HIPS - Erasmus Mundus Master in History in the Public Sphere

22/01/2025

Reminder: Applications for the dual degree History in the Public Sphere are open!

Deadlines are as follow:

February 4: applicants from non-visa-sensitive countries who wish to be considered for CEU financial aid

April 15: self-financing applicants who need a visa to enter Austria (except students from visa-sensitive countries)

July 1: self-financing applicants who do not need a visa to enter Austria

For more information, please consult the links on our linktree or message privately.

06/01/2025

Announcement:

Due to the great interest in the former History in the Public Sphere Erasmus Mundus (HIPS) program, as a continuation of it, a new dual degree program has been designed that is built on the theme and academic content of HIPS. We are happy to announce now that based on the institutional cooperation between the Department of Historical Studies, CEU and TUFS (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies), we admit students into our History in the Public Sphere Dual Degree program for the academic years 2025–2027. Based on merit, a variety of financial aids (scholarships and tuition fee waivers) will be available at both institutions. (The Program is subject to accreditation by AQ Austria.)

The deadlines are as follow:
February 4th for students seeking financial aid
April 15th for self-financing students who require a visa to enter Austria
July 1st for self-financing students who do not require a visa to enter Austria

For more information, please visit:
https://hipsma.com/
https://historicalstudies.ceu.edu/node/477

History in the Public Sphere focuses on the ways the past is represented, contested, and negotiated in the public sphere, exploring various contexts from the early modern period to the present in a comparative and transnational way.

26/11/2024

Pictures from a CEU funded trip to Budapest!

Along with CEU's historical department, first year HIPS students got to visit CEU's Budapest campus, go on tours guided by CEU professors, and make new friends!

Pictures courtesy of HIPS students: .zee.kers and

Thank you for graciously funding this trip!!

24/09/2024

Congratulations to our students of the two-year period 2022-2024 for completing the Erasmus Mundus Master "History in the Public Sphere"!

A two-year period of excitement, travel, and professional and academic experiences ended with the double Ceremony in Vienna on June 21, and Tokyo on September 20.

Our cohort of students, from 15 different countries, shared a unique experience studying in Austria, Hungary, Italy, Portugal and Japan, investigating different cultures and historical contexts.

Best of luck to all of you in your future: may it be filled with joy and satisfaction! 🥂

And now another HIPS biennium is about to begin.... Let's do Public History with us! 💫

20/06/2024

HIPS is built around four main themes:

"Entanglement between national, regional, and global frameworks of history"
It offers rigorous methodological training for students to organize their knowledge and research projects in a transnational, comparative perspective.

See more on our website!
https://buff.ly/40JvygF

13/06/2024

HIPS is built around four main themes:

"Histories of inclusion and exclusion"
It looks at the socio-cultural, legal and political aspects of gender-based, religious, ethnic, economic, social and other forms of discrimination and violence, and explores ways of negotiating diversity and organizing socio-culturally heterogeneous societies.

See more on our website!
https://buff.ly/40JvygF

06/06/2024

HIPS is built around four main themes:

" Visual representations and medialization of history "
It offers an inter-disciplinary take on the ways historical narratives have been visualized in the past and provides skills to interpret and develop cutting-edge contemporary media representations from documentary cinema to video games.

See more on our website!
https://buff.ly/40JvygF

30/05/2024

HIPS is built around four main themes:

"History and institutionalization of memory"
It examines the role played by museums and archives in shaping historical knowledge, including how institutions of memory are used for the purposes of historical revisionism, and explores the impact these institutions have on the present.

See more on our website!
https://buff.ly/40JvygF

23/05/2024

On the 20th and 21st of June, the second HIPS cohort had their final exam and defence in Budapest. Congratulations. Who will be next? Let's discover the new graduates this Summer!

See more on: https://buff.ly/3vKClg3

16/05/2024

*What is HIPS?*

"History in the Public Sphere" is a two-year master's program that focuses on the ways the past is represented, contested, and negotiated in the public sphere, exploring various contexts from the early modern period to the present in a comparative and transnational way.
- Taught in English.
- Practical skills, internships in museums, archives and institutions, and fieldwork.
- Fully funded for scholarship recipients.
- 6 countries and 6 cities involved.
🗺️ Vienna - Budapest - Tokyo - Lisbon - Florence - Paris 🗺️

Let's do Public History with us!
🌐 https://buff.ly/3IOsgC8

09/05/2024

Let's discover the projects that the HIPS Student realised through a five-week intense internship in Blinken OSA Archivium!

4)"Red Ridicule"
Video

Creators: Maud Beard, Momina Khurshid, Ruth Woodfield, Aki Yamasaki

Memento Park, an open-air museum on the outskirts of Budapest, was created in 1993 to showcase the statues and plaques constructed during Hungary’s Communist period (1949-1989). Over the course of our internship at the Blinken OSA Archivum, our group created a short, poetic documentary to reflect on Memento Park’s role in public history. Our film suggests that the Park’s visitors may be erasing the grim realities of Communist-era Hungary by using the site in a trivial way. Through Red Ridicule, we aim to provoke varied interpretations, ultimately encouraging viewers to think critically about their engagement with the past.

https://buff.ly/3W1E62S

Memento Park, an open-air museum on the outskirts of Budapest, was created in 1993 to showcase the statues and plaques constructed during Hungary’s Communist...

02/05/2024

Let's discover the projects that the HIPS Student realised through a five-week intense internship in Blinken OSA Archivium!

3) "Beyond Kerepesi Cemetery: Will We Be Remembered?"
Interactive text-based adventure

Creators: Benjamin Schiwy, Ishan Chatterjee, Andrés Paz

Our project sparks from research on some of the graves located in the Kerepesi Cemetery. We stumbled upon a few names such as that of Erika Szeles, a teenager enmeshed in the events of late October and early November in 1956 as a student, an armed fighter, and a volunteer nurse attending to the wounded and distributing foodstuffs. We created a “choose-your-own-adventure” interactive text that loosely fits into real-life biographies, where the fictional part primarily “lures” the players into the events while contextualization is done through archival resources. The project also contains a distinct pedagogic opportunity as a relatively easy and fun digital tool for historical engagement and self-expression.

Project website: https://buff.ly/43U91QF