Department of Historical Studies at CEU

Last week, our PhDs had a behind the scenes look at Klimt's Beethoven Frieze. Prof. Dr. Ivo Hammer, who worked on the conservation of the frieze 1977-84 gave us unique insights into the process of conserving Klimt's art

#klimt

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Join us in Vienna, meet the new department, and see the new campus!

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CEU alum Vojtech Pojar received the Austrian Award of Excellence for his PhD thesis: “Experts in Post-Imperial Transitions: Entanglements and Diverging Trajectories of Eugenicists between the Habsburg Empire and the ‘Miniature Empires,’ c. 1900 – 1939.”
#modernhistory
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It is our pleasure to announce that after a successful year as observer in 2025, CEU has officially joined the CLARIAH-AT digital humanities consortium as a temporary member from January 2025.

#digitalhumanities

Read more here:

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YouTube video by Манас Академия "Soul talk"/Dialog with international scientist, manasologust Dr.James Kingsley Plumtree

Interview with our alumnus: Dr. James Plumtree on Manas and #Kyrgyz tradition and culture.

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Three of our PhD candidates have won CEU awards for Advanced Doctoral Students. Jakub Gawkowski, Bernat Racz and Karsten Schuil all received recognition this academic year for their excellent research.

#phdlife

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Prof. Baukje van den Berg has won the inaugural Byzantine Studies Prize from the Medieval Academy of America for her book, *Homer the Rhetorician: Eustathios of Thessalonike on the Composition of the Iliad*.

#byzantine

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The program for the Late Antique and #Byzantine Studies Graduate Student Colloquium's 5th Annual Workshop has been announced. Building on the successes of previous years, it will take place on the afternoon of Fri. Feb. 27 at the University of Vienna.

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Through Civica at CEU, webinars on European culture:
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Wednes. Feb. 4 is the deadline for applications for funded MA and PhD places.

Find all our programs and details of how to apply here:

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New book releases by our community:

The Twelfth-Century Mosan Reliquary of Petermonostora by PhD candidate Bernat Racz

Polytropos: Papers on Philosophy, Religion and Eastern Christianities in Honour of Istvan Perczel's 65th Birthday

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Apply now for Bucerius History Scholarship at the Central European University in Vienna    Are you passionate about history, interested in pursuing a Master’s degree, and speak fluent English? Then… |... Apply now for Bucerius History Scholarship at the Central European University in Vienna    Are you passionate about history, interested in pursuing a Master’s degree, and speak fluent English? Then se...

The Gerd Bucerius Scholarship, funded by ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS in partnership with CEU, supports outstanding MA students in Historical Studies.

The scholarship includes:
1️⃣ 100% tuition waiver
2️⃣ monthly stipend
3️⃣ one-time research allowance of € 1.000

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Call for Papers: Ottoman and Turkish Studies Graduate Workshop 2026

June 1, 2026
Central European University

CfP deadline: March 1st

#ottoman #turkishhistory

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Three doctoral positions in History in Bern on the project “Women's Global 1990s: Networks, Activism, and Politics.”

#women'shistory #phdposition

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Greet One Another with a Holy Kiss’: Sermons on Greeting and Apologetics for the Holy Kiss in Pre-Modern Armenian Ecclesial Literature

Public lecture tomorrow focusing on the Sermon Concerning Greeting by the eighteenth-century Armenian theologian and Catholicos of All Armenians in Ejmiatsin Simēon Erevants’i (1764–1780). 5:30pm in B-319 or online via the link below

#eurasia #armenianhistory

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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
@fwenninger.bsky.social @juliasecklehner.bsky.social
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

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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Deadline Extended! Apply by Friday!

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Domestication, foreignization, both or neither? Reflections on translating Buddhist philosophical literature from the Sanskrit

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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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!

Full details here: historicalstudies.ceu.edu/online-sessi...

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.

Listen to an interview here: newbooksnetwork.com/d%C3%BCrers-...

#phdposition

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

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YouTube video by Department of Historical Studies at CEU Global Christianities - Father Ninos Babisha, from the Assyrian Church of the East

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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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...

VACANCIES: Turku Institute for Advanced Studies opens up to 10 postdoctoral positions [Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND] (Turku: University of Turku, DEADLINE 6 JAN 2026)

@utu.fi @horizoneu.bsky.social
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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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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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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 :-)

@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

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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.

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....

A day in Paris with Eloise Adde @historicalstudies.bsky.social and Philippe Urfalino at Paul Gradvohl'sseminar @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social 🤗🤗🤗