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Spring 2007 Vol. 16, No. 2

P r e s i d e n t ’ s A w a r d

In this 15th anniversary year of the founding of CEU, President and Rector Yehuda Elkana established the President’s Award to acknowl-edge outstanding contributions to the university by an individual, cor-poration, foundation or organization. Recipients of the award through their commitment and generosity have contributed support and resources for the further development of CEU.

Yehuda Elkana presented the award for the first time at a gathering of leading business and media represen-tatives on 7 November 2006, in the

presence of the Founder of CEU and Chairman of its Board of Trustees,

George Soros. Awardees were Sandor Demjan (CEO, TriGranit Fejlesztesi Rt.), Uwe and Francoise Derboven, Dr Alajos Dornbach (Dornbach es Hegyvari Ugyvedi Iroda), Dr Alberto Foglia (Banca del Ceresio SA), the Magyar Telekom Nyrt. (Elek Straub, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; Dr Tamas Pasztory, Chief Human Resources and Legal Officer; Laszlo Sallai, Director—Training Directorate) and Dr Branco Weiss (Branco Weiss Institute for Development).

The event took place in the library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

With a total number of alumni nearing 6,000 individu-als in 2007, residing in more than 70 countries, the growing CEU graduate body is becoming more and more important in the university’s outreach: in terms of public relations, student placement, recruitment and fundraising functions.

As of March 2007, the CEU Alumni Scholarship Campaign, initiated by the Alumni Affairs and External Relations offices, has generated more than 70,000 USD in scholarships for the university.

A l u m n i S c h o l a r s h i p 2 0 0 6 C a m p a i g n R e a c h e s S u c c e s s f u l C o n c l u s i o n

A V i s i o n , A G i f t , A n E x a m p l e

With a few simple words, a very special relationship for CEU began nearly 10 years ago. At that time, Uwe Derboven, a German citizen, and his French wife, Francoise, who had returned to Europe five years earlier from Asia where he had worked for 30 years, began the process of shaping their legacy. They shared a belief that educa-tion leads to liberty and freedom of thought—but that, on the other hand, lack of education leads to jealousy, frustration and finally, vio-lence.

The Derbovens not only had their strong belief in the importance of higher education, they also had before them a clear vision of how to go about assisting talented young people to attain the opportunity to have targeted university education opportunities.

“Being a self-made man, and not hav-ing any children, I would like to set up a trust for the education of young people who have the ability, but not the means, to go to university,” wrote Uwe Derboven in September 1997. Derboven was a great admirer of George

Soros, and his vision, and he came to hear of Central European University from Soros himself. The very next year, Uwe Derboven accepted an invitation from the university to come to the Graduation Ceremony. He did more than just attend a ceremony; he attend-ed a public debate organized in con-junction with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; he visited the campus, met members of the administration and faculty, and was able to see something of student life—albeit in the hectic and happy days before graduation!

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M e m b e r s o f C E U C o m m u n i t y R e c e i v e

A w a r d s

Peter Mihaly, Professor, Department of Economics, has been awarded the “Knight Cross of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic” in a decree issued by the Hungarian President. The dis-tinction, which was presented by Lajos Molnar, Hungarian Health Minister, on March 9, acknowledged Peter Mihaly’s contribution to the economic groundwork of Hungarian healthcare reform.

Accepting his award, Mihaly declared that he sees it as “more than a decoration of an indi-vidual. It reconfirms the impor-tance of the multidisciplinary, social engineering approach, which is so energetically pur-sued by [our] Department and CEU, as a whole.”

Imre Csiszar, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Mathematics and its Applications, has been awarded the “Szechenyi Prize”. Csiszar is a leading scientist at the Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The Szechenyi Prize is a recognition bestowed on leading scientists and intellectuals for outstand-ing contributions to their field.

The recipients are decided upon by the government, and the prizes are handed out by the President of the Republic, every year on March 15.

Petar Teofilovic, SJD, the Ombudsman of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, (CEU: Legs'97, SJD'04), received the “OSCE Rule of Law and Human Rights Person of the Year in Serbia” award. The distinction was presented to him for his activi-ties as a human rights defender who puts a strong emphasis on preventing human rights viola-tions, and on educating young people.

“The award recognizes these individuals’ contribution to implementing the Mission’s programs and upholding OSCE values through their work,” said Ambassador Hans Ola Urstad, Head of OSCE Mission to Serbia, on present-ing the awards. The recipi-ents represent the Mission’s five fields of engagement: law enforcement, rule-of-law and human rights, democratiza-tion, media, and economy and environment.

Brandon Anthony has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy

A n n i v e r s a r y o f C o m p a r a t i v e R e l i g i o u s S t u d i e s a t C E U

Istvan Perczelhas been appointed Professor in the Department of Medieval Studies

C E U S e n a t e 2 0 0 6

To mark the occasion of a successful first year for the Chair of Comparative Religious Studies, the Religious Studies Program at the Department of History is organizing an inaugural lecture on May 4, 2007. Entitled “Proleptic Existence–Anticipation of the Future in Religion, Politics, Music and Art”, it will be followed by a roundtable workshop on “Religious Studies in a Globalized World–Themes, Directions, Perspectives”. The workshop includes the participation of two leading scholars of religious studies, Daniele Hervieu-Leger (EHESS, Paris) and Lucian Holscher (Ruhr-Universitat Bochum).

The Religious Studies Program at CEU, established in 2005, has already contributed significantly to religion-related research and academic activities within the university, through a series of publications and events. In 2006, a generous private donation allowed for the creation of the Chair of Comparative Religious Studies at the Department of History. The first holder of the Chair, Matthias Riedl (previously at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg) was appointed in September 2006, following a wide international search. This new post serves to support the place of religious studies at CEU, to strengthen the profile of the university as a cutting-edge international institution, and raises awareness of the importance of religious studies in the region.

Roma Folklore Event at CEU (April 12, 2007)

(Back) Julius Horvath, Laszlo Matyas, Howard Robinson, Tibor Varady, Roderick Martin,

(Front) Liviu Matei, Zdenek Kudrna, Judit Bodnar, Eva Fodor, Yehuda Elkana

W o r l d R o m a D a y

Jozsef Laszlovszky has been appointed Professor in the Department of Medieval Studies

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T o w n H a l l M e e t i n g

Yehuda Elkana, CEU President and Rector, met students in an informal Town Hall meet-ing on March 9, 2007. Issues discussed included questions from the participants about university policy, the research and stipend systems as well

as details about the Rector’s personal plans after he finish-es his CEU term. The meet-ing was preceded by a buffet reception which allowed for socializing among the student body and university adminis-tration representatives.

C E U t o B e c o m e E r a s m u s M u n d u s C o o r d i n a t i n g

i n s t i t u t i o n

The Department of Public Policy (DPP) will lead a European consortium of universities offering the new Erasmus Mundus MA in Public Policy program, Mundus MAPP (www.mundus-mapp.org). The consortium is the first in the field of public policy which has been offered an Erasmus Mundus grant by the European Commission. Commission officials congratu-lated CEU during a workshop in Brussels for new Erasmus Mundus consortia, for becoming the first university in a new European Union member state to take on a coordinating role. DPP Assistant Professor Agnes Batory will be the Academic Coordinator of the new consortium. CEU partners with the University of York in the United Kingdom, the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Holland, and the Barcelona Institute of International Studies in Spain. Mundus MAPP offers a two-year MA in Public Policy program, with students coming to CEU in their second year of study. The first students will start their stud-ies in September 2007, and arrive at CEU itself for academic year 2008/9. Each year the Commission will provide financial support for around 20 new students enrolling in the program.

CEU Student Services has relocated to a new facility on the ground floor in Nador u. 9. The new offices will allow for Student Services to better serve the student community with this easier access location and a more spacious reception area.

Services moved to the two-level office include: Student Records Office (Monday-Friday: 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.)Financial Aid Office (Monday-Friday: 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.)Student Life Office (Monday-Friday: 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.)

C E U W e b R e d e s i g n P r o j e c t L a u n c h e d

S t u d e n t S e r v i c e s H a s M o v e d t o a N e w L o c a t i o n

A 10-month web redesign project was officially launched within CEU on February 26. The endeavor will include a complete restructuring of the official website of the institution in terms of graphics, navigation, content and maintenance. The project is directed by a Steering Committee, under the leadership of COO, Lajos Bokros, which includes representatives from various levels of university leadership and is jointly run by the IT Department and the External Relations Office.

The working group is divided into six sub-teams that address the tasks of surveying, technical specifications, content, tendering, policy, and operation planning. In addition to also developing a new Intranet for the CEU community, departmental websites will be given an updated set of baseline content standards (including such information as course materials, schedules, etc.) which will better complement the marketing-oriented material offered on the institutional website.

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The latest 2006 Alumni Scholarship Campaign ended on a strong note—322 alumni and friends contributed a total of 15,124 USD!

Even though the record of the first campaign has not been beaten yet, the 2006 fundraising campaign is still exceptional. For the first time in this alumni scholarship campaign history, both goals have been met: The total amount collected exceeded the target of 15,000 USD, and those alumni and friends who contributed beat the participation target by 22 people. The average gift size was also higher than in previous years—70 USD (mostly achieved by individuals making multiple contributions throughout the year). This is a definite sign of commitment and belief that the cam-paign has become an enduring and ongoing tradition, an integral part of CEU’s life and history. Special thanks go to the class of 1998—in terms of actively contributing over the last few years.

Last year’s campaign also provided impressive evidence that CEU’s extended family stays connected: Almost 3,000 USD was contributed during the last three weeks of the campaign alone. New technology will also play a major role in maintaining this connection as the print version of Alumni News Magazine will be replaced by an online replica available at http://www.ceu.hu/alumni/alumni_news2007.

This year, with the Reunion Gala Dinner in Budapest scheduled for June 8, a new celebratory cycle starts with three classes—the 15th anniversary of the first graduating class of 1992, while the classes of 1997 and 2002 will celebrate their 10th and 5th anniversaries (read more details at http://www.ceu.hu/alumni/reunion2007.htm).

Also, this year’s campaign marks the 5th anniversary of the CEU Alumni Association. All members of the CEU alumni community and network of friends will shortly receive an invitation letter calling upon them to participate in a survey on the future of the Alumni Association in general, and the Alumni Scholarship Campaign in particular. The hope is that all alumni and friends will continue to respond to appeals with the same enthusiasm as before, and their feedback is absolutely essential for future alumni activities.

The Alumni Office and Alumni Council, along with all members involved in this endeavor, would like to thank everyone for their participation and commitment to CEU’s goals and initiatives. A contribution of any size and form is never too early or too late to take the next 2007 Alumni Scholarship Campaign to even newer heights.

A l u m n i S c h o l a r s h i p 2 0 0 6 C a m p a i g n R e a c h e s S u c c e s s f u l C o n c l u s i o n

CEU’s Nationalism Studies Program, together with the Summer University (SUN), will coordinate an EU-funded training project on “Multi-Disciplinary and Cross-National Approaches to Romani Studies: A Model for Europe” in the framework of Marie Curie Actions. The Commission has awarded 234,000 EUR to contribute to the costs of the training events.

The 3-year project will be led by Julia Szalai and Michael Stewart (Nationalism Studies) and managed by SUN. The partner institutions include University College London, University of Oxford, University of Manchester, Universitatea Babes-Bolyai, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Koper University of Primorska, Institute of Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Visual Anthropology Foundation, Romania, and Ludwig-Maximillians-University, Munich.

The program will train a group of early stage researchers at the outset of their

careers to become the next generation of teachers and researchers in the broad field of Romani studies. Through sum-mer schools held in Budapest and Cluj, as well as shared electronic seminars, the training will provide participants with a thorough introduction to the latest multi-disciplinary approaches to Romani experi-ence in Europe.

CEU’s active participation in EU projects has received a highly positive acknowl-edgment in the evaluation of the proj-ect forwarded by the Commision, which highlighted that “any partnership led by Central European University is bound to appear today as one of the most active, buoyant, and noticeable enterprises of its kind.”

R o m a n i S t u d i e s P r o j e c t F u n d e d b y t h e E U

T h i r d G r a d u a t e C o n f e r e n c e i n

S o c i a l S c i e n c e s

Between May 25-27, CEU will be host to the third graduate conference in the social sciences, entitled “Challenges for CEE States in an Enlarging EU and a Globalizing World”. The aims of the con-ference are to provide interdisciplinary academic debate and to contribute to developing knowledge networks among peers in the field. At the same time, the organizers hope to connect different per-spectives and approaches in order to pro-duce academic works of high standards, by providing an appropriate academic environment.

The event has the support of the Rector’s Office, the Department of International Relations and European Studies, the Department of Political Science, the Department of Public Policy, the Student Union, the Students Activity Fund and the Center for Media and Communication Studies.

For more details see: www.gradconf.ceu.hu.

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To help give an indication of the variety of aca-demic happenings at CEU, each Gazette offers a list of recent public lectures, workshops, con-ferences and seminar series which have taken place at the university. The list is meant to be as comprehensive as possible.

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Department of Legal Studies “the Rhetoric of Reaction (How We Respond, and Should Not Respond, to Painful Questions about National Pasts)” Martin Krygier (University of New South Wales, Australia) September 26, 2006 Department of Philosophy “towards a Political Philosophy of Risk” Martin Kusch (University of Cambridge, UK) September 27, 2006 Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology ”Abject theory and the Right to Refuse: Sociological Aspects of the Debate of the Palestinian Right of Return” Dan Rabinowitz (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) September 27, 2006 Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology “Melancholia of Freedom: the Moral Burden of Autonomy and the Pleasures of ‘ethnic closure’ in Post-apartheid South Africa” Thomas Blom Hansen (Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, The Netherlands) October 2, 2006 Department of History “Western Merchants and Islamic Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean (16th-17th centuries)” Viorel Panaite (University of Bucharest, Romania) October 4, 2006 Jewish Studies Project “the europeanization of the Holocaust” Werner Bergmann (Zentrum fur Antisemitismusforschung, Berlin, Germany) October 10, 2006 Department of Economics “contribution: An Interdisciplinary Study and an Agent-based Modeling tool of Human cooperation” Miklos Szalay (CEU) October 12, 2006 The Human Rights Students’ Initiative and the Mental Disability Advocacy Center “Social construction of Normality and Madness” Gabor Gombos (CEU) October 12, 2006 Department of Medieval Studies and the Department of History “the Lingua Universalis in the early Modern Period” Gerhard Strasser (Penn State University, US) October 17, 2006

Department of Public Policy “the Role of International Financial Institutions in Policy Reform in the cee Region” Lajos Bokros (CEU) October 18, 2006 Center for Arts and Culture “Orshi Drozdik: Passion After Appropriation” John C. Welchman (University of California, San Diego, US) October 25, 2006 Center for Media and Communication Studies “the contributions of empirical Research to Policy” Leslie Haddon (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK) October 26, 2006 Department of International Relations and European Studies “Justice and Developing country Debt: Findings from the ‘ethics and Debt’ Project” Barry Herman (The New School, US) October 26, 2006 Open Society Archives at CEU “Presentation on the connexions Project” Richard G. Baraniuk (Rice University, US) November 3, 2006

Jewish Studies Project“Hasidic conquest of eastern europe?”Marcin Wodzinski (University of Wroclaw, Poland)November 7, 2006

Humanities Center and the Center for Arts and Culture“American culture in a Multicultural World”Francis Couvares (Amherst College, US)November 14, 2006

Department of Medieval Studies and the Department of History“Freemasonry and Radical traditions in england”Andrew J. Prescott (University of Sheffield, UK)November 15, 2006

Department of Gender Studies“Baffling Socio-cultures: When communities clash”Gabriele Griffin (University of York, UK)November 16, 2006

Human Rights Students’ Initiative“the Development of civil Society in transition from communism”Wiktor Osiatynski (CEU) November 20, 2006

Department of Medieval Studies“An Introduction to the Study of Byzantine epistolography”Michael Grunbart (University of Vienna, Austria) November 21, 2006

Department of Gender Studies and the Jewish Studies Project“urban Memories: Italian Jewish Women and the cities of their Minds”Silvia Cresti (Berlin Free University, Germany)November 21, 2006

Department of Gender Studies and the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology“Researching Subaltern Subjects in Modern and contemporary egypt”Joel Beinin (American University, Cairo, Egypt)November 27, 2006

Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy“Beyond cSR: the Sustainability challenge”David Cook (CEO, the Natural Step International)November 28, 2006

Religious Studies Program“Reforming church Space: Altarpieces and their Functions in early Modern transylvania”Maria Craciun (CEU)November 30, 2006

Department of Economics and Collegium Budapest“What Does ‘the change of System’ Mean? A trial for clarification”Janos Kornai (Harvard University, US/Collegium Budapest/CEU)December 4, 2006

Jewish Studies Project“Women’s Holocaust Memories”Louise O. Vasvari (State University of New York, Stony Brook, US)December 5, 2006

Department of Medieval Studies“the Public Space of Late Medieval toilets”Gerhard Jaritz (CEU)December 6, 2006

Department of Medieval Studies“exploiting Animals at Malbork castle, Poland: towards an environmental Archaeology of crusading”Aleks Pluskowski (University of Cambridge, UK)December 6, 2006

Department of Gender Studies“Remaking Love: Love and Sexual Difference in Soviet and Post-soviet cinema”Almira Ousmanova (European Humanities University, Belarus)December 7, 2006

Nationalism Studies Program“From National Inclusion to economic exclusion: ethnic Hungarian Labor Migration to Hungary”Jon Fox (University of Bristol, UK)December 7, 2006

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Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology“Satisfaction Guaranteed: Malls and Megachurches in Oklahoma city”David Stark (Columbia University, US)December 7, 2006

Department of Medieval Studies“Renaissance—Between Middle Ages and early Modern times?”Marcell Sebok (CEU)December 13, 2006

The US Embassy and the Center for Arts and Culture“From Where You Dream”Robert Olen Butler (Pulitzer Prize-winning author, 1993)December 14, 2006

Nationalism Studies Program“Political Assassination, Armenian/turkish Identities and the Orphans of Nationalism: In Honor of Hrant Dink”Selim Deringil (Bogazici University, Turkey/CEU)January 29, 2007

Department of Legal Studies“Legal Aspects of Raising Financing for International Business and International transactions”Anastasia Burkova (Institute of State and Law, Russia) January 29, 2007

Center for Policy Studies“Family changes in Serbia: Social capital and Postponed Adulthood”Smiljka Tomanovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)January 29, 2007

Department of Medieval Studies“Barbarians, Historians and the construction of National Identities”Ian Wood (University of Leeds, UK)January 29, 2007

Center for Media and Communication Studies, Center for EU Enlargement Studies and the Embassy of Austria“ersatz: Vienna, cincinnati, Budapest and the Search for My Autobiographical truths”Monroe E. Price (University of Pennsylvania/Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, US/CEU)January 30, 2007

Jewish Studies Project“enemies, Neighbors, and Friends: Jews and christians in Renaissance Italy”Giulio Busi (Berlin Free University, Germany)January 30, 2007

Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology“Living together: Shared Institutions in the Shongkla Lake Basin and in Patani between Local Recognition, ethnic Violence, National chauvinism and Religious Orthodoxy”Alexandre Horstman (Westphalian Wilhelms-University of Munster, Germany)February 7, 2007

Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology“understanding the tsunami: Visual Imagery in Overlapping Networks of Practice”Lisa Law (University of St. Andrews, UK)February 12, 2007

Human Rights Students’ Initiative“Resistance and cooperation in Palestine and Israel”Elad Orian (CEU)February 12, 2007

Department of International Relations and European Studies and the US Embassy“uS Foreign Policy and Latin America”Charles S. Shapiro (Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, US Department of State)February 13, 2007

Jewish Studies Project“Was tsarist Judeophobia Racist?”John D. Klier (University College London, UK)February 13, 2007

Department of Philosophy“the criteria of Personal Identity in Property Dualism Framework”Dmitriy Vinnik (CEU)February 14, 2007

Department of History“the Great Patriotic War in ukraine: Revisionism and New Political Debates”David Marples (University of Alberta, Canada)February 20, 2007

Department of International Relations and European Studies and the Open Century Project“War crimes trials and the Reinvention of International Law”Gerry Simpson (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)February 22,

Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology“citizenship in Flux: Sites, Scales, Acts”Engin F. Isin (University of York, UK)March 5, 2007

Department of Gender Studies“War Victims after World Wars: National Politics and Social Practice in czechoslovakia, 1918-1948”Natalia Stegman (University of Tubingen, Germany)March 8, 2007

Department of Political Science“Hayek and the Idea of Spontaneous Order”Erik Angner (University of Alabama, US)March 12, 2007

Center for Media and Communication Studies “Radio Revolutionaries: Fighting Media consolidation in the united States”Pete Tridish (Co-founder, Prometheus Radio Project)March 13, 2007

Department of Philosophy“Reason and Desire”Attila Tanyi (CEU Alumnus, MA Pols 2000, PhD Pols 2007)March 13, 2007

Department of International Relations and European Studies“Structure, Dynamics and transformation of Party-states and Its chinese Specifics”Maria Csanadi (Corvinus University, Hungary)March 19, 2007

Department of Philosophy“Philosophical Pictures and Secondary Qualities: the Roots of Sense-data”Eugen Fischer (University of East Anglia, UK)March 20, 2007

Center for EU Enlargement Studies in coop-eration with the Embassy of Turkey“turkey and the eu: Negotiations, Relations and challenges Ahead”Ali Babacan (EU Chief Negotiator and Minister of State for Economy, Turkey)March 21, 2007

Department of Economics“FDI Location and Spillover: the Hungarian evidence”Gabor Bekes (CEU, PhD)March 21, 2007

Department of History“On Killing and Morality: How Normal People Become Mass Murderers”Harald Welzer (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen, Germany)March 21, 2007

Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology“the elementary Forms of culture in a Post-’culture’-al World: Signification—circulation—emanation”Michael Silverstein (Humanities at the University of Chicago, US)March 26, 2007

Department of Philosophy: “confronting Grammatical Properties”Guy Longworth (University College London, UK)March 27, 2007

Department of History“triest and Lemberg in the Late Dualist era: a comparative View”Guido Franzinetti (Universita del Piemonte Orientale Political Science Department, Italy) March 27, 2007

Center for Media and Communication Studies “Journalism transformed? Researching the Impact of citizen Journalism on the Professional News Media Scene Observations, trends, Research Methods”Ansgard Heinrich (CEU)March 28, 2007

Department of Philosophy“Dignity and Domination”Jan-Willem van der Rijt (University of Groningen, The Netherlands/CEU) March 28, 2007

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Department of Gender Series“Feminism, Violence and Methodological Militarism: New Faces of Postnationalist Feminism in turkey”Ayse Gul Altinay (Sabanci University, Turkey)March 28, 2007

Department of Political Science“Functions and Structures of Our Discipline: the Future of Political Science. A Personal Approach”Anton Pelinka (CEU)April 2, 2007

Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy and the Center for Arts and Culture“Sustainability and contemporary Art”April 11, 2007

Department of International Relations and European Studies“Resisting the Slide into Legal Ambiguity”James C. Hathaway (University of Michigan, US)April 14, 2007

WORKSHOPS, cONFeReNceS

Center for Media and Communication Studies“From Secret Service to Public Service” November 2-3, 2006

Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology”War cultures: Military Imaginaries and Arab cities”November 6, 2006

CEU Higher Education Support Program Comparative History Project“comparative History in/on europe: the State of Art”November 9-11, 2006

Department of Legal Studies and the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung“Rule of Law and the Fight Against terrorism: Hungarian and International Perspectives” November 20, 2006

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media and the Center for Media and Communication Studies“Workshop on the Draft Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMS)” December 1, 2006

Department of Mathematics and its Applications “Some topics in Applied Mathematics”December 4-5, 7, 2006

Center for EU Enlargement Studies“Romania Ante Portas”December 6, 2006

Humanities Center, the Institute for Philosophical Research—Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Local Societies Initiative Interdepartmental Forum on Religion“Religion in a Post-secular Age: Private or Public? Approaches and Perspectives”February 1-2, 2007

Center for EU Enlargement Studies in coop-eration with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung“An ever-expanding union? Re-thinking enlargement Strategy and the european Neighborhood Policy”February 23-24, 2007

Human Rights Students’ Initiative“NGO Fair”February 27, 2007

CEU, The Ministry of Environment and Water, United Nations Foundation, Center for Policy Studies, International Policy Fellowships“confronting climate change: Avoiding the unmanageable and Managing the unavoidable”February 28, 2007

Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine“Perfect copy? comparative and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Reproductive cloning and Stem cell Research”March 1-2, 2007

Department of History, the Embassy of the United States of America and the University of Debrecen“ceu—uS embassy Distinguished Speakers Series: Legacies of Founding: the Heritage of early American Democracy in contemporary times”March 5, 2007

Department of Medieval Studies and the Religious Studies Program“the Supernatural and Its Visual Representation in the Middle Ages”March 12-13, 2007

Center for EU Enlargement Studies in coop-eration with the Embassy of France “France Within the eu: What the Future Holds”April 4, 2007

International Center for Democratic Transition and the Department of Political Science“Sustainable Democracy: Protecting the Rights of Vulnerable Groups”April 10, 2007

Department of History, the Berlin School for Comparative European History and the University of Miskolc“Mobilizing Rural Society”April 13-14, 2007

SeMINAR SeRIeS

Lunchtime Lectures “Debating the Middle Ages: Sex and Power in the Monastery: Recovering Late Antique Sexualities” Cristian Gaspar (CEU) October 11, 2006

Lunchtime Lectures “Debating the Middle Ages: the ‘Pirenne thesis’ and its Afterlife” Balazs Nagy (CEU) October 18, 2006

Lunchtimes Lectures “Byzantine Hagiography and the Metamorphoses of its Heroes” Stephanos Efthymiadis (CEU) October 25, 2006 Istvan Gyorgy Toth Lecture Series “the end of the Balkans” Andrew B. Wachtel (Northwestern University, US) October 26, 2006 Budapest Economic Seminar Series “Strategic Power Indices: Quarrelling in coalitions” Laszlo Koczy (University of Maastricht, The Netherlands) October 27, 2006

Lunchtimes Lectures“De Profundis: the Middle Ages Down to earth”Jozsef Laszlovszky (CEU)November 2, 2006 Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectureship Series “the time of Historians” Lynn Hunt (Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, UCLA, US)November 3, 2006

Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectureship Series “Modernity and History”Lynn Hunt (Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, UCLA, US)November 6, 2006

Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectureship Series “Post-times or the Future of the Past”Lynn Hunt (Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, UCLA, US)November 8, 2006

Lunchtime Lectures “the Feudalism Debate: From the carolingians to the transformation of the Year 1000” János Bak (CEU)November 8, 2006

Budapest Economic Seminar Series“Is Honesty the Best Policy? An experimental Study on the Honesty of Feedback in employer-employee Relationships”Alwine Mohnen (University of Cologne, Germany)November 10, 2006

Lunchtime Lectures “the urban Revolution”Katalin Szende and Neven Budak (CEU)November 15, 2006

Budapest Economic Seminar Series “the emergence of Institutions” Stephane Straub (University of Edinburgh, UK)November 17, 2006

Lunchtime Lectures “Gorg Prantl against Petrus Hispanus. A Most Instructive (and Amusing) Story in Medieval Historiography”Gyorgy Gereby (CEU)November 22, 2006

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Marek Nowicki Memorial Lecture Series “the Making of the French Declaration of Human Rights” Jon Elster (Columbia University, US; Chaire du Rationalite et Sciences Sociales, France)November 23, 2006

Hellenic Colloquia Series “Studying Byzantine Literature: Prospects and Perspectives”Stephanos Efthymiadis (University of Ioannina, Greece)November 24, 2006

Lunchtime Lectures “Oswald Von Wolkenstein, Poet and Adventurer—A chapter from early Portrait Painting”Béla Zsolt Szakács (CEU) November 29, 2006

Hellenic Colloquia Series “the Philostratos-corvina: text and Image”Gabor Bolonyai (Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary)December 7, 2006

Budapest Economic Seminar Series “Probability and economic expectations: challenges from an experiment”Scott Gilbert (Southern Illinois University, US) December 8, 2006

Budapest Economic Seminar Series “Dynamic Reference-Dependent Preferences” Botond Koszegi (University of California, Berkeley, US) December 15, 2006

Budapest Economic Seminar Series “Financial Development and the Matching of talent to Firms”Alexander Popov (University of Chicago, US)February 1, 2007

Budapest Economic Seminar Series “consensual and conflictual Democratization”Uwe Sunde (IZA, Germany)February 2, 2007

Budapest Economic Seminar Series “Productivity Growth, Bounded Marginal utility, and Patterns of trade”Philip Saure (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain)February 2, 2007

Budapest Economic Seminar Series “Mothers, Wives and Workers: the Dynamics of White Fertility, Marriage and Women’s Labor Supply in the united States, 1870-1930”Tomas Crvcek (Vanderbilt University, US)February 5, 2007

Budapest Economic Seminar Series “employment Protection, Firm Selection, and Growth and the Regulation of entry and Aggregate Productivity”Markus Poschke (European University Institute, Florence, Italy)February 12, 2007

Budapest Economic Seminar Series “Disclosure, contracting and competition in Financial Markets”Ioan Florian Olaru (European University Institute, Florence, Italy)February 13, 2007

Budapest Economic Seminar Series “Fiscal Shocks and the consumption Response When Wages are Sticky”Francesco Furlanetto (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain)February 15, 2007

Hellenic Colloquia Series “Plato’s timaeus and the Latin tradition of Diagrammatic Reasoning” Anna Somfai (Collegium Budapest, Hungary) February 28, 2007

Budapest Economic Seminar Series “essays on Political Risk of Social Security”Libor Duse (CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic)March 9, 2007

Toth Istvan Gyorgy Lecture Series“Making Nations—Breaking Nations: New Perspectives on ‘Yugoslav’ History”Josip Vrandecic (University of Zadar, Croatia)March 22, 2007

Job Talk Lecture Series “explaining Regional Integration: Divergent Pathways to North American Free trade”Malcolm Fairbrother (University of California, San Diego, US)March 26, 2007

Job Talk Lecture Series “engineers of Globalization: What American economists Do and What It tells us about the Sociology of Knowledge”Michael John Reay (Reed College, Oregon, US)March 26, 2007

Job Talk Lecture Series “Paternalism Shift: Rethinking Soft Budget constraints in Russia”Caleb Southworth (Reed College, Oregon, US)March 26, 2007

Budapest Economic Seminar Series “eco-labeling and Strategic Rivalry in export Markets?”Nancy H. Chau (Cornell University, US)March 28, 2007

Hellenic Colloquia Series“History in Lead: Byzantine Sigillography and its Aims”Michael Grunbart (University of Vienna, Austria)March 28, 2007

Job Talk Lecture Series “the New Geographies of National Memory: Historic Preservation, Space Production and “Raisons d’Etat” in contemporary France”Alexandra Kowalski (CEU)March 28, 2007

Budapest Economic Seminar Series “Reputation-building in Anonymous Markets: evidence from e-Bay”Konrad Stahl (University of Mannheim, Germany)April 20, 2007

Budapest Economic Seminar Serieswww.ceu.hu/econ/economic/seminars.html

Alumni Career Speakers Series for Students

Center for Arts and Culture Jazz ConcertGender Studies Public Lecture

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As a senior businessman Uwe Derboven was accustomed to mak-ing decisions rapidly once he took the measure of a situation. He wrote to say that he had been impressed by the university and its achievements, in such a short time since its establishment in 1991. Indeed, by July of that same summer he and his wife had estab-lished the Uwe and Francoise Derboven Scholarship Fund at CEU. They began with two Master’s full scholarships over two years in Economics, and one SJD (doctoral in Law) over three years, gifts. The following year Uwe Derboven was able to meet over lunch with the three recipients, all outstanding young scholars, when he again visited Budapest. His interest was always concrete and real: thesis topics, national background (Slovakia, Ukraine, Hungary, in this case) because the commitment was a real one in human terms too.

Earlier in 1999 the Derbovens had begun the necessary pro-cesses to establish a Foundation or Trust which was to incorpo-rate their future gifts. They did all this in the midst of a busy life, which saw them traveling between Europe and the US, and in the Far East. From time to time they exchanged cor-respondence, sometimes giving information about interesting or important international events, conferences and meetings, or other universities, which they thought might be of interest to CEU. They also expressed their intention to renew their gift of scholarships in Economics and/or Law, extending the geographical outreach to students from beyond Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, just as CEU too was extending its scholarships. Thus students from Turkey, Iran and Indonesia were added to the possible list of candi-dates, from the autumn of 2001.

In the meantime, although in 2000 the Derbovens had been unable to attend Graduation, they were happy to receive an Economics graduation class photo of ‘their’ two students, and to learn they had gone on to further studies in universities beyond the region: one to Chicago, the other to Essex.

In due course, two more Economics scholarships were decided upon (a logical choice as these studies were very much in line with Uwe Derboven’s own education and professional background). At the same time, the three-year SJD student was progressing well and updated his benefactors with news of his activities.

The Derbovens always maintained their deep interest in the Far East, and particularly Singapore where they greatly admired the achievements of the nation-state, including its excellent educational system. They took the time to advise CEU of the trend in top American and European universi-ties also engaging in cross-campus experiments there. But they also had to express their regrets when changes in their country of residence and other commitments prevented them from traveling to Budapest for the 10th Anniversary events in

the fall of 2001. However, two students, one from Romania and one from Belarus, enjoyed the benefits of the Derboven scholarships in Economics. As time passed, they too shared correspondence with Uwe Derboven, who, busy as he was, was always interested in the academic studies and achieve-ments of the young scholars.

In the spring of 2003 the Derbovens undertook a trip around the world by cargo ship and communication was sparse but interesting over the next four months. Nevertheless, before their departure, the paperwork had been established for their Trust (The United Studies) which set into motion a major bequest to be shared in due course by the National University of Singapore (2/3) and CEU (1/3).

In the intervening years, communications between the Derbovens, the university and the students continued: The Derbovens always valued the information that these young academic careers were being usefully and constructively supported and were interested to learn of achievements.

But communications were wide-ranging and also included information about a meeting of the Asia Society, of which Uwe Derboven is a member, or further clarification about the will and the trust which contained the bequest details. With regard to the latter, CEU confirmed its moral com-mitment to the wishes of the benefactors, ensuring that the gifts would continue to be designated towards the Francoise and Uwe Derboven Postgraduate Scholarships in the fields of Economics, Law, Environmental Sciences and Policy, and Public Policy. Applicants would come from developing coun-tries and at least 50% of the income from the Fund would be designated for scholarships for students from the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Beyond that there are no conditions for, as the Derbovens say, “Our scholarships carry NO conditions. It is our hope that students who benefited will remember this and at some time in their life, help young and gifted people in a similar way.”

Finally, in the autumn of 2006 when in CEU’s 15th Anniversary year was being celebrated with the creation of the first President’s Awards to individuals or institutions which had given outstanding support to the university, it was clear that Uwe and Francoise Derboven were absolutely in the first rank of recipients. On November 7 Uwe Derboven was present, with other notables, at a landmark ceremony, in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, to receive the award in both his own, and his wife’s name, from Yehuda Elkana, CEU President and Rector, who spoke the words of commendation, and in the presence of the Founder and Chairman of the Board of the university, George Soros. This time the words were a little more formal. But the thought and commitment behind them were in the same spirit.

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Global warming is one of the most pressing issues in the world today and the United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development created a Scientific Expert Group (UN SEG) to help develop a variety of practical policy responses to this alarming phenomenon. Over an 18-month period, the 19 members of UN SEG, including Nobel laureate Mario Molina, who received a Nobel prize for

discovering the ozone-hole, identified the most promising technologies and meth-ods the world can effectively employ, and made concise, actionable recommenda-tions to the Commission in its Report.

To mark the release of this important document worldwide, on 28 February

CEU organized a press conference and a discussion on the relevance of the recom-mendations and potential implementa-tion of the UN SEG Report for Hungary. Diana Ürge-Vorsatz (Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, CEU) who was also a member of UN SEG, chaired the press conference and presented the findings of the Report (see picture below).

The release of the Report, providing practical, actionable recommenda-tions to decision-makers and calling for immediate and collective action, was extensively covered in the Hungarian media. The discussion also provided a forum for several Hungarian climate experts and other public figures to share

their views and call for comprehen-sive and urgent measures. Participants included Miklos Persanyi, Minister of Environment and Water (who was also a participant in the press conference); Abel Garamhegyi, State Secretary, Ministry of Economy and Transport; HE Borbala Czako, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ambassador of Hungary to the UK, President of the Hungarian Business Leaders Forum.

One interesting conclusion which was revealed during the talks was that, due to its location, Hungary is likely to be affected more by climate change than almost any other country in the region. According to the experts, the average global surface tem-perature rise is likely to be the highest in Hungary, which would expose the country to drier summers and a greater risk of floods. As Diana Urge-Vorsatz pointed out, "While in other countries only certain regions can be categorized as ecologically most vulnerable, in Hungary there are hardly any regions that do not fall into this category. In Europe only Belgium, and in the world only South-Africa, are more at risk."

The day’s events ended with the screen-ing of the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth", which had won an Academy Award. A full auditorium audience com-prising CEU students and external visi-tors alike, attended the movie evening.

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“Religion in a Post Secular Age: Private or Public?” was the topic of a two-day international workshop organized by the CEU Humanities Center and the Institute for Philosophical Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, between February 1-2. The discussions analyzed the loss of private profile that religion and faith face in favor of becom-ing a more public matter, due mainly to recent developments in international relations and intensifying encounters between local cultures and universal val-ues. Aspects approached focused on the accuracy of this premise in the global-ized world; what implications it might have for politics and policy-making, and whether the revival of religion as a pub-lic phenomenon can reinvigorate inter-religious and inter-cultural dialogue.

The CEU Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine (CELAB) organized a work-shop centered on the major ethical dilem-mas that most countries experience when devising the legislation pertaining to embry-onic stem cell and cloning. Labeled “Perfect Copy? Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Reproductive Cloning and Stem Cell Research”, the event took place on March 1-2.

By applying a comparative method, the presentations and discussions explored the differences between the European and US ethical debates and gave an insight into the lessons drawn from the Korean embryonic stem cell case. Participants in the discussion included ethicists, law-yers, scientists and policy- makers. The workshop was opened by CEU President and Rector Yehuda Elkana. His opening address was followed by an introductory speech given by Judit Sándor, Director of

CELAB. She presented the international political and legal landscape of reproduc-tive cloning and stem cell research and demonstrated the semantic and norma-tive problems behind the superficial and categorical ban on different forms of clon-ing. Subsequently, the following experts delivered their presentations: Andras Dinnyes (Hungary), Maurizio Salvi (Italy, European Commission, EGE), Guido van Steendan (Belgium), Knut Ruyter (Norway), Peter Kakuk (Hungary), Hanne-Maaria Rentola (Finland) and Violeta Besirevic (Serbia).

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CEU welcomed two Pulitzer Prize laureates for History among the guest participants in the “Distinguished Speakers Series” event on March 5, co-organized by the Department of History, the US Embassy in Hungary and the University of Debrecen, Institute of History. Gordon S. Wood, Brown University and Jack N. Rakove, Stanford University, were among the keynote speak-ers in the workshop entitled “Legacies of Founding”. They were joined by Peter S. Onuf, University of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor.

The discussions dealt with topics concerning the heritage of early American democracy in contemporary times, and were

chaired by Laszlo Kontler, Department of History, CEU, Csaba Levai, University of Debrecen, Institute of History and Jackson O’Shaughnessy, International Center for Jefferson Studies. The event was attended by distinguished guests, including HE April H. Foley, US Ambassador to Hungary, who gave the opening remarks. Yehuda Elkana, CEU President and Rector, welcomed the participants to the event. Excerpts from the event are featured online on ForaTV, a US-based video portal which delivers public lectures and events of high intellectual caliber from academic institutions, (CEU signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Fora last fall). (http://www.fora.tv).

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Central European University hosted a two-day conference on February 23-24, on the European Union’s integration capac-ity, as well as political and economic aspects of enlargement and neighborhood policy. Entitled “Ever-Expanding Union? Re-Thinking Enlargement Strategy and the European Neighborhood Policy”, the event was co-organized by CEU’s Center for EU Enlargement Studies (CENS) and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Budapest.

The participants were EU policy-makers, government officials, representatives of leading think tanks and academia from both member states and candidate coun-tries, who analyzed the new geopolitical circumstances rendered by the newest enlargement of the Union and assessed the need for re-evaluating this expansion.

Principal speakers at the confer-ence included Kinga Goncz, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hungary, Michael Ehrke, Director, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Budapest, Peter Balazs, Director, CENS. Discussions were chaired among others by Laszlo Csaba, Professor, Department of International Relations and European Studies, CEU, and Gabor Ivan, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hungary.

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CEU hosted a public lecture on Wednesday, March 21, by Ali Babacan, EU Chief Negotiator and Minister of State for Economy, Turkey (pictured below). Entitled “Turkey and the EU: Negotiations, Relations and Challenges Ahead”, the event was co-organized by CEU Center for EU Enlargement Studies (CENS) and the Turkish Embassy.

The lecture was attended by HE Umur Apaydin, Turkish Ambassador to Hungary and opening remarks were delivered by Peter Balazs, Director, CENS. The dis-cussions centered on the reform pro-cess of Turkey in the framework of EU negotiations as well as on the role of the accession process in the current political climate within the EU. The audi-ence included members of the diplomatic corps as well as the CEU community.

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The Department of Medieval Studies and the Religious Studies Program orga-nized an international workshop on “The Supernatural and Its Visual Representations in the Middle Ages”, that took place at CEU on March 13-14, 2007. The idea behind the event stemmed from a con-sideration of the important role played by supernatural phenomena in medieval society. To discuss these phenomena, 16 papers were presented by participants from eight countries, which led to valu-able interdisciplinary and comparative approaches and results concerning: the images of supernatural figures, forces and events in Islam, Eastern and Western Christianity; their distance and closeness to the beholders; specific patterns of rep-resenting the supernatural; the contexts of images and text; and the developments and changes in time.

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Mirek Topolanek visited OSA on March 29, during his official visit to Hungary. He was greeted by Lajos Bokros, Chief Operating Officer, CEU and Istvan Rev, Director of the Archives. Prime Minister Topolanek visited a small exhi-bition on the 1968 events in former Czechoslovakia, and viewed photos, doc-uments and handouts exhibited together with the archival documents of Charta ‘77. He and his delegation also visited the depository of OSA where other rel-evant archival documents were shown. After the visit he held a press conference for representatives of the Czech media.

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CEU Business School has moved up considerably this year in the QS TopMBA Global Recruiters’ Research, which provides the definitive listing of business schools cur-rently preferred by most international recruiters. The School, placed 30th in Europe in the 2005 ranking, has moved up 12 places to occupy the 18th position. As such, it is the only Central-European institution to be featured in the top 20. Most of the 40 institutions in the European listing are prestigious business schools, such as France’s INSEAD, the UK’s London Business School, Spain’s Instituto de Empresa and Switzerland’s IMD.

The Executive MBA Program (IMM) has been ranked #12 in the world by the Financial Times in their October 2006 global rankings, thus moving up four positions. CEU Business School joined the program in 2003, and has been present in the top 20 ever since, being the only ranked program from the CEE region.

NeW PROGRAM ReGISteReD At BuSINeSS ScHOOL

The newest program in the School’s portfolio and its second undergraduate degree is the Bachelor of Science in Global Management. The new multidisciplinary pro-gram combines the fundamentals of business and places an important emphasis on the humanities and the social sciences. This approach offers a broader training than that of most typical business or economics programs, by building skills in the areas of leadership, critical think-ing, cultural awareness and ethics.

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MetHODOLOGY SeMINAR ON tHe eVeNtS OF OctOBeR 1956

A half-day methodology seminar for high-school educators entitled “Bridging the Divide” took place at CEU Open Society Archives on March 22, giving Hungarian educators a unique opportunity to uncov-er how oral history can play an important role in teaching students about Hungary’s 1956 revolution. The event brought together experts who introduced differ-ent facets of oral history investigation, as well as presenters who demonstrated the practical use of this in the classroom: Gyula Kozak of the 1956 Institute, Gabor Hanak, director of the Szechenyi Library’s historical interview collection, Istvan Rev, OSA Director, and Eszter Zsofia Toth of the Political History Institute.

Andrew Princz, author of "Bridging the Divide: Canadian and Hungarian Stories of the 1956 Revolution" also joined the seminar. The event was organized by the Canadian Embassy in Budapest, the Ministry of Education and Culture, the OSA and ontheglobe.com.

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OSA Galeria Centralis in Budapest is the location of the traveling exhibition about the life of Raoul Wallenberg, organized and assembled by the Jewish Museum in Stockholm, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of his disappearance.

The exhibition (March 2-April 29) applies non-conventional forms and solutions: It is an exhibition within an exhibition, a building within a building. Two sepa-rate constructions were erected within the gallery, with rooms and corridors. The larger wing is the original travel-ing exhibition, a multi-media display of photographs, archival documents, and audio-visual records that trace the life of the Swedish diplomat from his childhood to his death, and include the story of the international efforts to shed light on his fate after his disappearance. The smaller wing houses a section added by OSA, which tells the hectic and controversial story of the memory of Wallenberg in Hungary, from 1945 to 1999.

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the Anti-American centuryEdited by Ivan Krastev, Center for Liberal Strategies, Bulgaria. Alan McPherson, Howard University, Washington D.C.

This book interrogates the nature of anti-Americanism today and over the last cen-tury. It asks several questions: How do we define the phenomenon from different perspectives: political, social, and cultural? What are the historical sources and turning points of anti-Americanism in Europe and elsewhere? What are its links with anti-Semitic sentiment? Has anti-Americanism been beneficial or self-destructive to its “believers”? Finally, how has the United States responded and why?

The authors, scholars from a multitude of countries, tackle the potential politi-cal consequences of anti-Americanism in Eastern and Central Europe, a region that has been perceived as strongly pro-American.

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tOP RANKINGS

CEU Business School has moved up considerably this year in the QS TopMBA Global Recruiters’ Research, which provides the definitive listing of business schools cur-rently preferred by most international recruiters. The School, placed 30th in Europe in the 2005 ranking, has moved up 12 places to occupy the 18th position. As such, it is the only Central-European institution to be featured in the top 20. Most of the 40 institutions in the European listing are prestigious business schools, such as France’s INSEAD, the UK’s London Business School, Spain’s Instituto de Empresa and Switzerland’s IMD.

The Executive MBA Program (IMM) has been ranked #12 in the world by the Financial Times in their October 2006 global rankings, thus moving up four positions. CEU Business School joined the program in 2003, and has been present in the top 20 ever since, being the only ranked program from the CEE region.

NeW PROGRAM ReGISteReD At BuSINeSS ScHOOL

The newest program in the School’s portfolio and its second undergraduate degree is the Bachelor of Science in Global Management. The new multidisciplinary pro-gram combines the fundamentals of business and places an important emphasis on the humanities and the social sciences. This approach offers a broader training than that of most typical business or economics programs, by building skills in the areas of leadership, critical thinking, cultural awareness and ethics.

B u s i n e s s S c h o o l N e w s CEU PRESS

the Anti-American centuryEdited by Ivan Krastev, Center for Liberal Strategies, Bulgaria. Alan McPherson, Howard University, Washington D.C.

This book interrogates the nature of anti-Americanism today and over the last cen-tury. It asks several questions: How do we define the phenomenon from different perspectives: political, social, and cultural? What are the historical sources and turning points of anti-Americanism in Europe and elsewhere? What are its links with anti-Semitic sentiment? Has anti-Americanism been beneficial or self-destructive to its “believers”? Finally, how has the United States responded and why?

The authors, scholars from a multitude of countries, tackle the potential politi-cal consequences of anti-Americanism in Eastern and Central Europe, a region that has been perceived as strongly pro-American.