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A joint conference on the history of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the first half of the 17th century was held at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome on 16 and 17 October 2024. The conference was organised by the Pontificia Università Gregoriana, the Catholic University of America and the Ukrainian Catholic University.

Gusztáv D. Kecskés, Research Professor at our institute, has published a monograph entitled Humanitarian Campaign on a Global Scale: The International Red Cross and the 1956 Hungarian Refugees, which can be downloaded from the website of the Wilson Center (Washington).

Janka Kovács, a postdoctoral researcher at our institute, participated in a bilingual workshop on hospital history in Regensburg, Germany, from 6-9 October 2024.

The Historical Research on the Árpád Era – From the Austro-Hungarian Compromise (1867) to the Present Day a monograph in English by Gábor Thoroczkay, Associate Professor of the Department of Medieval History at ELTE, has been published as the 17th volume of the Arpadiana series.

The book From Borderland to Burgenland. Science, Geopolitics, Identity, and the Making of a Region by Ferenc Jankó, geographer and member of the Ten Generations Research Group was published by CEU Press.  

The monograph Jewishness and Beyond. Jewish Conversions in Hungary 1825-1914 by Miklós Konrád, Senior Research Fellow of our institute, has been published by Indiana University Press.

Gábor Demeter, senior research fellow of our institute, was invited by the Institute of Advanced Studies (iASK) of Kőszeg to give a lecture in English on the current political situation in the Balkans and historical analogies on 26 June 2024 in Kőszeg.

On 10-11 June, École Française de Rome, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and University of Fribourg organised the second event of a three-stage conference series examining the relationship between Catholicism and anti-communism.