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Researchers from the Research Centre for the Humanities have also contributed to the ethical guidelines for DNA testing of human remains published in Nature

Details: By Research Centre for the Humanities/ELKH; Category: News; 02 November 2021

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

Details: By Research Centre for the Humanities; Category: News; 21 September 2021

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

Details: By Research Centre for the Humanities; Category: Events; 30 August 2021

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.

You can join by clicking on the link below:

https://tinyurl.com/btk-fi-fizikalizmus

New Chapters from Polish and Hungarian Intellectual History

Details: By Research Centre for the Humanities; Category: Events; 27 August 2021

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

Details: By Research Centre for the Humanities; Category: News; 25 July 2021

In addition to the validation of the 1953 research, the aim of the wall research and archaeological excavation carried out in the Royal Crypt at Tihany Abbey led by the ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH) was to determine the age of the graves as accurately as possible, to review previous observations on the reconstructions and alterations, and to identify new observations and discoveries. The excavation was completed at the end of June and the evaluation and processing of the findings has started. Experts will restore the findings, compile documentation and, if necessary, carry out further archival and museum research to be able to tell as much as possible about the past thousand years of the undercroft's history. ELKH provided the funding for the multidisciplinary project. Some members of the ELKH management visited the excavation site at the end of June, where the research leaders summarized the results of the excavation and the next steps.

Presentations by Gusztáv D. Kecskés, Miklós Mitrovits and Tamás Scheibner at the HSAC online conference

Details: By Research Centre for the Humanities; Category: News; 22 July 2021

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

Details: By Research Centre for the Humanities/ELKH; Category: News; 02 July 2021

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.

Ferenc Hörcher’s new book was published at a US publishing house

Details: By Research Centre for the Humanities; Category: News; 25 June 2021

The new monograph of Ferenc Hörcher, entitled The Political Philosophy of the European City. From Polis, through City-State, to Megalopolis was published at the end of May 2021 by Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield, in its series Political Theory for Today. The Table of Contents is available here. „The book’s online homepage at the publisher’s webpage can be found here. The book is endorsed by Mario Ascheri, from Roma Tre University, with the following words:

„Through a skilled analysis of a very rich amount of sources and literature, from the ancient classics to contemporary writers and scholars, Ferenc Hörcher claims that because of the variety of the strong roots of the European cities they could return to be sustainable self-governing communities.”

The excavation of the King’s Crypt in the Abbey of Tihany led by BTK is complete

Details: By Research Centre for the Humanities/ELKH; Category: News; 21 June 2021

Excavations led by the ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities have been completed in the undercroft of the Abbey of Tihany, where the tomb of its founder, King Andrew I, is located. Based on assumption bones of the royal family may also be found during the excavation of the undercroft.

Recently discovered Brutus-manuscript brings fresh perspective on early modern Hungarian historiography

Details: By Research Centre for the Humanities/ELKH; Category: News; 10 May 2021

The Venetian heterodox émigré, Gian Michele Bruto (in Latin: Johannes Michael Brutus, 1517-1592) worked on his monumental Hungarian history as court-historian of István Báthory first in Gyulafehérvár from 1574 and then in Krakow from 1576. The aim of Rerum Ungaricarum libri, a continuation of Bonfini’s Decades, was to present the century of Hungarian decline in a single comprehensive narrative – from the death of King Matthias through the loss of Buda and Szigetvár to the election of István Báthory as Prince of Transylvania – and to legitimize the rule of the Szapolyai dynasty in the east of the country. The work was completed but never printed, and only fragmentary manuscripts were available for the 19th century academic edition.

Talk by Sebastian Lutz

Details: By Research Centre for the Humanities; Category: Events; 03 May 2021

I suggest that standardization of quantities is a pragmatically and vaguely distinguished special case of concept formation and that measurement is an inference from empirical results about a standardized quantity given some background assumptions (including laws of nature). The measurement debate is thus but a special case of the debates about concept formation and inference, and the logical empiricists’ positions on these topics can be immediately applied to it. Their positions provide straightforward solutions to alleged problems of conventionalism in the philosophy of measurement, for instance the influence of empirical results on standardization, different methods of measuring the same quantity, improvements of measurements and standardizations, and the roles of theoretical assumptions and of models in standardization and measurement.

Commentator: Ádám Tamás Tuboly. Date: 4 May 2021 (Tuesday), 2pm

You can join by clicking here: https://tinyurl.com/btk-fi-lutz

The Zoom Meeting ID for this talk is 946 9243 3230 and Passcode is 000000

Tenth Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity

Details: By Research Centre for the Humanities; Category: News; 28 April 2021

May 6-8, 2021, the Tenth Annual RefoRC Conference on Early Modern Christianity will take place in Budapest, hosted by the Research Centre for the Humanities.

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