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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.

Mar
Border wines

Liquid Conflict and Border Wines: A Political Tasting of Terroir and Territory across the Eastern Mediterranean

Daniel Monterescu
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | B-421
Mar
Anti-Work: Security, Surveillance, and Extractive Value in Angola’s Diamond Mines

Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology Seminar Series talk: Anti-Work: Security, Surveillance, and Extractive Value in Angola’s Diamond Mines by Filipe Calvao

Mar
Public lecture at CEU

Seminar series lecture: "Doing Migration Studies with an Accent" by Shahram Khosravi

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | Auditorium
Mar
Doctoral defense - Anamaria Berbec Chiritoiu

Doctoral defense - Anamaria Berbec Chiritoiu on "Making virtue out of necessity in a southern Romanian mahala"

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | A-419
Feb
Anastasia piliavsky is the author of Nobody’s people: Hierarchy as hope in a society of thieves (Stanford 2020)

Cancelled: "Europe’s catastrophe in Ukraine and thinking through unthinkable times" by Anastasia Piliavsky (formerly to talk about Hierarchical justice)

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | A-415
Feb
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Doctoral defense: Vinod Sartape on Re-institutionalising Caste in the United Kingdom: Principles of Purity, Temples, and Caste Identities among Indian Migrants in Britain

Jan
image credit: Adam Hushegyi

Free Ahmed Samir! Online conference on Academic Freedom in Egypt

Jan
Butterfly Crossings: Traversing Boundaries of Space and Species in North America

Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology Seminar Series talk: Butterfly Crossings: Traversing Boundaries of Space and Species in North America

Nov
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology

"After Trump: Family Capitalism and the “Small Business” Insurrection" - an online lecture by Melinda Cooper - Seminar Series

Oct
Doctoral defense at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology

Doctoral defense of Eva Schwab

Oct
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology

Are We What We Eat?: Food, Culture and Politics - webinar

Daniel Monterescu
Sep
CEU

The Cognitive Bases of Moral Diversity workshop

Christophe Heintz, György Gergely, Vlad Naumescu
Sep
Info session

Hybrid Info Session - Advanced Certificate in Visual Theory and Practice

Jeremy Braverman, Vlad Naumescu, Oksana Sarkisova, Erzsebet Strausz, Robyn Dora Radway, Ulrich Meurer, Dóra Mérai, Klára Trencsényi
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | A-211
Jun
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Public PhD Defense of  Jana Hrckova on Follow the Dust: Centering Polluted Natures in Warsaw

to request the meeting link please use the contact form
Mar
CEU entrance

Public PhD Defense of Carolina Castillo Echeverría

Carolina Castillo Echeverría
Feb
ANIMADOCS’ projects

Documentary for Social Change: a conversation with two CEU alumni working in Advocacy Documentary

Sadie Luetmer, Maria Stanisheva
May
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Online Public PhD Defense of Volodymyr Artiukh

Mar
Alms in Cairo

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

Amira Mittermaier
Mar
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Immediacy, Residuality, Difference: Reflections on the Political Work of Heimat

Nitzan Shoshan
Budapest Campus | Nador u. 15 | 103 Tiered
Feb
Édouard Manet : Gypsy with a Cigarette (1862)

The Canvas of the Other: Alienation through Roma Representation

Budapest Campus | Nador u. 15 | 103
Feb
Nádor u. 15.

Historical Legacies and Contemporary Realities: Misperceptions of Social Mobility and Their Redistributive Implications

Fangqi Wen
Budapest Campus | Nador u. 15 | 103, Tiered
Feb
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War and Religion in the Secular Age: Faith and Interstate Armed Conflict Onset (Routledge, 2020)

Davis Brown
Budapest Campus | Nador u. 9, Monument Building | 203
Dec
CEU Department of Cognitve Science Colloquium

Olivier Morin - Information in images

Olivier Morin
Budapest Campus | Nador u. 15 | 103
Dec
CEU Vienna

Public PhD Defense of Jana Tsoneva

Jana Tsoneva
Oct
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Water - the Beginning and the End

Budapest Campus | Nador u. 15 | 101 Quantum