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

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | Senate
Jun
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Doctoral defense of Stefan Voicu on Global Granaries. Peasants, Capitalist Farmers and Peripheral Financialization in Romania

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
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