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Closing events of the Bethlen Memorial Year
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On November 12, 2013, a Memorial Exhibition of Bethlen entitled The code: Bethlen 1613 was opened in the Hungarian National Museum remembering that 400 years ago, on 23 October, 1613, Gabriel Bethlen ascended the throne. After the welcome speech of László Csorba, Director General of the Museum, Pál Fodor, the Director General of the Research Centre for Humanities, HAS, opened the exhibition with some thoughts about the difficulties of the formation of the Principality of Transylvania, the new state in early modern Hungarian history, its place in the Ottoman world and its memory today.
New Issue of The Hungarian Historical Review: Special Issue on Gábor Bethlen
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The forth issue of Volume 2 (2013) of The Hungarian Historical Review has been published! This special thematic issue contains studies on Gábor Bethlen, Prince of Transylvania (1613-1629). The contents of the issue can be read here.
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Single copy $25/€20. For Hungarian institutions HUF2000.
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New Results of Joint Bulgarian–Hungarian Historical Research
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In accordance with the activities undertook in the Bulgarian–Hungarian Mobility Project and the cooperation agreement signed by both academic institutes, the HAS RCH Institute of History published two volumes consisting of the lectures given at the 2012 May conference and workshop meeting of the Bulgarian–Hungarian Joint Committee of Historians in Sofia. The work is entitled Bulgaria and Hungary at War (1912–1918); Regions, Borders, Societies, Identities in Central and Southeast Europe, 17th–21st Centuries. The publication was supported by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
New Issue of World History (2013/4.)
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The forth issue of World History (Világtörténet) for 2013 has been published! The contents of the issue can be read here.
The journal World History is published by the Institute of History of the Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The four volumes of World History contain essays by Hungarian and foreign scholars on various topics pertaining to world history, as well as reviews on the secondary literature published in Hungary and abroad. The language of the journal is Hungarian, but each article includes an abstract in English.
Subscriptions can be made at any Hungarian post office, but issues of the journal (including older issues) can be bought or ordered from the Institute as well (postal address: MTA BTK Történettudományi Intézet, 1014 Budapest, Úri u. 53.; telephone: 36/1/224-6700/624; e-mail address: .)
Hungarian Wine, Slavic Brandy? – Alcohol in Reform-Era Hungary
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Dr Alexander Maxwell (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) discussed the development of alcoholic culture in Hungary between 1825 and 1848. The paper represented part of a larger research project inspired by the stories of the traveller John Paget. The author studies behavioral forms of Nationalism in lifestyle, drinking habits, clothing, sexuality, facial hair, etc.
Balkan studies conferences with Hungarian researchers
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The research fellows of the History Institute, RCH HAS have participated several international conferences of Balkan studies in 2013.
On October 25–26, 2013, the annual conference of AIESEE (Association Internationale d’Etudes du Sud-Est Européen) was organized in cooperation with the Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences in Zagreb. Three research fellows of the History Institute had lectures at the conference: Dénes Sokcsevits (The Images of the Hungarians and Croatians in the early 20th century), Árpád Hornyák (The Image of Hungary and the Hungarians in the Yugoslav Foreign Policy 1918–1945) and Gábor Demeter (Do ancient stereotypes prevail and what political ideas do they serve? The image of Balkan peoples through the eyes of Hungarian politicians /Lajos Thallóczy and István Burián/ and travellers of the 19th century).
International Conference in Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca)
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An international conference was held in Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) about Bethlen and Europe on October 24–26, 2013, organized in cooperation of several institutes: the Hungarian-language Babes-Bolyai University of Kolozsvár, the Transylvanian Museum Society, the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, the Debrecen University and the Institute of History, Research Centre for Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The conference took place in the Hungarian History Institute of the Babes-Bolyai University. The program can be read here and in Romanian here.
Refo500 workshop
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The Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences will hold its second Refo500 workshop on November 29, 2013, entitled Culture of Migration: Exile and Persecution in Early Modern Europe. (About the first event read more here: http://www.tti.hu/en/events-top/646-beszamolo-a-refo500-kereteben-megrendezett-nemzetkozi-konferenciarol.html)
The event will take place at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of History in Budapest (1014 Budapest, Úri u. 53., Room 224.) The workshop is part of the research project Reformation and the Hungarian Culture of Migration: Five Centuries of Survival of Reformed Hungarians all over the World.
Events of the Bethlen Memorial Year, 2013
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The series of the programs of the Bethlen Memorial Year has been designed to introduce and present the historical role and activities of Gabriel Bethlen to a wider audience, inside and beyond our state borders, with an organised, coordinated and directed cooperation of different disciplines. 400 years ago, on 23 October, 1613, Gabriel Bethlen (1580–1629), the most significant Prince of Transylvania ascended the throne. (About Bethlen read more here.)
International conference of the Hungarian Academy, Rome
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An international conference took place in Rome organized by the Hungarian Academy of Rome on November 22, 2023, entitled Historia Triplex. The Italian models and sources of the Hungarian and Croatian patriotism. Art historians and literary historians have been researching the cultural relations of the Hungarian, Croatian and Italian Renaissance humanism for long. The presentations of this conference (of Hungarian, Croatian, Italian, Austrian and American researchers) tried to show the elements of these interrelated cultures and histories in the question of the early patriotism. Our Institute was represented by Dénes Sokcsevits and Antal Molnár, who is the Director of the Hungarian Academy in Rome. The program can be read here.
Pál Fodor and Géza Dávid were elected Honorable Members of the Turkish Historic Society
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The Turkish Academy of Sciences (Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi) was founded in 1993 mainly for science research, so the main research centres for the humanities are the Turkish Historic Society (Türk Tarih Kurumu) and the Turkish Linguistics Society (Türk Dil Kurumu). Founded under the patronage of Atatürk in 1930, the aim of the Turkish Historical Society is to study the history of Turkey and the Turks and to publish the results of these studies. The Society organizes international conferences, launches and supports research projects, maintains special library and publishes book serials. This year 62 Turkish and foreign researchers, among them two Hungarian researchers, Géza Dávid (professor of the ELTE University, Budapest) and Pál Fodor, Acting Director General of the Research Centre for Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, were elected Honourable Members of the Society. The inauguration ceremony was held in Istambul, October 30, 2012, in the former palace of the Sultans. The honourable members got a true copy of the ornamented caftan of Sultan Selim I (1512–1520) and presented lectures on their researches concerning Turkish history.
The Hungarian Historical Review Vol.2 Issue 3 has come out
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The third issue of Volume 2 (2013) of The Hungarian Historical Review (Ethnicity) has been published! The contents of the issue can be read here.
Annual subscriptions: $80/€60 ($100/€75 for institutions), postage excluded.
For Hungarian institutions HUF7900 per year, postage included.
Single copy $25/€20. For Hungarian institutions HUF2000.
Send orders to The Hungarian Historical Review, H-1250 Budapest, P.O. Box 9. Hungary; e-mail: .
For more information about the journal please visit the homepage http://www.hunghist.org/.
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