Between 17-22 June 2011, the CEMS organised its first field trip which saw 25 Junior and Senior Members as well as a number of invited guests of the center exploring the extraordinary rich Late Antique, Byzantine and Ottoman heritage of Istanbul, Turkey.
From 13 to 17 June 2011, the CEMS hosted a group of fifteen students from Princeton and Kadir Has Universities who, under the direction of Professors Erika H. Gilson and Sukru Hanioglu, spent one week at the CEU, doing classes on Ottoman civilisation and language, and visiting Budapest and Eger as part of the 2011 Princeton University Global Seminar Budapest/Istanbul.
Medieval Studies PhD Candidate Wojciech Kozlowski is the first CEU doctoral student who travels to Tbilisi , Georgia in the framework of the "Caucasus and Byzantium from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages" project.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
