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CEU-Sabanci Joint Academic Initiative—Call for Proposals Issued

Central European University (CEU) and Sabanci University (SU) have announced a Joint Academic Initiative supported by their respected founders and benefactors, Guler Sabanci and George Soros.

First Departmental Research Day, 8 September 2010

 

Research into society, religion, material and spiritual culture, and many other aspects of life, with the joint participation of faculty and students, has complemented teaching at the Department of Medieval Studies since its establishment some eighteen years ago. By now the number of research projects has grown to the extent which warrants an overview so as to see how many and how varied projects are currently pursued.

Four-year research project on Historic Towns Atlases being housed by the Department: The Hungarian Atlas of Historic Towns (Magyar Várostörténeti Atlasz)

 

http://www.wien.gv.at/kultur/archiv/kooperationen/lbi/staedteatlas/bibliographie/index.html.

 

 

Town plans, reflecting the spatial structure of urban settlements, form a decisive but often neglected part of mankind’s cultural heritage. Compiling the historical atlases of European towns is a major research project of the International Commission for the History of Towns (www.historiaurbium.org).

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