International conference of the Hungarian Academy, Rome

An international conference took place in Rome organized by the Hungarian Academy of Rome on November 22, 2023, entitled Historia Triplex. The Italian models and sources of the Hungarian and Croatian patriotism. Art historians and literary historians have been researching the cultural relations of the Hungarian, Croatian and Italian Renaissance humanism for long. The presentations of this conference (of Hungarian, Croatian, Italian, Austrian and American researchers) tried to show the elements of these interrelated cultures and histories in the question of the early patriotism. Our Institute was represented by Dénes Sokcsevits and Antal Molnár, who is the Director of the Hungarian Academy in Rome. The program can be read here.

Pál Fodor and Géza Dávid were elected Honorable Members of the Turkish Historic Society

The Turkish Academy of Sciences (Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi) was founded in 1993 mainly for science research, so the main research centres for the humanities are the Turkish Historic Society (Türk Tarih Kurumu) and the Turkish Linguistics Society (Türk Dil Kurumu). Founded under the patronage of Atatürk in 1930, the aim of the Turkish Historical Society is to study the history of Turkey and the Turks and to publish the results of these studies. The Society organizes international conferences, launches and supports research projects, maintains special library and publishes book serials. This year 62 Turkish and foreign researchers, among them two Hungarian researchers, Géza Dávid (professor of the ELTE University, Budapest) and Pál Fodor, Acting Director General of the Research Centre for Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, were elected Honourable Members of the Society. The inauguration ceremony was held in Istambul, October 30, 2012, in the former palace of the Sultans. The honourable members got a true copy of the ornamented caftan of Sultan Selim I (1512–1520) and presented lectures on their researches concerning Turkish history.

The Hungarian Historical Review Vol.2 Issue 3 has come out

The third issue of Volume 2 (2013) of The Hungarian Historical Review (Ethnicity) has been published! The contents of the issue can be read here.
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New Issue of World History: Special Issue on East Asia (2013/2–3.)

The growing economic and political significance of the East Asian region makes it necessary for a small European country like Hungary to start training well-prepared experts who combine wide historical and cultural knowledge on this region with up-to-date information concerning the political and economic relations between the East Asian countries. The editorial board of Világtörténet, the only Hungarian language academic journal entirely devoted to world history, has decided to strengthen its commitment to this region by putting together a thematic issue on East Asia. The articles of the current issue deal with some of the more important questions envisaging the contemporary history of the East Asian region, such as the economic modernization, the impact of the Western social model and urban planning, but also the national and territorial conflicts among regional powers of this area. We are confident that this effort will bring closer the historical debate on this crucial emerging area to the Hungarian public, and will also stimulate a new wave of research and analysis on the Asian continent.

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