Visual Theory and Practice (VTP) Advanced Certificate Recipients in June 2025

Visual Studies Platform is happy to announce that eight students successfully completed requirements for the Visual Theory and Practice (VTP) advanced certificate program till the end of June 2025. 

Students awarded the VTP advanced certificate: 

• Yoline Bourdon, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology (2 years). Project title: "Le Culot" - "The Nerve" (Long film.) 
  
• Magdalena Kopanska, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology (2 years). Project title: Safe Journey Welcome Back (Exhibition, publication.) 
• Galina K., Department of Historical Studies, MA in Cultural Studies - Academic Research, Policy, Management. Thesis title: Dziga Vertov as Heritage: Value Construction, Dissonance, and Canonisation Across Film Archive. 
• Vasilisa L., Department of Historical Studies, MA in Comparative History (2 years). Project title: Atomic Chronotopes: archived global {photo}traces of nuclear age (Exhibition.) 
• Isaac Waanzi Mbugo, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology (2 years). Project title: Marriage Payment in Yambio South Sudan. (Medium lengths film.)
• Botond Pap, Department of Historical Studies, MA in Comparative History (2 years). Project title: Kikötők - Havens: interviews with Hungarians abroad (Exhibition + short film.)
• Maria Sakkoula, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology (1 year). Project title: Late Harvest (Medium lengths film.)
• Milan Szabo, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology (2 years). Project title: Stories from the Street (Medium lengths film.)

We are delighted to announce that two of the VTP students, Magdalena Kopanska and Botond Pap - who achieved the highest grade point average (GPA) based on their coursework at their respective departments - received Outstanding Academic Achievement awards from Central European University. 

We wish our graduates success in all their future endeavors!

Photos by Daniel Halasz.