On October 30, 2021, Ya Ning, a CEU alumnus (MA in Medieval Studies, 2018–19) who is currently pursuing doctoral studies at Eötvös Lóránd University in Budapest, gave a presentation on János M. Bak and his academic legacy at the Annual Conference of the Chinese Society for Medieval Studies in Xiamen, China. As Ya aimed to highlight in his presentation honoring the memory of the iconic co-founder of the Department of Medieval Studies at CEU, Prof.