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Application Deadline Upcoming

January 21, 2026
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The application deadline for funded MA and PhD places at CEU is February 4, 2026. In order to help you apply for programs that start in September 2026, we've prepared a short guide, and a few videos illustrating why the department is a great place to study.

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CfP: Otherness in Byzantium: Imagining, Encountering, Excluding

December 22, 2025
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CEU-UniWien Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Student Colloquium

May 22: Central European University, Quellenstrasse 51, D001, 1100 Vienna.
May 23: Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna, Postgasse 9, Lecture Hall, 1010 Vienna.

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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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