17:00

Registration

17:30

Welcome and opening

Liviu Matei

Provost and Pro-Rector, CEU

Nadia Al-Bagdadi

Director, IAS CEU

KEYNOTE LECTURE

BUILDING INSTITUTIONS WITH IDEAS. ON INSTITUTES FOR ADVANCED STUDY - SCHOLARSHIP AND POLITICS

Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Wolf Lepenies

Professor Emeritus, Freie Universität, Berlin; Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin

19:00

Reception

09:00

Registration and coffee

09:30

FILM “5 YEARS IAS CEU”

PANEL I. SPLENDID ISOLATION OR SPACE FOR NEW DYNAMICS – BEING A FELLOW AT IAS

Moderator:

Susan Gal

Chair, Academic Advisory Board; Mae and Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Chicago

Participants:

Erica Benner

Senior Fellow in Political Philosophy, Yale University; Fellow 2016/17

Corina L. Petrescu

Associate Professor of German, The University of Mississippi; currently Humboldt Fellow at the University of Potsdam; Fellow 2015/16

William O’Reilly

University Senior Lecturer in History, University of Cambridge; Fellow 2015/16; Long-term Fellow as of 2016

Curie Virág

Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto; Fellow 2013-14;

Gábor Zólyomi

Associate Professor, Department of Assyriology and Hebrew Studies, Institute of Ancient Studies, Eötvös Loránd University; Fellow 2012/13

10:45

Coffee break

11:15

PANEL II. NEW PERSPECTIVES FOR 21ST CENTURY ADVANCED RESEARCH – VIEWS FROM THE FOUNDATIONS

Moderator:

Zsuzsanna Gábor

Director, Academic Cooperation and Research Office, CEU

Participants:

Marian Barsoum

Coordinator, Economics, Sociology, Ethnology, Interdisciplinary field “International relations”, Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Germany

Siegfried Beer

Director, Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies (BIAAS), USA

Göran Blomqvist

Chief Executive, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Sweden

Olivier Bouin

Director, Network of French Institutes for Advanced Study, France

12:15

Lunch

13:30

reflections

Alex Soros

Honorary Fellow, IAS CEU; Member of Board of Trustees, CEU

13:40

PANEL III. NEW PERSPECTIVES AND NEW CHALLENGES FOR REGIONAL IAS 

Moderator:

Nadia Al-Bagdadi

Director, IAS CEU, Budapest

Participants:

Diana Mishkova

Director and Academic Associate, Center for Advanced Study, Sofia

Shalini Randeria

Rector and Permanent Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna

Valentina Sandu-Dediu

Rector, New Europe College, Bucharest

14:45

Closing remarks