Living Pasts - Exploring Futures: Stations

The second edition of ELTE and Utrecht University’s joint course reached the prototyping stage, and the semester-closing presentation session of Living Pasts – Exploring Futures seminar is approaching. This event is a milestone for the students who elaborated projects that aim at raising attention to the cultural heritage of Budapest, Dutch–Hungarian relations and the importance of insisting on Humanistic ideas.

The students from various master’s and scholarship programmes attend classes on campus, in the city and in a hybrid format with fellows from Utrecht, focusing on the roles of actual and metaphorical “stations” in urban life. This year’s case studies were Budapest’s Keleti Railway Station and Utrecht Central Station, and the course explored questions such as: How do stations shape a city’s identity? What determines their location? What cultural and archaeological heritage surrounds them? How have they influenced the flow of people?

The interdisciplinary international seminar Living Pasts – Exploring Futures is part of the CHARM-EU alliance, a group of nine European universities focused on challenge-driven, accessible, research-based, and mobile education. CHARM-EU’s flagship projects, including this course, aim to create a new European university that combines innovative forms of online and offline learning. The course won the UU Team Award and was shortlisted for the Dutch Education Award last year.

Date: December 3rd, 2025 (Wednesday), at 14:00

Location: Institute of Archaeological Sciences Library (1088 Budapest, Múzeum körút 4, Building "B")

For more information on the projects presented

Link to the faculty webpage: link in English language, link in Hungarian language

This event is in English language, and the invitation is open to both Hungarian and International students.