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This short seminar will discuss how IAS CEU supports the research activities of early career scholars, with particular attention to interdisciplinary collaborations involving other fellows and university faculty.
by
Speakers:
Bal谩zs Trencs茅nyi, Director, IAS CEU, Budapest,
ECR fellow (TBC)
Biographies:
Bal谩zs Trencs茅nyi is a Professor at the History Department of Central European University, Director of the CEU Institute for Advanced Study in Budapest and co-director of Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies. His main field of interest is the his颅tory of modern political thought in East Central Europe. Between 2008 and 2013, he was Principal Investigator of the European Research Council project, 鈥�Negotiating Modernity鈥�: History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe. He has held fellowships at Centre Marc Bloch, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Imre Kert茅sz Kolleg, Jena, the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia, and IWM Vienna. He is one of the founders of the Invisible University for Ukraine, CEU's certificate program for Ukrainian students launched in 2022. Among others, he is the author of The Politics of 鈥楴ational Character鈥�: A Study in Interwar East European Thought (Routledge, 2012), and Intellectuals and the Crisis of Politics in the Interwar Period and Beyond (OUP, 2025); co-author of A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe, vols. I-II (OUP, 2016-8); co-editor of Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1775–1945), vols. I–IV (CEU Press, 2006–14); European Regions and Boundaries: A Conceptual History (Berghahn, 2017); and Brave New Hungary: Mapping the "System of National Cooperation鈥� (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019).