
The SMALLST project presented its work at the 72th annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in San Francisco on 20 February 2026. Apart from a general presentation of the project’s monograph, SMALLST members shared case studies from the various small states in our focus in two panels.
Edited by István Fazekas, Pál Fodor and László Glück Reports of the Habsburg Envoys in Constantinople, 1568–1574, Vols. I–II, is published as part of the series Diplomatic Relations Between Ottomans, Habsburgs and Hungarians – Documents and Studies.
A new English-language monograph by Szabolcs László was published by Bloomsbury Academic under the title Cold War Brokers: Hungarian-American Cultural Exchanges and Transnational Mobility, 1956-1989.
On December 22, 2025, an interview was conducted with László Borhi for the podcast Dialogues in Holocaust Studies and the Second World War. In the episode, Borhi spoke with Ari Barbalat about his 2024 monograph Survival Under Dictatorships: Life and Death in Nazi and Communist Regimes.
A Handbook on Post-1956 Hungarian Refugee Relief: From Local Crisis to Global Impact (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2026) has recently been published. The volume is edited by Gusztáv D. Kecskés and Tamás Scheibner, both affiliated with the Institute of History.
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).
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