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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.

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
ceu open classes

Open Classes | CEU Open Day

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51
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
Sep
CEU Docs 2022

Hybrid Info Session - Advanced Certificate in Visual Theory and Practice

Oksana Sarkisova, Jeremy Braverman, Vlad Naumescu, Thomas Aichinger, Klára Trencsényi, Claudio Sopranzetti, Ulrich Meurer
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | C-323
Jun
A large crowd of people at an outdoor market

Doctoral defense: "In Search of Citizenship. Chakmas between Law and Ethnicity in South Asia." by Mahendran Chokkalingam

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | Senate
Jun
Extraction - Graduate Conference

Extraction: Multiple Frontiers of Power and Resistance, June 3-4, Graduate Conference

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | Auditorium
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
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
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