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1 year Post-doctoral Research and Teaching Fellowship in Jewish Studies

March 18, 2016

Application deadline: April 15, 2016
Starting date: September 2016

The Jewish Studies Program at the Central European University invites applications for a twelve-month teaching and research fellowship on a topic related to Jewish society, history and culture in 20th-century Central and Eastern Europe. The post-doctoral fellow will teach one course in the winter semester. The specific disciplinary and thematic areas of specialization are open, but preference will be given to candidates working on the interwar period or the communist period.

Andras Pap addressed the UN Forum on Minority Issues

December 16, 2015

Andras Pap was invited to the committee of experts commenting on the Draft Recommendations on Minorities in the Criminal Justice System, prepared and to be presented by the Special Rapporteur on minority issues to the UN Human Rights Council at its thirty-second session.

CfA Postgraduate Summer Courses In the Labyrinth of National Identity: Russia and Europe

December 11, 2015
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CfA Postgraduate Summer Courses In the Labyrinth of National Identity: Russia and Europe - Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 11 July - 20 July, 2016

This course provides an opportunity to reflect on the recent political upheavals in Russia and in Ukraine. The aim of this course is, however, to explore national identity and nationalism in Europe and Russia disentangled from the news and to reveal hidden historically embedded patterns.

New books: Anton Pelinka and Michael Miller

November 30, 2015
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Anton Pelinka, Die unheilige Allianz – die rechten und die linken Extremisten gegen Europa. Boehlau, Vienna 2015, 190 pages

CEU Team at the 2015 Allianz Summer Academy: Changes in EU and Hungarian Asylum Policies Are Needed

September 21, 2015
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The lack of effective responses by the EU deepen the humanitarian crisis that causes huge danger and traumas to people escaping from a clear and immediate risk of persecution in their home countries. This crisis adds one more dimension to the multiple crises Europe is facing for some time now, and is closely interwoven with human rights protection, which is considered to be one of the EU’s greatest achievements.