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Gereby Delivers Isaiah Berlin Lectures at Oxford

February 4, 2018

Gyorgy Gereby, associate professor in CEU's Department of Medieval Studies, is delivering the Isaiah Berlin Lectures at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford this semester as part of the Isaiah Berlin Visiting Professorship, which brings leading scholars in the history of philosophy or history of ideas to Oxford.

The Society for Armenian Studies Announces Best Conference Paper Award Recipients

February 1, 2018

"The Society for Armenian Studies recently announced the recipients of its 2016 'Best Conference Paper Award.' Recognized were co-winners Jennifer Manoukian for her paper “Translating the Colloquial Armenian of Late-Nineteenth Century Constantinople in Zabel Yessayan’s The Gardens of Silihdar,' and Piruza Hayrapetyan for her paper 'The Armenian Ganj-Hymn – An 'Originally Armenian' or a 'Borrowed' Genre: Reshaping the Debate.'" Congratulations to the winners.

New publication by alumna: New Home, New Herds: Cuman Integration and Animal Husbandry in Medieval Hungary from an Archaeozoological Perspective

We are happy to let you know that the volume New Home, New Herds: Cuman Integration and Animal Husbandry in Medieval Hungary from an Archaeozoological Perspective by our alumna Kyra Lyublyanovics has been published at Archaeopress. The book is based on the author's dissertation that she defended at our department in 2015.

Call for Application: CfA - CEU Summer University - Dignity of Man

December 15, 2017

CfA – Postgraduate summer course “The Dignity of Man in Western Intellectual History, Esotericism, and Art” at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary, 24 June - 29 June, 2018

 

Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture Series held 12th time

Since its launch in 2006, the Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture Series has become a major event of every fall term at CEU, organized by the Department of Medieval Studies and the Department of History. Each year a world-famous historian is invited to give three talks on their current research topic; scholars such as Peter Burke and Dame Averil Cameron have been featured in the series in the past few years.