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From the archive to outer space – CEU faculty among ten new members joining the Junge Akademie

June 14, 2016

Jan Hennings, Assistant Professor in CEU’s History Department, was elected a member of the Junge Akademie at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) and the German National Academy of Sciences – Leopoldina.

On 11 June 2016, the Junge Akademie welcomed ten new members, distinguished and highly motivated scholars who come from a great variety of disciplines. Among them, to name just a few, are legal scholars, mathematicians, historians, and astrophysicists. The interdisciplinary work of the Junge Akademie is entering a new round!

Anna Mazanik Receives CEU’s Best Dissertation Award

June 3, 2016

History PhD graduate, Anna Mazanik, is among the three recipients of CEU’s Best Dissertation Award this year. Mazanik defended her dissertation, entitled “Sanitation, Urban Environment and the Politics of Public Health in Late Imperial Moscow” summa cum laude last year. We congratulate Anna on the excellent achievement!

Thomas W. Laqueur teaches master class

May 31, 2016

The Department of History was honored to host Professor Thomas Laqueur (University of California, Berkeley) as part of a new initiative to invite distinguished scholars to teach Master Classes in Historiography. Professor Laqueur taught a course on "Mortality, History and Culture", which addressed the issue of mortality in a truly encompassing manner both temporally and spatially, from Diogenes to the 21th century, from Mexico to Azerbaijan. The scope of the discussion being considerably aided by the diversity of CEU students.

Professor Silvia Mitchell`s visit to campus

May 27, 2016

The Department of History was pleased to welcome Professor Silvia Z. Mitchell (Purdue University) to campus on May 18 for lectures on international history. Professor Mitchell’s introductory seminar, “After the Cultural Turn: Historiographical Trends on International and Diplomatic History,” revisited the many new theoretical approaches to historical research that emerged during the 1980s and discussed the implications of this “cultural turn” for historians today.

Gyani full MTA member

We congratulate visiting professor Gábor Gyáni. In the annual general assembly meeting on 2 May 2016, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia) elected Prof. Gyáni as a full member.