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Central European University
Budapest, Hungary; Vienna, Austria
Founded in 1991, Central European University is an undergraduate- and graduate-level “crossroads” university where faculty and students from more than 100 countries come to engage in interdisciplinary education, pursue advanced scholarship, and address some of society’s most vexing problems.
CEU is accredited in the United States, Austria, and Hungary, and offers English-language bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs in the social sciences, the humanities, law, management and public policy. Located in the heart of Central Europe -- in Vienna and Budapest -- CEU has a distinct academic and intellectual focus, combining the comparative study of the region's historical, cultural, and social diversity with a global perspective on good governance, sustainable development and social transformation.
EHCN Representative: Central European University Sanjay Kumar is a Lecturer in Central European University (CEU), Vienna. He has more than two decades of experience in Higher Education in Asia and Europe. Since 2010, he is affiliated to the CEU Center for Academic Writing and Department of History. Sanjay is trained in English Literature and did his PhD analyzing the relation between Indian Contemporary theatre and the urban experience. At CEU, Sanjay teaches courses in academic and policy writing in the departments of public Policy, Gender Studies, Nationalism Studies, and Postcolonialism and Nationalism in South Asia, Narratives, Artistic Theory and Practice for Undergraduate, Graduate and PhD students. He is associated with the Open Learning Initiative -Olive- Refugee Education Program since 2016 and designed and piloted a storytelling and theatre workshop with a Hungarian theatre director in 2016 in Budapest, Hungary. Sanjay has also worked with L1 Dance Fest Budapest in 2017 and 2018 as one of the conceptual organizers of the academic symposiums on Performativity, Responsibility and Collectivity. He has been the Director of the OSF, NY Pre-Academic Summer School for South East Asia from 2014-2017 for recipients of the Civil Society Leadership Awards (CSLA). Sanjay is currently engaged in a pilot research on ‘Global History of Socialisms’ looking at the intellectual history of socialist movements in India. He is also an active member of International Federation of Theatre Research Working Groups and currently is engaged in developing new collaborative research and teaching projects linking storytelling, performance and travel among disadvantaged sections of society. Sanjay was also a freelance feature writer in some leading Indian newspapers like The Hindu, Deccan Herald in Delhi, India. He is also a podcast host on ‘New Books in South Asian Studies’ channel of the New Books Network (NBN). He likes to work with students and learners from all over the world across different communication media- words, images and narratives.Sanjay Kumar
