Research Projects

Project Title and Short Description		Status
CEU-HESP Comparative History Project	The project is funded by the Higher Education Support Program of the Open Society Institute, Budapest and administered by the help of CEU’s Special Projects Office. This is a three-year project to develop Comparative History as a stream/grouping of courses within a set of target departments in our Region – Central Europe, South East Europe, Eastern Europe --, with CEU acting as the core and the co-ordinator of the group.	Ongoing
Shared/Entangled Histories: Comparative Perspectives on Hungary and Romania	The current project aims at fostering new research on the shared history of Hungary and Romania by employing relational and transnational approaches, as part of a more general effort to rewrite continental history from an integrated perspective. East-Central European countries share a common historical past that goes far back in time to enduring medieval and early modern imperial legacies.	Ongoing
Space, Science and Claims to European Domination. The Dynamics of Knowledge from the Renaissance through the Enlightenment	This project is devised by a group of historians from different national and intellectual backgrounds, as well as of different generations and academic positions. Its aim is to write a new narrative of European history in a polycentric context, adopting a non-Eurocentric perspective, focusing on science – its history, emergence and worldwide circulation – in a crucial period for the construction of European ‘modernity’.	Ongoing
The Collectivization of Agriculture in Communist Eastern Europe: Comparison and Entanglements from the 1930s to the 1980s	Building on previous research on the collectivization of agriculture in communist dictatorship, this comparative project deals with the collectivization of agriculture in Eastern Europe between the 1930s and 1980s. On the basis of a re-examination of the collectivization enforced in the USSR in the late 1920s and early 1930s, empirical work will concentrate on the transfer and (selective) appropriation of the Soviet model in East European states (GDR, Czechoslovakia Hungary, Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Albania).	Ongoing
Authority and Expectation: A Social History of the Communist Dictatorships in Central Europe	The subject of the proposed research is the social mechanisms of justifying and maintaining the communist dictatorships in Central Europe. The purpose, however, is not to merely pursue the tradition of looking for the social reasons for supporting the one-party regimes or the practices of adaptation to the new circumstances.	Completed
Between Home and Host Cultures: Twentieth-Century East European Writers in Exile	The project has been initiated in Pasts, Inc. and hosted by Collegium Budapest. It consisted of a preparatory Workshop, held September 11-13, 2006 at Collegium Budapest, and a research period over the calendar year 2007, during which some participants of the project worked as Fellows at the Collegium for various lengths of time, others worked as external contributors.	Completed
Narratives Unbound: Historical studies in post-communist Eastern Europe	This project aims at initiating and completing the first stage of a major, unprecedented survey of the state of the art in historical sciences in the ten 'EU accession countries'.	Completed
Regional Seminar on Recent History	The primary target of the Regional Seminar in Recent History was the improvement of higher education in the field of 20th century history in Central and Eastern Europe. The seminar series was designed to contribute to this purpose, first of all, by the initiation of new courses and curricula concerning contemporary history in a comparative manner focusing mainly on the region, but taking into consideration the broader European perspective.	Completed
The Intellectual History Of Patriotism And The Legacy Of Composite States In East-Central Europe	The project seeks to reconsider the intellectual history and the heritage of patriotism in Europe.	Completed