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g a z e t t e THE CHRONICLE OF CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY Winter 2003 Vol. 13, No. 2 CEU Continues to Strengthen European Ties CEU initiates the Consortium for the Advancement of Graduate Education in Europe and attends the European University Association Conference CEU recently took part in two events involving its rela- University Representatives: tionship with other graduate schools at the European level. At CEU's initiative, rectors and other high-level Mark Vuijlsteke, Director of Development, and Robert representatives of 16 universities gathered in Budapest Picht, Professor, College of Europe, Brugge, Belgium; on November 1, to discuss ways to Reynold Bloom, President, Am e r i c a n strengthen graduate education in University, Bulgaria; Jaak Aaviksoo, Europe as a means to achieve the Re c t o r , University of Tartu, Estonia; objectives of the Bologna Process. Jurgen Dieringer, Professor, An d r á s s y The participants were "natural" U n i v e r s i t y, Budapest, Hungary; partners of CEU from Central and László Komlósi, Vice-Rector, Uni- Eastern European, as well as West- versity of Pécs, Hungary; A t t i l a ern European graduate schools. Chikán, Rector, Budapest Univer- After a full day of intensive discus- sity of Economic Sciences and sions, consensus was reached that Public Administration, Hungary; the European Higher Education Ferenc Hudecz, Pro-Rector, Eötvös Area, which is planned to come Loránd University, Budapest, Hun- into being by 2010, cannot be complete and competitive gary; Andreas Frijdal, Head of Academic Service, Euro- without high-level graduate education. Unfortunately, it pean University Institute, Florence, Italy; Juozas was further noted that graduate education—in particular Vidmantis Vaitkus, Vic e - R e c t o r , Vilnius University, Lithu- its doctoral layer—has been largely underestimated in an i a; Gheorghe Rusnac, Rector, Moldova State Univer- the context of the Bologna Process. Upon CEU's pro- sity, Chisinau, Moldova; Piotr Nowina-Konopka, Vice- posal, the participants agreed to create a Consortium for R e c t o r, College of Europe, Natolin, Poland; Piotr the Advancement of Graduate Education in Europe in Weglenski, Rector, Warsaw University, Poland; Serban order to stimulate a different approach. The Consortium, Agachi, Vice-Rector, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj- designed as an active and highly visible strategic partner- Napoca, Romania; Nikolaj S. Dikansky, Rector, ship, will engage in actions aiming at fostering graduate Novosibirsk State University, Russian Federation; Peter education, including lobbying, advocacy, and policy-mak- O s u s k y, Vice-Rector for International Cooperation, ing. CEU will assume the secretariat of the Consortium Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia; Nevenka along with Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. Hrovatin, Vice-Dean, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Continued on page 3. CEU Admitted as Full Member of the Hungarian Rectors’ Conference An important achievement in the process of obtaining full in an official letter his support for CEU's bid to obtain recognition in Hungary for CEU took place on October accreditation in Hungary. As a collective member of the 28, when the university became a full member of the European University Association, the Hungarian Rectors' Hungarian Rectors' Conference, upon the unanimous Conference is one of the key players in the efforts aiming vote of the Hungarian universities represented at the at the creation of a common European Higher Education Conference. The Chairman of the Conference expressed and Research Ar e a . APPOINTMENTS Bard/CEU Study Abroad Éva Gedeon has been appointed Program Presentation Executive Director of SUN/Special Academic Events, effective Nov- ember 1, 2003. On November 7, the princi- pals of the CEU/Bard Study Abroad program were in the Andrea Kis has been appointed spotlight hosting a group of Coordinator of the Department of visiting US university "study Hi s t o r y , effective November 3, 2003. abroad" deans and directors. The Study Abroad program, together with Bard College, organized a presentation which Ugo Pagano was appointed Head included campus tours, an of the Department of Economics, information session about effective August 1, 2003. Audience members look on. CEU, and discussions with current program students. Coinciding with the annual conference of the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE), the presentation was attended by representa- tives of at least 37 universities, including Princeton, Harvard, Sarah Lawrence, Wesleyan, Cornell, Notre CEU FACU LT Y Dame, Macalester, and Columbia. Commenting MEMBERS IN on the event, CEU’s Ac a - TH E SP OT L I G H T demic Director of the Pro- gram, Linda Fisher said, In October, the Serbian "Events like this are im- Academy of Sciences elected CEU University Professor portant not only for the vis- Tibor Várady as a Member. ibility of our cooperative study abroad programs, but Rositsa Bateson (CEU Vic e also for the university as a President, Student Services) Judit Sándor whole. Hosting visitors (Associate Professor, from such leading US universities creates an exciting Department of History) forum to highlight the many strengths and opportuni- recently participated as Linda Fis h e r ties at CEU, and to increase our international profile." one of three drafting experts on a panel selected by the International Bioethics Transatlantic Dialogues Commission of UNESCO. The panel helped produce the finalized verion of the International Declaration on Human Genetic Data, which UNESCO’s General Conference adopted on October 16. The text constitutes a significant contribution to the development of an international legal framework in the field of bioethics. CEU Laptop Area On November 24, a laptop area where community members and authorized visitors can access their email and the Internet by connecting to the network with their own computers, was made On November 19, the second Transatlantic Dialogues available. The ground floor and event, "After the Fact: Reading Tocqueville in Baghdad," first floor of the display area serves took place in New York. Pictured are (left to right): as the space. Irene Gendzier (Professor of Political Science, Boston University), Aziz Al-Azmeh (CEU Distinguished Vis i t i n g Professor), Yehuda Elkana (CEU President and Rector), Founder: Central European University Leila Sharaf (former Senator and Cabinet Minister, 1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 9-11. Ed i t o r -in-Chief: Brandon Krueger Jordan), Eric Rouleau (political analyst, former Fre n c h Editorial office: 1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 9-11. Ambassador to Tur k e y , Tun i s i a ) Publisher: Central European University 1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 9-11. Aziz Al - A z m e h Registration number: 2.2.4/438/2002 2 Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt Awarded CEU Honorary Doctorate On December 5, Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt making rulings that the US must was awarded an Honorary Doctor of follow even when these are not Philosophy by the Senate of Central in its favor. Thus, though the European University. Shalini Randeria hegemon, the US does not have (Professor of An t h r o p o l o g y , University a monopoly on the legitimization of Zürich) provided the laudatio, and of its own hegemony. Professor afterward Professor Eisenstadt gave a Eisenstadt also argued that there public lecture on "The Paradoxes of is a new type of heterogeneity Globalization and Hegemony in the emerging beneath this current Shalini Randeria Contemporary Era." A distinguished he g e m o n y . This can be seen in audience of academic guests, faculty, the way Jewish, Muslim, and and students were on hand to watch the ceremony and the lec- Christian faiths have all empha- ture, which took place in the CEU Auditorium. sized their traditions—not because they are interested in Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt custom—but rather because they are looking to mobilize for modern battles. These faiths, along with emerging secular, non-state actors, are all proposing universalisms (worldviews) with the hope of appropriating "m o d e r n i t y ," and therefore legitimacy, for their own cause. Professor Eisenstadt took neither an optimistic nor a pessimistic tone on the world's situation, and ultimately was concerned with the question: how can we develop a pluralistic society that can find new methods of cooperation and ways to accept variety? Shmuel Eisenstadt is Rose Isaacs Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is known worldwide as a modern classic of the social sciences in a broad sense, striding over many disciplines. In a Weberian tradition his numerous works relate practically to the whole world, always from a comparative point of view. His studies on the political systems of empires and Shalini Randeria (left), Yehuda Elkana, Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (right) comparative studies of civilizations culminated in recent years with In his talk, Professor Eisenstadt offered a more subtle analysis to a series of studies around the concept coined by him of "multiple the post-Cold War condition than the oft-cited theses "End of modernities." Professor Eisenstadt is a Member of the Israel History" by Francis Fukuyama and "Clash of Civilizations" by Academy of Sciences and Humanities, an Honorary For e i g n Samuel Huntington. He posited that even though the United Member of the US Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a For e i g n States is currently the clear world hegemon in all respects (mil- Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. He is the recip- it a r i l y , economically, ideologically), this fact generates systemic ient of the International Balzan Prize (for Sociology) in 1988, and contradictions. Namely, the US must create institutions (such as his seminal work, The Political Systems of Empires, first pub- the WTO, UN) in order to reinforce its own legitimacy.