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New Publication: Eustathios’ Homeric Commentaries and Byzantine Textual Culture

December 5, 2025
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Prof. Baukje van den Berg now has a chapter on "Eustathios’ Homeric Commentaries and Byzantine Textual Culture" published in Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Homer from Byzantium to the Enlightenment.

Kings and Generals: The Day Europe Almost Fell

November 25, 2025
Source: Kings and Generals

The Day Europe Almost Fell (1241-1242) is a newly published Kings and Generals documentary on the Mongol Invasion of Hungary. Filmed in the summer of 2023, the documentary features our faculty and students discussing multiple aspects of the Mongol Invasion, and the surviving documentary and material evidence for it.

Program Announced for DH Fest 2025

November 20, 2025
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The program for CEU's DH Fest 2025 has now been announced. Funded and supported by CLARIAH-AT and the FWF Cluster of Excellence EurAsian Transformations, the event will take place on Thursday, December 4 at CEU's Vienna campus. The day will open with the CLARIAH-AT Roadshow, with presentations on current DH research in Austria and Budapest. This will be followed by a workshop where participants can bring their own ideas and match them with digitial tools.

Fifth Annual Graduate Workshop on Late Antique and Byzantine Studies

November 17, 2025
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The Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at Central European University and the Ancient, Byzantine, and Medieval Studies Cluster of the Vienna Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna are pleased to announce the Fifth Annual Graduate Workshop on Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, to be held in person on February 27, 2026.

Deadline for Applications: January 16, 2026