NEWS

Professor Werner Seibt - first CEMS International Adviser to TSU, Georgia

May 29, 2011
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Professor Werner Seibt (honorary fellow of the Dept for Byzantine Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna) is the first scholar who travels to Tbilisi , Georgia as International Adviser in the framework of the "Caucasus and Byzantium from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages" project.

Research Fellowship in the field of Eastern Mediterranean Studies

March 18, 2011
Central European University’s Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) invites applications for a two-year fixed-term post-doctoral Research Fellowship in the field of Eastern Mediterranean Studies, commencing September 2011.

CEMS invites applications for a Caucaus & Byzantium Pre-doctoral Teaching Fellowship (CEU students only)

February 23, 2011

The Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) invites applications for a two-week pre-doctoral teaching fellowship at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia. Please find attached the CfA. 

Medieval Studies Post-doc Wins Research Position at Max Planck Institute

February 17, 2011

The Department of Medieval Studies and the Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) very warmly congratulate Dr András Németh (MA ’04, PhD ’10), presently a curator of medieval manuscripts at the Széchenyi National Library, Budapest, for having been awarded a highly competitive two-year postdoctoral research position at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Wissenschaftsgeschichte) in Berlin, commencing autumn 2011.

Medieval Studies PhD Candidate Wins Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship

February 15, 2011

The Department of Medieval Studies and the Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) very warmly congratulate Divna Manolova (MA’08, PhD candidate) for having been awarded a highly competitive and prestigious junior fellowship at the world’s foremost research center for Byzantine studies, Harvard University’s Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, DC, for the academic year 2011/12.

Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies succeeds CEU’s Center for Hellenic Traditions

October 23, 2010

With the beginning of academic year 2010/11, CEU’s Center for Hellenic Traditions (2004/5–2009/10) appears in a new format. Reflecting the recent exciting growth of CEU faculty in the field of eastern Mediterranean studies, the center re-named itself the Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (CEMS). With a senior membership of seventeen drawn from a wide range of CEU teaching units, CEMS constitutes the university’s largest research center; it is the only one with a focus predominantly on the pre-modern to (early) modern periods.