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László Borhi: Survival under Dictatorships. Life and Death in Nazi and Communist Regimes
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A complex array of individual responses to the abuse of power by the state in three horrific episodes in the history of East-Central Europe is represented in László Borhi's book Survival under Dictatorships. Life and Death in Nazi and Communist Regimes.
Dino Mujadžević joined the NKFI FK 132 609 project
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A new researcher joined the project NKFI FK 132 609, Consortional assoc.: Exploration of cadastral surveys (tapu defter) of Ottoman Hungary and the periphery of the occupied region II. Dino Mujadžević is a senior researcher at the Department for History of Slavonia, Srijem and Baranja, Croatian Institute of History.
Stepfamilies across Europe and Overseas, 1550–1900
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Stepfamilies across Europe and overseas 1550-1900 is the third volume of the Momentum “Integrating Families” Research Group's published by Routledge, which emphasizes diverse perspectives on the new and expanding history of stepfamilies in Europe and some of its overseas territories from 1550 to 1900.
Asymmetrical Neighbours: Minor Players and Empires in the Early Modern and Modern Borderlands
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On February 9–10 the SMALLST project, in collaboration with the Islamic Studies Institute of the Heidelberg University and the Warsaw Centre for Global History of the University of Warsaw organized a workshop titled Asymmetrical Neighbours: Minor Players and Empires in the Early Modern and Modern Borderlands.
Regional Differences in the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary
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The project, in which Gábor Demeter, senior researcher (HUN-REN RCH Institute of History) is a participant, Regional Differences in the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary led by Beatrix F. Romhányi (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church) has won the support of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office for 4 years.
Balkans in Numbers
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Balkans in Numbers is a joint pilot project by the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Network (prevously ELKH), Budapest, and the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS), Regensburg. The goal is to visualize important demographic, social, and economic indicators of Southeast European countries, as recorded in past censuses.
Department for Southeast European Studies
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It was a major landmark in the institutionalization of the Hungarian historical Balkan research when, in 2014, the Department for the Research of Southeast European History was founded as a separate unit within the Institute of History of the Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
The Knights Hospitaller in Medieval Hungary
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The aim of this book is to present the history and activity of the Hospi-tallers in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary (c.1150–1543) based on thorough research of primary sources both kept in Hungary and abroad.
Lecture by Szabolcs László at Bielefeld University
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Szabolcs László, research fellow at our institute, 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.
Lecture by Leslie Waters
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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.
Lecture by Heléna Huhák in New Orleans
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Heléna Huhák, a research fellow of our institute, participated in the workshop Confronting the Nazi Genocide: New Directions in Holocaust Studies, held at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, September 7-8, 2023.
Lecture by Janka Kovács in Oslo
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Janka Kovács, a postdoctoral research fellow at our institute, participated in the conference of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHH), which took place from 30 August to 2 September 2023, and this year focused on: Crisis in Health and Medicine.
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