On
December 29 CEU Armenian Alumni Chapter gathered to celebrate
the end of 2005 and the arrival of 2006. The gathering was hosted
at "Cactus", a great Mexican restaurant in the heart
of Yerevan with fresh, quality authentic food in an exotic and
fun atmosphere. Many Alumni could indulge the nostalgia for their
favorite Mexican restaurant in Budapest "Iguana". Alumni
had a chance to expand their network, exchange news about their
professional and personal lives, and recall the fun stories from
their Budapest life and holidays. For some eager alumni the jolly
evening did not end at midnight but continued with dancing at
a night club. The Armenian alumni wish all of you an eventful
candid, loyal, warm and affectionate to your dreams year of the
Fire Dog!
CEU
alumni in Bulgaria met for the already traditional post-Christmas
pre-New Year gathering in Sofia. Graduates met on in
restaurant to celebrate and remember CEU times in a lively atmosphere
with very tasty dishes and plenty of good drinks.
For those who missed the chance to share more and update their
address & study/job position, please write to our Bulgarian
alumni chapter volunteer Zornitsa at compass@bol.bg
or to CEU Alumni Affairs at alumni@ceu.hu.
Do novi sreshti!
Vesela i yspeshna 2006!
Alumni
in the UK met at
in London for a pre-Christmas meal and socializing. The event
was initiated by Cristina Marzea (Romania, IRES '98).
The last event for the Northern California CEU alumni was a holiday
party for alumni living in the Bay Area. It was organized by Calin
Nicolae (ECON '00) and took place in ,
Oakland.
CEU alumni in Yaroslav visited the presentation of the CEU programs
at the Yaroslav State University and made this presentation more
informative for potential CEU students.
Thank you for your involvement,
Dmitry Egorov, CEU Representative for North-Western Russia *
Nearly
60 students and alumni representing all CEU departments participated
in the first CEU Interdepartmental Table Tennis & Badminton
Tournament.
Winners in the
competition are: 1-st place (Serbia & Montenegro, LEGS 02), 2-nd place
(North Korea,
GSB '06), and 3-rd place (North Korea, GSB '06). Winners in the
competition are: 1-st place (Hungary, ECON '99, PhD ECON), 2-nd place (Hungary, PhD ECON) and 3-rd place (Hungary, ECON '04, PhD ECON). All winners received
gifts from the Alumni Affairs Office.
The tournament was organized by Student Council member (Russia, IRES '06) in cooperation with the
Alumni Affairs Office and with the kind support of CEU Sport Center
and CEU Student Life Office.
On November 3, the CPS Anti-Americanism Program at Central European
University and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
organized a debate entitled “Does Anti-Americanism Matter
for US Foreign Policy?” in Washington DC. Tod Lindberg, co-chair
of the anti-Americanism working group within the Princeton Project
on National Security, presented a draft report that investigates
the phenomenon of anti-Americanism, its impact on US national
security and foreign policy, its causes, and what, if anything,
policy-makers can or should do to address it.Ivan Krastev, Research Director of the anti-Americanism project
at Central European University, Tamas David-Barrett, head of research
of Budapest Economics and Alex Rondos, former Ambassador at Large
from Greece gave their comments and views on the economic and
political consequences of anti-Americanism. Discussion was moderated
by Thomas Carothers, Senior Associate and Director of the Democracy
and Rule of Law Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace and Steering Committee Member of the anti-Americanism project
at Central European University. A short summary of the debate
will soon be made available on the CPS website: http://www.ceu.hu/cps
CEU participated in the Istanbul Fair of the QS World Grad School
Tour.
The event took place on Saturday, October 29, 2005 in hotel Hilton
Istanbul.
The university was represented by Paul Roe, Associate Professor
at the Department of International Relations and European Studies,
and Yoanna Alexandrova, Student Services. We thank alumni in Istanbul
for joining Professor Roe and Ms Alexandrova at this event and
speaking with prospective students about CEU, also sharing your
experiences and giving advice on program selection. Our alumni
are CEU's best ambassadors and we believe in the importance of
your contribution.
Reviving the tradition of the best CEU alumni soccer teams, our
alumni Azuolas Bagdonas (Lithuania, IRES '03) and Max Hamon (Canada,
MEDS '03) got well deserved at the CEU Soccer Tournament 2005. They joined forces
with two CEU staff members, Gabor Csizman and Richard Kartosonto,
to form a team that won four games straight.
Congratulations to the bronze medalists!
Dear CEU alumni residing in Istanbul,
Thanks to all of you who joined us the alumni gathering in Istanbul
on Thursday, October 13. Many thanks also to those who responded
but were unable to come. Together with Professor Ayse Caglar we
were very happy to meet you. We have also been in touch with Mr.
Hakan Altinay, Executive Director of OSI-Turkey, who was with
us at the Bogazici
University Alumni Club and sends his warm greetengs to you.Rositsa Bateson
CEU Vice President for Student Services
CEU
Alumni in New York City were invited for a CEU Alumni Happy Hour
at Clancy's Pub & Restaurant, on September 30th. Erzsebet
Fazekas (Hungary, SOCI '99), CEU New York executive officer organized
the event together with the alumni affairs office in Budapest.
Yehuda Elkana, CEU's President and Rector, and Istvan Teplan,
Senior Vice President, joined the group to discuss, among other
topics, the importance of CEU recently gaining accreditation as
a Hungarian (and thus a European) university. CEU New York Office
hosted the first round of drinks. Alumni were eager to get together
again in the future. They will set up a yahoo group so that friends
could meet up socially. Graduates from Washington mentioned that
CEU alumni there meet socially and spontaneously.
Yehuda Elkana agreed that we should have a similar happy hour
in Washington when he is going to be in November.
Igor Shoifot (HIST 1993), Dennis Vinokurov (LEGS 1994), Jasmina
Spasojevic (ECON 1995), Angelica Shamerina (ENVS 1995), Tigran
Melkonian (POLS 1997), Mark Snowiss (SEES 1997), William Kramer
(IRES 1998), Kevin Steeves (IRES 1998), Alina Tatarenko (IRES
1998), Dritan Xhillari (ENVS 1999), Erzsebet Fazekas (SOCI 1999),
Maxim Karlov (ENVS 1999), Mariann Micsinai (IRES 1999), Maia An
(ENVS 2000)
Cristian Dezso (ECON 2000), Aakash Singh (LEGS 2001), Ervin Kosta
(SOCI 2002)
Dovile Ruginyte (POLS 2004), Aleksandra Majstorac Kobiljski (GENS
2002), Tanya Munroe (CEU friend)
The new self-appointed CEU DC Happy Hour Czar Todd Anderson invited
members of the DC alumni chapter to join in for the CEU Happy
Hour on September 28 at the Brickskeller.
Welcome receptions for CEU students Class of 2006 were held at
various departments. CEU alumni affairs on behalf of the academic
departments invited alumni and friends residing in Budapest to
participate in the receptions. Newly arrived students had a chance
to talk to alumni, ready to share their CEU academic and social
experience.
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CEU
professor Flemming Splidsboel Hansen gave lectures at the Tax
University (www.asta.edu.ua) on Thursday 15 Sept. 13:00: "Riding
the Ukrainian Elephant into the EU" and Friday 16 Sept. 13:00:
"The EU Security Strategy".
Alumni in Ukraine interested in the lectures joined the event.
The
traditional Alumni Tea House - a social networking event, where
alumni working and studying in Budapest meet old friends and the
newly admitted CEU students took part on Friday, September 16.
Thanks to alumni, new students enjoyed warm welcome and gathered
useful information and advice on MA courses and general information
about CEU and Budapest life. There were a lot of students who
joined the event, we thank all alumni volunteers who were around
the tea tables and helped serving tea and talking to students.
Lisa Mootz (USA, NATI '05), Arpad Varga (Hungary, IRES
'05),Daniel Ambrus (Hungary, IRES '05), Victoria Karpatska (Ukraine,
IRES '01), Eva Forrai (Hungary, LEGS '03), Nizrin Khan (CEU friend),
Eszter Minar (Hungary, IRES '05), Janka Jozsef (Hungary, IRES
'00), Elitsa T. Andreeva (Bulgaria, SEES '99), Gabor Zamaroczy
(Hungary, ENVS '05), Peter Zala (Hungary, IRES '05), Michael Hamon
(Canada, MEDS '03), Annamaria Kiss (Hungary, NATI '02), Jianye
Liu (USA, GSB '06).Five CEU alumni residing in Krakow joined Serge Sych of the CEU
Alumni Affairs at an Open Meeting of the International Alumni
Section (INTAL) of the European Association for International
Education (EAIE). The meeting was hosted by Jagiellonian University
and was followed by a cocktail. Mr. Sych, as INTAL chair, was
delighted to introduce CEU alumni to his EAIE colleagues from
more than ten countries. In their turn, CEU graduates in Krakow
were happy to meet as a group, for the first time, and discuss
latest news from Alma Mater as well as prospects for professional
cooperation and social networking. CEU held a recruitment event in Kiev, Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk
and Odessa from September 5 till September 13. Alumni in Ukraine
joined Ivan Tsarikov, CEU director of recruitment for presentations
at different universities.Armenian
CEU alumni hosted a unique meeting bringing together 27 participants
from three generations of graduates - older alumni, newly graduated
alumni, prospective students and CEU supporters. The venue was
the elegant restaurant 'The Club' where participants enjoyed a
warm, very cozy ambiance with a French touch - a delicate selection
of delights. There they had a chance to see a marketplace featuring
books, music, crafts, and the gallery with new creations of selected
avant-garde artists. Diverse and lively discussions and exchange
of academic and social experiences, stories, news, advice, and
importantly, CEU mentoring and peer-consulting took place. Prospective
students had a unique opportunity to talk with alumni who just
returned from Budapest on a variety of issues.
A group of alumni got together in Oakland, CA. The gathering
was organized by Erica Weaver Nicolae (USA, IRES '00) and Calin
Nicolae (Romania, ECON '00). Irina Korablev (Russian Federation,
ECON '97) was also present. Everyone agreed to work on involving
more CEU alumni in the Bay area in future meetings.
Alumni got together for a glass of beer at the Gordon Biersch
brewery in San Francisco.
Thursday, July 14rd, 5:30 PM. Address and phone: 2 Harrison Street,
San Francisco, CA 94105, Phone: 415-243-8246. The brewery is easily
accessible by Muni, and there is plenty of on street parking.
Parking the building garage is free with validation. Website is
at: http://www.gordonbiersch.com/restaurants/index.html, select
San Francisco on the left side to get a map, directions and the
menu. The event was organized by Erica Weaver Nicolae (IRES '00)
and Calin Nicolae (Econ '00).
Students, alumni and friends joined the CEU Graduation Party 2005
at
in Budapest. The crowd enjoyed a live music session by myrtill
Jazz Qartet and disco with GJ Onoff.
Azeri
CEU alumni participated in the annual nomination event to greet
and award certificates of admission to the winners of various
Soros funded scholarships and fellowships. The event was held
by the Baku Education Information Center. There was a special
CEU stand, prepared by alumni. Fuad Aliyev (POLS'02) presented
CEU certificates of admission to the newly accepted Azeri students
who arrive in Budapest in late August 2005. The ceremony was followed
by reception and a dancing party.
was scheduled for the first week of June. Classmates and friends
returned to Budapest to reconnect, dine, tour, dance, and participate
in sport events.
: a social networking event,
part of the Reunion Week program, where alumni chapters' representatives,
coming to the Alumni Leadership Forum from more than 20 countries,
meet CEU graduates working and studying in Budapest, as well as
current students, soon to join alumni groups in different parts
of the world. Coffee, tea & light snacks were provided by
CEU 10th Floor Restaurant. The event was hosted by the Alumni
Affairs & Services Office and Budapest Alumni Chapter on June
1, 2005.
Gala
Dinner 2005 was the central Reunion Week event. Alumni enjoyed
a live dance session and experienced singing and dancing with
their fellow alumni of all years, in the company of many friends.
Amazing venue, live music by the popular 'Evidance' and a grand
lottery were in store. The lucky winner - Olga Kerekesa (Ukraine,
GENS '03) received a round trip provided by Aeroviva.
Other prizes were weekend for two at the CEU Conference &
Residence Center and CEU memorabilia. Our major sponsor Danubius
Premier provided the first hundred tickets purchased with a voucher
(worth $15) for its Fitness-pool-sauna
One Day Spa Program.
The program started with a game called 'Power, Love & Money',
facilitated by Zoli Aszalos (Hungary, HUMR '98), this was an occasion
for alumni to share how many times they have fallen in love, how
strong they are and how many tangible assets they have. The audience
was appealed by the Euro-Asian song competition facilitated by
Elitsa T. Minovska (Bulgaria, SEES '99). The groups were selected
according to the color of their eyes. The winner was the blue-eyed
group, who presented "Something Stupid" by Robbie Williams
& Nicole Kidman. Members of the group were Anton Nakov (Bulgaria,
ECON '00), Krisztina Molnar (Hungary, ECON '00), Olena Bagno (Ukraine,
SOCI '00), Olga Kerekesha (Ukraine, GENS '03), Luisine Hovhannisian
(Armenia, LEGS '97), Elitsa Minovska (Bulgaria, SEES '99) and
Attila Benedek (Hungary, friend), who were awarded 30 % discount
from the price of Alumni & Friends Gala Dinner 2006 for their
winning performance.
The CEU Job
Fair, as part of the Reunion, was held on Friday, June 3rd,
at CEU Teaching Venue - Nádor u. 9, 1051 Budapest.
The Institute of Photography of Montenegro and CEU Alumni Affairs
invited alumni and friends to see a photo exhibition of Maja Djuric
Djordjevic (Montenegro, ARTH '95) on the ground floor of CEU Conference
and Residence Center. Coming from a family of renowned painters,
Maja had an innate aptitude for the fine arts, but photography
became her true passion. Maja studied at CEU in Prague under the
expert guidance of Ian Jeffrey. Read
more...
An annual conference on Intercultural Dialogue in History Through
Culture jointly organized by CEU History Department PhD students
and their peers from the department of History and Civilization
of the European University Institute in Florence (EUI). Venue:
CEU, Budapest, June 2-3, 2005. Read
more…
The
took place in Budapest on June 2 and 3, 2005. CEU
graduates representing local alumni chapters from more than 20
countries in Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus met to set
up priorities for further development of the CEU Alumni &
Friends Association and enhance the mutually beneficial relationship
between alumni and the university.
To help with organizing your local meeting and get involved in
your alumni chapter, please get in touch with your Alumni
Chapters & Clubs contact individuals or the Alumni
Forum Participants.
Please see the CEU Alumni Leadership
Forum 2005 Minutes compiled by AAO.
Please check whether your name is included in the committee of
your choice and get in touch with your fellow committee members
and/or chairperson to work on your committee plan for the next
academic year (we can help with contact information, though all
chairpersons shall initiate communication with their working committees).
Executive Board members are expected to participate in the work
of their respective committees, as well as to draft strategic
plan of the association development for the next 2-3 years. The
draft will eventually be based on the decisions of the Forum and
committees working plan for this year. Last but not least, major alumni events, including next year
Forum and annual reunion, would need to be co-organized by the
Alumni Council and Alumni Affairs Office. The Executive Board
will be responsible for the CEU-AFA part of the program and Alumni
Affairs would take care of the support and logistics, as well
as CEU's involvement. Looking forward to yet another exciting year of work with the
most dedicated and wonderful alumni leaders and friends!The
Azerbaijan Fuad Aliyev (POLS' 02) <fa@oxygen.az>
Armenia Aida Ghazaryan (LEGS '00) <aida.ghazaryan@undp.org>
Belarus Aliaksej Lashuk (LEGS '04) <lex13@tut.by>
Bulgaria Zornitsa Stefanova (POLS '98) <Zornitsa@mbox.contact.bg>
Mariana Kotzeva (ECON '93) <kotzeva@ac-association.org>
Croatia Berislav Schejbal (MEDS '98) <berislav.schejbal@bj.htnet.hr>
Hungary Zoltan Aszalos (HUMR '98) <aszalos@metaforum.hu>
Israel Olena Bagno (SOCI '00) <arib22@yahoo.com>
Kazakhstan Nadir Burnashev (ECON '95) <NBurnashev@msk.kz>
Kyrgyzstan Nurlan Djenchuraev (ENVS '99) <nurdjen@freenet.kg>
Lithuania Linas Turauskas (SOCI '95) <Linas.Turauskas@ism.lt>
Macedonia Natasha Bandulieva (ENVS '00) <nbandulieva@yahoo.com>
Moldova Alex Oprunenco (POLS '00) <alsag@yahoo.com>
Montenegro Maja Djuric Djordjevic (ARTH '95) <majamima@yahoo.com>
Poland Oleh Dyachenko (SOCI '03) <olegdia@yahoo.com>
Romania Anca Gheaus (POLS '99, GENS '00)<agheaus@yahoo.com>
Russia Alla Anisimova (SOCI '95) <anissimova27@academ.org>
Marianna Skuratovska (HIST '95) <marianna@diar.ru>
Helena Zhidkova (HIST '96) <zhidkova@ssu.samara.ru>
Slovakia Patrik Zoltvany (IRES '98) <zoltvany@ajg.sk>
Ukraine Olga Kerekesha (GENS '03) <olgakerekesha@hotmail.com>
Uzbekistan Rustam Yuldashev (POLS '98) <rustam_uz@mail.ru>
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We thank you for your participation and look forward to your thoughts
on how to make the alumni network serve the alumni and University
better. If you have any comments and suggestions regarding the
above, we would like to hear from you at <alumni@ceu.hu>.
Greetings
from Alumni Affairs and Maja Djuric Djordjevic (Montenegro, ARTH
'95). Maja generously donated her works to CEU and all graduates
coming back to Budapest are welcome to see it (Nador u. 9, MB
209). Coming from a family of renowned painters, Maja had an innate
aptitude for the fine arts, but photography became her true passion.
Maja studied at CEU in Prague under the expert guidance of Prof.
Ian Jeffrey. Currently, she is director of the Institute of Photography
of Montenegro. See more...
George
Soros launched the European Debate Forum in Kyiv, Nationan University
Kyiv-Mohyla Academy on June 1, 2005. The event was organized by
the International Renaissance Foundation. CEU alumni were involved
into organizing this event and also participated in it. On
picture from left to right: Hryhoriy Nemyria, Foreign Policy and
European Integration Advisor to the Prime-Minister of Ukraine,
Ian Boag, Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to
Ukraine, George Soros and Borys Tarasyuk, Minister or Foreign
Affairs of Ukraine.
CEU
Alumni Networking Workshop and Alumni Scholarship 2005 Lottery
Reception with authentic Hungarian wine and cheese treats took
place at the Hungarian Trade Commissioner Center in Moscow. The
Reception was a place to meet the new generation of CEU graduates,
as well as alumni from early years, that achieved a lot in academia
or made it to the top of executive ladder in business and government.
40 of the total of 50 reception participants purchased CEU Alumni
Scholarship 2005 Lottery tickets and thus donated to Alumni Scholarship
Campaign 2005. There was a training module for alumni volunteers
and an info session on the latest developments of CEU. Also, a
Career Mentoring Session by Serge Sych (IRES '97) & Peter
Grishin (ECON '00) of Rosbank on "CEU Alumni in Russian Federation:
Career Profiles & General Employment Trends" took place.
Marianna Skuratovska (HIST '95) led a recruitment training session.
CEU
Armenian Alumni Chapter held a general meeting at the Journalists'
House in Yerevan to discuss the upcoming Forum agenda, to reflect
on the achievements, challenges and priorities for development
of the Armenian Alumni Chapter, to review the Alumni benefits
and ways for contributions, including the Alumni Scholarship Campaign
2005. The assembly gave a unique opportunity to meet new alumni,
to get updates on a variety of issues, to brainstorm on critical
aspects for community building and utilization of the high potentials
of the Alumni. It identified gaps of the Armenian alumni involvement
and performance in maintaining links with CEU and other chapters.
Graduates discussed the strengthening of links with OSI, revival
of interest and commitments towards the alumni community, as well
as support for the Alumni Scholarship Fund. Armenian alumni collectes
several gifts for the Alumni scholarhip. The wine & chips
meeting passed in a warm ambiance, constructive spirit and nostalgia
with warm memories from CEU and Budapest
CEU
alumni in Ukraine met for the already traditional drink &
chat session at in Kyiv. Alumni discussed chapter involvment
in EU related projects and the visit of George Soros to Ukraine.
CEU
alumni in Uzbekistan met in the office of the Association of Translators,
Interpreters and Teachers of Foreign Languages of Uzbekistan.
The goal of the meeting was to get to know new alumni and to discuss
possibility of implementing joint projects in which Uzbek CEU
alumni could take part. The upcoming Alumni Leadership Forum and
Alumni Fundraising Campaign 2005 was also discussed.
Macedonian
Alumni Chapter invited all CEU graduates in Macedonia to join
the meeting on Wednesday, April 20 at 17:00 at the Irish Pub in
Skopje. The goal of the meeting was to try to revive the chapter
and to set goals for future active involvement in Alumni &
Friends Association.
An
OSI Alumni Conference was held on March 30, 2005 in Baku. Alumni,
fellows and participants of various Soros-funded research and
education programs participated in this event. In the first panel
OSI-AF alumni discussed the current situation of those graduates
who received education in western countries. Panel participants
discussed recent survey held among OSI-AF alumni, the results
were presented by Fuad Aliyev (POLS '02). Alumni shared their
opinion about high school and university education in the US.
At the same time, OSI-AF Masters in Social Work program and participants
of Salzburg Medical Seminars gave reports on the work that they
were involved with. Along with achievements, OSI-AF alumni talked
about problems that they face with. As it became apparent, the
problems are common not only for OSI-AF alumni but for all alumni
in Azerbaijan. There is a lack of network between them and indifference
on the part of the Government. Panel participants came up with
concrete proposals to organize a conference not for OSI-AF alumni
in Azerbaijan and to establish Alumni Mass Media source to have
alumni voices heard. CEU
Washington DC Chapter Happy Hour took place on Wednesday, March
16 at 6:30pm in The Brickskeller, 1523 22nd St. NW, Washington,
DC.
"Euroclub"
and the CEU Alumni East-Ukrainian Chapter hosted the first All-Ukrainian
Student Scientific Conference on European Studies "European
Integration: Economic and Social Consequences of the European
Union Enlargement". There were sessions on theories of European
integration, transformations in the EU, economic and social consequences
of enlargement and problems of EU integration for Ukraine. Alumni
organized a cultural program with a sightseeing trip of Donetsk,
concert and ballet performance.
Holly Bouma (USA, SOCI '99) and Oleh Dyachenko (SOCI '03) organized the first community service event of the Polish Alumni Chapter for 2005: they invited alumni to donate clothes to give to a charity. Fifteen CEU graduates made the event a success and the clothes donated will most likely be sent to a refugee center. The same evening, there was a social event at Republica Latina in Warsaw.
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Sciences Department
"Landscapes.
Ten Years Later"
"Europe
Through Culture"