Book launch and discussion on Free Speech and Censorship around the Globe
Monday, 30 November, 5:30pm
CEU, Budapest, V., Nador 9, Auditorium
Keynote Speech: Dunja Mijatovic (OSCE Representative for Freedom of Media)
Panelists:  
Miklós Haraszti (CEU): Revisiting the Three Europes: Diverging Landscapes of Media Freedom of Expression
Andrei Richter (Special Advisor to the OSCE RFOM): Russia`s Supreme Court as Media Freedom Protector
Juan Barata (Principal Advisor to the OSCE RFOM and Research): The Role of the Mass Media in the Spanish Transition to Democracy and Its Subsequent Consolidation
Bernard Rorke (ERRC): Free to Hate? Anti-Gypsyism in 21st-Century Europe
Moderator:
Peter Molnar (ed.)
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Book launch of The Green Bloc: Neo-avant-garde Art and Ecology under Socialism by Maja Fowkes
Time: 19:30, Wednesday, 25 November
Venue: Translocal Institute, Budapest, Dembinszky u. 10, 1071
Participants in the discussion:
Sándor Hornyik, PhD, art historian and curator, Hungarian Institute of Art History
Katalin Székely, independent art historian and curator, PhD fellow at ELTE Budapest

19 Novemebr 3pm-5pm
Book presentation in Wilson Center.

Visit our booth (#412) at ASEEES, browse our books and buy them at special convention price.
Join our breakfast reception and meet our authors at 9.45am.

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Living the High Life in Minsk by Margarita Balmaceda received the award for Best Foreign Monograph on Belarus published in 2013 and 2014 at the 5th International Congress of Belarusian Studies in Kaunas.

We are happy to announce that Friederike Kind-Kovács has won the USC Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies for Written Here, Published There: How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain.

Watch a book video for Political Justice in Budapest after World War II by Andrea Pető and Ildikó Barna.

Our 2015 Fall/Winter catalogue is available for download.


A long-awaited, highly-anticipated volume on nationalism and empire. The essays by outstanding scholars include case studies of Europe-based empires: Bourbon Spain, Napoleonic France, Italy, Great Britain, Oldenburg Denmark, Germany,Habsburg Austro-Hungary, Late-Ottoman Turkey, and Romanov Russia.
The Introduction can be downloaded free of charge from the book's webpage.

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Watch an interview with Margarita Balmaceda about energy and state-building in Eastern Europe and about her book "Living the High Life in Minsk".

Energy and State-Building in Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania: Between Domestic Oligarchs and Russian Power 

a lecture by

Margarita M. Balmaceda

- See more at: http://www.ceu.hu/event/2015-01-13/energy-and-state-building-ukraine-belarus-and-lithuania-between-domestic-oligarchs#sthash.51Usuh1V.dpuf

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Isolated Islands in Medieval Nature, Culture and Mind

 

Edited by Gerhard Jaritz, professor of Medieval Studies at Central European University and senior research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Torstein Jørgensen, professor at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bergen

Focuses specifically on the concept and role of islands in the medieval world. The main characteristic of an island is, of course, that of being isolated from the rest of the world; in geography by waters, in more abstract and symbolic meanings by other kinds of separating borders. Islands were the place ‘on the other side’, of difference, otherness and remoteness. As one of the articles in this volume puts it, islands are often depicted “as sites for extraordinary events and happenings”.

The contributions cluster around the concept of islands under the following perspectives: • search for undiscovered and paradise islands in literature and cartography • idea of fictional islands in Old Norse texts • quality of islands in literary texts • monasteries as islands and monasteries on islands • human body as an island of religious achievements • seasonal islandisation of certain lands.

Contents

List of Illustrations Preface Felicitas Schmeider, Paradise Islands in the East and West – Tradition and Meaning in Some Cartographical Places on the Medieval Rim of the World Kristel Zilmer, The Powers and Purposes of an Insular Setting – on Some Motifs in Old-Norse Literature Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jacobsen Monastic “Islands” in Medieval Denmark: Insular Isolation in Ideal and Practice Torben Kjersgaard Nielsen, Religious Athletes – on the Perception of the Body in Medieval Asceticism Eldar Heide, Holy Islands and the Otherworld: Places beyond Water Else Mundal, Hvítramannaland and Other Fictional Islands in the Sea Margaret Elphinstone, The Unknown Island Bernt Øyvind Thorvaldsen, Will the Son of Nine Sisters Rule the Sea-Kidney? Gerhard Jaritz, The Quality of Islands in Middle High German Literature Juhan Kreem, Seasonal Isolation in the Communication in Livonia Torstein Jørgensen, Utstein Monastery: An Island on an Island – or not? List of Contributors Index

 

CEU Medievalia Series 14

2011
152 pages
ISBN 978-615-5053-24-5 paperback $30.00 / €27.95 / £24.99

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