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On April 28, 2010, the Legal Studies Department hosted Professor Kithure Kindiki from the University of Nairobi, for a public lecture: “Humanitarian Intervention: African Perspectives”. The lecture, which inaugurated the Human Rights in Africa lecture series, was introduced by Professor Karoly Bard, Pro-Rector, Hungarian and European Union Affairs, CEU/Chair, Human Rights Program, CEU.

On April 22, 2010, the Religious Studies Program hosed Professor Guy Stroumsa, Chair, Abrahamic Religions, University of Oxford, for a public lecture: “Teaching the Abrahamic Religions: A Subversive Enterprise.”

The Department of Public Policy, in cooperation with the British Embassy in Budapest, and the British Chamber of Commerce, held the fourth and final session of the “Global Europe” seminar series, entitled the “Lisbon Agenda Post 2010 and the Future of Europe” on 8 April 2010.

On April 6th 2010, CEU President and Rector John Shattuck hosted former Minister and acclaimed author Ali Abdul-Amir Allawi for a public lecture: “Redefining Human and Political Rights in Islam—An Ethical Perspective.” The event was attended by Ambassador Aly Housaneldi El-Hefny of Egypt; Ambassador Pierre Labouverie of Belgium; Ambassador Gilberto Vegne Saboia of Brazil; Ambassador Mangasi Sihombing of Indonesia; Ambassador Joao Miguel Vahekin of Angola; Ambassador Charbel Stephan of Lebanon; and Consul Zaid Naffa of Jordan, among other distinguished guests of the diplomatic cor

In his presentation, “Extensional theories of behavior,” Bart Geurts, Professor of Philosophy, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, posed the question whether it was legitimate to say that young infant’s attribute mental states such as “beliefs” and “goals”. He highlighted the importance of building a kitbag of new terms to describe more precisely and more cautiously what infants do when they act in accordance with people’s mental states.

Language, voice, and speech have long been central themes and important topics of analysis for feminism and women’s and gender studies.  In her lecture on March 25 at the Department of Gender Studies, Beata Stawarska, Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon, USA, situated her paper as a response to both academic concerns and personal experience of gender in speech.  Speaking as—or like—a woman plays out in the vocalic dimension of a woman’s speech, she pointed out, but it is also affected by the dominant representations of women in the language spoken, and by the ways in wh

On March 31st, the Nationalism Studies Program hosted Professor Florian Bieber from the University of Kent (UK) for a public lecture: “Is Bosnia Failing? The future of a divided society and what it means for multinational states.” The lecture and subsequent discussion were chaired by Professor Anton Pelinka from the Department of Political Science and the Nationalism Studies Program.