NEWS
ONGOING RESEARCH
The first year PhD students of the Sociology and Social Anthropology Department cordially invite you to our Graduate conference,
Entity, Construction, Relation: Critical Approaches to Time/Space, the State and Knowledge Production in Sociology and Social Anthropology.
We attached the schedule of the conference and the call for papers. More details and the abstracts of the papers to be found on the official website of the conference: www.ceu.hu/soc_anth_conference
Call for Papers
Conference Schedule
We are looking forward to seeing you there,
The organizing team
email:soc_anth_conference@ceu-budapest.edu
V4 Social Anthropology Summer School: Rethinking Anthropological Engagement in Central-Eastern Europe. link here
Warsaw, June 3-6, 2010
This series of graduate summer schools sponsored by the Visegrad Fund is an initiative of four academic institutions and professional organizations from Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic and Poland. The V4 summer schools take place each year in a different country and focus on special themes relevant for the development of regional anthropology. The first summer school 'Teaching and studying social anthropology in Central Europe' was organized by the Slovak Association of Social Anthropologists in cooperation with the other partners in Modra, Slovakia (September 16 - 20, 2009). The second summer school organized this year by the Institute of Ethnology, Warsaw University continues the cooperation and academic exchange with a new topic: “Rethinking anthropological engagement in Central-Eastern Europe” (link!). The meeting’s purpose is to encourage anthropological engagement in public debates on relevant social issues in Central-Eastern Europe. In the long run, the project aims at strengthening academic cooperation and exchange in the V4 region and beyond, creating a durable network of anthropological institutions.
ENVISIONED CULTURES, EXPERIENCED SPACES
works by
Students of the Visual Anthropology Workshop (2008-2010)
of Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, CEU
Tuesday, June 1, 5PM
CEU Octagon and Spiral Staircase
invitation
A visual Anthropology blog is available at http://visualanthroceu.wordpress.com/
Congratulations to our Ph.D. graduates, Vitalis Ngambouk Pemuta and Herta Toth.
Herta Toth's study is titled "Inequality and Discipline. The Production of Inequalities in a Women's Prison". Her defense was held on march 11, 2010. The chair of the defense was Violetta Zentai (CPS/Policy Studies). The committee was composed of Eva Fodor (Gender Department) as her supervisor, Ayse Caglar (Sociology and Social Anthropology), Lynne Haney (NYU) and Pat Carlen (Kent University, UK).
Vitalis has defended his thesis entitled "Still „Fixing Women“?: Female Circumcision and the Anti-HIV/AIDS Fight among the Ejaghams of Cameroon" in September 2008. The defense committee was chaired by Allaine Cerwonka (Gender Department, CEU) and composed of Don Kalb (Sociology and Social Anthropology) as his supervisor as well as Anna Loutfie (Gender Department), Ronald Moore (University College Dublin) and Rijk van Dijk (Leiden University).
2009 Debut: the Center for Network Science
The Center for Network Science is an emerging interdisciplinary group, gathering faculty and students from sociology, anthropology, environmental science, political science, international relations, history, economics, and mathematics. The goal of participants is to discuss the potential of non-linear thinking in terms of complex emergent dynamics, the impact of connectedness in network structures especially along the following lines: global civic networks, ecological webs, business-political interconnections and corruption, blog networks and online communities, multinational business networks, migration, academic flows, terrorist networks, semantic webs. The Center meets monthly to facilitate learning new techniques of analysis, and understanding commonalities in network dynamics across a wide variety of fields. The group is open to all students and faculty with any level of familiarity regarding methods. For more information, visit the Center for Network Science Website
Note the date of the international conference hosted by the Center: June 17-18: "The Unexpected Link: Using network science to tackle social problems".
NEW FACULTY: Welcome to Jean-Louis Fabiani, Jakob Rigi and Andreas Dafinger, who join the department's faculty in September 2008.
Jan Drahokoupil, who graduated in 2007 from the Department has recently joined the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) as a Senior Research Fellow.
Congratulations to our department's first Ph.D. graduate Jan Drahokoupil for successfully defending his dissertation! Jan's study is titled "The Rise of the Competition State in Central and Eastern Europe: The Politics of Foreign Direct Investment." The defense took place on September 10, 2007. The defense committee was chaired by Julius Horvath (Economics, CEU) and composed of Don Kalb (Sociology and Social Anthropology, CEU) and Nitsan Chorev (Sociology, Brown University, Providence, USA), Jan's dissertation supervisors, as well as Dorothee Bohle (Political Science, CEU) and Bob Jessop (Sociology, University of Lancaster, UK).
RECENT BOOKS
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Prem Kumar Rajaram and Carl Grundy-Warr (eds.), Borderscapes: Hidden Geographies and Politics at Territory’s Edge, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, Dec 2007
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Dan Rabinowitz and Daniel Monterescu (eds.), Mixed Cities/Trapped Communities: Historical Narratives, Spatial Dynamics and Gender Relations in Jewish-Arab Mixed Towns. London: Ashgate Publishing. 2007 |
ONGOING RESEARCH SYMBOLIC CAPITAL, THE URBAN FRONTIER AND THE LIMITS OF COMMODIFICATION
Alexandra Kowalski
If historic preservation has become one of the most blatant cultural manifestations of economic globalization, urban studies have devoted little attention to the precise sociological relationship between economy and culture that it instantiates, taking it for granted, instead, as an effect of "gentrification" processes. What explains that historic preservation comes to mediate economic interests in processes of urban development at some point in the history of a city or a state, while it has not before or does not equally do so everywhere? What explains that its impact and its forms vary across the time and space of global modernity? The project explores these issues by comparing the controversies opposing preservationists and modernizers in the historic centers of two developing regional capitals: Budapest, Hungary and Lyon, France. Besides its theoretical aim (illuminating symbolic and micro-political dynamics that are often overseen in gentrification and urban development studies) the study also explores the potential uses of preservationism in the defense of public space.
Alexandra Szoke, Ferenc Laczo and Dori Szego assist with interviews, documentary and bibliographic research. The research is supported by a CEU Faculty Research Grant through the 2008-2009 academic year.
ENACTING EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP
Ayse Caglar (principal investigator) and Prem Kumar Rajaram
This research is part of the project *Enacting European Citizenship*, an FP7/EC research collaboration between Open University (UK), Central European University (Budapest), Radboud University (NL), Koc University (Turkey), The Center for European Policy Studies (Brussels), and Riga Graduate School of Law (Latvia)
IMMIGRANTS, POLICIES AND MIGRATION SYSTEMS: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC COMPARATIVE APPROACH (MIGSYS)
Head of research for Hungary: Ayse Caglar.
Supported by the Foundation Population Migration and Environment/Metropolis.
EXAMINATION AND EVALUATION OF GOOD PRACTICES OF ETHNIC MINORITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP
CEU researchers: Ayse Caglar, regional coordinator for East and central European countries.
An EU project.
PATHWAYS OF PROPERTY TRANSFORMATUON - ORGANIZATIONAL NETWORK CAREERS
Balazs Vedres (in collaboration with David Stark, Columbia University)
This research project is about mapping the network dynamics of the largest 2000 firms in Hungary from 1987 to 2006. The sequences of network positions and the local dynamics of networks will be analyzed. We chart the interactions between political network ties and business networks.
REGIONAL GOVERNANCE, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND EU PROJECTS
Balazs Vedres (in collaboration with Lászlo Bruszt, EUI)
This project is about the impact of EU regional development grant systems on regional governance structures, especially the emergent project organization of civil society. We use surveys and case studies to understand emerging regional identities, new forms of project networks, and the impacts of winning EU grants.
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