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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.
RCH researchers also take part in an international collaboration exploring the history of horse domestication
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A new paper with a focus on archaeogenomics on the history of horse domestication has been published in Nature, in which the authors also report on the results of their study of Bronze Age artefacts from Hungary. Within the framework of the Pegasus project funded by the European Research Council (ERC), a 162-member research team led by Ludovic Orlando at the Centre for Anthropobiology and Genomics in Toulouse (CAGT), archaeologists, archaeozoologists and archaeogeneticists from the Rippl-Rónai Museum in Kaposvár and the Institute of Archaeogenomics and the Institute of Archaeology of the ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH all participated in a large-scale study. By genomically analyzing the remains of 273 ancient horses, the researchers have provided new insights into the origin and distribution of the modern-day domestic horse in a broad international collaboration.
On the Verge of a New Era
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The Battle of Mohács (29 August 1526) is a singular event of symbolic significance for Hungary and the whole of Central Europe. Over the last thirty years, extensive work by Hungarian historians to revise the “dark legend” of Mohács has resulted in a much more balanced account of the ruling Jagiellonian dynasty (1490–1526) and the thirty-five years that preceded the battle. The battle itself also has come to be viewed differently: having been previously dismissed by military historians as an “insignificant” encounter (where the “obsolete medieval Hungarian military organization” met its end), Mohács has been revealed as one of the largest battles of the early modern period, fought between two armies that were equally “modern”.
Ceremony to present the 2021 ELKH academic awards
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The Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH) Secretariat has established the Eötvös Loránd Research Network Prize and the Róbert Bárány Prize applicable to young researchers to recognize outstanding academic performance within the network. In addition, it has also launched the distribution of the title of Research Professor Emeritus. The 2021 ELKH Award Ceremony was held at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on November 9 as part of the “Celebration of the Hungarian Science“ program of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Researchers from the Research Centre for the Humanities have also contributed to the ethical guidelines for DNA testing of human remains published in Nature
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Two researchers from the ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities, Eszter Bánffy and Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, participated in a multidisciplinary workshop aimed at developing ethical guidelines that can be applied globally to DNA testing of human remains. The five guidelines, developed with 68 researchers from 31 countries, were published in the prestigious journal Nature.
The Tépe Treasure - new volume from József Szentpéteri
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The richly illustrated new volume of József Szentpéteri's book, The Tépe Treasure presents the story of an exciting investigation in both English and Hungarian. Exactly 110 years have passed since the discovery of a fabulous treasure on the outskirts of a remote village in County Bihar, in an area known as Görbekert, which in the finders’ family lore was preserved as the “golden mound”. The lucky finders divided the silver and gold artefacts which had unexpectedly fallen into their lap equally among themselves, and that would probably have been the end of the story, had not the Christmas celebrations fast approached – thus begins an exciting chapter covering the story of the treasure found in December 1911 in the annals of archaeological detective work in Hungary.
Physics meets Philosophy 7: Conceptual Foundations of Relativity
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The Research Group for Philosophy of Physics, Institute of Philosophy, RCH, cordially invites you to its interdisciplinary workshop on Physics Meets Philosophy 7: Conceptual Foundations of Relativity.
Venue: 4 Tóth Kálmán str., 1094 Budapest, B.7.16. (seminar room)
Date: 9 September 2021 (Thursday)
For details see the webpage of the workshop.
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New Chapters from Polish and Hungarian Intellectual History
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The Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre for the Humanities (IP RCH) & the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN), cordially invite you to the upcoming Warsaw–Budapest hybrid workshop entitled New Chapters from Polish and Hungarian Intellectual History.
The workshop is organised by the opportunity of the publication of the volume entitled Lords and Boors – Westernisers and ‘Narodniks’ (eds. Béla Mester Rafał Smoczyński; IP RCH – Gondolat Publishers, Budapest, 2020).
Date: Monday, 30 August 2021
You can join by clicking on the link below.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82346507590?pwd=MmhQdU93aVJLbjJZTE12S2FldVV4QT09
The Zoom Meeting ID is 823 4650 7590 and Passcode is 696557
Evaluation of the findings from the archeological excavation in the Royal Crypt at the Benedictine Abbey of Tihany begins
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Presentations by Gusztáv D. Kecskés, Miklós Mitrovits and Tamás Scheibner at the HSAC online conference
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The online annual international conference of the Hungarian Studies Association of Canada entitled Hungary: Northern Relations took place on May 29-31, 2021. The Research Centre for the Humanities was represented at the event by three researchers: Miklós Mitrovits: Polish ‒ Hungarian Relations in Opposition (1976‒1989), Tamás Scheibner: Hungarian Refugee Programs and Cold War International Exchange: The Impact of Philanthropic Foundations, and Gusztáv Kecskés D.: An invisible actor: NATO's role in resolving the Hungarian refugee crisis.
Pál Fodor elected external Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
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The Austrian Academy of Sciences has elected Pál Fodor – Honorary Director General of the Research Centre for the Humanities (BTK), scientific advisor to the BTK Institute of History, and Head of the Medieval Department – as an external corresponding member. The newly elected members were presented at an online ceremony held by the Austrian Academy of Sciences on May 28, 2021.
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