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Between Empires - Beyond Borders. The late Ottoman Empire and the Early Republican Era through the Lens of the Köpe Family
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New book of the Research Centre’s series called 21st Century Studies in Humanities bas been published. The volume titled Between Empires, Beyond Borders. The Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Republican Era through the Lens of the Köpe Family is edited by Gábor Fodor, director of the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Istanbul. The book is based on the memoirs of Antoine Köpe, and it contains eight studies by Hungarian, Turkish, French and American researchers, and the American descendants of the Köpe family, Elizabeth and Charles Childress.
Epicurus, the conception of freedom and the question of universals - Attila Németh's latest publications
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Attila Németh, the research fellow of the Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre for the Humanities, has published recently his latest research in the The Routledge Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy (title of the study: Epicureans on Teleology and Freedom) and in the Atomism in Philosophy: A History from Antiquity to the Present (title of the study: Atoms and Universals in Epicurus).
Estates and Constitution: The Parliament in Eighteenth Century Hungary
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István M. Szijártó's Estates and Constitution: The Parliament in Eighteenth Century Hungary has been published by Berghahn Books (New York, Oxford). The book was produced under the auspices of the Research Centre for the Humanities and with the support of the National Bank of Hungary.
From Wombs to Worship: Three Mothers – Anne, Elizabeth, and Mary – in the Liturgies of Prague and Cambrai
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The Masaryk Institute and Archives, Czech Academy of Sciences, Project “Old Myths, New Facts”: – Czech Lands in Centre of 15th-Century Music Developments and the Institute of Musicology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Project “CANTUS PLANUS in Slovakia”: Local Elements – Transregional Connections and the Institute of Musicology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungary, Project “Momentum”: Digital Music Fragmentology invites you to the Inaugural Lecture in the Series Early Music in Central Europe: Local Elements –Transregional Connections – International Research
From Wombs to Worship: Three Mothers – Anne, Elizabeth, and Mary – in the Liturgies of Prague and Cambrai
Prof. Barbara Haggh-Huglo, University of Maryland, College Park.
László Török (1941–2020)
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It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of László Török, the eminent classical scholar, archaeologist, Nubiologist, professor emeritus of the Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities, ordinary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, honorary doctor of the University of Bergen, and head of the Seuso Research Project and the Seuso Committee, on September 17, 2020, at the age of 80.
Confinia et horizontes
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Confi nia et horizontes is a publication series aimed at disseminating the results of major prehistoric (Neolithic and Bronze Age) projects of the Romano-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute.
Registers of Philosophy, 2020
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Registers of Philosophy 2020/1. Csaba Olay: Comments on Sharon Rider's Paper
Registers of Philosophy 2020/2. Günter Figal: Description and Conceptuality
Registers of Philosophy 2020/3. István M. Fehér: Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Ontology
Westernisers and “Narodniks". Project opening conference
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The Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, cordially invites you to the upcoming opening workshop of the bilateral research project of the Polish and Hungarian Academies of Sciences, entitled Westernisers and “Narodniks”. Dichotomous Identity-Generating Narratives in the 19th-20th century Polish and Hungarian Intellectual History (2020–2022). The programme of the workshop and the abstracts of the presentations are available here.
Date: Thursday, 30 July, 2020, 11h AM – 17h PM
Venue: 4. Tóth Kálmán street, Room: B.5.33
Paradigmatic Change in Research on the Bronze Age in Central and Eastern Europe
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Bringing down the Iron Curtain: Paradigmatic changes in research on the Bronze Age in Central and Eastern Europe? presents the researches of scholars of different generations from twelve countries (Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Germany, USA, Canada, Austria) who participated in a session of the same title at the 20th Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in Istanbul, 2014. The papers addressed the question of change in the approaches to Bronze Age research in the Central and Eastern European countries from different points of view.
Latest Publications of the Members of the Research Group
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Zsuzsa Czagány : Antiphonale Varadinense s. XV.
Musicalia Danubiana 26/1-3, red. Gabriella Gilányi and Gábriel Szoliva. Budapest: Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute for Musicology, 2019
A facsimile edition of the monumental codex of the medieval Várad Cathedral with critical commentaries and essays in three volumes, in Hungarian and English:
- Vol. I Proprium de tempore. Index cantuum cum apparatu critico
- Vol. II Proprium de sanctis et commune sanctorum. Index cantuum cum apparatu critico
- Vol. III. Essays
Ferenc Hörcher’s chapter published on Edmund Burke
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Ferenc Hörcher’s chapter on Burke on Rationalism, Prudence and Reason of State has been published in a volume entitled Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism.
The book, which has been edited by Gene Callahan and Kenneth B. McIntyre, and published by Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2020., gives an overview of different reactions against Enlightenment Rationality by political thinkers and philosophers.
New book publication on medieval merchants by Boglárka Weisz
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This book discusses medieval markets and depots, places of commercial activity in the Kingdom of Hungary, and their many interactions, and how they developed and changed over time. The system went through many changes as new demands arose over the centuries, but permanence and adherence to old ways was always a characteristic feature.
The writer, Boglárka Weisz is the leader of the “Lendület” Medieval Hungarian Economic History Research Team. The table of contents is here. The book can be purchased or ordered at Penna Bookstore of Humanities (1053 Budapest, Magyar utca 40., Phone: +36 30 203 1769, Mail: ). The book: EUR 60 (incl. Vat & Shipping).
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