Book talk and lectures by Géza Pálffy at Indiana University
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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.
The Éva Schmidt Archive
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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. She was an outstanding researcher of the Obi-Ugric people and languages leaving behind a very rich legacy, however she had placed an embargo on her collections for 20 years before she died. The aim of the researchers involved in the projects is to organize and publish her legacy in the language of the original collections, as well as in Hungarian, English and Russian translations, on a multilingual website. The plans also include the publication of a book about the life and expeditions of the famous linguist-ethnographer, as well as her writings on folklore and linguistics topics. The projects implemented with the support of ELKH and NKFIH, were presented to interested parties at an event held in July 2022.
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
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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.
The Correspondence of the Beylerbeys of Buda 1617–1630
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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.
Archaeological research of the Carolingian Mosaburg and the early Árpád-era ‘Colon civitas’ at Zalavár-Vársziget continues with ELKH support
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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.
Balázs Balogh and Balázs Ablonczy at the conference of the European Network of Remembrance and Solidarity
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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.
István Kádas and Bence Péterfi at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo
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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).
RCH-organized archaeological excavations of medieval antecedents of Benedictine monastery begin in Bakonybél
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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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