CEU Summer University

What a summer it’s been! 🌞 Our CEU Summer University 2024 season has just come to an end, and we couldn’t be more grateful for the brilliant minds who joined us. From intense discussions to lifelong friendships, this summer was one to remember. Here are one of our favorite moments from this season. Thank you all for making it special!

📸 by CEU / Sotiris Bekas, Zoltan Csipke

🎥 Curious about what it’s like to take a course at CEU Summer University? Watch this video for an inside look at our 2024’ summer season. From engaging lectures to hands-on projects, see how our courses can help you reach your academic and professional goals.

📸 made by CEU / Sotiris Bekas, Zoltan Csipke

CEU Summer University 2024 CEU SUN is a program for advanced undergrads, graduate students, postdocs, junior faculty, and researchers, as well as professionals who wish to upgrade thei...

Apply to fellowship opportunities at CEU`s Institute of Advanced Studies.

Apply to IAS CEU for AY 2025/26!
IAS CEU is pleased to announce its new calls for application:
+ Junior/Senior Core Fellowship
+ Artist in Residence Fellowship
+ Budapest Open Society Fellowship (theme: Illiberal Times and Spaces)
+ Affiliated Fellowship
For details, visit our website: https://ias.ceu.edu/calls-fellowship-applications-ias-ceu

Chronicling the Cataclysm: Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe - a public lecture by Laura Jockusch, Brandeis University, USA Lecture Thursday, July 11, 2024, 6:00 pm – 7:40 pm Speaker Laura Jockusch`s webpage A public lecture offered by Laura Jockusch, faculty of the CEU Summer School on Holocaust Testimonies and Their Afterlives

CEU Summer University is hosting a public lecture on Human Nature & the Open Society - a public lecture by Thom Scott-Phillips, course director of the CEU Summer University course on the Human Mind and Open Society at 6 pm, July 10, CEU, Nador Street 15, Budapest site, Auditorium B

CEU Summer University is hosting a public film screening at 5.15 pm on July 9 in Auditorium B
Cameraperson by Kirsten Johnson

CEU Summer University is hosting a public event on July 4 at 6 pm Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment – a public discussion by Charles Taylor, Philosophy, Emeritus, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, with Craig Calhoun and Dilip Gaonkar.

Further information: https://events.ceu.edu/.../cosmic-connections-poetry-age...
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CEU Summer University 2024 commences on June 24! We are looking forward to welcoming participants from 82 countries.
Have you packed your luggage yet?

We extended the application deadline for our courses. Check our website for updates!
https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/apply/dates-and-deadlines
CEU Budapest

Dates and Deadlines General timeline for summer courses The following timeline applies to most of the SUN programs, however, there might be slightly different timelines in the case of a few courses.

Learn how the climate crisis can be fought, and what urgent changes need to be made that cause climate change.

https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/2024/climate-nexus

Climate Nexus: Interlinking energy, agriculture, and water. Leadership in the energy and food transition | CEU summer course Image Course date July 22–27, 2024 Location Budapest Application deadline February 14, 2024 ECTS Credits 1.0 Course delivery In-person Downloads Financial Information SUN Packages Fee-Paying Tuition Waiver Partial Scholarship Full Scholarship Apply Now Director Michael LaBelle Department of Enviro...

A short course on geospatial technologies for building resilience of communities to disasters and climate change. Explore remote sensing, GPS, drone use, etc.

https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/2024/geospatial

Geospatial Technologies for Monitoring SDGs: Early Warnings for All | CEU summer course Co-funded by the Open Society University Network (OSUN). In cooperation with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA). This course is a part of the “Bridging ICTs and Environment” workshop series run by the ISEPEI project.

Don't miss the opportunity: submit your application now! The February 14 deadline is approaching!

Investigate the ethical dimensions of attention during this five-day intensive course.

The Ethics of Attention | CEU summer course Image Image Course date July 1–5, 2024 Location Budapest Application deadline February 14, 2024 ECTS Credits 1.0 Course delivery In-person Downloads Financial Information Tentative Syllabus Tentative Schedule SUN Packages Fee-Paying Tuition Waiver Partial Scholarship Full Scholarship Apply Now Co-...

A summer school focusing on how understanding the human mind can inform our understanding and advocacy of open society and the ideals it represents.

https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/2024/humanmind

The Human Mind and the Open Society | CEU summer course Image Course date July 8–19, 2024 Location Budapest Application deadline February 14, 2024 ECTS Credits 2.0 Course delivery In-person Downloads Financial Information SUN Packages Fee-Paying Tuition Waiver Partial Scholarship Full Scholarship Apply Now Co-director Thom Scott- Phillips Institute for...

Understand the dynamics of policy implementation and examine the complex challenges of translating education policies into tangible outcomes.

https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/2024/global-education-policy

Global Education Policy Implementation – Strategies for Access and Equity in Low-Resource Contexts | CEU summer course Image Course date June 24–28, 2024 Location Budapest Application deadline February 14, 2024 ECTS Credits 1.0 Course delivery In-person Downloads Financial Information SUN Packages Fee-Paying Tuition Waiver Partial Scholarship Full Scholarship Apply Now Co-director Tamo Chattopadhay  Institute of...

5 days for higher education trainers to help design in-house professional development that brings the quality of education to high international standards.

https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/2024/profdev

Professional Development in University Teaching and Learning | CEU summer course Image Course date July 22–26, 2024 Location Budapest Application deadline February 14, 2024 ECTS Credits 1.0 Course delivery In-person Downloads Financial Information SUN Packages Fee-Paying Tuition Waiver Partial Scholarship Full Scholarship Apply Now Co-director Michael Kozakowski Yehuda Elkana ...

A course on the central role of demographic imaginaries in facilitating soft authoritarian politics in different parts of the world.

https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/2024/demographic

Demographic Imaginaries: Soft Authoritarianism, Majoritarian Identity Politics and Demographic Anxieties | CEU summer course Co-funded by the Open Society University Network (OSUN), University of Bremen, Research Group Soft Authoritarianisms, University of Bremen, Germany, the Collaborative Research Platform “Worlds of Contradictions” of the University of Bremen and Yisares. Young Autumn International Research Scholar...

A short course, re-examining the relationship between democracy and equality by attending to the complexity and history of modern democratic societies.

https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/2024/democracy

Democracy and Inequality: The Challenge of a Society of Equals | CEU summer course Image Image Course date July 1–6, 2024 Location Budapest Application deadline February 14, 2024 ECTS Credits 1.0 Course delivery In-person Downloads Financial information SUN Packages Fee-Paying Tuition Waiver Partial Scholarship Full Scholarship Apply now Director Dilip Gaonkar Rhetoric and Publi...

Examine if, when, and how citizenship regimes are used by authoritarian and illiberal governments.

https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/2024/contestations

Contestations of Citizenship in Times of Global Democratic Backsliding | CEU summer course Image Course date July 8–12, 2024 Location Budapest Application deadline February 14, 2024 ECTS Credits 1.0 Course delivery In-person Downloads Financial information SUN Packages Fee-Paying Tuition Waiver Partial Scholarship Full Scholarship Apply Now Director Jelena Dzankic Global Citizenship Obs...

Explore witchcraft in its socio-historical, anthropological, and religious contexts. Find out about magic, superstition, rituals, and scapegoating.

https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/2024/magic

Magic and Witchcraft: Belief and Persecution in Global Perspective | CEU summer course Image Course date July 8–12, 2024 Location Budapest Application deadline February 14, 2024 ECTS Credits 1.0 Course delivery In-person Downloads Financial Information Schedule Syllabus SUN Packages Fee-Paying Tuition Waiver Partial Scholarship Full Scholarship Apply Now Co-director Fabrizio Conti D...

An intense 6-day program for advancing individual participants’ projects with the help of masterclasses and tutoring sessions run by a network of academics and film practitioners.

https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/2024/visual

The Power of the Visual: Creative Documentary and Human Rights | CEU summer course Image Image Course date July 8–13, 2024 Location Budapest Application deadline February 14, 2024 ECTS Credits 1.0 Course delivery In-person Downloads Financial information Schedule SUN Packages Fee-Paying Tuition Waiver Partial Scholarship Full Scholarship Apply Now Director Oksana Sarkisova Blink...

Interdisciplinary approaches to documenting and interpreting the Holocaust and other genocides. Learn from leading scholars of testimony and oral history.

https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/2024/holocaust

Holocaust Testimonies and Their Afterlives | CEU summer course Image Course date July 10–19, 2024 Location Budapest Application deadline February 14, 2024 ECTS Credits 2.0 Course delivery In-person Downloads Financial information SUN Packages Fee-Paying Tuition Waiver Partial Scholarship Full Scholarship Apply Now Director Éva Kovács Vienna Wiesenthal Insti...

A course offering a multi-perspectival overview of feminist praxis and its interrelationship with arts-based research approaches.

https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/2024/mobilizing

Mobilizing the Feminist Imaginary: Arts-based Research Approaches and Creative Activism | CEU summer course Co-funded by the Open Society University Network (OSUN) and in cooperation with the International Association of Women's Museums.

A course on musical storytelling, its archaic, traditional, and contemporary forms, and its role in community and identity.

https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/2024/music

From the Field to the Screen and Back: Creating Identity, Community and Music as Cultural Heritage through Contemporary Storytelling | CEU summer course Image Course date July 1–8, 2024 Location Budapest Application deadline February 14, 2024 ECTS Credits 1.5 Course delivery In-person Downloads Financial information SUN Packages Fee-Paying Tuition Waiver Partial Scholarship Full Scholarship Apply Now Director József Laszlovszky Department of Medi...

Connect student leaders from around the globe and work on solutions for social issues. Experience international diversity and apply today!
https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/2024/civic-engagement

Civic Engagement: Student as Citizen | CEU summer course Image Course date July 3–12, 2024 Location Budapest Application deadline February 14, 2024 ECTS Credits 2.0 Course delivery In-person Downloads Financial Information SUN Packages Fee-Paying Tuition Waiver Partial Scholarship Full Scholarship Apply Now Co-director Jonathan Becker Center for Civic E...

Summer Courses at Central European University Intensive interactive summer courses at CEU Budapest in the social sciences and humanities. Gain applied skills, build interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral networks! Find a course and apply today!

Applications Open for Interdisciplinary Intensive Summer Courses at CEU
Deadline: February 14, 2024

With OSUN support, CEU Summer University offers high-level, research- and policy-oriented interdisciplinary courses. The one- and two-week intensive courses are offered in residence in Budapest during from June 24 to July 27, 2024.

More info:
https://opensocietyuniversitynetwork.org/opportunities/apply-to-ceu-summer-university-2024?utm_source=Open+Society+University+Network&utm_campaign=93c3ff5786-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_10_27_2023_9_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d32c0163fe-93c3ff5786-1325441382