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.
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.
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.
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.