“Towns as Living Places: Static and Dynamic Aspects of Medieval and Early Modern Urban Communities” was the title of a conference held between 4-6 October 2017 in Vienna as a joint workshop of the VISCOM project carried by the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Hungarian Atlas of Historic Towns project of the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, coordinated by
On October 22-23 faculty and PhD students from the CEU Medieval Studies Department participated in a conference hosted by Beijing Normal University on the theme of “Social control and the issues of scale”. This event was the latest result of an on-going program of cooperation between the BNU School of History and our department, a cooperative effort that goes back almost five years now. Several of our faculty have been invited to give lecture series at Beijing Normal University.