Corvinus University of

BudapestGlasgow

IMRCEES Consortium Partner Presentation and Student Information Meeting

Friday 23 October 2015

Why Us?• Budapest• Ranking (Corvinus)• Supervision• Hungarian Academy of

Sciences• CEU Library

RankingInstitutes of the Faculty of Social SciencesInstitute of Political ScienceInstitute of Behavioural Science and Communication TheoryInstitute of International RelationsInstitute of Sociology and Social PolicyCentre of Foreign Language Education: Hungarian, Russian, any ‚minority’ language)

CUB Rank I in overall Student ExcellenceRank I in Social Sciences in Hungary

Supervision20th century political philosophy; Gender issues; Problems of Political Conservatism; Theory of regime changeGovernance; Public policy; CEE Politics; Transitions; V4 CooperationLingua Tertii Imperii vs Language of Totalitarian Dictatorships (The Soviet Union)

SupervisionPolitical and social history of Central-East Europe (CEE); Ethnicity and politics in CEE; Minorities and Roma political mobilization in Hungary; Comparative politics; Euro-scepticism; CEE party system, Party-based Euroscepticism, Populism,Transition in the Visegrad countriesPolitical behaviour; Extreme right; Cleavage structures and political parties; Elections; Political Discourse Analysis

For Theses in general• Corruption• Gender studies• Election System• Poverty• Minority Rights• NGO (Non Governmental Organizations)• Language Rights and Policy• Migration

Theses/Topics1 The Issue about European Integration and The Nation's Sovereignty — Take Hungary as an example2 Implementation of European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in Slovakia and

Serbia: a case study of Hungarian minority3 Political Memory and National Narratives of the Soviet Period in Contemporary Armenia and Georgia4 Unfinished bridges between Eastern Europe and Latin-America: Mexico-Romania Cultural

Diplomacy and Nation-branding Experiences5 Identifying The Relationship Between Corruption Prevention, Integrity and Education in Hungary 6 The role of Russia within the BSEC. Implications to regional diplomacy7 Exploring and explaining age-cohort variations in views on the communist past in the Czech Republic8 Russia’s Foreign Policy in the Asia Pacific: A Neoclassical Realist Approach9 Engines of the Right. A Comparative Examination of Hungarian Right-Wing Party Youth Groups10 Cultural Autonomy’ of Roma Communities in Hungary: A Barrier to Successful Inclusion11 Hungarian-Serbian Relations: Kin-National Policies and Bilateralism on the Edge of the European Union12 Reform of child welfare legislation: A comparative study of Hungary and Romania13 The Continued Strength of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia: Explaining its Causes and its Effects14 Lustration in Central Europe: did East German methods of lustration have an effect on

Hungarian policy?15 The Discourse of National Minority The Discourse of National Minority Elites and the Language Question  in Slovakia and Ukraine16 Hungarian Autonomy in Vojvodina: Hungarian-Serbian relations – Past, Present, and Future

BudapestDirect flight from Glasgow to Budapest (Wizzair)

Cafe and spa culture, music life, romkocsma (pubs built in ruined houses furnished with old pieces)thank to the prohibition of smoking(garden).

New York Cafe and the Gerbeaud are must-visits, as are the spas built in the 16th and 17th century.

UNESCO World Heritage list, where it is described as “one of the world’s outstanding urban landscapes”.

The best known of Budapest's cultural events is the huge Sziget music festival, held on Óbudai Island in the centre of the Danube every August. 

Films made in Budapest presenting

another City• Die Hard 5 with Bruce Willis (Moscow)• Evita with Madonna (Buenos Aires)• The Rite with Anthony Hopkins (Rome)• Spy Game with Brad Pitt and Robert Redford

(East-Berlin)• Bel Ami with Robert Pattinson (Paris)• Being Julia with Anette Bening (London)• The Nutcracker (Vienna)• The Borgias with Jeremy Irons (Florence)• The Raven (Baltimore)

Heroes’Square and the Hungarian Parliament

Additional materials• Four-pager with research interests from

professors and lecturers