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Institute for Musicology of the Research Centre for the Humanities ELTE, Budapest and Study Group Music and Cultural Studies IMS announce the interdisciplinary conference Individual Agency and Musical Networks in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music History and Music Historiography
We are delighted to announce that the Scientific Committee has completed the evaluation of all abstracts submitted to the 10th Balkan Symposium on Archaeometry (10th BSA), which will take place in Budapest, Hungary, from 19–22 October 2026.
Enikő Csukovits’s new monograph, published by Indiana University Press, explores the history of the Hungarian Angevins and the dynasty’s Central European and Italian connections.
Heléna Huhák’s new monograph, published by Indiana University Press, examines the operation of communist propaganda and the everyday practices of political agitation in Hungary between 1948 and 1953.
A comprehensive English-language monograph on Bartók’s “most personal creed,” the Cantata profana, has been published by the prestigious Oxford University Press, written by László Vikárius, head of the Bartók Archive at the Institute for Musicology of ELTE RCH.
The new book by Krisztián Csaplár-Degovics, senior research fellow at the Institute of History, has been published by CEU Press under the title Empire-Building and Nation-Building in Central Europe: Zoltán László (1881–1961) in the Turmoil of the 20th Century.
The SMALLST project presented its work at the 72th annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in San Francisco on 20 February 2026. Apart from a general presentation of the project’s monograph, SMALLST members shared case studies from the various small states in our focus in two panels.
Sándor Bökönyi, the founder of modern archaeozoology in Hungary and a defining figure in the international research scene, was born a century ago. He was a Hungarian pioneer in the study of animal domestication in Europe and the Middle East.
Edited by István Fazekas, Pál Fodor and László Glück Reports of the Habsburg Envoys in Constantinople, 1568–1574, Vols. I–II, is published as part of the series Diplomatic Relations Between Ottomans, Habsburgs and Hungarians – Documents and Studies.
New results on the history of horse domestication were published in the current issue of Acta Archaeologica Hungaricae in late 2025. The results confirm that an early horse lineage—widespread prior to the emergence of modern domestic horses—survived into the Middle Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin.
The objective of the present volume is to provide a representative overview of the research undertaken by the Medieval Hungarian Economic History Research Group since its establishment in 2015.
The Transformation of Europe in the Third Millennium BC, Part 1, marks a groundbreaking milestone in our understanding of the Bell Beaker phenomenon (c. 2700–2000 BC), one of the most pivotal chapters in European prehistory.
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