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… will be continuing his research in the United States from 1 st September as the first Hungarian scholarship holder of the prestigious Princeton University Fung Global Fellows Program. Unfortunately, we will have to make do without him in Budapest during the 2025/2026 academic year, but we can’t wait to hear all about his findings on the cultural implications of post-imperialism, a topic closely related to his dissertation, which he successfully defended at CEU in 2024. We wish Kristóf …

Webinar How did contemporary art and the postsocialist transition come together? How did artistic trends relate to the political-economic transformations in the Eastern Bloc? This webinar aims to answer these questions by placing Octavian Esanu’s new volume, The postsocialist contemporary, into the focus. By discussing Esanu’s account of the role of the Soros Centers for Contemporary Art, which …