RCH researchers also take part in an international collaboration exploring the history of horse domestication

A new paper with a focus on archaeogenomics on the history of horse domestication has been published in Nature, in which the authors also report on the results of their study of Bronze Age artefacts from Hungary. Within the framework of the Pegasus project funded by the European Research Council (ERC), a 162-member research team led by Ludovic Orlando at the Centre for Anthropobiology and Genomics in Toulouse (CAGT), archaeologists, archaeozoologists and archaeogeneticists from the Rippl-Rónai Museum in Kaposvár and the Institute of Archaeogenomics and the Institute of Archaeology of the ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH all participated in a large-scale study. By genomically analyzing the remains of 273 ancient horses, the researchers have provided new insights into the origin and distribution of the modern-day domestic horse in a broad international collaboration. 

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On the Verge of a New Era

The Battle of Mohács (29 August 1526) is a singular event of symbolic significance for Hungary and the whole of Central Europe. Over the last thirty years, extensive work by Hungarian historians to revise the “dark legend” of Mohács has resulted in a much more balanced account of the ruling Jagiellonian dynasty (1490–1526) and the thirty-five years that preceded the battle. The battle itself also has come to be viewed differently: having been previously dismissed by military historians as an “insignificant” encounter (where the “obsolete medieval Hungarian military organization” met its end), Mohács has been revealed as one of the largest battles of the early modern period, fought between two armies that were equally “modern”.

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Ceremony to present the 2021 ELKH academic awards

The Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH) Secretariat has established the Eötvös Loránd Research Network Prize and the Róbert Bárány Prize applicable to young researchers to recognize outstanding academic performance within the network. In addition, it has also launched the distribution of the title of Research Professor Emeritus. The 2021 ELKH Award Ceremony was held at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on November 9 as part of the “Celebration of the Hungarian Science“ program of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

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Researchers from the Research Centre for the Humanities have also contributed to the ethical guidelines for DNA testing of human remains published in Nature

Two researchers from the ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities, Eszter Bánffy and Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, participated in a multidisciplinary workshop aimed at developing ethical guidelines that can be applied globally to DNA testing of human remains. The five guidelines, developed with 68 researchers from 31 countries, were published in the prestigious journal Nature.

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Physics meets Philosophy 7: Conceptual Foundations of Relativity

The Research Group for Philosophy of Physics, Institute of Philosophy, RCH, cordially invites you to its interdisciplinary workshop on Physics Meets Philosophy 7: Conceptual Foundations of Relativity.

Venue: 4 Tóth Kálmán str., 1094 Budapest, B.7.16. (seminar room)
Date: 9 September 2021 (Thursday)

For details see the webpage of the workshop.

You can join by clicking on the link below:

https://tinyurl.com/btk-fi-fizikalizmus

New Chapters from Polish and Hungarian Intellectual History

The Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre for the Humanities (IP RCH) & the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN), cordially invite you to the upcoming Warsaw–Budapest hybrid workshop entitled New Chapters from Polish and Hungarian Intellectual History.

The workshop is organised by the opportunity of the publication of the volume entitled Lords and Boors – Westernisers and ‘Narodniks’ (eds. Béla Mester Rafał Smoczyński; IP RCH – Gondolat Publishers, Budapest, 2020).

Date: Monday, 30 August 2021

You can join by clicking on the link below.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82346507590?pwd=MmhQdU93aVJLbjJZTE12S2FldVV4QT09

The Zoom Meeting ID is 823 4650 7590 and Passcode is 696557

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Evaluation of the findings from the archeological excavation in the Royal Crypt at the Benedictine Abbey of Tihany begins

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Presentations by Gusztáv D. Kecskés, Miklós Mitrovits and Tamás Scheibner at the HSAC online conference

The online annual international conference of the Hungarian Studies Association of Canada entitled Hungary: Northern Relations took place on May 29-31, 2021. The Research Centre for the Humanities was represented at the event by three researchers: Miklós Mitrovits: Polish ‒ Hungarian Relations in Opposition (1976‒1989), Tamás Scheibner: Hungarian Refugee Programs and Cold War International Exchange: The Impact of Philanthropic Foundations, and Gusztáv Kecskés D.: An invisible actor: NATO's role in resolving the Hungarian refugee crisis. 

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