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On April 27, CEU hosted a panel titled “Constitutionalism Revisited – Insights from CEU at 20” in honor of retiring CEU Trustee and Stanford Professor Emeritus Gerhard Casper. Panelists included CEU Professor of Philosophy Janos Kis, CEU Associate Professor of Legal Studies Michael Hamilton, Visiting Professor of Legal Studies Daniel Smilov, and CEU SJD candidate Gedion Timothewos Hessebon. Renata Uitz, CEU professor of legal studies, chaired the event.

On April 25, author, journalist, and CEU Trustee Kati Marton discussed her book Wallenberg: Missing Hero on the occasion of the book's release in Hungarian and the centenary of Wallenberg's birth. CEU President and Rector John Shattuck credited Marton with educating him about Wallenberg some 17 years ago when they first met during the Dayton Peace Accords where Shattuck and Marton's late husband, diplomat Richard Holbrooke, were working to negotiate peace in the Balkans.

George Soros Shares His Vision for CEU's New School of Public Policy and International Affairs

CEU Founder and Honorary Chairman of the Board George Soros participated in the inaugural conference of CEU's new School of Public Policy and International Affairs (SPPIA) on April 24. He engaged in a conversation titled “A Global Public Policy School for the 21st Century – My Vision,” moderated by Leonard Bernardo, associate director of Open Society Foundations (OSF) and director of Open Society Fellowship.

CEU School of Public Policy and International Affairs Hosts Inaugural Conference

Martin Kahanec (DPP) took part in Slovak Television debate "Práca pre teba - magazín" on labor mobility in an enlarged Europe televised on April 4, 2012.

The Erasmus Mundus GEMMA program calls for applications for participation in the 6th edition of GEMMA for students WITHOUT the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship and for visiting scholars.

Application deadline: April 30, 2012

For more information: please go to Erasmus Mundus / GEMMA: http://gender.ceu.hu/node/18304

Hungary's Minister of State for Social Inclusion Zoltan Balog spoke about Hungary's Roma strategy at a CEU public lecture on March 29. CEU President and Rector John Shattuck noted that in addition to the role Balog plays in his government position, he is “a thoughtful and astute commentator and theorist.”

Balog, who is responsible for the Hungarian government’s Roma strategy, defines the issue as both a human rights matter and a social and economic imperative.

On March 27, Central European University and the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs signed a memorandum of understanding outlining a partnership to coordinate research and training activities. CEU President and Rector John Shattuck and Director of HIIA Botond Zakonyi stressed the mutual benefits of this collaboration that will lead to new intellectual achievements using the respective networks of the two institutions.

“Closer cooperation with CEU and especially CEU’s Center for EU Enlargement Studies seems a very promising path for both sides,” Zakonyi said.