Appointment of Professor Balázs Trencsényi as Director of IAS CEU
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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.