Comparative Southeast European Studies (Jun 2017)

Academic Freedom in Danger. Fact Files on the ‘CEU Affair’

  • Trencsényi Balázs,
  • Rieber Alfred J.,
  • Iordachi Constantin,
  • Hîncu Adela

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2017-0024
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 65, no. 2
pp. 412 – 436

Abstract

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In the beginning of April this year, the Hungarian Parliament passed two amendments to the existing educational law, which in their particular formulation targeted specifically the renowned Central European University in Budapest and sought to undermine the legal basis of its existence in Hungary. In four contributions leading academics and a PhD student of the History Department of the Central European University place the latest events in context, provide insights into the institutional set-up and the development of the History Department, and explain why this institution is special and worth fighting for.