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A group of Roma rights activists and scholars will meet today at CEU to discuss Romani Politics in Contemporary Europe: Poverty, Ethnic Mobilization, and the Neoliberal Order, a new volume on political participation of Roma citizens in Eastern and Western Europe and the Roma’s political footing within an enlarged EU.

Acclaimed Hungarian filmmaker Peter Forgacs presented his 1998 film The Danube Exodus at CEU Monday night, a keynote event in the ongoing CRC workshop co-hosted by the Jewish Studies Program and Department of Gender Studies.

The film documents the voyage of more than 900 Eastern European Jews who attempted to reach the Black Sea via the Danube en route t

To mark International Women’s Day, Hungarian Supreme Court Justice Agnes Galajda will be presented tonight with the International Women of Courage Award, which honors women who have shown exceptional courage and leadership in women's rights and advancement.

This evening’s ceremony, sponsored by the US Embassy and CEU, will include a welcome address by CEU Rector John Shattuck, followed by remarks from US Ambassador to Hungary Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis.

Judge Galajda has been a criminal judge since 1986.

NYU’s Joshua Tucker, one of the world’s top young scholars of post-communist politics, will be at CEU Wednesday to present his most recent paper—“Communism’s Shadow: Post-Communist Legacies, Values and Behavior"—on how communist legacies influence political behavior in the region’s new democracies.

An associate professor of politics at NYU, Tucker specializes in comparative politics and voting behavior in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe and the former-Soviet Union.

Award-winning reporter Kati Marton will discuss her latest book, Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America, Tuesday at OSA. Marton has worked as a journalist and contributor for ABC News, National Public Radio, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The Times of London, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Vanity Fair and The New Republic.

This week CEU’s Curriculum Resource Center (CRC) is hosting a workshop for international academics on ways to teach Jewish history using the USC Visual History Archive of the Shoah Foundation, a database of 52,000 Holocaust survivor interviews now available through the CEU Library.

The week-long series, organized jointly through the Jewish Studies Program and the Department of Gender Studies, brings together nine social sciences teachers from universities in