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Berkeley Economist Measures Trust in Social Networks

Submitted by brouillettea on Fri, 03/19/2010 - 19:26
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 CEU Alumni Adam Szeidl, assistant professor of economics at University of California, Berkeley, visited the university last week to present his new field research on how social networks determine lending practices among Peru’s poor population.

Szeidl (MA Economics 2000) is among a group of economics scholars from Yale, Harvard, and Iowa State University who have launched micro-finance field experiment projects in two Lima shantytowns in order to measure the importance of social networks and trust when borrowing money.

Monitoring Canada's Arctic: Case Study of Sirmilik National Park

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Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 17:30 - 19:00
Nador u. 9, Faculty Tower
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International Sustainability and Contemporary Art Symposium Begins Friday

Submitted by brouillettea on Thu, 03/18/2010 - 21:23
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The 2010 Symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art begins Friday at CEU, a series that brings together artists, philosophers, environmental scientists and activists to explore capitalism’s ability to absorb criticism and adapt to new circumstances. According to post-Fordist theory, in the wake of the social upheaval of May 1968 capitalism was able to recuperate radical desires for freedom, creativity and personal liberation through the adoption of the principles of flexibility, horizontality and autonomy, and the shift from industrialism to immaterial labour. 

The Philm Club: The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band)

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Friday, March 19, 2010 - 18:30 - 20:30
Zrinyi u. 14
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Israeli Scholar Rates Obama's Middle East Policy

Submitted by brouillettea on Thu, 03/18/2010 - 10:28
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Nearly a year since his landmark speech in Cairo, U.S. President Barack Obama has yet to fulfill his promise to smooth Western relations with the Middle East, said Visiting Professor Shlomo
Avineri, who spoke to a packed audience in the Popper Room on March 9 at CEU.

Counter Cultural Series Brings Underground to CEU

Submitted by brouillettea on Thu, 03/18/2010 - 09:51
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Legendary Hungarian alternative band, Balaton, performed to a full house last Wednesday night, March 10, in the CEU Auditorium, a concert hosted by CEU’s Center for Arts and Culture (CAC) as part of the ongoing Approaches to Counter Cultural Movements in East Central Europe guest lecture series organized by the Department of History, CAC, and CEU research center Pasts Inc.


In the early 1980s Balaton was a popul

The New York Times: Istvan Rev On Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds

Submitted by brouillettea on Wed, 03/17/2010 - 17:25
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Parts of Quentin Tarantino Inglorious Basterds—the 2009 film about a fictional group of Jewish commandos during World War II—are closer to history than they appear, writes CEU history Professor and OSA director Istvan Rev in an opinion piece published Monday in The New York Times. 

 

  

Scholar Speaks on Post-Cold War EU-Enlargement Policy

Submitted by brouillettea on Tue, 03/16/2010 - 20:18
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EU scholar Stefan Ganzle spoke Monday at CEU on the status of European Neighborhood Policy (ENP), a program launched by the European Commission in 2004 to address challenges of EU enlargement in the post-Cold War political landscape.

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