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.
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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
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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
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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
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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...
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...
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
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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
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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...