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On February the 24th, the Human Rights Initiative at CEU (HRSI) hosted the 6th annual NGO Fair, bringing together students and representatives of 14 international and local nonprofit organizations. The event reflected the university’s commitment to advocacy on issues of human rights, social justice and the protection of minorities in Hungary.

The Department of Medieval Studies and the Center for Hellenic Traditions (CHT) very warmly congratulate Dr Réka Forrai (MA’01, PhD’08) – currently holding a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities – for having been awarded a highly competitive and prestigious fellowship at the world’s foremost research center for Byzantine studies, Harvard University’s Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, DC, for the acade

On February the 22nd, CEU President and Rector John Shattuck, and the Department of International Relations and European Studies; the Department of Political Science, and the Department of Public Policy, hosted Ambassador Hans Winkler, Director of the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Austria, for a public lecture: “Lisbon Treaty–Has Europe become a player on the Global Stage?”

On Thursday, January 21, 2010 at the Exhibition Hall of the Central European University, an interested audience attended the opening of Anna Somfai’s photo exhibition under the title "Zooming in." Her photographic work was introduced by Zsigmond Ritoók, Professor Emeritus, Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Anna Somfai is Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Medieval Studies. She has started in September 2009 a three-year research project on visual thinking.