Summer University and Religious Studies
CEU’s Summer University Program, founded in 1996, hosts high-level, research-oriented, interdisciplinary and innovative academic courses as well as workshops on policy issues for professional development in the social sciences and the humanities. The courses are targeted at MA or PhD students, junior or post-doctoral researchers, teachers and professionals and are taught by internationally renowned scholars and policy experts (including CEU faculty).
Application from all over the world is encouraged. Financial aid is available. Course descriptions and detailed information about the application procedure, scholarships, etc. are available at http://www.sun.ceu.hu.
The general application deadline is February 15, 2010. More information about the application process is available at www.summer.ceu.hu/apply and the relevant course web sites.
Past Schools
AY 2009/2010
Messianism - Jewish and Christian Perspectives.
Directors:
Michael L. Miller, Central European University, Nationalisms Studies Program/Jewish Studies, Budapest, Hungary
Matthias Riedl, Central European University, Department of History, Budapest, Hungary
Faculty:
Ida Fröhlich, Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Hebrew Studies, Budapest, Hungary
Michael A. Gillespie, Duke University, Department of Political Science, Durham, US
Malachi Hacohen, Duke University, Department of History, Durham, US
Moshe Idel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, Israel
Vlad Naumescu, Central European University, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Hungary
AY 2007/2008
Religion and Politics: The Presence of the Sacred and Secular Traditions in Europe and the Middle East.
Directors:
Matthias Riedl, History Department, Central European University, Budapest
Jürgen Gebhardt, Political Science Department, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bavarian-American Academy, Munich
Faculty:
Emilio Gentile, Department of Political Studies, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
György Geréby, Medieval Studies Department, Central European University, Budapest;
Jürgen Miethke, Historisches Seminar, University of Heidelberg
Yossef Schwartz, The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas
Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Georges Tamer, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Ohio State University, Columbus
AY 2004/2005
Bookish Traditions: Authority and the Book in Scripturalist
Religion.
Directors:
Aziz Al-Azmeh, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Faculty:
Mohammed Haddad, University of Tunis
Daniel Madigan, Institutio di Studi su Religioni e Culture, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome
Jonathan Sheehan, Indiana University, Bloomington
Guy Stroumsa, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Brian Stock, Department of English, University of Toronto
AY 2003/2004
Reconsidering Islamic Reformism - Comparative Perspectives.
Directors:
Aziz Al-Azmeh, Central European University, Budapest
Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Central European University, Budapest
Faculty:
Said Amir Arjomand, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Mushirul Hasan, Jamia Millia Islamiya and Jawaharlal University, New Delhi
Jacques Waardenburg, Emeritus, University of Lausanne
Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, Utrecht University and Cairo University
Forthcoming
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