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Program Announced for DH Fest 2025

November 20, 2025

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 23, 2026

Workshop Report - Urban Commercial Spaces and their Languages

November 7, 2025

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On November 6 and 7, we held the final workshop in the Multilingualisms workshop series, part of the EurAsian Transformations Cluster of Excellence. As a whole, the series built on the spatial turn in historiography and approached the multilingual challenge through the lens of Eurasian cities and towns as administrative, religious, and commercial centers. The final event in the series examined commercial languages and texts in a context that stretched from Ireland to Japan and spanned many centuries.

Mongols in Premodern Eurasia

November 6, 2025

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On Wednesday, November 5, we hosted a workshop on the history of Mongols in western Eurasia. After an introduction from PhD candidate Jack Wilson, Prof. Jozsef Laszlovszky gave an overview of the ways in which the Mongol invasion of Hungary can be seen in the historical record. He highlighted problems with recreating routes of travel and movements of individuals from surviving narrative and archaeological sources. Prof.