Department of Historical Studies at CEU
History, literature, art history, philosophy, cultural heritage, museum studies, languages, and much more at CEU! A global department with students and faculty from more than 30 countries: historicalstudies.ceu.edu
- 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...
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- 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?...
- 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...
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- 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...
- A few photos from yesterday's #DH Fest with @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social, CLARIAH-AT, and the EurAsian Transformations Cluster of Excellence.
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- 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....
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- 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...
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- 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...
- Now available: Prof. Dominic Lieven on his life, family history, and modern Russia. Given at CEU on Tuesday, Nov. 11 youtu.be/WiVflQWWz3c
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- Next week: Prof. Eloïse Adde, "Multilingualism, nation and “national” literature in Bohemia in the fourteenth century" cem.hypotheses.org/4023
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- New podcast: Translating the Untranslatable with Prof. Brett Wilson! How should one go about translating a text that is untranslatable? Especially when the text is believed to be the living word of God? #islamichistory akbarschamber.podbean.com/e/translatin...
- Next week: Dominic Lieven - Reflections of a Life in Russian and Imperial History Tuesday, Nov. 11, 5:30pm CEU B-421 #russianhistory events.ceu.edu/2025-11-11/r...
- Next Tuesday, online info sessions for prospective students interested in studying Digital Humanities and/or Gender History with us. With @alizhorvathaliz.bsky.social and @cristigaspar.bsky.social. Everyone welcome! #digitialhumanities #genderhistory historicalstudies.ceu.edu/online-sessi...
- CEU is holding its very first Digital Humanities Festival on December 4. This event will provide an excellent opportunity to bring Digital Humanities closer to the CEU community and vice versa, while also providing a networking opportunity. Register by Nov. 7! historicalstudies.ceu.edu/dh-fest-2025
- The CEU Jewish Studies program invites everyone to join them in their walking tour through the historic and current heart of the Jewish community in Vienna, the II. district, Leopoldstadt. Nov. 3! Register by Oct. 31 events.ceu.edu/2025-11-03/w...
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- JEARN Book Club: Monday 27th October, 17:30-19:00! We will once again be meeting at the ÖAW's Instituts für Mittelalterforschung, and will discuss the ground-breaking monograph by François-Xavier Fauvelle, 'The Golden Rhinoceros - Histories of the African Middle Ages'. padlet.com/eurasiantran...
- The deadline for applications to our MAs from students from visa-sensitive countries is tomorrow. Apply now to be considered for a tuition-waiver and monthly stipend! historicalstudies.ceu.edu/admissions
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- 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...
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- 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...
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[Not loaded yet] - 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...
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- Reposted by Department of Historical Studies at CEUThe 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...
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- 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...
