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Molnár Antalnak, Kocsi Györgynek és Szabó Csabának adta át a Fraknói Vilmos-díjat Soltész Miklós, a Miniszterelnökség egyházi és nemzetiségi kapcsolatokért felelős államtitkára és Fürjes Zoltán helyettes államtitkár a budapesti D50 Rendezvényközpontban 2025. november 20-án.
The new Oxford handbook (The Bible and the Reformation), compiled with the collaboration of our senior researcher, Pál Ács, has won the prestigious John Tedeschi Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society. The award recognizes the best reference book.
Our senior researcher, Pál Ács, gave a presentation at a prestigious international conference. The event was held in Copenhagen, at the National Gallery of Denmark, and focused on the life and work of Melchior Lorck, a versatile Danish Renaissance artist. Lorck is best known for his works depicting life in sixteenth-century Constantinople.
With its partner institutions in Poland and Slovakia, the Committee of National Remembrance of Hungary (NEB) organized the third part of the conference series “Churches and Religious Associations Behind the ‘Iron Curtain’”.
A new English-language monograph by Dóra Fedeles-Czeferner has just been published by Indiana University Press under the title Progressive Women’s Movements in Austria and Hungary. Conflict, Cooperation, Circulation.
Ágnes Maléth's book The Kingdom of Hungary and the Holy See - Relations in the time of Charles I (1301-1342), published by the HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, is the 19th volume of the Arpadiana series.
For the first time since the project began in 2022, members of the ERC “Negotiating Sovereignty” research team organized a major international conference on June 5–6, 2025, at the Institute of History, HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities.
The blog post of Krisztián Csaplár-Degovics, senior research fellow and head of department of our institute entitled A change of direction or the start of a new paradigm shift? was published on the website of the Humanitarian State-buiding website.
On May 17, 2025, the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom hosted the 23rd Warwick Symposium on Parish Research, where Béla Vilmos Mihalik, senior research fellow and scientific secretary at the Institute of History of the HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, presented his paper.
The members of the Negotiating Sovereignty ERC research group, led by András Fejérdy, held a conference and workshop on April 10, 2025, at the George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology in Târgu Mureş, Romania.
On April 4, 2025, Janka Kovács, postdoctoral researcher at our institute, gave a presentation at the hybrid workshop titled First-Person Accounts in the History of Healthcare, organized within the framework of the COST ACTION 22159 National, International and Transnational Histories of Healthcare, 1850–2000 project.
The Oxford University Press has published a study by Pál Ács, Institute Senior, Reserch Professor at the Institute of History on early Hungarian Bible translations, entitled Translating the Hungarian Protestant Bible.
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