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Vojtěch Pojar Wins Prestigious Prize

December 10, 2025
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Dr. Vojtech Pojar received this year's Austrian Award of Excellence for his PhD thesis, submitted in 2024, as "Experts in Post-Imperial Transitions: Entanglements and Diverging Trajectories of Eugenicists between the Habsburg Empire and the ‘Miniature Empires,’ c. 1900 - 1939". He was supervised by Prof. Balazs Trencsenyi and Prof. Emese Lafferton. 

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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
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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)

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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.

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16th Annual London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought

December 1, 2025
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Kings and Generals: The Day Europe Almost Fell

November 25, 2025
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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.

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