Upcoming Public Lecture: Secessionism and Historical Politics
The Democracy Institute’s historians launched a public lecture series–Jenő Szűcs Lecture Series–to bring together international as well as local scholars of history and related fields in Budapest as well as online to exchange their results on the interplay between democracy and histor(iograph)y in a broad sense. The series’ title honors the legacy of Jenő Szűcs…
New Lecture Series dedicated to Jenő Szűcs
The Democracy Institute’s historians launched a public lecture series–Jenő Szűcs Lecture Series–to bring together international as well as local scholars of history and related fields in Budapest as well as online to exchange their results on the interplay between democracy and histor(iograph)y in a broad sense. The series’ title honors the legacy of Jenő Szűcs…
“Lost in Transition” – Closing conference
On March 3-4, 2023, the Democracy in History working group hosted the closing conference of a four-years long (2019-2023) research project entitled Lost in Transition: Social Sciences, Scenarios of Transformation, and Cognitive Dissonances in East Central Europe after 1989 coordinated by the Centre for Advanced Study in Sofia, financed by the Porticus Foundation. DI’s lead…
Academics Facing Autocracy Program Description
we seek new insight on recent efforts that offer „hybrid education for students in hybrid regimes” and academic sanctuary.
The Historical Construction of National Consciousness – Book launch
A new English translation of selected writings by the famous Hungarian historian of Central Europe (and this concept) Jenő Szűcs (1928-1988) was recently published by CEU Press. The editors and translators of the volume are CEU professors Gábor Klaniczay, Balázs Trencsényi and Gábor Gyáni. The book was launched at CEU’s Budapest campus (and online) on December 1…
History and fiction – conference
On the 25th of November Zsolt Czigányik from the History of Democracy working group acted as respondent to the papers of a Hungarian conference on History and fiction, organized by Péter Csunderlik historian form the Institute of Political History. Image: http://polhist.hu/programok2/tortenelem-es-fikcio/
Sport and politics conference
Image: http://polhist.hu/programok2/sport-es-politika-a-20-szazadban/ On the 15th of November we hosted a conference (in Hungarian) co-organized by the Institute of Political History and CEU’s Democracy Institute about the popular and timely topic of the relationship of sports and politics. The lectures concentrated on the 20th century, several of them on the role of sports in Cold War…
Storms over the Balkans during the Second World War – book launch
CEU professors Balázs Trencsényi (who is also the leader of the “Democracy in History” working group at CEU’s Democracy Institute) and Constantin Iordachi presented a new book by Professor Alfred J. Rieber at CEU’s Budapest campus on October 18 in dicussion with the author. In his book, Rieber provides a new interpretation of the history…
New workshops of the ‘Mapping Crisis’ project
After the winter break, the project “Mapping Crisis Discourses in East Central Europe, 1918-2020” continues with its series of workshops where the project participants showcased the initial findings of their studies on their research topics. January 28, 2022 Liisi Keedus (Tallinn University) and Johannes Bent (Tallinn University): “Encounters with “German Crisis Literature”. Hungarian and Romanian…
Historians and Transitional Justice – Conversation with Vladimir Petrović
The second event of the History as Democracy? project was held online, and moderated by PhD candidate Marko Milošev on 13 December, 2021. Working through the legacy of the authoritarian regimes became a global promise with the end of the Cold War. From South American military juntas to Eastern European communist nomenclaturas and war criminals…
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