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MECERN conference in Bratislava
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Our institute was represented by Dániel Bácsatyai, Benjámin Borbás and Bence Péterfi at the fifth biennial conference of the Medieval Central Europe Research Network (MECERN), a three-day scientific gathering of medieval researchers from the Central European region, held this time at Comenius University in Bratislava (27-29 April 2023).

Review of Margit Balogh's book by Professor Daniel J. Mahoney
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Daniel J. Mahoney, Raymond Aron Prize-winning political philosopher and professor at Assumption University in Massachusetts, reviews Margit Balogh's book “Victim of History”: Cardinal Mindszenty in Catholic World Report magazine.

Lectures by Tamás Stark in the United States
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In April 2023, Tamás Stark, Senior Research Fellow of our Institute, gave three lectures in the United States: in New York, Rochester and New Haven about the twentieth century history of Hungary, memory politics, the ongoing war in Ukraine and the prisoners of World War II.

Psalmus Hungaricus: A Hungarian Cultural History
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Psalmus Hungaricus is a three-volume synthesis of Hungarian cultural history presented by the Research Centre for the Humantities of the Loránd Eötvös Research Network in Budapest. It is the most comprehensive overview of the Hungarian past ever published in English. Authors and editors include the most prominent experts of their fields.

Lectures by Gábor Demeter, Krisztián Csaplár-Degovics and Janka Kovács in Glasgow
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The annual conference of the Association for British Slavic and East European Studies took place in Glasgow from 31 March to 2 April 2023, where our institute was represented by Gábor Demeter, Senior Research Fellow, Krisztián Csaplár-Degovics, Head of Department, and Janka Kovács, Postdoctoral Fellow.

Book presentation of Réka Újlaki-Nagy's monograph
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On March 20, 2023, our institute and the Hungarian Unitarian Church co-organized the presentation of Réka Újlaki-Nagy's book "Christians or Jews? Early Transylvanian Sabbatarianism (1580-1621) in the main building of the Unitarian Church of Budapest.

In the Saddle, on Horseback – The Art of War of the Conquest-Era Magyars
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With the help of researchers from the Hungarian Prehistory Research Group of the Institute of History of the ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH) the popular history film In the Saddle, on Horseback – The Art of War of the Conquest-Era Magyars has been produced at the Digitális Legendárium studio.

The Hungarian Historical Review 2022/4.
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After Wars – The latest issue of The Hungarian Historical Review published by the Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities is out.
Table of contents and free downloadable articles at https://hunghist.org/

New GISta Hungarorum database and digital atlas
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The GISta Hungarorum database and digital atlas supplemented with data from settlement-level surveys and population census from the 1720s, 1750s (Transylvania) and 1780s was completed under the leadership of the Institute of History of the ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities.

Remarriage and Stepfamilies in East Central Europe, 1600-1900
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Due to high adult mortality and the custom of remarriage, stepfamilies were a common phenomenon in pre-industrial Europe. Focusing on East Central Europe, a neglected area of Western historiography, this book draws essential comparisons in terms of remarriage patterns and stepfamily life between East Central Europe and Northwestern Europe.

Researchers publish István Széchenyi's correspondence in online database
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In addition to an upcoming printed edition, researchers of the Institute of History of the ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities (BTK TTI) are also making the correspondence of István Széchenyi publicly available in an online database.

54th ASEEES Annual Convention
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The 54th ASEEES Annual Convention was held virtually between October 13-14 and in-person between November 10 and 13, 2022 in Chicago, IL, at the Palmer House Hilton with the participation of our colleagues: Tamás Scheibner, Miklós Mitrovits, Balázs Ablonczy and László Borhi.
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