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Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology

The Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology offers innovative MA and PhD programs that integrate both disciplines while accommodating a diversity of theoretical perspectives. Our combination of Sociology and Social Anthropology leads to insightful and groundbreaking research, presenting multi-scalar and critical perspectives on current social issues. We are committed to both academic excellence and socially conscious scholarship.

Jun
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TRANSLATING KNOWLEDGE: FROM THEORY TO PRAXIS - conference

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | B-505
May
CEU DOCS: Annual Showcase 2023

CEU DOCS: Annual Showcase 2023

Off-campus | Belvedere 21’s Blickle Kino, Arsenalstraße 1, 1030 Wien
May
CEU

Seminar Series: Serguei Alex. Oushakine: 'Fighting a New Cult: Thing-Theories of Late Socialism'

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | C-322
May
CEU Vienna

Doctoral defense: Sara Swerdlyk 'The Refugees of Illiberalism: Capitalist crisis, rightwing populism, and social reproduction through the prism of Hungarian Romani asylum-seeking to Canada'

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | Senate room (B-319)
May
Kyiv, Ukraine

Religious Dynamics of the War on Ukraine 

José  Casanova
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | Auditorium
May
Stock Footage + everything under the sun (by James Forsher)

How to be a Film History Detective - My life journey telling stories through orphan films

James Forsher
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | Auditorium
Apr
Erika Kapronczai

Working with a vulnerable protagonist: The making of KIM

Erika Kapronczai
Off-campus | Belvedere21, Arsenalstraße 1, 1030 Wien
Apr
Nelly & Nadine

Family Secrets: Using archives to tell the story of a Holocaust survivor

Magnus Gertten
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-002
Apr
Verzio Vienna

Verzió Vienna screenings and events

Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
Off-campus | Belvedere21, Arsenalstraße 1, 1030 Wien
Mar
Andrea Muehlbach

Life as Debt or Debt to Life? Water Insurgencies in Europe - Andrea Muehlebach

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | Auditorium
Mar
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The narrative signature of Russian information warfare: A forensic linguistic analysis by Eszter Szenes

Off-campus | Favoritenstraße 15a · 1040 Wien, Festsaal
Mar
"Who is Next?"

"Who is Next?": Investigative documentary as an awareness-raising tool

Nurzhamal Karamoldoeva
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-002
Feb
Nadia Marzouki

Kaïs Saied’s Politics of Melancholy: Islam, the State, and the Nation in Tunisia after July 2019

Nadia Marzouki
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | B-505 Classroom
Feb
Join the Info session on GTFP!

Info Session - Global Teaching Fellowship Program (GTFP) Fall 2023 and AY 23/24

Márton Bélik
Jan
Book cover

"Density activism and affordable housing in high-cost American cities" - by Max Holleran, as part of our department seminar series

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | Auditorium
Jan
CEU Vienna

Doctoral defense: Mert Kocak on "Migration Industries and Transnational Governance of Queer Migration: Bureaucratization of Sexuality and Gender in Turkey"

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | A-214
Nov
Rutvica Andrijasevic, University of Bristol Business School, UK

‘Just-in-time’ labour: the role of transnational businesses in shaping temporalities of migration - Seminar Series talk

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | Audiorium
Nov
Rita Astuti

Departmental Colloquium: Oh Rita, what questions you ask! - Professor Rita Astuti (LSE)

Rita Astuti (LSE)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001 and Zoom
Nov
Bernadette Wegenstein

A Sweet Secret: working with the ephemeral Holocaust film archive and a forgotten Jewish comedy. A new film project in development by Bernadette Wegenstein.

Bernadette Wegenstein
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-001 Tiered
Nov
sociology and social anthropology open class

Food, Culture, Politics – Open class with Professor Daniel Monterescu

Daniel Monterescu
Nov
ceu open classes

Open Classes | CEU Open Day

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51
Nov
Bernadette Wegenstein

DocPro MasterClass: Global Feminist Filmmaking. A Theory and Practice Workshop

Bernadette Wegenstein
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15 | 103
Oct
Somdeep Sen

Seminar Series talk: Book Talk: "Decolonizing Palestine" by Somdeep Sen

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | C-322
Oct
Film & Audio at CEU: A Selection of Student Work

CEU Short Film & Audio Showcase

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-001
Oct
Raminder Kaur (University of Sussex)

Seminar Series: Practice, Performance and Policy: Integrating the Arts into Social Science Research on the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Racialised Communities by Raminder Kaur

Raminder Kaur (University of Sussex)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | Auditorium