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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.

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

CEU students this week organized the largest celebration of International Women's Day at the university to date, hosting a series of events marking the century-old holiday honoring women’s economic, political and social achievements. 

Festivities began Monday in the Oktogon, where participants wearing “This is what a feminist looks like,” T-shirts handed out balloons and leaflets with information on the annual March 8th holiday, and screened a video on women’s rights and feminism around the world.

Urban history has offered the most varied approaches, methodologies and achievements in mapping of the city as a highly diverse product of modern society. A flood of city monographs and comparative, interdisciplinary studies demonstrates that this branch of history can offer unusual constructions and visions of how society is organized and how it reflects on itself. This lecture series will bring together different aspects of urban and cultural history and provide the students both with the classical works and the latest achievements in the field.