The Mathias Corvinus Collegium's scientific and educational programs include lectures by several internationally renowned foreign and Transylvanian academics and researchers. International visibility, building diplomatic relations and cooperation is a fundamental requirement for a 21st century science and education institution. At MCC, we strive to ensure that our students and the wider public in Transylvanian cities have access to the best professionals in our educational programs, training courses and public lectures.
Guest speakers in 2023:
Dr. Alexander Jürgen Grau
freelance author, publicist, science and culture journalist, visiting fellow at MCC
Andrew Greenwood
professional dancer and an international ballet master
Axel Voss
Member of the European Parliament
Dr. Benoit Mayer
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dr. Calum T. M. Nicholson
British-Canadian anthropologist, visiting fellow at MCC and Danube Institute
Dr. Csala Dénes
data scientist, assistant professor at Lancaster University
Dr. Eric Hendriks
Dutch sociologist, visiting fellow at Danube Institute
Dr. Gáspár-Szilágyi Szilárd
Assistant Professor in EU and International Economic Law at Birmingham University
Dr. Gladden Pappin
political scientist, visiting senior fellow at MCC, on leave from the University of Dallas, where he is an associate professor of politics, Director of the Hungarian Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade
Dr. Heinz Theisen
Professor of Political Science at the Catholic University of North Rhine-Westphalia, visiting lecturer at MCC
Dr. Henri de Montety
French historian, lecturer at the Catholic Institute of Higher Studies, Vendée, France
Dr. Jan Bentz
Lecturer and Tutor Blackfriars Studioum, Oxford
Dr. K. Lengyel Zsolt
historian, political scientist, head of the Hungarian Institute at the University of Regensburg
Karen de Sousa Pesse
digital advisor, diversity and gender equality activist
Revd. Prof. Nigel Biggar
Professor of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford
Dr. Patrick Deneen
Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, USA
Dr. Paul Videsott
Dean of the Faculty of Education of the Free University of Bolzano/Bozen (UNIBZ) and editor-in-chief of the European Journal on Minority Issues
Dr. Robert C. Castel
expert on security policy based in Israel
Julius Strauss
journalist, former war correspondent, visiting fellow at MCC
Michael Kurzwelly
German conceptual artist, researching and working in the field of social innovation and community development
Richard Janos Schenk
PhD candidate at the Department of Policy Analysis, TUM School of Governance
Dr. Sebastian Morello
philosopher, writer, lecturer and public speaker
Shaun Riordan
Director of the Chair for Diplomacy and Cyberspace at the European Institute of International Studies and a senior Research Fellow at the Charter Institute (Beijing), former British diplomat
Todd Bensman
investigative author, two-time National Press Club award winner, former war correspondent
Dr. Torbjørn Netland
Full Professor and Head of Chair of Production and Operations Management at ETH (Federal Institute of Technology) Zurich, Switzerland
Dr.William Ruger
President of the American Institute for Economic Research
Zoe Strimpel
writer, broadcaster and historian of gender in modern Britain
Guest speakers in 2022:
Andrea Keerbs
Director of the International Republican Institute
Charles Crawford
former British diplomat
Ed West
British journalist
Dr. Hubertus Ruël
Dutch theologian, economist, researcher on international trade and diplomacy
Kálnoky Boris
journalist, head of the MCC Media School
Dr. Mark Milosch
historian, lawyer and international relations expert; former Chief of Staff of the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission)
Dr. Patrick Shoaf Gray
Associate Professor of English Studies and Director of Liberal Arts at Durham University
Dr. Peter Gregory Boghossian
American philosopher with an academic focus on atheism, critical thinking, pedagogy, scientific skepticism and the Socratic method
Dr. Peter Kurti
Director of the Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society program, adjunct associate professor in the School of Law, University of Notre Dame Australia
Dr. Sohrab Ahmari
Iranian American journalist and founding editor of Compact online magazine
Stephen Travis Sholl
foreign policy expert on transatlantic relations
Dr. Vajk Miklós Lukács de Perenyi
Peruvian scholar specializing in philosophy of technology and applied ethics
Romanian guest speakers:
Dr. Alexandru Stermin
Biologist, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeș-Bolyai University
