Workshops

ALL WORKSHOPS 2002-2006

Academic year 2007/08

JANUARY-JULY 2008

WORKSHOP OF THE 'MANMADE' PROJECT
21-11 January 2008

MEETING OF 'PRMIA' (Professional Risk Managers' International Association)
7 February 2008

MEETING OF THE ABEL PRIZE COMMITTEE
11-12 February 2008
The Abel Prize is an international prize presented annually by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians. The prize is named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829). It has been described as the "mathematician's Nobel" prize and is one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics (awarded from 2003).

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters annually declares the winner of the Abel Prize after selection by a committee of five international mathematicians. (The Abel Prize Committee) The amount of money that comes with the prize is usually close to one million USD, similar to the Nobel Prize, which is awarded in Sweden and Norway and excludes mathematics.

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2008 to John Griggs Thompson, Graduate Research Professor, University of Florida and Jacques Tits, Professor Emeritus, College de France "for their profound achievements in algebra and in particular for shaping modern group theory ".

WHAT IS THE EDUCATION GOSPEL AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
5 March 2008
A workshop by W. Norton Grubb (University of California, Berkeley) and Marvin Lazerson (Central European University and University of Pennsylvania) on their book 'The Education Gospel: The Economic Power of Schooling' published by Harvard University Press, 2004.

'ICEA' (Integrating Cognition, Emotion and Autonomy) SECOND REVIEW MEETING
9-11 March 2008
IST 027819 ICEA (Integrating Cognition, Emotion and Autonomy) is a four-year project (2006-2009), funded by IST Cognitive Systems Unit. The ICEA Project is focused on brain-inspired cognitive architectures, robotics and embodied cognition, bringing together cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, psychologists, computational modelers, roboticists and control engineers. iceaproject.eu

The primary aim of the project is to develop a cognitive systems architecture integrating cognitive, emotional and bioregulatory (self-maintenance) processes, based on the architecture and physiology of the mammalian brain.

2008 MOLECULAR INFORMATICS AND BIOINFORMATICS
27-29 March 2008
International symposium organized by Paul Mezey, External Faculty, Collegium Budapest.
This is the second meeting at the same picturesque location on the subject of Molecular Informatics and Bioinformatics, an international and interdisciplinary symposium devoted to the study of information storage and information processing on the molecular and biological (biomolecular and even more complex systems) levels. Some of the lectures focused on innovative approaches to computer modeling and the relevant use of information technology.

NETWORK MEASUREMENT DATA WORKSHOP
7-8 April 2008
Organized by Gábor Vattay, Fellow at Collegium Budapest.

MEDIEVALISM, ARCHAIC ORIGINS AND REGIMES OF HISTORICITY ALTERNATIVES TO ANTIQUE TRADITION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY IN EAST-CENTRAL, SOUTHEAST AND NORTHERN EUROPE
17-19 April 2008
Workshop organized by Patrick J. Geary, UCLA, and Gábor Klaniczay, Rector of Collegium Budapest.

Presentations:
I. CENTRAL EUROPE - FORMER PROJECTS
Gábor Klaniczay (Collegium Budapest):
Uses and Abuses of the Middle Ages-research projects and the 2005 conference at the Central European University
Ernő Marosi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences):
National or Universal Antiquities? The Musealization of Antiquities in Hungary and Central Europe-Focus Group at Collegium Budapest in 2005
Michael Werner (EHESS, Paris):
Antiquities and their The Entangled History in Nineteenth-century Europe-Focus Group at Collegium Budapest in 2005
Stefan Detchev (Sofia, CAS)--Levente Szabó (Babeş Bolyai University Cluj):
We, the People, Visions of National Peculiarity and Political Modernities in the "Europe of Small Nations".- Research Group at the Center for Advanced Study in Sofia and Collegium Budapest in 2004-2005

II. CENTRAL EUROPE - FUTURE PROJECTS
János M. Bak (CEU, Budapest):
Scythica, Fennica, Origines gentis in 19th c. Hungary and the history of related forgeries
Péter Dávidházi (Institute for Literary Studies, HAS, Budapest):
Medievalism, Poetry, and Literary History in Nineteenth-Century Hungary
Maciej Janowski (Institute of History, Warsaw - CEU, Budapest):
" Native" or "borrowed" development? East-Central European debates on the national history
Stefan Detchev (South-West University, Blagoevgrad):
The Bulgarian Quest for Origins (1830s-1870s)
Giedre Mickunaite (Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius):
Making Medieval Evidence in the Nineteenth-Century Lithuania
Levente Szabó (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj):
Constructions of Transylvania and Medievalism in the 1840-1870s
Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri (Universitá degli Studi di Urbino):
The Medievalism in Italy (19th and 20th centuries): a multiheaded dragon

III. SCANDINAVIA - FORMER AND FUTURE PROJECTS
Sverre Bagge (University of Bergen; Nordic Centers of Medieval Studies):
The Medieval Past in a Reborn Nation: Norwegian Historiography in the Middle Ages in the 19th and 20th Century.
Sir David M. Wilson (British Academy):
The Retreat from Classicism in Scandinavia
Samuel Edquist (Södertörn University College):
The Origins of Swedishness in the historiography of the long 19th Century
Johan Hegardt (Stockholm):
Narratives of Scandinavian archaeology in the 19th century

IV. FORMER AND FUTURE PROJECTS IN EUROPE AND THE NEAR EAST
Walter Pohl (University of Vienna):
The Ethnic Origins of Central Europe - Competing Master Narratives on the Early Middle Ages in the 19th Century.
Ian Wood (University of Leeds):
Use and Abuse of the Barbarian Migrations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Pavlina Rychterová (University of Konstanz /University of Prague):
National Mythologies and Forgeries. Czech Middle Ages in the 19th and 20th century
Michael Werner (Paris, EHESS):
The "Modernity" of the Middle Ages in Historicist Architecture
Ahmet Ersoy (Bogaziçi University, Istanbul):
Medievalism Orientalized: Late Ottoman Architecture and its Historical Sources

WORKSHOP OF THE 'EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE OF STUDENT LOAN SYSTEMS' PROJECT
23 April 2008
The workshop was part of a project initiated by the British Council to prepare a comparative analysis of the British and the Hungarian models of student loans and to formulate recommendations to European higher education policy makers. It was also buildt on previous research conducted by fellows of Collegium Budapest on the stability of the Hungarian Student loan scheme. The workshop discussed the main similarities and differences of the two systems and looked for possible ways forward in student loan designs at the European level.

Convenors: Edina Berlinger, former fellow of Collegium Budapest and Cecile Hoareau, London School of Economics.
Chief Advisor: Professor Nicholas Barr, London School of Economics

HUMANISTS IN THE COURT OF MATHIAS
23 May 2008
Round-table discussion related to the conference on KING MATHIAS, organized by Eötvös Loránd University.
Moderator: Gábor Klaniczay (Collegium Budapest)
Participants: Marianna Birnbaum (University of California, Los Angeles), James Hankins (Harvard University), Valerie Rees (Ficino Letters project, School of Economic Science, London), László Szörényi (Institute for Literary Studies).

The event was preceeded by a Public Lecture of Marianna Birnbaum, and followed by a concert of the 'MUSICA HISTORICA' ensemble.

'EU-ASEAN' WORKSHOP ON SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION
26 May 2008
Workshop of the project: Facilitating the Bi-Regional EU-ASEAN Science and Technology Dialogue (SEA-EU-NET FP7 INCONET project).

Participating project partners:
The International Bureau of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research;
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; The British High Commission Singapore; Zentrum für Soziale Innovation (Austria); Ministry of State for Research and Technology (Indonesia); Institute of Asian Studies (GIGA: German Institute of Global and Area Studies); Collegium Budapest (Hungary)

THE "VISION THING" - STUDYING DIVINE INTERVENTION
Stanford-Budapest Summer Institute - Budapest session in 2008
30 June - 11 July 2008

The Summer Institute is sponsored by the SIAS group of institutes for advanced study, with the participation of ten European and ten American post-doctoral students (historians, anthropologists and cognitive scientists), working in the field of research on visions. They met first in 2007, at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford, and now Collegium Budapest hosts this same group of junior scholars, who are working to better understand visions and their nature and impact in the history of humanity.

The two conveners, Gábor Klaniczay (Rector and Permanent Fellow at Collegium Budapest, Professor of Medieval Studies at the Central European University) and William A. Christian Jr. (who was a a MacArthur Fellow in 1986, Collegium Budapest Fellow in 2001, and a CASBS Fellow in 2004 and) have both studied religious visions from a historical and anthropological perspective - Klaniczay in medieval Europe, and Christian in early modern and twentieth century Spain.

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AUGUST - DECEMBER 2007

EUROPEAN COMPLEXITY LANDSCAPES: Complexity-NET Workshop
1-2 November 2007
Complexity-NET is a European Network for the Coordination of Complexity Research and Training Activities; a group of European science and technology funding agencies, research councils and ministries all working together to create an environment that best enables the coordination of strategically planned national activities in Complexity Science and Complex Systems. more details

LIBERTY FUND CONFERENCE
9-10 November 2007
organized by John Kékes, University at Albany (State University of New York).
Liberty Fund, Inc. is a private, educational foundation established to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. The Foundation develops, supervises, and finances its own educational activities to foster thought and encourage discourse on enduring issues pertaining to liberty.

WORKSHOP WITH FRANK BARON: Research on German and East-Central European Literary Exile at the Max Kade Center for German-American Studies
11 December 2007
In the framework of the Focus Group on 'Between Home and Lost Cultures: Twentieth Century East-European Writers in Exile' (Jan-Dec 2007). Frank Baron is Professor of German, Director of the Max Kade Center for German-American Studies, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas.

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Academic year 2006/07

JANUARY - JULY 2007

ART AND FACT/RECORD AND REPRESENTATION IN CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
8-9 February 2007
conference organized together with the Open Society Archives and Pasts, Inc. Institute of Historical Studies, CEU, and funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.

CULTURAL VERSUS NATIONAL BORDERS
19-20 February 2007
conference and exhibition as part of the project EUROPE NOW | EUROPE NEXT (EU Kultúra 2000 Program), organized by the 'House of World Cultures', Berlin. International art database and internet platform on the website: CULTUREBASE.NET

NATIONS AND THEIR OTHERS: The Finns and the Hungarians in the Twentieth Century
23 February 2007
Introductory seminar on a project supported by the Academy of Finland, Collegium Helsinki and Collegium Budapest. Presenters: Heino Nyyssönen, Professor of Political Science, Jyväskylä University, Finland, Árpád Welker Historian, Budapest Municipal Archives, and Emilia Palonen, Bauhaus Kolleg, Dessau.

FROM MOLECULAR INFORMATICS TO BIOINFORMATICS
19-21 March 2007
international symposium organized by Paul G. Mezey, Canada, Collegium Budapest External Faculty.

MEETING OF THE DIRECTORS OF SIAS (Some Institutes for Advanced Study)
14-17 June 2007
The Some Institutes for Advanced Study (SIAS) consortium organizes nine "institutes for advanced study" founded on the same principles as the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, which is also one of the members.

WORKSHOP ON URBANISM
28 June 2007
A preliminary event to the establishment of a planned 'Centre for Urbanism' in Budapest in autumn 2007, modelled after Observatoire urbain in Istanbul. In co-operation with the French Institute, Budapest, the 'Atelier' Hungarian-French Centre for the Social Sciences/ELTE and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

TECT LAUNCH CONFERENCE
4-7 July 2007
ESF EUROCORES Programme TECT (The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading) Organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF).

HIGHER EDUCATION SEMINAR
17 July 2007
Higher Education in Hungary and the Bologna Process
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AUGUST - DECEMBER 2006

MAGPOP SUMMER SCHOOL
(European Research and Training Network - Multi-wavelength Analysis of Galaxy Populations)
23-25 August 2006
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Organized by István Csabai
The goal of this Scool was to give a deep insight for students on the current state of art of observation and modelling of galaxies.

ON POLITICS: RHETORIC, DISCOURSE AND CONCEPTS
31 August - 2 September 2006

A seminar with Finnish and Hungarian political scientists, historians and students.
Organized by Finnagora, the centre of Finnish culture, research and business in Hungary promoting interaction between the two countries.

BETWEEN HOME AND HOST CULTURES: TWENTIETH-CENTURY EAST EUROPEAN WRITERS IN EXILE
11-13 September 2006
LEAFLET

A workshop financed by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Cologne
Co-Organized by Pasts, Inc. Institute for Historical Studies, Central-European University,
and Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Study

Conveners:
Prof. Sorin Antohi (CEU)
Prof. John Neubauer (University of Amsterdam)
Dr. Zsuzsanna Török (Pasts, Inc. Institute of Historical Studies/CEU)

MEETING OF PRMIA (Professional Risk Managers' International Association)
18 September 2006
Thomas Dietz, Secretary CEBS: 'Implementation and Validation of Advanced IRB Models'

"NETWORK MOTIVES" - Mini-workshop (in Hungarian)
3 October 2006
Organized by Balázs Vedres, CEU

MEDIEVALISM, ARCHAIC ORIGINS AND REGIMES OF HISTORICITY
18-19 October 2006
Organized by Gábor Klaniczay
(Project Planning workshop concerning the project: 'Alternatives to Antique Tradition in the Nineteenth Century, in East-Central, Southeast and Northern Europe')

LIBERTY FUND CONFERENCE
20-21 October 2006
Organized by John Kékes, University at Albany (State University of New York). LIBERTY FUND

FREE SCHOOL FOR ART THEORY AND PRAXIS - SERIES
Organized by Tranzit.hu

The Free School for Art Theory and Practice considers as the basis of its philosophy the concept that contemporary art and culture produce an excess of knowledge and experience, which can be recycled and used in broader social discourse, beyond their own primary context. The school will function in the form of regular weekend seminars of max. 15 participants.

The goals of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice are:
- To examine the current phenomena of contemporary visual culture in artistic and curatorial practice;
- To enhance critical thinking and dialogue within the art field
- To define the role of art theory and art criticism, to analyse critical concepts and study the possibilities for their adaptation to different contexts
- To discuss the identity /role of the curator and the artist in an international context.

Dates and lecturers 2006:

21 - 24 September, 2006
Barbara Steiner, director Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig

19 - 22 October, 2006
Who What and for Whom (WHW) formation, Zagreb

24 - 26 November, 2006
Branislav Dimitrijevic, art historian, curator. Founder and lecturer of the School for History and Theory of Images, Centre for Contemporary Art, Belgrade

18 -19 December, 2006
Jens Hoffmann, artistic director, Insitute of Contemporary Arts, London

The tranzit project is supported by erste bank group

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Academic year 2005/06

JANUARY - AUGUST 2006

ETOMIC MEETING (Evergrow Traffic Observatory Measurement Infrastructure, EU Project, www.etomic.org)
6-9 February 2006 - organized by Gábor Vattay, Collegium Budapest

- ETOMIC presentations
- Possible measurement services for PlanetLab
- Possible measurement services for the P2P community
- Planning year 2006 of DIMES- ETOMIC measurements
- Possible collaboration on cheap measurement cards
- New tomographic methods
- Technical discussions on 8 and 9 February with the group of Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

REMINISCENCE OF THE "NATIONAL QUESTION" IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE. ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES.
23-25 February 2006
organized by Réka Albert (former Andrew W. Mellon and Collegium Budapest Fellow) and Gábor Klaniczay

Mellon Disciplinary Workshops
On the initiative of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a series of three workshops were held under the auspices of the three Institutes for Advanced Study in Eastern Europe: the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS), New Europe College (NEC), Bucharest, and Collegium Budapest. Each workshop was devoted to a particular disciplinary field: sociology (CAS), religious studies (NEC), and anthropology (Collegium Budapest).
Programme and more details

PHILOSOPHY OF MIND IN BUDAPEST
30-31 March 2006 Programme

Sponsored by Collegium Budapest and The Central European University and organized by Katalin Balog and Barry Loewer


SYMPOSIUM 'BILDAFFEKTE'
1 April 2006

Im Akademischen Jahr 1998/99 arbeitete eine Schwerpunktgruppe zum Thema "Bild und Bildlichkeit" am Collegium Budapest. Unter der Leitung von Franz-Joachim Verspohl, Jena, waren Kunsthistoriker und Philosophen, überwiegend aus Deutschland und Ungarn am Collegium. Im Sommer 1999 wurde das Projekt im Rahmen der Städtepartnerschaft Berlin-Budapest an der Akademie der Künste präsentiert.
Viele der damaligen Mitglieder der Schwerpunktgruppe kommen anlässlich des Symposiums nach Budapest, das unter dem Motto "Bildaffekte" eine Bestandsaufnahme der damals begonnenen Forschungen beabsichtigt.
More details here

The research group called DIAETA was founded in February 2004 at Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest.
The introductory meeting is supported by Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Paris) and Collegium Budapest.

SEMINAR ON EMISSIONS TRADE POLICY AND PRACTICE IN FINLAND AND HUNGARY
27-28 April 2006

Organized by FINNAGORA (the centre of Finnish culture, research and business in Hungary promoting interaction between the two countries).

MEETING OF SOCIETY IN SCIENCE - THE BRANCO WEISS FELLOWSHIP
26-27 May 2006

organized by Ferenc Jordán, Branco Weiss Fellow 2003-2005
Workshop topic: Species roles and positions in food webs

Society in Science: The Branco Weiss Fellowship is aimed at outstanding young scientists from the life sciences at the post-doctoral level. Fellowships provide financial support for up to five years, subject to interim review of progress. The first Fellowships were awarded in October 2003. For current Fellows and their research projects see under Fellows.

BUDAPEST MIND SOCIETY CONFERENCE "The Varieties of Intentionality"
25-26 July 2006

Organized by Juraj Hvorecky (Collegium Budapest)
Participants: Tim Crane (UCL, Collegium Budapest Academic Advisory Board), Robert M. Harnish (Arizona), Hong Yu Wong (UCL), Kati Farkas (CEU), Kati Balog (Yale/Collegium Budapest).

SOCIAL NETWORKS AND COMPLEXITY
CONFERENCE 31 July - 2 August 2006

Co-Chairs: Nigel Gilbert and András Lőrincz, Co-Organizers. Rebecca Goolsby and András Lőrincz.

POTENTIALS OF COMPLEXITY SCIENCE FOR BUSINESS, GOVERNMENTS AND THE MEDIA
CONFERENCE 3-5 August 2006

organized by Prof. Dirk Helbing, University of Technology, Institute for Economics and Traffic, Faculty of Traffic Sciences.

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SEPTEMBER - DECEMBER 2005

MEETING OF SOCIETY IN SCIENCE - THE BRANCO WEISS FELLOWSHIP
16 September 2005

organized by Ferenc Jordán, Branco Weiss Fellow 2003-2005

Society in Science: The Branco Weiss Fellowship is aimed at outstanding young scientists from the life sciences at the post-doctoral level. Fellowships provide financial support for up to five years, subject to interim review of progress. The first Fellowships were awarded in October 2003. For current Fellows and their research projects see under Fellows. (http://www.society-in-science.ethz.ch/)

"WE, THE PEOPLE" - VISIONS OF NATIONAL PECULIARITY AND POLITICAL MODERNITIES IN THE "EUROPE OF SMALL NATIONS"
Fellowship Programme November 2004 - December 2005
Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia, Bulgaria (CAS, www.cas.bg) in partnership with Collegium Budapest

Ten researchers in the area of the humanities and the social sciences from South Eastern Europe were enrolled for a period of 15 months (15th October 2004 - 31 December 2005), for six months of which the fellows were working either at CAS in Sofia or at ColBud in Budapest. These six months were divided into two phases: one is between November 2004 and February 2005 and the other is from September to December 2005. Five workshops took place during the course of the programme.

PROJECT WORKSHOP at Collegium Budapest
23-24 September 2005

Participants and their research projects:
Tchavdar Marinov, "Between Political Autonomism and Ethnic Nationalism: Competing Constructions of Modern Macedonian National Ideology (1878-1913)"
Alexander Vezenkov, "We, the Ottomans! Inventing, Promoting and Translating Ottomanism (1830s-1870s)"
Dessislava Lilova,"The Barbarians, the Civilized and the Bulgarians: Definitions of Identity in Textbooks and the Press under Ottoman Rule"
Balázs Trencsényi,"Debates on National Character in Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary in the Nineteenth Century"
Artan Puto, "The idea of nation among Albanian leaders during the National Movement 1878-1912"
Bojan Aleksov,"Identity Options among Serbs in Nineteenth Century Hungary"
Călin Cotoi, "The Construction of the National Image of Space in Interwar Romania. The Case of Anthropogeography, 1918-1940"
Kinga Sata, "Transylvanian Romanian National Liberalism in the 19th Century"
Stefan Detchev,"Who are the Bulgarians? (Imagining "The Ancestors") - Ethnogenesis, "Race", Science and Politics in fin-de siecle Bulgaria"
Levente Szabó, "Narrating the People. Folklore and Nation-Formation in Hungarian and Romanian Context (1870-1900)"

"THEOLOGIES OF EMPIRE" WORKSHOP
26-28 September 2005

Monday, 26 September at Collegium Budapest,
Tuesday, 27 September at Central European University
co-ordinated by Aziz Al-Azmeh in cooperation of Collegium Budapest, Central European University - Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies and Central European University - Religious Studies Programme (www.ceu.hu)

Participants:
Ács Pál (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University of Science, Budapest, Hungary), Al-Azmeh Aziz (Collegium Budapest, Central European University Budapest, Hungary), Antohi Sorin (Central European University Budapest, Hungary), Anidjar Gil (Columbia University, New York, USA), Al-Bagdadi Nadia (Central European University Budapest, Hungary), Hsia Ronnie Po-chia (Pennsylvania State University, USA), Juneja Monica (University of Heidelberg, Germany), Klaniczay Gábor (Collegium Budapest, Central European University Budapest, Hungary), Miller Alexei (Central European University Budapest, Hungary), Morrison Karl F. (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA), Northcott Michael S. (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom), Podbolotov Sergei (Bilkent University, Turkey), Rieber Alfred (Central
European University Budapest, Hungary).

WORKSHOP ON "SYSTEMIC RISK IN THE FINANCIAL SECTOR"
30 September - 1 October 2005

Topics included:
- the various models (e.g. models based on network theory, simulations, portfolio approach) of the empirical measurement of systemic risk of the financial sector;
- the limitations of each model;
- the importance of macro shocks vs. contagion;
- the problem of data availability; and
- the possibility of measuring systemic risk on a European level.

Participants: Jose-L. P. Alcalde (European Central Bank, Financial Research Division, Frankfurt), Theodore M. Barnhill (George Washington University, USA), Thomas Breuer (Fachhochschule Vorarlberg, Research Centre PPE), Giulia Iori (Department of Economics, City University, London), Imre Kondor (Collegium Budapest), Ágnes Lublóy (Department of Investments, Corvinus University of Budapest), Katalin Mérö (Hungarian Financial Supervisory Authority, Budapest), Paolo E. Mistrulli (Banca d'Italia, Research Department, Rome), David L. Sallach (Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago), Martin Summer (Österreichische Nationalbank, Economic Studies Division), Anikó Szombati (Hungarian National Bank), Stefan Thurner (Institute of Mathematics, NuHAG and HNO, University of Vienna), Christian Upper (Bank for International Settlements, Basel), Mariann Valentinyiné Endrész (Hungarian National Bank), Balázs Zsámboki (Hungarian National Bank).

LIBERTY FUND CONFERENCE
4-5 November 2005
Organized by John Kékes, University at Albany (State University of New York). LIBERTY FUND

EMBEDDING ETHICS IN SCIENTIFIC PRACTICE
7-8 November 2005 - Expert Meeting

Funded by European Commission organized by Guido Van Steendam, IFB/K.U. Leuven (www.embeddingethics.net). Satellite meeting of the World Science Forum, 10-12 November 2005 Budapest

"WE, THE PEOPLE" - VISIONS OF NATIONAL PECULIARITY AND POLITICAL MODERNITIES IN THE "EUROPE OF SMALL NATIONS" - CLOSING WORKSHOP
11-12 November 2005

COGNITION AT CHRISTMAS - Symposium on Crossmodal Processing
16 December 2005
Organized together with the Department of Cognitive Sciences, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Gyula Kovács) and the Neuropsychology and Psycholinguistics Research Group at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (http://www.cogsci.bme.hu/%7Egkovacs/cogxmas05.html)