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Former CEU Board of Trustees member Natalie Zemon Davis has been awarded the Norwegian Holberg Prize 2010 for her outstanding scholarly work in the field of History.

Nearly a year since his landmark speech in Cairo, U.S. President Barack Obama has yet to fulfill his promise to smooth Western relations with the Middle East, said Visiting Professor Shlomo
Avineri, who spoke to a packed audience in the Popper Room on March 9 at CEU.

Legendary Hungarian alternative band, Balaton, performed to a full house last Wednesday night, March 10, in the CEU Auditorium, a concert hosted by CEU’s Center for Arts and Culture (CAC) as part of the ongoing Approaches to Counter Cultural Movements in East Central Europe guest lecture series organized by the Department of History, CAC, and CEU research center Pasts Inc.

In the early 1980s Balaton was a popul

CEU students this week organized the largest celebration of International Women's Day at the university to date, hosting a series of events marking the century-old holiday honoring women’s economic, political and social achievements. 

Festivities began Monday in the Oktogon, where participants wearing “This is what a feminist looks like,” T-shirts handed out balloons and leaflets with information on the annual March 8th holiday, and screened a video on women’s rights and feminism around the world.

On March 8, the CEU Cognitive Development Center (CEU Department of Philosophy) hosted Jozsef Fiser, Assistant Professor, The Volen National Center for Complex Systems, Department of Psychology, Brandeis University, US, for a colloquium entitled: Developing internal representations in the mind to understand the visual world.