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Péter Bencsik's new book
December 15, 2023

Péter Bencsik's new book

Péter Bencsik’s new book, entitled Reform vagy forradalom? A szocializmus útkeresése az ötvenes évek közepén Kelet-Közép-Európában (Reform or Revolution? State Socialist Alternatives in the mid-1950s in East-Central Europe), has been published. The book, a collection of earlier studies, focuses on the events of 1956 in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. It is the first part of the book series launched by the department with Kronosz Publishing.

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Béla Tomka's talk in Regensburg
June 30, 2023

Béla Tomka's talk in Regensburg

On 26 June, Béla Tomka gave a talk entitled “Globalization in East Central Europe after WWII: Narratives and Counter-narratives” at the Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS) in Regensburg.

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Béla Tomka's new book
May 27, 2023

Béla Tomka's new book

Béla Tomka’s new book, entitled Globalizáció Kelet-Közép-Európában a második világháború után: narratívák és ellennarratívák (Globalization in East-Central Europe after the Second World War: Narratives and Counter-narratives), has been published. The main text is accompanied by comments from nine experts, including two from our department.

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Béla Tomka on BBC World Service and BBC Podcast
January 24, 2023

Béla Tomka on BBC World Service and BBC Podcast

Our colleague, Béla Tomka has been invited as an expert to the BBC World Service’s The Forum program, entitled “The worst inflation in history”. The discussion will be broadcast at the end of January by the BBC worldwide and by BBC4 in the UK. After being aired, the conversation will be uploaded to the BBC podcast series and can be listened to here.

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Historicity of authoritarian and hybrid systems
December 7, 2022

Historicity of authoritarian and hybrid systems

Melinda Kalmár participated at the conference entitled Political regimes. Democracy, Autocracy, Dictatorship, which took place at the Thomas Molnar Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Public Service. She gave a presentation entitled Authoritarian resilience. The Historicity of Modern Authoritarian Regimes. She emphasized that a combined investigation of the temporal and spatial interconnections of 20th-century centralizing systems may contribute to understanding the functioning of contemporary authoritarian regimes.

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Football and globalization
November 15, 2022

Football and globalization

Katalin Baráth gave a presentation at the Sports and Politics in the 20th Century conference, organized by the Institute of Political History and the CEU Democracy Institute, entitled „There is no ‘ours’ anymore”: a history of football and globalization, with a Hungarian accent.  She pointed out what new opportunities research into the history of globalization offers for a historical approach to sport, including football. In addition to this, she discussed how Hungarian football joined the global network of football.

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Visions of the future in the global coordinate system
November 4, 2022

Visions of the future in the global coordinate system

Melinda Kalmár gave a lecture, entitled Long regime change. Formative Visions of the Eighties at the conference, Political Thought and System Crisis in the 1980s, organized by the Thomas Molnar Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Public Service. The presentation emphasized that the regime changes in East-Central Europe were not isolated phenomena as the crisis as well as the compulsion to transform can be traced back to decades-long global impulses.

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A tribute to László Karsai
October 13, 2022

A tribute to László Karsai

A new book, entitled “Resisting Evil”, was published, containing papers presented at a conference held on the occasion of László Karsai’s 70th birthday. The book was launched today with the participation of Linda Margittai, the editor of the book, Béla Tomka and, of course, László Karsai himself.

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Territorialization and the Austrian–Hungarian border
September 14, 2022

Territorialization and the Austrian–Hungarian border

An international conference on the history of the Austrian–Hungarian border in the 20th century that took place in Szombathely commenced with a keynote lecture delivered by Péter Bencsik. The presentation comprehensively examined the characteristics of the western border area in the last century, its three main aspects were the issues of territorialization, border regimes, and violence.

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Péter Bencsik's new book published
August 23, 2022

Péter Bencsik's new book published

Péter Bencsik’s new book, entitled Border Regimes in Twentieth Century Europe has been published by Routledge. The book provides the first English-language comparison of the contemporary history of border regimes in Europe, which the author examines in the context of waves of globalization and territorialization.

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Ágnes Tamás promoted to Associate Professor
July 1, 2022

Ágnes Tamás promoted to Associate Professor

Ágnes Tamás received the letter of appointment as Associate Professor from the leaders of the University on June 30, 2022. Congratulations to her on this recognition!

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New book by Péter Bencsik
March 23, 2022

New book by Péter Bencsik

Péter Bencsik’s book, entitled From Demarcation Line to State Border has been published. The aim of the book is to approach the everyday history of the people living near the Trianon border in a micro-historical way, primarily through the conflicts of local society, also depicting the process of territorialization.

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Melinda Kalmár's new book published
December 10, 2021

Melinda Kalmár's new book published

Melinda Kalmár’s new book, entitled Corporative, Soviet, Hybrid has been published. The book is a condensed and at the same time an expanded version of the author’s influential previous monograph. The book focuses on the global embeddedness and gradual softening of ‘Soviet variant systems’. The latter phenomenon also made these states the forerunners of today’s hybrid regimes.

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Nomination of Béla Tomka as a corresponding member of the HAS
December 5, 2021

Nomination of Béla Tomka as a corresponding member of the HAS

The Department of Philosophical and Historical Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences nominated Béla Tomka as a Corresponding Member of the Academy. His nomination was recommended by Gábor Gyáni, György Kövér, István Orosz, János M. Rainer and Ignác Romsics.

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Another book by Ágnes Tamás
December 3, 2021

Another book by Ágnes Tamás

Just a few weeks after the publication of her previous book, Ágnes Tamás has published another new book, entitled The Hungarian Parliament in Caricatures (1867-1989). It has been published by the Publishing House of the Hungarian Parliament.

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