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RCH Institute of History

News Archive

Welcome to our Archives page. On this page you will find a total of 182 of our articles broken down into Months and Years.
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Conference of the “Sovereignty” ERC Research Group at the Hungarian Academy in Rome

On September 30 and October 1, 2026, the “Sovereignty” ERC research group at ELTE RCH Institute of History will organize the conference State, Nation, Religion. Multiple Loyalties in Modern and C... read more..

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Warfare at the Limits of Empire – New Book by Zoltán Korpás

Zoltán Korpás’s Warfare at the Limits of Empire – Charles V, the Mediterranean and the Defence of Hungary has been published in the Mohács 1526–2026: Reconstruction and Remembrance series. This boo... read more..

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The CISH World Congress in Leipzig 2026

On 27 August 2026, the centenary World Congress of the Comité International des Sciences Historiques (CISH) in Leipzig hosted the panel “Childbearing: Fertility, Contraception, Everyday Life in East-C... read more..

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The Angevins in Hungary 1301–1395 – New book by Enikő Csukovits

Enikő Csukovits’s new monograph, published by Indiana University Press, explores the history of the Hungarian Angevins and the dynasty’s Central European and Italian connections. Titled The Angevin... read more..

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Making the Hungarian Communist – New book by Heléna Huhák

Heléna Huhák’s new monograph, published by Indiana University Press, examines the operation of communist propaganda and the everyday practices of political agitation in Hungary between 1948 and 1953. ... read more..

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Knowledge Transfer and Cultural Mediators – New Special Issue of the Hungarian Historical Review

The new special issue of the Hungarian Historical Review, Knowledge Transfer and Cultural Mediators: Mobility, Networks, and Transnational Lives presents five fascinating studies on how idea... read more..

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Empire-Building and Nation-Building in Central Europe – a new book by Krisztián Csaplár-Degovics

The new book by Krisztián Csaplár-Degovics, senior research fellow at the Institute of History, has been published by CEU Press under the title Empire-Building and Nation-Building in Central Europe: Z... read more..

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The SMALLST project at the RSA’s 72th Annual Meeting

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 monogra... read more..

Hungary and the UN Research Group
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Hungary and the UN Research Group

About our Research Group: Hungary and the United Nations from 1945 till today The Hungary and the UN Research Group was established on July 2nd, 2024, in order to study the relations between Hungary ... read more..

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Reports of the Habsburg Envoys in Constantinople, 1568–1574. I–II.

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 ... read more..

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Publication of Szabolcs László’s new monograph on Cold War cultural exchanges between Hungary and the USA

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. ... read more..

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Interview with László Borhi on his book about survival under dictatorships

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... read more..

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A Handbook on Post-1956 Hungarian Refugee Relief: A New Reference Work in Migration Studies

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 Sch... read more..

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Markets, Mints, and Merchants – Royal Economic Policy and Towns in Medieval Hungary

The objective of the present volume is to provide a representative overview of the research undertaken by the Medieval Hungarian Economic History Research Group since its establishment in 2015. The... read more..

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Our Colleagues at the Annual Convention of ASEEES in Washington, D.C.

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... read more..

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New ERC Consolidator Grant at the Institute of History

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 o... read more..

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Oxford Handbook with Pál Ács’s Contribution Receives the John Tedeschi Prize

The new Oxford handbook (The Bible and the Reformation), compiled with the collaboration of our senior researcher, Pál Ács, has won the prestigious John Tedeschi Prize from the Sixteenth Century Socie... read more..

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Pál Ács’s Presentation in Copenhagen

Our senior researcher, Pál Ács, gave a presentation at a prestigious international conference. The event was held in Copenhagen, at the National Gallery of Denmark, and focused on the life and work of... read more..

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Researchers of the ERC Sovereignty project at the conference ““Churches and Religious Associations Behind the ‘Iron Curtain’”

With its partner institutions in Poland and Slovakia, the Committee of National Remembrance of Hungary (NEB) organized the third part of the conference series “Churches and Religious Associations Behi... read more..

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Publication of Dóra Fedeles-Czeferner’s new monograph on women’s movements in the Habsburg Monarchy

A new English-language monograph by Dóra Fedeles-Czeferner has just been published by Indiana University Press under the title Progressive Women’s Movements in Austria and Hungary. Conflict, Cooperati... read more..