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Conference Report: Otherness in Byzantium

May 28, 2026
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Last week, students from our department together with colleagues from the University of Vienna organized a conference entitled Otherness in Byzantium: Imagining, Encountering, Excluding. The conference approached the concept of otherness from two complementary perspectives. On the one hand, it investigated how the Byzantines imagined an idealized self-identity, in a dialectic way, through the construction of the Other. This included exploring the strategies used by social groups to construct a self-perception distinct from outsiders.

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Dr. Veronika Helfert Wins the Edith Saurer Prize

May 26, 2026
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CEU at Kalamazoo Medieval Congress

May 22, 2026
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This year at the 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo on May 14–16, 2026, the Department of Historical Studies sponsored a session titled “The Middle and the West: Central Europe’s Influences on Western Europe in the Late Medieval Period”. The session was organized and chaired by Gerhard Jaritz, Professor Emeritus and the presenters included two alumnae, Kateřína Horničková and Nada Zečević as well as current professor Katalin Szende.

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Tijana Rupcic Wins the Bader Award for the History of Science and Technology

May 19, 2026
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On Wednesday, May 13, our PhD alumna Tijana Rupcic received the Bader Award for the History of Science and Technology from the Austrian Academy of Sciences for her dissertation "Powering Connections: Electric Infrastructure in Socialist Yugoslavia 1945-1991". This award is given for an excellent scientific work on research questions in the field of the history of science and technology, and is given to researchers who have been continuously active in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Sloveni

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Obituary: Averil Cameron

April 10, 2026
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It is with great sadness that colleagues at the Department of Historical Studies at Central European University have learnt about the passing of Dame Averil Cameron. Professor Cameron has been a distinguished historian and leading scholar on the Late Antique Mediterranean and Byzantium. After she studied Greats at Oxford, she taught at Kings College London for more than 20 years before being elected Warden of Keble College in Oxford in 1994. She was the first female Warden of Keble and left a lasting legacy during her 16 years of tenure.

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