The time limits of the volume are marked by a fundamentally short historical period, the two decades of the half-century history of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, when the economic catch-up of Transylvania and the clarification of the presence of Hungarian culture were intertwined in many cases. 

Szabolcs László, research fellow at the Institute of History, HUN-REN RCH participated in the conference entitled Dis-/Сonnecting the World: Subjectivities, Networks and Transcultural Encounters across Cold War Boundaries, organized at Bielefeld University on October 5-6.

On September 26, Leslie Waters, assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso, gave a lecture at the Institute of History on her newly published book, Borders on the Move: Territorial Change and Ethnic Cleansing in the Hungarian-Slovak Borderlands, 1938–1948.

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.