History and Medieval Studies

The 'Budapest part' of the conference is open to all but please register by completing this form until Friday, June 8, 2018.

The workshop is open to all but please register by completing this form until Monday, 9 May 2018.

Opening Remarks: Ilse Lazaroms, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main; Botstiber Fellow at IAS CEU

Respondents: Professor András Kovács, Director of the Jewish Studies Program at CEU; Maya Lo Bello, PhD Candidate, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest 

Central Europe has long been involved in the production of migrants, as well as in the production of migration, acting as a place of collection and dispatch for women and men en route to new lives elsewhere, and as a place of ‘frenetic standstill’ for others, awaiting opportunities. This presentation will  reflect on the history of migration from, and in, Central Europe over the last hundreds of years, considering the significance of transatlantic migration, as well as migration within the region more broadly, through a variety of persona narratives and reflections.

A conference organized jointly by the Institute for Advanced Studies at CEU and the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies.

The conference is open to all but please register by completing this form until Monday, March 5, 2018.

My project looks at the history, role and character of the Soviet hippie movement. It argues that, while the case of the Soviet hippies is one of alienation and wilful separation from the Soviet mainstream, it also tells a story about how late socialism ‘worked’ and ‘was worked’. Hippies found themselves pushed to the margins of Soviet society, but they navigated these margins very skillfully, relying on the realities of late socialism for their identity as well as their successful economic survival.

The aim of the research project is to complete a full annotated English translation and accompanying study of the Georgian translation of and commentaries upon Proclus’ Elements of Theology by the twelfth-century Georgian Christian Neoplatonist, Ioane Petritsi. The study and translation of this text is of crucial importance for establishing the best Greek readings of Proclus, for the variant readings of extant manuscripts show sometimes significant differences: the Georgian translation was made from a now lost, codex that predates all the existing Greek manuscripts.

This project traces the histories of the Holocaust in a particular microcosm of what was once a multiethnic town. It follows events in Sečovce in eastern Slovakia, during the Second World War and the aftermath. While focusing on Jewish-Gentile coexistence, the aim here is to write an inclusive biography of this little town, and thus contribute to what we know of the interplay between ethnicity and religion, center and periphery, and local and external influences in the Holocaust.