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Center for Religious Studies

The Center for Religious Studies (CRS) is a cross-departmental unit whose mission to initiate and to coordinate research, academic events, and publications that address religion-related questions in critical ways. CRS collaborates its teaching activities with ten partner departments and academic units at CEU.

Mar
Istvan Perczel

Exploring the Syrian Christian and the Muslim Archives in South India: What has been done and what should be done?

István Perczel
Mar
Transnational Identity_Jones Gailani (University of Toronto Press, 2020)

Book Launch: Transnational Identity and Memory Making in the Lives of Iraqi Women in Diaspora

Nadia Jones-Gailani
Mar
The Metaphysics of Teleology

Reading Group on Alasdair MacIntyre's Can Medicine Dispense with a Theological Perspective on Human Nature?

Daniel Kodaj
Mar
Models of Finality by Erik Åkerlund

Models of Finality: Aristotle, Buridan, and Averroes

Erik Åkerlund
Feb
Alexander meets the Indian “naked philosophers”

CRS Special Seminar: The Utopian Community of the Brahmans in Medieval Treatises, Encyclopedias and Chronographies

Chiara Di Serio
Feb
Human Goals are Constitutive of Agency in AI by Elena Popa

Human Goals are Constitutive of Agency in Artificial Intelligence

Elena Popa
Feb
An Axiological Teleology: How value ultimately explains existence by Mohsen Moghri

An Axiological Teleology: How value ultimately explains existence

Mohsen Moghri
Jan
Teleology, Goal-Directedness and Self-Organization by Gergely Kertesz

Teleology, Goal-Directedness and Self-Organization: How to best revive teleology in the context of biologys

Gergely Kertész
Jan
Aquinas on the Nature of Human Beings with Eleonore Stump (SLU)

Aquinas on the Nature of Human Beings

Eleonore Stump
Dec
Reading Seminar on Teleology and Normativity

Reading group: Matthew Silverstein – Teleology and Normativity

Dec
Reading Seminar on Teleology as Higher-Order Causation

Reading group: Robert Koons – Teleology as Higher-Order Causation

Dec
Agency, Trying and Final Causes with Ferenc Huoranszki

Agency, Trying, and Final Causes

Ferenc Huoranszki
Nov
Aristotelian Dualism and Hylomorphism with Howard Robinson

Aristotelian Dualism: Good; Aristotelian Hylomorphism: Bad

Howard Robinson
Nov
Spooky Teleology with Daniel Kodaj

Spooky Teleology

Daniel Kodaj
Nov
Striking from the Margins Publication

Online Event to Launch: Striking from the Margins Project II

Online ZOOM event
Oct
Christian Brouwer

“Anxious is the condition of good human beings” (Consolation 2, pr. 4): Philosophical consideration of the human condition in Boethius' Consolation

Christian Brouwer, Michael Ignatieff
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001
Oct
ROAR Conference 2020

ROAR 2020 Closing Keynote Address by Aleš Chalupa (MUNI): Macro-historical Aspects of the Christianization of the Roman Empire: From a Subversive Sect to the Foundation of the Christian Empire

Aleš Chalupa
Oct
ROAR Conference 2020

ROAR 2020 Opening Keynote Address by Michael Strmiska (SUNY): Paganism and Pluralism in Eastern Europe: Past, Present, Future

Michael Strmiska (SUNY)
Oct
ROAR Conference 2020

ROAR 2020 - Resistance to Order and Authority in Religion

Michael Strmiska, Aleš Chalupa
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
May
Center for Religious Studies

Cancelled -- The Human Condition in Boethius's 'Consolation of Philosophy'

Christian Brouwer
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15 | 103
Mar
György E. Szönyi

CANCELLED -- Promiscuous Angels: Enoch, Blake, and a Curious Case of Romantic Orientalism

Gyorgy E. Szonyi
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building | Gellner Room
Mar
Alms in Cairo

CANCELLED -- Giving to God: Reflections on Islamic Charity and Social Justice in Egypt

Amira Mittermaier
Mar
Source: Fortepan/Pál Schiffer collection (Photo by Tamás Féner)

CANCELLED -- The New Alliance of Church and State in Hungarian Education Policy

Eszter Neumann
Feb
Ida Film Official Poster

Film Screening: Ida (Artificial Eye, 2014)

Budapest Site | Oktober 6 u. 7 | October Hall
Feb
official poster

Leviathan (Non-Stop Productions, 2014)

Budapest Site | Oktober 6 u. 7 | Oktober Hall