Katalin Baráth's talk in Vienna
On 3 December, Katalin Baráth gave a talk entitled The Implantation of the Global Genres of Mass Culture in Hungary in the Early 20th Century at the Universität Wien in Vienna.
Péter Bencsik's paper in HSR
Péter Bencsik’s paper, entitled The Impact of Emigration on Hungarian Citizenship Law, 1945-64 has been published in the Hungarian Studies Review.
Béla Tomka's new book published
Béla Tomka’s new book, entitled Globalization in State Socialist East Central Europe: Looking Beyond Dominant Narratives has been published by Palgrave Macmillan. The book is open access, and available on the publisher’s website on the publisher’s website.
Melinda Kalmár's higher doctorate
Melinda Kalmár has been awarded the title of Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (DSc) as a result of today’s public debate, successfully defending her dissertation entitled Corporative, hybrid, Soviet. The metamorphosis of a formation. Congratulations!
Peter Bencsik's paper in Comparativ
Péter Bencsik’s paper, entitled Border Regimes, Freedom of Movement, and Globalization: the Hungarian and Czechoslovak Cases, has been published in Comparativ, a journal based in Leipzig. The study examines the relationship between globalization, freedom of movement, border regimes, and human rights, mainly in the 1970s and 1980s. The table of contents of the issue can be found here.
Béla Tomka's new book
Kronosz publishing has added a new volume to its new book series, entitled Contemporary History Studies. Béla Tomka’s Mítoszok és válaszok. Európai integráció és globalizáció a közbeszédben és a tudományban (Myths and Answers. European Integration and Globalization in Public Discourse and Scholarship) is already in the bookshops. More information on the publisher’s website.
Katalin Baráth's new book published
Katalin Baráth’s new book, entitled Szórakozik a tömeg. Fejezetek a modern populáris kultúra magyarországi történetéből (The crowd is having fun. Chapters from the History of Modern Popular Culture in Hungary) has been published by Kronosz Publishing as the second part of a new book series. More information on the publisher’s website (in Hungarian).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.