The Andrássy Gyula University, the Kommission für Geschichte und Kultur der Deutschen in Südosteuropa and the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences will organise an international conference on "Refugees and the Refugee Question in East-Central Europe (1938-1948)" in Budapest, Hungary, 2-4 October 2025. The conference will be accompanied by a seminar for doctoral students.

You can find the call for presentations here.

You can find more information about the seminar for doctoral students here.

On 6 March 2025, Béni L. Balogh gave a lecture in Romanian at the scientific conference "Comunismul la putere. 80 de ani de la instaurarea guvernului Petru Groza, 6 Martie 1945". The title of the lecture was "Cotitura de stânga al lui Petru Groza la sfârșitul anilor 1920, începutul anilor 1930" ("Petru Groza's leftist turn at the end of the 1920s, beginning of the 1930s").

Nándor Bárdi's and Csongor Szabó's publication Deputați maghiari în Parlamentul României (1920-1940) was published in the journal of the University of Sibiu, Studia Universitatis Cibiniensis. Series Historica, vol. XXI/2024.

Gergely Pulay teaches a course at the CEU Bibó Free University every two weeks on Thursdays from 17:00. The first time will be on 6 March 2025.

More information here.

A new article by Csilla Fedinec was published.

Fedinec Csilla: Jacob Lili hazája. HURBÁN 2024/2 pp. 46-60. 

As Oren Baruch Stier puts it, Holocaust icons distill historical events and memories into easily understood symbols. Such icons are Anne Frank or Lili Jacob (Lili Meier). Lili Jacob was transported from the Berehovo ghetto to Birkenau and, during the SS evacuation, to the Dora Mittelbau camp, where she found the photo album of her extended family, the Jews of Bilke. The world-famous Auschwitz Album was first published as a book in New York in 1981. In this research I use contemporary press publications, archival documents and family papers in private collections to present the main characteristics of the Jewish population of Transcarpathia in historical perspective, the immediate consequences of the territorial revision and, based on this, the ghetto period in the region.

An article by Csilla Fedinec was published:

The Russian–Ukrainian war in Ukrainian legislation from 2014 to early 2024. FORUM SOCIAL SCIENCE REVIEW XXVI : 5 pp. 99-120. (2024) https://doi.org/10.61795/fssr.v26y2024i5.06

Russia’s deliberate armed aggression against Ukraine began in February 2014 with the seizure of part of Ukraine’s territory, the Crimean Peninsula, and then the provocation of war in Donbas. On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale war against Ukraine. The Ukrainian Armed Forces, territorial defense forces, and Ukrainian civilians thwarted the Kremlin’s plans for a “blitzkrieg.” The study presents some aspects of Ukrainian legislation related to Russia’s war against Ukraine since 2014.

The Civic Club of Košice organises a conference in Košice to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Péter Rákos. Our colleague Tamás Gusztáv Filep will also speak at the conference.

Nándor Bárdi is the next guest of the Political History Institute's series of Conversations Exiled from Úri Street.

5 February 2025 17:00 - 18:30 / 1114 Budapest, Villányi út 11-13., ground floor, Library

On Thursday, 23 January 2025, at 18:30, the book A szavak lázadása [The Rebellion of Words - Literature and Politics, from Kazinczy's Prison Years to the Mozgó Világ scandal] will be presented, to which our colleague Tamás Gusztáv Filep contributed with his essay on Zsigmond Kemény. 

In November 2024, Béni L. Balogh talked to Tamás Borbély of Radio Bucharest about Alexandru Vaida-Voevod. The interview was broadcast on 6 January 2025 and can be listened to here.