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historicalstudies.bsky.social
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: https://historicalstudies.ceu.edu/
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Today is my favorite teaching day of the semester in The Politics of Representation: Art and its Histories @historicalstudies.bsky.social : critical race art history, critical cataloging, and intersectional approaches. Fortunate to have a wealth of fantastic new scholarship to work from!

Read an interview with this year's Natalie Zemon Davis lecturer, Prof. Lorraine Daston, Director emerita at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, and Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago: www.ceu.edu/article/2025...

New Release Books by CEU Academic Staff and Researchers 📚 Check out a selection of the newest titles from CEU's academic staff and researchers. Books were published on topics ranging from constitutional judges and human rights to transnational education and more.➡️ www.ceu.edu/article/2025...

Prof. Charles Shaw talked today about Soviet humor during WWII - laughter as a weapon of war

"A complicated tapestry of individual interests and exchanges" - Boris Fonarkov's newly published article on the complexities of Eurasian imperial interactions in the seventeenth century #eurasia historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

I'm doing a panel event for the Historical Games Network! It'll be on the 19th March - details here if you'd like to join on Zoom: www.tickettailor.com/events/histo...

The program for the IV Annual Graduate Workshop of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies is now online. Everyone welcome next Friday, Feb. 28. Funded by @dshcs.bsky.social at UniWien and CEU's Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies. #byzantinebluesky historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

Watch online Jack Wilson (The Jackmeister: Mongol History on youtube) talking to our Material Culture Research Group: ceu.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

Interested in Central Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, Jewish history, or Romani Studies? Join us online for one or more of our advanced certificate info sessions in May and June historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

CFP to BAs, MAs and PhDs in History and related fields! Our website is up! Sign up until March 7th to be part of our Seminar "Sacredness and Secularity: Ritual Communication from Antiquity to the Modern Age", happening in Croatia this spring! shaiee.wordpress.com

Updating our website today with one of the most valued members of our community

Our lunchtime faculty research seminar today: Baukje van den Berg on Byzantine eduction and literary thought #byzantine

Friday is the deadline to submit abstracts to this year's *IV Annual Graduate Workshop of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies*. The workshop will take place at CEU on February 28, co-organized by PhD students from CEU and @dshcs.bsky.social #byzantium historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

The recipients of CEU's 2025 PhD Awards for outstanding performance have been announced, including students in our department: Jack Wilson, Janos Galamb, Furkan Berkant Yavuz and Olga Vlachou. historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

New Podcast: Prof. Brett Wilson on Turkey Book Talk, discussing Nur Baba: a Sufi Novel of late Ottoman Istanbul. turkeybooktalk.com/2025/02/04/b...

Friday is the deadline to register for CEU's Summer University course: *Thinking with Islamicate Manuscripts: Critical Approaches to Historical Methodology, History of Collections, and Digital Tools in Islamic Studies*. #digitalhumanities #manuscripts

Prof. Marcell Sebők has a new edited volume: The Beauty of Ugliness and the Ugliness of Beauty. Coedited with Anna M. Migdal, the volume aims to redefine the concept of the medieval monster: historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

Big announcement! POLIN Museum is hosting a Summer School for Early Career Scholars in Jewish studies. We’ll combine seminars, workshops and field visits over a week (Jul 21-28). POLIN is offering very generous financial support. More details below. Please share! polin.pl/en/event/sum...

Our library, plus that of the ÖAI, can be used at a newly-opened reading lounge in the Postsparkasse Small Cashier's Hall (Dominikanerbastei 16, 1010 Vienna). You can book with us to use the lounge: www.oeaw.ac.at/ifi/kontakt. Opening hours: Mon, Weds, Thurs 10am-4pm Tues 10am-7pm Fri 10am-1pm

Why study in #Vienna? Here are a few highlights.

#Dictionary or #Encyclopaedia? #Proper_Names, #Semiotics, and #Meaning-Making in #Byzantium Lecture by Andrea Cuomo at @imafo-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social 🗓️Mo 10.2.2025 ⌚️16h 📍Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna ℹ️ www.oeaw.ac.at/imafo/verans...

The application deadline for MA and PhD programs starting in September 2025/26 is tomorrow (Tuesday, Feb. 4). If you have any last-minute questions, don't hesitate to message us, check out our website, or watch our online session: ceu.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

CfP for the 3rd International Late Antique & Byzantine Studies Graduate Conference is open! Receiving Byzantium, Byzantium Receiving Vienna, May 16-17, 2025 In cooperation with the Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies @weareceu.bsky.social #byzantinebluesky dshcs.univie.ac.at/aktivitaeten...

MA students in our department can take Jewish Studies as a specialization. Find out more here: jewishstudies.ceu.edu/apply-now

Our application deadline is fast approaching. Apply by February 2024 for funded MAs and PhDs starting September 2025: historicalstudies.ceu.edu/admissions

23rd Colloquium of the Comité Int. de #Paleography Latine: SCRIBES & HANDS | Old and New Methods of Scribal Identification (800-1550) 📆17-19 Sept. 2025 📍Venue: Festive Hall, @oeaw.bsky.social ℹ️Programme, Registration ... www.oeaw.ac.at/imafo/23th-c... #Codicology #medievalresearch #CIPL #imafo

New article on our website: @juliaboechat.bsky.social writes about her volunteer work with the International Students of History Association: historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

With thanks to colleagues @historicalstudies.bsky.social here's a recording of my lecture on multilingualism and the medieval city 👍👇 ceu.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

The Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Student Colloquium between CEU and UniWien is pleased to announce its third annual graduate student conference, entitled Receiving Byzantium, Byzantium Receiving, to be held on Friday, May 16, and Saturday, May 17. historicalstudies.ceu.edu/receiving-by...

Some early images from our Eurasian Transformations workshop today

A digital heritage preservation project by our student, Furkan Arslan, has evolved into a collaborative citizen science initiative: historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

Deadline today for students, staff and faculty at CEU, ÖAW, the University of Vienna, and the University of Innsbruck to apply for free language courses this term. Register here: www.oeaw.ac.at/eurasian-tra...

Public lecture next week! Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 5:40 pm – 6:40 pm Alice Choyke Entangled Boundaries: Animals and Plants in Human Heritage events.ceu.edu/2025-01-15/e...

Applications now open for our MA in History in the Public Sphere Dual Degree Program (Vienna-Tokyo). Deadline: February 4 historicalstudies.ceu.edu/node/477

Some of our ongoing research explores Mosan influences in Canterbury stained glass ... and today is the anniversary of the murder of Thomas Becket. The image below comes from the Becket miracle windows, originally surrounding Becket's shrine

Scholarships for our MA in Museum Studies, co-organised with Vienna's Wien Museum. Application deadline: February 4 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLA411/m...

Global Christianities Online Resources, a new initiative from Prof. Volker Menze, and PhD students Saranya Chandran and Olga Vlachou: historicalstudies.ceu.edu/node/437

The program for January's Urban Multilingualisms Workshop 1: Administrative Spaces and Administrative Languages is now online. The keynote will be given by @profkdlilley.bsky.social! historicalstudies.ceu.edu/administrati...

New release from CEU Medieval Radio: Johannes Preiser-Kapeller Mapping Out Byzantine Studies (II) youtube.com/watch?v=yqrU...

The 19th Graduate Conference in European History (GRACEH) takes place @univie.ac.at, April 7-9, 2025 Topic: Law and Diversity in European History The CfP is open: graceh2025.univie.ac.at/call-for-pap... Please apply & share widely!