Appointment of Professor Balázs Trencsényi as Director of IAS CEU

IAS CEU is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Balázs Trencsényi as Director of IAS CEU, in effect as of 1 August, 2023. Trained at the Central European University as a historian of East Central European political and cultural thought, Balázs Trencsényi joined the Department of History at CEU in 2004. Beside his teaching activities, between 2017-2020, he served as head of the History Department, from 2020 he is directing the History in the Public Sphere Erasmus Mundus + Program. Since 2006, Balázs Trencsényi is the co-director of Pasts Inc., Center for Historical Studies and from March 2022, co-organizes the Invisible University for Ukraine project. 

IAS CEU would like to thank Professor Nadia Al-Bagdadi for her dedicated work and for leading the Institute for eight years. Professor Nadia Al-Bagdadi will remain at the Department of History at CEU as a full time Professor.