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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: Territorial Change and Ethnic Cleansing in the Hungarian-Slovak Borderlands, 1938–1948.

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, September 7-8, 2023.

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 to 2 September 2023, and this year focused on: Crisis in Health and Medicine.

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) Conference at the University of Vienna.

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 work of Miklós Fóti, junior research fellow at our institute.

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 gathering of medieval researchers from the Central European region, held this time at Comenius University in Bratislava (27-29 April 2023).

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, memory politics, the ongoing war in Ukraine and the prisoners of World War II.

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 Research Fellow, Krisztián Csaplár-Degovics, Head of Department, and Janka Kovács, Postdoctoral Fellow.