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Program Published: Urban Religious Space and its Languages

June 4, 2025
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The program for Urban Religious Space and its Languages is now online. This workshop is part of the EurAsian Transformations Cluster of Excellence Urban Multilingualism Workshop Series. On June 12 and 13, it will explore the languages of religion, extending attention to their spatial dimension. 

To register for the workshop, please click here.

A Week of Byzantine Studies

June 2, 2025
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This week CEU hosts a series of events on Byzantine studies, centered around the Second Gutenberg Symposium on Education and Literature in a Medieval Eurasian Context.

Field Trip 2025: Graz, Maribor and Zagreb

May 26, 2025
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This year, our academic field trip took students to Graz, Maribor and Zagreb from Monday, May 19 to Friday, May 23. During the trip, we heard presentations from faculty and students, saw many historic sites, visited museums and very much enjoyed talking to people from across the department who we might not otherwise meet.

Another Successful Departmental Retreat

May 13, 2025
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Faculty and staff from the department retreated to Stift Göttweig in the Wachau last week to discuss departmental matters and the upcoming academic year. Conversations focused on the new Advanced Certificate in Cultural Heritage Studies, recruitment events for the forthcoming year, and the challenges AI presents to university life. We also formalized final details concerning the merger of the former Departments of History and Medieval Studies, particularly in regards to the examination of MA theses.

Doctoral and Alumni Work Presented at Women’s and Gender History Panel at ESSHC 2025

April 9, 2025
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The Historical Studies Department’s Professor Emerita Dr. Francisca de Haan organized a panel titled Socialist Women (Re-) building Their States: An International Comparative Perspective at the European Social Science History Conference 2025, held March 26-29 and hosted by the International Institute of Social History in cooperation with Leiden University.