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Between October 20 and 23, the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies held its 57th annual convention in Washington, D.C. This year’s lectures, panels, roundtable discussions, and book presentations explored various aspects of the event’s main theme, “Memory.”
Béla Vilmos Mihalik, Senior Research Fellow and Scientific Secretary of the Institute of History at ELTE RCH, and Assistant Professor at the Department of Auxiliary Sciences of History, ELTE Faculty of Humanities, has been awarded the prestigious Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council (ERC).
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.
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