1. Corvinus University of Budapest Glasgow IMRCEES Consortium Partner Presentation and Student Information Meeting Friday 23 October 2015

3. Why Us? Budapest Ranking (Corvinus) Supervision Hungarian Academy of Sciences CEU Library

4. Ranking Institutes of the Faculty of Social Sciences Institute of Political Science Institute of Behavioural Science and Communication Theory Institute of International Relations Institute of Sociology and Social Policy Centre of Foreign Language Education: Hungarian, Russian, any ‚minority’ language) CUB Rank I in overall Student Excellence Rank I in Social Sciences in Hungary

5. Supervision 20th century political philosophy; Gender issues; Problems of Political Conservatism; Theory of regime change Governance; Public policy; CEE Politics; Transitions; V4 Cooperation Lingua Tertii Imperii vs Language of Totalitarian Dictatorships (The Soviet Union)

6. Supervision Political 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 countries Political behaviour; Extreme right; Cleavage structures and political parties; Elections; Political Discourse Analysis

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

8. Theses/Topics 1 The Issue about European Integration and The Nation's Sovereignty — Take Hungary as an example 2Implementation of European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in Slovakia and Serbia: a case study of Hungarian minority 3Political Memory and National Narratives of the Soviet Period in Contemporary Armenia and Georgia 4Unfinished bridges between Eastern Europe and Latin-America: Mexico-Romania Cultural Diplomacy and Nation-branding Experiences 5Identifying The Relationship Between Corruption Prevention, Integrity and Education in Hungary 6The role of Russia within the BSEC. Implications to regional diplomacy 7Exploring and explaining age-cohort variations in views on the communist past in the Czech Republic 8Russia’s Foreign Policy in the Asia Pacific: A Neoclassical Realist Approach 9Engines of the Right. A Comparative Examination of Hungarian Right-Wing Party Youth Groups 10Cultural Autonomy’ of Roma Communities in Hungary: A Barrier to Successful Inclusion 11Hungarian-Serbian Relations: Kin-National Policies and Bilateralism on the Edge of the European Union 12Reform of child welfare legislation: A comparative study of Hungary and Romania 13The Continued Strength of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia: Explaining its Causes and its Effects 14Lustration in Central Europe: did East German methods of lustration have an effect on Hungarian policy? 15The Discourse of National Minority The Discourse of National Minority Elites and the Language Question in Slovakia and Ukraine 16Hungarian Autonomy in Vojvodina: Hungarian-Serbian relations – Past, Present, and Future

9. Budapest Direct 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.

11. 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)

12. Heroes’Square and the Hungarian Parliament

13. Additional materials Four-pager with research interests from professors and lecturers