Researchers of the RCH have examined early medieval cemeteries from the Ob to the Volga, representing a 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. This project dealing with the history of the population of early Hungarians was carried out in the framework of a collaborative scientific effort involving archaeologists, anthropologists and geneticists from a total of 18 institutions and universities. The researchers’ aim is to use the data to contribute to our understanding of the origins of the Hungarian people.

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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. 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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Archaeological research of the Carolingian Mosaburg and the early Árpád-era ‘Colon civitas’ at Zalavár-Vársziget continues with ELKH support

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. Since 1994, research into these important monuments of the Carolingian and Árpád eras has been carried out under the leadership of Miklós Szőke, scientific adviser to the Institute of Archeology of the ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH), and Ágnes Ritoók, an archaeologist at the Hungarian National Museum. In the research phase between 2022 and 2025, the remains of the monastery founded by Stephen I of Hungary will be excavated, and a series of volumes presenting the results of previous studies will also be published.

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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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RCH-organized archaeological excavations of medieval antecedents of Benedictine monastery begin 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. The project is organized by the ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH) under the leadership of Szabolcs Balázs Nagy, an archaeologist at the ELTE RCH Institute of Archeology, where he specializes in the Middle Ages. Technicians experienced in field work, university students and volunteers from the Laczkó Dezső Museum are also taking part. The first phase of the excavation in the garden of the monastery was scheduled to last until the end of May 2022, and has also been supported by the monastic community of the Bakonybél monastery.

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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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