AnnualRepoRt

2014

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The world has changed dramatically in the short time since CEU was founded in 1991. The optimism after thefall of the Berlin Wall that once made transition to de-mocracy seem almost inevitable has given way to wide-spread pessimism and uncertainty about the future.

In this environment, CEU is a global laboratory for thestudy of open society and its many challenges. The University has grown to become an engine of academicopportunity for talented students from more than 100countries and faculty from 50. CEU now has 12,000 alumni in 129 countries, and academic partners across the world.

In the fall of 2014, the University began a review of itsmission. New directions were signaled by a key initi-ative, Frontiers of Democracy, bringing together academics and policymakers to address the rise of a new authoritarianism, and problems and innova-tions in democracy. The initiative, which reflects CEU’s history and its future, will be a distinguishing feature of the University as it approaches its 25th anniversary in 2016.

CEU is known for bridging academic disciplines as wellas national borders. A new Cultural Heritage Studiesmaster’s degree program welcomed its first class, withfaculty from fields as diverse as archaeology, history, law, and management. A unique doctoral program in Network Science uses tools from mathematics, economics, sociology, and computer science to analyze how financial, social, and political networks influence societal developments.

In professional education, the School of Public Policybrought together a second cohort of future lead-ers from 25 countries. CEU Business School, which

celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2014, partnered with the Department of Economics and IBM to design a new master’s program in Business Analytics.

Among academic achievements, the University placedfifth in Europe in competitive research grants in thesocial sciences and humanities awarded by the Euro-pean Research Council; it was included for the first time in The Times Higher Education Review among the world’s top 100 universities in social sciences and humanities; and it was reaccredited in both Hungary and the United States.

To support and advance the work of CEU’s growing community of scholars and its global connections, theUniversity is embarking on a an exciting project to re-develop its campus in the historic center of Budapest, expanding as a state-of-the-art hub for open debate and public engagement on the meaning of open society.

We invite you to join us in these far-reaching endea-vors, and we look forward to welcoming you to CEU.

John Shattuck

President and Rector

Message fRoM thepResidentAnd RectoR

2 Academic Programs

2 table of Contents 3 Message fRoM the PResident and ReCtoR

4 highlights of the Year

14 academics16 Message fRoM the PRovost and PRo-ReCtoR

17 sChools

17 Business School

17 School of Public Policy

18 dePaRtMents

18 Cognitive Science

18 Economics

19 Environmental Sciences and Policy

20 Gender Studies

21 History

22 International Relations and European Studies

23 Legal Studies

23 Mathematics and Its Applications

24 Medieval Studies

25 Nationalism Studies

25 Philosophy

26 Political Science

27 Public Policy

28 Sociology and Social Anthropology

29 Doctoral School of Political Science,

Public Policy and International Relations

30 PRogRaMs & suPPoRt

30 Center for Academic Writing

30 Center for Teaching and Learning

30 CEU Library

31 CEU Press

32 Institute for Advanced Study

32 Open Society Archives

32 Roma Access Programs

33 Summer University

34 Research & Policy36 Center for Business and Society

36 Center for Conflict, Negotiation and Recovery

36 Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies

37 Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine

37 Center for EU Enlargement Studies

38 Center for European Union Research

38 Center for Integrity in Business and Government

38 Center for Media, Data and Society

39 Center for Network Science

39 Center for Policy Studies

40 Center for Religious Studies

40 Cognitive Development Center

40 Initiative for Regulatory Innovation

41 Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

41 Pasts, Inc., Center for Historical Studies

42 administration & outreach46 global netwoRk of suPPoRt

48 budget & funding

50 goveRnanCe

51 students & gRaduates

table ofcontents

this report covers academic year 2013-14 august 1, 2013 -July 31, 2014

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tions and European Studies as well as the Depart-ment of Legal Studies have trained faculty in Myan-mar, and in spring 2014, CEU hosted the first groupof research fellows from major universities in Myan-mar. CEU also drafted a handbook for Myanmar au-thorities on legislation to enshrine the principle of university autonomy into law. The handbook was pre-pared by then-Chief Operating Officer Liviu Matei, alsoa higher education policy professor, and Julia Iwinska,strategic planning director and higher education policy researcher, following consultations with theMyanmar government, opposition, and local stake-holders in Budapest and Yangon during 2013-14.

CEU Pioneers Doctoral Program in Network Science

CEU has launched Europe’s first doctoral program in network science, a cutting-edge field that aims tounderstand how complex social, political, economicand environmental networks are structured, how they evolve, and how they function, using big datasets such as publicly available mobile phone recordsor financial transactions. The field uses tools from

disciplines as diverse as mathematics and sociologyin its analysis. The inaugural class will begin in Sep-tember 2015.

CEU Launches Cultural HeritageStudies Degree Program

CEU launched a new two-year master’s degree prog-ram, Cultural Heritage Studies: Academic Research,Policy and Management, in September 2014. This interdisciplinary program offers a bridge between the past and the future, focusing on a historical ap-proach, present social relevance, and the integrationof cultural and natural heritage issues. Faculty includeexperts in a range of disciplines, such as archaeology,art history, anthropology, history, legal studies, andenvironmental studies.

Humanities Initiative PromotesInterdisciplinary Programs

As part of CEU's commitment to both the humani-ties and interdisciplinary teaching and research, theUniversity launched a Humanities Initiative in spring2014. The Initiative provides incentives for new cross-departmental and interdisciplinary research and teaching activities in the humanities, and to infuse CEU social science programs with perspectives, ap-proaches and accomplishments taken from the hu-manities. Programs awarded funding include an ad-vanced certificate and specialization in political tho-ught, a classical studies project, a new fellowship pro-gram at the Institute for Advanced Study, politicalliterature studies, CEU Medieval Radio, a visual studiesplatform, and the introduction of a humanities perspective into international relations.

MAJoR initiAtiVes

CEU Launches Frontiers of Democracy

CEU was founded at the frontiers of democracy, inthe wake of the fall of communism. More than twodecades later, democratic principles are being con-tested across the globe, and CEU’s commitment tothose principles places it at the forefront of the de-bate. Frontiers of Democracy, launched in fall 2014,brings together policymakers, academics, analysts,students, and the public, providing a platform foropen debate, discussion, and exchange of ideas witha diversity of views about the nature of democracy.The series has featured Nobel prize-winning econo-mist Joseph Stiglitz, President of Mongolia TsakhiagiinElbegdorj, and German Minister of State for EuropeMichael Roth and has more speakers and two majorconferences on the agenda through the end of 2016.

Campus Redevelopment Project Begins

CEU has served as an intellectual and cultural hub in the heart of Budapest for over two decades. The University's multi-year campus redevelop-ment – which breaks ground in early 2015 – will offer a bold and welcoming public presence, open and interconnected space, with cutting-edge technology, flexible classrooms and collaborative student spaces – encouraging open debate, public engagement and a lively, cohesive campus.

CEU Hosts Myanmar Fellows, Produces Handbook on Academic Freedom

CEU, in cooperation with the Open Society Founda-tions' International Higher Education Support Pro-gram, is playing a significant role in higher educationreform in Myanmar, which is slowly opening towarddemocracy. The Department of International Rela-

Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz speaks at CEU.

The new Nador utca 15 building, designed by O'Donnell & Tuomey.

Provost and Pro-Rector Liviu Matei awards certificates to visiting fellows from Myanmar.

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Award winner Monika Baar with Joanna Renc-Roe, Helga Dorner and Sally Schwager of CEU’s Center for Teaching and Learning.

Milestones

First Class at School of PublicPolicy to Graduate with Knowledge, Skills, Practice

The inaugural class of 26 students from 21 countriesat the School of Public Policy (SPP), CEU’s newest aca-demic unit, will receive their Master of Public Admin-istration degrees in spring 2015, having completed a multidisciplinary program that integrates knowl-edge, skills, and practice. SPP students participate in a Passion Project, working in teams with a client to address challenges, identify opportunities, and/or conduct research on pressing social questions. New Passion Project partners include Freedom Now,Global Witness, Revenue Watch Institute, and Trans-parency International. Separately, SPP established the Center for Conflict, Negotiation and Recovery (CCNR) in fall 2013 to develop new approaches to conflict resolution and rebuilding.

CEU Observes Hungarian Holocaust Memorial Year

During 2014, the Hungarian Holocaust Memorial Year, CEU hosted three conferences dedicated toexploring the Holocaust's origins, personal memories,and genocide prevention. In April, “The HungarianHolocaust: Seventy Years Later” conference exam-ined the ways in which the Hungarian Holocaust is remembered and commemorated. “The Future of Holocaust Memorialization” co-organized by CEU, the University of Victoria, and the Tom Lantos Insti-

tute in June, focused on education as the key to shed-ding light on hatred and prejudices and preventingfuture genocide. Also in June, CEU’s Jewish StudiesProgram hosted the “Narratives of Violence” confe-rence, organized by the International Consortium for Research on Antisemitism and Racism, to study who owns the stories or influences how they are told. Open Society Archives’ Yellow-Star Houses initiative crowdsourced information and explored the history of the designated places of residence for the Jews of Budapest in 1944.

CEU Business School Celebrates 25 Years

CEU Business School celebrated its 25th anniversaryby presenting a vision for management education with the publication of Free Market in Its Twenties:Modern Business Decision Making in Central and Eastern Europe, a faculty-authored book. CEU Founder and Honorary Chairman George Soros hosted a gala in Budapest June 21, 2014 with CEU Business School Dean Mel Horwitch in an anniver-sary celebration that featured special guest HarvardBusiness School Dean Nitin Nohria.

AWARds & AcHieVeMents

European Award for Excellencein Teaching Presented to Baar

The third annual European Award for Excellence inTeaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities waspresented to Dr. Monika Baar, Rosalind Franklin Fel-low and senior lecturer in modern history at the University of Groningen, in September 2014. CEU initiated the award to call attention to the impor-tance of excellent teaching as well as research withinEuropean higher education. Baar, a specialist in thehistory of Central and Eastern Europe, was recog-nized for her efforts to encourage her students tocritically interrogate historical accounts and for devi-sing courses that go beyond Cold War dichotomies,highlighting regional subtleties. Baar is an alumna of CEU, earning an MA in history in 1995 before going on to Oxford for her PhD. The award was

accompanied by the inaugural Diener Prize, a gift of Steven and Linda Diener in honor of Ilona Diener.

CEU Honors 600 Graduates from 70 Countries, Awards Open Society Prize

Six hundred students from more than 70 countries received master’s and doctoral degrees from CEU atthe 23rd annual graduation ceremony June 21, 2014.The CEU Open Society Prize, awarded annually for substantial contributions to the creation of an open society, was presented to European Commissioner of International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response Kristalina Georgieva.

CEU Faculty Earn InternationalHonors

In 2013-14, CEU faculty received several honors. Doro-thee Bohle, professor in the Department of Political

Horwitch, Soros, Nohria and CEU Business School Assistant Professor Maciej Kisilowski at the 25th anniversary event.

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Students in CEU's unique Roma Access Programs, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2014.

Award-winning Professor Bela Greskovits.

Science, and Bela Greskovits, professor in the Department of International Relations and Europe-an Studies, were awarded the Stein Rokkan Prize by the International Social Science Council and the European Consortium for Political Research. Laszlo Csaba, professor in the Department of Interna-tional Relations and European Studies, was elected to the Academia Europaea, a non-governmental European association of leading experts in natural sciences and the humanities.

Gyorgy Bogel, professor of management at CEU Business School, was awarded the Neumann Prize by the John von Neumann Computer Society in recognition of his work on the effects on society of developments in information technology. Janos Kertesz, professor at CEU's Center for Network Science, was awarded the Szechenyi Prize by Hun-garian President Janos Ader. Andras Stipsicz, pro-fessor in the Department of Mathematics and its Applications, received the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ Academy Prize. Zoltan Buzady, associate professor at CEU Business School, won first prize in the annual CEEMAN Case Writing Competition for a second time.

CEU Strengthens Administration with New Appointments

In recognition of the importance of the social scien-ces and humanities at CEU, the new position of Pro-Rector for Social Sciences and Humanities was crea-ted in August 2014, reporting to the Provost. Forthis new position, the Senate elected Laszlo Kontler,who will also continue for another year in his role as Pro-Rector for Hungarian Affairs, and retains his post as professor in the Department of History.

CEU also initiated a new structure from August 2014.First, to emphasize the strategic role of CEU's 12,000alumni in the recruitment of students, Serge Sych was named to the new position of Senior Vice Presi-dent for Enrollment Management and Alumni Rela-tions, combining his previous responsibilities for alumni relations and career services with studentrecruitment and enrollment. To strengthen adminis-tration, Margaret Bolter was named to the new posi-tion of Vice President for Administration, overseeing

non-academic activities. Chrys Margaritidis was appointed to the new position of Dean of Students. Trisha Tanner was named Vice President for Deve-lopment, to lead fundraising efforts for CEU’s ambitious plans. Diane Geraci came on board asDirector of the CEU Library, to introduce new tech-nologies and guide the construction of a new state-of-the-art CEU Library. Adri Bruckner became Director of Communications overseeing media re-lations, web presence, video, photography, socialmedia and publications, and Tatiana Yarkova was reappointed Academic Secretary.

Matei Named Provost and Pro-Rector

As part of plans to strengthen central administration,Liviu Matei was elected Provost and Pro-Rector by the Senate, effective August 1, 2014, after servingsix years as Senior Vice President and Chief Opera-ting Officer. His appointment follows the successfultenure of Professor Katalin Farkas, who served fouryears as Provost. In addition to supervising academicaffairs, Matei will oversee the university budget, a

responsibility assigned to the Provost at many U.S. universities. The new Provost’s responsibilities also include strategic development planning, coor-dinating internal governance activities, and faculty and student policies.

GRAnts And GiFts

Ford Foundation Grant for Roma Access Programs

The Ford Foundation has awarded CEU a $350,000grant to further expand the University’s work on promoting access, rights, and justice for Europe’s most marginalized community, the Roma. CEU’s Roma Access Programs (RAP) were initiated with Ford Foundation funding in 2004 and as this one-of-a-kind program celebrates a decade of success, the new grant will provide continued support to the Roma Graduate Preparation Program (RGPP)

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aging CEU Business School's 25-year legacy of helping transition Central and Eastern Europe to a market economy.

coMMUnitYActiVities

Students Lead Charity Giving Projects, Study Social Issues

CEU’s alumni-led awareness raising and capacity building organization, the Human RightS Initiative (HRSI), held workshops for students and communitymembers on topics as diverse as human trafficking,drug policy reform advocacy, and project evaluation,and hosted a record number of non-governmental organizations at its 10th Annual NGO Fair. HRSI also hosted a movie screening with the European Grassroots Antiracist Organization, helped organizethe Global Debate and Public Policy Challenge 2014,and screened films with Romedia to commemorateInternational Roma Day. In charity work, HRSI col-lected books for a refugee center, provided crisis

relief for flood victims in the Balkans, collected food for the homeless with the CEU SustainabilityInitiative, held separate summer and winter clothingdrives for migrants and refugees with the Helsinki Committee, and collected Christmas gifts for children in need.

CEU Community Joins Together for Green Fun

In September 2013, CEU hosted its first SustainabilityFestival to contribute to building more environmen-tally and socially conscious communities in Hungary.In 2014, as part of the Visegrad Fund-supported Creative Recycling Eco Educational Program, Sustai-nable CEU staff organized interactive educational workshops for children, created an edible garden with volunteers on the campus, compiled a Creative Recycling Guide to be used in classrooms, and published a Green Living Guide for newcomers to CEU. Also promoting green living, the 5th CEU Picnic attracted over 800 members of the CEU commu-nity, together with families and friends. Organized by the Student Life Office, events included football, volleyball, badminton, streetball, yoga and dance.

as well as a new University-wide initiative for Roma advancement and inclusion.

Alumni Give Back to CEU

A record-breaking $513,446 was raised by the CEU Alumni Campaign in support of CEU by December 2013. This is an unprecedented success for the University, unmatched by any other in continental Europe. In May 2014, the Alumni Relations and Ca-reer Services Office hosted its most highly-attendedAlumni Reunion Weekend. Separately, more than twodozen alumni leaders and volunteers from aroundthe world joined the Alumni Leadership Forum.

CEU Wins Close to €14 Million in Research Funding

In line with the University’s commitment to high-quality research, CEU successfully applied for closeto €14 million in grants in 2013-14. During this period,CEU collaborated with close to 100 universities on 20 running EU-funded research projects, while the Department of Economics and the Cognitive De-velopment Center hosted eight research projects

funded by the European Research Council. In Janu-ary 2014, the Department of Cognitive Science won€11 million in grants from the European Research Council's Synergy and Consolidator Grant programs.In preparation for the next academic year, CEU researchers submitted six successful applications for the Horizon 2020 European Commission fund-ing program.

NASDAQ Foundation Grant to Support CEU Business School Students

CEU's Business School became the first institution in Central and Eastern Europe to receive a grant from the NASDAQ OMX Educational Foundation. The three-year grant will annually fund three students from countries with emerging economies.Recipients must possess leadership potential and be likely to return to their home countries to enter and enhance the field of financial services, lever- CEU Sustainability Initiative volunteers plant the edible garden.

Students interact with NGO representatives at the 10th Annual NGO Fair

CEU Business School on the NASDAQ tower in Times Square.

Department of Cognitive Science Professor Natalie Sebanz.

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ceU BUsiness scHoolDean Mel hoRwitCh

In its 25th anniversary year, CEU Business School reiterated its com-mitment to training future leadersby promoting entrepreneurship and innovation as keys to economicdevelopment and business suc-cess. The school celebrated with the launch of Free Market in ItsTwenties: Modern Business DecisionMaking in Central and Eastern Eu-rope, at a gala with CEU Founderand Honorary Chairman George Soros and Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria.

The school co-hosted the SecondEntrepreneurship Summit in Sep-tember 2013 with the U.S. Embas-sy, American Chamber of Commer-ce in Hungary, the Entrepreneur-ship Foundation Hungary, the Hun-garian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association and CorvinusUniversity. It partnered with Buda-pest-based venture capital firms toshowcase startup career paths.

During the annual MBA module in New York City, students entered anew venture competition co-hosted with Prezi and NASDAQ, whose educational foundation

awarded a scholarship grant to the school. The school’s newest academic initiative is a planned MSc in Business Analytics, to be of-fered with the CEU Department ofEconomics and sponsored by IBM.

Among faculty honors, AssociateProfessor Davide Torsello won the first annual CEU OutstandingResearch Award for his work on how anthropology can help un-derstand business decisionmak-ing. Associate Professor Zoltan Buzady and Monika Nadj (MBA ’14), won the annual CEEMAN Case Writing Competition, and Professor Gyorgy Bogel won the Von Neumann Prize for his work on the effects of technological advances on society.

degRee PRogRaMs• Executive Master of Business

Administration• Accelerated One-Year Master

of Business Administration• International Master’s in

Management• Master of Science in IT Management• Master of Science in Finance

scHool oF pUBlic policYDean wolfgang h. ReiniCke

The School of Public Policy (SPP)’sMaster of Public Administration program combines academic

knowledge, skills, and practice to prepare students to make inno-vative contributions to resolving global public policy challenges.

In September 2013, SPP welcomedits inaugural class of 26 students from 21 countries. Also, in 2013, it founded the Center for Conflict,Negotiation and Recovery (CCNR) to address issues related to post-conflict reconstruction. CCNR andthe Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS), which focuses on issues related to media, commu-nication, and information policy, are SPP’s two policy centers.

In January 2014, SPP announced the first partners for its flagship Passion Project program, a 12-18 month student-driven policy con-sultancy for real world clients.

In April 2014, SPP hosted the “Roll-ing Back the Rollback” forum to examine the erosion of democraticprinciples in Europe. Through its Professional Development prog-rams, SPP convenes politicians,policymakers, and academics todiscuss challenges of global gover-nance in fields such as economic policy, conflict and democracy, and public health.

In summer 2014, a group of SPPstudents participated in the OpenSociety Internship for Rights and Governance (OSIRG).

degRee PRogRaM• Master of Public Administration

scHools

CEU is academically strong and prepared to address the challenges it faces in today's global higher educationenvironment. Here, Liviu Matei, named Provost and Pro-Rector in August 2014, outlines planned initiatives,followed by news from CEU's two schools and 14 depart-ments reflecting on Academic Year 2013-14.

At an exciting time for the University, CEU is marking the launch of a series of major new initiatives, fol-lowing extensive discussions with all academic units, student representatives, internal governance fora and the Board of Trustees.

The starting point is the realization that CEU needs to update key elements of its institutional configu-ration and activities, building on its achievements to date. While continuing to adhere to its founding principles, the University ought to acknowledge and address new challenges, both external and internal.These challenges are not primarily or purely aca-demic, at least in a traditional sense.

CEU continues to improve on its established academicstrength. This is primarily reflected in the quality ofthe faculty and students, and in the quality of the research conducted on our campus, which in recentyears has brought CEU into the elite circles of Europe.Academic quality or level must remain a matter of concern, but the main question currently is rather one of direction. Renewed clarity of direction impliesboth an updated vision and a strategic reorganiza-tion of our operations.

The series of initiatives subsumed to this objective include:• a review of the academic programs from the per-

spective of student recruitment and career paths of our graduates with a view to informing a larger

discussion about possible new developments and adjustments in the academic area;

• the development of strategic partnerships with other universities in order to add to CEU’s capacity to pursue its chief objectives and help address struc-tural difficulties resulting from its institutional pro-file (such as the lack of undergraduate programs);

• the enhancement of doctoral education through the introduction of a teaching fellowships program (CEU doctoral students teaching for a full semester or year at partner universities around the world); a practical experience program for doctoral students;a targeted leadership and management program tobe developed by the professional schools of CEU for our doctoral students;

• the further development of Roma programs at CEU;

• the development of a new, more hands-on appro-ach to civic commitment and outreach activities, including a significant expansion of cooperation activities with other universities in Hungary.

Liviu Matei

Provost and Pro-Rector

Message fRoM thepRoVost AndpRo-RectoR

dePaRtMent ofcoGnitiVescienceHead of Department 2013-14geRgely CsibRa

One of CEU’s youngest depart-ments, the Department of Cogni-tive Science is also one of the University’s most successful in securing European Research Council (ERC) grants. Faculty mem-bers Gyorgy Gergely, Guenther Knoblich, and Dan Sperber were awarded a €9.6 million Synergy Grant by the ERC for their project,entitled “Constructing Social Minds:Coordination, Communication, and Cultural Transmission,” which aims to provide a new perspec-tive on the uniqueness of human culture. The highly competitive Synergy Grants are awarded to topresearchers in all disciplines for groundbreaking research projectsthat significantly advance the frontiers of our knowledge.

Separately, Professor Natalie Sebanz received a €1.9 million Consolidator Grant from the ERC for her project “Jaxpertise,” which investigates mechanisms of inter-personal coordination and will shed light on how humans learn from each other by participating in joint action. Sebanz, head of the

department for 2014-15, was also elected as a member of the Academia Europaea.

Department researchers and fa-culty are also active in bringing top researchers to Budapest to share and advance knowledge as well as give keynote lectures at major international conferences. During the winter term 2014, thedepartment hosted Uta and ChrisFrith (UCL), researchers who laid the foundations of social cognitiveneuroscience, and hosted the 18th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP) in fall 2013. With a focus on social cognition and develop-ment, the conference attracted over 700 researchers from around the world.

degRee PRogRaM• Doctor of Philosophy in Cognitive

Science

dePaRtMent ofeconoMics

Head of Department 2013-14gaboR kezdi

The Department of Economics hosts four European Research Council Starting Grants, ranking iteighth among European econom-ics departments and business schools in the number of competi-tive grants held by faculty. The department’s latest award is Asso-ciate Professor Peter Kondor’s €1.1million ERC Starting Grant for a five-year project entitled "Frictionsin Financial Markets." ProfessorAdam Szeidl is in the fourth yearof his ERC grant, “Economic Allo-cations in Social Networks: Evi-dence and Theory.”

Associate Professor Miklos Korenis in the third year of his ERC grant,“Channels and Consequences of Knowledge Flows from Devel-oped Economies to Central and Eastern Europe” and Professor Botond Koszegi is in the third year of his ERC grant, “BehaviouralTheory and Economic Applica-tions.” Professor Laszlo Matyas is participating in the three-year European Commission Seventh Framework COEURE: Cooperation on European Research in Eco-nomics grant.

The department developed two new interdisciplinary master’s programs: Business Analytics,

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with CEU Business School, and Global Economic Relations, with the Department of International Relations and European Studies, which have been submitted for accreditation to U.S. authorities.

Conferences bringing together scholars included the fall 2014 Institute for New Economic Thin-king conference on central bank-ing, and the Hungarian Economic Association (MKE) conference, as well as a gathering on tax design in middle income countries with the Institute of Fiscal Studies at Koc University. USAID and the department co-hosted a confer-ence on budgetary benefits to Roma education in May 2014.

Among department honors, Szeidlwas named to the European Eco-nomic Association Council and Professor Julius Horvath became chair of the Slovak Economic Asso-ciation, while doctoral student Balint Menyhert won the AustrianCentral Bank’s Olga Radzyner

Award. Faculty published in the American Economic Journal: Ap-plied Economics (Assistant ProfessorSergey Lychagin), Journal of the European Economic Association (Koren), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (Kondor),Journal of Business and EconomicStatistics (Associate Professor RobertLieli), Journal of International Eco-nomics (Associate Professor Alessia Campolmi) and American EconomicReview (Szeidl).

degRee PRogRaMs• Master of Arts in Economics

(two years)• Master of Arts in Economic Policy

in Global Markets (two years)• Doctor of Philosophy in

Economics

dePaRtMent ofenViRonMentAlsciences And policYHead of Department 2013-14alan watt

The Department of EnvironmentalSciences and Policy, and namely Adjunct Professor Stephen Stec, led an initiative to obtain official observer status for CEU with the United Nations Environmental Assembly – the new decision-making body of the United NationsEnvironment Programme (UNEP) - and its subsidiary bodies. This UNEP accreditation, obtained in

April 2014, provides a formal way for the department to participatein UNEP’s policy development work. CEU also joined the UNEP-led Global Universities Partner-ship on Environment and Sustain-ability (GUPES), a network of over 370 universities that aims to pro-mote environment and sustain-ability practices and introduce related curricula into universities by supporting innovative appro-aches to education. Assistant Professor Victor Lagutov led the initiative to become a partner.

Lagutov also secured a new cor-porate partner for the depart-ment in California-based geospa-tial software company Esri, which donated 30 licenses of its latestgeographic information systems (GIS) software, ArcGIS 10, for the use of CEU students and faculty. Esri representatives participated in the Summer University course co-directed by Lagutov entitled “Bridging ICTs and Environment – Making Information Talk and Technologies Work,” aimed at showing policymakers the poten-tial offered by accessible data and the utilization of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for water management and water security.

Professors Laszlo Pinter and DianaUrge-Vorsatz have been appointedto help lead the scientific review of the United Nations SustainableDevelopment Goals Pinter was in-vited by the International Council

depARtMents

At the 18th European Society for Cognitive Psychology conference in Budapest.

Associate Professor Alessia Campolmi.

for Scientific Unions (ICSU) to represent the Science Major Group in the eighth session of the UN General Assembly’s Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals. Pinter will also join a team to review the Group’s Final Report from the perspective of science.

Separately, Urge-Vorsatz was againa coordinating lead author of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published in 2014, and a contributing authorof the Synthesis Report of the AR5.

Associate Professor Brandon An-thony spent 2013-14 on sabbati-cal in South Africa working with Kruger National Park and local communities to develop a com-pensation for farmers who lose livestock to predators originating from the park. Anthony joined the Resilim-O project to reduce the vulnerability of people and

ecosystems in the Limpopo Basin, South Africa. Assistant Professor Michael Labelle and the Energy Policy Research Group hosted a high-level round-table debate on the impact of Russia-Ukraine tensions on energy security in Central and Eastern Europe in May 2014.

degRee PRogRaMs• Master of Science in Environmental

Sciences and Policy (one year)• Master of Science in Environmental

Sciences, Policy and Management (MESPOM) (two years)

• Doctor of Philosophy in Environ-mental Sciences and Policy

dePaRtMent ofGendeR stUdiesHead of Department 2013-14elissa helMs

The Department of Gender Studiescontinued to thrive and attract high quality applicants in 2013-14,as well as host courses and inter-national conferences and partici-pate in cross-border research andteaching projects.

The department co-hosted the Annual Postgraduate Course, "Feminisms in a Transnational Perspective," with the Center forWomen's Studies in Zagreb, heldin May 2014 in Dubrovnik. Separa-tely, Associate Professor AndreaPeto and several doctoral studentsare participating in the COST

(European Cooperation in Sci-ence and Technology) program entitled “In Search of Transcultur-al Memory in Europe.” Peto was a key organizer of the conference “The Future of Holocaust Memo-rialisation,” hosted at CEU in June 2014 with Tom Lantos Institute and University of Victoria.

Associate Professor Jasmina Lukic is taking part in the LLP EDGES: Joint European Doctorate in Women’s and Gender Studies project 2013-15, funded by the European Commission. Professor Judit Sandor, who also teaches at the Departments of Legal Studies and Political Science, is participating in three externally funded projects via the Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedi-cine, which she directs.

Peto was chosen to serve in twoadvisory groups for Horizon 2020:Societal Challenge and Gender, and was awarded the Doctor ofScience from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

degRee PRogRaMs• Master of Arts in Gender Studies

(one year)• Master of Arts in Critical Gender

Studies (two years)• Master of Arts in Gender Studies

(GEMMA) (two years)• Master of Arts in European

Women's and Gender History (MATILDA) (two years)

• Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Gender Studies

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dePaRtMent ofHistoRYHead of Department 2013-14 nadia al-bagdadi

The Department of History hosteda large number of international conferences, lectures and work-shops in 2013-14, reflecting itsbroad temporal and thematic scope. Highlights included a lec-ture and academic writing class by CEU Trustee and renowned author and journalist Kati Marton in September 2013, roundtable discussions on contemporary issues, as well as lectures by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Uni-versity of Muenster), Mitchell Ash (University of Vienna), Chris-topher Tyerman (University of Oxford) and the Natalie Zemon Davis Lectures by Peter Burke (Cambridge University), co-hosted with the Department of Medieval Studies.

The department initiated two new interdepartmental special-izations, a Visual Platform and onein Political Thought. It applied forthe modification of degree names,signaling the comparative strengthand focus of degree programs. The department began develop-ing with Ruhr Universitat Bochuma new joint-degree program. The department hosted the summerschool of the consortium Ludwig-Maximilians University/Universityof Regensburg “Central and East-ern European History.” The Cen-

ter for Religious Studies, affiliated with the department, received accreditation for its Advanced Certificate from the New York State Education Department. Thedepartment also hosted its first alumni roundtable.

Among many publications, this yeardepartment faculty published mo-nographs with leading academic publishers, including Aziz Al-Azmeh,The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity (Cambridge University Press); Laszlo Kontler, Translations,Histories, Enlightenments. William Roberston in Germany, 1760-1795 (Palgrave Macmillan); Al Rieber, TheStruggle for the Eurasian Borderlands(Cambridge University Press); and Carsten Wilke, The Marrakech Dialogues (Brill Publishers).

Faculty participated in a large num-ber of international conferencesand received distinguished lectureinvitations. For example, AssociateProfessor Marsha Siefert was ap-pointed Permanent Research

Fellow at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, LMU-Munich and Uni-versity of Regensburg, and spent time during her sabbatical at St. Antony’s College, Oxford Univer-sity and the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center. Associ-ate Professor Balazs Trencsenyi received a fellowship at the Imre Kertesz Institute in Jena Germany for 2014-15 and Professor Nadia Al-Bagdadi received an invitationas guest and affiliated fellow of the IWM, Vienna for fall 2014. Mas-ter's students were admitted into doctoral programs including Yale University, McGill University and European University Institute.

The department mourned the lossof longtime recurrent Visiting Professor Jacek Kochanowicz, aneminent scholar of modern eco-nomic and social history, whopassed away in October 2014. Professor Kochanowicz delivereda public lecture in June 2014 entitled "An Escape from History."

Google Geospatial Technologist Ed Parsons speaks at CEU Summer University.

Author and CEU Trustee Kati Marton speaks at CEU.

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dePaRtMent ofleGAl stUdiesHead of Department 2013-14Renata uitz

CEU’s Department of Legal Studiescurrently brings together 14 per-manent faculty and over 30 visit-ing faculty with expertise in the field of human rights and offers a wide range of relevant courses. The department’s Human Rights Program became a member of the Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI) in September 2013. AHRI, with over 40 member institutions, promotes research, education and discussion in the field of human rights through col-laboration on research projects, applications for research funding and the organization of seminars and conferences.

The department is also involved inCEU’s effort to assist with higher education reform in Myanmar, which has gradually opened its higher education sector to inter-national partners since 2012. Theseefforts are part of CEU’s valued tradition of providing assistance inthe transition to open society andmirror the efforts of departmentfaculty in former Soviet Union co-untries in the early days of CEU.

With support from the Open So-ciety Foundations’ Higher Educa-tion Support Program, the depart-ment is contributing expertise to curriculum reform as well as to

legal education reform in Myan-mar. Department faculty offered intensive faculty capacity develop-ment courses with a focus onthe rule of law and human rights as well as training in legal researchand academic writing, and advisedthe Board of Studies of Myanmar law departments on legal educa-tion reform. The department also hosted five Myanmar academics for study and research in 2014.

The department’s International Business Law program co-hosted the 12th General Assembly of theChina-Europe School of Law (CESL),a law school consortium supportedby the European Commission and by teaching activities of the faculty of 16 partner universities, includingCEU. Fellow partner Eotvos Lorand University Faculty of Law was co-host. The contributions of partneruniversities encompass courses and professional training for Chi-nese lawyers in European law, andfor European lawyers in Chinese law. At CEU, Legal Studies Profes-sors Stefan Messmann and Tibor Tajti contribute regularly to CESL teaching and conferences.

degRee PRogRaMs• Master of Laws in Comparative

Constitutional Law / LLM (one year)• Master of Laws in Human Rights

/ HR LLM (one year)• Master of Arts in Human Rights

/ HR MA (one year)• Master of Laws in International

Business Law / LLM (one year)• Doctor of Juridical Science / SJD

dePaRtMent ofMAtHeMAtics And its ApplicAtionsHead of Department 2013-14kaRoly boRoCzky

CEU’s Department of Mathematicsand its Applications works in closecollaboration with the Alfred RenyiInstitute of Mathematics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.In fall 2014, the department begana cooperation with Morgan Stanleyand the Department of Economicsto establish a Financial Mathema-tics Track in the framework of the master’s degree program.

Joining forces with faculty at Cor-vinus University (Budapest), the department initiated a club at CEU for Roma students preparingfor entrance exams to under-graduate programs in economics and related subjects. Students from the department as well as

degRee PRogRaMs• Master of Arts in Central

European History (one year)• Master of Arts in Comparative

History: Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe 1500-2000 (two years)

• Master of Arts in European Women's and Gender History (MATILDA) (two years)

• Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative History of Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe

dePaRtMent of inteRnAtionAl RelAtions And eURopeAn stUdies

Head of Department 2013-14Matteo fuMagalli

The Department of International Relations and European Studiescelebrated its 20th anniversary in

2013-14 with a day-long event thatbrought together current and for-mer faculty, as well as students and alumni. Panels explored deve-lopments, changes, and the emer-gence of new areas of research ininternational relations, internatio-nal political economy, and Euro-pean studies over the past two decades. The department devel-oped two new degree programs – a two-year degree in Internatio-nal Relations and a one-year de-gree in Global Economic Relations, the latter to be offered jointly with the Department of Economics. Both have been submitted to U.S.authorities for accreditation.

As part of CEU’s collaboration withOpen Society Foundations to helpMyanmar build institutions ofhigher education based on democ-ratic and open society principles, the department hosted two visit-ing fellows from Myanmar in the winter of 2014 and three in the fall of 2014. Department faculty

also visited Mandalay University in the fall of 2013 and the Univer-sity of Yangon in the fall of 2014to conduct faculty seminars ininternational relations and politicalscience. Over 30 faculty membersfrom the two universities as well as Dagon and Yadanabon Univer-sity participated in the seminars.

The department also hosted a conference on the Responsibility to Protect, organized within the project Global Norm Evolution and Responsibility to Protect.

Among faculty honors, Professor Bela Greskovits was awarded the Bibo Istvan Prize of the HungarianPolitical Science Association andwon the first annual CEU Award for Outstanding Research, sharedwith Professor Dorothee Bohleof the Department of Political Science. The pair are consideredleading analysts of political economy of Central and Eastern Europe, and also received the Stein Rokkan Prize by the Inter-national Social Science Council and the European Consortium for Political Research in recogni-tion of their book Capitalist Diver-sity on Europe’s Periphery (Cornell University Press, 2012).

degRee PRogRaMs• Master of Arts in International

Relations and European Studies (one year)

• Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science - International Relations Track

Professor Bela Greskovits receives the CEU Award for Outstanding Research from Presi-dent and Rector John Shattuck.

Mathematics graduates in June 2014.

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nAtionAlisM stUdiespRoGRAMHead of Program 2013-14MaRia M. kovaCs

Adding to its two master’s degreeprograms and its Jewish Studies specialization, the NationalismStudies Program launched a spe-cialization in Nationalism Studiesfor students in the Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy, and International Relationsin 2013-14, enabling doctoral students to engage with interdis-ciplinary issues such as national-ism, self-determination, state for-mation, ethnic conflict, minority protection and globalization.

The program joined with the As-sociation for the Study of Nation-ality (ASN), and the Tom Lantos Institute to host the three-day conference “Nationalist Respons-es to Economic and Political Crises” in June 2014. The confer-ence hosted 40 thematic panels with a total of 200 presentations by top scholars from all over the world. The keynote lecture was delivered by Donald Horowitz of Duke University.

Separately, “The Hungarian Holo-caust: Seventy Years Later”conference in April 2014 broughttogether the top scholars in the field to share their research on theleadup to the atrocity, the respon-

sible actors, the effects of the de-struction, and the ways in which the Hungarian Holocaust is re-membered and commemorated.The conference was organized bythe Jewish Studies Program, whichis a specialization integrated into the degree programs of the Natio-nalism Studies Program as well asthe Departments of History and Medieval Studies.

Among faculty honors, ProfessorMaria M. Kovacs, head of the program in 2013-14, was awardedthe prestigious title of University Professor, “egyetemi tanar,” by Janos Ader, President of Hungary.Professor Andras Pap was awardedthe Doctor of Science title by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

degRee PRogRaMs• Master of Arts in Nationalism

Studies (one year)• Master of Arts in Nationalism

Studies (two years)

dePaRtMent ofpHilosopHYHead of Department 2013-14gaboR betegh

The Department of Philosophy con-tinued to expand in 2013-14 with a record number of applicants tothe master’s degree programs andmore admitted students than everbefore. Three new faculty joined the department: Assistant Profes-sor Emma Bullock, who specializesin medical ethics, applied ethics, philosophy of medicine and nor-mative ethics, Associate ProfessorPhilip Goff, whose research focuseson philosophy of mind, metaphy-sics and the philosophy of religion,and Associate Professor Maria Kronfeldner, who focuses on the philosophy of the life sciences.

The department hosted several international conferences and

students from CEU’s Department of Economics actively participate in the club.

Professor Andras Stipsicz, who directs the doctoral program, wasawarded the prestigious AcademyPrize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

degRee PRogRaMs• Master of Science in Applied

Mathematics (two years)• Doctor of Philosophy in

Mathematics and its Applications

dePaRtMent ofMedieVAl stUdiesHead of Department 2013-14katalin szende

The Department of Medieval Studies expanded in 2013-14 and was active in hosting lectures and conferences, many of which were interdisciplinary, as well as in research and publishing. The department played a key role indeveloping the new Cultural Heritage Studies degree program, launched in fall 2014.

It hosted a workshop on militarydiasporas in East Central Europeand the Eastern Mediterranean, 500-1800, in October 2013, follo-wed by a workshop on architec-ture, archaeology and urban topo-graphy as non-textual sources

with the French National Agency for Research-funded MARGEC (Marginality, Economy and Chris-tianity) program.

In spring 2014, the department hosted a conference entitled “AForgotten Region? East Central Europe in the Global Middle Ages”and a workshop, “The Self in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Con-ceptions and Practices in China and the West.” The department continued this comparative focus with “Perspectives on Medieval So-cial Dynamics and Contacts (Real and Imagined) in China and the West,” a joint conference with Beijing Normal University in fall 2014. The department also offereda CEU Summer University course in 2014 and continued the NatalieZemon Davis Annual Lecture Seriesco-hosted with the Department of History, featuring Peter Burke of Cambridge University.

In research, University Professor Gabor Klaniczay completed his

project “Communicating Saint-hood–Constituting Regions and Nations in East-Central Europe,” funded by the Hungarian Natio-nal Research Council. AssociateProfessor Katalin Szende was named a CEU Institute of Advan-ced Study Fellow, while Associate Professor Niels Gaul obtained a fellowship in Dumbarton Oaks for 2014-15.

The department published Volume20 of the Annual of Medieval Studies and made all volumes available online. It also published Volume 17 of the CEU Medievaliaseries with CEU Press: The Harbourof All this Sea and Realm Crusader to Venetian Famagusta, edited by Michael J.K. Walsh, Tamas Kiss, and Nicholas S.H. Coureas.

Among alumni, Giga Zedania was appointed Rector of Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia,and Nikoloz Alekzidze, Stanislava Kuzmova and Giedre Mickunaitewere named researchers at TORCH: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities.

degRee PRogRaMs• Master of Arts in Medieval Studies

(one year)• Master of Arts in Comparative

History: Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies (two years)

• Master of Arts in Cultural HeritageStudies (two years)

• Doctor of Philosophy in Medieval Studies

At the conference “The Hungarian Holocaust: Seventy Years Later.”

Peter Burke of Cambridge University tours with CEU Professor Jozsef Laszlovsky.

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in fall 2014 in recognition oftheir book, Capitalist Diversity on Europe’s Periphery.

Associate Professor Carsten Schneider, who was named head of the department for 2014-15, taught in a new initiative bringing together Abkhaz and Georgian young professionals at CEU in September 2013. The project washosted by the School of Public Policy at CEU and the GRASS ThinkTank (GE) and was funded by the United Nations Development Programme’s COBERM Confidence-Building Early Response Mecha-nism aimed at fostering peaceful transformation of conflicts.

Separately, Schneider finished afive-year term as an elected mem-ber of the German Academy of Young Scientists at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and the Leopol-dina Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften. He was elected to the Executive Committee of the Alumni Association of the European University Institute.

Assistant Professor Zoltan Miklosireceived a Laurance R. RockefellerVisiting Faculty Fellowship at Princeton University, Center for Human Values from September 2014, and Professor Zsolt Enyedi was offered the Ranki chair at Indiana University and the AustrianMarshall Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University for 2014-15.

degRee PRogRaMs• Master of Arts in Political Science

(one year)• Master of Arts in Political Science

(two years)• Doctor of Philosophy in Political

Science - Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Political Theory Tracks

dePaRtMent ofpUBlic policYHead of Department 2013-14thilo bodenstein

The department, which focuses on the tools that governments, international organizations and non-governmental actors have and use to regulate states, marketsand society, hosts students from 29 countries with faculty from more than a dozen countries.

Among many events involving fa-culty, Associate Professor Martin Kahanec organized the 6th IZA/ASE Workshop on EU Enlarge-ment and the Labor Markets inBucharest, Romania, in November2013. IZA is a private, independentlabor market research organiza-tion and ASE is the Romanian ac-ronym for the Bucharest Universityof Economic Studies. The workshopfeatured the Romanian launch of the International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, co-edited by Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann, with a contribu-tion by Kahanec on labor mobility. Separately, Kahanec was a signa-tory to “Working Without Borders: A Manifesto for Europe's Future,” a counterpoint to the prevailing pessimism about Europe and the growing opposition against free la-bor mobility within Europe, callingfor a future-oriented agenda for a

workshops, with the participationof several distinguished philoso-phers, including the second Philo-sophy of Language and Mind (PLM)Conference, the first Finno-Hunga-rian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, the Fifth InternationalGraduate Conference in Philoso-phy and the Conference on Art and Morality: A Human Endeavour.

The department also established new Erasmus Partnership Agree-ments with Ruhr Universitat Bo-chum and the University of Milan, for a total of 11 agreements. MA graduates from the department were admitted to doctoral prog-rams at Cambridge University, University of Toronto, University ofConnecticut, while doctoral gradu-ates were appointed to teachingand research positions at BayreuthUniversity; National University ofPolitical Studies and Public Admi-nistration, Bucharest; Charles University, Prague, and post-doc-toral positions at Oxford University; Philosophy Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; and CEU. Professor Gabor Betegh, who was head of the department in 2013-14, was appointed the Eighth Laurence Professor of Ancient Phi-losophy at Cambridge University.

degRee PRogRaMs• Master of Arts in Philosophy

(one year)• Master of Arts in Philosophy

(two years)• Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy

dePaRtMent ofpoliticAl science

Head of Department 2013-14gaboR toka

CEU’s political science program was ranked among the world’s top100 in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) subject rankings, marking thefifth consecutive year in the top 100. The department of Political Science hosted over 30 events, including key speakers in its semi-nar series such as Bo Rothstein(University of Gothenburg), GeorgeLakoff (UC Berkeley), Scott Atran (University of Michigan) and Isa-bela Mares (Columbia University).

In research news, the departmentappointed a new postdoctoral research fellow, Federico Vegetti(University of Mannheim), co-hosted by the Political Behavior Research Group (PoLBeRG).

Levente Littvay is a research partner in the multi-disciplinaryEuropean Union-funded CUPESSE- Cultural Pathways to Economic Self-Sufficiency and Entrepreneur-ship: Family Values and Youth Un-employment in Europe – projectthat began in January 2014. Parti-cipants collaborate on a compara-tive analysis of both the demand and supply side of youth unem-ployment in 10 member states of the EU and associated countries.

The project brings together theo-retical perspectives and method-ological approaches from econo-mics, political science, psychology,and sociology.

Assistant Professor Marina Pop-escu won a European Union Seventh Framework Programme grant as principal investigator forthe project "Less Hate, More Speech: An Experimental and Com-parative Study in Media and Poli-tical Elites’ Ability to Nurture Civil,Tolerant, Pro-Democratic Citizens."

Professor Dorothee Bohle won the inaugural CEU Award for Out-standing Research, shared with Professor Bela Greskovits ofthe Department of International Relations and European Studies

Cognitive linguist George Lakoff speaks at CEU in October 2013.

Associate Professor Martin Kahanec at the 6th IZA/ASE Workshop on EU Enlargement and the Labor Markets.

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renowned Fung fellowship and spent the academic year at the In-stitute for International and Regio-nal Studies at Princeton University.

In publishing, Fabiani launched abook Les mots de l’image (Yellow Now), while Associate ProfessorDaniel Monterescu published JaffaShared and Shattered: Contrived Co-existence in Israel/Palestine (IndianaUniversity Press) and Associate Professor Prem Kumar Rajaramauthored Ruling the Margins: Admin-istrative Rule and Colonial Power in the Past and Present published by Routledge. Also, Assistant Profes-sor Vlad Naumescu co-produced and directed two documentary short films: “Bread of Life: The Word” and “The Silence.”

The end of the academic year wasmarked by the department’s an-nual graduate conference, conceiv-ed and organized by the depart-ment’s PhD students. WernerKrauss (Helmholtz Institute Gees-thacht, Department of Coastal Re-search) and Zsuzsa Gille (Universityof Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) were keynote speakers. More than90 percent of the department's PhD graduates are now employedin academia and civil organizations.

degRee PRogRaMs• Master of Arts in Sociology and

Social Anthropology (one year)• Master of Arts in Sociology and

Social Anthropology (two years)• Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology

and Social Anthropology

doCtoRal sChool of politicAl science, inteRnAtionAl RelAtions And pUBlic policY Director 2013-14aChiM keMMeRling

The school offers a doctoral pro-gram in political science, accredit-ed in the U.S. The program has five tracks: Comparative Politics,Political Economy, Political Theory,International Relations, and PublicPolicy and works closely with the related departments at CEU. Stu-dents come from 36 countries and faculty from more than 15.

In 2013-14, the doctoral school launched a new initiative to make the program more competitive and give students better job oppor-tunities. As a first step, doctoral student Norbert Sabic and Asso-ciate Professor Achim Kemmerlingwrote the report “Comparative

Analysis of Doctoral Education

in Political Science and Related Fields,” which received internatio-nal attention and enabled acomparison with other institutions.

The school also expanded the Academic Practice Workshop Se-ries, holding nine sessions overthe past two years to train studentsin key skills for the job market suchas how to publish with high-rankingacademic publishing houses, led by Roger Haydon, editor at CornellUniversity Press.

The school participated in a con-ference of the GRADNET networkof top-level graduate schools in social science across Europe including London School of Eco-nomics, SciencesPo, and Euro-pean University Institute. It also held the Ninth Annual DoctoralConference 2014. The keynote speaker was David Rueda (Ox-ford University).

degRee PRogRaMs• Doctor of Philosophy in Political

Science

genuine European labor market without borders. Kahanec was appointed Associate Editor of the International Journal of Manpower.

Among other key events, AtanasPolitov and Tamas Barabas, from PILNet, the global network for public interest law, delivered a talkin the framework of the Law andPublic Policy course at the depart-ment in March 2014. They touchedupon the role and definition of thepublic interest in judicial processes,and discussed success and failurestories in public interest litigation in Central and Eastern Europe.

In publishing, Professor Uwe Pu-etter, who also directs the Center for European Union Research (CEUR), published The European Council and The Council: New Inter-governmentalism and Institutional Change (Oxford University Press). Assistant Professor Kristina Irion co-edited The Independence of the Media and Its Regulatory Agencies,(Intellect). Professor Lajos Bokros’book Accidental Occidental (CEUPress) was selected as an Outstan-ding Academic Title by Choice Magazine. Thilo Bodenstein, became guest researcher at the German Development Institute.

As of the academic year 2015-16,the three programs offered by the department (listed below) will be run by the School of Public Policy (SPP) alongside the school’s own program. DPP students and fulltime faculty members will join

SPP and the two entities are working toward a smooth transi-tion for all. degRee PRogRaMs• Master of Arts in Public Policy

(one year)• Master of Arts in Public Policy

(Mundus MAPP) (two years)• Doctor of Philosophy in Political

Science - Public Policy Track

dePaRtMent ofsocioloGY And sociAl AntHRopoloGY Head of Department 2013-14Judit bodnaR

In 2014, the department strength-ened its thematic focus and ex-panded its global scope with the addition of a new faculty member,Ju Li, a specialist in historical

sociology and globalization stud-ies whose research focus is mod-ern China and the post-socialist transformation.

The department continued to foster and expand its interna-tional network. Major affiliations in 2013-14 included Princeton University (Assistant Professor Alexandra Kowalski); City Univer-sity of New York (Professor Don Kalb and Kowalski); the European University Institute, Florence (Professor Jean-Louis Fabiani); and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Kalb).

Faculty won grants and other sup-port including Fabiani, who wonthe prestigious EU Horizon 2020 Reflective Society Program grant for the project Culturalbase in collaboration with the universitiesof Glasgow, Barcelona and the European University Institute, andKowalski, who was awarded the

Assistant Professor Alexandra Kowalski, who was awarded a Fung fellowship at Princeton.Doctoral students at a Department of International Relations and European Studies lecture on Russian politics.

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centeR FoR AcAdeMic WRitinG In 2013-14, the Center for Academic Writing (CAW) provided 3,353 consultations to master’s and doc-toral students as well as faculty and staff. A newsupport program was developed and implementedfor the School of Public Policy, and a multidisciplinaryworkshop for doctoral students was introduced that will run again in 2014-15. In September 2014, in collaboration with the Confucius Institute, the Center’s foreign language section started CEU’s first Chinese language courses.

Writing instructor Andrea Kirchknopf won the 2014European Society for the Study of English Book Award for her book "Rewriting the Victorians: Modesof Literary Engagement with the 19th Century.”

centeR FoR teAcHinG And leARninGThe Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) consultswith faculty members from across the University, offers courses for doctoral students, and collabo-rates with academic departments and schools on issues such as mentoring, course activities and course re-design, e-portfolios, and technology-supported teaching and learning.

In 2014, CTL launched a new Program for Excellencein Teaching in Higher Education and Certificate of Completion. It also piloted a collaborative seminar series for early-career CEU faculty, and inaugurateda CTL Guest Faculty Speaker Series with a discussion

on digital learning environments with Mark Phillipsonof Columbia University. It also helped launch the CEU Teaching Development Grants Program, aimedat encouraging experimentation and exploration of teaching approaches. CTL also directs CEU’s European Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

CTL faculty member Helga Dorner co-designed andco-taught new online collaborative seminars withCEU faculty and with peers at Smith College andTartu University. She presented related researchat the European Association for Learning and Instruction (EARLI) conference in Leuven, Belgium and was elected to the Subcommittee on Technol-ogy and Education of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ Education Committee.

CTL Lecturer Joanna Renc-Roe established collabo-rations with Birmingham and Auckland universities,the European Consortium of Political Research, and Lund University. She also served on the inter-national advisory board of the National Academy for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (Ireland); was invited to serve on the editorial board of Teaching and Learning Inquiry (University of Indiana Press); and was elected to the Review Board of the Journal for the Scholar-ship of Teaching and Learning.

ceU liBRARY

The CEU Library expanded the information resour-ces available for research and teaching to over 280,000 print and media resources, 12,000 electronicbooks, and 40,000 electronic journals. As the largest English-language collection in Central and Eastern Europe, it plays an increasingly important

role in the region and is open to other university faculty, researchers, and students.

Consistent with its mission to promote discovery, open access, and information and library literacy, this year the CEU Library joined several organizationsthat support open dissemination of scholarly publi-cations through online repository services or advo-cacy work including arXiv, Knowledge Unlatched, Phil-Papers, and SPARC Europe. CEU Library also begansubmitting bibliographic data and citations to the Hungarian National Scientific Bibliography (MTMT), anongoing project coordinated by the Library that in-cludes registration of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs).

CEU librarians participated in the EIFL eLibrary Myanmar Project consulting with visiting fellows from Myanmar on using electronic resources and developing techniques for information management.Two staff members in the CEU Library and Center for Academic Writing received AMICAL Awards topresent at a conference in Athens on “Enhancingthe Learning Experience of CEU Graduate Studentsin Collaboration Between the Academic Writing Center and the Library.”

ceU pRessCEU Press published the concluding volume in theDiscourses of Collective Identity in Central and SoutheastEurope 1770–1945 series, published over a decade in cooperation with the Center for Advanced Study in Sofia, Bulgaria, Bogazici University Istanbul, OxfordBrookes University, the Institute of ContemporaryHistory Prague, and the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

CEU Press’ Accidental Occidental, by Lajos Bokros, professor in the Departments of Economics and Public Policy at CEU, was selected as an OutstandingAcademic Title by Choice Magazine.

CEU Press exhibited at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan Universityin May 2014, and at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds in July. CEU Press joined the Association of American University Presses and participated in University Press Week 2014.

pRoGRAMs & sUppoRt

Professor Lajos Bokros' award-winning book, published by CEU Press.

The CEU Library

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institUte FoR AdVAnced stUdYCEU IAS hosted 22 fellows in 2013-14, selected frommore than 600 applicants. Fellows engaged in publicconversations about a wide range of questions, suchas the threat of terrorism, civil activism in SouthernEurope, migration policies, and the segregation of the Roma in Hungary. CEU IAS also hosted its first artist in residence, a tradition it plans to continue.

The institute, known as CEU IAS, launched the Huma-nities Initiative Fellowship in 2013-14 to support CEU’s commitment to strengthen humanities rese-arch and teaching. Fellows worked on researchprojects at IAS and taught a short course, typically outside their own discipline, a useful tool to promotecollaboration between humanities researchers and social scientists.

IAS organized academic events, in addition to the regular fellow seminars, including the annual IAS lecture, this year by Professor Michael Puett on “Ritual Disjunctions: Theories of Ritual from China and Elsewhere.” IAS also hosted conferences, workshops, public lectures and book launches.

open societY ARcHiVesThe archives, known as OSA, garnered broad-basedsupport as well as media attention for its Yellow-Star Houses project, which used archival sources, mapping technologies and social media to collect information and personal histories, making a majorcontribution to reshaping the public memory of 1944.Around 10,000 people took part in commemorationson June 21, 2014. Embassies, the Polish Cultural Center, theatres and galleries, the Night of the Mu-

seums, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum supported the project.

As part of the Europeana Awareness project, OSA held events in Szeged, Sopron and Budapest to collect donations of memorabilia related to the re-gime change in Hungary in 1989, with the Univer-sity of Szeged and the Sopron Municipal Museum.

The Verzio International Human Rights Film Festi-val, supported by OSA, Open Society Foundations, the Verzio foundation, embassies and cultural centers, celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2014.

RoMA Access pRoGRAMsCEU’s Roma Access Programs (RAP), unique in theworld, prepare students of Roma origin for graduate-level studies and professional careers. The Roma Graduate Preparation Program ensures students have the English-language and academic skills tosucceed at the graduate level, and the Roma English

Language Program boosts language skills to advancestudents' careers or pursue further education.

In 2013-14, the graduate preparation program host-ed 22 students, the largest-ever cohort. Of those, 14 continued their studies at CEU with full scholar-ships, while another three graduates enrolled in pro-grams at other prestigious European universities. RAP was also able to offer three Central Europe Foundation - George Soros Scholarships to alumni, enabling them to continue graduate studies in deg-ree programs at universities in the UK, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands.

A generous grant from Sigrid Rausing Trust enabledRAP to launch its first internship program, which supported seven RAP alumni in internships at inter-national organizations.

sUMMeR UniVeRsitYCEU’s Summer University (SUN) promotes research,teaching, and social engagement by offering rese-archoriented, interdisciplinary, and innovative

academic courses as well as workshops for profes-sional development delivered by distinguished international faculty.

In 2014, SUN offered 15 courses and attracted 464 participants from 90 countries, chosen from 1,501 applicants.

SUN also serves as a laboratory for CEU to experiment with new topics and approaches, as exemplified by 2014 courses such as Drug Policy and Human Rights, which will be transferred to the School of Public Policy, and Bridging ICTs and the Environment, a course that established coop-eration with tech companies and experts whose software and materials will be made available to all CEU students, faculty and researchers.

SUN’s 2014 flagship course was Morality: Evolu-tionary Origins and Cognitive Mechanisms, which explored the most cutting-edge scholarship of morality in the conceptual framework of evolu-tionary theory and featured leading scholars and attracted high-level doctoral students from Euro-pean and North American universities.

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Graduates of CEU's Roma Access Programs.

As part of the Holocaust remembrance, the Yellow Star Houses project commemorated buildings designated for Jews in 1944.

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Center for Business and Society

Directed by Professor Peter Hardi at CEU BusinessSchool, the center conducts scientific and applied research on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business sustainability and helps companies adopt CSR strategies in countries of transition.

The center joined 11 universities and research centers in the European Commission-funded GlobalValue project, which aims to develop and test a reference framework for multinational corporationsto measure and manage their impacts on global de-velopment. Hardi and researchers Alexander Boehmand Gergely Radacsi published working papers re-lated to the €2.5 million project, which runs through2017. Hardi and Radacsi reached the final stage of ajoint research project on the construction of a frame-work to connect CSR to complex society issues-through the case of substance abuse prevention.

In May 2014, Radacsi won a grant from the U.S. fede-ral agency National Institute on Drug Abuse to pre-sent his research at the 22nd Annual Meeting of theSociety for Prevention Research in Washington DC.

Center for Conflict, Negotiation and Recovery

CEU’s School of Public Policy launched CCNR in Sep-tember 2013 under the leadership of Professor ofPractice Robert Templer. The center brings togetherpolicymakers, researchers, students, and those affected by deadly conflict such as refugees, to

develop new tools to prevent conflict or aid in the recovery from violence. CCNR secured supportin 2013-14 from the U.S. State Department and Philadelphia Stock Exchange Foundation, among others, to establish Holbrooke Fellowships honor-ing the legacy of American diplomat Richard Hol-brooke. Fellows will include a civil servant secondedfrom the State Department each year from fall 2014. CCNR also worked with the Open Society Archives on the inaugural Lemkin Reunion, held in October 2014 to mark the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide.

Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies

The center, headed by Associate Professor Volker Menze, promotes the study of the eastern Medi-terranean and its hinterlands from antiquity to the end of the Ottoman period. In 2013-14, the center celebrated its 10th anniversary, and attracted scholars from universities and institutes in Arme-nia, Austria, Georgia, Germany, Israel, the Nether-lands, Poland, Romania, Spain, Turkey, and the UK.

The center, with the Embassy of Greece in Hungary,established the Anna Christidou Memorial Lecture Series on Byzantine art history in memory of Dr. Anna Christidou, CEU 20th Anniversary PostdoctoralFellow, who died in September 2013. The centeralso co-hosted the first of a series of annual lectureswith the Romanian Cultural Institute in Budapest to provide scholars from Romanian universities with an international audience.

In August 2013, the center held the Third Annual Workshop of “The Caucasus: 300-1600” project in

Istanbul, which aims to develop a new set of cur-ricula covering the Caucasus and Byzantium from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages.

In October 2014, the center hosted a conference on “Christian Historiography between Empires (4th-8th centuries),” organized by Professors Istvan Perczelfrom CEU and Hagit Amirav from the University of Amsterdam as part of the international “Beyond the Fathers: In search of new authorities” project.

Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine

CELAB is one of 18 partners from 11 European coun-tries in the three-year European Commission-fundedproject NERRI: Neuro-enhancement – ResponsibleResearch and Innovation. CELAB hosted two eventsfor the project, one bringing together patients’ groups, patients’ rights organizations, paralympians,social scientists, bioethicists, and the public to dis-cuss the possibilities and implications of new tech-nologies in the treatment of devastating diseases and disabilities. The second event explored the atti-tudes of students toward the enhancement of neuro-capabilities for the purpose of achieving better re-sults in school and in the workplace. Winners ofCELAB’s national student essay competition, “Neuro-enhancement in education: how far would you go toachieve your best?” received awards at the event.

In August 2014, Professor Judit Sandor, who directsCELAB, gave a keynote speech at the 28th Confer-ence of the European Society of the Philosophy of Medicine in Health Care in Debrecen, Hungary. She also edited Study on Biopolitics, and researcher Marton Varju published European Union Human

Rights Law: The Dynamics of Interpretation and Context, both with the International Academic Network on Bioethics.

Center for EU Enlargement Studies

Under the direction of Professor Peter Balazs, former Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, the center promotes dialogue among EU member states and their partners from Eastern and Southeastern Europe to foster understanding of factors influencing Europe’s common future.

CENS formed new partnerships with the EuropeanCommission, NGOs, and research centers in both the Visegrad countries and those at the EU’s east-ern border. In 2013-14 the center hosted interna-tional conferences and events focusing on the political situation in Ukraine, the developments in the Western Balkans and the relationship between EU and Russia. In April 2014, the center hosted the conference “10 Years in the EU – Taking Stock and Assessing Prospects,” bringing together scholars and policymakers and attrac-ting an audience of over 250.

The center won several grants as partners in con-sortia and published Europe’s Position in the New World Order and A European Union with 36 Mem-bers? Perspectives and Risks, both edited by Balazs. The center also continued hosting the Ambas-sadorial Lecture Series, lectures by accomplished scholars and high-profile political figures. It also enhanced its role in bringing together students, researchers, and practitioners by organizing events in which students were the main actors.

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Center for European Union Research

Directed by Professor Uwe Puetter, CEUR promotesacademic research and discussion in the field of European Union studies, providing a common platform for collaboration and debate. The center is a member of the European Commission-funded “bEUcitizen” consortium led by Utrecht University,a research project studying the practice and chal-lenges to European Union citizenship. Center rese-archers, including new postdoctoral researchers Robert Csehi, Orsolya Salat and Katalin Amon, con-tribute to developing EU-wide cross-national data sets on attitudes of citizens towards converging social, civil and economic rights of family members of those on the move within Europe.

In November 2013, the center hosted the “EuropeanPolitics in the Post-Maastricht Era and the New In-tergovernmentalism” workshop on a novel researchframework for studying contemporary European integration as the final phase of a project started in 2012. Results will be published in a new book with Oxford University Press in 2015. In 2013-14,the center started cooperation with ACCESS Europe,a joint initiative of two Amsterdam universities. In April 2014, Puetter and ACCESS Europe Director Jonathan Zeitlin co-hosted a workshop on the new architecture of EU socio-economic governance.

Center for Integrity in Business and Government

Based at CEU Business School and directed by Pro-fessor Peter Hardi, CIBG serves as a regional hub

for integrity education, heightening the visibility andcredibility of the field. In 2013-14, the Siemens-sup-ported center developed innovative MBA courses and an executive training course on integrity issues.

As part of CEU Business School’s 25th anniversary year, the center hosted the “Managing Integrity- The Bad and the Good” workshop in March 2014 featuring Gregor Medinger, founder and partner at Rum Hill Capital and member of the CEU Business School Advisory Board, as keynote speaker.

The center created an English-Russian Business In-tegrity Glossary in partnership with Integrity Actionand the American Chamber of Commerce Hungary(AmCham). The center and AmCham also co-orga-nized an International Integrity Case Study Competi-tion in Central and Eastern Europe with cash prizestotaling $10,000. A team of CEU Business School MBAstudents mentored by Hardi participated in the Inter-collegiate Business Ethics Case Competition in Tucson,Arizona in May 2014, finishing second of 25 teams.

Center for Media, Data and Society

CMDS, directed by Professor Philip Howard and based at the School of Public Policy, focuses on re-search on media, communication, and information policy in Central and Eastern Europe. Previously known as the Center for Media and CommunicationStudies, the center adopted a new name in Sep-tember 2014 to better reflect the interests and expertise of the faculty.

In 2013-14, the center received major grants to work on online extremism, strengthening journal-ism in Europe, and networking community media

centers, and released “Data Breaches in Europe: Reported Breaches of Compromised Personal Records in Europe, 2005-2014,” the largest study of the subject. In October 2013, with the School of Public Policy and the Heinrich Boll Stiftung, the center organized two roundtable discussions on media freedom in Hungary, media pluralism and the European agenda. In May 2014, the center and the European University Institute’s Centre for Me-dia Pluralism and Media Freedom co-organized the “Journalists and Whistle-blowers in an Era of Mass Surveillance” conference.

Faculty and visiting fellows published nine books, 22 peer review articles, and 23 book chapters on media and information policy. Researcher Amy Brouillette outlined Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s quest for power in Foreign Policy, and Howard wrote about EU strategy for encour-aging reform of Hungary's media laws in The New York Times. Assistant Professor Kristina Irion won a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship for re-search on the "Governance of Digital Information."

Center for Network Science

Under the direction of Associate Professor Balazs Vedres, the center provides a platform for researchin network science, which aims to explain complex phenomena using the principles of network links. The center conducts a certificate program with seve-ral CEU doctoral programs and will launch a new U.S.-registered PhD program in network science, the firstin Europe, in fall 2015.

Professors Albert-Laszlo Barabasi and Janos Kertesz lead a Horizon 2020-funded research project entit-

led "CIMPLEX: Bringing Citizens, Models and Data together in Participatory, Interactive Social EXplora-tories," as well as the EU-funded "Multiplex: Foun-dational Research on multi-level complex networksand systems."

In 2013-14, center researchers co-authored over 20publications on topics such as Wikipedia edits, net-work control, scientific impact, and air traffic man-agement. Professor Rosario Mantegna co-chaired the Interlinkages and Systemic Risk conference inItaly, and gave talks in China, Japan and Korea. Kerteszwas awarded the Szechenyi Prize.

Center for Policy Studies

CPS, directed by Research Fellow Violetta Zentai, focuses on policies for social inclusion and social justice. In 2013-14, the center secured NationalEndowment for Democracy funding to launch a pilotRoma Placement Program, which aims to build pro-fessional skills of young Roma intellectuals, and to promote their wider engagement in public affairs.

The center will host the Horizon 2020-funded pro-ject TransCrisis, a 42-month investigation into the contradictory transformations within citizen soli-darity in Europe. Research into the experience of vulnerable communities in public education will be expanded as part of a new International Research Network supported by the EU’s Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action program. The center published researchfindings in two books, one on the role of civic and private actors in Hungary’s development assistanceprograms and the other a series of case studies ofanti-Roma sentiment in Hungary. The findings of theEuropean Commission-funded project EDUMIGROM,

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comparing the public school experiences of second-generation immigrants and Roma youth in Europe, edited by center researcher Julia Szalai and Claire Schiff of the University of Bordeaux, was publishedby Palgrave. With the Department of Public Policy, the center hosted research projects for clients including the International Federation of the Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, and the Central Euro-pean Labour Studies Institute in Bratislava.

Center for Religious Studies

The center, directed by University Professor Aziz Al-Azmeh, addresses religion-related questions in com-parative and cross-disciplinary perspectives. It admi-nisters CEU’s Advanced Certificate in Religious Studies, accredited in the U.S. and Hungary; a speci-alization to be offered at the PhD level by 2015-16.

In 2013-14, the center named Alex Agadjanian (Rus-sian State University for the Humanities), Said AmirArjomand (State University of New York), Volkhard Krech (Ruhr-Universitat Bochum), and Jane McAuliffe(Kluge Center, Library of Congress) to its InternationalAdvisory Board.

In April 2014, Professor Nadia Al-Bagdadi lectured onreligious transformations for the Excellence Clusterat Munich University and at the World Congress forMiddle Eastern Studies in August 2014. Associate Professor Matthias Riedl lectured on Christianity atthe Higher School of Economics and LomonossovState University, Moscow; on civil and political theology at Universite de Lyon 3; and on Apocalyp-tism in the Bible for Eotvos Lorand University, Bu-dapest. In October 2014, Visiting Professor Gyorgy Szonyi presented the keynote “Latin Alchemical

Literature of Czech Provenance” for a conference at Palacky University. He organized “Western Esoterismin Central and Eastern Europe over the Centuries” atCEU, the founding colloquium of the Central and Eastern European Network for the Academic Study of Western Esotericism. The center also conducted a Summer University course and planned the 2015 summer course “Religion in the Public Sphere” withthe School of Public Policy.

Cognitive Development Center

The center, directed by Professors Gergely Csibra and Gyorgy Gergely, conducts research on the cognitive development of babies and children. During 2013-14, the center received a six-year grant from the European Research Council’s Syn-ergy Grant Scheme for a project entitled “SOMICS: Constructing Social Minds: Coordination, Com-munication, and Cultural Transmission.” Gyorgy Gergely is one of the four project leaders.

The center also hosted the fourth annual BudapestCEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD)in January 2014, attracting over 200 participants fromEurope, North America and Asia. The conference in-cluded presentations on early social cognition, langu-age acquisition, theory of mind, and moral cognition.

Initiative for Regulatory Innovation

Headed by Assistant Professor Maciej Kisilowski andbased at CEU Business School, IRI explores how to improve economic regulation in young Central and

Eastern European democracies. Pursuing its “In Search of Creative Governance” project, IRI has part-nered with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria to design a study aimed at promoting a far-reaching modernization of policy-making institutions throughout the region. The “Near-shoring Government” project will study the feasibility of moving parts of ministries or agenciesfrom capitals to less crowded and expensive locations.

Kisilowski and Associate Professor Yusaf Akbar rese-arched strategies used by business to achieve a sus-tainable competitive advantage through leveragingsocial and political capital, publishing a chapter on the topic in “Routledge Companion to the Non-market Strategies” based on a broad comparative research project they conducted in post-socialist countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Research by IRI appeared in Free Market in Its Twen-ties: Modern Business Decision Making in Central and Eastern Europe, published by CEU Press and edited by Kisilowski.

Institute for

Entrepreneurshipand Innovation

Based at CEU Business School and headed by Dean Mel Horwitch, the institute acts as a regional hub for exchanging ideas about innovation and entrepreneurship and how to spur economic deve-lopment in Hungary and the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region.

In 2013-14, the institute continued its roundtable series with guest speakers such as Nelly Salinkova, director of Moellendorf & Company Advisors; RobinChase, founder of Zipcar; former New York Governor

George Pataki; and Citibank Group Hungary CEO Aftab Ahmed. The series covered topics rangingfrom innovation in financing in the CEE region to so-cial anthropology as an innovative business method.

Pasts, Inc., Center for Historical Studies

Directed by Associate Professors Constantin Iorda-chi and Balazs Trencsenyi, Pasts, Inc. contributes to the training and career development of emergingscholars and serves as an interface between CEU and the external research environment.

The center launched a new book series entitled “Pasts Inc. Studies and Working Papers” with the firstvolume, The Politics of Early Language Teaching by doctoral student Agoston Berecz in September 2013. The center won a research grant for the project “The Making of Citizenship in the Balkans: A Comparative-Historical Analysis, 1918-1945.” It hosted the “Area Studies in a Globalized World. New Approaches and Concepts” summer course with the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians UniversitatMunich and Universitat Regensburg, as well as the EurHistXX doctoral workshop at CEU.

The center continued publishing the peer-reviewedjournal East Central Europe. CEU Press published The Collectivization of Agriculture in Communist EasternEurope, edited by Iordachi and Professor Arnd Bauerkamper of Freie Universitat Berlin; and Anti-modernism: Radical Revisions of Collective Identity, edited by Professor Diana Mishkova from the Centerfor Advanced Study in Sofia, Bulgaria, Associate Professor Marius Turda from Oxford Brookes Uni-versity, and Trencsenyi.

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from the U.S.-based Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals.

The University’s campus redevelopment team spenta busy year preparing for the January 2015 start of therenovations to CEU’s downtown campus. By fall 2014, a contract was signed with the Market-Strabag consortium, all permits and approvals were secured, and more than 300 faculty and staff were tempora-rily relocated to rental space. As part of CEU’s commitment to sustainability, the project follows international sustainable design principles.

Under the leadership of then-Chief Operating OfficerLiviu Matei, the Human Resources Office developedand introduced the new CEU Supplementary PensionPlan with a financial services partner, offering CEUstaff and faculty a valuable opportunity at a time when European pension systems are in flux. The Human Resources Office has been invited to rep-resent CEU in a European Commission task force establishing a pan-European pension fund for research institutions.

A Hub for Academic and Cultural Events CEU hosted more than 700 events over the courseof the year, reflecting CEU’s reputation and role bringing together academics, policymakers, authors,students and the public for open debate and enga-gement. In 2014, the 70th anniversary of the Hun-garian Holocaust drew visitors to CEU, while the 100th anniversary of the Nador utca 11 building and the Cultural Heritage Weekend drew a com-bined 1,200 visitors.

CEU hosted 40 cultural events in 2013-14, featuring Budapest-based foreign artists and musicians as well as CEU staff, faculty, alumni and researchers. Hungarian-Swedish singer Antonia Vai and Cuban

singer Elsa Valle were among performers. Exhibi-tions included works by French photographer BrunoBourel as well as photography by Judith Rassonof the Department of Medieval Studies and HenriettGriecs of the Department of Public Policy. CEU screen-ed documentaries by researcher Eszter Spat, onKurdish Yezidis, and alumna Eszter Hajdu, on the trialof Roma homicide cases.

Connecting With Alumni WorldwideCEU’s 12,000 alumni in over 120 countries representthe University’s mission in action, and display extra-ordinary loyalty to CEU in many ways. Twenty-two students received scholarships in 2013-14 thanks to generous donations from alumni, and the goal is to support 25 students with Alumni Scholarships by 2016, CEU’s 25th anniversary year. After achieving the milestone of $500,000 in cumulative alumni support with record giving levels in 2013, the Alum-ni Relations and Career Services Office launched CEU:Next, a three-year campaign to raise $1 million from alumni. The University fostered relationships with alumni in 2013-14 through e-newsletters and social media, hosting 65 events worldwide with the help of 130 alumni volunteers in 60 countries, and the Alumni Gala, which drew 320 attendees.

During 2013-14, CEU administration advanced theUniversity’s mission in areas as diverse as researchfunding, fundraising, event management, communi-cations, human resources, campus redevelopment,alumni relations and student support.

Faculty obtained over €14 million in new research grants in 2013-14 with the support of the AcademicCooperation and Research Support Office (ACRO). Notable awards include two European ResearchCouncil (ERC) grants for faculty in the Departmentof Cognitive Science. CEU placed fifth among Euro-pean universities in the number of research awardsin social sciences and humanities obtained via theEuropean Commission’s Seventh Framework Pro-gramme. Through ACRO, over 20 applications were filed by CEU faculty for the new Horizon 2020 EU funding phase, and six have already been ap-proved as of publication of this report.

As part of CEU’s goal to diversify funding sources andattract broad support, the University has strength-ened its development team with the appointment of Trisha Tanner as Vice President for Development. Tanner and her team played a key role in securing a scholarship grant from the NASDAQ OMX Edu-cational Foundation for CEU Business School, and $350,000 from the Ford Foundation to support Roma Access Programs, which celebrate 10 years of success in 2014 following initial Ford funding in 2004, and expand Roma initiatives. The latter also attracted grants from Sigrid Rausing Trust, National Endowment for Democracy and USAID. In addition, CEU’s European Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities, was accompa-nied by the inaugural Diener Prize, a gift of Steven and Linda Diener in honor of Ilona Diener.

Development activity also included events for CEU’sWest Coast Friends group hosted by Trustee Richard Blum at the University of California, Berkeley’s BlumCenter, and a gathering for young Eastern Europeantech leaders hosted by former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary Eleni Kounalakis. Several embassies and European foundations also partnered with CEU in support of events reflecting on the 70th anniversary of the Hungarian Holocaust.

CEU offers professional assistance in helping gradu-ates find jobs in a range of fields, from business to academia to international organizations. In 2013-14, career services staff held 250 consultations, hosted 36 programs and a career fair with 22 orga-nizations such as UNHCR and Morgan Stanley. Italso reached employers via its unique Resume Book.

CEU has also made strides in raising the profile of theUniversity in the media and through publications, video, web content and social media. CEU, its facultyand researchers were featured on PBS, NPR and Euronews as well as major Hungarian media outletsin 2013-14. CEU’s 2013 Annual Report, the Universitywebsite, and its suite of marketing materials forstudent recruitment all won Hermes Creative Awards

advanCes inAdMinistRA-tion

Alumni enjoying the Reunion Gala in May 2014.

CEU Trustee Richard Blum with former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary Eleni Kounalakis and Markos Kounalakis

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CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION SUPPORTERS

art group Marketing kft.

Carnegie Corporation of new york

Central europe foundation

dutch Jewish humanitarian fund

fondation pour la Memoire de la shoah

foundation to Promote open society

fritz thyssen foundation

the hyman levine family foundation:

l'dor v'dor

the Jane and Marc nathanson foundation

Josiah Macy, Jr. foundation (MG)

the korea foundation

landis & gyr foundation

lydia Press Memorial fund

the nasdaQ oMX group educational

foundation, inc.

northwestern Mutual foundation (MG)

open society foundation

the Philadelphia stock exchange foundation

Re-M kft.

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond

Roma education fund

Rothschild foundation (hanadiv) europe

salo w. and Jeannette M. baron foundation

siemens ag

sigma technology hungary ltd

sigrid Rausing trust

transitions online

the velux foundations

volkswagen foundation

GOVERNMENT AND INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES

Center for economic Research and graduate

education - economics institute

Central european exchange Program for

university studies

european Commission 6th and 7th frame-

work Programmes

european Commission directorate-general

for education and Culture

european Cooperation in science and

technology (Cost) action Programme

european university institute

hungarian scientific Research fund (otka)

international visegrad fund

national science foundation

social science Research Council

the united nations environment Programme

united states agency for international

development (usaid)

SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS

CEU wishes to thank the following

for their support:

anonymous (4)

donald and vera blinken

Richard blum

blum Center for developing economies

leon botstein

Consulate general of hungary in new york

geoffrey Cowan and aileen adams

edgar de Picciotto

steven and linda diener

Michel dominice

Patricia albjerg graham

Rita e. and gustave M. hauser

benjamin w. heineman, Jr.

Mel horwitch and sally schwager

Chaviva M. hosek

Markos and eleni kounalakis

Mel levine and Connie bruck

kati Marton

Mary P. McPherson

Pierre Mirabaud

Peter nadosy

nasdaQ oMX

Marc nathanson

Matthew nimetz

governor ewald nowotny (lamfalussy Prize)

Pacific Council

Csilla Pasztor and Michael harnish

Prezi

wolfgang and kirsten Reinicke

John shattuck and ellen hume

Christopher stone

1% Contributors*

CEU is grateful to Honorary Chair-

man George Soros and its Board of

Trustees for their leadership and

financial support.

We appreciate every gift to Central European University and have made every effort to ensurethe accuracy of this list. Please inform us of any corrections by contacting Nora Erdei, DevelopmentOperations Officer, at erdein@ceu.edu.

MILESTONE SOCIETYAlumni whose contributions

total $1,000 or more.*

gusztav bacher | 2001 LEGS

Ruslanas bronikovas | 1998 LEGS

Jaroslav burger | 1993 ENVS and

katerina burgerova | 1994 ENVS

nadir burnashev | 1995 ECON

borbala Czako | 1990 IMCE

Mathias eklof**

Joerg and yael forbrig | 1998 POLS

Peter grishin | 2000 ECON

yevgen groza | 2001 ENVS

armin haeberle | 2005 POLS

nana Janashia | 1997 ENVS

ausra Jurkeviciute | 1994 ENVS

eduardas kazakevicius | 1997 ENVS

konstantin kurganov | 1994 LEGS

bruce lasky | 2003 LEGS

Monica Macovei | 1993 legs

Cristina Marzea | 1998 IRES

ildiko Moran**

anton nakov | 2000 ECON

iryna nikolaieva | 1998 LEGS

natalya novokreschenova | 2008 LEGS

alexei novozhilov | 1999 LEGS

dragos Petre | 2002 ECON

dragan stavljanin | 1995 IRES

Corina stetiu Jump | 1991 ENVS

david stulik | 1997 SOCI

serge sych | 1997 IRES

bela szorfi | 2007 ECON

giel verbeeck | 1997 ECON

zuzana vojtekova | 2004 IRES

elena zaikina | 2002 LEGS

gabor zamaroczy | 2005 ENVS

LOYALTY SOCIETYAlumni contributing for three or

more consecutive years.*

alphia abdikeeva | 1999 LEGS

kincso adriany | 2002 IMCE

Marina agaltsova | 2009 LEGS

sarkhan aliyev | 2006 NATI

hanna asipovich | 2005 POLS

zoltan aszalos | 2012 BUSI

virag ilona blazsek | 2010 LEGS

Csaba boldis | 1995 ECON

olena borysova | 1994 ENVS

sergiu botezatu | 1994 ECON

tomas Cakl | 2008 IRES

Jerzy Celichowski | 1998 IRES

daniel Chamberlain**

ana gurau | 2011 DPP

Judit hildegard hajos | 2011 BUSI

Martin hergert | 2010 BUSI

daniel kaali | 2006 BUSI

Rustis kamuntavicius | 1998 HIST

Peter katuscak | 1998 ECON

aliaksei khmurets | 2008 ECON

Margarita klochkova | 2010 POLS

Janos kocsany | 2011 BUSI

Piret kuldna | 2005 ENVS

Matej kurian | 2009 POLS

victor lagutov | 1997 ENVS

aari lemmik | 1999 IRES

Jakub leps | 1998 POLS

karyna loban | 2009 LEGS

lubomir Majercik | 2005 LEGS

anna Markina | 1995 SOCI

nicolas Mirabaud | 2008 BUSI

Calin nicolae | 2000 ECON

vladislav nikiforov | 1998 ENVS

Jahor novikau | 1998 IRES

vesna Petrovic | 1998 ENVS

dana Popa | 1998 ECON

nicolae Popescu | 2003 IRES

igor Prochazka | 2000 SEES

evgueni Rarov | 1996 POLS

filip Ravinger | 2007 ECON

Julius Reynolds | 2009 IRES

nina Rozhanovskaya | 2007 POLS

andrey Ryabinin | 2009 LEGS

hristo sabev | 2000 ENVS

valentin serebryakov | 1991 ENVS

olga serebryanaya | 1998 POLS

Mikheil shavtvaladze | 2010 POLS

yakov shchukin | 1998 POLS

Xenia shevnina | 2004 POLS

gabor sitanyi | 2006 ECON

ondrej stefek | 1999 POLS

kirill strounnikov | 1998 LEGS

kristaps tamuzs | 2003 LEGS

Csaba Roland toth | 2002 ECON

Ruxandra trandafoiu | 1999 NATI

Mikhail vaitukevich | 2008 IRES

gyorgy vamosi | 2006 BUSI

ilya yablokov | 2009 NATI

tatiana yarkova | 1997 SOCI

vitaliy yermolenko | 1998 ENVS

Mikolaj zaleski | 2002 LEGS

olga zelinska | 2008 DPP

globalnetWoRk oF sUppoRt

* The above recognizes cumulative support from alumni who contributed between January 1 and November 21, 2014.

** Friend of CEU contributing to the Alumni Campaign.

(MG) Indicates Matching Gift

* Hungary’s 1% law enables taxpayers to donate 1% of their personal income tax to charity. CEU thanksall who contributed their 1% to the University.

CEU gratefully acknowledges our more than 650 donors and philanthropic partners worldwide. Our global funding network includes alumni and private individuals as well as corporate, foundation, and government grantmakers. Together, our supporters’ generous annual, project, and endowed-fund invest-ments ensure the University and its array of programs develop and strengthen year after year. Members of our 2014 alumni leadership giving societies and key institutional supporters for the 2013-14 academic year are recognized below.

49Administrationand Outreach

Central European University is organized as a group of legal affiliates operating under a unified management led by the president and rector—as the University’s chief executive officer— and supervised by the CEU Board of Trustees.

The University’s funding model has several distinctive features, resulting from CEU’s profile, mission, and institutional history. In particular, it relies significantly on the University’s endowment fund and includes a large student financial aid program. Both these proportions are unusually high, especially considering that CEU is a private university.

The draw from the endowment represented about 73 percent of its total income in Academic Year 2013-2014, while non-endowment sources continued to increase slowly, a result of CEU’s efforts to diversify its income sources. As in previous years, a large percentage of the Universitybudget was allocated to support teaching activities as well as faculty and student research. About 53 percent of total expenditures went to instruction and research, and nearly 10 percent covered direct student costs (stipends for living expenses, medical insurance, and accommodation).

As CEU continues to grow, diversifying its sources of financial support is a top priority. Securingincreased investment from individuals, foundationsand corporations has been integral to addressingthis priority. CEU has established a board-approvedaction plan that sets annual targets and priority areas for fundraising. In the last two years, CEU has surpassed its set fundraising targets. This phil-anthropic support has been generously provided

by donors in the United States and Europe and alumni donors from around the world. Many have given to the University previously, and there is an increasing number of individuals, foundations and corporations who are new donors to CEU.

The University enjoys a healthy financial situation. Academic Year 2013-2014 ended with a deficit of €3.0 million, mainly due to expenses associated withCEU’s campus redevelopment, for a total expenseof about €55 million. The deficit was fully covered from the €11 million cash reserve of the University.

CEU is preparing to move toward a new funding model that is sustainable and compatible with theUniversity’s new ambitions. A five-year budget planis being prepared and updated yearly as part of CEU’s strategic development plan. It outlines the main avenues for achieving newly defined strategicgoals and preparing for unexpected circumstances.

The Budget and Finance Office, directed by Chief Financial Officer Mark Kiss, manages the financialaffairs of the University. In 2013-14, the office suc-cessfully carried out a value added tax (VAT) reco-very project, securing more than €2 million in rev-enue. CEU will continue to be able to recover VAT, resulting in a projected €1.2 million in additional funds each year.

As CEU successfully diversifies its funding sources, receiving a larger number of grants, the office streng-thened its Grant Management team in fall 2014.

budget andFUndinG

incoMeAnnual draw from the CEU endowment fund 38,026,968 73.2%

Tuition income and student fees(including Erasmus Mundus and other third-party sources) 3,121,502 6.0%

External grants for student stipends 1,197,946 2.3%

Fundraising 795,241 1.5%

Grants for special, extension and research projects (including grants from EU, OSI and other foundations) 4,114,310 7.9%

Other income (CEU Press, overhead from externally funded research projects, other revenues) 4,669,175 9.0%

Financial revenues (interest income from banks, etc.) 27,454 0.1%

total income 51,952,596 100%

expensesInstruction (all academic departments) 21,078,845 38.3%

Internally funded research and research-related travel of CEU faculty and students 467,607 0.9%

Institutional support (all administrative units, medical center, support for employees' children) 5,379,462 9.8%

IT operating expenses and IT investment 2,366,303 4.3%

Student services 1,251,277 2.3%

Student financial aid, activities and student exchange program 5,200,085 9.5%

Development, alumni and corporate relations 708,478 1.3%

Open Society Archives 1,108,508 2.0%

Summer University 291,503 0.5%

Plant operations, maintenance, building investment 4,321,138 7.9%

CEU research centers 1,051,822 1.9%

CEU Press 444,797 0.8%

Extraordinary costs for restructuring 62,230 0.1%

Taxes payable 1,027,585 1.9%

Special, outreach and research projects 5,248,882 9.5%

Financial expenditures (bank charges, repayment of loans) 810,453 1.5%

CEU Campus redevelopment project 1,624,045 3.0%

Other expenses 116,518 0.2%

total expenses 55,012,311 100%

50 Administrationand Outreach

GoveRnanceCEU is governed by a distinguished Board of Trustees with general responsibility for the overall strategy, affairs, property, and assets of the University.

univeRSitY LeaDeRShiP as of July 31, 2014

John Shattuck | President and Rector

kataLin FaRkaS | Provost / academic Pro-Rector

Liviu Matei | senior vice President / Chief operating officer

LaSzLo kontLeR | Pro-Rector for hungarian and eu affairs

BoaRD oF tRuSteeS as of July 31, 2014

GeoRGe SoRoS | honorary Chairman / soros fund Management llC

Leon BotStein | Chairman / bard College

PatRicia aLBJeRG GRahaM | vice-Chair / harvard university

MaRY PatteRSon McPheRSon | vice-Chair / the american Philosophical society

RichaRD c. BLuM | Richard C. blum & associates, inc.

attiLa chikan | Corvinus university

antonio FoGLia | banca del Ceresio group

BenJaMin W. heineMan, JR. | harvard university

chaviva M. hoSek | Canadian institute for advanced Research

Monica Macovei | Member of the european Parliament

kati MaRton | author, Journalist and scholar

PieRRe MiRaBauD | financier

PeteR a. naDoSY | east end advisors

WiLLiaM neWton-SMith | open society foundations

MattheW niMetz | general atlantic

GeoRGe e. Pataki | Chadbourne & Parke llP

WanDa RaPaczYnSki | agoRa

John Shattuck | Ceu President and Rector

RoBeRt SoRoS | soros fund Management llC

chRiStoPheR Stone | open society foundations

LeGaL RecoGnition anD accReDitation in the uniteD StateS CEU is organized as a graduate American institution, govern-

ed by a Board of Trustees. It was incorporated in the State

of New York as a not-for-profit university. CEU has an ab-

solute charter from the Board of Re-gents of the University

of the State of New York, for and on behalf of the New York

State Education Department. In the United States, CEU is

accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher

Education: 3624 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.

hunGaRian accReDitation In Hungary, CEU is recognized as a Hungarian private

higher education institution under the name Közép-

európai Egyetem (the Hungarian name for Central

European University). The joint resolution on the accredi-

tation of CEU by the Hungarian Higher Education Council

and the Hungarian Accreditation Committee dates back

to 2005. A law passed by the Hungarian Parliament in

2004 created the legal basis for the state recognition of

CEU in Hungary.

StudentS enrolled Fall 2013department doctoral Masters non-degree undergrad Grand total

CEU Business School 119 9 35 163

Depar tment of Cognitive Science 18 18

Depar tment of Public Polic y 20 47 3 70

Depar tment of Economics 32 84 9 125

Depar tment of Environmental Sciences and Polic y 33 75 108

Depar tment of Gender Studies 32 65 9 106

Depar tment of Historical Studies* 45 45

Depar tment of Histor y 48 26 12 86

Depar tment of International Relations and European Studies 30 50 6 86

Depar tment of Legal Studies 35 62 5 102

Depar tment of Mathematics 27 14 41

Depar tment of Medieval Studies 42 16 5 63

Nationalism Studies 35 1 36

Depar tment of Philosophy 29 20 1 50

Depar tment of Polit ical Science 60 69 12 141

Roma Access Program 38 38

Depar tment of Sociology and Social Anthropology 39 36 2 77

School of Public Polic y 26 26

Grand Total 445 789 112 35 1381

StudentS graduated June 2014department graduate Postgraduate undergraduate grand total

CEU Business School 66 6 72

Public Polic y 27 1 28

Economics 32 2 34

Environmental Sciences and Polic y 46 4 50

Gender Studies 39 4 43

Historical Studies* 25 25

Histor y 23 5 28

International Relations and European Studies 45 2 47

Legal Studies 35 3 38

Mathematics 4 5 9

Medieval Studies 13 5 18

Nationalism Studies 24 24

Philosophy 15 4 19

Polit ical Science 44 9 53

Sociology and Social Anthropology 23 6 29

Grand Total 461 50 6 517

* Historical Studies denotes students/graduates in the following two-year degree programs administered by the Departments of History and Medieval Studies: Master of Arts in Comparative History: Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe: 1500-2000, and Master of Arts in Comparative History: Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies.

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