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The third Refo500 workshop in Budapest
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The Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences invites you to its third Refo500 workshop entitled Culture of Migration II.: Post-Confessional Era from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century. Location: Institute of Ethnology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest 1014 Országház u. 30., Room 8.). Date: 28. 11. 2014. The program can be read here.
The Periodicals of the Institute on CEEOL
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On the basis of an agreement between the Institute of History, Research Center for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Siences and Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL), the periodicals of the Institute are openly and freely accessed at http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/AboutCEEOL.aspx. The full texts of the issues of Hungarian Historical Review, Kor/ridor, Történelmi Szemle (Historical Review) and Világtörténet (World History) can be downloaded in pdf format. The texts of the issues are being loaded continuously, starting from the present issues and going back in time.
Professor Richard J. Evans in our Institute
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The Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences hosted the public lecture on „Writing the History of the Third Reich”by Prof. Sir Richard J. Evans (Cambridge University) on November 14, 2014 in the Institute of History. Professor Evans, academic and historian, is best known for his research on the history of Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly the Third Reich. His trilogy on the history of the Third Reich has been published in Hungarian this year, and he arrived in Hungary on this occasion. His works were introduced by Sándor Horváth, the Head of Department for Contemporary History, and his lecture was followed by a discussion with the researchers of the Department for Contemporary History.
New Book on Eastern European History after 1945
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The RCH Institute of History has published the newest volume of the serial Monumenta Hungariae Historica entitled "The Long Awaited West. Eastern Europe since 1944" (Budapest, 2014. [Magyar Történelmi Emlékek - Értekezések. 11.]) by Stefano Bottoni, senior research fellow of our institute and an expert of political and social history of Hungary and Romania during the Communist period. The book is a critical synthesis of the rich and contradictory history of the Eastern half of the continent since the Soviet military occupation up to present days. The six chapters combine a thematic and chronologic approach, focusing on key events but also trying to describe how political and diplomatic events, from the creation of the Soviet Bloc to the recent economic crisi, have affected the lives of millions.
International Conference in Poznań, with Institute of History RCH HAS as co-organizer
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International conference is held in Poznań, Poland, on 16–17 October, 2014, entitled „New Perspectives in the Transnational History of Communism in East-Central Europe” organized by the Institute of National Remembrance, Poznan Branch; the Department of Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University; the Polish Philosophical Society, Poznan Branch; and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Center for the Humanities, Institute of History. The Scientific Committee includes Péter Apor (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Uwe Backes (Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung an der TU Dresden), Stefano Bottoni (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Krzysztof Brzechczyn (Adam Mickiewicz University /Institute of National Remembrance), Sándor Horváth (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Chris Lorenz (Free University of Amsterdam), Tomasz Pawelec (University of Silesia), and Michal Pullmann (Charles University in Prague).
Our new volume: From Sultan Süleyman to Mór Jókai
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The RCH Institute of History has published the newest volume of the serial Monumenta Hungariae Historica entitled "From Sultan Süleyman to Mór Jókai. Studies in the Ottoman structure of power and the Hungarian–Turkish connections" (Budapest, 2014. [Magyar Történelmi Emlékek- Értekezések. 10.]) by Pál Fodor, Acting Director General of the RCH (and Director of the Institute of History).
The volume contains the turcologist Fodor’s scholarly essays written in the 2000s. The essays are arranged in thematic chapters, and this way they provide a wide insight into the operational techniques, cohesive forces, drives to wars of the power structure and state mechanism of the Ottoman Empire, which – in spite of its seemingly slow adaptability – had remarkable renewal capacity and had a great effect on Hungarian life.
CIEPO-21
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The 21st Symposium of the Comité International des Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes will be held in Budapest, 7–11 October 2014, organised by the Department of Turkish Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, the Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the University of Szeged. The event will take place in the building of the Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The program can be read here.
New issue of Historical Review
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The second issue of Historical Review for 2014 has been published. The content can be read here.
World History thematic issue on the Holy Roman Empire
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The second issue of World History (Világtörténet) for 2014 is a thematic issue dedicated to the Holy Roman Empire has been published. The contents of the issue can be read here.
New Thematic Issue of The Hungarian Historical Review: Fabricating History
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The second issue of Volume 3 (2014) of The Hungarian Historical Review has come out! This special thematic issue is entitled "Fabricating History". The articles published in this issue examine the relationship between historical representation and verification in East-Central Europe in the Modern Age. The contents of the issue can be read here.
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Our new volume: „Mosques in Ottoman Hungary”
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The RCH Institute of History has published the newest volume of the serial Monumenta Hungariae Historica entitled „Mosques in Ottoman Hungary” by Balázs Sudár, research fellow of the Institute of History. The great work (more than 650 pages, with 225 pictures, and detailed indexes) contains the description of 450 Muslim places of worship existed in Hungary under 150 years of Ottoman rule. The author collected and compared all kinds of sources concerning this topic during his large-scale research. The Muslim places of worship were not only religious institutions but also the centres of cities and settlements and the places of community life, and also regional economic centres. Mosques played determining roles in the life of the settlements, so their history may provide important information about the life of Hungary under Ottoman rule.
Hungarian Royal Crowning Exhibition in Pozsony (Bratislava)
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As a result of two years’ work of the “Momentum Holy Crown Research Team” of HAS RCH Institute of History, an exhibition was opened in the Castle of Pozsony (Bratislava) on July 15th, 2014, organized by the Slovenské národné múzeum–Historické múzeum and the Hungarian National Museum about the crowning coins published for the Hungarian royal crowning ceremonies held in Pozsony (Bratislava) between 1563 and 1830.
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