Appointments

Andrea Pető (Department of Gender Studies) was elected as a co-president of ATGENDER– European Association for Gender, Research, Education, Documentation.  www.ATGENDER.eu. for three years in the Annual General Assembly of ATGENDER held in Utrecht on 9 April, 2011.

In Academic Year 2010/11, the tasks and responsibilities of the OSA Chief Archivist are carried out by Csaba Szilágyi, Senior Human Rights Archivist, who is taking over from Gabriella Ivacs, OSA Chief Archivist, temporarily engaged in a large scale EU project. Csaba Szilágyi has been with OSA since 1996. Intermittently, he worked as a records manager and archives consultant with the Open Society Institute - New York and Human Rights Watch (1999-2000), and as a curator of the Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research at Columbia University (2005-2006).

24 June 2010: Central European University (CEU), Budapest, announced the appointment of Peter Johnson, as Vice-President, Student Services, effective 1 September 2010. Johnson completes a highly successful 10-year tenure as Executive Director of Admissions, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. He joins CEU’s internationally acknowledged Student Services unit to lead and strengthen it at a time when the University is planning to significantly expand both its programs and its global outreach. CEU currently enrolls students from more than 120 countries.

Prof. Constantin Iordachi the Head of the History Department, has been re-appointed as the Head of the School of Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies for the academic year 2010-2011. 

Professor Katalin Farkas, Head of the Department of Philosophy, has been appointed Provost and Academic Pro-rector, effective August 1, 2010.