Earlier this month, we had a retirement event for Prof. Michael Ignatieff #politicalhistory www.ceu.edu/news/2026-06...

New YouTube video: Prof. Volker Menze interviews Mar Awa III, Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East youtu.be/YdB67wFjDrI?...

Dr. Veronika Helfert, former fellow on Prof. Susan Zimmermann's Zarah project, has been awarded the Edith Saurer Prize. #genderhistory #laborhistory historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2026...

At this year's 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo on May 14–16, 2026, we sponsored a session titled “The Middle and the West: Central Europe’s Influences on Western Europe in the Late Medieval Period” #medieval historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2026...

PhD alumna Tijana Rupcic has won the Bader Award for the History of Science and Technology from the Austrian Academy of Sciences for her dissertation "Powering Connections: Electric Infrastructure in Socialist Yugoslavia 1945-1991" #historyofscience historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2026...

New video - get a taste of what we do on our yearly academic field trips. This year, Eger! #hungarianhistory youtu.be/T5nb8kH02QE

New podcast: Prof. Brett Wilson discussing his article on Sufi leaders in the early Turkish republic #sufism turkeybooktalk.com/2026/05/12/b...

New video: watch our MA students talking about what they did on this year's field trip youtu.be/3U39JNDG6JQ

#Postdoc opportunity: Post-doctoral Researcher (f/m/d) in the EurAsian Transformations FWF Cluster of Excellence Full-time, 70,210 EUR per annum Location: Vienna, AT, 1100 Application Deadline: May 30, 2026 careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-P...

New article by Prof. Brett Wilson: #Sufi leaders in the early Turkish Republic: profession, privilege, and persecution (1925–1950) This article investigates the lives of Sufi leaders following the Turkish state’s abolition of Sufism in 1925. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Connect and reconnect with colleagues and alumni of Dumbarton Oaks and CEU’s Department of Historical Studies and enjoy refreshments and appetizers in the 1884 Arkadenhof (arcaded courtyard) at the University of Vienna. #byzantine Full details: events.ceu.edu/2026-08-26/r...

Now: Home Anna Christidou Memorial Lecture: Facing Crisis: Art as Politics in Fourteenth-Century Venice events.ceu.edu/2026-03-26/a...

The recording of the first of this year's Natalie Zemon Davis Memorial Lectures is now publicly available. Follow the link below to hear about experiences of disease in late nineteenth-century Sudan #modernhistory youtu.be/u--EXUOoBjI?...

Jakub Gawkowski has a new article. The Avant-Garde of Socialism in the Prehistoric Jungle: The Temporalities of Coal Mining in 1950s Upper Silesia examines the temporal narratives embedded in the artistic representations of coal mining in post-war Poland. historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2026...

Last week, our PhDs had a behind the scenes look at Klimt's Beethoven Frieze. Prof. Dr. Ivo Hammer, who worked on the conservation of the frieze 1977-84 gave us unique insights into the process of conserving Klimt's art #klimt historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2026...

Join us in Vienna, meet the new department, and see the new campus! www.ceu.edu/35years/alum...

CEU alum Vojtech Pojar received the Austrian Award of Excellence for his PhD thesis: “Experts in Post-Imperial Transitions: Entanglements and Diverging Trajectories of Eugenicists between the Habsburg Empire and the ‘Miniature Empires,’ c. 1900 – 1939.” #modernhistory www.ceu.edu/news/2026-02...

It is our pleasure to announce that after a successful year as observer in 2025, CEU has officially joined the CLARIAH-AT digital humanities consortium as a temporary member from January 2025. #digitalhumanities Read more here: historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2026...

Interview with our alumnus: Dr. James Plumtree on Manas and #Kyrgyz tradition and culture. youtu.be/R8KypGLkA8o?...

Three of our PhD candidates have won CEU awards for Advanced Doctoral Students. Jakub Gawkowski, Bernat Racz and Karsten Schuil all received recognition this academic year for their excellent research. #phdlife historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2026...

Prof. Baukje van den Berg has won the inaugural Byzantine Studies Prize from the Medieval Academy of America for her book, *Homer the Rhetorician: Eustathios of Thessalonike on the Composition of the Iliad*. #byzantine historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2026...

The program for the Late Antique and #Byzantine Studies Graduate Student Colloquium's 5th Annual Workshop has been announced. Building on the successes of previous years, it will take place on the afternoon of Fri. Feb. 27 at the University of Vienna. historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2026...

Through Civica at CEU, webinars on European culture: www.civica.eu/society/meet...

Wednes. Feb. 4 is the deadline for applications for funded MA and PhD places. Find all our programs and details of how to apply here: historicalstudies.ceu.edu/our-degree-p...

New book releases by our community: The Twelfth-Century Mosan Reliquary of Petermonostora by PhD candidate Bernat Racz Polytropos: Papers on Philosophy, Religion and Eastern Christianities in Honour of Istvan Perczel's 65th Birthday www.ceu.edu/news/2026-01...

The Gerd Bucerius Scholarship, funded by ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS in partnership with CEU, supports outstanding MA students in Historical Studies. The scholarship includes: 1️⃣ 100% tuition waiver 2️⃣ monthly stipend 3️⃣ one-time research allowance of € 1.000 www.linkedin.com/posts/zeit-s...

Call for Papers: Ottoman and Turkish Studies Graduate Workshop 2026 June 1, 2026 Central European University CfP deadline: March 1st #ottoman #turkishhistory cems.ceu.edu/call-papers-...

Three doctoral positions in History in Bern on the project “Women's Global 1990s: Networks, Activism, and Politics.” #women'shistory #phdposition www.infoclio.ch/en/node/191424

Public lecture tomorrow focusing on the Sermon Concerning Greeting by the eighteenth-century Armenian theologian and Catholicos of All Armenians in Ejmiatsin Simēon Erevants’i (1764–1780). 5:30pm in B-319 or online via the link below #eurasia #armenianhistory events.ceu.edu/2026-01-27/g...

We had a great book discussion yesterday at @historicalstudies.bsky.social - thanks #ElanaShapira for bringing us together and thanks all for joining us in the auditorium despite the freezy weather @fwenninger.bsky.social @juliasecklehner.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

Final info session before the Feb. 4 application deadline! Join us online next Tuesday and ask all your MA and PhD questions historicalstudies.ceu.edu/online-sessi...

Deadline Extended! Apply by Friday! historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

Thursday: *Domestication, foreignization, both or neither? Reflections on translating Buddhist philosophical literature from the Sanskrit* public lecture by Birgit Kellner from @oeaw.bsky.social events.ceu.edu/2026-01-15/d...

If you, or anyone you know, is interested in studying Contemporary History at CEU join us for an online info session next week, Wednesday, Jan. 14! Full details here: historicalstudies.ceu.edu/online-sessi...

Now out: Ulinka Rublack, Dürer's Coats Renaissance Men and Material Cultures of Social Recognition from @ceu-press.bsky.social and our Natalie Zemon Davis Memorial Lectures 2024. Listen to an interview here: newbooksnetwork.com/d%C3%BCrers-...

#phdposition The Cultural Vanguard of Workers’ Movements: A Social History of East Central European Avant-Garde between the Two Wars historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

New upload: Father Ninos Babisha, from the Assyrian Church of the East A interview by BA students from the Global Christianities course at CEU, taught by Prof. Volker Menze, with Father Ninos Babisha, parish priest in Vienna's Assyrian Church of the East youtu.be/FsGd2frT7Nc?...

VACANCIES: Turku Institute for Advanced Studies opens up to 10 postdoctoral positions [Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND] (Turku: University of Turku, DEADLINE 6 JAN 2026) @utu.fi @horizoneu.bsky.social 📣 esclh.blogspot.com/2025/12/vaca...

Today, alumni Vojtech Pojar receives this year's Austrian Award of Excellence for his PhD "Experts in Post-Imperial Transitions: Entanglements and Diverging Trajectories of Eugenicists between the Habsburg Empire and the ‘Miniature Empires,’ c. 1900 - 1939" historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

New publication and workshop report (multi-tasking with articles!): Baukje van den Berg has a chapter on "Eustathios’ Homeric Commentaries and #Byzantine Textual Culture" in Brill’s Companion to the Reception of #Homer from #Byzantium to the Enlightenment. historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

Cordial invitation to a launch&debate of #ElanaShapira book at @historicalstudies.bsky.social #CEU - authors among round panel participants - me, @fwenninger.bsky.social @juliasecklehner.bsky.social & #JanRybak :-) @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social events.ceu.edu/2026-01-21/a...

A few photos from yesterday's #DH Fest with @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social, CLARIAH-AT, and the EurAsian Transformations Cluster of Excellence.

Join us tomorrow in-person or online for "A Century of Sufism (1925-2025): Piety, Culture, and Heritage in Turkey since the Legal Prohibition of 1925." For the program and zoom link, go to: cems.ceu.edu/century-sufi....

A day in Paris with Eloise Adde @historicalstudies.bsky.social and Philippe Urfalino at Paul Gradvohl'sseminar @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social 🤗🤗🤗

Some photos from this week's workshop on Middle #Byzantine Hermeneutics

The program for CEU's DH Fest 2025 has now been announced. Funded and supported by CLARIAH-AT and the FWF Cluster of Excellence EurAsian Transformations, the event will take place on Thursday, December 4 at CEU's Vienna campus. #digitalhumanities historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

Five funded PhDs in Late Antique, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and five more in Comparative History, starting in Sept. 2026, at CEU in #vienna. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPL238/p...

Join us online, at 2.30pm this afternoon, for the launch of our new co-hosted Applied History Fellowships for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social & DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN Fellowships will enable holders to develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education #Skystorians

Upcoming Jewish Studies online info sessions! Meet our faculty and ask all your questions about studying at CEU #jewishhistory jewishstudies.ceu.edu/info-session...

CfP: the Fifth Annual Graduate Workshop on Late Antique and Byzantine Studies with @dshcs.bsky.social on February 27, 2026. The call is open to students from all Austrian universities. Deadline for Applications: January 16, 2026 historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...