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Department for Southeast European Studies

2023. November 7.

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Department for Southeast European Studies

It was a major landmark in the institutionalization of the Hungarian historical Balkan research when, in 2014, the Department for the Research of Southeast European History was founded as a separate u... read more..

The Knights Hospitaller in Medieval Hungary

2023. October 30.

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The Knights Hospitaller in Medieval Hungary

The aim of this book is to present the history and activity of the Hospi-tallers in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary (c.1150–1543) based on thorough research of primary sources both kept in Hungary and... read more..

Lecture by Szabolcs László at Bielefeld University

2023. October 11.

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Lecture by Szabolcs László at Bielefeld University

Szabolcs László, research fellow at our institute, participated in the conference entitled Dis-/Сonnecting the World: Subjectivities, Networks and Transcultural Encounters across Cold War Boundaries, ... read more..

2023. September 29.

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Lecture by Leslie Waters

On September 26, Leslie Waters, assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso, gave a lecture at the Institute of History on her newly published book, Borders on the Move: Terri... read more..

2023. September 15.

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Lecture by Heléna Huhák in New Orleans

Heléna Huhák, a research fellow of our institute, participated in the workshop Confronting the Nazi Genocide: New Directions in Holocaust Studies, held at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, Sept... read more..

2023. September 5.

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Lecture by Janka Kovács in Oslo

Janka Kovács, a postdoctoral research fellow at our institute, participated in the conference of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHH), which took place from 30 August... read more..

Lecture by Gábor Demeter and Péter Földvári in Vienna

2023. September 4.

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Lecture by Gábor Demeter and Péter Földvári in Vienna

On 2 September. 2023 Gábor Demeter, senior research fellow of our institute and Péter Földvári, visiting research professor gave a lecture at the 15th European Historical Economics Society (EHES) Conf... read more..

The Mufassal Tahrir Defteri of the Sanjak of Segedin (1578)

2023. July 21.

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The Mufassal Tahrir Defteri of the Sanjak of Segedin (1578)

An important Ottoman source has become available to researchers as part of the RCH’s 21st-Century Studies in Humanities series. The Mufassal Tahrir Defteri of the Sanjak of Segedin (1578) is the ... read more..

2023. May 12.

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MECERN conference in Bratislava

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 g... read more..

Lectures by Tamás Stark in the United States

2023. May 5.

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Lectures by Tamás Stark in the United States

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,... read more..

Lectures by Gábor Demeter, Krisztián Csaplár-Degovics and Janka Kovács in Glasgow

2023. April 6.

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Lectures by Gábor Demeter, Krisztián Csaplár-Degovics and Janka Kovács in Glasgow

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 ... read more..

Book presentation of Réka Újlaki-Nagy's monograph

2023. March 24.

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Book presentation of Réka Újlaki-Nagy's monograph

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 ... read more..

In the Saddle, on Horseback – The Art of War of the Conquest-Era Magyars

2023. February 28.

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In the Saddle, on Horseback – The Art of War of the Conquest-Era Magyars

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, ... read more..

New GISta Hungarorum database and digital atlas

2023. February 15.

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New GISta Hungarorum database and digital atlas

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 leader... read more..

Remarriage and Stepfamilies in East Central Europe, 1600-1900

2023. January 30.

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Remarriage and Stepfamilies in East Central Europe, 1600-1900

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, t... read more..

The Historical Construction of National Consciousness | Book launch

2022. November 22.

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The Historical Construction of National Consciousness | Book launch

A long essay entitled Three Historical Regions of Europe, appearing first in a samizdat volume in Budapest in 1980, instantly put its author into the forefront of the transnational debate on... read more..

New book publication on medieval merchants

2021. August 30.

Lendület: Középkori gazdaságtörténet

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New book publication on medieval merchants

In December 2018, the Lendület (‘Momentum’) Medieval Hungarian Economic History Research Group won a grant from the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH) of Hungary for the prep... read more..

2019. October 14.

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International Conference on Economic Functions of Urban Spaces

The International Commission for the History of Towns (ICHT) held its annual meeting in Budapest, September 18–20, 2019, co-organized with the “Lendület” Medieval Hungarian Economic History Research G... read more..

New book publication on Communist Eastern Europe, edited by Péter Apor and Sándor Horváth

2017. November 21.

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New book publication on Communist Eastern Europe, edited by Péter Apor and Sándor Horváth

Secret Agents and the Memory of Everyday Collaboration in Communist Eastern Europe is now available through Anthem Press and JSTOR. This collection of essays addresses institutions that deve... read more..

The International Conference Francis Joseph and Croats in World War I

2016. December 2.

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The International Conference Francis Joseph and Croats in World War I

The International Conference Francis Joseph and Croats in World War I (Medjunarodni znanstveni skup Franjo Josip i Hrvati u prvome svjetskom ratu) took place on November 21, 2016 in Zagreb. The event,... read more..