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Collegium Budapest Mars Research Group Member Tamás Pócs Receives Officer's Cross Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic. (March 2010).

The archaeology of cognitive evolution, a paper by former fellow Iain Davidson in WIRES Cognitive Science (March 2010).

Collegium Budapest Announcement on János Kornai (Collegium Budapest Permanent Fellow Emeritus) receiving the Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic. (March 2010).

DAVID SCOTT KASTAN held Public Lecture (Speaking of Color) at the Collegium on 16 March. (March 2010).

Leontief Medal to Socialism's Gravedigger - János Kornai's Russian Scholarly Award Collegium Budapest Announcement, Interview in English. (February 2010).

Social impacts of extraterrestrial forms of existence, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (mta.hu) Interview with Former Fellow Iván Almár. Interview in English. (February 2010).

Hungarian-langauge interview with Collegium Budapest Permanent Fellow Eörs Szathmáry published on the Hungarian Academy of Sciences homepage. Interview in English. (February 2010).

Abstract of a PNAS paper by ColBud Permanent Fellow Eörs Szathmáry, and former ColBud Fellows Vera Vasas and Mauro Santos. Entire paper. 'FACULTY OF 1000 BIOLOGY' Feedback. (January 2010)

What is happening on Mars? Hungarians, too, are after brines (salt solutions) Hungarian-language news on Origo.hu on Mars with reference to the Mars Astrobiology Group (December 2009).

Father of the Theory of Evolution', a Hungarian-language summary of a lecture series at HAS (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) in Darwin Year. The Lecture Series was organised by Collegium Budapest Permanent Fellow Eörs Szathmáry and Collegium Budapest (December 2009).

International Climate Change Conference of SEA-EU-NET with the involvement of also Collegium Budapest, to be held in Indonesia. (November 2009).

CHRIS CASWILL held Public Lecture at the Collegium on 30 October. Title: The uneasy engagement between research, policy and publics: Some mixed messages from European social sciences and humanities (Nobember 2009).

An International Workshop on 'FINANCIAL RISK, MARKET COMPLEXITY AND REGULATION' was held at the Collegium on 8-10 October (October 2009).

Collegium Budapest Permanent Fellow János Kornai delivers talk at WIDER Conference in Helsinki (October 2009).

A literary Evening titled 'EUROZINE DEBATE: Dilemma '89' was held at the Collegium on 29 September. Twenty years after 1989, most former communist states in central and eastern Europe are members of the EU; others are waiting in line. But the transition from closed to open societies is far from over. Fierce debates on lustration and information surfacing from previously closed archives show that, today, 1989 represents not only a historic moment of liberation but also a political and social dilemma. What approach to history will prevail? (September 2009).

Manuel Castells held talk at Collegium Budapest to an audience of 100 on 16 September Title: Internet and Society: What Academic Research Knows (September 2009).

Biological Foundations and Origin of Syntax to be published by MIT Press in October 2009. The book was edited by Collegium Budapest Permanent Fellow Eörs Szathmáry and former ColBud Fellow Derek Bickerton. Contributions by former ColBud Fellows Balázs Gulyás, Péter Ittzés and Szabolcs Számadó and by current ColBud Fellow Anna Fedor. (September 2009)

Le Monde publishes article on Collegium Budapest Permanent Fellow János Kornai on 30 June. (July 2009).

Hungarian-language paper related to the 'Archaeology and Imagination' Focus Group by Focus Group Convener Éva Kocziszky and Collegium Budapest Fellow Irene Barbiera in the cultural journal 'Balkon' (July 2009).

The Most Distant Object Yet Discovered in the Universe, Former ColBud Fellow Gyula Szokoly takes part in building Telescope that discovered the distant object. A German-language report. (June 2009).

Post-Communist Welfare Pathways: Theorizing Social Policy Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe, a book co-authored by former Collegium Budapest Fellow Pieter Vanhuysse. (July 2009).

Former Collegium Budapest Fellow Zsigmond Ritoók Receives Prestigious Bolyai Award. Some of the related, Hungarian-language news items: Népszabadság, Index.hu. (May 2009).

Keystone species and food webs, paper by former ColBud Fellow Ferenc Jordán in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (May 2009).

A Press Conference and Opening of Exhibition on LATEST HUNGARIAN RESULTS ON THE POSSIBILITY OF LIFE ON MARS was held at the Collegium. See images. Some of the related, Hungarian-language news items: Népszabadság, Origo, Index.hu 1, Index.hu 2, Tudomany.ma.hu, Doksi.hu. For photos click here. (April 2009).

A new humanities project started on 1 April with the title 'Archaeology and Imagination -- Archaeological objects in literature, art and the study of modernity' supported by the Fritz-Thyssen Stiftung (April 2009).

'The Uses of the Humanities in Difficult Times', Public Lecture by outgoing Collegium Budapest Fellow R. Howard Bloch, kindly co-organised with Ivy Plus - Graduates from Ivy League and Other Top Universites, as well as Ybl Club, Hungary. (April 2009).

Hungarian-language interview with Permanent Fellow Eörs Szathmáry in Záróra (Closing Time) of Channel One of Hungarian Television. (April 2009).

Collegium Budapest Fellow, member of the ESA Astrobiology group, renowned theoretical biologist, father of Chemoton theory and a founder of systems chemistry, Tibor Gánti, passed away. (April 2009).

Analysis of Dark Albedo Features on a Southern Polar Dune Field of Mars, an Astrobiology Research Paper by ColBud Permanent Fellow Eörs Szathmáry and others. The other authors include members of the Collegium's 'Astrobiology Potential of Mars' project, specifically Szaniszló Bérczi, Tibor Gánti, András Horváth, Ákos Kereszturi, Tamás Pócs and András Sík. Project Homepage (March 2009).

Does Water Streak the Martian Dunes?, a New Scientist Short Interview with ColBud Fellow Ákos Keresztúri. (February 2009).

A 'DARWIN DAY' was held at the Collegium on 9 February. The one-day conference commemorated the 200th birthday of Charles Robert Darwin, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his 'On the Origin of Species', with prominent Hungarian and foreign lecturers. The event was organised by Prof. Eörs Szathmáry, Collegium Budapest Permanent Fellow and Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. 'Hírextra' News in Hungarian. 'Hírextra' News in English. Hungarian Television News in Hungarian. Hungarian Television News in English (February 2009).

A Literary Evening was held on 20 January at the Collegium with the title The years 1944-1956-1968-1989 as reflected in contemporary Hungarian literature. The event was co-organisec by Magyar Lettre International. (January 2009).

New Medievalism Project Starts at Collegium Budapest. Full title: Medievalism, archaic origins and regimes of historicity alternatives to Antique tradition in the nineteenth century in East-Central, Southeast and Northern Europe. Sponsored by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation. (January 2009).

Pianist Gábor Csalog gave concert at the Collegium. The Programme included Das Wohltemperierte Klavier - 6 Prelude and Fugue by Bach, Noel (Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jesus XIII) by Messiaen, G minor Sonate Hob.XVI: 44 by Haydn, 2 Intermezzos op.4 no 5, 6 by Schumann and 4 Preludes by Debussy. (December 2008).

'Phase-space-region operators and the Wigner function: Geometric constructions and tomography' a Physical Review A 78 paper by former ColBud Fellow Tony Bracken (November 2008).

'Copying and Evolution of Neuronal Topology' a PlosOne paper by ColBud Fellow Chrisantha Fernando, ColBud Permanent Fellow Eörs Szathmáry, et. al. (November 2008).

Collegium Budapest ceremonially inaugurates new Rector Andrew Sors (November 2008).

'Robotic Butterfly' a Hungarian-language Magyar Nemzet article on Collegium Budapest Public Lecture by Dario Floreano (November 2008).

'Prebiotic replicase evolution in a surface-bound metabolic system: parasites as a source of adaptive evolution' a BMC Evolutionary Biology paper by ColBud Permanent Fellow Eörs Szathmáry et al. (November 2008).

'Genetic hitchhiking can promote the initial spread of strong altruism' a BMC Evolutionary Biology paper by ColBud Permanent Fellow Eörs Szathmáry and former ColBud Fellow Mauro Santos (November 2008).

'Language: a social history of words' an Essay in Nature by Collegium Budapest Permanent Fellow Eörs Szathmáry and former Collegium Budapest Fellow Szabolcs Számadó. Összefoglaló magyarul (November 2008).

'The origin of genes could be polyphyletic' a GENE article by former ColBud Fellow Massimo Di Giulio. (October 2008).

ColBud Permanent Fellow Gábor Klaniczay delivers talk at 27 lecons d'histoire européenne par 27 des plus grands historiens de l'Union Européenne (October 2008).

Nobel Laureate Economist Eric Maskin gave talk at Collegium Budapest (October 2008).

'Computational identification of obligatorily autocatalytic replicators embedded in metabolic networks', a Genome Biology Paper by ColBud Permanent Fellow Eörs Szathmáry, former ColBud Fellow Ádám Kun et al. (October. 2008).

'Startling result on Mars: Snowfall confirms the presence of layered frost on the surface. The Mars 2 ColBud project contributes to Mars investigation. A Hungarian-language article on Origo by ColBud Fellow Ákos Keresztúri. (October 2008).

'Teaching Bacteria to Behave' - MIT Technology Review article referring to a theoretical model by ColBud Fellow Chrisantha Fernando. (October 2008).

Collegium Budapest announces the election of a new Rector, Dr. Andrew Sors. Please click here. (September 2008).

ColBud Fellow Ferenc Jordán completes Branco Weiss Fellowship. For his report click here. (September 2008).

Dark energy 'imaged' in best detail yet, a New Scientist Paper by ColBud Fellow István Szapudi. (August 2008). Magyarul.

In Memoriam: Bronislaw Geremek (July 2008).

Knowledge is not democratic, Index interview on evolution with ColBud Fellow György Kampis (July 2008) . Magyarul.

Book Presentation and 14th Honorary Doctor Title to Prof. János Kornai (June 2008).

Understanding Human Mobility Patterns, a Nature Article by former Fellow Albert László Barabási et al. (June 2008).

Permuted tRNA genes of Cyanidioschyzon merolae, the origin of the tRNA molecule and the root of the Eukarya domainrticle by Former Fellow Massimo Di Giulio in Journal of Theoretical Biology. (May 2008).

The final evaluation of the FP6 Project ECAgents in Brussels was a great success. The project, including the contribution of Collegium Budapest, has received an excellent evaluation. For the final report click here. (May 2008).

PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America) article by former Fellows Gergő Orbán, József Fiser and Máté Lengyel. Title: Bayesian learning of visual chunks by human observers. (Feb. 2008).

Congratulations to János Kornai who turns 80 today (21 January 2008).

Ceremonial conference on the occassion of János Kornai's 80th birthday (29 January).

Financial Times review of János Kornai's By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey.

Interview with Permanent Fellow Eörs Szathmáry published in the News Section of the homepage of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (22 November). Interview in Hungarian.

Domokos Kosáry, one of Hungary's most noted historians, former President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Honorary Fellow of Collegium Budapest, passed away.

János Kornai's latest book published in Hungarian in 2007 and forthcoming in English entitled 'From Socialism to Capitalism' has received the Niveau Prize from Akadémiai Kiadó and the Section of Economics and Law of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

János Kornai, Allie S. Freed Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University and Permanent Fellow Emeritus at Collegium Budapest, has been awarded the Ed A. Hewett Book Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies for an outstanding publication on the political economy of the centrally planned economies of the former Soviet Union and East Central Europe and their transitional successors, for By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey, published by the MIT Press recently. The award was presented at the Awards Presentation during the 39th National Convention of the AAASS held in New Orleans, Louisiana on 17th November, 2007. Laudation of AAASS.

Coffee and Tea -- Comments by János Kornai on the Health Insurance Reform in Népszabadság (in Hungarian)

FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) Review on János Kornai's By Force of Thoughts.

A sociologist's reflection on János Kornai's By Force of Thought. (May 2007)

German Book Donation to Collegium Budapest. German publishing houses have donated hundreds of books to Collegium Budapest to enrich its library collection. The books were handed over by Dr. Gabriele Gauler, Director of Goethe Institute Budapest, and by Mr. Matthias Gruber, Cultural Attaché of the German Embassy. (May 2007)

MTI (Hungarian News Agency) report on the presentation of Prof. János Kornai's Intellectual Memoirs.(March 2007)

Differentiation in cognitive and emotional meanings: an evolutionary analysis. Article by former Collegium Budapest Fellows P.J. Barnard, R.W. Byrne and I. Davidson as well as by D.J. Duke, accepted for publication in COGNITION AND EMOTIONS. For the entire article please write to P.J. Barnard to phil.barnard@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk. The article is related to the authors' research project conducted within the framework of the Collegium's 2003 Focus Group 'Precursors to Culture'. (Feb. 2007.)

Memoirs by Collegium Budapest Permanent Fellow Emeritus János Kornai published by the MIT Press under the title By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey. (Jan. 2007)

ACTA EOCONOMICA article by Professor János Kornai on the ongoing Hungarian macroeconomoic reform published in with the title Equilibrium, Growth and Reform. (Jan. 2007)

A book titled Divide and Pacify: Strategic Social Policies and Political Protests in Post-Communist Democracies by Dr. Vanhuysse, Pieter (with a foreword by Professor János Kornai) has been published by the CEU University Press, Budapest, New York. (Nov. 2006). For details of the book click here. For the author's CV and list of publications click here.

PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B article by Collegium Budapest Permanent Fellow Eörs Szathmáry titled 'The origin of replicators and reproducers". For the article please click here. (Sep. 2006)

SCIENCE article by Collegium Budapest Permanent Fellow Eörs Szathmáry titled 'Darwin for All Seasons". For the article please click here. (Jul. 2006)

TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution article by Collegium Budapest Permanent Fellow Eörs Szathmáry and Collegium Budapest Fellow Szabolcs Számadó titled 'Selective scenarios for the emergence of natural language'. For the article please click here. (Jul. 2006)

Népszabadság article by Professor János Kornai on the current economic austerity package. Part One: Equilibrium, Growth, and Reform - Adjustment Program. Part Two: Equilibrium, Growth, and Reform - About Social Transformation. (June)

Bioessay article referring to the work of Collegium Budapest Permanent Fellow Eörs Szathmáry and former Collegium Budapest Fellows (in alphabetical order) Ádám Kun and Mauro Santos published in the September issue of Nature Genetics with the title 'Real ribozymes suggest a relaxed error threshold', and to another work by Eörs Szathmáry, Mauro Santos, and former Collegium Budapest Fellow Elias Zintzaras. For the article please click here. (Feb. 2006)

In 2001-2003 a large interdisciplinary research project Honesty and Trust: Theory and Experience in the Light of Post-Socialist Transformation was convened by Professor János Kornai (Harvard University and Collegium Budapest) and Professor Susan Rose-Ackerman (Yale University) under the auspices of Collegium Budapest with the generous financial support of the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The group was international, with over 50 scholars recruited from 17 countries of the "East" and "West". The disciplines represented were political science, economics, sociology, law, anthropology, and political philosophy. Some studies generated by the project were published in two volumes in New York by Palgrave Macmillan in 2004 entitled Building a Trustworthy State in Post-Socialist Transition and Creating Social Trust in Post-Socialist Transition, edited by János Kornai, Susan-Rose Ackerman and Bo Rothstein. For endorsements click here. See Europe-Asia Studies Review. For a Transitions Online Review click here. For the details and subsequent relevant events please read the chapter below.

In December 2005 Nemzeti Tankönyvkiadó (National Publishing House Co.) published the Hungarian translations of the above-mentioned volumes, Tisztesség és bizalom a posztszocialista átmenet fényében - A bizalmat érdemlő állam építése a posztszocialista átmenet időszakában and Tisztesség és bizalom a posztszocialista átmenet fényében - A társadalmi bizalom megteremtése a posztszocialista átmenet időszakában. For Hungarian-language reviews of the Hungarian volumes, please click here: Népszabadság, or here: Figyelő, or here: Élet és Irodalom. For more information about the project visit this site. (Feb. 2006)

Former Collegium Budapest Fellows Mauro Santos and Elias Zintzaras, as well as other two scientists will publish an article titled 'Do Alcohol-Metabolizing Enzyme Gene Polimorphisms Increase the Risk of Alcoholism and Alcoholic Liver Disease?' in the February 2006 issue of Hepatology. For the article please click here. (Dec. 2005)

Former Collegium Budapest Fellow Elias Zintzaras and another scientist will publish an article titled 'Diagnostic performance of antibodies against tissue transglutaminase for the diagnosis of coeliac disease: meta-analysis' in Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology (CDLI). For the article please click here. (Dec. 2005)

Former Collegium Budapest Fellows Iain Davidson and William C. McGrew published an article in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute titled 'Stone Tools and the Uniqueness of Human Culture'. For the article click here. (Nov. 2005)

Collegium Budapest Permanent Fellow Eörs Szathmáry and former Collegium Budapest Fellows (in alphabetical order) Ádám Kun and Mauro Santos published an article in the September issue of Nature Genetics with the title 'Real ribozymes suggest a relaxed error threshold'. For the article please click here. (Sep. 2005)

For a summary of the above article in Research Highlights of Nature please click here. (Sep. 2005.)

Article referring to the work of the team comprising Eörs Szathmáry, Ádám Kun and Mauro Santos in Science Now. For the article please click here. (Sep. 2005)

Nature 'News and Views' item referring to the work of the team comprising Eörs Szathmáry, Ádám Kun and Mauro Santos. For the article please click here. (Sep. 2005)

News item on the above-described discovery of Mauros Santos, Eörs Szathmáry and Ádám Kun on the homepage of Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Links to authors in alphabetical order:

Link to PhilipJ. Barnard.

Link to Howard Bloch.

Link to Richard Byrne.

Link to Iain Davidson.

Link to József Fiser.

Link to Chrisantha Fernando.

Link to Ferenc Jordán.

Link to János Kornai.

Link to Ádám Kun.

Link to Máté Lengyel.

Link to William C. McGrew.