For the 11th time already this Autumn, CIAS has organised its International Workshop

The workshop took place on 20 November was traditionally opened by Bruno van Pottelsberghe, Rector of Corvinus, and Zoltán Oszkár Szántó, Dean of the CIAS, in the Corvinus Faculty Club. The International Workshop, like all events of CIAS, was open to the entire community of the University, and a remarkable number of colleagues took the opportunity to participate. 

It has become almost customary in recent years to have a very diverse background, not only in terms of the presentations, but also in terms of the background of international academic colleagues. Participants could listen to presentations on topics such as artificial intelligence, contemporary challenges in marketing, the impact of climate change on Hawaii’s economy, local and global collective memory (from a network science perspective), the relationship between urbanism and segregation, social responsibility, and many other topics that are presented in detail in the event programme. 

The speakers came from Chile, Canada, Hungary, Germany, Italy, and the USA. Uniquely to previous workshops, the opening talks were followed not by the first thematic presentation, but by a launch of the latest volume co-edited by Dr. Scott Romaniuk, a Canadian research fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Asian Studies at CIAS, for about half an hour, including a video presentation by another co-editor from the Philippines. In addition to the very substantial journal publications, an increasing number of CIAS colleagues are also involved in the publication of academic volumes (e.g., authors, editors), so this could be a tradition-setting element in the workshops in the coming years. 

CIAS will continue to actively inform the whole University community about its future events, and of course the organisers welcome all interested guests. The next International Workshop will take place in spring 2025.