News

Messing and Sagvari awarded Polanyi Prize

November 26, 2020

Our colleagues, Vera Messing and Bence Sagvari, together with David Simon (ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences) received the Polanyi prize this year for their publication entitled Methodological Challenges in Cross-comparative Surveys: The Case of Understanding Attitudes towards Democracy in Hungary: https://intersections.tk.mta.hu/…/intersec…/article/view/530.

Call for research assistant: Democracy in History Workgroup, CEU Democracy Institute

November 24, 2020

The CEU Democracy Institute is looking for a committed research assistant to contribute to setting up the Democracy in History Workgroup: Practices, Discourses and Theories of Democratization and De-Democratization in Historical Context. 

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Unit: Democracy Institute
Location: online
Starting date: ASAP

Application deadline: Open until filled, review of applications will start December 7, 2020

Expert talk on human trafficking: ‘Is there a Chance to Win the Battle?‘

November 18, 2020

In view of this year’s 20th Anniversary of the unveiling of the UN Palermo Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, the Regional Implementation Initiative is organizing an event where a group of experts will discuss human trafficking issues at the Austrian Chamber of Labour

European Societies Through the Prism of the European Social Survey​

November 12, 2020

The Centre for Social Sciences (Társadalomtudományi Kutatóközpont -TK) organized an ESS Budapest Conference entitled ‘European societies through the prism of the European Social Survey’ to be held on 12 November 2020.

The purpose of the conference is to bring together researchers, analysts, policy makers and state representatives to share and discuss scholarly research and analyses based on data of the European Social Survey. 

Internship & Mentoring Programme at the CEU Democracy Institute

November 4, 2020

The Review of Democracy, a new online journal initiated by the Central European University’s Democracy Institute is looking for two interns interested in one (or more) of these thematic fields: rule of law, processes of (re/de-) democratisation, inequalities and democracy, histories of practices an ideas of democracy, debates on the future of Europe.

The tasks of interns will be the following: