Before the end of this month three more publications are expected to appear: Traveler, Scholar, Political Adventurer, A Tale of Two Worlds, and The Collectivization of Agriculture in Communist Eastern Europe.
1/20/2014
New and Upcoming Releases
We started the new year with the publication of three books: Living the High Life in Minsk that seeks to understand the role of energy relations, policies, and discourses in the maintenance of President Lukashenka’s power; An Empire of Others, a book that focuses on the contexts in which ethnographic knowledge was created in Imperial Russia and the USSR and From Class to Identity in which the author provides an innovative analysis of education policy-making in the
processes of social transformation and post-conflict development in the
Western Balkans. Also, a new title on festival culture, published by The Budapest Observatory and distributed by us, have been released.
Before the end of this month three more publications are expected to appear: Traveler, Scholar, Political Adventurer, A Tale of Two Worlds, and The Collectivization of Agriculture in Communist Eastern Europe.
Before the end of this month three more publications are expected to appear: Traveler, Scholar, Political Adventurer, A Tale of Two Worlds, and The Collectivization of Agriculture in Communist Eastern Europe.
8/27/2013
Review about "Hot Books in the Cold War"
"Welcome to the Iron Curtain region in the
Cold War. And the hero of the story, according to Alfred A. Reisch’s
book 'Hot Books in the Cold War?' The CIA. This book is a timely
reminder in an age in which Americans have come to fear government
intrusion into our intellectual, professional, and personal lives and
in which we read about the massive surveillance programs of the National
Security Agency (NSA) that at one time U.S. government agencies like
the CIA were conduits of ideas deemed dangerous by governments abroad
and that intellectuals and students were the beneficiaries of its
largesse.'
http://criticalmargins.com/2013/08/22/review-hot-books-in-the-cold-war/
http://criticalmargins.com/2013/08/22/review-hot-books-in-the-cold-war/
7/30/2013
Two new releases from CEU Press:
Jana Vobecká (researcher at the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU), Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Octavian Esanu (founding director of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau (Moldova) and has curated for art institutions in Eastern and Western Europe. Currently he is Curator at the American University of Beirut, running two art spaces dedicated to Middle Eastern and international modern and contemporary art)
Demographic Avant-Garde. Jews in Bohemia between the Enlightenment and the Shoah
byJana Vobecká (researcher at the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU), Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Transition in Post-Soviet Art. The Collective Actions Group Before and After 1989
by
Octavian Esanu (founding director of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau (Moldova) and has curated for art institutions in Eastern and Western Europe. Currently he is Curator at the American University of Beirut, running two art spaces dedicated to Middle Eastern and international modern and contemporary art)
Foreword by Boris Groys.
6/26/2013
2013 Fall/Winter
Our newest catalog is now available from our website. If you wish to receive a print copy, please write to ceupress@ceu.hu.
5/14/2013
Giordano Bruno's Enlightenment
Some of the world’s most eminent researchers on Bruno offer an
exhaustive overview of the state-of-theart
research on his work, discussing Bruno’s
methodological procedures, his epistemic and literary practices,
his natural philosophy, or his role as
theologian and metaphysic at the cutting-edge of their disciplines.
Short texts by Bruno illustrate the reasoning
of the contributions. The book also reflects aspects of Bruno’s
reception in the past and today, inside and
outside academia.
5/03/2013
Learning to See Invisible Children
The volume--published by the Open Society Foundations and distributed by CEU Press--contains six case studies that address a significant aspect
or specific phenomenon in the local context of inclusive education or
social inclusion in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. The cases
raise a number of questions relating to the purpose and nature of
schooling, about who should have access to schools and how such access
might be negotiated. These cases also ask questions about the respective
roles of policy, parents, civic society, advocacy groups,
professionals, NGOs, and government agencies. It considers how notions
of disability are constructed in the region. In particular it looks at
some of the ways in which the Soviet legacy of defectology still informs
policy and practice today.
Studies on Charms and Charmings in Europe
The research of the folklore genre of charms became extremely dynamic around the turn of the millennium. A number of academic disciplines allied themselves to explore manuscripts healing texts and other textual relics of verbal magic from antiquity and the middle ages. Studying this corpus has shed light on a number of previously unexplored aspects of Eurasian cultures. The authors of the twelve essays in the book, covering a wide geographical and thematic range, include representatives of European ethnology and folklore studies, contemporary and historical anthropology, as well as linguistics, the study of Classical Antiquity, mediaeval studies, Byzantine studies, Russian and Baltic studies. The essays reflect the rich textual tradition of archives, monasteries and literary sources, as well as the texts amassed in the folklore archives or those still accessible through field work in many rural areas of Europe and known from the living practice of lay specialists of magic and healers in local communities, and even of priests.
For more information visit: http://www.ceupress.com/books/html/PowerOfWords.htm
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