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Our Academic Year in Review

June 20, 2025
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It has been a busy but productive inaugural year for the Department of Historical Studies. We launched our MA in Museum Studies with a highly motivated and creative international cohort; hosted many conferences, workshops and public lectures; took students on field trips across Vienna and Central Europe; and, between all of this, took and taught classes, wrote essays and gave presentations, and successfully defended PhD dissertations and MA theses.

Urban Religious Spaces and their Languages - Workshop Report

June 16, 2025
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Last week, CEU hosted the second workshop in the "Multilingualism in Eurasian Premodern Societies: Social Hierarchies and Space" Urban Multilingualism Workshop Series, entitled Urban Religious Spaces and their Languages. This workshop series is part of the EurAsian Transformations Cluster of Excellence, a collaboration between the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna, the University of Innsbruck and CEU.

Symposium Report - Education and Literature in a Medieval Eurasian Context

June 12, 2025
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Between 4 and 6 June, CEU’s Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies hosted the international conference ‘Education and Literature in a Medieval Eurasian Context’, organized as a collaboration between CEU (Baukje van den Berg) and the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Panagiotis Agapitos).

New Alumni Publication

June 10, 2025
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Our alumna, Mária Pakucs, senior researcher at the Nicolae Iorga Institute of History in Bucharest has just published an edited volume with CEU Press. Towns between Empires contains contributions regarding urban administration and governance in the historical regions that are now in Romania, and that fall under the early modern concept of good governance. It is available in Open Access under the link above.

Cultural Exchange in the Middle Ages

June 6, 2025
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The second “Cultural Exchange in the Middle Ages” summer school was hosted by Charles University in Prague from May 21-28th. Participants came from universities in Denmark and Iceland, as well as from Charles University and CEU. Over the course of the week, students attended a series of lectures themed around cultural exchange in the Middle Ages, particularly focused on how evidence for exchange is found in the matter and the text of medieval manuscripts.