2009-2010
June 14, 2010, RSP special lecture
Wendy Doniger, Chicago, Dogs as Dalits, and Dogs with Dalits, in the History of Hinduism.
June 10, 2010, five o’clock tea seminar
Cities and Intersections in Religio-Historical Perspective: Bagdad: Chapters from the History of the Jews of Bagdad. Presentation by Judith Karpati, Jewish Theological Seminary at the University of Jewish Studies, Budapest.
May 18, 2010, seminar
Ambassador Clovis Maksoud, Washington D.C., Islam, Islamism, Confessionalism – Religion and Politics in the Middle East Today. (Organized jointly with the CEU Rectorate).
April 22, 2010, RSP special lecture
Guy Stroumsa, Oxford, Teaching the Abrahamic Religions: A subversive enterprise.
April 1, 2010, five o’clock tea seminar
Cities and Intersections in Religio-Historical Perspective: Jerusalem. Presentation by Carsten Wilke, Professor, CEU History Department.
March 18, 2010, RSP special lecture
FILM SCREENING: Bird’s Way. Directors: Klara Trencsenyi & Vlad Naumescu. (A Religious Studies Program and Sociology and Social Anthropology Joint Film Screening and Discussion Group).
February 18, 2010, lecture
Kristina Stoeckl, Rome, Political Modernity, Orthodox Religion, and Two Interpretative Frameworks.”
February 4, 2010, RSP special lecture
FILM SCREENING: Our Feelings Took the Pictures: Open Shutters Iraq. Director: Maysoon Pachachi. (A Religious Studies Program and Sociology and Social Anthropology Joint Film Screening and Discussion Group).
January 28, 2010, five o’clock tea seminar
Cities and Intersections in Religio-Historical Perspective: Alexandria II. Presentation by Adam Mestyan, Phd candidate, CEU History Department.
December 3, 2009, five o’clock tea seminar
Cities and Intersections in Religio-Historical Perspective: Alexandria. Presentation by Vedran Bileta, MA Program, CEU Medieval Studies Program.
November 26, 2009, five o’clock tea seminar
Catherine M. Chin's book Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World. A discussion group held in cooperation with the Center for Hellenic Traditions (Center for Eastern Mediterranian Studies).
November 5, 2009, five o’clock tea seminar
Cities and Intersections in Religio-Historical Perspective: Carthage. Presentation by Matthias Riedl, Professor, CEU History Department.
October 29, 2009, five o’clock tea seminar
Christopher MacEvitt's book The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance. A discussion group held in cooperation with the Center for Hellenic Traditions (Center for Eastern Mediterranian Studies).
2008-2009
June 10, 2009, lecture
Peter L. Berger, Boston, Adventures with Sociology – An “Ego-history.” (In cooperation with the International Relations and European Studies Department and the Sociology and Social Anthropology Department.
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June 9, 2009, seminar
Peter L. Berger, Boston, Seclarization is Dead – Pluralism is Needed. (Organized jointly with the International Relations and European Studies Department and the Sociology and Social Anthropology Department)
March 27 - 28, 2009, international conference
Eastern Christianity in Post-Imperial Societies [Orthodox Christianity and European Integration: Central and South Eastern European Perspectives]. Fourth conference for the EU project Engaging Eastern Europe – Eastern Orthodox Christianity in an Integrating Europe (Organized jointly by the CEU and universities in Nijmegen, Montpellier, Moscow).
March 28, 2009, lecture
Liliya Berezhnaya, Nijmegen, The Legacy of Empire(s) in Contemporary Russian and Ukraine Religious Movies.
March 28, 2009, lecture
Glenn Bowman, Kent, The Fate of Sharing in an Age of Nations: Rethinking Syncretism in the Wake of the Empire.
March 27, 2009, lecture
Andrew Louth, Durham, Ignatius or Eusebius? Different Models of Patristic Ecclesiology.
March 19, 2009, five o’clock tea seminar
Reforming the Orthodox or the Search for the Middle Way : The Case of the 1567-1568 "Tâlcul Evangheliilor" (The Interpretation of the Gospel), a presentation by Christian Daniel, Phd candidate, Medieval Studies Department.
March 5, 2009, five o’clock tea seminar
How do You Bury a Deposed King? A Case Study on the Two Burials of King Richard II and the Transmission of Power, a presentation by Kosana Jovanovic, Medieval Studies.
February 19, 2009, lecture
Felicitas Schmieder, Hagen, How to Read the Future in Order to Organize the Present: Medieval Prophecy as a Political Language.
February 5, 2009, five o’clock tea seminar
Judit Herrin’s New Book, Introduction to Byzantine History, a discussion group held in cooperation with the Center for Hellenic Traditions (Center for Eastern Mediterranian Studies).
January 9, 2009, lecture
Igor Lyman, Berdyansk, Research on Religious History and the Popular Spiritual World in a Multiethnic Region: Potential for Oral History.
December 4, 2008, seminar
Géza Vermes, Oxford, Living with the Dead Sea Scrolls: Sixty Years of Personal Involvement with Qumran.
December 3, 2008, lecture and seminar
Rajeev Bhargava, New Delhi, Can Secularism be Rehabilitiated?
November 28 - 29, 2008, RSP workshop
Ottoman Studies: Comparisons, Entanglements, New Perspectives. (Organized jointly with the History Department.)
November 27, 2008, five o’clock tea seminar
Tears and Singularities: The Problem of Evil in Early Modern Romanian Literature, a presentation Alin Vara, Ma Program, History Department.
November 13, 2008, five o’clock tea seminar
Daily Life in the Ottoman-Habsburg Frontier: What Do Sources Tell Us?, a presentation by Muhammed Calisir, MA program, History Department.
November 4 - 5, 2008, international conference
Le fait religieux en Europe: Projet de rencontres co-financé par le Fonds D’Alembert. (Organized with Collegium Budapest.)
September 26, 2008, lecture
Bojan Alexov, London, From “Imperial Into “National” Church: How Karlovci Metropolitanate Became the Serbian Orthodox Church and What It Tells Us About Nationalism in Eastern Europe.
2007-2008
December 14, 2007, five o’clock tea seminar
The Orthodox-Lutheran Dialogue in the 16th Century: Text and Context. Presentation by Ilona Denes, Ph.D. Student, Dept. of History, CEU.
December 7-8, 2007, international conference
The Apocalyptic Complex – Origins, Histories, Permanence [Toward a Philosophico-Historical Approach to the Apocalyptic: Contemporary Apocalypticisms and their Histories].
November 30, 2007, five o’clock tea seminar
Digging Up the Bible: What is Biblical Archaeology? Presentation by Aaron Gale, Visiting Professor, University of Szeged.
November 16, 2007, five o’clock tea seminar
The Image of a Seated Ruler as a Presentation of a Deity. Presentation by Tanja Tolar, M.A. Student, Dept. of Medieval Studies.
2006-2007
May 7-27, 2007, seminar
José Casanova, Georgetown, Religions and Modernities in a Global Age. An interdisciplinary seminar. (Organised by the History Department, CEU's Comparative History Project and the Higher Education Support Program.)
May 11-13, 2007, international conference
The Legacies of Ignaz Goldziher, Ernest Renan and Julius Wellhausen and the Study of Islam.
May 11, 2007, RSP special lecture
Wendy Doniger, Chicago, The Re-Invention of the History of Religions and Comparative Mythology in Nineteenth-Century Romanticism and Racism.
May 4, 2007, RSP workshop
Religious Studies in a Globalised World – Themes, Directions, Perspective. Workshop in conjunction with the Inauguration of the Chair of Comparative Religious Studies.
May 4, 2007, RSP special lecture
Matthias Riedl, Budapest, Proleptic Existence – Anticipation of the Future in Religion, Politics, Music and Art. Inaugural lecture from the incoming Chair of Comparative Religious Studies at CEU.
March 23, 2007, RSP special lecture
FILM SERIES: Sectarianism and War – A series of film screenings marking the 4th anniversary of the war on Iraq. (Organized by the RSP and the Human Rights Student Initiative.)
March 22, 2007, seminar
Nariman Gasimoglu, Georgetown, The Koran in Non-Arabic Languages: Linguistic and Theological Challenges.
March 12 - 14, 2007, RSP workshop
The Supernatural and Its Visual Representation in the Middle Ages – An Interdisciplinary Workshop.. (In cooperation with the Department of Medieval Studies, CEU)
March 11, 2007, RSP students’ workshop
Visual Representations between Sacred and Profane: Images, Arts and Institutions (organized in conjunction with the workshop The Supernatural and Its Visual Representation in the Middle Ages.) Guest Lecturer Finbarr Barry Flood, New York.
January 12, 2007, RSP special lecture
Zoya Hasan, New Delhi, Legal Pluralism and Muslim Women's Rights in India.
December 1-7, 2006, RSP special lecture
Brian Stock, Toronto, Ethics, Reading, and the Creative Imagination. A three-part lecture series. (Organized by the RSP and the CEU Humanities Center.)
November 30, 2006, seminar
Maria Crăciun, Cluj, Reforming Church Space: Altarpieces and Their Functions in Early Modern Transylvania.
October 5, 2006, RSP special lecture
Evert van der Zweerde, Nijmegen, All Europeans Are Equal, But Aren't Some More Equal Than Others?: Reflections on Europe and Orthodox Christianity, (Organized by RSP and the Department of Social and Political Philosophy)
2005-2006
May 16, 2006, RSP special lecture
José Casanova, Georgetown, Rethinking Secularization: A Global Comparative Perspective.
May 16, 2006, seminar
José Casanova, Georgetown, Public and Private Religion in East and West. (Part of the seminar Religion and Modernity organized by the Departments of History and Sociology and Social Anthropology)
May 3, 2006, RSP workshop
Mission and”mission civilisatrice”- Catholic Missionaries in South Eastern Europe: Case Studies from the 14-19th Century. Guest Lecturer Ronnie Po-chia Hsia, Penn State.
May 3, 2006, lecture
Ronnie Po-chia Hsia, Penn State University, Missions and History in the Early Modern World: Historiography and Reflections.
March 24 - 25, 2006, RSP-supported workshop
Christianity and Languages of “National” Identity in South-Eastern, Central and Eastern Europe. Middle Ages – Early Modern Period (In cooperation with the CEU Department of History and Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies)
March 23, 2006, RSP special lecture
Karl F. Morrison, New Brunswick, Dante's Copulant and Concordant Book.
March 16, 2006, lecture
György Geréby, Budapest, Doctrine, Method and Text: Lessons from the Christian Apocrypha.
March 9, 2006, lecture
Mikhail Dmitriev, Budapest, Apophatic Theological Tradition and the Problem of Authority in Eastern Slavic Orthodox Cultures in the XVIth - XVIIth Centuries.
January 12 - March 20, 2006, seminar
Bookish Traditions: The Authority of the Book in Scripturalist Religions. (University-wide seminar organized in cooperation with the Department of History and the Department of Medieval History, CEU)
March 4 - 7, 2006, RSP-supported workshop
Religion and State Formation -- Comparative Perspectives from Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (In cooperation with the Bergen Center for Medieval Studies and the Department of Medieval Studies, CEU)
March 2, 2006, lecture (university-wide seminar Bookish Traditions)
Balázs Mezei, Budapest, The Decline of the Scriptures in 19th Century Speculative Philosophies and their Subsequent Revival. (Organized by RSP and Peter Pazmany Catholic University, Piliscsaba)
February 20-21, 2006, international conference
Sacred Texts and Print Culture I. The Case of the Orthodox Bible and the Koran during the 18th and 19th century (In cooperation with Islamia Millia University, New Delhi.)
February 21, 2006, lecture (university-wide seminar Bookish Traditions)
Moshe Idel, Tel Aviv, White Letters in the Bible: The Spaces between the Black Letters, from Medieval Kabbalah to Mallarmé and Derrida.
February 9, 2006, lecture (university-wide seminar Bookish Traditions:)
Mihail Neamţu, Bucharest, Sacred Texts and Open Readings.
December 2-4, 2005, international conference
Sacred Texts and Print Culture II. The Case of the Orthodox Bible and the Koran during the 18th and 19th century (In cooperation with Islamia Millia University, New Delhi.)
October 29, 2005, international conference
Perspectives of Research on Central Asia at the Central European University (funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung.)
September 26-27, 2005, international conference
The Theologies of Empires (In cooperation with Collegium Budapest.)