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Greskovits appointed University Professor

February 6, 2015

We are proud to announce that Bela Greskovits (joint appointment with IRES) has been appointed CEU University Professor by the University Senate in recognition of his achievements. 

Visiting Prof. Takis Pappas on the new Greek coalition

February 4, 2015

Our current visiting professor Takis Pappas has just published a piece in Open Democracy on how to make sense of the seemingly incongruous coalition between Syriza and the Independent Greeks. For more details you can read the article here.

The Political Science Department mourns the sudden and tragic death of alumnus William Klinger

February 3, 2015

The Political Science Department mourns the sudden and tragic death of alumnus William Klinger, aged 42, who passed away on January 31.

Klinger graduated from the University of Trieste in 1997 with a BA in history and completed his MA in Political Science at CEU in 2000/2001. He completed his doctoral degree at the European University Institute in Florence, becoming an expert on Yugoslavia's former leader, Josip Broz Tito. Klinger was working at the History Department of the Centro di Ricerche Storiche di Rovigno (Center for Historical Research of Rovinj).

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January 16, 2015

CEU Mourns Passing of Renowned Hungarian Sociologist Elemer Hankiss

January 12, 2015

Sociologist, literary historian and former president of the Hungarian Public Television (MTV), Elemer Hankiss passed away on January 10 following a brief illness at the age of 86. He spent ten months in detention after the 1956 uprising on charges of treason and anti-state conspiracy, but was ultimately acquitted due to lack of evidence. In the 1960s Hankiss focused on literary theory, sociology and since the 1970s and 1980s on political sociology. He was president of MTV between 1990 and 1993. He was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science at CEU.