Covid 19-related CEU Senate Decisions, Policies and Communications
Dear All, please look to these documents related to COVID 19 communications and decisions by CEU if need be.
SPP is here to support our faculty, staff, students and alumni. OneCEU site has a collection of Rector updates for the community, along with separate communications from the Provost, Dean of Students, on issues such as working from home, guidance to supervisors re work obligations of parents. CEU document repository is where you can find COVID 19 academic decisions, such as grading and extensions, the PhD measures, and cost reimbursement for academics.

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Attending the Global Policy Academy’s course on European migration policy, Aleppo Project fellow AlHakam Shaar led a discussion with his classmates and asylum seekers at the Bicske Reception Center, located about 40 kilometers outside of Budapest, Hungary.

During a panel discussion at the School of Public Policy at CEU on June 5, a distinguished group of experts discussed two current court cases in Germany and Hungary: the ongoing NSU (National Socialist Underground) trial in Munich, and the 2011-13 trial in Budapest that led to the conviction in August 2013 of Zsolt Petö and Arpad and Istvan Kiss for the murder of six Roma between March 2008 and August 2009. The panel was moderated by Karoly Bard, professor and chair of the Human Rights Program at CEU’s Legal Studies Department.

In a wide-ranging discussion on BBC World Service’s Weekend show on June 7, SPP Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Programs and Professor of Comparative Politics Julia Buxton and Director of Chatham House Robin Niblett shared their perspectives on a diverse range of topics.

“Dozens of civil society activists, NGO leaders, journalists, and human rights defenders have been incarcerated in Azerbaijan in recent years. Two of them,” explained Saman Sardar (MPA ’16), “are CEU alumni.” Ilgar Mammadov graduated with a degree in political economy from CEU in 1997. He was an active member of the opposition in Azerbaijan and one of the leaders of the Republicanist Alternative Movement until he was sentenced to seven years in jail in March 2014.

In a faculty research seminar on June 4, Visiting Professor Péter Bajomi-Lázár explained reasons behind political party colonization of media in Central and Eastern Europe. In his recent research, Bajomi-Lázár has delved into why there is a media freedom deficit in Eastern Europe as compared to Western Europe, as well as why media freedom fluctuates over time within and across post-communist countries.

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