Visiting Faculty in Previous Academic Years

Academic Year 2020/2021

• András Vadas
  Course in the Fall term: Climate Catastrophe, Pandemic and the Kangaroo Island: Environmental History of the Pre-Modern World
• Dora Ivanisevic
  Course in the Winter term: The Age of Constantine: The Later Roman Empire in the Making
• Judit Majorossy
  Courses in the Winter term: Historiography II: Grand Debates in Central European History; Reading Medieval Documents (Medieval Latin, Old German and English)
• Ágnes Korondi
  Course in the Spring term: Transmitting Devotional Trends: Books and Religious Idea(l)s in Late Medieval East Central Europe
• Nóra Berend
  Course in the Spring term: Defenders of Christendom:  The Evolution of an Idea
• Edit Lukács
  Course in the Spring term: The Medieval University of Vienna: History, Sciences, Concepts
• Katharina Ivanyi (invited by CEMS)
  Course in the Spring term: Islamic and Imperial Law in the Late Medieval and  Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Academic Year 2019/2020

• Stephanos Efthymiadis
  Course in the Winter term: Core class and tutorial on Greek Literature and Language in the Byzantine Era (Fourth-Fifteenth Centuries), Selected Texts; Hagia Sophia of Constantinople: Sketching a Political and Social History (532–1453)
• Anna Boreczky
  Course in the Spring term: Late Antique, Early Christian and Byzantine Art and Architecture
• András Németh
  Course in the Spring term: The Vatican Library: A History and Research Possibilities
  

Academic Year 2018/2019

• Margarita Voulgaropoulou
  Visiting Faculty, Central European University
  Course in the Fall term: Byzantine Art in the Medieval Balkans: Eastern and Western perspectives
• Stanislava Kuzmova
  Comenius University in Bratislava
  Erasmus teaching in the Fall (November)
• Curie Virag
  School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh
  Course in the Winter: Emotional Spaces: Comparative Approaches to Architecture, Landscape and the City
• Baukje van den Berg
  Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Medieval Research, Division of Byzantine Research, currently working at the Department of Medieval Studies, CEU from the academic year 2019/20
  Course in the Winter term: CC: Byzantine Secular Literature (330-1453): Between Tradition and Innovation
  
• Tamás Karáth
  Assistant Professor, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary
  Recurrent Visiting Faculty, Department of Medieval Studies, CEU
  Courses in the Fall and Winter terms: Reading and Early Modern English Sources: A Beginner’s Course I-II
• Gottfried Hagen
  Professor, Turkish Studies; Department Chair
  University of Michigan
  Course in the Spring term: Ottoman Mentality: How the World Works, According to Evliya Çelebi and Others
• Christian Krötzl
  Professor of General History
  University of Tampere
  Course in the Spring term: Saints, Pilgrims and Identities between Unity and Diversity – Hagiographic Regions in Medieval Europe
• David Malkiel
  Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History
  Bar-Ilan University
  Course in the Spring term: Readings in the Thought of Moses Maimonides
• Nicholas Purcell
  Camden Professor of Ancient History
  University of Oxford

  Course in the Spring term: Liquid Continents: Ecological Histories of the Mediterranean and its Neighbours

Academic Year 2017/2018

• Günhan Börekçi
  Courses: Fall term: CC + tutorial: Sources, Methods and New Perspectives in Ottoman History (15th to 18th centuries); Advanced Source Reading Class in Ottoman Historiography (16th-17th Centuries); Winter: CC + tutorial: Dynastic States and Royal Courts in Early Modern Eurasian History (1450-1700), Advanced Source Reading Class in Ottoman Historiography II
• Felicitas Schmieder
  Historical Institute, FernUniversität in Hagen (Germany)
  Course: How to Read Medieval Maps: A neglected source for answers on many different questions (12th to 16th c.)
• Edit Anna Lukacs 
  Institute of Austrian Historical Research, University of Vienna (Austria)
  Course: Anonymity in the Medieval History of Thought
• Beatrice Caseau
  Universite Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)
  Course: Food and Religion: the Byzantine Food Culture
• Eszter Spat
  Independent Researcher
  Course: The Interface of Religious Orality and Scripturality: Verbal and Written Charms in the Middle East

Academic Year 2016/17

Fall term

• Ildiko Csepregi
  Course title: Miracles: From Wonderworkers to Canonized Saints

Winter term

• Curie Virag
  University of Toronto,
  Department of East Asian Studies
  Course title: The Art of Memory in China and the West
• Günhan Börekçi
  Course titles: CC + tutorial: The “Seventeenth-century Crisis” in Comparative Perspective: European and Ottoman Experiences; ATRS Ottoman: Advanced Source Reading Class in Ottoman Historiography (16th-17th centuries)
  

Spring term guests

• Edit Anna Lukacs | Institute of Austrian Historical Research, University of Vienna
  Course at CEU: Philosophical and theological traditions at the universities of Central Europe (1370-1420)
• Luka Spoljaric | University of Zagreb
  Course at CEU: The Diffusion of Renaissance Humanism: The Case of Venetian Dalmatia
• Zoe Opacic | University of London
  Course at CEU: Charles IV Luxembourg: the Art or Power or the Power of Art in Late Medieval Europe

Academic Year 2015/16

Spring term guests

• Christoph Neumann | Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich
• Sarah Nur Yıldız | Orient-Institut Istanbul, Istanbul
• Otto Gecser | Institute of Sociology, Eötvös Loránd University(ELTE), Budapest

Fall term 

• Grigor Boykov | Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridsky", Bulgaria
  Fields of Interest: social, demographic, urban
  and architectural history of the Ottoman Balkans
  Course taught at MEDS: The Ottoman Urban Concept: Spatial Transformation and Population Changes in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities in the Ottoman Realm
• Robin Nadeau | University of Exeter, UK
  Fields of Interest: Ancient Greek History; History of the Roman world; Food Studies and Health
  Course taught at MEDS: Food and Society from the Roman Empire to the Early Middle Ages 
• Divna Manolova | Centre for Medieval Literature (University of Southern Denmark and University of York
  Course taught at MEDS: Schoolmasters and Students: Learning and Scholarship in Byzantium
• Stephanos Efthymiadis
  Course taught at MEDS: Hagia Sophia of Constantinople: Sketching a Political and Social History (532-1204)
• Csaba Ötvös
  Course taught at MEDS: ATRS – Greek: Reading Plotinus' treatise Against the Gnostics (II.9 [33])
• Ferenc Ruzsa | Eötvös Lorand University
  Course taught at MEDS: Similar Ideas, Images and Arguments: Ancient Greek and Indian Thought
• Christoph Neumann | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
  Course taught at MEDS: Ottoman Law in Early Modernity and Modernity
• Otto Gecser | Eötvös Lorand University
  Course taught at MEDS: Plague in the Later Middle Ages
• Sara Yildiz | University of St Andrews
  Course taught at MEDS: Christianity and Islam in Medieval Anatolia

Academic Year 2014/15

• Johannes Hahn | Universität Münster
• Irene Bueno | EHESS, Centre de recherches historiques
• David Wallace | University of Pennsylvania
• Julia Verkholantsev | University of Pennsylvania

Academic Year 2013/2014

• Gábor Buzási | ELTE, Budapest
• Ildikó Csepregi | Budapest
• Ferenc Csirkés | The University of Chicago
• Stanislava Kuzmova | University of Oxford
• Victor Lagutov | CEU
• Sylvain Piron | GAS-Ehess, Paris
• Alexander Riehle | University of Vienna
• Richard Unger | The University of British Columbia
• Curie Virág | University of Toronto
• Bryan Ward-Perkins | University of Oxford

Academic Year 2012/2013

• Gábor Buzási | ELTE, Budapest
• Ralph Cleminson 
• Ferenc Csirkés | The University of Chicago
• Victor Lagutov | CEU
• Mihailo Popovic | Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Johannes Preiser-Kapeller | Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Rubina Raja | Aarhus University
• Lajos Rácz | University of Szeged

Academic Year 2011/2012

• Gábor Buzási | ELTE, Budapest
• Ralph Cleminson | University of Portsmouth
• Stephen Jaeger | University of Illinois, Urbana
• Etele Kiss | Hungarian National Museum, Budapest
• Paul Magdalino | University of St Andrews and Koç University, Istanbul
• Oliver Rackham † | Corpus Christi, University of Cambridge
• Yossef Schwartz | Tel Aviv University
• Péter Szabó | Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno

Academic Year 2010/11

• Irene Barbiera| University of Padova
• Pawel Kras | Catholic University of Lublin
• Yossef Schwartz | Tel Aviv University
• Alice-Mary Talbot | Dumbarton Oaks

Academic Year 2009/10

• Ra’anan Boustan  | Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
• Gábor Buzási | ELTE, Budapest
• Viktória Cseh | Instructor, Classical Arabic
• Robert D. Black | University of Leeds
  Hellenic Studies Special Lecture Series, April 21–23, 2010
  Niccolò Machiavelli
  (1) The Florentine and Italian historical context. Machiavelli’s life and his political vocabulary;
  (2) The Prince: context, aims and conclusions;
  (3) The Discourses: context, aims and conclusions
• Athanasios Markopoulos | University of Athens
  Hellenic Studies Spring Session Seminar, June 1–10, 2010
  Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos and the ‘official’ historiography of the Macedonian dynasty