International Conference in Budapest Commemorating the Holocaust in Hungary

The Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Holocaust Memorial Centre organized an international conference on Crime, Responsibility – Memory. The Hungarian Holocaust after 70 Years on April 24, 2014, in the Central Building of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. The conference was opened by József Pálinkás, President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szabolcs Szita, Director of the Holocaust Memorial Centre, Budapest, and András Heisler, President of the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities. The program can be read here.

Refo Conference in Budapest: Revolt, Violence and Memory

On May 22-23, 2014 the international conference Revolt, Violence and Memory: Peasant Uprisings in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe will be organized at Budapest by the Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH), Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) and Refo500.  The major aim of the conference, held on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Hungarian peasant uprising of 1514, is to re-contextualize this uprising and revolts in early modern Europe more generally by adopting the interdisciplinary and comparative methods of social and cultural history.
More information about the conference can be found here, on the RefoRC website: http://www.refo500.nl/rc/news/view/978/conference-revolt-violence-and-memory.html. The program can be read here.

Cooperation agreement

Pál Fodor, Acting Director General of the Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA BTK) and Péter Farbaky, Director General of Budapest History Museum signed an Agreement of Cooperation on March 31, 2014. The two institutions (from the MTA BTK part, especially the Institute of History, Institute of Archeology and Institute of Art History) have had cooperation for decades in the research of important sites and events of the Hungarian medieval history, including organizing conferences and exhibitions together.

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Slovak–Hungarian Bilingual Journal of History

A new bilingual, Slovak–Hungarian historical journal (Kor(r)idor. Szlovák–Magyar Történeti Folyóirat/Slovensko–maďarský historický časopis) has been founded in cooperation of the Research Institute of the National Self-Government of Slovaks in Hungary, the Institute of History of the Research Center of Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Forum Minority Research Institute. The editorial board consists of members of the founding institutions (one member from each institute; our Institute of History is represented by Csaba Katona, fellow of the Research Assistance Team). József Demmel editor, fellow of the Research Institute of the National Self-Government of Slovaks in Hungary were interviewed by the Slovak newspaper L'udové Noviny about the aim, the plans and the significance of the new journal (the interview can be read here. The goal of the new periodical is to provide a permanent bilingual platform which will enable continuous dialogue on history and better understanding between the two countries and nations; presenting and intermediating the results of scientific research activities towards Slovak and Hungarian professional public, the students and the inquirers; and successful exploration of the common past. The first issue will be published soon.