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CEMS senior member Professor Tijana Krstic wins an ERC Consolidator grant for the project entitled "The Fashioning of a Sunni Orthodoxy and the Entangled Histories of Confession-Building in the Ottoman Empire, 15th-17th Century" (OTTOCONFESSION)

August 12, 2015

The project will explore how and why the Ottoman Empire evolved from a fourteenth-century polity where “confessional ambiguity” between Sunnism and Shiism prevailed, into an Islamic state concerned with defining and enforcing a “Sunni orthodoxy” by the early sixteenth century.

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CEMS Graduate Conference 2015

August 4, 2015
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CEMS is happy to announce that Georgina White from Princeton University has been awarded with CEMS's 2 year Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellowship in Classical Studies with a focus on Ancient Political Thought.

April 13, 2015

Gina is currently in the process of completing her PhD in the Classics Department at Princeton University, where she has been working on a dissertation on the translation of Greek in Cicero's philosophical works. A member of Princeton's Classical Philosophy Program, but with a background in classical literature and history, she is interested in how Greek philosophy enters the Roman world, and the philosophical and political implications of translating Greek thought into the Latin language.

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CEMS is happy to announce that the Specialization in Eastern Mediterranean Studies (EMS) has been approved by the CEU senate

April 9, 2015

CEMS’s Specialization in Eastern Mediterranean Studies (EMS) has been approved by the CEU senate, and will run from the academic year of 2015-2016. MA-students in the Departments of History and Medieval Studies whose focus is on any topic related to the Eastern Mediterranean and who work with colleagues from CEMS are encouraged to participate!

Aim of the Specialization

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CEMS will be hosting a 2 Year Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellowship in Classics

December 19, 2014

CEMS is proud to announce that it is receiving applications for a 2 Year Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellowship in Classical Studies with a focus on Ancient Political Thought!

For more information please visit: 

https://hro.ceu.hu/vacancies/2-year-postdoctoral-research-and-teaching-fellowship

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Mihail Mitrea, Medieval Studies Doctoral Candidate, teaches in Yerevan and Tbilisi

December 18, 2014

Mihail Mitrea, Medieval Studies PhD Candidate, traveled to Yerevan and Tbilisi in December as the seventh doctoral student to give intensive classes at one of our partner institutions. While there he was hosted by Professor Erna Shirinian (Matenadaran, Yerevan) and Professor Rismag Gordeziani (Tbilisi State University).

Mihail spent two weeks (1-14 December) in Yerevan and Tbilisi teaching a tutorial course on "Greek Paleography and Byzantine Manuscript Studies." 

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Concluding Workshop of “The Caucasus in Context, 300–1600” takes place at CEU

December 2, 2014

The concluding workshop of the “The Caucasus in Context, 300–1600” HESP-funded project took place at CEU, in Budapest, on 28–30 November 2014. 

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CEMS Board meets at CEU for the first time

October 21, 2014

The CEMS Board Meeting took place at CEU on Saturday, 18 October (OKTOBER 6, no. 7 building, Room 101). This event was part of the celebrations surrounding a decade of CEMS activity in Budapest and beyond. This was also the first time that the Board met at CEU.

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Roman Shlyakhtin, Medieval Studies Doctoral Candidate, teaches at Ilia State University, Tbilisi

April 15, 2014

Roman Shlyakhtin, Medieval Studies PhD Candidate, traveled to Tbilisi in the spring as the sixth doctoral student to give an intensive class at one of our partner institutions. While there he was hosted by Professor Bejan Javakhia at Ilia State University.

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Gábor Buzási (ELTE - CEU) participates in the International Conference "Byzantine Studies in Georgia"

September 30, 2013

Gábor Buzási, Assistant Professor at ELTE (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest) and Recurrent Visiting Faculty at CEU (Source Language Teaching Group and Department of Medieval Studies) traveled to Georgia during 21 – 28 September 2013 where he was hosted by Professor Tina Dolidze, Head of the Department for Byzantine Studies (Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies), Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and participant of our CEU HESP project.

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