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IKS Symposium 2023
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From July 31 to August 4, 2023, the Colburn School in Los Angeles hosted the 50th anniversary conference of the International Kodály Society. Two members of the Institute for Musicology of the HUN-REN RCH, Anna Dalos and János Sipos, participated in the event.

Lecture by Heléna Huhák in New Orleans
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Heléna Huhák, a research fellow of the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre RCH Institute of History, 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.

Lecture by Janka Kovács in Oslo
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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.

Lecture by Gábor Demeter and Péter Földvári in Vienna
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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.

Critical Perspectives on Science. Guest Edited by Emil Toescu and Adam Tamas Tuboly
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A new special issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews edited by Adam Tamas Tuboly (RCH Institute of Philosophy) and Emil Toescu (University of Birmingham, School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine) has been released. The volume is about Critical Perspectives on Science aimed at early career researchers and scientists.

The Mufassal Tahrir Defteri of the Sanjak of Segedin (1578)
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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 the Institute of History.

Three-dimensional digitization of late medieval bone saddles by photogrammetry
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In a recent digitization project at the Institute of Art History, three-dimensional digital models of late medieval bone saddles were created using photogrammetry. The models were made by Virág Somogyvári, Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Art History.

“LIVING LEGAL CUSTOMS” XI. International Interdisciplinary Conference on Legal Ethnography and Legal Cultural History and the Presentation of the “Tárkány Szücs Ernő Award” at the University of Pécs
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The Tárkány Szücs Ernő Legal Cultural Historical and Legal Ethnographic Research Group (PTE KPVK), founded in Szekszárd in 2011 organized its XIst international and interdisciplinary conference.

Borbála Gulyás: The Art of the Calligrapher George Bocskay
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This comprehensive volume explores the art and life of the Hungarian calligrapher George Bocskay (d. 1575). Borbála Gulyás’ richly illustrated work is the revised English edition of her 2020 volume, which was published based on her PhD thesis.

Results of archaeological excavations at Pannonhalma Archabbey
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As part of the Kings, Saints, Monasteries research program supported by the Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH), archaeological excavations were carried out with the leadership of the ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH) between April and May 2023 at the site located in the northern courtyard of the Pannonhalma Archabbey. Based on the scattered bones found at the site, it can be concluded that there was indeed a populous cemetery located here.

Psalmus Hungaricus: A Hungarian Cultural History
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Psalmus Hungaricus is a three-volume synthesis of Hungarian cultural history presented by the Research Centre for the Humantities of the Loránd Eötvös Research Network in Budapest. It is the most comprehensive overview of the Hungarian past ever published in English. Authors and editors include the most prominent experts of their fields.

Lectures by Gábor Demeter, Krisztián Csaplár-Degovics and Janka Kovács in Glasgow
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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.
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