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Director’s Foreword 9

FELLOWS Senior fellows 12 Junior fellows XXX Humanities Initiative fellows XXX Affiliated fellows XXX Artists in residence XXX

EVENTS Fellow seminars XXX Annual ias Lecture XXX Public lectures and seminars XXX Workshops and conferences XXX

GOVERNANCE International Academic Advisory Board XXX ceu ias Management and Staff XXX 160 x 100 cm, textile (Photo: Tihanyi & Bakos) Tihanyi (Photo: textile x 100 cm, 160 Foundation, Eszter Bornemisza: Eszter ↑ T foreword director’s ¶ which now has diminished intensity in although the situation remains Fellows, institutional fixtures suchas the Annual ias fifth anniversarywith a special conference.of the The end wasyear Hungarian authorities which threatened the continuing operation our of overshadowed the academic the of second year, half overall we look back end of something,end of a research project, a5-year plan, amove up the career celebration. In normal academic lifespans, five years more often mark the and as theand the as meeting of Academic Advisory Board, and much more. at adynamic and fruitful year, marked by outings and gatherings with the leader. The simple reason why the Institute took pridein marking this this year by French historian Robert Darnton apacked in auditorium mother institution, ceuand, institution, mother by extension the Institute.lines These are marked by ceubeing obliged to face special legislation enacted by the rather modest achievement you. to most of Fifth anniversaries rarely invite institutional this very young history of institution, may appear to a be unresolved and very uncertain. However, much as these as developments being written now with some temporal distance from the initial shock, What this year to an important was us moment and amarker of It with great began anticipation, marking and celebrating the ias he academic year 2016/17 amemorable been has one for the Institute. Lecture, delivered ’s ’s

p.9 Advanced Research The theme resonates stronglywithcurrent challenges that aresomein Wolf Lepenies, whose leadership continue and wisdom to sources be has becomeceu has afully independent expansive unit at the university, its whose critical mind marked international his and local reputation thewas firstinstitute “behind theiron curtain” becometo a “place of ways specific to our Institute but not exclusive us.to It refersus to the Discussions focused on the impact of temporary translocation to new, translocation temporary of the impact on focused Discussions European institutions and academics the was the tenor brilliant of of of ours and was continues to subject be to among discussion institutes environment changed has the rationale institutes and of like legitimacy critical thinking appears to nowhere be greater at the moment than in of intellectual inspiration and political and institutional support. institutional and political and inspiration intellectual of and often environments, unfamiliar calling up familiarity themes and of and career, this lasted only very briefly,as the challenge freeto and patterns andwork individual habits academics of academic of and of anniversary with aspecial conference that is when ias happiness”, the in happy expression renown economist of János Kornai, presence established among European and international networks of this, Europe. Eastern part of How the changing political and cultural the year, of history,economics, fromthe different coming fields sociology, reticence, potentially private time and the realization on limits time. of place,real andof virtual senses freedom and constraint, engagement and rapidly connectivity changing virtual modes of and networks, changing institutions overall. The conference brought togethercurrent and former keynote lecture by an eminent doyen Institutes of Advanced of Study, thein region. That these developments concernshouldbe of to all unexpected connotation and turn well. as Collegium If Budapest unfamiliarity, cumulativeness and breaks, concentration and interruption, it would become adurable, let alone athriving institution. Today, ias its first cohort of FellowsSeptember 2011,from far it was certain that fellows, long term and institutional new partners ias of for itself. Twenty-seven fellows spent time Budapest in with us during sister institutions. Space institutions. andsister Place –Mobility and Frontiers in 21st Century In retrospect, the theme defining our fifthanniversary took another, It goes without saying that the year had much more than this to say ias in our in immediate neighborhood, Bucharest, Sofia, and Vienna. was the was our fifth theme anniversary of conference.

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Violence, Institutions and Peacebuilding to Peacebuilding and Institutions Violence, Nadia Al-Bagdadi Diplomacy in amulti-confessional Age from or in Russia, from on the Internationalon the Markets ofEurope to around the globe diverse as from as India-Pakistan Management: Border projects as well as the beginnings of new collective new projects of the well as as projects, beginnings emerging this Yearbook displays the array wide fascinating individual research of the space theme of and place. Nevertheless, one cannot avoid noting the residence apart, the our fellows projects of were not designed terms in of religious studies, political science, philosophy, law and classics. Artists in it were, annual themes pet and tonalities.events at list The theof end of from encounters and elective affinitiesbetween scholars at ias small, encounters among fellows and the academic community, and, as our Fellows’spatial many of turns of research interests, covering themes A special year, yet again! Thus every Thus its year has very special flavor, marked by events large and Coffee andSocialism in the Venezuelan Andes to Sándor Márai Sándor Budapest. in Elective Affinities: Friendship Affinities:Friendship Elective The Impact oflibor Rigging . Tudor

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p.13 Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, University College London, of School Entangled Perspectives Entangled Second on Jewish Refugees in Balkans: the World War and Holocaust the Senior Thyssenfellow Bojan Aleksov Bojan

30 March to 2 April 2017, together with other the members network of fellows senior ¶ I arrived January at IAS CEUat the of beginning 2017 a after serving want to turn into abook length monograph. Twice during my stay, Imade conference at University College Dublin’s Centre for War Studies, from exhausting for me that to Ibegan worry that Iwould never able be to dedicated to administrative and day to day issues.periodso This was a trip to the archives and collected material. In addition, Iattended a and while enjoying almost ideal surrounding Budavar, of very Icould soon long with CEUprofessors discussions and doctoral students who were library and especially their Inter-library charge. loan free service of Most thoroughly about my project and its outcomes. In this sense, Ihad several changedmood amatter days. in of CEUawoke my intellectual curiosity three-year my head department, period as of aposition almost entirely research Iam doing at IAS. Furthermore, Ibenefitedfrom CEU’s rich importantly the stimulating atmosphere at CEUinduced me to think for the study of Transnational War Resistance where the Idiscussed by IAS and its staff, and especially at the Wallenberg Guesthouse, my onfocus my research again. Thanks to the fantastic conditions provided spend entire days reading and writing my project. During my six months’ stay Imade considerable progress on what I

p.15 Goldstein about or film his the debate on academicwriting organized with the existing literature; the statistics and numbers; victims of list when traveling Iwas Iattended the all Wednesday seminars and was a guest before aguest was Ihave to stress that the scholarly seminars was level of Many of themMany came of to my presentation delivered at IAS Fellows’ lectures complete my research once Iam back London. in In my presentation, I of praise forof other IAS fellows and their work. Except for afew occasions and drafts of all chapters all and drafts of though they are very far from being ready. and the challenges Iface regarding my narrative sources (autobiographies/ as theas Balkans, etc. Ihope to resolve these the in future and benefit and whether to publish them they as are bound to inconclusive; be of the fellowsof like the presentation on political and academic freedom others. enjoyed Ialso the side some of events organized by IAS and some academic conventions many places of where lectures are delivered only to other fellows like Yusuf Akbar, Djordje Stefanovich, Dunja Njaradi, lack of visual material; visual lack of balancecontext of and comparison; whether addition, Ibenefitted tremendouslyfrom lunchwith anddiscussions the participants pointed out to me some very relevant issues to consider. memoirs/personal recollections/interviews). Therelively a was debate and the few last months setting out my topic, its place the in existing literature report moved has me to spell out and further these re-think some of throughout the year by IAS such with Robert as Darnton, Susan Gal and thoroughly enjoyed. Compared to other institutions where Iworked or it is appropriateit is to consider Yugoslavia (and one chapter on Albania) interested my in work and were very supportive and beneficially critical. issues avery it practice so good is to ask for anarrative report. in India,in where Ilearnt much, so screenings andwith discussions Yoni book provisionally entitledJewish provisionally book Refugees 1933-1945 in Balkans the basically read out the firstintroductionmy draft of whichwrote I over from two presentations that Iam already invited to. Drafting this series, which agreat was honor but amotivation also to continue and by Yu some well events social as Songas organized by Eva Gönczi. In satisfy protocol. Furthermore, Ibenefitedfrom other lectures organized strikingly high, debates very real andserious, discussions far away from I still have unresolved issues such my as criticism of/relationship In addition to the introduction Ihave now structure afull for my Evaluating my stay beyond my own research Icould find only words

International Debt Markets ofEurope The Impact of LIBOR Rigging on the MonashUniversity, Australia Jonathan A. Batten A.Jonathan The IAS at CEU were extraordinary and generous hosts during theperiod was morewas to akin mine but Iunderstand the multitude constraints of David, Jorgensen, Bledsoe, Seth Tamas Vonyo and Tracey Sowerby, to London Interbank OfferedRate(LIBOR). This interest rate is a very short period, but Irealize these time constraints and the advantage opting for research clusters rather than individual scholars. regret Ialso emphasize that Nadia Al-Bagdadi and her team at the IAS are doing a having fellowsof even for avery short time. On the whole Iwant to of apaper thatof explores the relationship between financial market events that ranged from academic meetings to wellness events occurring enabled researchers, often from very different backgrounds, new discuss to my stay!of Apart from the superb accommodation and research facilities, and the Royal Scotland Bank had of admitted fault and were fined. about possible this manipulation key rate. of By key 2012 anumber of CEUIAS compared of aspect to other similarprograms elsewhere mention but afew. Ionly there wish were more fellows whose research the time of thethe Global time of Financial Crisis- regulators became concerned trading, with on afocus the well documented the manipulation of the most productive, interesting and exciting my in career! more broadly withinCEU. Without doubt, one been this period has of the IAS offered almost weeklyseminars (and delicious lunches) that ranging financial market impacts of manipulation andinsider in the fellowsin selection of and other problems that might arise when international banks, including Barclays, Union Switzerland Bank of international bank loans and securities. 2007- in Beginning around key benchmark interest rates for used euros pricing of trillions of both in ideas aformal and informal setting. In addition, there were other the in is personal and human its touch team headed of by Nadia. intellectual profile the CEU. of The most precious and differentiating before or shortly after Icame and with those who were for with us a for not being able more to discuss with fellows who completed their stay fantastic job facilitating in research and besides providing fellows us with great conditions for work contribute enormously to the research and The major achievement during my stay at the IAS was the completion The key objectivemy fellowshipof investigatewas to the far-

p.17 The agreementThe calls forzero net anthropogenicgreenhouse gas The LIBOR scandal, The LIBOR however, shows that compliance to these We the use recent prosecutions for the manipulation important of (CEU) and Igor Loncarski (Ljubljana) and that argues there may be United Nations Climate Change Conference Paris. in The key financial markets) and the commonevidence good.uses This paper LIBOR (LondonLIBOR Interbank OfferedRate) to argue that top-down emissions to reached be the during century. 21st the of second half degree of moraldegree responsibility of for their actions, and to some extent cannot ultimately succeed preventing in crimes. these of types crimes necessary is given their considerable economic and impacts. social circumstances under which the prevention market of manipulation may as incentive,as based. This approach requiresindividuals to accept a approaches to the rule enforcement individuals and corporations, of less than compared 2degrees Celsius (°C) to pre-industrial levels. linked to the financial marketimplications the new COP21 of properly motivated and instructed, individuals can think and act the actions of others.the actions of We -perhaps too idealistically- believe that more effectivein organisational environments that are duty,as well that they assume individuals make rational, consequence- manipulation, the role now played by whistle-blowers (since the result an agreement was limiting global to agoal set of warming to rules especially is problematic organizations in plagued with responsibility institutional favour in of and regulatory guidance. regulators cannot now easily identify price manipulation complex in not ultimately the serve common good. Clearly, prevention these of implementation. COP21 refers to the agreement from the 2015 upon individuals acting the in interest the common of good, maybe better than they might do despite otherwise behavioural bias. moral individual of allows the abdication This decisions. based from the scandal LIBOR to provide perspectives on these issues. self-centred, narcissistic and ruthless profit-drivencultures. Alternatively, we suggest that abottom-up approach, which relies This paperis This co-authoredwith two colleagues Peter G. Szilagyi While well it is accepted that COP21 implementation should lead In addition to this paper, work started also on aproject One key concern with current regulatory approaches is Philosophical Lessons for Citizens for Lessons Philosophical How to See Through Spin: Yale University, USA Erica Benner

I came to along-time IAS as the friend CEU, of having come here as financial markets can offset adverseoil pricerisk by holding various Everyone did framing asuperb their job of research accessible, in often of angles andof forced to present my nascent thoughts ways in that make excellent place this kind. project anew to By of begin engaging with other disciplinary or methodological boundaries. TheIAS proved be a to most one field and entering a fieldnew that still felt dauntingly large and earth without ever doing PowerPoint any or slides kind. of Having bit the fellows,of I’d somehow managed to get through my many years on entertaining-yet-serious ways, whether they were scholars ancient of stocks.of Even over the sample full period, we document risk adjusted oil market integration for these portfolios critical is to the managing all myall fellow IAS fellows, Ilearned agreat deal from other presentations. academic year, wrapping Iwas up research adecade-long period of into a visiting professor the in late 1990s–early 2000s. At this the start of analysts. Apart from the intellectual content these talks, of I’m grateful additional price energy risk, caused by COP21, through the purchase are segmented, there the is opportunity for oil investors to diversify the how to make slides and a slide presentations. theAs onemore of *senior* positive benefits investorsto from holdingdiversified oil-stock portfolios that by can used economists be to better measure and manage these risks. the and bullet slides used for my IAS talk, I’ve discovered awhole new to IAS and my fellow fellows for inspiring me to learn skill new – auseful theology or contemporary high finance,filmmakers or empirical policy markets. Importantly, under normal market conditions, when markets integrationtime-varying degrees of that exist between oil and stock to adecline the in future demand for fossil fuels, we demonstrate that unfamiliar. But Ilike achallenge, and dislike working withinnarrow fellows’ work, exposed to Iwas approaches and comments from avariety feature this research of that is we have developed monthly tables of data for the global stock market regions, except for the Far East. One key some sense tosome sense people outsidepolitical my field of philosophy. global stock portfolios developed and emerging stock of markets. We show empirically that measuring the statistical stock- degree of Our weeklyOur Fellows’ seminars were fascinating, creative, and fun. Like

p.19 Andras Bozoki (Political Science)the transformation discussed of (Philosophy) examined how politicians and industry the use rhetoric well-processed ‘meat’ to feed to non-specialists. agroup of Looking back, work, since itstill very was early days and Ididn’t think Ihad enough Press Freedom Day; we so joined forces with the Centre for Media Policy) spoke about why democracies need to rely on the epistemic Marius Dragomir (Centre for Media and Data Studies) asked: why valuable for basis further research. I’ve since given several on my talks IAS other research institutes –with fellows presenting sketchier thoughts in organized on on organized Political political of Misleading Communication: ‘Crises comments from the audience fellows of and other attendees, proved a a more casual way around atable –might not work well with scholars of complexityof and uncertainty to foster doubt and ignorance hearers. in co-hosted by IAS and CMDS. Simon Rippon (Philosophy, Public event entitled Journalism and Politics the in Age Misinformation, of and Data Studies (CMDS) to make our IASawider panel part of about how politically motivated attacks speech on norms and of authority experts, of intellectuals, and the media, and how demagogues range lecturing modes that of work rather well for different audiences. though, Iseethat the more usual closed-shop workshop set-up found in political discourse our in times and the in century, last and the surprise have undermined that authority recent in years. Maria Kronfeldner has thehas media‘Open camp’ Society failed to persuade large segments thoughts with this all view. in The outlines I worked out for talk,my and them discussion. in In the end Ifound it really helpful to organize my the topic. The panel heldwas on 3 May, which happened beto World truth-seeking have eroded public trust intellectuals in and universities. research subject to other audiences whose questions and comments have recruited five CEUfaculty members to speak differenton of aspects return political propaganda. of Michael Ignatieff (CEU Rector)talked up lecture make does the audience more focus intently on an unfamiliar from such diverse study. fields of performanceof The element inastand- been immenselybeen stimulating, helping me work toward aclearer focus. speech and how to deal with it.’ several Over months, Italked to and subject, while slides can help people remember key points and refer to Another valuable activity sponsored by IASaresearch was panel I I admit that reluctant Iwas to alecture in talk format about my own Gellei, and the whole Wallenberg team are wonderful, just every Guest House to akin is living heaven. in someone If could persuade wonderful, warm hosts from start to finish. I appreciate not only your what lasting be intellectual Ihope will friendships with panelists. demands on my time, and very sorry was when travels meant Ihad couldn’t, spend more time around the IAS offices due to other can only express warm gratitude for their all hard work, support, and question below); and (2)start drafting abook proposal to submit to the publicof recent in years? and offered suggestions for rectifying that out to work our in office at IAS, fine thoughwas. it Agnes Forgo, Eva comforts exceeding home, those of no wonder we seldom ventured duty! –but your also of and tact thoughtfulness when dealing with and we look forward to staying here brieflyin late again August. anything, they were there givingit spades, in without any delay and all difficultiesall quite heroically. Ioften regretted that I didn’t, or a strong, openspirit through better times and worse, managing awkward moments involving other fellows. Many, many thanks! publishers. Thanks to the time and other resources afforded by my IAS preliminary sketches that can form the for basis abook (seenext many special needs, but when we did need the slightest help with to the miss occasional seminar. All the IAS leaders were and staff materials, argument, clarify my mainlines of and write detailed things this year relation in to my IAS project: (1)to collect research to submit anything for publication. Ihoped to accomplish two main thermal bath, heaven couldn’t compete. With such glorious and views the Swedes to add aprivate pool swimming and our own large-ish in thein best spirit. good We’ve spoiled been rotten. much So gratitude, kindnesses to you me – as know, often above and beyond any call fellowship, I’ve able been to do alot on (1)and am working on (2). friendliness over this challenging year for the CEU. projected They fellowship October, in though I’m not quite at astage where Ifeel ready failure. Ilearned agreat deal from their all presentations and formed single them. one of Ithink we were fairly low-keywithout guests As for writing, I’ve come along way my since the of beginning To Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Eva Gonczi, and their at IAS, support staff I I’m sure everyone says that being resident at the Wallenberg

p.21 Victoria Frede-Montemayor Friendship in Russia, 1750-1840 Senior ThyssenFellow U. C. Berkeley, USA Elective Affinities: Affinities: Elective

1750-1840. German moral the weeklies 1720s-1760s of editions (key were digitally weeklies”, between 1755 and 1763 (during empress the reigns of Elizabeth, Peter III, and early Catherine reign of II). Ihad gathered these and Russia’s and Affinities:Friendship my Elective book, Elites, writing Political what original about my Russian sources. Largely, Ihad unsuccessful been Friendship (1755-1763)”, two consists chapters. of Both center on the Munich). While extremely laborious and time-consuming, this process My fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study allowed me to begin Berkeley), together with alaborious journal editorship, had not given Budapest overall, to well as the as Thyssen Foundation for providing considerable time reading 18 two chaptersof covering the period between 1755 and 1763. Iam secondary literatureof tangentially related—but nevertheless key of on the book. Teaching, administrative work at my permanent job (at U.C. and letters printed Russia’s in earliest literary journals, called “moral of contextualizationof gave me amuch firmergrasp on my Russiansources. on friendship, order in to establish what might have borrowed been and available through the Ludwig Universität Maximilians Library of in papers and written three articles the on isolated project. of aspects It was libraries and archives St. in Petersburg and Moscow. Ihad spent also hypotheses.first The hypothesis, elaborated Chapter in is1, that many other sources over previous years working rare in book rooms of than Ihad anticipated. able Iwas to write I, Section consisting me time to think through substantive questions or to read key works me with the time and the space to dedicate to myself my book. the friendship importation the into of cult Russia of integrally was not until Iarrived Budapest, in however, that substantive Ibegan work immensely thankful to Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Éva Gönczi and the IAS importance—to my project. until Icame to Budapest, where Iredoubled my efforts. Critically, I began tobegan study closely asource Ihad base not previously explored: same set of sources:same of set roughly poems, 120 epigrams, essays, short-stories, gathering materials and notes. Ihad presented also several conference The chapters that emerged are motivated by twointerlocking Beginning workBeginning on the book thus proved far more challenging Section I of the book, Iof Section “Russia’s Moral Weeklies and the Politics of In September 2016, when Iarrived, Ihad spent four or five years th -century French and German publications 1762, ceased service to mandatory be (the the only package segment of 1754 to 1763. Central to those planned reforms the was redefinition of connected to mid-18 deemed definitive of friendship. Promoting friendship and promoting and friendship. friendship Promoting of definitive deemed compatibility personal attributes of we might (as now), imagine was constrained by genre, strict as literary codes governed the appropriate or her main concern. Friendship, they added, aided this goal, because state interests.of Friendship epistles recapitulated this message. As reformsof to enacted). be Instead, the as state decree announced, the also shapedalso the manner which in writers expressed themselves in and morality. Mutual commitment to ethical principles, rather than of friendship epistlesof not was to describe or celebrate the relationship epistles coincided with a—largely unsuccessful—initiative at the connected hypothesis, namely that the writers and journal editors who virtue posited each in of poem. Friendship these as writers represented poetry, essays, and letters in at the the 18 middle of morality were considered one and the same.assumptions These poems allowedpoems writers to create an intimate atmosphere on the pages of theliterary 1750s journals of and early 1760s favored the epistolary poem they stated, everyone should make to service the “common good” his thehighest Russian levels of state to issue law anew code, lasting from time, the the formalized epistolary rules of ensured poem that each would their journals, couching moral personalized in terms. maxims At the same to convey friendship. their ideals of Letters verse, in published epistolary the legalstatus and obligations service the Russian of nobility. From nobility should learn voluntarily readers. The authors hoped thereby drawto readersinto the community it enhanced both individuals’ self-identificationwith society and the nobility. The publication the moral of weeklies and theirfriendship imported friendship the into of cult Russia between 1755 and 1763 did exclusive, not was it inclusive, but private, not public. highly but between two unique individuals, but to model idealized relations for legiblebe to any reader with abasic literary education.function The style and content for each format. Writers contributing to Russia’s first so withso apolitical mind: aimin the reformation Russia’s of service When authors wrote about friendship, however, they were also Chapter 2, which writing March Ibegan in 2017, elaborates aclosely th century conceptions individual identity of to dedicate to the fulfillment itself th century. century.

p.23 2 will show2 will how conceptions new personal morality of and identity gave It titled was the“Importing Sentimental Friendship Cult of into way, Itried as to demonstrate, the friendship introduced was cult into will continuewill to shape my written work important in ways. predicatedwas atool as for political opposition, both clandestine and Russia with an ulterior motive: strengthening that of the relationship Russia, 1750-1780.” In February 2017, Idelivered modified versions of of my book,of which continue Iwill to work on the in coming years. Section colleagues—, involved agroup in project to improve the fatherland. obligation into personal aproduct inclination. of Russian noble servitors other genres, mostly particularly personal in correspondence Idescribe (as core my book. claims of The feedback I received shaped and overt the in 1810s-1840s (reignsAlexander of Iand Nicholas I). common good, they would the use loyalty and trust on which friendship friends.”of Alexander publicly also patronized who poets favored the at court, inviting few aselect to joina committee”“Secret or “Committee high-ranking the members nobility of to friendship enactthe ideals of rise torise conceptions new friendship, of which needed to elaborated be in the reigns of Paulthe reigns of Iand Alexander I). Alexander Iactively encouraged to the serve opposite ends created it was for: while they continued to Russia’smembers of political elites re-appropriated friendship the of cult friendship.theme of His utopian experiments failed for many reasons, identification theirindividual interests of with the “common good”. In this ideals. The occurred climax at thethe nineteenth turn of century (during in the fall of 2016 that thein to of fall Ibegan present on the content and between the nobility and the state by helping transform from service an further below). Plays, novels, and short stories furnish also major will should learn their to view colleagues friends—and as their friends as becoming apublic spectacle several in acts. show 4will Section how friendship Imperial in Russia, itnot was until Icame to Budapest sources 2. Section in show 3will Section how the dissemination and see friendship strengthening as individual self-identificationwith the summarized the material Ihoped to cover during my sabbatical year. growingfriendship influence ideals of contributed to changingpolitical The majorbe developed in will Sectionsubsequentthemes 1 in sections Although Ihad previously given several presentations on My first presentation at the IAS, deliveredin October 2016, 1770s. Significantly, contributors to the “moral weeklies” were among 18th century, friendship had understood been abond that as united I wished to resolve this in paper why was it took them long. so women appear to have quicker been to master the necessary skills new Members the Russian of nobility only to began write such letters the in Educated persons increasingly turned to personal letters, “sentimental correspondence written literary the in Sentimentalism. mode of quotidian experience than were their male family members. In addition, overrepresented among letter-writers the 1770s of and 1780s, Iposited, as two virtuousindividuals,of but the source individuals. virtue in of closely, largely the aresult as sympathy of they experience toward only learned to and distinguish by from good observing responding evil emphasis on experience the as key to moral knowledge. Human beings committed. From the mid-18th century, however, writers placed new letters seemaworthy activity. same These conceptions altered also the the late of 1750spoems and early 1760s. The otherpersonal was a relationship that trains the individual to track these responses more this paper at Tübingen University and at the Academy Sciences of letters,” genre anew that required them to reflect on daily experiences, proved inadequate vehicles as for transmitting the friendship. ethics new of helped individuals adhere to moral principles to which they had already manner which in writers described friendship. Up through the mid- the first to adopt thesentimental letterin the 1770s. The questionkey their friend. In other words, friendship no was longer simply aunion to pain and pleasure, both themselves in and others. in Friendship is two virtuousindividuals. Friendship avirtue because it itself was new philosophicalnew emphasis on experience the as source moral and of individual experience, and it made the narration such experiences of in Budapest.in All versions this paper centered of on two of bodies inserting them into narratives new moral development. of Women were beginning to establishbeginning themselves the Russia mid-18th in of century. The friends predicated was on conceptions new the self, of which were only scientific knowledgeas and thesource individual identity leant value to sources. One the was Russian moral weekly, particularly the epistolary because they were more to experiment willing with the reevaluation of The favored genrethe late 1750sof and early 1760s—epistolarypoems— My proposed answer that is Sentimental letter writing to intimate

p.25 Kavalszky, Hétenyi, Szuszanna and Gabor Vaderna. Igreatly hope to Karl Hall, and my former student Charles Shaw). No less important were meetings with colleagues at other Budapest universities, Zsofía were highly this connection, conscious of ensuring that friendship an integralwas connection between politics friendship and the of cult September 2016 and June 2017 covered less ground than Ihad 3and 4,Sections covering the first four thedecades 19th of century. chapter in Section 2 of mychapter book. 2of akey Letters be Section in source also will in conversations with colleagues at CEU(Alfred Rieber, Jan Hennings, different to our own,understandable and credible to potentialmy readers. theone central of Elective hypotheses of Affinities, namely that there on the style the epistolary of (Maria Rybakova) poems and the physical and methodological problems that would have otherwise remained as it developedas Russia in the in later 18th and early 19th century. No less hope that able Iwas to make 18th century conceptions friendship, of so the content between 1770 and the analyzed be adedicated in 1790s will letter might display distinctive intimacy. forms of By breaching the layout the sentimental of letter (Tracey Sowerby). Thelatter encouraged letters (forms address of and signature, on the margins page, etc.). troublesome. Most importantly, Ibelieve that able Iwas to demonstrate me to think more deeply about how the highly ritualized format a of return to Budapest order in to continue learning from these scholars. remained subject to public scrutiny, both theory in and practice. in Ialso rules of letterrules writing—and of grammar—letter writers could demonstrate initially planned. Yet, Ifeel able Iwas to address crucial conceptual stylesnew penmanship and different of rules for the composition of importantly, Ishowed that writers who advanced friendship the of cult in composingin sentimental letters.included These cultivationthe of friendship. The developmentsentimental letters,of in asformas well sincerity and spontaneity, essential to sentimental conceptions of In sum, the two chapters Iwrote at the IAS Budapest in between Colleagues at the IAS who heard my lecture gave me valuable feedback During my academic year Budapest, in Ibenefitedgreatly from Violence, Institutions and Peacebuilding Jawaharlal Nehru University, India India-Pakistan Border Management: Senior Global Challenges Fellow Happymon JacobHappymon

All in all,All in the the CEU as hub intellectual of activity Europe in was I was in residence in I was at IAS CEUfrom October 1, 2016 to March 31, 2017 CEU on the basis of theseCEU on five the of basis objectives Ihadmindin prior to arrivingin University, New Delhi. Ihad the intention utilizing this period to of do was awonderfulwas setting to look beyond one’s narrow intellectual and five in things general: 1) reflect overcurrent the research I am doing in the Budapest and joining the fellowship. disciplinary confines,in the trueinter-disciplinary spirit, and learn opportunity for me to do precisely that it did not as involve teaching or carried out the interviews for over ayear, Ihad realized that it was outlets, among similaractivities. Having conducted my field work and completed, 2)critically analyze the evidence and material collected the in context the escalation of dynamics between the two South Asian nuclear on ayear-long Sabbatical from my home institution, Jawaharlal Nehru and material to talk me -which it did. The Universityperfect a was addressing problems sciences, social in conceptually and methodologically. anyone else. TheIAS Wednesday Fellowseminars wereintellectually along with attending conferences, and commenting the in popular media and 4)participate the in aEuropean life of academic institution, and 5) place to meet colleagues from vastly different fields and withyet an past year, prior to arriving at CEU, 3)meet experts and academics working the right place for me to engage some in intellectual overhauling. my research. The GlobalChallenge Fellowship was theperfect(GCF) thoughts and reflect over the material Ihad on amassed the theme of to write amajor my chunk book manuscript. of evaluate Iwill my stay at research supervision. the Iused first month so or to let theliterature rivals the on fieldwork the of basis andliterature Ihad survey already new waysnew approaching of issues, asking questions new and adopting interest matters in war and peace, of conflict and conflict resolution. It innovative methodologies. The problemwith the contemporarysocial important for mefrom to take time off my busyschedule gatherto my in thein largerconflict field dynamics escalationand of in other contexts, boundaries which often produce outputs that do not make to sense science disciplines their is jealously-guarded disciplinaryand intellectual stimulating and, to me personally, opened many innovative ways of Then came thesecond phase, analyzing the data amountandvast of Back New in Delhi, Ihad ahectic teaching and schedule supervision

p.27 (PRIO) Norway in which conducts first-rate research on the conditions I met several faculty members, researchers, students from around the Oslo fully was funded by the GCF.visit The to Oslo providedfurther Centre for Religious Studies, and at Pázmány Péter Catholic University. Cold War years. Thereaftervisited I The Peace ResearchInstitute Oslo world, with whom my work, Idiscussed research, their areas of student whom my work Idiscussed and explored potential academic areas of afterwas influencing all the way I lookwas afresh at the old material. others, were very all helpful. gave Ialso afew lectures: at IAS, at the disseminate thethe study findings of beyond Souththe Asianists. context rather than it limit to the South Asian setting alone, to widely experience. actively Ialso participated the in South Asia study group on conflict escalationin various globalsettings, including from the and academics CEU’s Imet several in of departments gave useful correlations, weaving arguments. together of aset Thematerial and conversations from back South in Asia, them. and make of sense I and research collaboration. Given the factthat there hasn’t much been at CEUand met several colleagues working on South Asian issues. life of afirst-ratelife of academicinstitution. several The I talks attended at papers, PhD theses, among others. It awonderful was and enriching the University EU, religion, on peace-building, theory, political among later at the Oslo University, Imet several researchers and academics with provedlibrary staff great be a to helpin accessing the existingliterature to look at the big picture about conflict escalation.Several researchers ploughed through the material patiently, stringing connections, making there on discussion comparative agreat was deal of and cases potential research on conflict escalation fixated on conventionalescalation, military research on the ceasefireviolations andKashmir because in themuch of insights into how Ican pitch my own work the in larger picture’‘big insights which looked disaggregated previously now started making future collaboration. Needless to mention here that the research trip to for peaceful relations between states, groups and people. At PRIO, and suggestions. The well-stackedlibrary CEU and the exceptionally helpful tosense me: the intellectually vibrant and challenging CEUand IAS While this going all was on, enjoyed Ialso the being intellectual part of Having gleaned fresh insights from my own research, Inow decided Having come from a university back India in where the right- Mysticism and Metaphysics in Parmenides in Metaphysics and Mysticism University of Szeged, Hungary Emese Mogyoródi – and Icompleted around 60 percent the firstbook of my draft while of working which title Mysticism is of Parmenides Metaphysics in and Parmenides Elea (5th century and of to resolving BCE) the most debated wing governmentwing late academic curtailing been of freedom, has I My fellowship year mostly was spent on working on abook project, the on “what-is” propounded and for argued the in Alêtheia (“Truth/Reality“) calm andthe tranquility Raoul Wallenberg of Guesthouse contributed or Turkey. But when acountry the the in its EUcurtails freedom of and calm for my intellectual pursuits and write my manuscript. away! Iliterally at was home, and at the same time had the solitude andthere. the staff Ihavebeen severalon fellowships across the world, activities kept me engaged enough just and gave me ample time to couldbetween CEU identifyand withthe the stand-off Hungarian academic institutions, we have reason to concerned. be Iam. So agreed with them besides identifying with their struggle. The struggle at about CEUtalk the political and bureaucratic pressure from the taken care and help and assistance, when needed, aphone just was call the best academic and residential experience ever. RWG made my the bestthe in world, but the it is caring and exceptionally helpful whichmyself Icould to utilize write several chapters my book. of residence at CEUmemorable and easy!Everything so well so was issues raised modern by his interpreters.might These be as summarized amonographis devoted to acomprehensive the study philosophy of of in Asia, Europe and North America. Thefacilities at RWG match immensely contributed to my ability to achieve this task. TheIAS residencein at CEU. academicin-depth The discussions thatwith Ihad follows: what the could sense rather made be of counter-intuitive theses section of the and poem thesection of consequent repudiation the physical of that makes staff all thedifference which, to personally, me made it for academic freedom global is today, not confined to India, Hungary several individuals at CEU, the facilities at the CEUlibrary and the government and why important it is to stand up to it –and Ifully government. Ilistened to the President CEUand other of colleagues The finalofThe objective mystay was atCEU write to book my manuscript I must make aspecial mention the Raoul Wallenberg of Guesthouse . This . This

p.29 Consequently, Parmenides’ theses and arguments proposed in Alêtheia, Greek thinker to systematically employ argumentative reasoning in with highly abstract metaphysical problems and employs reasoning of Parmenides’ poem, for this account assumes for amind-set which world mere as “appearance” (doxa)? Do arguments proposed bearout the Finally, how the is (epic) the form related poem of to its content? Is the an account Greek of philosophy withinits own historical context and an apriori kind an in unprecedented manner, some influential modern contained Doxa in are specious, and that 2)the whole Doxa section seems cosmological entities and the principles governing motion and change attributed to the earliest Greek philosophers. Hence, the the form of logical) issues addressed by contemporary by philosophy. addressed issues logical) While inspiring thoughthis from the perspective some specific (mainly of linguistic or along traditional lines poetic that, given human limitations and ignorance, internalas to the philosophy, or should itput allegorical be aside as or poem andpoem its content are to understood be intrinsically as related. analysis? What the could sense elaborate made be of cosmology contained the relationship Alêtheia of and Doxa and the rationale for the latter are to explain away revelation of the allegorical as motif or rhetorical in thus leads to misleading conclusions about its early developments. presenting theses, his tempting it is to disregard the mythical introduction to his poem (theto poem Proem) revelation, his of with its motif which suggests revelation of containedmotif the in Proem (fr. 1)to taken be at face value, to gratuitous be and yet too elaborate and plausible illusory. toas qualify reason and religion exclude each other, an attitude difficult to be metaphysical theses at all, or are they fundamentally flawedin the last rhetorical? interpreters have ignored historical his background and engaged with knowledge some momentous of truth could only acquired be through interpreting Parmenides for two mainreasons. First, since he the is earliest complianceis with historical cogency, which needs special emphasis in thein second the poem, mainsection of Doxa (“Appearance/Opinion“), for contemporary thought, this procedure implausible is seeking in superhuman inspiration. Second, because Parmenides concerned is given the theses factsthat developed in 1)if Alêtheia are true, then the The mostfundamental methodological principle in observed my study Historical cogency suggests, first and foremost, thatis anachronisticit This This approach against goes themodern majorityinterpretations of of Third, the theoretical contradictionbetween Alêtheia and Doxais not Contrary to some current approaches adopting this interpretive position, with our ordinary experience about the world? Closely related Parmenides, but Ibelieve it affordshistorically a more cogent account. Parmenides well is aware their limitations. of The explanatory advantage would have it, my study explores the explanatory the potentials of Doxa with their incompatible accounts reality. of than Rather communicated by the Proem (and the epic the form whole of poem), of Parmenides’of reasoning in Alêtheia, given the highly counter- of the motif of revelation of the might motif doneof be justice to: arguments are of this interpretationof multifarious. is First, Parmenides’ arguments establishing the metaphysical theses proposed in Alêtheia and that developed in Alêtheia. The answer supportedin thebook is that the arguments of function the and upshot, the concerns validity the a rhetorical or performative device. Hence, that Iargue reason and dialectical objective. Hence, the presentation Doxa dialectical of is and arguments are to taken be for what they are, but are insufficient in away, because Parmenides’ it serves authorial intentions. assumption that the contradiction not is meant to explained be however, Ipropose asolution to the function arguments and status of to accounted be for such in away to as comply with the central message the principle charity. of Could afairly charitable account provided be to this question the is theoretical tension between Alêtheia and revelation are compatible, indeed, complementary Parmenides. in notably, that human cognitive faculties are inadequate or insufficient to resolved be but understood the authorial part as of intention a of in acquiringin and full certain knowledge, thus require superhuman aid. not meant to demonstrative be attaining in insight afull into Reality. intuitive nature conclusions his of and their stark contradiction in in Alêtheia that not does undermine their force by reducing them to in thatin section need not flawed, be and hence, mighthe ultimately it away, aprominent as current Parmenides in vogue scholarship be acquittedbe fallacy. of Second, on this interpretation, the adoption seeking resolving away of this contradiction and hence explaining A second major methodologi A major question arising from these methodological both of guidelines cal guidelineinforming my study is

p.31 “Philosophy as the as “Philosophy Wisdom’” of ‘Love (in Hungarian), which studies CEU’s excellent library service, which indispensable was pursuing in with these issues and have some revised chapters drafted earlier. Finally, Imust note also the administrative, high level of organizational Fellows, the members Department of Philosophy, of and speakers guest Homer to the earliest Greek philosophers and historiographers. Ialso Hence, reason and reasoning have an instrumental and critical function or workshop participants invited by the Department of Philosophy workshopor the invitedby participants Department of drafted three chapters seven the out of book manuscript of dealing order to outline areasoning that both Ibelieve is more charitable explored the range reconstructions wide Parmenides’ of of arguments divine inspiration and autonomy poetic early in Greek and poetry contextualization Parmenides’ of thought, the both terms form in of and communicative proficiency experienced at IAS and CEU. appreciated the President’s organized Series) by CEUand Seminar attending various international academic which events I especially (of and the Center for Religious Studies. Ihave greatly also profitedfrom about the philosophia notion and of explores its abiding implications and historically cogent than suggested by standard accounts. I and the content poem. his Thus, of I studied the relationship of about the world order in to mobilize the critical reason. function of presentations the in Fellows’ Series. Seminar I would like also to highlight my research and which, my in experience, unparalleled is Hungary. in the earliest Greek testimonies or about (by Presocratic philosophers) the development the Greeks’ of sources knowledge of of view from relating to self-knowledge, freedom and democratic citizenship. in in Alêtheia their historical terms in of plausibility (and logical) in Parmenides’in without revelation. poem undermining of the motif its elaborate nature that well is put the in objective. of service On these grounds that Iargue Parmenides challenges our ordinary conceptions At IAS Imainly on focused issues to do with the historical I have profitable had aseries of andwithinspiring IASdiscussions I have finished also an article on independentan topic entitled Tudor Age in Multi-Confessional a Diplomacy TraceySowerby A. Jan-Werner Müller A NewA Intellectual History University of Oxford, UK Christian Democracy: Princeton, USA

Theory Trencsényi at another point during the academic year 16/17, and to offer New Intellectual History. In particular, able Iwas to make progress on an Feinde Volkes des I spent my (regrettably, far too short) afellow time as at the CEU’s IAS I intend to write on Christiandemocracy). The articlebe publishedwill working on intellectual history and political thought. fortunate Iwas Democracy and addressed Ialso CEUgraduate agroup of students Europe and beyond. Rulers considered their religious elites suitable Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (who plays an important role the in book Religion was at the heart of early modern diplomatic practice. diplomatic early modern of Religious the at heart was Religion Review of Books entitled of Review “Hungary: The War Educationon .” Society. Beyond Budapest, able I was to participate a panel in on populism anything) is Democraticanything) is Architecture ?” wrote Ialso two occasional on the following activities: enough to speak to the on seminar intellectual history chaired by Balázs article entitled “ article at the Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival, speak at aconference on a lecture onthe in populism Rector’s lecture series on revisiting Open architecture and political theory. The is entitledtext (if “What punctuated Christian diplomatic practice diplomatic both terms in of have adebate with Pierre Rosanvallon on at populism the IAS Paris. in organizedpopulism by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Berlin in and for Us,” which with deals the thought the German of constitutional lawyer pieces, one for Süddeutsche Zeitung entitled als “Universiäten the book, which analyzes the “Christian national idea” currently it is as research at IAS examined how the Tudor government adapted when these ideas andideas texts suffuseddiplomatic rhetoric and theoryboth within in in for diplomatic missions by virtue of their education. Religious rituals rituals education. their Religious of virtue by missions for diplomatic being propounded by leading political figuresin Hungary and Poland. sociability and in terms of guaranteeingsociability and terms in of agreements between rulers. My I made headway on my proposed Democracy: A Christian project of I gave my Fellow on my talk seminar proposed Christian history of woking also I was on achapter for an edited volume on Constellations: An International Journal ofCritical and Democratic in 2018. in able also Iwas to do some work on the final chapter of What Really Dictum the Meant –and What it Might Mean ” and another for the the New blog of York

p.33 Ottoman Empire, Russia and Mughal India, few aselect well case as as For instance, the established norm the in Ottoman Empire that was the England viewed some aspects of EnglishEngland diplomatic of some viewed aspects protocol idolatrous as came Catholic to view and Orthodox practices idolatrous as or lacking in observe the the same Christianity as form court of at which itbased. was of maintaining a diplomaticdifficulties household abroad that did not connections were essential, but itrare was for such adirect succession embassy secretary succeed to the ambassadorship local knowledge as and diplomatic personnel for embassies withinEurope than for those without. personnel. It diplomatic did of the selection on impacted considerations formal diplomaticof relations, and the ways which in religious and everyday life. My interest liesthe in parallel, but less explored, and political) caused by the few ambassadors that did not share their about whether Protestant ambassadors should sent be to Protestant ambassador’s status. Meanwhile, there remained considerable debate on the other. From an English view, point of by c.1600 England engaged established norms were challenged by the Reformation on the one hand levels withinChristiancross-confessional relations once the English politics. Ceremonial accommodations had to made be at anumber of princes and Catholics diplomats to Catholic princes, some diplomatic as and the English expansion diplomatic of activity beyond Catholic Europe the ‘reformation ritual’ of that occurred within parochial religious practices monarch’s beliefs proved not to more, as, just be if serious than the theorists suggested. In practice, however, the problems (representational to Europe, occur in where prior asecretary might as service harm an my research primarily on focused two areas: the rituals and ceremonies more prevalent. became information diplomatic of public circulation relationships, new, mutually acceptable solutions needed to found. be This reformation diplomatic of ritual that occurred at international the level of in turn.in As diplomatic ceremonial substantiated and constructed political in multi-confessionalin diplomacy, afactthat became more important the as cross-confessionalin diplomacy multiple in spheres. In effect, it engaged substantive spiritual meaning; while those polities more reformed than studies withinEurope. This revealedsome differences in of selectionthe usingso records relating to English diplomacy with Safavid Persia, the To understand the these impact challenges of to diplomatic practice, Scholars the Reformation of such Susan as Karant-Nunn have explored An early version this essay presented was of at ajoinIAS-CEMS Thatdid not mean that compromisesdid notoccur, but rather that the University Press. Several autonomous essays arose also from this we are editing from the event. made Ialso considerable progress on an workshop with that another Ico-organized fellow, Tudor Sala, and within Europe, arguingthat sending controversial religious items co-editing on diplomaticco-editing cultures at the Ottoman court, compares ceremonial. A third essay, which acontribution is to avolume Iam article that examines adifferent cross-confessionalgift andin doing an IAS alumna, Alexandra Urakova; included be it the will in volume could adeliberate be diplomatic tool, designed to force aking’s hand diplomatic languages were similar, their precise evenmeaning if not. was occur. Moreover, Iwould argue, many diplomats were capable reading of diplomats had to accept, large in part, the ritual framework the new of at IAS, found Ialso time to and write the an essay on mise-en-page and thereby through cut months laborious and discussion that of the the many conventionsas of surrounding politicized space and other substitutingas book for amass abible or only attending aliturgical part of party could interpret the same slightly actin different ways. the Only if politics of paper earlypolitics in of modern inter-princely correspondence and their European counterparts. Thanks to the supportive environment the experiences Persian of and Moroccan diplomats with those of the relationship between gift-giving, religious polemic, and diplomatic two monographs Iam writing about Tudor diplomacy for Oxford the basic semiotic signals, even at courts quite differentfrom their own, two interpretations were made to confront one another did real difficulties their monarchs effectively. They could so do to some extent because might involve making compromises within the old ritual framework, such research. One examinescross-confessional an instance of gift-giving themselves to the conventions they their were host of if to successful. be rejection of suchrejection should gifts of not necessarily interpreted be afailure. as normative culture order in to acceptable be to their hosts and represent relationships with powers, new English diplomats had to conform so exploresso the interplay different of diplomatic languages through sufficient ambiguity remained within these diplomatic practices that each service andservice leaving before the ‘idolatrous’ part began. When establishing The results of The my IAS resultsproject of form the corethree of chaptersin

p.35 Text and Governance in Islamic the World Columbia University, USA in the Eleventh Century Eleventh the in Neguin Yavari

2016 to June 2017. Neither the many attractions Budapest, the city of of I had the spending privilege nine months of at IAS CEU, from October It seeing was them Budapest, in asetting in where politics, history, Islamic political the in eleventh century. Itraveled to England, Germany were sufficient to undermine the stimulating intellectual community finished two co-authoredintroductions to edited collections. One of films werefilms carefullyselected or that they exceptionalwere of quality, or Leipzig, and L’École des Hautes Études Paris. enSciences in Sociales I department, part in during my fellowship. My thanks go to IAS CEU withco-edited Jan Hennings, Associate Professor at CEU’s History experience. Thank you, IAS CEU, I couldn’t timebetterimagine spent. culture and religion—many the themes of and concepts that we in even that they were properly contextualized by expert introductions. exceeded what Ihad experienced New in York. It wasn’t that just the Ottoman statecraftof than Ihad since graduate school, and I the primary sourceof research for my forthcoming monograph on the a200+-page long manuscriptof and completed asubstantive portion and my fellow fellows for aproductive and rewarding nine months. and rethink—are an intimate life, part of hat made for aremarkable attend conferences and participate seminars. in and France to deliver at talks the University Cambridge, of Universität productivity. During my time at IAS CEU, Ifinished correcting the proofs these volumes, Practices ofDiplomacy inEarly the Modern World , was the Humanities Sciences and spend Social alifetime to understand attalks the university. Ilearned more about various aspects that prevailed at IAS CEU, one that fostered exchange and catalyzed nor the yet more numerous draws the of Wallenberg Guesthouse, fantastic film festivals, which many surpassed expectations andof faculty at CEU, and profitedfrom the manyseminars and grew to love this beautiful city and its complicated history. andgave traveled two at talks CEUitself twice to the Middle to East There morewas still. SocietyAt the Open Archives, I attended I met exceptional scholars, fellow fellows at IAS and regular

p.37 ↑ Eszter Bornemisza: Pending Matters, 164 x 86 cm, textile (Photo: Tihanyi & Bakos) International Criminal Law Criminal International University of Copenhagen, Marina Aksenova Monograph: Symbolism of of Symbolism Monograph: Denmark Law fellows junior ¶ I gained a lot of insightI gained from alot of my weekly that seminar took place on 9 way of interactingway of with the IAS community both formally and informally. November 2016. My objective coming to IASto was broaden my and focus gather event provided aplatform my to research, discuss invite speaker aguest IAS CEU,of aworkshop on symbolic expression at the ICTY. This differentdisciplines often come togetherin harmonious ways and are dedicated to each fellow’s research and followed by lunch to agreat be and organizea performance aimed at highlighting the main objective of particularly pleased to have able been to organize, with generous support lectures and events and its unique emphasis on creativity. Ifelt that to seek alternative academic modes expression of through art and Iam make my book relevant to different audiences. I consider weekly lectures me with plenty opportunities of to engage with other fellows coming international criminal law, which, my in view, didactic. is Several fellows inspiration for the book entitled Symbolism ofInternational Criminal from various academic backgrounds. Isought their advice on how to skillfully bridged by those working and studying here. inspired Iwas I am very impressed by the CEU’s vibrant academic life, public that Iam currently working on. My stay at the Institute provided

p.39 A Study of Scientific Socialization Maintaining the Scientific Order. Scientific the Maintaining Université libre de Bruxelles, Thibaud Boncourt Thibaud in United the States Belguim

Although Icould only stay at IAS for ashort time, period of an it was The firstThe writingwas the articles andcoordinating theedited volumes It my was first time engagingin the archival work and the INTERCO-SSH (“International Cooperation the Sciences in Social whose Experts Commission work of preceded the establishment with little every thing (from administrative matters and technical issues to filmed it. I am planning to keep exploring waysin which art and law Blinken Archives for my research they as contain the reports of venue could not have more been perfect. benefitted Ialso from September to 2014 August 2016. The project, whichbenefits from a extremely productive and exciting stay. The logistics,course, of played a the Internationalof Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. daily treat. Baths, museums, churches, castles, and stunning architecture crossing the Danube on the famous and beautiful Bridge Chain a was and faces smiley that miss. Iwill felt Ialso very lucky to live and work in and Raoul Wallenberg Guesthouse staff.of efficient isa lot This people and Humanities: Comparative Perspectives and Future Possibilities”), in and journal special issues that stemmed my work out of the in project and reading that Ihad to do. Idivided my time between two maintasks. and, again, toanticipating the IASours. staff every need of and Ialways came back to my have desk Ialso fully re-energized. only roundall provided entertainment whenever Ifelt that abreak order, in was may co-exist, especially when it comes to international criminal law. took part the in performance anddirector our film in residence kindly lacked anything –thanks to CEU’s wonderful library and online resources ready, and Ifelt privileged to able be to concentrate solely on research, the the cleaning apartment) of being taken by care the wonderful of IAS the framework which hired Iwas researcher apost-doctoral of as from feedback and the supportStudies CEULegal of Department. great part this: in itextremely was helpful to walk and in everything find such abeautiful and vibrant Budapest. city as Walking to the office by grant from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program, now is thingsgood to say about my office and setting, the CEU wherenever I This framework This made it easy very for me to concentrate on writingthe During my stay at IAS Imade an extensive the OSA of use As the project stillits in early is stages, working at IASagood was I got extremely valuable comments and questions on my project. Participants suggested also references and sources which Idid not know, opportunity for me to my deepen knowledge relevant of literature, enjoyed the putting challenge of together that atalk would engaging be opportunity for me to present my topic to an audience both made of disciplines the in European Research Area. These collective efforts will be the sciences social of and humanities, and the development these of on the setting up and development the European of University Institute and to get critical feedback from colleagues about my theoretical and the my planning fieldwork. of All this helped me my projectrevise and which are proving valuable for the refinement my hypotheses of precisely, it stems from the idea that science ahighly is stratified and European professional associations those in disciplines. focused Ialso its results.dissemination of Ihave been, therefore, the using some of publication outlets, etc. My project seeks to understand why the alot of presentation my project of at the weekly IAS seminar. It agreat was their occupation, while others face difficulties, avariety of e.g. a less to, these inequalities and the scientific standards that produce them. most researchers marginal cope with, and even consent to or contribute recognized status, problems with getting access to grants and prestigious new researchnew project. It on science. focuses marginalizationin More time at IAS to write articles about the comparative the historysocial of non-specialist scholars and academics specializing science in studies, I in view of the data collection of view in phase, future and of grant applications. in Florence,in Italy. These pieces a arecollective part of volume and a journal special issue that Iam co-coordinating; the internationalization into itsfew last months funding, of and entering the the crucial phaseof framework, my hypotheses, and the fieldwork that Ienvisioned. for both types of audiences.for both of types great a seminar The was experience, and social activity: its elite activity: social figuresdraw wide a rangeresources of from substantial contributions to afield that has,so far, beenseldom studied. seminar presentation.seminar Throughout my stay, Ihad opportunities to meet sciences. Inotably wrote about the emergence and growth international of This This brings me thehighlightsto onemy stayin of Budapest:of the I devoted another substantial share my time to of working on my My interactions with Budapest scholars not was limited to my IAS

p.41 David Jorgensen Heterodox Christianity Christianity Heterodox The Heretical Moses: Colby College, USA and Jewish the Law

The main research project that began I at IAS CEU titledwas The Heretical Moses: Heterodox Christianity and Jewish the Law. This project capitalizes whose work course especially of is relevant to my own research. Idid not well done and engaging, and Ialways found fascinated by myself their with many CEUfacultymembers and students, formal in and informal other IAS fellows during my stay. these presentationsAll of were very own research, and lucky Iwas to listen to the presentations many of my project,of and the the my results writing previous of research. of during my stay, Iwidened not only my networks, but my also intellectual colloquium. lucky Iwas to meet the with members Science of Studies as Corvinus University. Corvinus as Through meetingwith up so many scholars at IAS to reach out to scholars from other Budapest institutions, such and took its part seminars at including some of its Wednesday PhD theyas provided ideas, me with alot of smiles, and friendship. Ialso others?), and triggered very stimulating exchanges.intellectually This was questions (e.g. What How marginality? is do some triumph ideas over on developments recent in but disconnected scholarship on three important limit myself to myself limit CEUthough and took the being based opportunity of and early historians of Christianity may have very similarresearch horizon, conversations as often resulted the in literature discovery of that not Iwas aware of. Again, this precious was for the development late-antique heterodox Christian movements, the historical last evidence they brought to light the contemporary fact that sociologists of societies my own research fields. the Partsuccess of theseseminars was thatof topics, even though they often were, at first glance, very remotefrom the reception the Pentateuch of these in heterodox Christian groups with the Valentinians, the Marcionites, and the Christian”“Jewish community refreshing and broadened my scientific horizonsomething – that responsible for the Pseudo-Clementine literature. The projectinvestigates is, fact, in my entire true of stay at the Institute and Budapest. in became associated and with the Sociology Anthropology Department for which comes all from the Eastern frontiers the Roman of Empire: settings. IAS and my fellow fellows course were this, abig of part of group, transdisciplinary anew and dynamic initiative withinCEU, The Wednesday Fellowseminars werecourse not of all about my Flora, I focused theI focused lecture on agenre analysis the text of and its exegesis of Christians. Although this lecture quite was differentfrom the paper Ptolemy the “Gnostic” and Epistle his toFlora,” agraduate-level was Matthew and the letters Paul of become authoritative texts for gentile view, that the two Ptolemies are two people, distinct aposition that in dissonances concerning the Jewish law that arise once the Gospel of of the longof “parting the ways” of between Christianity and Judaism. of “orthodox” conceptions Pentateuchal of law, and the complex untidiness one person. In this, first stepin the broader project, I argue for the contrary evidence traditionally marshaled to identify the two historical Ptolemies as conversion to Christianity, leading to the wife’s divorce her husband due of aspects: theaspects: nature the law of given through Moses, and the nature the of an eye towards their potential influence upon each other, thepossible lawgiver deity. Interpretation this text has, of my in view, hindered been by to his Gospel of Matthewto Gospel his of class at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) my research, invited Iwas as by Professor Gábor to Buzási give alecture the research at the annual the meeting North of American Patristics Society which in milieu the text produced. was Ipresented apaper on this part of life Rome in amartyr prior as to 155C.E. It this martyr the –a is tale of theological treatise and an introduction to one basic problem with two the assumption false that the author the text, of aperson Ptolemy, known as to irreconcilable sexual differences and the husband’s subsequent revenge an ancientmelodrama of polyamorous marriage that ran the afoul wife’s of reassessment traditional of heresiologist-influenced academicboundaries introduction to the text that at was the center my research of this year. in April. The lecture, titled“Early ReaderstheMatthew: Gospel of of thein Identification the withMartyr of the Author the Epistle of toFlora.” May, Chicago in in 2017, titled “Ptolemy vs. Ptolemy: Divorce The Role of is theis same person aChristian teacher the as same name of who lost his unleashed upon wife’s his Christiantutor –that provides the the of bulk fourth-century heresiologist Epiphanius Salamis. of This is a text short between these groups, the role these groups of all played the in development some pericopes the in Matthew Gospel solutions of as to theological subsequent research reopen will the broader the question theological of The text I most focused on during my time at CEU was the Epistle to I was fortunateI was to have another opportunity Budapest in to present atext that known is to its preservation only us by virtue of by the

p.43 Religion Compass underwent and review peer accepted was Compass Religion for publication I presented the following month Chicago, in it nevertheless as served Concurrently, Ibenefitted profuselyfrom conversationswith Aaron Kappeler, and terminology commandthe in anthropology, his field of of winter we both as attended the Center for Religious Studies doctoral with achance to for revise the final version. That I fall had anumber ways. During the fall, atheory and method article Ihad submitted to PhD students our respective to discuss research more in depth. Heresy the in Study Early Christianity,” of should out be later 2017. in variety of disciplines andvariety featured of several provocative lecturers. guest Some of us had us the additional of Some working goal of through the large array of of stimulatingof conversations Bledsoe with Seth concerning theory and of precision.of My exchanges with Aaronin acritical filled gap in my lexicon or methodological approaches to the religion study drawn of from a the myone highlights year. of of It on focused various theoretical coffees and desserts on the menu, butdid I not manage tasteto them all. during the winter months at Centrál Kávéház to write silently together asmall writersend Ico-organized group with Yu Song. We met regularly on the work we love to was agreat degree enhanced by the stimulating steamingchins in water below the echoing, stained-glass-flecked, vaulted conversations with our fellow fellows were conducted while up to our article. Altogether these interactions allowed me to the revise article with and illuminated some key distinctions attempting Iwas to make the in architectural and natural Budapest landscapes and of its environs. Yet method the in religion, study of conversations that intensifiedin the terminology that too all is often borrowed religious in studies with alack toward daily goals beneath its wood-paneled and walls high ceilings. the creative stimulus must always paired be with diligent toil, and to this through awintery landscape under asharp blue sky. The ability to focus roof of an Ottoman of bath,roof or on an old HÉV train slowly chugging number of events,number of especially those sponsored by the Center for Religious useful preparation.useful Subsequent to the lecture, Imet with some ELTE seminar organized byseminar Professor Aziz Al-Azmeh. seminar was This substantially greater clarity. The article, “Approaches to Orthodoxy and It invigorating also was to interact with both facultyand students at a It not, is Ifeel, incidental to record thatthese and some other of Meanwhile, another my research line of benefittedquitein unexpected with fascinating introductory commentary by Professor Carsten Wilke films at films the CRS movienights including – Vadis classics suchas Quo Busójárás. This regional variation on Mardi GrasCarnival or celebrates Roman Roman Studies. One recurring event and one special trip were highlights. The day aweek! Alas, the coffeehousesin Maine don’tquite compare. on that trajectory. Iam now scrambling to get my notes order in before theclear scope idea of and at sequenceleast the of near future the of combination project. fora new the stages of beginning Inow have a dormant interests epistemology in and the production knowledge. of could scarcely ignored, be course and we of were constantly talking 2016-2017 the in of United States, Europe, and especially Hungary complexity religious ritual of to incorporate into my future teaching. consequential battle that took place nearby 1687. in It incredibly is difficult and staff who made and experience staff this possible. and firstbook projectinto new research territory.of The creativeblend at the right time for Itransitioned me as away from my dissertation cultural pressures. But nothing can compare to the CRStrip to the plunging into teaching this semester, that so coherent be they will the about them, up groupsto in seventy of thousand. Suffice it to say that and and ancient fertility and rituals seasonal whose roots are at old the least as as research agenda and have nearly completed theseveral first articles of the year one been has long lesson the in importance academic, vital of to summarize the multiple “meanings” this festival of ashort in space, next time Ihave achance to turn back to them –hopefully at least one that situated thesein their films historical own contexts, which each of journalistic, and intellectual freedom, and for reawakened me has by my photos and videos, make this will an excellent study case the in but the thisall is more reason why my experience there, supplemented stimuli and the time and opportunity to explore areas new aperfect was still culturally resonant ousting the memory of occupying Turks at the southern Mohács town of to witness the pre-Lenten festival known as saw Hollywood attempting to navigate between various political and A heartfelt szépen”“köszönöm the faculty to of all this avery all All in was stimulating and reinvigorating year that came I have omitted any politics, overt of discussion even though the events The Messenger, and newcomers such Agora as Lupercalia, nowwith inflected thesomewhat more recent and –were introduced

p.45 Coffee andSocialism in the Venezuelan Andes University of Toronto, Canada Aaron Kappeler Anthropology Radicalism in Global Perspective Global in Radicalism Capitalism in Russia in Capitalism Iordachi addition in to the regular seminar. My experience this in ableI was to deliver alecture to the joint graduate Political seminar I was ableI was to complete key reading scholarly anumber of of texts on the was ablewas to committee jointhe Sadie supervisory Luetmer, of a writing of a full draft of my current draft afull of articlewriting of on the coffee trade andpolitical During my the fellowship period of at the Institute for Advanced Study, of naturalof resources and extractive economies. As this aresult of of energy and natural energy resourceof conservation. Ihoped to start building contribute to my professional profile and practical experiencewith Coffee called consent andSocialism in the Venezuelan Andes.article This agrarian reform, development the in global south, the work the British of possibility of developingpossibility amulti-sited of research project on the biopolitics popular responses to environmental destruction and dislocation social my anthropology home discipline of and cognate disciplines, and to historian E.P. Thompson, and the conceptmoral economy. of helpful and encouraged me to address questions on thesocialist history of research projects closely aligned with my own interest the in politics the Public School of Policy. My IAS presentation extremely also was to receive feedback on earlier the drafts paper from of facultymembers residencemy period of at the IAS provided me with the opportunity history and historical political economy Venezuela of which went into the interaction and the IAS Faculty support of Fellow Judit Bodnar, I in thein future. Prior to arriving at IAS, to Ihad consider begun the thein oil pipeline wake construction of northern in Minnesota. the andin Social DepartmentAnthropology, Sociology of History and thein coming months. In addition to the time required to read and to currentlyis under for review Focaal: The Journal of Global and Historical forge relationships with several graduate students that are developing supervision of graduate of supervision students potential well as as collaborative projects allowedseminar me to engage Ph.D. with anumber of candidates in synthesize the material contained such in textsDevelopment of The as graduate student anthropology in whose MA thesis centers on This supervisory role This supervisory withtandemin CEUfaculty and Sadiewill Because of the connectionsBecause of between the IAS and faculties at CEU, , and to Iexpect have revisions on the article submission and Coffee and and Capitalism in the Venezuelan Andes, convened by Don and Kalb Constantin

Yugoslavia organized by IAS fellow Marina Aksenova. In collaboration 2017 term, asked Iwas to take part aperformance in art piece associated University listed be the in will acknowledgements section. In the spring was thewas chance to with dialog Etienne Balibar and ask aquestion with IAS fellow Bledsoe, Seth helped facilitate the stories telling of by with several other fellows the in IAS, the performance piece involved the with the workshop on the International Criminal Court for the former the appear aspecial journal in issuewill entitled of “Revolution” the in work on my primary project, during the academic fall term, able Iwas Studies’ State, Disintegration and fromthe Margins: Religion “Striking and Social AnthropologySociology and at talks the Center for Religious of hate speechof and its ability to come from unexpected quarters. community. same This month,invited also I was to participatein the dynamics of statecraftdynamics of and state formation and the relationship between about the postwar politics Europe of that vexed has me since I was and conveyed their reflections on thepervasive andquotidian nature CEUgraduatea number of students and monologs, which illustrated adjunct facultymember Peter Molnar.performance, The in concert annual hate speech monologs organized by thePublic School of Policy an audience students, of faculty, and interested the members CEU of dictatorship in Venezuela. Following submission this manuscript to of dealing with hydroelectric infrastructure and the historymilitary of accept” and able Iwas to complete the minor revisions suggested by have made with anthropologists and sociologistsworking on similar tribunals the in Balkans and an active and dialog participation with reading several actual verdicts of and testimonies from the war crimes the reviewers during the second my term fellowship. of The article thisrealization objective. of My regular attendance at the colloquium in Dialectical Anthropology the journal Dialectical to finish thesecond an articledraft of that already was in preparation natural resources, and subaltern politics. Iconsider the connections I networks that would later help me create aworking group on ecology, natural resource politics and the international system. In addition to issues at Central European the to first some be of concrete stepsin the in thein Middle East” research sharpened also seminar my thinking on the fall 2017fall and the Institute for Advanced Study and Central European One of my mostOne enjoyable of and unexpected experiences at IAS , Ireceived of areview “conditional

p.47 Zealand. Ultimately, Iaccepted a Visiting Assistant Professor I never and imagined that stand out will for along time. will not forget. soon will The reputationCentral of European University of political andof economic forces and that this space to fought has be for democratic society. It aconviction, is which, Iconfess, to have partially the the in mission university purpose and of belief of and its role in as ademocraticas space back into for focus me. It for is that this gift Iam and preserved the threats. in anumber face of of Recent events at CEU my aresultas time Budapest, in of Ileave the IAS with arenewed sense theas University Bergen Norway, in of State Kansas University in and space to apply tenure-track to anumber of facultyand long- and an invitation by IAS director, able Iwas to have aconversation an undergraduate student. Thanks talk to IAS his sponsorship of as aspaceas for opendebate and academic defender freedom of only has have attuned me to this reality and brought the university this of vision lost recent in sight of years and which to Ihad take begun for granted over position at Union College, aprivate liberal arts institution the in most thankful to the Institute for Advanced Study and one it is that I more or less freely exchanged without the immediate or direct pressures that the university the only one is of spaces where society in can ideas be the nearly course of adecade higher in education. Ihave reminded been the United States and Victoria University Wellington of New in term research positions at international institutions. During the reputation and an example that strive Iwill to uphold for years to come. institution and its values Imake as my way around the academy. It a is period thisin difficult and be to able in some small way torepresent the it. Ifeel honored to have the Central apart been of European University fellowship able Iwas to interviews for positions at such institutions state of Newstate of York work begin and there will September in 2017. grown as a result of thegrown aresult as efforts of certain reactionaryof elements to close Apart from the many tangible scholarly accomplishments Iachieved The period of the IASperiod The fellowshipof afforded also with me thetime Transition-to-Secondary-Education – Decision Experimental DesignExperimental in Educational Research Peer-Based Informational Campaigns the on Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary Tamás Keller At my the fellowship end of at the IAS, Iam pleased to claim that it was IAS and Iorganized aworkshop with the title: Experiments in“Field was afieldwas experimentin educational track choices carried outin 26 ways asking research of questions. working with large-scale empirical data, Ihave benefited muchfrom the worth applying. A very productive year behind me, is and Ispent this Hungarian primary schools from the northern and central part of Even pupils who have grades good and intend to opt for an academic Education” The workshop brought together economists, psychologists, year astimulating in environment. With abackground and sociology in experiments, Ibelieve that their enthusiasm not is an just empty phrase. exchange and ideas experiences withinthe field topic experiments of confidence and thereforebelieved their chancesadmission be to low.of crucial before they make school this life-determining track choice. colorful research interests my fellow of fellows; especially from the various and sociologistswho this experimental use method. The aim of among those who planned to apply for this track but who lacked self- admission cutoffs for all academic-tracksecondary schools in their pupils chose the academic track high in school, which would give dedicating of luxury my research full time to asingle project. This participants are already organizing the second workshop field in the workshop the productive. found of and some Since hospitality track secondary school might become insecure and turn back them the highest chance to enrolled be later college-education. in the country. the The basic projectidea is simple:of qualifiednot all the workshop to was provide opportunity for young researchers to randomized experiments sciences, social in yet this method relatively is region and on their relative performance.findings The revealed, that the new in education. in new Therefore, I accepted the opportunity offered by the in education.in Participant the workshop of were amazedby the IAS information on admission standards and on their relative position is intervention leads to an increase applications in to the academic track from their intention. Therefore, the empowermentwith pupils of four months before the track choice had to made be about the past Working on this project Irealized that there agrowing is interest in During the 9months, Ispent here at IAS Iallowed the myself During the field experiment,influential peers receivedinformation

p.49 University of Arts inBelgrade, Serbia one Serbian Dance Society Labour Transformation in Exploring Precarity and and Precarity Exploring Dunja Njaradi

‘expert’ only in one field. My research, therefore,is theoretically and You guys, made my life very at easy IAS. keep Ihope we touch! in will Economies: Masculinities and Labour in Contemporary Dance World Dance Contemporary in Labour and Masculinities Economies: Precarity and Labour Transformation Dance in Serbian One ’ Society (Chester University press 2014), Irealized how difficult and challenging I realized back then that this going is to my be life-long project. I am eternally grateful. In such aunique environment (and we should not I had agreat opportunity to afellow be at the Institute for the Advanced fieldwork – the already I methodology was with. familiar PhD Theatre in Studies(Lancaster University, withUK) and a long- Europe and Turkey. During my PhD, which resulted the in book Backstage Serbia), MA Slavonic in Studies (University Nottingham, of UK) and Studies Budapest in between October 2016 and February 2017. During dance, and performance studies. For my PhD, Iconducted ethnographic obtained BA and ethnology in anthropology (University Belgrade, of aredialogues those that best suit my research sensibilities. Having art –although they do sometimes share common theoretical backgrounds. and to enhance and refresh my own research many in exciting ways. In and thrives through the years. Ihad achance to engage with the scholars and performance studies and combining them with ethnographic and it aimed at addressing my key research interests (dance and labour) with trying out methodologies new that derive from dance methodologically situated the in common ground between anthropology, time practice contemporary in dance, never Iwas going to become an my original research plans. the world), inspired Iwas to discover topics new and avenues research of this time, Ihad the the pleasure being IAS part family of which of grows research on dance and performing arts communities South-Eastern in it is toit is combine methodologies deriving from sciences social and (dance) forget that these environments seemto diminishing rapidly be throughout from over all the world and get real support from the IAS team. For this some ways, Imanaged to change my research interests and deviate from The project I appliedwith to the IAS called:was ‘Exploring I always felt that the environments that nurture real interdisciplinary I would like to thank Éva, Nadia, Judit and Jan for their all support.

2014; Jansen 2014; Rajković 2015). Through long-termethnographic 2016 and my use stay at IAS to complete this research and prepare for 1986) and to add to agrowing literature on economic transformation I came to IAS, Ihave already conducted extensive fieldwork research on working-class, folk dance Subotica, in society Serbia. With massive fieldwork (as initialmy methodological tool) the project charted narratives Ministry of Education, Science and and Education, Science Technological of Ministry the of Development Republic Serbia. Iplanned of to continue with fieldwork throughout violence leaving other all questions unexplored. Nevertheless, the lives of Sometimes after getting out few publications we seemto exhaust our on dance and dancing and bodies the way they help understand us citizenship’ neoliberal in era (2012). affective These relationships tended crisis –acrisis that created relationships of kinds new between dancers and practices hope, of morality and common the in good state-owned, and neoliberal restructuring Serbia in and former Yugoslavia (Erdei encountered and explored the precarity notion of anormal as living way of and Serbia until recently largely ethnicity on focused and questions of economic transformation aparticular in context of ‘cultural work’ post- in and the state that anthropologist Andrea Muehlebach calls ‘ethical and working neoliberal in economy during my PhD research and during publication. That was the plan butin fact didit not happened that way. precarity and ethical endurance late in capitalism (Povinelli 2014). Before precarity. Another important focal the point research of the was focus layoffs and privatizationassets, its onceof this successful and prosperous project Iwished to move away from ‘gatekeeping concepts’ (Appadurai transformationpost-socialist they as have by been ethnic conflicts. In this people Serbia in are much as characterized by processes originating from the cultural power work of austerity the in midst of measures and to personal on focus responsibility, the of ideas active citizenship and the completion my book manuscript. of Within the same interdisciplinary transformation through precarity local paradigms of Serbia. in Ifirst several occasions throughout and 2014 2015 which funded was by the socialist in society Yugoslavia now faced aserious financial and existential socialist Serbia.socialist Ethnographies on post-socialism former of Yugoslavia grounding this project wanted to further explore precarity, affect, and This This research project tried to explore affectiveof dimensionseconomic Sometimes, we get tired with the topics we pursue too long.

p.51 Mobilities and (Im)mobilities: Entangled Histories ofPostwar Eastern This added also another angle to my research material. no, So Idid not with the Serbian director National of Folk Dance Company to begin what interdisciplinarity meant. explored Ialso CEUlibrary with an which nevertheless held afascination for me. Isomehow remembered Serbia and generally Iimmensely benefited from the endless formal and Southern Europe,and Southern 1945-1989’, which took place at June CEUin 2017. during the World War II, Itried to utilize Andrew Hewitt’s (2005) contemporary Serbia) but this time with the different twist. This questions which seemed more fundamental somehow. Paradoxically, I questions from adifferent angle. to Ibegan develop interest which was a co-fellow Adelina Stefan to take part the in conference War‘Cold and informal feedback from my co-fellows and other members of archival and ethnographic research the in company on my return to activities and research plans. Itravelled to Belgrade and Zagreb several and the the idea of ‘social’. This research turn brought new afrenzy of an aesthetic ideal amatrix and as for order social new that being was and by going back to the practice folk dancing of the in Partisan units and historians about the topics that seemto unrelated be to mine, but at like IAS is that. During the first month my stay of Ifelt ahuge another publication. No matter how great the material is. My experience prepare the book manuscript, but Ire-discovered my research passion. the CEUfamily. After my presentation Ireceived an invitation from times search books in and archival of material; Iestablished arapport the notion of ‘choreography’ aterm as developed withindance studies time, by critically looking at the choreography notion of folk dance of managed to remain withinthe my frame previous topic of and that to the be one that inspired me to look at my materials and my research to my research questions. Incidentally, these books one turned of out notion of notion of “social choreography“ to show how folk dance both served as is theis choreographed politics of folklore former in Yugoslavia (and readingidea of books that seemed unrelated or not completely related interests and we feel no longer capable turning the of material into (yet) both my topic and my commitment to interdisciplinarity by combining forged during the war. Again, this perspective allowed me to stay within somewhat broader –namely, interested Iwas dance in and war –with sense of opening. of sense Ihad long conversations with fellow anthropologists Visiting Humanities Professor. encouragement Their and knowledge 2014, acountry with arelatively research poor infrastructure, Icame IAS marked was by the extraordinary political, economic and cultural Charles Shaw and Marsha Siefert from the History Department. The Kalb from Department of Sociology and Social from andKalb Social DepartmentAnthropology Sociology of and US. Ifacilitated at talk CEU: his ‘The Performing Arts Ensemble of was acommunalwas watching the US elections. of Anxieties, political Helms from the Gender Studies Department and Mate Nikola Tokić, Europe. In fact, the onefirst of joint activities that we fellows organized Serbian academic communities. In years, Icame to value the importance careful rethinking and consideration –perhaps they slowly are opening developments (asking more challenging and innovative questions) and academic mobilityof and knowledge exchange –both for disciplinary career path far so involved both studying and working British in and encouragement and enthusiasm Dr. of Siefert something is that truly conversations with Professor József Böröcz from Rutgers University, on former Yugoslavia helped the me clarify shortcomings some of of of the CEU of Yugo-Research group and Imet with professor Elissa other scholars working at the CEU. involved Iwas with the activities academics working across the globe. My stay at IAS definitely helped processes and sentiments that are reshaping the time we live deserve in themselves for future research, perhaps by some future fellows. However, my academic career. Finally, Ihave to add that my the stay period of in to value even more the importance international of mobility for young my own career advancement. Having returned to my native Serbia in marked my stay at IAS and Ibelieveour in future co-operation. the Autumn 1956’. of Ifurther had conversations with Professor Don the Hungarian People’s Army Visits the People’s in Republic China of my own research. Ihad agreat opportunity to meet and have many such an extraordinary people group at of such an extraordinary place. sad and threatening they may be, glad I was to live through them with shifts that were taking part the in world but primarily the in US and I had achance to engage and have coffee and conversationswith Now Ido not think that Ineed to recommend IAS more. My own

p.53 Surveillant Antiquities: Religion and the Invention the and Religion Antiquities: Surveillant of Surveillance the in Ancient the Society World Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany Junior ThyssenFellow Tudor Sala

The Junior Thyssen Fellowship generously gave mefull ten months, with no It agreat is pleasure to mention (in alphabetical order) the most I gave apublic lecture entitled Total“Imagining Surveillance among Chrys Margaritides,Chrys Volker Menze, Istvan Perczel, and Curie Virag. with scars and history, to think and write about insurgents, snitches, angels, with historical evidence the broad claim that total surveillance—whether write these lines away from Hungary … while still Hungary. in Daoist communities In China. in early May 2017 Iparticipated a in European University (CEU). Back then Icould hardly have that imagined Religious Movements Late in Antique Rome and Early Medieval China,” outline how serendipity amixture of and generosity have allowed me to once there, never Iwas really going to leave. The following paragraphs will of extensiveof and supervision control, exercised ideally over whole construction the distant supernatural of past.in Belief or beings forces ahead to my sojourn at the Institute for Advanced Study at (IAS) Central a proper reappraisal. Naturally, excited Iwas Ithought and curiousas and spies. After all, for the hundred last years or various so state forms of as ideal oras nightmare, theory as or practice, tradition as or innovation—is or participate international in workshops. theAs annual part of lecture committed partners dialogue on things surveillant and much more: played akey role implementing in and legitimizing those first models early Christian monasteries the in later Roman empire and the early surveillance religious communities withinrule-based of such the as religion played the in ancient surveillance, history of an ideal place, heavy restrictions or limitations, to pursue Budapest in abook project on the role taking interest my in research and inviting in me to give public lectures my errors, and pointed to important supplementary bibliography. research projects like my own depend on lively exchange with experts in individual fields.benefited I greatly fromregular conversations with CEU by no means acontrivance the present of or the near future, but rather a in whichin I explored parallel developments the in institutionalization faculty who challenged my ideas, provided honest feedback, corrected surveillance have shaped Hungarian society, adark chapter that still awaits societies, but more realistically over segments thereof. Broad comparative series of the Centerseries of for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, early 2017 in Additionally, institutions anumber of at CEUwere gracious in The bookThe that Ihavebeen working in on Budapestseeks to substantiate Volkhard Krech (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Matthew Leigh (University , one The Apocalypse of , one John Surveillance inAncient the World using ,” I would like to mention alphabetical in (again order) Robert those of workshop organized by the JustData research group, an interdisciplinary world, as a historical case study. case historical world, a as profitedgreatly I fromdiscussions the workshop hosted at CEU entitled by IAS and CEMS “Dangerous with Alexandra Urakova, aliterary scholar and IAS fellow 2015/16, in with my fellow fellows and forged friendships which Icherish. A chance Darnton (Harvard University), James Kapalo (University College Cork), Hazards of Big Data”Hazards of and organized by Anand Murugesan, sought of the quintessentialof total surveillance documents the of in ancient challenge democratic values. Icontributed apaper on “Dynamics of engages the technical and ethical big challenges data. Hosted of by experience. The andspectrum standardthe presentations of werejoy a its institutionalof affiliation also,but and foremost, byof qualitythe Oxford),of Edward Slingerland (University British of Columbia), and Tracey Sowerby, early ahistorian of modern diplomacy and IAS encounter with aformer IAS fellow who attending was aconference project (part of CEU’sproject (part of successful Intellectual Themes Initiative) that and Martin Wallraff(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München). and academic events hosted on aweekly by CEU. basis Thanks to this at CEUsparked acommon project that on the dangers gift-giving of to clarify how identification technologies (re)shapeliberties civil and the Public School of Policy, the workshop, entitled Hopes“(Big) and proved relevant to my book project. From excellent anumber of lectures, my academic comfort zone. Ilearned agreat deal from conversations beyond topics and areas with friction methodological the stimulating its fellows. The weekly Fellows’ trulyseminar was an exciting learning intense influx of exceptionalintense influx of external academics, I was able to meet fellow 2016/17, in and May in 2017 international we organized atwo-day for the intellectually greatest curious. benefit Of scholarforas a me was several scholars whose work Ialready esteemed highly or whose research still I was surprisedstill Iwas by the number the and variety public of lectures generated by both events and from the feedback to my papers. galvanized into an IAS intergenerational collaboration. Ijoined forces An Institute for Advanced Study measured is not only by the excellence I was alreadyI was aware the the CEUfacultyand students, qualityof of

p.55 I contributed to the workshop with apaper also on early Christian Society inAncientSociety the World.interlibrary TheCEU were swiftloan staff Gifts and Pernicious Transactions from Antiquity to the Digital Age”. China in autonomous in China and/or insurgent religious communities such as will finish thewill manuscript by early 2018, ready for by Routledge.review filled architecture which makes thesolitary scholar a work of blissful. Material on surveillance early in initially Christianity was to form Substantial progress already has made, been and we are confident we Surveillant Bureaucracies Late in Antique Rome and China”, outlines early Christiancommunities. The richnessthe data proved of to require entitled collaboration brought tenacity, creativity, and enthusiasm to the more conspirators and me to transform the workshop into abook publication. diachronic approach encouraged to the dangers gift-giving my co- of concepts the Eucharist of adangerous as gift.interest The generated of state-funded bureaucraticof revolutions late in ancient Rome and two moredrafts of chapters. Chapter 6, entitled Sins: of “Ledgers two chaptersdrafts my of book project of and write early and partial exaggerating—paradisiacal: environment, aquiet who afriendly try staff conditions the in Raul Wallenberg Guesthouse were—and I’m really not a standalone chapter. Chapter 5, entitled Christian“The Panopticon”, theas Pythagoreans, the Epicureans, the community at Qumran, and community behind the Rule Master of the ) and early Daoist movements in available great benefit, at of CEUwas saving me much time. The working ancient Christian monasteries (e.g. the Pachomian federation and the lonely research hours of and writing related to my mainproject, abook part of alarger chapterpart of which in Iwould map the distinctive forms of late Han and post-Han(e.g. China the Celestial Hanzhong). Masters of the accounting startling models of for conceived sins under the influence to accommodate even the most exotic wishes, and aspacious and light- in procuringin obscure articles and books. service The thatnew makes focuses onfocuses how divine were supervision notions of balanced against by the conference and the scholarship in lacuna with acomparative and books from the CEU-ELTE Medieval Library (located at ELTE) easily surveillance developed ancient in religious/philosophical such sects This kind of stimulating kind This of academic andpersonal exchange and Thanks to these exceptional conditions I was able finishto advanced Surveillant Antiquities: Religion and Invention the Surveillance ofthe A common interest the in historical surveillance study laid the of The conference, tentatively entitled“Surveillant Histories: A Global (OSA), an internationally acclaimed institution affiliated with CEU. (divination) system and supervision control of Iintend to complete the (Assyria, Egypt, Persia)”, which outlines the surveillance revolution Perspective”, to aims provide the necessary but largely neglected historical conference hosted by OSA-IAS-CEU to held be early in summer 2018. carried through by the Neo-Assyrian empire with its combination state of on the animating role, both cultural and social, played by religious critically the recent theories Ara of Norenzayan and Dominic Johnson concepts demonic surveillance of early in Christian communities from and to alanguage that, alas, remains still alien brought me closer acquired books with the note “Budapest” on the page last followed an early the introduction part of draft of to the book, which in Iengage part of the firstpart of chapter,“Surveillance and the Statein the First Empires than ever to Budapest, close so that the physical distance Ihave now memories, an obsession for a city, and an attachment to apeople perspective (and the critical depth that comes with it) on the present the first three centuries. In addition to these two chapters, Ihavewritten regained from the emotionally, city is and academically, negligible. remaining four chapters and finish the manuscript 2018.by the end of rekindled by the recent revelations whistleblower of Edward Snowden. into contact with the Vera and Donald Blinken Society Open Archives by the purchase date or delivery, of asuitcase and several boxes of foundations for collaboration on the alarge international organization of bureaucracy and an elaborate worldly (intelligence) and otherworldly surveillance ancient in cultures. Furthermore, Ihave worked on the strengthened or newly forged, bookshelves two and ahalf of global debate over the challenges and dangers surveillance that of been has The common projectwith friendships OSA, ahandful of In hindsight itonly was natural that my research would bring me

p.57 Top-down Policies and Bottom-up Capability Capability Bottom-up and Policies Top-down Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China Projects: Institutionalizing Chinese Women’s Junior Global Challenges Fellow Grassroots Political Participation Yu Song

“Public response to China: in policy theAn two-child analysis online of (entitled “Women’s political participation rural in China: Agency, power Institutional arrangements, empowerment and capability building”. I am really grateful to the Volkswagen Foundation and the School of Public Policy and IAS at CEUfor granting me the Global Challenges Dean, Prof. Julia Buxton and Dr. Cristina Corduneanu-Huci at SPP, Fellowship. It agreat been has opportunity for me and Ibenefited Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Ms. Éva Gönczi and Mr. Jan Bröker at IAS, Manager Ágnes Forgó at Raoul Wallenberg Guesthouse had been on “Institutionalizing rural women’s political participation China: in events had enabled me to look into many academic and issues social with events at CEUwidely enlarged my research visions.interdisciplinary The a more openmind from which I’m sure benefit Iwill for my entirelife. opinions” respectively), submitted two abstracts conference of papers coauthored article manuscripts (entitled “The left-behind elderlyin colleagues and fellows at CEU, able Iwas to on focus my writing and on my research and immersed be apure in and friendly academic access provided by SPP and IAS and the supportive and friendly atmosphere. With the cozy apartment, nice office space, libraryand contacts with CEUcolleagues, providing various help with fellows’ organizing academic activities and museum visits, establishing my book manuscript on “Women’s political participation rural in China: research projects and organize more possibilities with our research and academic networking. nature these seminars and of lectures, and the exchanged ideas at these redistribution inheritance” and and “Women’s participation political rural Migration, China: old age support and subjective wellbeing” and tremendously from the fellowship. research and other activities. Everyone the in team, Director Prof. be morebe productive. During this fellowship, Ihave completed two status and structure China” in respectively), and drafted an outline of super supportive and friendly, and always encouraging to us explore supports including aspect every in arranging accommodation, The IAS weekly Fellowseminars, and various public lectures and The fellowshipgave me a precious opportunity fullyto focus The greatThe teams at SPP and IAS provided fellowswith generous SPP and IAS gave me afantastic platform to present my own academic events. I gave aFellow seminar Peaceful Return of Victims of Forced Displacement in EasternEurope and Middle the East Saint Mary’s University, Canada Djordje Stefanovic EURIAS Junior Fellow

The main objectivemy work of at the CEU-IAS was to make progress on Writing and Publication” which in fellows shared their own experience Whilst several scholars have on focused ethnic cleansing (e.g. McGarry 2011). The project aims to challengeassumption this investigatingby 1998; Mann 2005), until now, academic only ahandful studies of have Chine (CNRS/EHESS) in Paris (CNRS/EHESS) in Chine and, Department Asian of Studies at Corduneanu-Huci’s class, gave Ialso lecture a guest on “Migrant will stay touch in will and hopefully develop collaborations the in future. Metropolitan University Prague Prague. in visits had These helped me Reserved seats election for women” from which Ireceived many SPP carry and on. IAS will Through this fellowship, I built deep of Victims ofForced Europe in Eastern Displacement and Middle the East. examined voluntary return. Amongst those the general assumption is children urban in China: Acculturation and school adaptation” to SPP cases representingcases differentdisplacement stages of and return. In Cyprus, conflict homes; b) What factors explaininitial intentions and sustainable displacement Bosnia, in Turkey, and Cyprus, and probes the following return of andcases non-return. Specifically, forced it on of cases focuses are established on the ground (e.g., 1996; Kaufmann Adelman &Barkan postgraduate students. Iorganized afellow’s workshop on “Academic large-n surveyslarge-n amongst the displaced with comparisons focused of that forced displacements are irreversible once demographic new facts to build up research networks and potential collaboration opportunities. the financial supportin the fellowship,visited Carnets I also du Centre the project on focuses intentions among the internally displaced as returns; and c)How could novel institutional solutions address the the co-authored book manuscript titled The Way Home: Peaceful Return return options are not available yet; in Turkey, it examines return under immediate and long the term displaced. needs of The project combines issues: displacement a)How of do victims choose to return to their pre- academicin writing and publication. The workshop led to a weekly useful commentsuseful and feedback for my future research. In Dr. Cristina friendship and close networks with colleagues and fellows at CEU. We fellow’s writing group which organized by was David Jorgensen. With The friendshipThe and networkswith my colleagues and fellowsin

p.59 “ After several months negotiations, of we received an invitation for a 2017) and EURIAS Annual Conference at the EURIAS Annual Bosnian of Dead Book , adetailed statistical analysis war-time of mortality Forced Migrants to Desire Community Return Forced Community Desire Migrants to July 2017, forthcoming 2018). in In addition, Migration International Conference, Delmenhorst Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany. Celik) on refugee returns, which to is completed be by August 2017. Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina accepted was for publication at Furthermore, Ifinished the manuscript (with NeophytosLoizides) Dayton Bosnia, it investigates the conditions that led to sustainable and Neophytos Loizdes) to “Exposure Violence, War-Related Losses Bosnian refugee returns. By taking into account contextual characteristics our co-authored paper (with Jonathan Hall, Iosif Kovras, and detailed book proposal from Cornell University Press March in 2017. of returnof intentions. presented Ialso the mainfindings, the method, of the Bosnian municipalitiesof displacement, of this analysis represent will and Attitudes Towards Transitional Justice: Evidence from Post- and theoretical anew framework our project at of the IAS (April a methodological breakthrough in the study of refugee returns. refugee of study the breakthrough in methodological a article “ article conditions continuing of low level violence the in Kurdish regions; post- in publication Ethnopolitics at to hire aCEUresearch assistant Gergo Toth. Mr. Toth completed results, enable will this me dataset to conduct amulti-level analysis the of initial multivariate data analysis the 2015 Cypriot of dataset survey in Bosnia.in In combination with the recently released 2013 Bosnian Census invited our special issue (with Neophytos Loizides and Ayse Betul it accepted was in for publication Migration (accepted International in non-sustainable returns. The projectwill bookresultin a manuscript beto book. Icompleted (with Neophytos Loizides Metivier) and Sean an significant progress,as the EURIAS researchfunding enabled me submitted to an academic publisher. ,” and Peaceful Returns: Reversing Ethnic Cleansing Bosnian after the War and ,” Work on the refugee return intentions Cyprus in made also In addition to the progress made on the book manuscript, During aMay short trip to the ex-Yugoslav region, Iobtained The During my stay at IAS, we made significant progress on the Struggling for and Within the Community: What Leads Bosnian Leads What Community: Within the and for Struggling (accepted June in 2017, forthcoming 2018). in ?” which accepted was for Political Psychology (accepted January in Psychology Political 2017, forthcoming 2018). in Finally, being freed from non-research obligations gave me time Broker, and Eva Gonczi. A great research variety of by talks advance my own thinking. Ireceived feedback very useful after the presentations at the IAS and the EURIAS meeting at Delmenhorst. methodological approach the theoretical framework and for the book. methodological to read and think, and, consequently, to dramatically improve the received excellent help with issues logistic from Agnes Forgo, Jan international scholars who visited the 2016-2017 CEUin helped to IAS asuperb was research environment for my Sabbatical. I

p.61 in Ancient the Mediterranean: ATheoretical Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany Approach to Jewish, and Greek Egyptian, Political Ideologies and Identity Narrative Traditions Narrative Seth Bledsoe

As aHumanities Initiative Fellow with ateaching responsibility for the fellows initiative humanities ¶ CEU during the 2016–2017 academic year. Fall semester, Iarrived Budapest in about amonth before the most of Discourse of Religious DiscourseViolence.” of A my course own design, of the class of those incidentalof obligations that one can easily so accumulate an as complete the final touchesbookdissertation),my (a of revision other fellows. This providedsome time to acquaintboth with CEUmyself and professional academia, of namely aspects teaching and applying for academic such book reviews as and encyclopedia entries. In addition atmosphere Budapest and of CEU—which lies at the city’s heart—would and Budapest without having to the ground running”“hit on my research positions. What follows aroughly is chronological these each outline of of home at the Guesthouse to the Institute Iimmediately that knew the project. After the first walk across theChain famousBridge from my new to the research output, attended Ialso the to more some of practical begin an intense investigationbegin into my project, new and knock out afew conducivebe for ayearresearch of and writing. My objectives were clear: brought forward various “texts” from antiquity to the modern day wherein scholarly pursuits and afew concluding reflections on my stay at the IAS The coursetaught I calledwas “Martyrdom, Terrorism, and the

p.63 CEU students, whom many to Ifully expect of maintain contact. writing, the criticisms and suggestions were invaluable for givingshape and wellwas received by the Daniel group scholars, of suggesting the move to worldview and implicit assertion about to whose authority one should Mediterranean. Thus, my time muchon was focused of research and violence encountered was apurportedly in religious context. Ihad Seminar. Itook this opportunity to give amore presentation in-depth of Studies) and nationalities. The thetopic courseof notdirectly was consistent collegial tone but at the same time the fellows, included, myself years thanks be of to will this much-needed assistance at the earliest stage. direction to the project. The forthcoming publications over the next couple during the Fellows Lunch. Although the in stages Iwas of beginning ethnicity, identity, and religion antiquity. in Ireceived very incisive and at conference November in Igave reading anew Daniel light 6in of of organizing amore coherent for vision the project. Still, this did lead to concepts identity, of ethnicity, and group cohesion the in ancient of the workof Iam currently doing adirect is interaction result of with caliber than Ihad had previously, and they challenged me not only as concert with my research agenda. In the seminars, we raised questions of helpful feedback from the other fellows during the Q&A and even more an educator but my in research acumen. Ican honestly say that some agency, identity, and power we explored as historical and contemporary the research and my the project, goals of with aparticular on focus the phase, to was develop more fully atheoretical framework for investigating ritual to the be most intellectually stimulating experience. There was a this experience were the students themselves.higher a They were of traditions and issues Judaism, in Christianity, and Islam. note from Of related to my research theme, but its methodological impulsein was incorporate abroader approach to Daniel’s literary context can fruitful. be its Aramaic literary context, especially with regard to the Jewish author’s several methodological problems that one encounters when investigating submit, i.e., king and God. loyalty vis-à-vis To my great delight, the paper some initial pre-publication outputs. For example, an in invited paper seven studentsseven from several faculties (History, Nationalism, Medieval The primary goal for my research project, whichin its nascent was In the winter semester Iheld my research lecture at the IAS Fellows Speaking of theSpeaking Fellows of more Seminar generally, Ifound this weekly In fact, Ilikely gained more from hearing the presentations and having I had prior experience working interdisciplinary in contexts, but still first suchabout a broadlytheusefulness of interdisciplinary venue—N.B. coffee(her) and English Breakfast, but graciouslyshe also volunteered closely with senior fellows CEUmore faculty in full-time well as (as endeavor. the greatest One of advantages, though, that the IAS has constant companions the in contemplating, complaining, commiserating, over coffee/tea or theseveral impromptu gatherings forbeer/wine— conversations scientists with social than those closest to mystudy. field of coffee farmers Socialist tourism,to had my synapsesfiring all on cylinders. each week’s lecturer and topic, from Russian love-letters to Venezuelan demonstrated aconstructively critical edge. To sure, be uncertain Iwas at advancing our careers teaching in and research. Iowe a special thanks and, ultimately, congratulating that accompanies such an exhausting a few fellow-travelers around, especially David and Aaron, who were and support. Those ad hoc, organic moments,interaction—whether of level fellowship, my much time the in of Fall teaching) (outside was of helped to build strong relationships across several lines—departmental, pointed mentorship from Nadia, these intangible and unpredictable primarily withinthe humanities—yet to my great surprise and delight have asmoother, problem-free transitional period. Moving to city, anew like home. On apractical note, for example, Iam certain that never Iwill tremendous, and demonstrable, benefit.list The could go on, whether myto many application review of materials which proved to of be to Tracey, who not only my was daily conversational partner over (my) to offerjunior scholars is thesuchas opportunity myself to work this. In the gauntlet that the is job market, itcomforting was to have moments made the experience at IAS CEUunforgettable. the individuals who welcomed me and my colleagues and made it truly feel the city’s two-halves, split by the ever-impressive Danube, but the people, institutional, and international. As an early career scholar on ajunior- it the be unfailing moral support my from colleagues of all or the broadly) who were always ready to offer advice and feedback for spent seeking and applying for the next position. not Iwas alone in statement about the atmosphere. One not created only by the beauty of With the foregoing sentiment, Ireturn once to again my opening IAS CEUfurther nourished an environment friendship, of collegiality,

p.65 Foreign Tourists Socialist to Romania University of Pittsburgh, USA Oana AdelinaStefan and Franco’s Spain, 1960s-1970s Vacationing in the Cold War: Cold Vacationing the in

The broader CEU community also welcoming. was One happilyquirky 15. Lastly, while it’s unfortunate to end on such an unhappy note, areview I came to IAS CEUwith afew goals mind: in to start turning my Department, but alecture also I gave December in 2016 at the University Franco’s Spain by helping ordinary the in citizens two countries to Hungarian white and afew at pogácsa the near daily receptions Nador in colleagues at CEUwho do not have reflecting the Ido of on as luxury ever more impressed by the hopeful, albeit cautious, outlook from my my experienceof at CEUcannot complete be without comment on the corporations. with Discussions Marsha Siefert from the CEU’s History intermediariesof including international organizations or Western over the ten months Ispent at IAS CEU. my If initial was focus dissertation defended at the University Pittsburgh of May in 2016, into each week that you undoubtedly will encounter each other over of aglass colleagues there as are many so lectures, workshops, and conferences due no in small part to Eva, the in office, andAgnes, at the Guesthouse. a book, to establish many as academic contacts possible as at CEUand aspect is that is aspect one hardly needs to plan any casual meeting with new university,a new and an entirely system new can frustratingly be difficult, hope to maintain astrong connection to Imove CEUas forward. these events from afar. For this reason, and many more, Iintend and the Hungarian government awake-up was call: the threats to academic the least, the threat that the university faced and currently is facing from tumultuous few months around beginning mid-March. Distracting to say meetings and informal athird analysis discussions level of emerged, that two regimes and the effects at everydaythe level,both in academic mainly on the official politicsregarding internationalof the tourism be a part of the tremendous apartbe of efforts to resist such threats, but I remain forget that they are experienced locally. honored Iwas and humbled to freedom, democracy, and decency are global issues, but one must not brought about amodernization from below Romania socialist in and beyond and enhance my teaching experience. but this not was my experience coming to Budapest and to CEU.is This go around state authority in various ways, was significantly enhanced enhanced ways, significantly various was in authority state around go My project, which examines to what extent international tourism Am Archive at the University Miami Libraries. of While my at talk Transfer Cold in War Europe.” Furthermore, Iam about to finish an I managed to two revise chapters the my four out dissertation. of of CEU library with its rich collection on Eastern Europe helpful also was United States. In this respect, Iwould like to highlight one presentation finish writingfinish an article on“Postcards Transfer across the Iron Curtain: with broader questions. lectures Both were of types eye opening submitwill to apeer-reviewed academic journal. Also, while at IAS CEU Foreign Tourists and Transcultural Exchanges Romania Socialist in Mobilities and (Im)mobilities: Entangled Histories Eastern and of Budapest and the possibility to take short trips to Romanian archives Southern Europe, 1945-1989.” This workshop meantwas to open the during the 1960s and 1980s“, forthcoming the in Journal International enlightening this in respect. My presentation at the Fellows’ seminar Amsterdamof at the invitation ChristianNoack of were particularly clear-cut and division capitalist East between socialist West the in conversation on the ways which in eastern and southern Europe were a book proposal that Isent publishing to anumber of houses and to allowed me to add and new exciting material to my research. Access to at the University Miami Libraries of had amore diverse audience academic audience Eastern specialized in Europe, my presentation and Franco’s Spain tourist as destinations the in 1960s-1970s, which I article on commodificationculture and advertisingof socialist Romania part. At the same time, the proximity the Society Open Archives of in myhelped project, me clarify of some aspects especially its methodological professional networks, Iorganized aworkshop entitled, “Cold War the CEU’s History Department benefittedfrom the feedback an of the University Miami, aresearch of part as of grant to study the Pan that Igave the in History Department at CEUand another one at took part various in conferences and workshops Europe in and the for History, Culture and Modernity (HCM), special issue on “Photo for further developing my project. All these enabled me to put together for they me as invited reflection facetson new andquestions. but on the also ways which in their entangled histories challenge the built as “the other” relation in to the wealthier northwestern Europe, As part of myAs attempt part of to meet scholars my in field and to build In addition to writing articles and revising my dissertation, Ialso

p.67 “modernity” and consumption played out the in Cold War context and Americanization. Basedon readings and discussions, students had to write Academic Secretary, kindly showed me my office and thesurrounding Without doubt, my stay at IAS CEUreminded the of sense me of Guesthouse, and the in second my day arrival of Eva Gonczi, the Institute’s with the other fellows and to engage intense in intellectual debates. welcomed by Agnes Forgo and Eva Gelei at the CEU’s Raoul Wallenberg Department. My students, MAs from the History and Sociology Discussions withDiscussions Nadia Al-Bagdadi, the Director the Institute, of helped Study the Department and of History at of CEU. Beyond presenting discussions, we paid attention to issues such gender, as class, labor discussed howdiscussed and why consumer culture originated, how consumption our papers, the the members group of identified also many common these issuesdiscussed their in papers during the workshop one-day a midterm and afinal paper. possibility The to teach a class at graduate and Consumer Culture under Capitalism and Socialism” the in History and her suggestions spanned from intellectual to practical matters. level enhanced my teaching abilities it allowed as me not to just convey programs but from also Gender Studies, met for twelve weeks and postwar period. Ten scholars from Europe and the United States my stay Budapest in extremely pleasant. As Iarrived Budapest in Iwas teach. In the semester, fall Itaught agraduate class on “Consumption to continue this collaboration by publishing aspecial issue apeer- in that Iorganized with the the support Institute of for Advanced me put together the workshop on Cold War Mobilities and (Im)mobilities reviewed journal, but by organizing also further events together. research interests during formal and informal discussions. We plan ideas aboutideas consumption among highly motivated and well-prepared identities and structures, colonialism, but Eurocentrism also and thein ensuing competition and between socialism capitalism. In our intellectual environment the Institute of for Advanced Study CEU. and of became entangled the in project of “Western modernity” and how facilities. During our first meeting, introducedshe also me to the students but to also learn from their comments for my further classes. The weekly presentations and lunches offered a space to interact In addition to research and writing had Ialso the possibility to Last but not least,Last both the Wallenberg Guesthouse made and IAS staff 2017 when forced CEUwas to fight for its very existence.own Street Raoul Raoul Wallenberg Guesthouse along with the other fellows delivered could not more be grateful for the opportunity to have spent ten colleagues either the in Fellows’ Room or the in quite bucolic courtyard. community that academic life can sometimes still provide. Living at the aware the role of that universities have challenging in authoritarian protests and community meetings brought closer all us and made us months at aHumanities IAS CEUas Initiative Fellow, and Ihope regimes, not Hungary, in just but everywhere else. In anutshell, I further generations fellows continue of will to have the same chance. both privacy, when wanted, and the possibility to spend time with The sense of community became sense of The particularlyimportant in late March

p.69 Towards aNew World Order Yale University, USA Patrick Cohrs World War World The IAS providedboth highly a stimulating and congenial environment New WorldSearch The Order? forLegitimate a Peace in the Era ofthe First fellows affiliated ¶ IAS fellow presented Ialso papers my research on various of aspects Order? The Impossible 1919–aPeace of Transatlantic Interpretation” CEU’s History Department and Nationalism Studies Program proved of of “self-determined” nation-states central in and Eeastern Europe the in aftermath the 20 of on the peacemaking processes after the Great War. During my time as discipline. gave Imyself on the atalk subject “Towards aNew World projects scholarship and areasof of beyond the my boundaries own of excellent opportunities to learn about and engage with avast spectrum aspects of my work of aspects both with “fellow fellows” and with scholars the in owar a a s rd to a make substantial progress on my book project, w entitled “To the resources the CEUlibrary of but many also opportunities to discuss in whichin I sought to present transatlantic new and global perspectives immensely beneficial. for my research 2016–17. in Above all, my affiliate fellowshipallowed me shed light anew on the creating challenges of international anew order In context, awider the weekly IAS seminars and lunches provided ”. As planned, on Ifocused chapters that analyse and seek to th century’s “original catastrophe”. And here not only

p.71 Revised Growth Accounts for Manufacturing Manufacturing for Accounts Growth Revised Productivity Growth in Socialist Industry: Bocconi University,Bocconi Italy in Central Europe, 1950-89 amás on ó ny Vo s á m Ta

I have spent three months at the an affiliated IAS as junior fellow from United States –allows its fellows to concentrate on their research was originallywas somewhat sceptical long about fellows’ the of wisdom European economies the in state era socialism. of narrative This is Budapest libraries and building contacts with experts on the literature and September to December 2016. Icame my here sabbatical part as of funded comparative economic systems approach, particular. in quantitative The data sources most relevant to my topic. especially appreciated the Guesthouse’s most kind, competent specialdeserve credit for running the programme steadfastly so and excellence that –unlike other institutions its kind, notably of the in its director,of Nadia Al-Bagdadi, to making IAS into acentre of accounts centrally of planned economies have relied partly, or exclusively, and for always being there when help or advice were needed. theall otherfor the making members me staff of feelso welcome wish and andto helpfulthank staff Ágnes Forgó, Éva Gelei and and writing and gives priority to creating aconducive environment appropriate because it gives presenters time to bring their subjects at the Libera Università Internazionale Studi degli Rome. in Sociali at international conferences Munich, in Vienna and Berlin well as as presentations Icame around to the that view this format quite is programme highly is commendable and works very well. While I the same of coursethe same goes of for the other the members IAS staff. of to this end. In addition, both Professor Al-Bagdadi and Éva Gönczi the audience. Personally, Iparticularly valued the commitment to life and permits amore exchange in-depth between them and reconstruct the existing narrative on the growth performance Eastern of is very hardis to beat both acomfortable as accommodation and as by Bocconi University, conducting with the primary aimof research in still largely on the based scholarship the postwar of period, on the starting-point for explorations the many of Budapest. glories of I smoothly during ayear that proved challenging so for the CEU. And The pronouncedinterdisciplinary orientation the IAS fellowshipof It adelight was to stay at the Wallenberg Guesthouse, which For several years, my key one research of objectives to been has Europe 1950 and 1989, and estimating industry-level production functions with (1968) estimated Hungarian industrial production from 1938 to 1967, while Alton al. et (1982, 1991)provide cross-country evidence from New Economic Central, History of and Southeast East Europe that on distorted officialstatistics, especially for investment and capital of Czirják fromof 1967 to 1975. For this, production data on alarge output by the Research the National by on output Project Income Central East in data work such an undertaking entails had done been also by previous of our analysisof that required was before submitting the article to a my time atof the IAS collecting additional data for amajor revision conducts introspection adeeper with two aims: reconstructing aggregate countries between 1950 and 1989. preparing Iam also abook chapter, available at the the library Central of Statistical Office (KSH). and standard use western accounting terms. The only additional work and structural change the in former bloc. Soviet My current project leading fieldjournal. been has essentially This revision completed. alreadyhas yielded aworking paper. Ihave spent asubstantial part panel econometrics for Hungary the in same period.first The of part theory offersimportant insights that provideinterpretative a new the 1970s onward. datasources These are methodologically consistent that form the will the second the of basis project. part of Idid not the project started 2015, in collaboration in with Alexander Klein, and that places Eastern Europe into the standard postwar theory growth of reviews the most quantitative up-to-date evidence on economic growth number of manufacturesnumber of had to collected be from industry repositories needed to is connect the by two extending datasets the original series need to reinvent the wheel, for avast international literature provides in collaborationin with Andrei Markevich, for amajor collection on the Europe,in estimating growth regressions European 24 on apanel of framework for the development centrally of planned economies. stock. Both recent empirical research and growth new and development scholarship. Particularly significantindustrial is the of re-estimation guidance on how to accomplish the meticulous this task. of Some growth accounts for Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland between I have recently published an article the in History Review Economic In the meantime, Ihave to build up begun the industry-level database under the leadership Thad of P. Alton since the 1960s. Czirják

p.73 Germany’s miracle growth after 1945. The chance be to awayfrom the daily University Press, entitled The economic consequences ofthe war: West Labour inputLabour worker in hours at the industry level can reconstructed be Hungarian economic history and integrate their insights into my Since my sabbatical program on focuses two major projects, Ihad to opening up to different schools thought of andscholastic approaches anyone to wishing unravel the workings society, of pastand present, current work. the Being IAS part meant of to live and work the in most opportunity to consult several twentieth-century leading experts of and Economic Social Historyof at ELTE. Thelatter offered an chores academia proved of most beneficialin completing task, eventhis if others). Detailed industry repositories Hungary in report data on equipment investment (seeDe Long 1992, Inklaar al. et 2011, among dynamics industrypaid in has particular attention to the role of on labour composition. allows This us to adjust for compositional accounts into abroader research agenda for the forthcoming years. academics and to further develop my project growth on socialist academics: the IAS Fellow and seminar an invited at talk the Department limit mylimit stay at IAS to only three months. In my the weeks last of have collected been during my stay, but work remains to done. be labour services.international The literature on growththe study of to finish the manuscriptmy forthcomingof monograph Cambridgeat manufacturing plants.disaggregatedis Thedata both industryby and the number and aggregate horsepower machine tools of in installed is inspirational,is not essential. if Iam sincerely grateful for having been it has limitedit has the time that Icould devote to research new Budapest. in blessed by this opportunity especially ayear calamities in that of will by power source (which helps track us the equipment modernisation of from industry and employment statistics, which provide also evidence shifting from coal to diesel and electric power). Most the data of stimulating atmosphere forged remarkable by of aunique set talent. For shifts, qualifications both terms in of and experience,in measuring go downhistory one in as that defined the twenty-first century. A longer stay would have allowed further consultation with local I had two mainopportunities to present my research to fellow Much more work required is on the input growth side of accounts. Besides the research new described above, my Iused time at the IAS The staff members The showedstaff flexibility in arranging of the my dates stay and were forthcoming arranging in office accommodation for meduring these with research assistants and carry out several research missions. centre the city close in of proximity to our institute, but by givingus also fellows us of at the IAS by both offering fist-class accommodation at the at the guesthouse, who were eager to help my wife and I, way, every in demandedaims it. Imust express special gratitude tomembers the staff project for the year, which on focuses the war-induced impact of mass possible, and thus made our stay enjoyable. so great This is city not migration on urban housing and post-war economic development the chance to withdraw into aquieter work environment whenever our three months.guesthousebeen The integral an has the experiencepart of in in West Germany. The projectfundedis juniorby a researchgrant unknown to us, but these three months have left with fond us memories. from Bocconi University largely and based is Berlin, in where Iwork stay, Ihad to gradually shift attention to launching my second research The IAS has been The IASvery supportive has throughout my stay herein Budapest.

p.75 Theorizing the Sharing Economy: A Multidisciplinary Perspective Multidisciplinary A CEU BusinessSchool Yusaf Akbar

• • 2016-January 2017) to used was develop acomparative framework for fellows faculty ¶ First all, of Iwant to express my gratitude for having awarded been the Research Fellowship at IAS. TheIAS Fellowship (four monthsSeptember considered the following related questions: done to with develop aview business and policy strategy mechanisms for was institutions.This and Economy practices, Sharing organizations of exchange practices: markets, hierarchies and networks. Themain goal has economic historical and current with contrasting it sharing economic industries impacted by the emergence economic of sharing. The research in two areas of theoretical twoin areas of exploration.first The pertained to the been tobeen contribute to enhancing theoretical explanations for the existence Does the Sharing Economy fundamentally alter our understanding of How do we intellectually place the Sharing Economy abroader in Economy imply areshaping the organizational of the form business of enterprise itself? enterprise itself? analysis/tradition understanding of economic exchange and industrial markets versus hierarchies so, and, if which in ways the does Sharing (Fortypologies? example, it contemporary an is extension of business networks or it does represent anovel exchange?) form of The research I carried out at IAS deepened understandingmy

p.77 very diverse disciplines encouraged me to consider the normative Sharing Economy. While valuable initial typology, terms in of early explore these controversy two areas of by systematically mapping obviously not important so for as my colleagues coming to IAS exploiting “on-demand” labour. Others, seethe Sharing Economy could erode the salaried rights and socially of secured workers, connecting supply and demand through control anetwork of formed on the Sharing Economy have conceived it to an economy be of activities such neo-barter,of as renting, resource/service pooling, exhibited diversity, ahigh degree of encompassing an assortment aspects of the Sharing of Economyaspects adifferent in light. In particular, and environmental progress disrupting hierarchical power found solidarity form anew as focusing of on individual emancipation access and exploitation permitting large firms to capture profits by are relatively old, whereas others are innovations recent of years. hypotheses on economic sharing able Iwas to more effectively have become more scepticalthe normative of economic benefits of helpful whenever Ihad aquestion about how IAS worked. the theoretical terrain of the Sharing Economy in preparation Economy for in the Sharing the of theoretical terrain management literature were questioned effectively by my colleagues research however, lacked theoretical grounding. Early worked implicit positivist constructs taken for granted the in strategic in verticallyin integrated corporations the twentieth of century. implications the growth the of Sharing of Economy. scholars Some from the Humanities and other Sciences. Social Consequently, I from other institutions but nevertheless, everyone at IAS was from business models that employer limit obligations. Such acondition systematic empirical exploration which Iintend to the do in future. sharing by this experience. eye-opener been foran has me. This showed that, descriptively, the Sharing Economy currently significantdivergence bothon thescope andboundaries the of gifting, sales, group buying, repair. and production these of Some As aCEUfacultymember, the need for orientation at CEU was The IAS struck a productive balancebetween freedom to pursue exploratory of development and Through the elaboration theoretical The secondThe understanding deeper area of relates to the normative Having my work shared with scholars at IAS coming from Airbnb represents the epitomethis threat. of paper This pursues two (TCT). Second, it offers strategic recommendations for the hotelindustry In particular the weekly IAS Fellow seminars were intellectually working paper (with Professor Andrea Tracogna, University of Trieste) which very was helpful too come when it will to doing further empirical By using a TCT the lensto view emergence sharing platforms, of this is Economy –Imade contacts with policymakers and industry managers doubt, Iachieved my research goals the in four month period. Since drawing directly from the research done during my stay at IAS without so clear implications for the hotel industry. It currently is under at review the asset specificity)asset to develop what we termedintegrated sharing platforms. exposed to different research methodologies and howscholars frame leading academic journal the in tourism and hospitality management field. excellent deadline/benchmark for my research efforts and it helped me the Sharing Economy is transforming numerous industries, I chose to chose I industries, numerous transforming is Economy Sharing the my arguments and clarified waysin which I could shape the research. future well as as presentations. invited also Iwas to the EUCommission arguments and explore them. Very thought provoking indeed! the first research paper to develop a theoreticallygrounded approach to three features transactions cost of theory (frequency, uncertainty and research propositions based on an application of transaction cost theory transaction applicationof an on based research propositions prepare for aresearch workshop at the University Pisa January in of 2017 research. The feedback and comments I receivedfrom my fellow Environmentto adviseDG on the sustainability the impact Sharing of truly intriguing and complex intellectual endeavours. also Iwas mechanism for encouraging me to prepare my work. It provided an research goals and obligations to share these with the IAS community. understanding how transaction features impact sharing platforms offering business models to cope with the competitive new challenges by posed on ourbased TCT analysis. In the paper, we that argue revising in their fundamental research objectives. First, exploratory it develops of aset onfocus asector especially vulnerable to disruption: The Hotelindustry. sharing platforms, Hotels can leverage their superior capacity managing in scholars really was and constructive. useful insights These sharpened stimulating and eye-opening. Ilearned amount an immense about The opportunity to prepare an IAS a Fellow trulySeminar was effective One month after completing my Fellowship, Ifirst-authoredjoint a

p.79 Department and Social of Sociology A House in Buda: AMicro-History of a Middle-Class Dwelling Middle-Class a of Anthropology, CEU Judit Bodnar

A micro-history ofmiddle-class livingA micro-history ” IAS is one of the onemainreasonsIAS is why of Ichose an academic career. The During my stay at IAS Istarted project, anew which feeds my long- Leave) application. Second, Iwould aimto write apractitioner focused Research Fellowship. This will require considerable methodological and Fellowship. Research considerable methodological require will This experience more than lived up to expectations. it Imiss already and scholarship first-class of but a meeting place forpeople from all over created by Nadia, Eva and their team made the IAS not acenter just collegial experiences and Igot to know my fellow-scholars through efforts made by IAS findto me office spaceit – of gavesense a real and continuously encouraged by everyone. Itruly appreciated the and able Iwas to carry out exhaustive literature and review research. I apartment building, which constructed was for upper-middle-class tenants empirical development need and several will months development in the IAS in developed exploratory the theoreticalpropositions and on history of an apartment an building. of history Tentatively entitled “ applicationshelp IAS with reviews of for IAS Faculty Fellowships. hope to maintain relations with IAS by attending the Fellows’ Seminars and deployment. It may form a future the part of Sabbatical (Academic the world. In many ways, the opportunity to aResearch be Fellow at to fully on be focused developing the theoretical my research of basis paper to published be amore in widely distributed management journal received outstanding support from the IAS team and positively was in an Budapestin upper-middle-class area 1925. in of Today it still comprises thein coming academic year 17/18. would Ialso more be than happy to indispensable aid to my research. By freeing up my teaching, able Iwas intellectual enquiry. First, to is build abroader empirical study based friends during the IAS fellowship and the friendly, the and fellowship IAS the during friends atmosphere inclusive belonging and Itruly appreciated TheIAS it! luncheons were wonderful, solid middle-class dwellings andsolid businesses what middle-class in widely is regarded as standing interests housing in and urban change through lens—the anew such California as Management or Sloan Review Management Review. great conversation and delicious but food. not least, Last Ihave made In summary, the facultyfellowship granted to me by an IAS was Moving forward Ihave the following research goals for this area of traces an the ordinary history of A house inA house Buda: This was made possibleThis was not only by the carefulselection process but 1956 revolution; damaged, it was rebuilt and renovated, first by the state Its apparently constant status processes amultitude aresult social is of of Intellectual exchange exciting, was challenging and always respectful. over time. The building straddled majorfront lines during WWII and the connects residents to each other, to well as the as city and larger historical a dependable bourgeois neighborhood. Time, however, did not stand still. can only congratulate them. It no is small achievement. Thank you. class entailed acareful negotiation turbulent of historical periods, several carefully selected interdisciplinary IAS fellows group of but also administratively well-managed.is what This Isaw at bestits at IAS. I and its everyday operation. reach Good ideas their audience easier if by thealso superb the organization annual of rhythm the Institute of attracted scholars from CEUand the city were the right kind of have changed. It these is changes that Iaimed to map by navigating time tenants and their addition familiesin to examining secondary sources publicity for with ideas anot discussing overly narrow expert crowd. the infrastructuredwelling and middle-class even the very of imaginaries the bigger ones turned into communal apartments housing two to three then privatized following 1989, many units first subdivided then merged, then by private capital. The apartments were nationalized after the war in severalin disciplines. urban restructuring processes justice, and regimes of throughout which between micro and macro scales and analyzing how an apartment building facilitated by an infrastructure that intellectually is well-conceived and families then slowly turned back to single-family units. Staying middle- structures. Icollected and analyzed archival sources and interviewed long- seminar talks,seminar the core audience which provided was of by the very I found IAS atruly stimulating environment. The weekly Fellow

p.81 University of California at Berkeley, USA “Jewish Dionysus”: Heine, Nietzsche, and Politics the of Literature Alexander Soros

fellow honorary ¶ My dissertation explores the profound Heinrich impact of Heine on Friedrich Nietzsche. The topic offersunique a testcase for directly shaped the literature. boundaries of What needed is a is and Nietzsche’s reception Heine, of a “politics literature.” of At and their culminatingin distinctive approaches to Greek myth. poets, musicians, scholars, and philosophers played akey role, and take these categories for granted. Both thinkers operated also an in intellectual history, involving the changing reception each writer of intellectual culture which in the dynamic exchange among ideas of beyond Christianrésentiment, “the God,” death of the “eternal return,” broader account the relation of Heine of and Nietzsche, extending far stake the is on a poet a influencephilosopher, of but we cannot February 1989 21st, –Space and Place San Diego StateSan Diego University, US Maria Rybakova Writer inResidence

(1900-1989), the author 46 books, of haunted, turn, his in by the memory in residence artists ¶ I am haunted by the an empire memory of that dominated has my young wrote down my growing memories up Moscow, in of USSR (to have a Diego, California, where he committed suicide on February 21, 1989. All Marai’s and my own life and work.” My stay Budapest in absolutely been has fantastic. Iarrived with the Russia 1994and in who currently is living San in Diego. Despite having years disappeared and has since: the USSR. Iam planning to explore San Diego, the place Marai’s of suicide (and my later place work), of the of the of Austro-Hungarian Empire, lived for many years exile in San in all Ihadall to take do was photographs and write down my impressions. I house he lived and in the Balboa park he loved, already was known to me: left over 20years ago, Icontinue to write Russian. in Like Sandor Marai, he continued to write Hungarian. in Iam aRussian author who left has point of comparisonpoint of with Sandor Marai’s childhood) and out set on a throughout exile, his although isolated and separated from readers, his in depthin the interlocking location motifs of and dislocation Sandor in by the life and work the Hungarian of writer Sandor Marai. Sandor Marai following project vague my in head: “For years seven Ihave haunted been After arriving to Hungary, out Iset to explore the locations.”“Marai

p.83 Wanderlust What are the mechanisms by which this location”“idiom of transported is What are the between that links central “location” one’s of life and the native (such your as hometown) and time (such the as dissolution an empire)? of I made during my research at IAS and that intrigues me most Marai’s is with its flashbackinto thedisintegrating Austro-Hungarian Empire. Marai grew up and which an inspiration was for novel his The Rebels Europe visited by Marai, Balboa Park San in Diego, the Pacific Ocean,etc.; Budapest, The CentralKavehaz, the Rudas Baths, countriesin Western and Place and create acertain “palace memory,” of into which subsequent all experiences are decipher Marai’s some of sentences Hungarian in (albeit with great difficulty). a nostalgia for the future much as for as the recollected past.” Ihave also allowed me to connect these questions to the annual Space IAS theme of any modifications as of a language there? Thinking a of“palace memory” death, he experienced an intrusionaspatial language form of into of the language (Hungarian havingof aspatiality as case) his language as of conception mother tongue of homeland. as He to seems have conceived language that one retains exile even in and continues to write Is in? there location that intrinsically is linked with important and traumatic memories) and “Space” stands for the emotional or mental state, such Childhood, as two-day trip totwo-day explore the Kosice modern-day –the former where Kassa taken one Hungarian semester of language at CEU, which allowed me to his own.his Even more strikingly, the in years immediately preceding his into exile on another continent and into adifferent era? And undergodoes it for during myself my presentation at the IAS fellow seminar. Iam bringing into presence an absence that palpable as is the as present, prompting beyondbe reach, beyond repair, or both, conjuring up an things idyll past, of for processes location, of movement and settlement: fixed ever-changing, yet such athing the as location,”“idiom of avery particular place alanguage of stored, thereby robbing the subsequent their reality domiciles places? of as stands for aconcrete geographical place: Kosice/Kassa, Miko Street in subdividing my materials into “Space and Place” chapters, where “Place” solitary place apartment his of (which may have a a hallucination been of grounded while conceptually also abstract and vast (…)Space and Place might The writtenThe my essay part of closely follows the format Ihave established questionsThe Itrying was to answer are: a does remembered location (a : “Space, trope, as image and metonymy, aproductive as serves sign , Homecoming, Resistance, Illness, Despair, Love.discovery The Mass OrnamentMass Films, USA Visual Artist inResidence Yoni Goldstein A Machine to Live in

“hotline” connecting to him the wife, his spirit of or an authentic mystical Academy Sciences), of itsuggested was to me that Ishould include the The objective of The objectivemy fellowshipof was to produce a hybrid genre documentary I needed abroader comparison. field of I decided to expand my project Czech-French author Milan Kundera into my project, which be Iwill with IAS fellows during the Question-and-Answer time following my Mircea Eliade from Romania and Julia Kristeva from Bulgaria, and seehow Brazil’s capital notatriumph as its utopian or failure of desires buta as Russian soldiers Budapest, in was, he says) fact (as in trying to understand very happy to do. In the same way Marai, as while trying to understand of the of love” of “language (to my mind, our earthly languages are rather esoteric, and transcendental spaces that have emerged around it. This disclosing the historical and architectural between the links world’s first experience). He held also the opinion that one can only love another cults, pyramids, energy cosmic monuments, and age new cities. It looks to Brasília,city the of project gathersUFO life alandscape in of of imagery change) once they left their respective countries. When Ispoke about my émigré writer, not it is enough to compare Marai and–that, myself fact, in an impediment that in angelic business). these Discussing questions an inclusive possibility for intimate systems knowledge of and resistance. person one’s in native language, something that Ifound doubly intriguing political and pandemic crisis. outwards Radiating from the space age project at the conference “Narratologies 2” (organized by the Hungarian himself, Ihope, through my project, to able be to understand my own presentation very was inspiring and insightful. Icame to the conclusion this context interpreted is symbolically as porous and unfixed and presents multi-platform media project proposes alateral consideration the of their relationship with language, space and memories change (or did not to include other Central and Eastern European writers/thinkers, such as trajectory and role the in contemporary cultural landscape of Europe. that to understand the between language link and space the in work an of because it contradicted my experience and my own writerly conception built environment and collective ownership its meanings times in of of fully integrated modernist city project, Brasília, and the techno-mystical, generative domain for alternative imagining cosmologies. Architecture in

p.85 events ↑ Eszter Bornemisza: Vanished Town, 160 x 100 cm, textile (Photo: Tihanyi & Bakos)

p.87 23 November 2016 16 November16 2016 9 November9 2016 2 November2 2016 26 October 201626 October 19 October 201619 October The SentimentalThe Cult of in Friendship 18th Victoria Frede-Montemayor, Alexander Soros , University California at of Berkeley, USA Toward Heine’s Pantheism, or, what constitutes philosophy? Managing Contested Borders: Study ACase India-Pakistan ofthe Border Thibaud Boncourt Tamás Vonyó Economic Theory and Economic Economic and History Theory Economic Growth under Socialism: Perspectives new from Russia:Century From Poems toLetters seminars fellow ¶ Symbolism ofInternational Criminal Law Scientific Marginality in the United States: A Research Project Marina Aksenova , University Copenhagen, of Denmark Happymon Jacob , Bocconi University, Italy , Jawaharlal Nehru University, India , FNRS, ULB, Belgium ULB, , FNRS, U. C. Berkeley, USA U. Berkeley, C.

p.89 30 November30 2016 14 December 2016 December 14 7 December 2016 December 7 22 February 2017 15 February 2017 8 February 2017 1 February 2017 25 January25 2017 11 January 2017 1 March 2017 A Conceptual Exploration Conceptual A Approaching Religious Differences in early modern Diplomacy earlymodern in Differences Religious Approaching Yusaf Akbar Yu, Song Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China Yoni Goldstein Tourism and Dictatorship: Building Leisure Spaces on the Romanian the on Spaces Tourism Leisure Building Dictatorship: and Tropical Parafiction, and Poetry, Millennium: Moscow, San Diego, Budapest, Kassa: finding my WaySándor to Márai Tracey Sowerby Implications Sharing Economy ofthe for Firm: the Institutionalizing Rural Women’s Political Participation Body Labor, Dance Technique and Affects:Some Notes Black Sea Coast and Spanish the Costa 1960s-1970s del Sol, Experimental Cinema inExperimental Utopian Spaces Demagogues and CitizensDemagogues Discourse ofGroup Identity inAncient the Mediterranean Heterodox and ofMoses Law the Christians in2nd to4thCenturies the (De)-Constructing Communities:(De)-Constructing Narrative Fiction and the Oana AdelinaStefan Dunja Njaradi, University Arts of Belgrade, in Serbia David Jorgensen Maria RybakovaMaria , San Diego State University, USA Erica BennerErica Seth Bledsoe in China:Reserved Seats Election for Women on choreographed Folk Dance in Serbia , Central European University, Hungary , Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany , Yale University, USA , Mass Ornament Films, USA , University Oxford, of UK , Colby College, USA College, , Colby , University Pittsburgh, of USA

29 March 2017 22 March 2017 8 March 2017 26 April2017 24 May 201724 10 May 2017 17 May 2017 31 May 2017 5 April2017 7 June 2017 3 May 2017 A House in Buda: A micro-History ofMiddle-Class Dwelling The Way Home: Peaceful of Return of Victims EthnicCleansing The Impact ofLIBOR on the Rigging InternationalDebt Markets of Europe Aaron Kappeler, Towards aNew World Order Targeted and Spillover Effects ofa Non-Monetary Information Campaign Mysticism Parmenides Metaphysics in and Tudor, Sala Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Tamas Keller Jewish Refugees Transnational Balkans: in the Historical Puzzle Genealogy and Political Thought in the the in Medieval Islamic Thought Political and Genealogy World Coffee andSocialism in the Venezuelan Andes Christian DemocracyChristian Revisited Jonathan Batten Judit Bodnar Jan WernerMüller Surveillant Antiquities: Religion and Invention the of Patrick Cohrs, Yale University, USA StefanovicDjordje , Saint Mary’s University, Canada Neguin Yavari, Columbia University, USA Emese Mogyoródi, University Szeged, Hungary of Bojan Aleksov on Secondary Track School Results Choice: from aField Experiment the Surveillancethe inAncient Society the World , Central European University, Hungary , Hungarian Academy Sciences, of Hungary , University College London, UK University of Toronto, Canada , Monash University, Australia , Princeton University, USA

p.91 9 May, 2017 The difficulty difficulty The with ofcensorship the history is that it solooks simple: India, and Communist East Germany East India, Communist and Censors at Work: Bourbon France, British ias lecture ias annual ¶ Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University France the in eighteenth century, British India the in nineteenth century, Robert Darton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University day operations censors under of three authoritarian regimes—Bourbon actually do their work? How did they understand it? And how did it fit and Communist Germany East the in twentieth century—it possible is to rethink our understanding censorship of general. in into the surrounding and social political context? By studying the day-to- it appears more complicated—and surprises. of full How did censors it pits oppression expression. freedom against of one looks But harder, if

p.93 8 December 2016 December 8 18 January 2017 The Performing Arts ofthe Ensemble Hungarian People’s Army Visits the The touring party consistedover two of hundredpeople, travelling by The Ensemble an iconicwas cultural institution in late-Stalinist Hungary. Translation and Materiality the Histories ofObjects: ofEuropean Porcelain People’s Republic ofChinainAutumn the of1956 100 performances, drawing an enormous success. the The uprisingnews of and seminars public lectures ¶ Guest lecture by József Böröcz Public Lecture by SusanGal Service ProfessorService Anthropology of and Linguistics, University Chicago of chartered train through the USSR and The China. Ensemblegave over affiliated with the Collegium Budapest -Institute for Advanced Study. oral well as as history interviews about this event afew years ago, while events that would come to determine their faiths artists, as well as as politically engaged citizens, for the their rest lives. of Professor Böröcz in Budapestin reached them with afew days’ delay, series a settingof off started to collect archival information, photographs, cinematic materials , Mae and Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished , Rutgers University

p.95 23 March 2017 Whereas, after the historic turning 1989and the point adoption of the of Is aWay there European out ofthe Crisis ofthe Construction? (In cooperation with Institut Français Budapest) Public Etienne by lecture Balibar Porcelain is, today, dishes, material afamiliar of figurines and tiles. The Philosophy, University, Kingston London Maastricht treatise, there widespread was conviction that an enlarged and E.U., perhaps on the collapsing verge of and any in adeep crisis in case vacillation the euro, of the refugee crisis, the Brexit, the increasing tensions current ontological debate in Anthropology and Cultural Studies, materiality thequalities pre-exist and social need only recognized. be In a this side of such objectsqualities –fineness, of artistrypoint – qualitiesto similar of contemporaryof history, abrutal succession setbacks of the in decade last de Paris-Ouest Nanterre, Anniversary Modern in Chair European development strong of anti-European “populist” movements on sides all of a political as legitimacy project.of include They the Greek crisis and the attributed qualities, changing “it” material. and sign as as and politico-ethical discourses. Translations porcelain of destabilized a return to pure national sovereignty nor progression towards innovative political and economic institutions. The histories ofhistories institutions. The economic and political “porcelain” in Europe properties materials are of not fixed. They semioticare achievements reached have produced the exact opposite representation: existential the crisis of translated –into diverse knowledge, regimes of state economic strategies, the continent. The lecture argues that,in such “interregnum”, where neither revisited, that so political new foundations democratically. can discussed be is theis ultimate on limit cultural interpretation. Iargue, instead, that the theirin buyers and users. Certainly, that the is role material objects of in institutionally strengthened European Union becoming was amajor force by adialectical process embodied interaction social of with objects within federalism seem possible, the the history European of construction must be between Northern and Southern, Eastern and Western member states, the show the varied swept been it qualities embodiedhas itas up has –and systems distinction. social of Yet, often this view presumes that material , Professor Emeritus Université 11 May 2017 The pioneer railway where children be enginecandrivers or conductors, What could easily have an been exercise sugary in and phony nostalgia Train toAdulthood with the tough capitalism reality at an early of age. Thetwins’ single Film show anddirector with discussion film Trencsényi Klára decide whether future, his be this will too. are losing the over roof their heads. As for Gergő, he lives with his one. Because the three them, of on all the threshold adulthood, of must and Karmen and their friend Gergő, too, operate old fashioned switches, mother works hard but earns hardly enough to buy food, and the family hymn around the camp fire: “The pioneers’of happytunes…” full land is levers and telephones, line up for the flag ceremony and sing the old many girls) between Leipzig and Vladivostok. The Budapest twins Viktor unfolds anuanced as and sensitive age coming drama –and of not ahappy shoulder responsibilities not only at the railway: they were confronted sell ticketssell or dispatch trains to used the be boy (and every dream of grandparents parents because his are forced to work abroad, and he must

p.97 27-28 October 201627-28 October New Perspectives for 21st Century Advanced Research Century 21st for New Perspectives conferences workshops and ¶ IAS 5th Anniversary Conference On the its 5th occasion anniversary of IAS CEUorganized aconference – Place and Space ways? How moving does to place anew and environment relate to the of close interaction?of discussions The reflected on questionsthese withour knowledgecircuits of relate to, enhance or hamper the intense experience contact, concentration connection, and new accumulation in are achieved our Writers and Visual Artists Residence in program, and partly with dedicated to the Space theme of and Place –Mobility and Frontiers might an IAS the feed model into of an ever more virtual world, where the rapidly connectivity changing virtual modes and of networks. How new sense of permanent proximity of sense new and presence created by hyperlinked individuals and centers research? of How do virtual and long-distance Century 21st in Advanced Research. This theme connectswithin part foundations, and look forward to fruitful discussions. foundations, forward to fruitful look and former fellows, representatives sister institutions of and leading research 27 2016 October Vienna), Valentina Sandu-Dediu (New Europe College, Bucharest) Advanced Study, Sofia),Randeria(Institute Shalini for Sciences,Human Academic Cooperation and Research Office, CEU), Marian Barsoum Advanced Study, Berlin Advanced Study can react to political and historical challenges. Yale University), Corina L. Petrescu (The University Mississippi, of fomer Wissenschaftskolleg zuBerlin), Erica Fellow Benner (Senior IAS CEU, Toronto, former IAS CEUFellow), Gábor Zólyomi (Eötvös Loránd Building Institutions with Ideas: Institutes On for Advanced Study – Jubileumsfond, Sweden), Olivier (Network Bouin French of Institutes (Professor Emeritus, Freie Universität, Berlin; Permanent Fellow at (Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Germany), (BotstiberBeer Siegfried Institute IAS CEUFellow and Long-term Fellow), Curie Virág (University of IAS CEUFellow), William (University O’Reilly Cambridge, of former Scholarship and Politics Politics and Scholarship University, former IAS CEUFellow), Zsuzsanna Gábor (Director, Keynote Addressby Wolf , Lepenies Professor Emeritus, Freie Universität, Berlin; Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Nadia Al-Bagdadi CEUDirector), (IAS Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Wolf Lepenies Member of Board of Member Board of Trustees, of CEU), Diana Mishkova (Center for Having scholarly spent his most of life at Institutes for Advanced Bucharest, Centre for Advanced Study and Sofia the BibliothecaClassica Speakers and participants: Liviu Matei (CEU Provost and Pro-Rector, Study Princeton in and rectorship his (1986-2001)permanent well as as Study, Wolf recollected Lepenies years his at the Institute for Advanced to found and fund the Collegium Budapest, the New Europe College in in Saintin Petersburg play will apivotal role reflecting in how Institutes for for Advanced Study, France), Alex Soros (Honorary Fellow, IAS CEU; for Austrian-American Studies USA), Göran Blomqvist (Riksbankens fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg zuBerlin. His experience helping in

p.99 23 February 2017 3 May 2017 Andras Bozoki, Professor Political of Science, Dept. Political of Science, The purpose of the The workshop purpose of symbolic was discuss to expression at the To mark the World Press Freedom Day Budapest, in IAS CEU, the Center Journalism and Politics inAge the ofMisinformation Crises ofPolitical Communication: Misleading Public Speech and How to Deal with it How with and Misleading Speech Deal Public Communication: to ICTY, whichways: anumber in manifests of through itself the process Symbolic Expression at International the Criminal Tribunal CEU; Marius Dragomir, Director, Center for Media, Data and Society, University Institute Florence in (EUI) organized adebate, where scholars Panel members included Michael Ignatieff, CEU President and Rector; Political Philosophy, Political Dept. of Science, Yale University. Policy with the the support Centre of for Media Pluralism and Media Participants: Judge Howard Morrison, (International Criminal Court, Freedom the Robert of Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at European Denmark Marina Aksenova, IAS Junior Fellow, University Copenhagen, of Benner, Fellow, Senior Institute for Advanced Study, CEUand Fellow in School of PublicSchool of Policy, CEU; Maria Kronfeldner, Associate Professor, Special IASorganized by seminar IAS Junior Fellow Marina Aksenova of the Formerof the Yugoslavia (ICTY) ex-ICTY), Professor Renáta Uitz, Department Studies, Legal of CEU, of its establishment,of its institutional design, rhetoric the in judgments, and practitioners and from fieldstry discuss and avarietywill disciplines of and history, former well as as political practitioners organized by Erica and, finally, through the wayin which the ICTY andscholarly community panel among discussion scholars from politics, media studies, philosophy, political communication are grappling with today. Part the event of a was to findsolutions to the major problems thatindependent journalism and for Media, Data (CMDS) at and the Public Society CEUSchool of frames its achievements and failures.

19-20 May 2017 “Gifts make slaves whips as make dogs.” Dangerous, violent, and self- Yavari, Erica Benner, Tracey Sowerby Little Nothings: Intangible, Gifts. Ephemeral, Digital Dangerous Gifts &Pernicious Transactions from Antiquity Age Digital tothe Organizers: current and former IAS fellows Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at CEU Conference organized by Institute for Advanced Study at CEUand the Keynote Speaker: Business, RussellBelk (School of York University) Urakova Philosophy Public and School of Policy, CEU Davide Torsello, Sandor Hites, Litwicki, Ellen Jan Hennings, Neguin Dept. Philosophy, of CEU; Simon Rippon, Associate Professor, Dept. of Menze, István Perczel, Tudor Sala, Alexandra Urakova, Tolga U. Esmer, Speakers and Participants: Nadia Al-Bagdadi, György Geréby, Volker consumerist pursues ideology and tries to exploit a the idea of “pure” gift essay on the gift. Globally, the toxic notion of and fateful haunted has gifts destructive remains an alluring challenge gift-giving for historians and circumstances are religious ambivalent? gifts When do they become and coercion, between generosity and excess, between benevolence and antiquity to the age. digital We asked what the is dangerous politics of and dangerous dazzling subject and of gifts pernicious transactions from anthropologists almost ahundred years after Marcel Mauss’s landmark practice—to say more nothing of brittle spheres such politics as or literary scholars and theologians, this workshop pursued the controversial that gratuitous, is wholesome, and pleasing, the gift-giving ambiguity of mythologies, folklores, and literatures for millennia. Yet everyday even in treacherous? And are more gifts digital dangerous than beneficial? religion—it not is always easyto draw aline between voluntary giving insult, and between gratitude and bribery. No matter how much modern is deeplyis embedded human in culture: the dark the the is gift side of shadow the perfect gift. of Drawing together anthropologists, historians, gift giving? giving? Whengift do the do gifts donor more harm than In good? what and and Tracey Sowerby TudorSala, Alexandra

p.101 1-2 June 2017 6 June 2017 “capitalist West”. It explored mobilities and (im)mobilities within and Völgyi (Budapest Institute), Gianluca Argentin (l’Università Cattolica Academy Sciences of Theregrowingis a interest in randomized experimentssocialin The workshop aimed at rethinking thepostwar geopolitics Europeof Workshop organized by IAS Junior Fellow Workshop organized by Oana AdelinaStefan Entangled Histories ofPostwar Europe, and Southern Eastern 1945-1989 Field Experiments in Education Education in Field Experiments Cold War Mobilities and (Im)mobilities: (WZB Berlin Social Science Berlin Center),(WZB Social Hubert János Kiss (Eötvös Loránd CEU), Johannes Wachs (PhD Candidate, CEU) University, Budapest), EURIAS Fellow, Djordje Stefanovic (Junior IAS within the field topic experiments of in education. Peter (DIW Berlin), Péter Róbert (TÁRKI Research Social Institute, Daniel Horn Department History at of CEU Fellow, IAS CEUwith the Institute for Advanced Study and the Budapest), Jessika Golle (University of Tubingen), Philipp Albert Budapest), Károly Takács (Corvinus University, Budapest), Frauke Speakers and participants: Carlo Barone (Sciences Po), Anna Adamecz- opportunity for young researchers to exchange and ideas experiences del Sacro Cuore), Márton Medgyesi (TÁRKI Research Social Institute, this experimental method. the workshop The aim of was to provide an the idea of abipolarthe Europe idea of divided between the “communist East” and their interconnections with the “West” broadly defined. The workshop brought together economists, psychologists, and sociologistswho use sciences, yet this method relatively is education. in new This workshop between Eastern and Southern Europe. At the same time, it revisited by proposing acloser the examination relationships of and similarities between these two regions, their exchanges at various levels, but also , Fellow, Research Economics, Hungarian Institute of Tamás and Keller , Humanities Initiative

Aaron Kappeler, Sarolta Klenjánszky, Sabina Mihelj, Dunja Njaradi, Entangled Peripheries? Eastern and Southern EuropeEntangled and Southern Eastern during Peripheries? Claudiu Oancea, Nikolaos Papadogiannis, Sune Bechmann Pedersen, Keynote Speaker: James, Mark University Exeter: of were embedded the in regimes: structures the socialism two of types of Participants and speakers: Judit Bodnár, Alejandro J. Gomez-Del-Moral, Marsha Siefert, Adelina Stefan, Pavel Szobi. and Cold after the War alongside people between Eastern, Southern, and Western Europe the in and Southern authoritarianisms? How did and ideas circulate goods countries challenge the concept postwar bipolar of world divided as economy? How did the particular economic interests these regions/ of postwar period and how this does call for rethinking Cold War structures? authoritarian regimes Spain, in Portugal, and Greece the in postwar global addressed the following questions: How did various mobility forms of between the Union Soviet and the United States? What (im)mobilities shape the role Eastern European of countries socialist the and of

p.103 g ↑ Eszter Bornemisza: Babel, 120 x 75 cm, textile (Photo: Tihanyi & Bakos) overnance

p.105 international academic advisory board William O’Reilly Ákos Róna-Tas chair Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Chicago Associate Director, Centrefor History and Economics, Markus Gabriel Markus Nikolas Jaspert Nadia Al-Bagdadi members Susan Gal Susan E. Reid (ex officio) Contemporary Philosophy, University of Bonn University Senior inEarly Lecturer Modern History, University Professor, Chair inEpistemology, Modern and University of Cambridge Professor of Medieval History, Institute of History, Centrefor the Professor and Chair of Sociology, University of California, San Diego Professor of Cultural History, Loughborough University Director, IAS CEU, Professor at theDepartment of History, CEU Mae Mae and Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor of Study of European History and Culture, Heidelberg University

management and staff ceu ias ceu ias

Ágnes Forgó guesthouse manager Judit Rácz Jan Bröker Éva Gönczi NadiaBagdadi Al scientific coordinator secretary ias coordinator director Professor, Department of History, CEU

p.107 illustrations copyright Eszter Bornemisza is a fiber artist living Institute for Advanced in Budapest, Hungary. She creates wall- Study, Central European hangings, installations and objects from University, 2018 the ubiquitous material of waste newspaper printing & binding and cloth. Originally a mathematician, she MPB started working with textiles in the mid ‘90s with experimenting and exploring her typeface own ways in surface design and quilting. Adobe Jenson Pro She has extensively exhibited in solo- and paper stock juried shows nationally and internationally Rives Tradition and won several prizes. ias ceu is proud of showing her textiles displayed on the walls of the Institute. art direction & layout Ákos Polgárdi