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The CEU Center for EU Enlargement Studies (CENS) in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Budapest organized a one-day conference on May 14 entitled “Inclusion Completed, Adaptation Successful?—What Divides New and Old Members in the European Union, Six Years On?” CEU Rector and President John Shattuck, and Heinz Albert Huthmacher, FES Budapest, delivered the welcoming speeches at the conference. The keynote speaker of the event was Foreign Minister to Hungary, Peter Balazs.

More than 35 scholars and researchers from Europe and the United States gathered last weekend at CEU for the 4th Graduate Conference in European History (GRACEH) to discuss challenges of biographical writing and scholarship.

On May 11, the Department of Public Policy hosted Kalman Mizsei, European Union Special Representative for Moldova/Visiting Professor, Department of Public Policy, CEU, for a public lecture entitled “The Tortured Road of Moldova to Democracy, Prosperity and Full Sovereignty.”

On Wednesday, May 5th the Cognitive Development Center (CDC) hosted a public lecture by Natalie Sebanz and Gunther Knoblich entitled “Joint Action: How People Share Actions, Tasks, and Memories”.

On May 6th the CEU Higher Education Research Group and GRSPSociety organized a panel discussion entitled “The Role of Higher Education Institutions in New Democracies”.

On May 4th the Center for EU Enlargement Studies (CENS) organized a workshop together with the Hungarian Economic Association, in the frame of the International Visegrad Fund project entitled “Preparing for the EU Council Presidencies of the Visegrad Countries”. The aim of the project is to stimulate informed debate on the subject and promote the policy-formulation process in particular fields between new member states.

On April 28, the Cognitive Development Center (CDC) organized a public lecture by Ori Friedman, Assistant Professor, Developmental Psychology, University of Waterloo, Canada.  Ori Friedman began his talk by discussing two puzzles important to cognitive development. Puzzle one: how do children acquire general knowledge, aside from direct observation? In our modern society, children have many avenues from which they can learn enduring, generalizable information, but in a time before television, children’s books, and pictorial media, how did children learn facts about the world?