Two researchers from the ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities, Eszter Bánffy and Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, participated in a multidisciplinary workshop aimed at developing ethical guidelines that can be applied globally to DNA testing of human remains. The five guidelines, developed with 68 researchers from 31 countries, were published in the prestigious journal Nature.

The richly illustrated new volume of József Szentpéteri's book, The Tépe Treasure presents the story of an exciting investigation in both English and Hungarian. Exactly 110 years have passed since the discovery of a fabulous treasure on the outskirts of a remote village in County Bihar, in an area known as Görbekert, which in the finders’ family lore was preserved as the “golden mound”. The lucky finders divided the silver and gold artefacts which had unexpectedly fallen into their lap equally among themselves, and that would probably have been the end of the story, had not the Christmas celebrations fast approached – thus begins an exciting chapter covering the story of the treasure found in December 1911 in the annals of archaeological detective work in Hungary. 

The online annual international conference of the Hungarian Studies Association of Canada entitled Hungary: Northern Relations took place on May 29-31, 2021. The Research Centre for the Humanities was represented at the event by three researchers: Miklós Mitrovits: Polish ‒ Hungarian Relations in Opposition (1976‒1989), Tamás Scheibner: Hungarian Refugee Programs and Cold War International Exchange: The Impact of Philanthropic Foundations, and Gusztáv Kecskés D.: An invisible actor: NATO's role in resolving the Hungarian refugee crisis.