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Department of Historical Studies at CEU @historicalstudies.bsky.social · Dec 15
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The Cultural Vanguard of Workers’ Movements: A Social History of East Central European Avant-Garde between the Two Wars

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PhD Position: The Cultural Vanguard of Workers’ Movements: A Social History of East Central European Avant-Garde between the Two Wars | Department of Historical Studies
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We had a great book discussion yesterday at @historicalstudies.bsky.social - thanks #ElanaShapira for bringing us together and thanks all for joining us in the auditorium despite the freezy weather
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January 22, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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Final info session before the Feb. 4 application deadline! Join us online next Tuesday and ask all your MA and PhD questions

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Online Sessions for Prospective Students | Department of Historical Studies
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January 21, 2026 at 8:28 AM
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Deadline Extended! Apply by Friday!

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Fifth Annual Graduate Workshop on Late Antique and Byzantine Studies | Department of Historical Studies
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January 19, 2026 at 11:23 AM
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Thursday: *Domestication, foreignization, both or neither? Reflections on translating Buddhist philosophical literature from the Sanskrit* public lecture by Birgit Kellner from @oeaw.bsky.social

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Domestication, foreignization, both or neither? Reflections on translating Buddhist philosophical literature from the Sanskrit
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January 13, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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If you, or anyone you know, is interested in studying Contemporary History at CEU join us for an online info session next week, Wednesday, Jan. 14!

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Online Sessions for Prospective Students | Department of Historical Studies
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January 7, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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Now out: Ulinka Rublack, Dürer's Coats
Renaissance Men and Material Cultures of Social Recognition from @ceu-press.bsky.social and our Natalie Zemon Davis Memorial Lectures 2024.

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Ulinka Rublack, "Dürer's Coats: Renaissance Men and Material Cultures of Social Recognition" (CEU Press, 2025) - New Books Network
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December 17, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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#phdposition

The Cultural Vanguard of Workers’ Movements: A Social History of East Central European Avant-Garde between the Two Wars

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PhD Position: The Cultural Vanguard of Workers’ Movements: A Social History of East Central European Avant-Garde between the Two Wars | Department of Historical Studies
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December 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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New upload: Father Ninos Babisha, from the Assyrian Church of the East A interview by BA students from the Global Christianities course at CEU, taught by Prof. Volker Menze, with Father Ninos Babisha, parish priest in Vienna's Assyrian Church of the East

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Global Christianities - Father Ninos Babisha, from the Assyrian Church of the East
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December 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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VACANCIES: Turku Institute for Advanced Studies opens up to 10 postdoctoral positions [Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND] (Turku: University of Turku, DEADLINE 6 JAN 2026)

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VACANCIES: Turku Institute for Advanced Studies opens up to 10 postdoctoral positions [Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND] (Turku: University of Turku, DEADLINE 6 JAN 2026)
(image: Autumn in Turku; Source: Wikimedia Commons ) Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) has opened a call for up to ten research fe...
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December 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Today, alumni Vojtech Pojar receives this year's Austrian Award of Excellence for his PhD "Experts in Post-Imperial Transitions: Entanglements and Diverging Trajectories of Eugenicists between the Habsburg Empire and the ‘Miniature Empires,’ c. 1900 - 1939"

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December 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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New publication and workshop report (multi-tasking with articles!): Baukje van den Berg has a chapter on "Eustathios’ Homeric Commentaries and #Byzantine Textual Culture" in Brill’s Companion to the Reception of #Homer from #Byzantium to the Enlightenment.

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New Publication: Eustathios’ Homeric Commentaries and Byzantine Textual Culture | Department of Historical Studies
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December 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Cordial invitation to a launch&debate of #ElanaShapira book at @historicalstudies.bsky.social #CEU

- authors among round panel participants - me, @fwenninger.bsky.social @juliasecklehner.bsky.social & #JanRybak :-)

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November 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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A few photos from yesterday's #DH Fest with @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social, CLARIAH-AT, and the EurAsian Transformations Cluster of Excellence.
December 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Join us tomorrow in-person or online for "A Century of Sufism (1925-2025): Piety, Culture, and Heritage in Turkey since the Legal Prohibition of 1925."

For the program and zoom link, go to: cems.ceu.edu/century-sufi....
December 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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A day in Paris with Eloise Adde @historicalstudies.bsky.social and Philippe Urfalino at Paul Gradvohl'sseminar @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social 🤗🤗🤗
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Some photos from this week's workshop on Middle #Byzantine Hermeneutics
November 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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The program for CEU's DH Fest 2025 has now been announced. Funded and supported by CLARIAH-AT and the FWF Cluster of Excellence EurAsian Transformations, the event will take place on Thursday, December 4 at CEU's Vienna campus.

#digitalhumanities

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Program Announced for DH Fest 2025 | Department of Historical Studies
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November 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Five funded PhDs in Late Antique, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and five more in Comparative History, starting in Sept. 2026, at CEU in #vienna.

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PhD in Late Antique, Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Central European University
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Join us online, at 2.30pm this afternoon, for the launch of our new co-hosted Applied History Fellowships for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social & DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN

Fellowships will enable holders to develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education #Skystorians
New programme of 'Applied History Fellowships': launch and introductory event - RHS
In 2025-26 the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), Royal Historical Society and DC Thomson will launch a new Applied History Fellowship partnership. Join us at this online session -- 2.30pm on Wed...
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November 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Upcoming Jewish Studies online info sessions! Meet our faculty and ask all your questions about studying at CEU

#jewishhistory

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Info Sessions for Prospective Students | Jewish Studies Program
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November 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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CfP: the Fifth Annual Graduate Workshop on Late Antique and Byzantine Studies with @dshcs.bsky.social on February 27, 2026.

The call is open to students from all Austrian universities.

Deadline for Applications: January 16, 2026

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November 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Now available: Prof. Dominic Lieven on his life, family history, and modern Russia. Given at CEU on Tuesday, Nov. 11

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Dominic Lieven, Reflections on a Life in Russian and Imperial History
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November 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Next week: Prof. Eloïse Adde, "Multilingualism, nation and “national” literature in Bohemia in the fourteenth century" cem.hypotheses.org/4023
Multilingualism, Nationhood, and Cultural Identity. The Agency of Languages in Central Europe (1300-1900) and beyond. — 21 novembre 10h-13h, Centre LOURCINE Paris 1, 1 rue de la Glacière, salle 102 —...
Eloïse Adde (Central European University, Vienna) Tamara Scheer (University of Innsbruck & University of Vienna) Philippe Urfalino (EHESS, Paris) Dans le cadre des séminaires du Réseau thématique (ex ...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Great workshop today @historicalstudies.bsky.social 👍 continues Friday 👇
November 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM