News

Udupa Calls for a Rethinking of Internet Regulation and Policy

October 4, 2016

Associate Professor Sahana Udupa will be participating in a panel with digital media researchers from the University of Michigan, Oxford University, Erasmus University, and Denison College in Berlin on October 6. She will be presenting a paper on “abusive speech on social media and raging debates on internet censorship in India.” Udupa says that the character of online abusive exchange in India is unique combining insult, comedy, shame, and abuse.

Goździak Reimagines Trafficked Children Survivors

October 3, 2016

"When people write or talk about trafficked children or young people, the focus is usually on them as victims. They are never portrayed as actors or agents," explained George Soros Visiting Chair Elżbieta Goździak during a public lecture at the School of Public Policy at CEU on September 29.

Lajos Bokros and Cristina Corduneanu-Huci Recognized with 2016 CEU Distinguished Teaching Awards

September 28, 2016

During the 26th Opening Ceremony at CEU on September 16, Department of Economics and SPP Professor Lajos Bokros and SPP Assistant Professor Cristina Corduneanu-Huci received 2016 Distinguished Teaching Awards "for promoting high standards of teaching" in the classroom. They are both widely recognized and appreciated by CEU students as especially effective teachers.

Urbicide – or an Elegy for Aleppo

September 26, 2016

"It is time to define it [urbicide] more precisely as the deliberate destruction of urban life beyond anything that might be justified by military necessity as a way to erase identity and expel populations. It is also time to make it a crime," argue Robert Templer and AlHakam Shaar in a recent article about the urbicide taking place in Aleppo. 

SPP Students Celebrate Beginning of Academic Year

September 26, 2016

Sixty incoming and returning SPP students gathered on Friday afternoon to celebrate the beginning of the academic year. "Some of us who are second-year MPA students decided to organize an informal gathering so that we could meet each other and offer advice and support to the new students," explained second-year MPA student Liliana Fernandez.