CEU Translation Project

Since it was launched in 1995, the CEU Translation Project aimed to ensure the availability in local languages of at least the minimum of basic texts in the social sciences needed to renew higher education and to sustain informed public discussion of social and political issues. Now that the Project has supported the publication of more than 1500 translations, and in many post-Communist countries the need for basic texts in the social sciences and humanities is gradually being met, the focus of translation support is changing.

The Project's basic tool - the CEU Translation Project list of recommended books - is gradually being reorganized to meet the need for this change. The old list of classic titles structured according to traditional academic disciplines is being supplemented by a set of open transdiscplinary modules, each of which focuses on a particular emerging issue or problem of special relevance to open society. The new modules will cover areas such as globalization, information society, the creation of social capital, theories of social complexity and risk, the relation between historical memory and political culture, the transformation of the social sciences, and so on. Each one is maintained by individual editors and is open to constant revision.

The old CEU Translation Project list is still available by clicking here.

The new Translation Project Modules are listed below. Please note that they are revised frequently - the version number after the module name indicates the most recent edition of the module. Users are invited to send suggestions directly to the editors of particular modules.

• Social Capital and Trust 0.1
• Information Society 0.
• Women's Issues (CPD will continue to run its annual competition)
• Lesbian and Gay Issues (CPD will continue to run its annual competition)
• Multiculturalism