Central European University

1. Central European University Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology Departmental Overview

2. Facts about the department - was founded in 2003 - offers integrated graduate training, MA and PhD - it accomodates a plurality of theoretical and methodological perspectives by integrating the two disciplines of sociology and social anthropology

3. What we promote • The integration of sociological and anthropological perspectives as well as methodologies • comparative approaches to the theory and practice of development, state, law, culture, migration, work, civil society, inequalities, the city and urban processes

4. The Faculty Permanent Visiting Judit Bodnar Nadia Al-Baghdadi Ayse Caglar Martin Fuchs Nitsan Chorev Slawomir Kapralski Don Kalb Andrzej Rychard Prem Kumar Rajaram Gaspar Miklos Tamas Balazs Vedres Violetta Zentai For detailed information on the faculty (CV, research interests, courses taught) please check our web-site at www.ceu.hu/soc_ant/index.htm !

5. Selected List of Courses • Colonialism and Post-colonialism • Comparative Thinking • Cultures of Capitalism: an Anthropological Reading of Post-socialist Economic Transformation • Debates on Globalization • Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods • Key Issues in Sociological Theory and Social Anthropology • Logic of Social Inquiry • Religion and Modernity • Theories of the State: Comparative Perspective • Theory and Research in Contemporary Macro-Sociology • Transnational Migration

6. Public Events • PUBLIC LECTURES 2003-2004 • Helmut Berking, Technische Universitat Darmstadt (Visiting Professor 2004) • Andre Beteille, FBA, Delhi University (Distinguished Visiting Professor 2003/2004) • Ayse Bugra, Professor of Political Economy, Bogazici University, Turkey • Noshir Contractor, Professor of Speech Communication and Psychology at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • Peter Rose, Fullbright Specialist at University of Vienna, Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow of Kahn Institute at Smith College, US • Werner Schiffauer, Professor of Anthropology at Europa Universtitat Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder • CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS • Inaugural Conference “RE-ENVISIONING SOCIETY: THE STATE OF THE NATION AND THE SOCIAL IMAGINATION”, JUNE 4-6, 2004

7. Statistics • 2003/2004: • 355 MA and PhD applications from 40 different countries; 29 MAs and 5 PhDs enrolled from: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovak Republic, Ukraine and US • 2004/2005 • 283 MA and PhD applications from 49 countries; 32 MA and 7 PhDs enrolled from: Albania, Bulgaria, Cameroon, China, Croatia, Georgia, Hungary, Israel, Kyrgyztan, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine and the US.

8. Admission requirements • MA PROGRAM • application form and CV • transcripts and diplomas • 2 letters of recommendation • two essays: a 500-word planned research topic and a short statement • TOEFL required minimum score: 570 • PHD PROGRAM • application form and CV • transcripts and diplomas • 3 letters of recommendation • 3 page research proposal and one page bibliography • TOEFL required minimum score: 600 • for detailed info check ‘Admissions’ section under www.ceu.hu

9. The department is welcoming you! to find out more about us, visit our regularly up-dated website at : www.ceu.hu/soc_ant/index.htm - or write usat sociology@ceu.hu or bradeanuk@ceu.hu