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PhD Position: The Cultural Vanguard of Workers’ Movements: A Social History of East Central European Avant-Garde between the Two Wars

December 9, 2025

The Department of Historical Studies, Central European University (Vienna, Austria) in collaboration with the ProletGard ERC Starting Grant project, Kassák Foundation (Budapest, Hungary) is pleased to announce a PhD in

The Cultural Vanguard of Workers’ Movements: A Social History of East Central European Avant-Garde between the Two Wars

(ProletGard)

(Principal investigator: Gábor Dobó, host institution: Kassák Foundation, Hungary)

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.