CEU-HESP Comparative History Project

In October 2006 the History Department at the Central European University launched a major program in Comparative History. 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. It has a double, intellectual and practical agenda: to formulate a regional focus for history teaching and research in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe and to strengthen the presence of CEU’s History Department in the region.

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