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Endangered Scholars Worldwide Ebby Abramson The information in this quarterly print report is current as of April 10, 2017. The situation of scholars and students around the world changes on a daily basis. For the most up-to-date information and ways in which you can be involved in calling for the freedom of endangered scholars and students, please visit www.endangeredscholarsworldwide.net or follow us at www.facebook.com/endangeredscholars. In these pages we simply introduce new cases that have come to our attention in the past three months and provide basic information about continuing cases—a description of charges and potential or actual reported sentences. If you are aware of a scholar or student whose case you believe we should investigate, please contact us at esw@newschool.edu. Endangered Scholars Worldwide Urges Hungary to Rethink Closure of Central European University On Monday, April 10, 2017, Hungary's president signed a law that could lead to the closure of Central European University (CEU). The Hungarian Parliament voted in favor of the bill submitted to Parliament on March 28, 2017, by Zoltán Balog, Minister of Human Resources. The bill claimed "irregularities" were found in the operation of foreign-based universities. While no universities are specifically named, it has been widely noted that the legislation seems to target CEU. A total of 123 MPs voted for the bill, widely referred to as Lex CEU, and 38 opposition MPs voted against it. Starting January 1, 2018, CEU will no longer be permitted to enroll new students in any programs unless an agreement is reached by September 2017 between the United States government, the State [End Page v] of New York, and the Hungarian government. In addition, the legislation will force CEU to open a campus in New York State (where it is also accredited) and change its name. It would also eliminate a waiver that allows academic staff from non-EU nations to work at the university without a work permit. Endangered Scholars Worldwide strongly deplores and condemns the legislation as part of a power play by Prime Minister Viktor Orban against liberal values. The new law is a flagrant and unjust violation of the freedom, autonomy, security, and safety of a prominent European university and its more than 2200 faculty members, students, and academic staff. We urge all European governments, international organizations, university presidents, the US Department of State, academic and professional associations, student groups and individuals devoted to the promotion and defense of human rights to speak up and defend academic freedom and autonomy, and strongly protest and condemn this injudicious law, to call for immediate withdrawal of the law that directly and deliberately threatens the existence of an accomplished and internationally acclaimed university in the country. We urge the officials of the Hungarian government to respect, guarantee, and implement the provisions and principles of autonomy of higher education as specified in international conventions and treaties to which Hungary has long been a signatory. Please send appeals to: Prime Minister Viktor Orbán 1357 Budapest, Pf. 6. Hungary E-mail: miniszterelnok@me.gov.hu Zoltán Kovács International Spokesperson Tel: +36 1 896 1905 Fax: +36 1 795 0410 Email: intcomm@mk.gov.hu CC: István Mikola Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Bem rakpart 47 1027 Budapest Hungary Phone: +36 1 458 1000 Fax: +36 1 212 5918 [End Page vi] Rex W. Tillerson United States Secretary of State Office of Foreign Missions U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street NW Washington, DC 20520 USA Email: OFMInfo@state.gov Nikki Haley U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations U.S. Permanent Mission to the United Nations 799 United Nations Plaza New York, NY 10017 USA Kishore Singh United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education Palais des Nations CH-1211 Geneva 10 Switzerland Email: sreducation@ohchr.org David Kaye United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression Palais des Nations CH-1211 Geneva 10 Switzerland Fax: +41 22 917 9006 Email: freedex@ohchr.org Federica Mogherini High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy European Commission Rue de la Loi...

This chapter investigates the ways in which the post-2010 Fidesz government under Viktor Orbán used antisemitic tropes to configure George Soros—once hailed as a champion of market reform, freedom, and democracy—as an ontological threat to the Hungarian nation that should therefore be expunged from the country, together with “his networks,” including the Open Society Institute and Central European University. To show the government’s communication strategy in action, we combined an analysis of antisemitic discourse on the far right with a media content analysis of Sorosozás in government-backed online news portals from 2015 to 2020. We show that, from 2010, Orbán and his media allies discursively interpellated specific individuals and states as “financiers” and “global powers” as cogs in a global “Soros network.” In doing so, they drew upon well-established fifth-column narratives originally constructed and refined by ideologists from the Kádár era who employed a latent antisemitic code in their writing. At one time vehemently rejecting such discourse, Orbán and his government allies have become its chief articulators with devastating effects for one of his targets—the Central European University in Budapest.

Event Abstract Back to Event Studying infant cognition by EEG and ERP Gergely Csibra1* 1 Central European University, Hungary One can measure the functional brain activation of babies for several purposes. First, variations of neural activation measured in controlled situations may reveal how the infant brain works, and when these results are compared across development or with those of adults, they allow insights into early functional development of the cerebral cortex. Second, correlating neural activations with behavioral performance across individuals can generate hypotheses about the neural mechanisms that underlie overt behavior, and may lead to a better understanding of individual differences or developmental disorders. Finally, functional brain activations in infants can be used to test, support, or falsify theories of infant cognitive development—as long as such activations could be plausibly identified as neural 'signatures' of certain kinds of representations or computations. In this talk, I will illustrate this third, most modest, usage of neuroscientific approach to infant cognition by four examples. First, we used event-related potentials to test whether 5-month-old infants are subject to the audio-visual McGurk illusion - a question that would be particularly difficult to answer by purely behavioral methods. Second, event-related gamma-band oscillations revealed that 4-month-olds interpret certain dynamic facial expressions (such as direct gaze and eye-brow raise) as communicative signals. This finding was also supported by near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), which measures haemodynamic changes in the infant brain. Third, similar gamma-band oscillatory responses indicated that learning object labels modify the visual processing of the associated objects in the infant brain. Finally, a recent finding demonstrates how measurements of motor activation during action perception by the attenuation of the sensorimotor alpha waves could be used for disambiguating behavioral findings concerning action interpretation in infants. Electrophysiological techniques provide an excellent tool to study the cognitive development in young infants. Conference: MMN 09 Fifth Conference on Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and its Clinical and Scientific Applications, Budapest, Hungary, 4 Apr - 7 Apr, 2009. Presentation Type: Oral Presentation Topic: Invited Talk Citation: Csibra G (2009). Studying infant cognition by EEG and ERP. Conference Abstract: MMN 09 Fifth Conference on Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and its Clinical and Scientific Applications. doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.09.2009.05.004 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 19 Mar 2009; Published Online: 19 Mar 2009. * Correspondence: Gergely Csibra, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, csibrag@ceu.hu Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Gergely Csibra Google Gergely Csibra Google Scholar Gergely Csibra PubMed Gergely Csibra Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.

424 Feminist Studies 44, no. 2. © 2018 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Susan Stanford Friedman PhD in Women’s and Gender Studies: The European Example The growth of PhD programs in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies in the United States since Feminist Studies published its influential forums in 1998 and 2001 has been impressive, especially in the face of budget woes in public higher education, where most of the doctoral programs are located. As we consider the future directions of such programs , I offer here an account of exciting new developments in Europe from which I think we in the United States can learn. A feminist network of faculty in seven universities in six countries across Europe has been working across languages since the beginning of this century to develop cooperative ventures in women’s and gender studies. Funded by the European Union (EU), the network developed a joint Erasmus Mundus Master’s Degree in Women’s and Gender Studies , starting in 2006 and based in Granada, Spain; participants include the University of Bologna (Italy), the Central European University (Hungary ), the University of Granada (Spain), the University of Hull (England), the University of Lodz (Poland), the University of Oviedo (Spain), and the Utrecht University (Netherlands). Also involved is the Associazione Orlando, an independent institute in Bologna, Italy, founded in 1975 to promote feminist research, archives, and activism. This MA program, known by the acronym GEMMA, has graduated hundreds of students from all over the world and is still going strong.1 Their curriculum is a 1. In 2012, GEMMA was renewed and now includes Rutgers University and associations with universities in Central and South America. See http://masteres .ugr.es/gemma. Susan Stanford Friedman 425 two-year program that involves course work, a thesis, and as its major innovation, a “mobility” semester or year. Part of the students’ program involves moving to one of the other universities in the consortium for a semester or a year, thus maximizing exposure to a variety of faculty and curricula; at the same time, this mobility term promotes greater cross-European understanding and appreciation of different cultures and languages. The problems the GEMMA program has faced have been enormous, including the institutional differences in degree requirements and academic cultures, the limited funding available for students , and the sheer challenges of coordination across national and linguistic borders. But in GEMMA, the objectives of academic feminism for advanced degrees in women’s and gender studies and greater integration across national differences have converged successfully. In 2013, the GEMMA initiative entered a new phase with an award from the EU to spend two years planning a joint PhD based in the same seven universities: Bologna, CEU, Granada, Hull, Lodz, Oviedo, and Utrecht (with Associazione Orlando as partner). EDGES is the acronym for this well-funded, major initiative, and Lilla Maria Crisafulli at the University Bologna is the project coordinator overseeing the final report and working groups from each of the seven universities and Associazione Orlando.2 Some of the consortium universities already had some form of separate PhD degree program in women’s and gender studies (Bologna, CEU, Granada, Oviedo, Utrecht). But the ambition was to create a joint PhD among the seven universities based on the vision of GEMMA for feminist cross-European cooperation and enrichment. The goals included enhancing gender equality and diversity, offering an interdisciplinary and intercultural degree program, supporting the future employability of its students, and encouraging a synergy between academic institutions and the wider public and private sectors. For two years, members of the consortium met repeatedly to design a threeyear PhD degree program that featured, like GEMMA, a mobility year, with students spending time at one of the other consortium universities , under the supervision of their main advisor and a secondary advisor 2. GENDERGRADUATES, another feminist consortium of six universities, based in Utrecht between 2005 and 2010 and directed by Rosemarie Buikema, helped lay the groundwork for EDGES. GENDERGRADUATES graduated 39 PhDs in women’s and gender studies. 426 Susan Stanford Friedman at their mobility institution. In the fall of 2014, I was brought into the project as an outside evaluator, charged with speaking at conferences, attending meetings, and submitting a...

Previous article FreeNotes on ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreJudit Bodnár is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. She teaches classes on urban theory and history, the structure and infrastructure of global modernity, and comparative thinking. Author of Fin de Millénaire Budapest (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000) and coeditor of Critical Urban Studies Reader (Budapest: L’Harmattan), she has most recently edited a Critical Discussion Forum on 1968 and written about Eastern Europe and 1968 as a “global moment” (“Making a Long Story Longer: Eastern Europe and 1968 as a Global Moment, Fifty Years Later,” Slavic Review 77, no. 4 [2018]: 875–80).Martin Giraudeau is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Sciences Po, in Paris, and a researcher in the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations at CNRS. He has published articles on the history of business plans, the invention of entrepreneurship, and the roles of accounting in organizations and society. He recently coedited, with Frédéric Graber, a volume on the modern history of projects: Les Projets: Une histoire politique (16e–21e siècles) (Paris: Presses des Mines, 2018).Michael McCarthy is an assistant professor of sociology at Marquette University. There he writes and teaches on the state, capitalism, and social theory. His recent book is Dismantling Solidarity: Capitalist Politics and American Pensions since the New Deal, published with Cornell University Press in 2017. The project he is currently undertaking explores the politics of public finance.Ricardo Noronha is a researcher at the Instituto de História Contemporânea (NOVA FCSH), where he completed a doctorate on the nationalization of the bank system during the Carnation Revolution. He is coeditor of Greves e conflitos sociais em Portugal no Século XX (Lisbon: Colibri, 2012) and author of A banca ao serviço do povo. Política e Economia durante o PREC (Lisbon: Imprensa de História Contemporânea, 2018). His research topics include political economy, social conflicts, and critical theory.Toulouse Antonin Roy is a PhD candidate in the history department at the University of California, Los Angeles. His dissertation examines the history of the Taiwan camphor industry and its impact on the dispossession of the island’s Indigenous peoples during the Japanese period. He holds a master’s degree in history and East Asian studies from McGill University. Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Critical Historical Studies Volume 6, Number 1Spring 2019 Sponsored by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/702608 © 2019 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

The talk will focus on the potential of social media to support commoning relations and the actuality of devastating impacts through post-truth, fake-news populism.

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When the first central European university was opened at Prague in 1348, the system adopted for the governing and administration of its students was that which had been employed by the older universities of Paris and Padua. This system was based on divisions of the student population, known as nations, which corresponded to the geographical location of each particular student’s home.

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The IUC Independent Policy Report prepared by a group of lawyers at the International University College of Turin was presented at the meeting convened by the G8 Presidency in Rome on May 12, 2009.The IUC Independent Policy Report was drafted by the IUC Legal Standards Research Group, organized by a Steering Committee chaired by Ugo Mattei (International University College of Turin), coordinated by Edoardo Reviglio (International University College of Turin) and Giuseppe Mastruzzo (International University College of Turin), and composed by Franco Bassanini (University of Rome “La Sapienza"), Guido Calabresi (Yale University), Antoine Garapon (Institut des Hautes Etudes sur la Justice, Paris), and Tibor Varady (Central European University, Budapest). Contributors include Eugenio Barcellona (Eastern Piedmont University), Mauro Bussani (University of Trieste), Giuliano G. Castellano (Ecole Polytechnique Preg/CRG), Moussa Djiré (Bamako University), Liu Guanghua (Lanzhou University), Golnoosh Hakimdavar (University of Turin), John Haskell (SOAS), Jedidiah J. Kroncke (Yale Law School), Andrea Lollini (Bologna University), Alberto Lucarelli (Federico II University), Boris N. Mamlyuk, (University of Turin), Alberto Monti (Bocconi University), Sergio Ariel Muro (Torquato di Tella University), Domenico Nicolò (Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria), and Nicola Sartori (University of Michigan).The IUC Independent Policy Report argues for a radical change of perspective, capable of restoring the supremacy of the law over the economic system. It is not only about finance, nor is it only about economics or policy. In this sense a transnational set of normative principles is needed in order to establish a global legal system capable of controlling economic processes, rather than being controlled by them. Within this framework a series of policy proposals are presented in order to effectively implement a new system of global standards.The current Western standard of living is unsustainable. Should the rest share the model of development of the West, our planet will simply not be capable of resisting the growth in consumption and pollution. Within this fundamental setting of scarcity in resources, using the rhetoric of the end of history as the polar star for growth, development and ultimately happiness of the whole world is simply a cynical lie. We argue here for the beginning of a necessary process aimed at the development of a legal system that is much less about creating an effcient backbone for an exploitive economy and much more about a vision of civilization, justice and respect where the laws of nature and those of humans converge in a sustainable long-term philosophy.Principles of justice, responsibility and long term environmental protection, rather than short term economic contingency and strong interests must set the legal agenda. A new governance and bottom-up inclusive integration of knowledge-based economies (wherever located), which is crucial to the very survival of humankind, cannot happen without defning new terms of a widely accepted standard of long term justice in the transnational context, hence the urgency to conceive legitimate transnational legal structures and possibly some apparatus of “superlegality."The report is composed of fve sections. After having presented the pitfalls of the prevailing theoretical apparatus, an alternative cultural grid upon which policy actions should be shaped is presented. In this sense several normative proposals - revisiting the key characteristics of the current system - are offered aiming at acquiring a wider perspective over the actual global crisis.

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model on the two types of gentile structures demonstrates a great level of similarity to Anthony D. Smith's differenti ation between lateral and demotic ethnic groups two decades later (Smith, National identity, 1991).This possibly indicates that Szcs cannot be squeezed into any existing school of nationalism studies.Instead, he shares some features of ethnosymbolism as well, despite the intention of the editors at Central European University and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences to portray him as a reliable point of orientation "stressing the discontinuity between premodern and modern frames of identification" (p.22).Baker's work seeks to orientate studies of the Balkans around the idea of "race"-a notion that seems for her to " almost always pass over the east of Europe and its state socialist past" (1).In so doing, the author hopes to integrate what was once Yugoslavia into discussions of "global 'raciality'" (p. 1).This is a commendable and timely effort, for postsocialist area studies is certainly ripe for its own "postcolonial turn" (see Laffey & Nadarajah, 2016).And while I do not believe Baker's work is always successful in deconstructing the very narratives she is critical of, the book's enduring achievement will likely be its to bringing to the mainstream these difficult topics.Over four chapters Baker deftly introduces readers to key concepts like eurocentrism, whiteness, and coloniality to show how the Balkans was never immune from the racist and imperialist tendencies spawned by their Christian European brethren to the north-west.Her focus is a self-professed effort to shift away from the plethora of studies on the Balkans that explore the region through concepts like ethnicity and religion, something Baker argues fails to adequately to attend to this very entanglement with European imperialism.These themes are developed in the first chapter exploring the ways in which studying popular music can enhance our understanding of how racial imaginaries are spread, shift and shape local dynamics.There is much to be gained here for students of social and cultural production.The second chapter more heavily focuses on history and includes the intriguing case of Ulcinj's (Albanian: Ulqin) Afro-Albanians (pp.74-79).The third chapter connects the USSR, Yugoslavia and the latter's integration into the Non-Aligned Movement to show how "ambiguous racial formation in the Yugoslav region" functioned in the twentieth century (p.119).The following chapter explores how all this operated in the postsocialist period and the region's entanglement with things like European border controls and nation-making.The book is successful in showing how race has persisted in the Balkans as a topic of debate and its side-lining by prominent English language studies in the field.This much is clear.My worry with the book is its unclear presentation of the intersection between race and religion.As Rexhepi (2018a, 2018b) has written extensively about, "race" in the Balkans can never be separated from religion when it concerns (especially) the experiences of Muslims here.

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We are grateful to David Caughlin for his invaluable help in coordinating the conference in Budapest, and to the Open Society Institute and Rockefeller Foundation for their generous support of the conference. Arien Mack Editor A Note from the Conference Convenor Eastern Europe emerges from a Communist past where everything was officially “public,” privacy was unprotected, and the public sphere was etatized. The highly problematic public/private dichotomy of postmodernity is particularly complicated under conditions of postcommunism. Distortions of the public sphere (lack of transparency, skewed or monopolized public discourse ) are aggravated by attempts at penetrating into privacy in the name of public community values (in the case of abortion, for example). Transparency is denied in the name of privacy (“personality rights” of former secret police informants prevail in some countries against public interest and the rights of victims). Further , in part because of historical traditions, in many East European societies there is no genuine sense of privacy. These features are not systematically discussed in Eastern Europe. The Social Research Privacy conference at Central European University on March 23-24, 2001, helped to clarify certain crucial policy-relevant issues—for example, civic education for the development of a more responsive citizenry; data protection and access to information; the limits and responsibilities of journalism ; reproductive policies. More broadly, the conference offered a valuable point of reference and helped to put the East European issues into a global context, in terms of both prevailing influences and intellectual context. András Sajó Conference Convenor VI SOCIAL RESEARCH Spring 02 SR.4.third pages 5/8/02 10:42 PM Page vi ...