History and Medieval Studies

Professional trajectories, ideological reconversions and the politics of science

Conference at the Institute for Advanced Study, CEU

May 6-7, 2016

1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 11. / Smart Room (004)

SPONSORS

The Institute for Advanced Study, CEU

“Nicolae Iorga” History Institute of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest

Institute for Political History, Budapest

A workshop at the Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University

April 8, 2016

1051 Budapest, Október 6. u. 7. / Room 226

SPONSOR

Humanities Initiative Program, Institute for Advanced Study, CEU

Studies of science and empire in the Habsburg, Ottoman and Russian realms during the eighteenth century

A workshop at the Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University

19-20 May, 2016

1051 Budapest, Október 6. u. 7. / Room 102

SPONSORS

Institute for Advanced Study, CEU

Department of History, CEU

The modernization of industrial labour and the increasing power of workers were important chapters of the 20th century. The studied period is one of the major systemic changes – from capitalism to communist central planning and after 1989, back to a capitalist market economy. The process of industrialization, post-industrialization and globalization influenced the changes in the conditions of workers and factories.

Many consider that Greeks and Romans published cookbooks. In like manner, many modern authors propose “ancient recipes” for modern cooks. This paper challenges claims made in modern scholarship that Greeks and Romans wrote actual cookbooks and conceived cuisine the same way we conceive it today. Food cultures and food literature are inscribed in time. Both ancient cuisine and literature have to be considered within their own context. “Food literature” (Opsartutika) is attested in Greek literature, but had a different meaning and a different utility than our modern cookbooks.

Women Writing Holocaust Lives and Beyond is a project that involves a retrieval of a heterogeneity of women’s voices as historical subjects during the longue durée of the Holocaust, from which valuable insights can emerge for Holocaust Studies, Gender Studies, and Cultural Studies more broadly.

In the second half of the eighteenth century, military engineers mapped in detail for the first time the provinces and borders of the Habsburg Monarchy. Armed with plane tables and their own trained bodies, the engineers travelled on-site to perform the data collection required for the production of what officers, civilian bureaucrats and statesmen considered more accurate maps.

The Visual Studies Platform and the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University cordially invite you to a public talk by

Axel Braun, IAS fellow, artist and photographer