Central European University Press

17/09/2025

📖 Towns between Empires: Good Governance and “Police” in Case Studies from Transylvania, Wallachia, and Moldavia, 1500s–1800s. Edited by Maria Pakucs & Julia Derzsi.

This new volume explores how early modern towns in today’s Romania navigated politics, economics, and healthcare while balancing life between empires. The chapters in this edited volume highlight diverse approaches to governance and urban life across the region, from the role of town councils to relations with princes and central authorities.

Available ! https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789633869017/towns-between-empires

10/09/2025

New Book: Habsburg Encounters with Native America: Familiar Strangers

This new volume explores centuries of connections between the Habsburg monarchy and Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Instead of focusing on the broader German fascination, it uncovers a more direct and unique story of cultural dialogues, encounters and exchanges that shaped both worlds.

Available as a epub download here 👉 https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048571826/habsburg-encounters-with-native-america

With special thanks to Opening the Future for making this important book

02/09/2025

We're delighted to present our new Open Educational Resource, 'Ukraine as a Migration Nexus'

This important and timely resource, examines as a central hub in global and . By combining historical narratives with modern theoretical approaches, the book explores how migration has shaped and continues to shape, the region’s cultural, political, and social fabric.

To read for free, from anywhere in the world, head to 👉 https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048574384/ukraine-as-a-migration-nexus

Publication of this open educational resource was made possible through funding from the
Open Society University Network and Open Society Foundations.

01/09/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us to celebrate the launch of Habsburg Encounters with Native America at the Weltmuseum Wien!

You can read more about this important book, and access the free download link here 👉https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048571826/habsburg-encounters-with-native-america

20/08/2025

Now Published! Emília Barna’s 'Working in Music on the Semiperiphery' is here

What does it mean to work in music where informality shapes labor, households contribute unseen work and political capital defines opportunities? Drawing on field data from Hungary (2018–2021), Barna maps how musicians and cultural workers navigate precariousness, subsidies and digital platforms.

With a feminist lens, Barna explores how home and workplace blur, how (self-)exploitation emerges, and how semiperipheral contexts reshape the relationship between markets and the state.

Published thanks to Opening the Future, this is essential reading for anyone interested in cultural labour, feminism and the socio-politics of music.

Download for free now! https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789633868478/working-in-music-on-the-semiperiphery

06/08/2025

📘 Just published: Women in Romania’s First World War by Alin Ciupală

When Romania entered the First World War in 1916, women from all backgrounds - bourgeois, middle-class, and rural - played crucial roles in shaping the national effort.

Alin Ciupală’s new book explores their wartime contributions, from organising hospitals and supporting civilians to navigating love, s*x and gendered expectations. It includes portraits of figures such as Queen Marie and Ecaterina Teodoroiu, Romania’s only female officer killed in combat.

The book also reflects on postwar realities: despite women’s hopes for full civic recognition, the return to “normal” left many excluded from public life.

Available now! https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789633866351/women-in-romanias-first-world-war

24/07/2025

Lovely to meet Eleonora Naxidou, one of the editors of 'Christian Networks in the Ottoman Empire
A Transnational History' at 2025 World Congress today!

This expansive volume brings together scholars from most Balkan countries to describe the variety of Orthodox Christian networks under Ottoman rule; showing that the Christian populations and their elites were an integral part of Ottoman society.

Read more 👉https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789633867754/christian-networks-in-the-ottoman-empire

23/07/2025

📚 Attending World Congress this week at UCL? Drop by the CEU Press book stand!

Meet our commissioning editors, browse our latest titles, and chat about your book ideas -- we’d love to hear from you.

23/07/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday to celebrate the launch of our new Open Educational Resource, 'Ukraine as a Migration Nexus' at World Congress in London 🥂

We're delighted to have raised a glass to this important and timely resource, examining Ukraine as a central hub in global and , available to download for free anywhere in the world. 👉 https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048574384/ukraine-as-a-migration-nexus

Publication of this open educational resource was made possible through funding from the
Open Society University Network and Open Society Foundations.

22/07/2025

Join Victoriya Sereda, one of the editors of our newly published open educational resource 'Ukraine as a Migration Nexus', together with members of our editorial team, to celebrate its launch!

🗓️Today at 4PM
📍CEU Press book stand at
🍰 Enjoy cake and drinks with us

See you there!

📖 You can also read the open access resource online here 👇

Authors: Viktoriya Sereda; Oksana Mikheieva; Alina Mozolevska; Lidia Kuzemska; Vladyslava Moskalets; Oleksii Chebotarov; and Martin-Oleksandr Kisly

16/07/2025

Lovely to see Karin Roginer Hofmeister at today in Prague!

Her book, 'Remembering Suffering and Resistance: Memory Politics and the Serbian Orthodox Church' is out now!

16/07/2025

This week you’ll find us at the Association conference in the beautiful Charles University Faculty of Arts building in Prague!

Drop by to browse our latest books or discuss your next studies book project with us.