Concurrences is on the road! We are very happy to be on a study trip in Vienna, meeting colleagues at CEU’s EurAsian Transformation cluster. This morning we had a decolonial tour at the Museum of Applied Arts & we are spending the afternoon at CEU. @historicalstudies.bsky.social

Listening this morning (and this afternoon) to @fallofcivilizations.com podcast on the Mongols with our Jack Wilson as historical consultant! @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social

Next week at CEU: events.ceu.edu/2025-10-03/o...

Our recent PhD graduate Dr Emy Merin Joy has won the 2025 Père Paul Scholarship for Eastern Christian Studies. The award encourages and rewards young scholars in Syriac Studies. historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

Following on from a successful round of applications last academic year, PhD candidates from the department have again been awarded three Marietta Blau Grants, including to @juliaboechat.bsky.social Congratulations!! historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

Interested in Ottoman Studies at CEU? Watch Prof. Tolga Esmer presenting his class. youtu.be/85C69M9-l8Q?...

New academic year ... new publication. Women's Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond. historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

@robyndoraradway.bsky.social won the 2025 Center for Austrian Studies Book Prize for her monograph *Portraits of Empires: Habsburg Albums from the German House in Ottoman Constantinople* #ottoman historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

Second year in a row that @historicalstudies.bsky.social students and alumni are responsible for 40% of our authors and half the Editorial Board 😅 CEU, thanks for the unofficial colab!

It is with sadness and gratitude that we say goodbye to Csilla Dobos on the occasion of her retirement today. Csilla's dedication to CEU has, over her many years of service, made a deep impact upon the success of the university. historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

2025/26 Course Guide now online: ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules?facu... All language courses are open free of charge to students from the University of Vienna and the University of Innsbruck

Storys to rede ar delitabill, Suppos that thai be nocht bot fabill: Than suld storys that suthfast wer, And thai war said on gud maner, Have doubill plesance in heryng. Stories from our sources: historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

Highly recommended PhD program in historical studies at the CEU @historicalstudies.bsky.social

Considering applying to CEU in the coming academic year? We're having online info sessions (via zoom) over the coming months. More sessions to follow in October, November and December. #studyinvienna historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

A snippet from our recent info session on the Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies given by Prof. Baukje van den Berg. The full presentation is available on our youtube channel: youtu.be/BbZYEU7_Dmc?...

The 3rd International Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Graduate Conference, “Receiving Byzantium, Byzantium Receiving,” took place in Vienna on May 16-17, and brought together graduate students from over 15 universities to present their research projects historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

CFP for Borders, Boundaries, Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages (20-21 April 2026). Deadline 15 September 2025.

The full program for this year's Central European History Convention (CEH-C) July 17-19 is online!: ceh-c.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us... The overview: ceh-c.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us... With 2 keynotes, 54 panels, a roundtable, poster sessions, + a research lab, there's something to interest everyone!

Interested in applying for doctoral study next year? Join us online on August 21 to find out more about applying for our 10 fully-funded PhD places. Sign up here: historicalstudies.ceu.edu/online-sessi...

Museum Studies at CEU and the Wien Museum (in German): kurier.at/wien-wills-w...

A not entirely serious look ahead at our PhD students' participation in the International Medieval Congress at Leeds in a couple of weeks: historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

It's been a busy inaugural year for us. We launched our MA in Museum Studies; hosted conferences, workshops and lectures; went on field trips; and wrote essays, gave presentations, and successfully defended PhD dissertations and MA theses. historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

I successfully defended my thesis titled "Governing from the Margins: The Emergence of Provincial Press in the Ottoman Empire (1865-1871)" at @historicalstudies.bsky.social. I thank my advisors Brett Wilson and @robyndoraradway.bsky.social, my friends and family for their endless support.

4-6 June, CEU hosted the international conference ‘Education and Literature in a Medieval Eurasian Context’, a collaboration between CEU (Baukje van den Berg) and the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Panagiotis Agapitos): historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

We're coming to the end of the first year of our new MA in Museum Studies. Students studied in cooperation with the Wien Museum, undertook internships at museums across Vienna, and curated their own exhibitions: www.ceu.edu/article/2025...

Info sessions on Romani Studies and Visual Studies at CEU this afternoon: historicalstudies.ceu.edu/node/513

The second “Cultural Exchange in the Middle Ages” summer school was hosted by Charles University in Prague from May 21-28th. Participants came from universities in Denmark and Iceland, as well as from Charles University and CEU. Next year, CEU hosts! historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

Some photos of our faculty and PhD student at the ELTE Medieval Studies conference in Budapest today. PhD candidate Olha Stasiuk presented to professors and students from Hungary, Austria, Slovakia and Germany, whilst Prof. Katalin Szende chaired a panel on historical geography.

EurAsian Transformations Cluster of Excellence Workshop next week: Urban Religious Spaces and their Languages Full program and registration link/QR code here: historicalstudies.ceu.edu/urban-religi...

Two events tomorrow! Firstly, a lunchtime seminar: events.ceu.edu/2025-06-03/l...

Next week: Education and Literature in a Medieval Eurasian Context 2nd Gutenberg Symposium, Vienna, 4–6 June 2025 Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz & Central European University cems.ceu.edu/education-an...

This year, our academic field trip took students to Graz, Maribor and Zagreb from Monday, May 19 to Friday, May 23. During the trip, we heard presentations from faculty and students & saw many historic sites and museums. Click on the link below to read more. historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

A few photos from this year's academic field trip to Graz, Maribor and Zagreb. Every year, we visit new historical sites and have new cultural, culinary, environmental etc. experiences. As well as plenty of community bonding!

The second city on our Spring field trip - Maribor!

A lovely morning in Graz for the second day of our academic field trip

Some photos from the first day of our academic field trip to Graz, Maribor and Zagreb

In Vienna this weekend for the Late Antique and Byzantine Studies conference by @dshcs.bsky.social & @historicalstudies.bsky.social, “Receiving Byzantium, Byzantium Receiving”. The program looks stimulating indeed! cems.ceu.edu/article/2025.... I’ll talk on K.B. Hase and 19th c. ideas of Byzantium 📜

Tonight! Join us online or in person in Vienna!

The full program for next week's 3rd International Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Graduate Conference with @dshcs.bsky.social is now available. Follow the link below and join us if you're in Vienna next week! #byzantine historicalstudies.ceu.edu/receiving-by...

Next week in the department: Book Launch for Becoming Ottoman: Converts, Renegades and Competing Loyalties in the Early Modern and Modern Ages. Including @robyndoraradway.bsky.social on her chapter on "Becoming Ottoman in the Central European Borderlands" events.ceu.edu/2025-05-13/b...

If you're in Budapest over the next few weeks, we'd very much recommend visiting this exhibit: archivum.org/events/past-... The exhibition is closely connected to the department, one of the curators is Gábor Klaniczay, and one of the researchers preparing the materials is alumna Olga Kalashnikova.

The Department of History at Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social is seeking a historian specializing in the 19th-century Europe. Come and join us! Please see below for details.

Prof. Emerita Dr. Francisca de Haan organized a panel on *Socialist Women (Re-) building Their States: An International Comparative Perspective* at the European Social Science History Conference 2025. Read about presentations by current and former students: historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

If you're planning to join us in September or thinking of applying next year, get a taste one of our classes with the video below! (And if Byzantine Greek isn't your strongest language, we had our Byzantinists perfect the subtitles) youtu.be/9VYrED1wPmU?...

New publication! Balázs Trencsényi, Intellectuals and the Crisis of Politics in the Interwar Period and Beyond: A Transnational History global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Last week's Histories of Laughter field trip to the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Finding out that Bruegel is a barrel of laughs!

Winter term summary: public events, conferences, dance workshops ... historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

As part of the "Salam CEU" project, students from our department have designed several programs specifically for Salam Salon. These events take place over the coming week www.salam-music.at/en/salam-sal...

Now on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/@departmento...

Public lecture tomorrow: Holy Fear and Love: Jesuit Affective Economy in South Asia (16th-17th centuries) Dr. Ines G. Županov Part of the *Introduction to South Asian and Tibetan Religion and Philosophy* lecture series CEU Vienna and online, 5:30 pm events.ceu.edu/2025-03-27/h...