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Applications suspended for the 2025/2026 academic year

January 3, 2025

The Nationalism Studies Program is not accepting applications for the 2025/2026 academic year.  For information about applying for the 2026/2027 academic year, please visit our website or social media pages after August 2025.

New Book: Vor dem Weltruhm Nachrufe auf Franz Kafka und die Entstehung literarischer Unsterblichkeit - Ines Koeltzsch

July 3, 2024
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We are happy to announce that Ines Koeltzsch, our visiting professor at the CEU Jewish Studies program and researcher at the Viennese Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, recently published her new book ‘Vor dem Weltruhm. Nachrufe auf Franz Kafka und die Entstehung literarischer Unsterblichkeit’ at Böhlau publishing house. Her book sheds new light on the early afterlife of Kafka and examines both the significance of the media and intellectual networks across nation-state borders in creating the author’s legend.

Antisemitism, Islamophobia and the Politics of Definition

May 22, 2024
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On 16 May, the CEU Nationalism Studies Department and Jewish Studies Programme organised an event on the problems and politics of defining antisemitism, Islamophobia, and racism, bringing together scholars, experts, and practitioners. The burning question of how to combat racism, Islamophobia, and antisemitism is deeply connected with how we understand and define them.

Article link | Cynthia Miller-Idriss Addresses Gendered Roots of Violent Extremism at CEU Lecture

May 15, 2024

On May 7, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Professor and Founding Director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL) at American University, Washington D.C., delivered a public lecture at CEU titled “Hold Them Down: The Gendered Roots of Violent Extremism”. The event was hosted by CEU’s

NEW ARTICLE in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

March 18, 2024

Together with their colleagues from the University of Vienna, our visiting professor Ana Mijić and NATI student Liza Zolotarova have just published an article in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Drawing on a reconstructive analysis of group discussions, the study dives into the complex ‚arrival' experiences of displaced Ukrainians in Austria, revealing profound losses beyond physical relocation.

#Ukraine #ForcedMigration #SociologyOfLoss

https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2024.2323666