning of the word has shifted to encompass the various types of nanometer-scale technol-ogy. Starting from 2007 CELAB has been participating in a coordination and support action project NANOPLAT.

At the moment perhaps our strongest research field is the ethical, social and legal implication of biobanks. This is reflected by our involvement in three projects that deal with privacy and

genetic data. One project focuses on the European legal and ethical framework and the governance of genebanks (Acronym: GenebanC). One of the already running projects, PRIVILEGED focuses more on the various privacy interests, par-ticularly grounded within intimacy and familial relationships in various research areas, especially in the so-called biobank-ing applications. This is a mega project in which not less than 32 universities are participating, among them not only European experts but also lawyers from Japan, Taiwan, and Israel.

We will soon start our third project in this field, TISS.EU, which mobilizes the resources of ten universities in Europe. The main aim of this project will be to carry out a high-quality interdisciplinary analysis of European health policy to assess the impact of EU legislation in this field and explore the ethical and legal situation across the European Union.

What types of further CELAB activities does your future strategy include?

Of course we would like to see as many results as possible after two-three years

of the research phase of the center. But we also organize workshops, semi-nars, film sessions, and debates that are open to the CEU academic com-munity and beyond. We additionally par-ticipate in legal policy work and provide some research tools for the international research community. For instance, we have recently launched the new version of the Biolaw Database that makes it possible for researchers and students to study some of these research fields more systematically or just gives them some ideas about the relevant topics and resources. In addition, we update our CELAB website on a nearly daily basis.

We work with very limited resources and minimal staff but it is clear that more and more scholars within the CEU community, and outside it, have expressed their interest towards ethics of science and technology. Therefore, in the future we also envision developing specific teaching curricula in this field once we have the necessary resources available. But until then I also reflect on the findings of this research in the courses I teach at the departments of political science, of legal studies and of gender studies.

CEU’s Center for Policy Research (CPS) was established in 2001. It “works for better government and administration in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, carrying out comparative and inter-disciplinary research, developing teaching and training materials, and maintaining an online library of policy papers from the region through the Policy Documentation Center. CPS is committed to strengthening indigenous capacities for policy research and

analysis, and also established one of the first Master’s degrees in public policy in the region. With the Open Society Institute, CPS sponsors new policy research and education programs. In addition CPS is active in both academic and policy networks, organizing conferences, work-shops, and public events to help promote, exchange, and bring research into policymaking.”

Violetta Zentai has played a key role at CPS since its inception. She remains involved with the Open Society Institute (OSI) from which she came to CPS, and also teaches at CEU’s departments of Public Policy and of Sociology and Social Anthropology. Zentai was the Acting Director of CPS at its founding, and became Director in 2003.

What was the original vision of CPS?

The vision of CPS was to bring to CEU the independent academic field of policy studies, and to do so in several interconnected ways. The first was to initiate comparative policy research projects with the involvement of the CEU academic community and with OSI.

The second was to link the professional and academic networks of these two institutions. Finally, right from the start, we began to plan a Master’s Program in Public Policy.

We saw that faculty members did many different kinds of research and teaching that have clear relevance to public policy, so the idea of CPS was not to “enlighten” the CEU community, but rather that CPS could invite the community to connect their research interests with new issues or build expertise in areas that had not yet been treated or discussed. We also felt that CPS could serve as one of many possible bridges between CEU and OSI, as all three pro-duce important knowledge that each can incorporate. In addition, because of CPS’ accessibility for both the academic and the policy communities we have sought to play a distinctive role in helping to enhance the art of policy research in this region.

Has CPS grown and developed in the way that was expected?

We started with a very small team, but slowly developed a core group and built up relationships with CEU departments and other units. A big change was the launch of the Master’s program, and when after only two years, public policy became an independent department at CEU. Diane Stone, the Founding Chair of the department, and many other important figures were key to its suc-cess, alongside the core staff at CPS and the first faculty members of the program.

From another aspect, the creation of CPS itself was dependent upon significant external funding, so CPS was among the pio-neers in building up the knowledge, infrastructure, and networks

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needed to secure these resources, especially in terms of EU research funding.

What has CPS been working on recently?

One project included the publishing of a research study entitled “The World Bank: A Decade of Reform and Reaction” (Diane Stone and Chris Wright–editors, Routledge, 2006). We are also publishing a series of works jointly with the CEU Press, through a fruitful collaboration, among others, with CEU faculty. These bring together the final results of the larger, comprehensive comparative research projects CPS pursues. A recent example is “Multiple Meanings of Gender Equality,” edited by Mieke Verloo (see current issue of the Gazette, page 8).

Beyond publications, while CPS focuses on policy research and on productively bringing together the many actors involved in policy making rather than performing shorter-term policy advocacy work, we do have occasions when we present our findings directly to decision makers, as was the case with our work on gender equality in Hungary, and our work on social capital issues relating to rural development, which we took to the EC in Brussels. Our more com-mon practice, though, is to bring our research to transnational and cross-national audiences of advisors, decision-makers, civil society organizations, the think-tank community in the region, and others, through public events, conferences, and the like. What is on the horizon for CPS?

CPS will be the lead agency of a consortium of nine organizations from eight countries in a recently awarded EU research grant of 1.5 million EUR. The project, entitled “Ethnic Difference in Education and Diverging Prospects for Urban Youth in the Enlarged Europe,” will last three years. Together with our partners, CPS will be engaged in comparative research on youth in urban settings in countries of both “old” and “new” Europe, to determine how educational institutions, the broader social environment, and ethnic politics shape the identities of young people as they com-plete their compulsory schooling, and how this influences their career prospects, mobility, and other facets of their lives. The two

main target groups are the Roma in new member states and the second generation migrants in the old member states.

It is significant that this project is being initiated from Hungary, a new member of the EU, especially as this type of project and con-sortium are not yet typical of this part of the world. All of Europe is grappling with issues of social inclusion, of ensuring equality for groups that are somehow divided. The EU has its debate on equality, with all its strengths and shortcomings, and we think these research results will enrich that discussion and contribute to that debate. The results will emerge incrementally as well, so we will not have to wait for the end of the third year to see the findings.

We are also working on a number of potential projects, as well as continuing our work with the Slovak Governance Institute, our ongoing investment in generating data on ethnic minorities in Central and Eastern Europe, together with the CEU Department of Economics, and our work on what are known as “intersecting inequalities,” which developed through our research on Roma women.

What other developments will CPS be looking towards in the future?

Most recently, CPS has been part of discussions on a potential school project within CEU that might bring together various disciplines, respecting their significance and independence, but also pooling their resources and creating students more access to faculty members, expertise, and the infrastructure of the depart-ments. We are very open towards working with any member of the academic community of CEU in mutually rewarding efforts, and have a track record of engaging PhD students in our research projects. We would like to provide even more opportunities like this for PhD students, as well as incorporating Master's students in certain respects as well.

CPS will also continue to bring important issues to the research agenda of the university and make intellectually inspiring encoun-ters with the work of think tanks and policy research institutes in Europe and beyond.

lARGe-sCAle iNteRNAtioNAl ReseARCh PRoJeCts stARtiNG dURiNG the fiRst MoNths of 2008

Principal Researcher: Julia Szalai, Consortium director: Violetta Zentai (Center for Policy Studies)• Ethnic Differences in Education and Diverging Prospects for Urban Youth in an Enlarged Europe, “EDUMIGROM” (FP7*, CP**)Principal Researcher: Diana Urge-Vorsatz (Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy)• Sustainable Technologies and Combined Community Approaches Take Off, “STACCATO” (FP6, Integrated Project)• Contextualizing behavioural change in energy programmes involv-ing intermediaries and policymaking organisations working towards changing behaviour, “CHANGING BEHAVIOUR” (FP7, CP)Principal Researchers: Alan Watt and Andrea Farsang (Doctoral Candidate), both Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy• Barriers for Energy Changes among End Consumers and Households, “BARENERGY” (FP7, CP)Principal Researcher: Judit Sandor (Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine)• Evaluation of Legislation and Related Guidelines on the Procurement, Storage and Transfer of Human Tissues and Cells in

the European Union - an Evidence-Based Impact Analysis, “TISS.EU” (FP7, CSS***)• Regenerative Medicine in Europe: Emerging Needs and Challenges in a Global Context, “REMEDiE” (FP7, CP)• Development of a Platform for Deliberative Processes on Nanotechnology in the European Consumer Market, “NANOPLAT” (FP7, CSS)• Developing Models to the Implementation of UNESCO Bioethical Instruments (Commissioned by UNESCO)Principal Researcher: Ayse Caglar (Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology)• Enacting European Citizenship, “ENACT” (FP7, CP)Principal Researcher: Gabor Toka (Department of Political Science)• Providing Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Democracy in the European Union, “PIREDEU” (FP 7, CSS)Principal investigator: Miklos Sukosd (Department of Political Science)• Indicators for Media Pluralism in the Member States – towards a Risk-based Approach, EU DG Information Society and Media

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To help give an indication of the variety of academic and cultural happenings at CEU, each Gazette offers a list of recent public lectures, workshops, conferences, seminar series and other events which have taken place at the university. The list is meant to be as comprehensive as possible.

leCtURes: Center for Arts and Culture“emergency Playback theater”Jonathan Fox (Center for Playback Theater, US)September 13, 2007

Department of Legal Studies “the Nuremberg trials— observations of a Participant 60 years later”Benjamin Ferencz (one of the Chief Prosecutors at Nuremberg)September 19, 2007

Department of Gender Studies“inside and outside the feminist Academy”Angela McRobbie (University of London, UK)September 20, 2007

Department of History“on the frontiers of history”Alfred J. Rieber (CEU)September 24, 2007

Open Century Project Lecture“democracy and Nonviolence”Ramin Jahanbegloo (Distinguished Visiting Professor, CEU)September 24, 2007

Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology“A fragile Giant? the future of New york in an Age of Uncertainty”John Mollenkopf (City University, US)September 24, 2007

Department of History“from history to literary history: An eighteenth-Century Phenomenon and its Aftermath”Michaela Irimia (University of Bucharest, Romania)September 27, 2007

Center for Policy Studies and Open Century Project“Anti-Americanism: from talleyrand to osama bin laden”Brendon O’Connor (Griffith University, Australia)September 28, 2007

Department of Philosophy“Conditions of Reference”Aldo Frigerio (Catholic University, Milan, Italy)October 2, 2007

Jewish Studies Project “icons Beyond the Border: Why do We love (hate) theodor Adorno, hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, franz Rosenzweig, Gershom scholem and leo strauss...?”Steven E. Aschheim (Hebrew University, Israel)October 2, 2007

Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy “Conceptualizing and Measuring environment in a Community health evaluation framework developed in Northern saskatchewan, Canada”Sylvia Abonyi (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)October 4, 2007

Center for Media and Communication Studies and the Department of Public Policy“switching to digital television: the Political and Regulatory Challenge”Michael Starks (University of Oxford, UK)October 5, 2007

The Human Rights Students’ Initiative and the Department of Legal Studies:“human Rights and Constitution-making”Wiktor Osiatynski (CEU) October 8, 2007

Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology“Main Processes of Collective decision-making and the Conditions they dominate”Frans Stokman (University of Groningen, Germany)October 8, 2007

The CEU Rectorate“Reflecting on a half-reform”Uday Balakrishnan (CEU Visiting Fellow)October 9, 2007 Jewish Studies Project“Austria, habsburg Jewry and the Central european heritage: lessons for today’s europe?” Steven Beller (US)October 9, 2007

Department of Legal Studies“Justice in Administration”Michael Adler (University of Edinburgh, UK)October 10, 2007

Nationalism Studies Program“the Unrealized Potential of federalism”Donald L. Horowitz (Duke University, US/CEU)October 10, 2007

Department of Public Policy “determinants of youth social Capital. A Comparative Analysis of high school students in Belgium, Canada and Romania”Gabriel Badescu (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)October 11, 2007

The Human Rights Students’ Initiative“human Rights and the Alabama Constitution”Kristen Sornsin (Nationalism Studies Program, CEU)October 11, 2007

Department of History and the Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine“‘on the shoulders of Generations.’ Genealogy and transmission in the history of heredity”Ohad Parnes (Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany) October 12, 2007

A CEU Distinguished Public Lecture“fighting Political Corruption. Before and After Accession”Monica Macovei (LEGS '93)Advisor on Anti-corruption to the Prime Minister of MacedoniaOctober 13, 2007

Department of History“internationalism and the transformation of Global inequality Reform Politics across Borders, 19th and 20th Centuries”Anne Orford (Director, Institute for International Law and the Humanities, University of Melbourne Parkville, Australia)October 15, 2007

Department of Philosophy“What Philosophy Can Contribute to Cognitive Neuroscience”Peter Hacker (University of Oxford, UK) October 16, 2007

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Department of Medieval Studies“late Antiquity in Russia: from Rostovtzeff to Batkin”Elena Sergejeva (Novgorod State University, Russia)October 18, 2007

Humanities Center and the Center for EU Enlargement Studies“Will the United states and europe Get Along after Bush?”Thomas Carothers (Vice President, Studies and International Politics and Governance, Garnegie Endowment for International Peace)October 18, 2007

Department of Mathematics and its Applications“Microstructres from Nonconvex Minimization Problems”Carsten Carstensen (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany) October 19, 2007

Department of Gender Studies“feminism and Postfeminism”Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)October 19, 2007

Human Rights Students’ Initiative“human Rights in Mexico”Margarita Morales-Torres (Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology)October 25, 2007

Department of Legal Studies“european investment Bank - the financing institution of the european Union”Gerhard Hutz (Director, Legal Department-Operation in Europe)October 25, 2007

Goethe Institute and the Jewish Studies Program“facing the National socialist Past after 1945”Andras Kovacs (CEU)Felix Semmelroth (Councilor for Cultural Affairs, City of Frankfurt am Main) October 26, 2007

Center for EU Enlargement Studies“diplomacy of small states”Vartan Oskanian (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Armenia)October 30, 2007 Department of Philosophy“General terms and Rigidity”Marian Zouhar (Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia)October 30, 2007

Department of History“from Venice to london. the decline of financial Centers in europe”Peter Spufford (Professor Emeritus, University of Cambridge, UK)November 8, 2007

The CEU Rectorate“the Mediterranean and europe—a Good Neighborhood Policy” His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal (The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan)November 8, 2007

CEU Jewish Studies Project“denial or the liberty of identification? Can the denial of Jewish identity form Jewish literature?”Gyorgy Vari (Pannon University, Hungary)November 13, 2007

Department of Gender Studies“Gender and dictatorship: is the outcome Predictable?”Barbara Einhorn (University of Sussex, UK) November 19, 2007

Department of Gender Studies and the Center for Policy Studies“debating european frames on Gender equality: three levels of Analysis”Mieke Verloo (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)November 20, 2007

open lectures and seminars: CeU open house November 21, 2007

department of economicsMicroeconomics Theory - Peter GrajzlAdvanced Microeconomics 1 - Andrzej BaniakEconometrics 1 - Gabor KezdiPublic Economics and Finance - Peter BenczurEconometrics I- Seminar - Aniko BiroMacroeconomics Theory - Alessia Campolmi

department of environmental sciences and PolicyIntroduction to Environmental Management/Intro to Environmental Economics - Lars HanssonIntroduction to Environmental Management/Intro to Sustainable Development - Aleh Cherp

department of Gender studiesGender and Holocaust - Andrea PetoFoundations in Gender Studies - Francisca de Haan, Veronica Vasterling

department of historyApproaching Religion - Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Matthias RiedlModern Historiography - Laszlo KontlerPolitical Modernities and Nation– build-ing in Central and Southeast Europe - Balazs TrencsenyiStructure and Infrastructure of Global Modernity - Judit Bodnar

department of international Relations and european studiesHistory and Theory of World Economy - Julius HorvathConcepts and Theories of World Politics - Michael MerlingenThe European Security and Defense Policy - Michael MerlingenTheories of International Relations: The Classical Debates - Alexander Astrov

department of legal studiesInternational Dispute Settlement - Tibor VaradyFrench Constitutional Law: Introduction - Marie-Pierre GrangerRight to Liberty - Karoly BardDrafting and Negotiating International Contracts - Stefan MessmannSeparation of Powers - Renata UitzHR Rights Law in Africa - Nsongurua Udombana

department of Mathematics and its ApplicationsNumber Theory - Gergely Harcos

department of Medieval studiesMedieval Monastic Culture - Jozsef LaszlovszkyThe History of Daily Life - Gerhard JaritzAdvanced Research Methodology I - Alice ChoykeDoctoral Seminar I - Gerhard JaritzGreek Beginner - Cristian Gaspar

Nationalism studies ProgramDebates About Self-determination and External Minority Protection in the 20th Century - Maria Kovacs

department of PhilosophyAction Reason and Freedom - Ferenc HuoranszkiPerception - Katalin FarkasPhilosophy of Mind - Hanoch Ben-Yami, Howard RobinsonPhilosophy of Interpretation - David Weberman

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department of Political scienceIntroduction to Contemporary Political Philosophy - Zoltan MiklosiComparative European Politics - Anton PelinkaComparative Political Economy - Anil DumanCosmopolitanism and Global Justice - Zoltan MiklosiMedia and Democracy - Miklos SukosdBiotechnology and Social Policy - Judit SandorElite Theory - Andras Bozoki

department of Public PolicyHigher Education Policy in the Age of Knowledge Society - Liviu Matei Ethics and Public Policy - Agnes Batory

department of sociology and social AnthropologyClass on Class - Gaspar Miklos TamasColonialism and Post-colonialism - Prem Kumar RajaramLogic of Social Inquiry - Balazs VedresPlace Making: Critical Approaches to Anthropology - Don KalbThe Structure and Infrastructure of Global Modernity - Judit Bodnar

Center for Media and Communication Studies“the Art of Campaigning - how NGos Can Change the World” Andreas Graf von Bernstorff (Greenpeace) November 22, 2007 Department of International Relations and European Studies“france and the Nuremberg War Crimes trials (1945-1946)”Yves Beigbeder (UNITAR, Geneva)November 22, 2007

Department of International Relations and European Studies“the european security and defense Policy: A Post-Westphalian Approach to international Relations” Jolyon Howorth (Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics, University of Bath, UK)November 23, 2007

Jewish Studies Project“influence of Reform of Judaism in Poland till the holocaust”Michal Galas (Jagiellonian University, Poland)November 27, 2007

Department of Public Policy and Open Century Project“think tanks and Public Policy debates”Kristof Bender (European Stability Initiative, ESI), Gerald Knaus (ESI)November 30, 2007

Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine“sameness and difference: twin track empowerment for Women with disabilities”Amita Dhanda (National Academy of Legal Studies and Research, India)December 4, 2007 Department of Philosophy“the Problematic of technology and the Realms of salvation in heidegger and Michel henry’s Philosophy”Mejame Ejede Charley (CEU)December 4, 2007 Human Rights Students’ Initiative“Roma in Roma: What is happening in italy?”Stano Daniel (European Roma Rights Center)December 5, 2007

Center for Media and Communication Studies “the Role of skill in internet Use”Eszter Hargitai (Northwestern University, US)December 5, 2007

Department of Legal Studies“transitional Justice and the limits of law”Adam Czarnota (University of New South Wales, Australia)December 6, 2007

Department of Gender Studies“the Culture of force: Gender and economics in American foreign Policy” Christopher Newfield (University of California, Santa Barbara, US) December 6, 2007 Department of Public Policy, Department of Political Science, Department of International Relations and European Studies, Center for Policy Studies“discourses and institutions. explaining the Longue Duree of inheritance law” Jens Beckert (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Germany) December 6, 2007

Religious Studies Program: Keynote Lecture of the Conference “The Apocalyptic Complex - Origins, Histories, Permanences”“Radical hopes: Apocalyptic longing in 19th Century German Philosophy”Michael Gillespie (Duke University, US)December 7, 2007

Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies“from Alexander von humboldt to Charles darwin: Navigation and exploration in a digital library”Frank Baron (University of Kansas, US)December 11, 2007

Jewish Studies Project“the 'New' hebrew Poetry and the hebrew 'National Poet' “Dan Miron (Leonard Kaye Professor of Hebrew Literature, Columbia University, US)December 11, 2007

Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies and Comparative Urban Studies Workshop “Coincidentia oppositorum?: Competing Visions in the Work of istvan Medgyaszay”Akos Moravanszky (Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, ETH, Zurich) in the framework of the launching of the thematic issue:“Urban History in East Central Europe” of the journal East Central Europe (ECE) 33 (2006) 1-2December 13, 2007

Central European University and the Embassy of the United States of America “the Great escape: Nine hungarians Who escaped hitler and Changed the World”Katalin Marton (Noted scholar, jour-nalist, and author)January 7, 2008

Jewish Studies Project, Religious Studies Program and Department of Medieval Studies“from the Palace in Cairo to the synagogue in fustat: in search of lost egyptian Archives”Marina Rustow (Department of History, Emory University, Atlanta, US)January 29, 2008

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Jewish Studies Project “hide and seek: transformations of Photo and film in Post-holocaust Art” Zsofia Ban (Department of American Studies, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary) February 12, 2008

Nationalism Studies Program“‘of their own free Will and desire’: Mass Conversions of Armenians to islam during the Anatolian Massacres of 1894-1897”Selim Deringil (Bosporus University, Turkey)February14, 2008

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Department of Medieval Studies, the Department of Medieval and Early Modern Hungarian History (University of Szeged), Research Group for Medieval Studies in Hungary (MTA, Szeged)“diplomacy in the Countries of the Angevin dinasty in the 13th-14th Centuries” September 16, 2007

Department of History“european Culture and the Understanding of otherness (16th-19th Centuries)”“the epistemology and the Politics of otherness”September 28-29, 2007

Pasts Inc., Center for Historical Studies“social transformations and social identities in east-Central and southeastern europe under socialism, 1944/45–1989/91”September 28-30, 2007

Department of Medieval Studies in cooperation with the Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office, Brno, Czech Republic“trends in Research and teaching of historical ecology in Central europe”October 26-27, 2007 Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy and the Environmental Partnership for Sustainable Development Association“Grassroots Movements and Regional Cooperation in Central europe after 2000”October 31, 2007

Religious Studies Program“the Apocalyptic Complex – origins, histories, Permanences”December 7-8, 2007

Center for Arts and Culture“documentary film - Reflecting the times, Witnessing epoch and human destinies”February 15, 2008

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Lecture Series: Theory, Society and Politics “Gender, Memory and Borders”Andrea Peto (CEU)September 17, 2007

Lecture Series: Theory, Society and Politics “Multiculturalism, islam and Women: About the Use and Abuse of feminism”Veronica Vasterling (CEU)September 18, 2007

Lecture Series: Theory, Society and Politics “hunting for Women. Bride kidnapping in kyrgyzstan”Lori Handrahan (CEU)September 19, 2007

Budapest Economic Seminar Series “in-work Benefits in search equilibrium”Mirco Tonin (University of Southampton, UK)September 24, 2007

Distinguished Speakers Series“the trans-Atlantic Agenda: Common Values, Common Concerns”Karen P. Hughes (Under Secretary, Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, US Department of State)October 1, 2007

Budapest Economic Seminar Series“Aggregating Phillips Curves”Jean Imbs (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)October 8, 2007.

Budapest Economic Seminar Series“lavish Returns on Cheap talk: Non-binding Communication in a trust experiment”Avner Ben-Ner (Carlson School, US)October 15, 2007

Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy Seminar Series“Global environment facility (Gef): Past, Present and future of the fund”Mikheil Tushishvili (Head, Ministry of Environment Protection and Natural Resources, Georgia) October 24, 2007 Budapest Economic Seminar Series“open Closure: Permeable Cohesion and entrepreneurial dynamics in Business Groups”Balazs Vedres (CEU)October 29, 2007

Lecture Series: Hungarian Science Festival “Cryptography: the Art of the impossible” Laszlo Csirmaz (CEU)November 5, 2007

Lecture Series: Hungarian Science Festival “Nationalism and Political theory”Anton Pelinka (CEU)November 6, 2007

Hellenic Colloquia Seminar Series “Getting the Message: Aspects of septuagint Reception in Antiquity”Alexis LeonasNovember 7, 2007

Lecture Series: Hungarian Science Festival “drafting and Negotiating international Contracts” Stefan Messmann (CEU)November 8, 2007

Lecture Series: Hungarian Science Festival “the issue of equality in the domain of Minority Rights”Tibor Varady (CEU)November 8, 2007

Lecture Series: Hungarian Science Festival “health and social support”Lajos Bokros (CEU)November 8, 2007

Lecture Series: Lectures in Democracy and Human Rights Promotion: the Visegrad experienceKristina Prunerova (People in Need, Secretary of International Committee for Democracy, Cuba)Jan Marian (Civic Belarus)November 12, 2007

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Budapest Economic Seminar Series “labor Market Rigidities, financial integration and international Risk–sharing in the oeCd”Jarko Fidrmuc (University of Munich, Germany)November 12, 2007

Lecture Series: Hungarian Science Festival “the Problem of Mathematical objects”Bob Hale (CEU)November 13, 2007

Lecture Series: Hungarian Science Festival “Comparative european Politics”Anton Pelinka (CEU)November 14, 2007

Budapest Economic Seminar Series “stock Market expectations and Portfolio Choices of American households”Gabor Kezdi (CEU)November 19, 2007

Distinguished Speakers Series “trans-Atlantic Relations: the Return of history”Robert Kagan (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)November 19, 2007

Human Rights Students’ Initiative in cooperation with People in Need and Pontis Foundationlectures in democracy and human Rights Promotion: “the Visegrad experience: Poland”Wojciech Tworkowski (Stefan Batory Foundation)Mikolaj Pietrzak (Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights in Poland)November 19, 2007

Lectures in Democracy and Human Rights Promotion“the Visegrad experience: hungary”Amb. Istvan Gyarmati (International Center for Democratic Transition)Andras Racz (Hungarian Institute of International Affairs)November 20, 2007

Lecture Series: Hungarian Science Festival “Medieval landscapes of Power”Jozsef Laszlovszky (CEU)November 20, 2007

Lecture Series: Hungarian Science Festival “questions and issues in Comparative Religion”Gyorgy Gereby (CEU)November 21, 2007

Lecture Series: Hungarian Science Festival “the emergence of Medieval towns in Central europe”Katalin Szende (CEU)November 23, 2007

Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectureship Series: Mary - Tasks and Themes in the Study of European Culture “the Global Middle Ages?”Miri Rubin (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) November 23, 2007

Budapest Economic Seminar Series “effects of Predictable tax liability Variation on household labor income”Peter Katuscak (CERGE, Czech Republic)November 26, 2007

Lecture Series: Hungarian Science Festival“Pentecostal Christianity, Audio-visual Media and the question of Community in Ghana”Birgit Meyer (Vrije University, The Netherlands)November 26, 2007

Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectureship Series: Mary - Tasks and Themes in the Study of European Culture “Mary, the Muslim and the Jew” Miri Rubin (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)November 26, 2007

Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectureship Series: Mary - Tasks and Themes in the Study of European Culture “emotion and devotion”Miri Rubin (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)November 28, 2007

Job Talk Lecture Series “studying Ambivalence: Authority and Authoritarianism, structure and Culture, theory and evidence”David Norman Smith (University of Kansas, US)December 5, 2007

Job Talk Lecture Series “the Audience in Action: An empirical study of a Participatory Public”Jean Louis Fabiani (Humboldt University, Germany)December 5, 2007

Istvan Gyorgy Toth Lectures: New Perspectives on Czech and Slovak History “slovak historiography on early Modern slovakia/hungary”Eva Kowalska (Institute of Historical Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences)December 5, 2007

Job Talk Lecture Series “Paths of state disintegration: the Cases of late-soviet Russia and Contemporary iraq”Marc Garcelon (Yeshiva University, US)December 6, 2007

Job Talk Lecture Series “Making (sense of the) News in the era of digital information” Dominc Boyer (Cornell University, US)December 6, 2007

Budapest Economic Seminar Series “the Competitiveness of intermediate Goods Markets with Vertically integrated firms”Jerome Pouyet (Ecole Polytechnique, France)December 7, 2007

Budapest Economic Seminar Series “Usage and diffusion of Cellular telephony, 1998-2004”Michal Grajek (European School of Management and Technology, Germany)December 10, 2007

Istvan Gyorgy Toth Lecture Series: New Perspectives on Czech and Slovak History “National indifference and National Classification in the Bohemian lands, 1900-1948”Tara Zahra (University of Chicago, US)December 12, 2007

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Distinguished Lecture Series of the Department of Mathematics and its Applications “introduction to the Mathematical theory of fluid Mechanics”Eduard Feireisl (Czech Academy of Sciences)January 14, 2008

Lecture Series: Space and Science: Power, Networks and the Circulation of Knowledge in the 16th-19th Centuries (European and Global Perspectives) “the Political epistemology of knowledge Production”Yehuda Elkana (CEU)January 14, 2008

Budapest Economic Seminar Series “optimal simple Monetary Policy Rules and Non-atomistic Wage setters in a New-keynesian framework”Stefano Gnocchi (Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)January 21, 2008

Lecture Series: Space and Science: Power, Networks and the Circulation of Knowledge in the 16th-19th Centuries (European and Global Perspectives)“is the industrial laboratory a Cosmopolitan space? Michael Polanyi investigates in Berlin”Karl Hall (CEU)January 21, 2008

Istvan Gyorgy Toth Lecture Series: “Czech National history Between emancipation and National sovereignty. from Normalization to the eU Access”Michal Kopecek (Institute of Contemporary History, Prague, Czech Republic)January 22, 2008

Budapest Economic Seminar Series “A Balls-and-Bins Model of trade”Miklos Koren (Princeton University, US)January 23, 2008

Lecture Series: Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology Seminar Series “the hungarian transylvania: symbolic Reconstruction of lost territories”Margit Feischmidt (University of Pecs, Hungary)January 28, 2008

Lecture Series: Space and Science: Power, Networks and the Circulation of Knowledge in the 16th-19th Centuries (European and Global Perspectives) “the discrete Charm of the Printed form” Peter Becker (Johannes Kepler University, Austria)January 28, 2008

Budapest Economics Seminar Series“effects of Population Aging on Aggregated Uk Consumer demand”Melanie Luehrmann (Institute for Fiscal Studies) February 4, 2008

Lecture Series: Space and Science: Power, Networks and the Circulation of Knowledge in the 16th-19th Centuries (European and Global Perspectives)“expatiating free over All this scene of Man: Alexander von humboldt and human Geography in late 18th - early 19th Century hungary”Ildiko Kristof (Institute of Ethnology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)February 4, 2008

Budapest Economics Seminar Series“information Projection: Model and Applications” Kristof Madarasz (University of California at Berkeley, US) February 6, 2008

Space and Science: Power, Networks and the Circulation of Knowledge in the 16th-19th Centuries (European and Global Perspectives)“Natures, Cultures and Countercultures: the Restructuring of knowledge by the 18th Century and its discontents”Gyorgy E. Szonyi (University of Szeged /CEU) February 11, 2008Istvan Gyorgy Toth Lecture Series: “the early Modern habsburg Monarchy Beyond the Absolutism Paradigm” Petr Mata (University of Vienna, Austria)February 12, 2008

Hellenic Colloquia Seminar Series“Psychic Contingency in Plato: Rethinking the tripartite soul” Jennifer Whiting (University of Toronto, Canada) February 12, 2008

For a complete list of arts and culture events visit: www.cac.ceu.hu

Human Rights and Constitution-making LectureOn October 8, 2007, CEU hosted a public lecture on “Human Rights and Constitution-making” by Wiktor Osiatynski, CEU University Professor. The event was organized by the Human Rights Students’ Initiative in coop-eration with the CEU Department of Legal Studies.

The Switch to Digital TelevisionMichael Starks, Associate, Program in Comparative Media Law and Policy, University of Oxford, delivered a lecture on October 5, 2007, entitled “Switching to Digital Television: The Political and Regulatory Challenge”. The event was organized by the CEU Center for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS) and the CEU Department of Public Policy.

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Administrative Reform AnalyzedUday Balakrishnan, CEU Visiting Fellow, delivered a lecture on October 9, 2007, entitled “Reflecting on a Half-reform”, which described the imple-mented administrative reform process in the Indian Institute of Science.

Justice in AdministrationMichael Adler, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh, delivered a public lecture on “Justice in Administration” organized by the Department of Legal Studies, on October 10, 2007.

The US and Europe after BushCEU hosted on October 18, 2007, a public lecture by Thomas Carothers, Vice President for Studies—International Politics and Governance, Carnegie Endowment, entitled “Will the United States and Europe Get Along after Bush?”, in an event organized by the Center for EU Enlargement Studies (CENS) and the Humanities Center.

Theatre in the CEU AuditoriumThe CEU Auditorium was the location for a play after Edward Albee’s “Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?” on November 20, 2007. The event (a pre-miere for CEU) was performed by Erika Hardie’s Brown Cow Company.

Natalie Zemon Davis Annual LecturesBetween November 23-28, 2007, Miri Rubin, Professor of European History, Queen Mary, University of London, delivered three talks within the Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture Series: “The Global Middle Ages?”, “Mary, the Muslim and the Jew” and “Emotion and Devotion”.

CMCS Public LectureOn December 5, 2007, the CEU Center for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS) organized a public lecture entitled “The Role of Skill in Internet Use” by Eszter Hargitai (Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Sociology, Faculty Associate of the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University).

Knowledge ProductionThe CEU Department of History and the CEU Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies organized on January 14, 2008, a public lecture by Yehuda Elkana, President and Rector, CEU, entitled “The Political Epistemology of Knowledge Production.” The event was part of the frame-work of the “Space and science: power, networks and the circulation of knowledge in the 16th-19th centuries (European and global perspectives)” seminar and lecture series.

Concept of HeredityThe CEU Department of History and the CEU Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine organized on October 12, 2007, a public lecture entitled “On the Shoulders of Generations. Genealogy and Transmission in the History of Heredity” by Ohad Parnes, Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany.

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The Business School’s international executive MBA, the IMM (International Master’s in Management) program, has further improved its position in the prestigious executive MBA ranking of The Financial Times. In the October 2007 ratings, the IMM was ranked #11 globally and ranked #1 in “International Course Experience”.

For more information about the program, visit www.mostinternationalmba.com

A delegation from the CEU Business School received the certificate of accreditation for the school’s MBA provision at the Annual Gala hosted by the Association of MBA’s (AMBA) in London. The School’s delegates at the event were Tony Kmetty (right), Director of Enrollment Management and Oliver Olson (left), Director of Degree Programs Administration.

The foundation stone for the new headquarters of the CEU Business School was laid in a ceremony which took place on October 15, 2007. The new building near the Danube bank in Budapest’s ninth district, has 11,000 square meters reserved for the premises of the Business School. External offices and stores are planned to operate in the rest of the building, (named Millenium Gate). Alongside regular seminar rooms and offices for faculty and staff, two large classrooms with a capacity of 100 and 150 each, along with an auditorium have been planned for the use of the Business School. Participants in the ceremony included George Soros, Honorary Chairman, Board of Trustees, Central European University, Sandor Demjan, President, TriGranit (the development company involved in this pro-ject), and Istvan Sorokai, CEO, Arcadom (the company undertaking the construction of the new building). When completed, the building will also include various other facilities for the use of the Business School’s community such as a coffee house, a library and a sports center.

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The Open Society Archives at CEU, in collaboration with the Budapest Zoo, is hosting an exhibition from January 31 −March 15, 2008 on the relationship between classification/tax-onomy and the archive. The show presents three layers of the archive and the corresponding system/logic of classification. The exhibition was opened by ethologist Vilmos Csanyi. Introductory words were given by HE Cecilia Bjorner, Ambassador of Sweden to Hungary.

Under the Decade of Roma Inclusion, the Open Society Institute (OSI) and the Open Society Archives at CEU (OSA) announced an international photography contest entitled “Chachipe” (from October 25−November 25, 2007). The aims of the contest were to help combat visual stereotypes associated with Roma and to present Roma people and Roma culture sensi-tively and artistically. The intention was to authentically portray Roma as an integral part of their broader national communities.

The winning photographs in each category, as selected by the Chachipe jury can be found at: http://photo.romadecade.org/

Within the Verzio 4 film festival, organized from November 6−11, 2007, 42 works were screened in downtown Budapest cin-emas. Thirty seven contemporary documentaries were included in the main program, having been selected from among 453 submissions. Verzio is not a competition festival, however together with the event a Verzio Audience Award is granted. For the Verzio 4

edition, the most popular to date, the winner was “Bridge over the Wadi” by Barak Heymann and Tomer Heymann, Israel. The film follows the operation of a joint Jewish-Arab school meant to initi-ate communication and peaceful cooperation among the members of a mixed yet separated community.

For more information visit: http://www.verzio.ceu.hu

The Open Society Archives at CEU and the Hannah Arendt Institute at the Technische Universitat, Dresden, Germany organized an international workshop on “The Encounter of Poets, Artists and Writers” from October 12−13, 2007. Within the framework of this EU-sponsored project, a two-year exchange was carried out among artists, poets and authors from various European countries about their experience of the change from dictatorship to democracy, in particular after the opening of for-mer communist countries from the end of the 1980s. In a number of meetings (held in the participating countries, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary, Italy and Germany) invited poets, writers and artists presented their work and exchanged accounts of their experiences resulting from the dictatorial/ authoritarian period, showing how the political changes had influenced their artistic activities.

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Within the Eduniversal project, a study compiled by SMBG, a leading consul-tancy in France in student orientation, 4,000 websites and dozens of publica-tions were studied, out of which 1,000 business schools (either universities or schools, public or private) were listed according to their capacity for inter-national influence. The results of the study give a large panorama of higher education in the fields of management and business administration.

In Europe 331 business schools were highlighted out of the 41 countries, and five Hungarian higher educational institutions were listed among the best: CEU Business School; Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences; Corvinus University of Budapest, Faculty of Business Administration; International Business School (IBS) and University of Pecs, Faculty of Business and Economics.

More details: www.eduniversal.com

For the most recent developments of the OSA collections, new acquisitions dynamics, etc. visit: www.osa.ceu.hu