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Conference of the European Network of Remembrance and Solidarity
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From 18 to 20 May 2019, the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj hosted the Warsaw-based European Network of Remembrance and Solidarity conference, this time entitled Cultural Pluralism and Identity in European Politics after 1945.
István Kádas and Bence Péterfi at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo
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This year, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA) hosted the 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies online. The 432 sessions and roundtable discussions were attended by medieval scholars from all over the world, including István Kádas and Bence Péterfi, both research fellows of the Institute of History of the RCH (and members of the „Lendület” Medieval Hungarian Economic History Research Group and of the NKFI project K 134690).
RCH-organized archaeological excavations in Bakonybél
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Within the framework of the Kings, Saints and Monasteries research program launched with the support of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH), the design works of the Benedictine monastery founded by Stephen I of Hungary began in April 2022 after a detailed geophysical survey.
Children of Communism: new book by Sándor Horváth published by Indiana University Press
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Indiana University Press (USA) has published the book Children of Communism. Politicizing Youth Revolt in Communist Budapest in the 1960s by Sándor Horváth, Head of the Department for Contemporary History at the Institute of History in the Research Centre for the Humanities. In this volume, the author explores youth counterculture in the Eastern Bloc, and why this generation proved so crucial to communist identity politics.
Ferenc Hörcher’s book launch
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The Department of Philosophy and Intellectual History of the Institute of Philosophy of Research Centre for the Humanities invites all interested to the book launch of Ferenc Hörcher’s recently published monograph, The Political Philosophy of the European City. From Polis, through City-State, to Megalopolis? with invited contributions by Tony Spanakos (Montclair State University) and Nathan Pinkoski (Zephyr Institute).
Date: Tuesday, 12 April 2022, 16h CET
You can join the event by clicking on the link below: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/3612246778?pwd=dXRHZ0I3YWw5bjA0elpSS3pYQzgrZz09
Victim of History: a biography of Cardinal Mindszenty
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Catholic University of America Press has published Victim of History: a biography of Cardinal Mindszenty, the latest book of Margit Balogh, Deputy Director General of the Research Centre for the Humanities and scientific consultant at the Institute of History. The volume is "a scholarly masterwork now finally available in English, tells the story of this extraordinary character, one of the most powerful and controversial personalities of Hungarian history" – says Árpád von Klimó, (The Catholic University of America), reflecting on the book.
The Golden Bull of Hungary
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The Golden Bull of Hungary, by Attila Zsoldos, research professor at the Institute of History of the Research Centre for the Humanities, has been published as the ninth volume of the Arpadiana series. The book analyses the reform policy behind the Golden Bull (1222) promulgated by King Andrew II of Hungary, the circumstances of its creation, the events leading up to its renewal in 1231, and its medieval afterlife.
Outstanding Hungarian success in international history
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András Fejérdy senior research fellow and deputy director, and Gábor Kármán senior research fellow at the Institute of History of the Research Centre for the Humanities won the European Research Council’s Consolidator Grant. In this call, 2,652 applicants submitted their proposals and 12% of them were succesful. In the history of European research funding, it is quite extraordinary that two researchers at the same time from a Central European research institute would receive the grant.
Call for Papers – Cultural Pluralism and Identity in European Politics after 1945
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Cluj-Napoca, 17–19 May 2022
The aim of the conference is to discuss, historically and comparatively, the concept of cultural – national, ethnic and religious – identities and their role in the domestic, transnational and supranational European policies and politics, from 1945 until now. The question of cultural identities had a significant impact on 20th-century European history and has continued to be an important legacy since the post-war era, through the post-Cold-War and post-communist times, right up until the 21st century.
New Archaeogenetic Study in Nature: International Research Group with the participation of Eötvös Loránd Research Network and Eötvös Loránd University Researchers Analyzes Bronze and Iron Age Populations of Europe
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Recently, the genomes of nearly 800 prehistoric human individuals have been successfully analyzed as part of a large-scale archaeogenetic program carried out in an extensive European and American collaboration. The results of the research were published in Nature on the 22nd December 2021.
The aim of the project was to map the population movements reaching the British Isles in the second half of the Bronze Age (1300–800 BC). This wave of immigration may have been related to the spread of Celtic languages and may have formed the basis of later Iron Age populations on the British Isles.
Ketty Nez: Hearing Different Spaces: Compositions Inspired by Bartók’s Fieldwork
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On 11 November 2021 American composer and pianist Ketty Nez, Associate Professor of Music, Composition and Music Theory at Boston University College of Fine Arts, presented her compositional output inspired by folk musical sources from Central Europe and the Balkans, including music from various cultures collected by Béla Bartók as part of his ethnographic research. She combines freely composed music with gestures and rhythms from folk melodies, while the textures in the accompaniment respond to the needs of the solo performer, featured as “folk singer.” Among her works discussed are chamber music pieces featured on her latest CD double images (double images, sea-changes, 5 moments, the moon returns), her first work to use folk music sources Postcards from the 1930's, and her folk chamber opera The Fiddler and the Old Woman of Rumelia. The presentation also included Ketty’s piano performance with violinist Máté Vizeli as collaborator.
Engraving, Plaster Cast, Photograph. Chapters from the History of Artwork Reproduction
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The volume, published by the Institute of Art History contains edited versions of the presentations delivered at the international workshop on the history of reproductions, held on 27 August 2020 in the Lutheran Central Museum in Budapest, in connection with the exhibition titled “Present of Ferencz Pulszky”, organised between 26 March and 27 August 2020 in the museum by the Lutheran Central Collection and the Research Centre for the Humanities – Institute of Art History. The exhibition and workshop were the continuation of an international project that took place in 2015–2016, in which, a bilingual catalogue was compiled and published on John Brampton Philpot’s photographic series of fictile ivories, created in the nineteenth century, including studies of Hungarian and foreign researchers, n cooperation between the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence, the Institute of Art History and the Hungarian National Museum.
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