CVProf. em. Dr. László Karsai

Curriculum Vitae

Prof. dr. László Karsai

Place and date of birth: Budapest, 20. 09. 1950.
Office address: Dr. Karsai László, Department of Contemporary History, Hungary, H-6722 Szeged, Egyetem u. 2
Tel.: (+36) 62-546-795, fax: (+36) 62-544-464
E-mail: karsai@hist.u-szeged.hu

Education and degrees

Academic employment

Fellowships

Conference papers

1.) 6-10. October 1991. Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv University: “International Seminar on Identity Revival: Studies on East European Jewish Life History.”
The title of my paper: The Holocaust in the Hungarian Press 1989-1991.

2.) 21-23. October 1991. Budapest. “Magyar-zsidó együttélés és ennek középeurópai háttere 1848-1991.” [Hungarian-Jewish Coexistence and its Central-European Background, 1848-1991.]
The title of my paper: Magyarország a Holocaust után. [Hungary after the Holocaust]

3.) 13-14. December 1991. Budapest. “Kisebbségkép a tömegkommunikációban” [Minorities in the Mass-Media]
The title of my paper: Antiszemiták és antiszemitizmus a magyar sajtóban 1989-1991. [Minorities in Mass-Media; Anti-Semites and Anti-Semitism in Hungarian Press 1989-1991]

4.) 23-27. May 1992. Szeged, Hungary. JATE BTK [University of Szeged]: “Teaching Modern European History: Experiences and Prospects”
The title of my paper: Textbooks on the Shoah.

5.) 18-20. June 1992. Paris. CNRSS: “Anti-Semitism in Formerly Socialist East-Central Europe: Historical Roots and Recent Developments”
The title of my paper: Some Problems of the Historiography of the Hungarian Jewish Shoah.

6.) 4. August 1992. Budapest. MTA TTI [Institute for History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences]: “Non-Discrimination and Minority Rights”
The title of my paper: Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest.

7.) 23-27. November 1992. Brussels. Fondation Auschwitz: “Histoire et mémoire des crimes et génocides nazis”
The title of my paper: Debates on the Shoah in the Hungarian Press 1989-1992.

8.) 5-7. April 1994. Budapest. “Nemzetközi tudományos konferencia a magyarországi Holocaust 50. évfordulóján” [International conference, Holocaust in Hungary, 50 years after.]
The title of my paper: Magyar tankönyvek a Holocaustról [Hungarian Textbooks on the Holocaust]

9.) 10. April 1994. Tatabánya, Hungary. TEDISZ [Teljes Evangéliumi Diák és Ifjúsági Szövetség &ndash Full Evangelical Student and Youth Union]: “Ne menj tovább barátom” [Do not go further, my friend]
The title of my paper: A magyar Holocaust az Endre-Baky-Jaross per tükrében [The Hungarian Holocaust in the Endre-Baky-Jaross Trial]

10.) 22. May 1994. Washington D.C. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: “Holocaust in Hungary”, seminar.
The title of my paper: A Szálasi rendszer és a zsidók [The Szálasi Regime and the Jews]

11.) 26. June 1994. Veszprém, Hungary. TEDISZ: “Ne menj tovább barátom” c. konferencia.
The title of my paper: Búcsú Csurka Istvántól [Farewell to István Csurka]

12.) 19-23. September 1994. Vienna. “International seminar on the European Gypsy Holocaust”.
The title of my paper: Gypsy Holocaust in Hungary.

13.) 27. November 1994. Budapest. TEDISZ: “Ne menj tovább barátom!”
The title of my paper: Nyilasterror, zsidóüldözés, embermentés [Arrow Cross-Terror, Persecution of the Jews, Rescue]

14.) 12. February 1995. Los Angeles. UCLA Sunset Conference Center: “The Last Episode of the European Jewish Holocaust”.
The title of my paper: The Liberation of the Last Ghetto.

15.) 20. April 1995. Rome. Universitá degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”: International conference.
The title of my paper: Dall’emancipazione fino all’Olocaust Storia degli ebrei in Ungheria nei secoli XIX-XX.

16.) 2-5. November 1995. Vienna. Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen: Political Justice in Post-War Europe, International Conference.
The title of my paper: People’s Courts and Political Justice in Hungary 1945-1946.

17.) 8-10. November 1995. Prague. International Society for Human Rights: Racism Yesterday and Today.
The title of my paper: Racism and Anti-Semitism in Hungary 1919-1995.

18.) 11. December 1995. Berlin. Technische Universität Berlin, Das Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung; International Conference: “Solidarität und Hilfe”.
The title of my paper: Jews and Gentiles in Hungary 1938-1945.

19.) 21-23. March 1996. Seattle. Washington University: “The Radical Right in Central and Eastern Europe since 1989”;
The title of my paper: The radical right in Hungary 1989-1995

20.) 3-4. November 1997. Budapest. Pro Helvetia Svájci Kultúralapítvány: “Die Schweiz, Ungarn und der Zweite Weltkrieg”
The title of my paper: Bűn és büntetés, népbíróságok Magyarországon 1945-1948.

21.) 4-5. February 1998. Strasbourg. Európa Tanács – Fédération Nationale des Déportés et Internés Résistants et Patriotes: “Conservation et ouverture aux chercheurs des archives des camps et concentration et du génocide: étude particuliére du SIR d’Arolsen”.
The title of my paper: Inventaire, conservation et consultation des archives des camps de concentration et du génocide: législation nationales, pratique du SIR et expérience d’Arolsen.

22.) 7-9. October 2003. Berlin. Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung der Technischen Universität Berlin: „Ungarn und der Holocaust”.
The title of my paper:   The Persecution and Deportation of the Hungarian Roma.

23.) 17-20. March 2004. Washington, D. C. USHMM: „The Hungarian Holocaust, 60 Years Later”.
The title of my paper: The Fateful Year 1942 in the Reports of the Hungarian Diplomats

24.) 16-18. April 2004. „A holokauszt Magyarországon európai perspektívában”.
The title of my paper: A magyarországi zsidótörvények és -rendeletek, 1920-1944.

25.) 11-13. December 2006. Paris. Sciences Po-CERI: „Rescue Practices facing Genocidal Situations. Comparative Perspectives (Armenian Genocide, Holocaust, Rwandan Genocide)”.
The title of my paper: Hungarian Righteous Among the Nations in Front of the People’s Courts.

26.) 2. April 2009. Paris. Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3: „Le new consensus sur le fascisme. De la réligion en politique á la réligion politique”.
Előadásom címe: Szálasi Ferenc, the New Messiah of the (Hungarian) Truth.

27.) 26-28. January 2010. Acco, Israel. Western Galilee College: „The Future of Holocaust Testimonies”.
The title of my paper: The Hungarian Jewish Councils as Reflected by the DEGOB Protocols.

28.) 26-27. May 2010. London. University College London, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies. School of Slavonic and East European Studies: „Antisemitism in Hungary and Poland”.
The title of my paper: Regent Horthy and the Holocaust: New Questions, Old Answers.

29.) 17-18. November 2011. Uppsala, Sweden. Uppsala University, The Hugo Valentine Centre: „Fascism on the Periphery”.
The title of my paper: Ferenc Szálasi and the Arrow Cross Party-Hungarist Movement.

30.) 26-27. January 2012. Paris. Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3: „La montée des populismes en Europe”.
The title of my paper: Droite, extrême-droite et populismes en Hongrie, 1990-2011.

31.) 30. October 2012. Oslo, Norway. Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities: „International Symposium on Raoul Wallenberg: Man Amidst Inhumanity”.
The title of my paper: All the time he was saving people, whomever he could… Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest.

32.) 17-20. December 2012. Jerusalem. Yad Vashem: „The End of 1942. A Turning Point of World War II. and in the Comprehension of the Final Solution?”
The title of my paper: The Holocaust as Conveyed in the Hungarian Press of 1942.

33.) 7-9. April 2013. Berlin. Moses Mendelssohn Center, Potsdam – Deutsches Polen-Institut, Darmstadt in cooperation with Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand Berlin and Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów IFiS PAN, Warszawa: „Jewish Resistance and Non-Jewish Helpers in Hungary”.
The title of my paper: The Jewish resistance to the Nazi policy of extermination in Europe 1933-1945.

34.) 17-18. April 2013. Miskolc, Hungary. Miskolci Egyetem, BTK, Történettudományi Intézet: „Zsidók és keresztények az évszázadok sodrában. Interpretációk egy témára”.
The title of my paper: Zsidó ellenállók, törvénysértők.

35.) 24. April 2014. Budapest. MTA-HDKE: „Bűn, felelősség, emlékezet. A magyar holokauszt – 70 évvel később”.
The title of my paper: Információk a holokausztról a magyar sajtóban, 1941-1944.

36.) 14-15. May 2014. Szeged, Hungary. University of Szeged–Yad Vashem: „The Hungarian Holocaust, 70 Years After”.
The title of my paper: The Hungarian Holocaust in International Context.

37.) 19-20. Februry 2016. New York. Columbia University: „Aftermath: Repression, Participation and Retribution in East Central Europe. International Conference”.
The title of my paper: People’s Courts and Revolutionary Justice in Hungary after World War II.

38.) 2-3. October 2017. Bratislava, Slovakia. Comenius University: „Image of the Enemy in Europe During World War II.”
The title of my paper: „Jews, Niggers and Indians Carpet Bombed Hungary” – The Image of the Enemy in the Hungarian Press During World War II.

39.) 6-8. December 2017. Warsaw. Institute of National Remembrance: „The Nations of Occupied Europe Facing the Holocaust”.
The title of my paper: Hungarian Jews Under Nazi Occupation, 1944-1945.

40.) 25-26. April 2018. New York. City University of New York–Museum of Jewish Heritage: „The Future of Holocaust Research”.
The title of my paper: Holocaust and Holocaust Memory Policy in Hungary and Poland.

41.) 9-11. July 2018. Jerusalem. Yad Vashem: „Your brother’s blood cries out to me”– International workshop.
The title of my paper: Arrow Cross Terror in Budapest, 15 October 1994-13 February 1945

42.) 10-11. December 2018. Jerusalem. Yad Vashem: „Searching for Each Other: Survivors attempts in the Post-War Period to Locate Missing Relatives and Friends” – International workshop.
The title of my paper: „And How Long it Takes My Run Amok?” The Post World War II Diary of dr. Pál Deák.

43.) 21-25. July 2019. Yad Vashem-United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: „Religious Institutions and Jews in Hiding During the Holocaust” – Research workshop.
The title of my paper: The Hungarian Catholic Church During the Holocaust.