Investigation of ancestral paternal and maternal lineages in the Odorheiu Secuiesc region of Transylvania

’High Coverage Mitogenomes and Y-Chromosomal Typing Reveal Ancient Lineages in the Modern-Day Székely Population in Romania’, a new study by researchers from the Institute of Archaeogenomics, was published in the journal Genes (MDPI) in early January.

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Book talk and lectures by Géza Pálffy at Indiana University

The monograph of Géza Pálffy, senior research fellow of the Institute of History at the Research Centre for the Humanities was published by Indiana University Press in 2021. The American presentation of the English-language volume titled Hungary between Two Empires 1526-1711 was held on 20 September 2022 at Indiana University in Bloomington, where, after an introductory lecture by Géza Pálffy, Professors Charles Ingrao and Kaya Şahin, experts on the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire, presented the publication - both of them calling it a complex, comprehensive work.

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The Éva Schmidt Archive

Researchers of the ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH) and the ELKH Research Centre for Linguistics (NYTK) launched two projects involving the scientific processing of the legacy work of linguist and ethnographer Éva Schmidt in 2022.

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New milestone in the archaeogenetic research of Hungarian prehistory

As part of the most recent archaeogenetic research into Hungarian prehistory being conducted at the Institute of Archaeogenomics of the ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities (BTK), experts examined burial sites found along the presumed migration route of the Hungarians from various – archaeological, historical, and geographical – perspectives that could link them to these early Hungarians. Based on these most recent results published by Oxford University Press in the scholarly journal Human Molecular Genetics, a number of clear genetic links can be identified between the early medieval groups connected to the Hungarians and representatives of the population of the conquerors of the Carpathian Basin.

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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. 

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Archaeological research of Zalavár-Vársziget continues

With the support of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH), the planned archaeological excavations in Zalavár-Vársziget that began in the 1950s to explore the Carolingian Mosaburg and the early Árpád-era county seat, or ‘Colon civitas’, are set to continue.

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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.

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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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RCH-organized archaeological excavations in Bakonybél

Within the framework of the Kings, Saints and Monasteries research program launched with the support of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH), the design works of the Benedictine monastery founded by Stephen I of Hungary began in April 2022 after a detailed geophysical survey.

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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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