Introducing the Review of Democracy podcasts

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The Review of Democracy is the online journal and autonomous platform of the CEU Democracy Institute. The journal was launched back in 2021 and is dedicated to the reinvigoration, survival, and prosperity of democracies worldwide. It delivers analysis, reflection, research, and opinion pieces in real-time at the national and supranational level. The journal’s main sections are devoted to the History of Ideas, Democracy and Culture, Political Economy, the Rule of Law, the Future of Europe, and Cross-Regional Dialogue. The journal has published a series on topics such as the War in Ukraine, Christian Democracy, or Histories and Futures of Liberalism, among others. Ferenc Laczó from the [Read more...]

The shared history of oil and nuclear energy

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Michiel Bron is a PhD-candidate in the project Managing Scarcity and Sustainability. His research focuses on the involvement of oil companies in the development of nuclear energy in the age of scarcity, focussing on the 1970s. During September-October 2022, Michiel is a Robert H.G. Helleman Memorial Graduate Research Fellow at the American Institute of Physics. In 2021, he received a research grant from the Comité d’Histoire de l’Électricité et de l’Énergie (EDF). In his blog, Michiel discusses the relatively unknown shared history of the oil and nuclear industries.

De Collectione Datorum: The challenge of developing data models and databases in humanities projects

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Monika Barget

Humanities scholars, and especially historians, work with large amounts of data that come from various sources and are often unstructured. Ingesting these data into an easy-to-use database that permits complex queries or visualisations is often unattainable. Based on experiences in the DigiKAR geohumanities project, the blog post addresses this challenge and presents workflows in which relational or graph databases are optional end-products rather than the starting points of the research process. These experiences can inspire other humanities projects to find low-maintenance alternatives to expensive multi-user databases with graphic user interfaces.