The Department was successful in an application to the second round of the Humanities Initiative. Maria Kronfeldner was awarded a grant for the project, Establishing Topics in the Philosophy of the Humanities and Social Sciences (ToPHSS), as a new research and teaching focus at CEU. The project aims to cross disciplinary boundaries between the humanities and social sciences. It focuses on methodological and ontological issues, in particular on contested categories of the humanities and social sciences, and of those primarily on the categories of human, individual and person. The project will include a new annual seminar (ToPHSS), visiting lecturers, a conference and a film series on dehumanization (the latter in cooperation with the OSA).
All related information will be available at http://philosophy.ceu.edu/tophss.