The Correspondence of the Beylerbeys of Buda 1617–1630

The volume The Correspondence of the Beylerbeys of Buda 1617-1630 is published by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Szeged and the Research Centre for the Humanities. This book offers a full edition of the beylerbeys' surviving correspondence from Kadizade Ali Pasha's death till Mürteza Pasha's departure from Buda, including the Ottoman Turkish and Hungarian originals, as well as those letters which are only known in Italian, Latin or German translations. The volume is the result of the work of Mahmut Halef Cevrioğlu, Ilona Dorogi, Miklós Fóti, László Glück, Gellért Ernő Marton and Mónika F. Molnár, coordinated by Gábor Kármán. 

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Balázs Balogh and Balázs Ablonczy at the conference of the European Network of Remembrance and Solidarity

From 18 to 20 May 2019, the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj hosted the Warsaw-based European Network of Remembrance and Solidarity conference, this time entitled Cultural Pluralism and Identity in European Politics after 1945. Among the German, Romanian, Ukrainian, British, Polish, French and Hungarian speakers, Balázs Balogh, Director General of the Research Centre for the Humanities and Director of the Institute of Ethnography of the RCH, analysed the roots and transformation of the Kalotaszeg identity in his English-language presentation, while Balázs Ablonczy, Senior Research Fellow and Head of Department of the Institute of History of the RCH, spoke about the construcion of the Transylvania cult in Hungary and its actors.

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István Kádas and Bence Péterfi at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo

This year, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA) hosted the 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies online. The 432 sessions and roundtable discussions were attended by medieval scholars from all over the world, including István Kádas and Bence Péterfi, both research fellows of the Institute of History of the RCH (and members of the „Lendület” Medieval Hungarian Economic History Research Group and of the NKFI project K 134690).

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Children of Communism: new book by Sándor Horváth published by Indiana University Press

Indiana University Press (USA) has published the book Children of Communism. Politicizing Youth Revolt in Communist Budapest in the 1960s by Sándor Horváth, Head of the Department for Contemporary History at the Institute of History in the Research Centre for the Humanities. In this volume, the author explores youth counterculture in the Eastern Bloc, and why this generation proved so crucial to communist identity politics. 

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Ferenc Hörcher’s book launch

The Department of Philosophy and Intellectual History of the Institute of Philosophy of Research Centre for the Humanities invites all interested to the book launch of Ferenc Hörcher’s recently published monograph, The Political Philosophy of the European City. From Polis, through City-State, to Megalopolis?  with invited contributions by Tony Spanakos (Montclair State University) and Nathan Pinkoski (Zephyr Institute).

Date: Tuesday, 12 April 2022, 16h CET

You can join the event by clicking on the link below: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/3612246778?pwd=dXRHZ0I3YWw5bjA0elpSS3pYQzgrZz09

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Victim of History: a biography of Cardinal Mindszenty

Catholic University of America Press has published Victim of History: a biography of Cardinal Mindszenty, the latest book of Margit Balogh, Deputy Director General of the Research Centre for the Humanities and scientific consultant at the Institute of History. The volume is "a scholarly masterwork now finally available in English, tells the story of this extraordinary character, one of the most powerful and controversial personalities of Hungarian history" – says Árpád von Klimó, (The Catholic University of America), reflecting on the book.

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The Golden Bull of Hungary

The Golden Bull of Hungary, by Attila Zsoldos, research professor at the Institute of History of the Research Centre for the Humanities, has been published as the ninth volume of the Arpadiana series. The book analyses the reform policy behind the Golden Bull (1222) promulgated by King Andrew II of Hungary, the circumstances of its creation, the events leading up to its renewal in 1231, and its medieval afterlife.

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Outstanding Hungarian success in international history

András Fejérdy senior research fellow and deputy director, and Gábor Kármán senior research fellow at the Institute of History of the Research Centre for the Humanities won the European Research Council’s Consolidator Grant. In this call, 2,652 applicants submitted their proposals and 12% of them were succesful. In the history of European research funding, it is quite extraordinary that two researchers at the same time from a Central European research institute would receive the grant.

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