Edited by Zsolt Czigányik, a former Humanities Initiative Fellow at IAS CEU, the book investigates the possibilities of cooperation between the humanities and the social sciences in the analysis of 20th century and contemporary utopian phenomena. The papers deal with major problems of interpreting utopias, the relationship of utopia and ideology, and the highly problematic issue as to whether utopia necessarily leads to dystopia. Besides reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary utopian investigations, the eleven essays written by leading experts of the field effectively represent the constructive attitudes of utopian thought, a feature that not only defines late 20th- and 21st-century utopianism, but is one of the primary reasons behind the rising importance of the topic.

The book is available at CEU Press.

Maria Rybakova, Writer in Residence at CEU Institute for Advanced Study in 2016/17 talks about her chance to explore the interlocking motifs of location and dislocation in Sándor Márai’s and her own life and work. 

A book of poems by Hasan Sijzi, translated by our Fellow Rebecca Gould, has been published by Northwestern World Classics.

A book co-edited by IAS CEU Faculty Fellow Katalin Szende with Gerhard Jaritz, Medieval East Central Europe in a Comparative Perspective, has been published by Routledge.

Junior Global Challenges Fellow Medha Chaturvedi discusses her research project on political participation, democratic intervention, and counterinsurgency, looking at a case study of India's left-wing extremism.

Margery Amdur, artist-in-residence co-hosted by IAS and VSP in November-December 2015, talks about her experience as an artist-in-residence, the sources of inspiration for her art and the installation she created in one of the elevators at CEU.