On 29–30 May 2015 an international conference will be held in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Center for the Humanities, Institute of History, about the tributary states of the Ottoman Empire. Papers will address the contacts of Transylvania, Wallachia, Moldavia, Ragusa, the Crimean Khanate, Cossack Ukraine and Dagestan with the peripheries of the empire: the border provinces, as well as other tributaries. The event is convened with the generous support of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung. The program of the conference can be read here.

The RCH Institute of History has published the newest English language volume by Pál Fodor, Acting Director General of the RCH (and Director of the Institute of History) entitled “The Unbearable Weight of Empire. The Ottomans in Central Europe – A Failed Attempt at Universal Monarchy (1390–1566)”.

The premiere of the book „1989 – The Final Days of the Communist Regime in East-Central Europe” was organized by the Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences on March 3, 2015. The authors: Adam Burakowski Aleksander Gubrynowicz and Paweł Ukielski were invited for the premiere, as their book was published in Hungarian by Rézbong Publishing House in 2014. The book was presented and the discussion was moderated by Miklós Mitrovits, research fellow of the Institute.

International conference titled ’Next to each other – Against each other’: Czech, Slovak and Hungarian nationalisms during the First World War is held in Miskolc, on 15 April 2015, organized by the University of Miskolc, Faculty of Arts, Institute for Political Sciences; Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Center for the Humanities, Institute of History; Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Miskolc Regional Committee, History and Social Science Committee.