Democracy and utopianism in East Central Europe: the Jeno Szucs public lecture series continued
In the May edition of the Jeno Szucs lecture series, Zsolt Cziganyik and Iva Dimovska introduced the audience into the theoretical background and novelties of their research project “Democracy in East Central European utopianism” including their original choice of geographic region, as research on utopianism often focuses on the Western, particularly on the Anglo-Saxon world.…
Conference report by our interns: Academics Facing Autocracy: Alternative Modalities and Transnational Resilience in Higher Education
The event took place at CEU Vienna: https://events.ceu.edu/2023-04-17/academics-facing-autocracy-alternative-modalities-and-transnational-resilience-higher Autocratic and illiberal practices are present at many levels in numerous societies, even outside their countries of origin. Academic circles across the globe have been victims of a sustained autocratic effort to suppress their freedom in order to consolidate power and eliminate the seeds of opposition and…
Second Jenő Szűcs Lecture by Alexandr Voronovici
Our research fellow, Alexandr Voronovici, gave a lecture in the framework of the Jenő Szűcs Lecture Series on March 21, 2023, entitled: Secessionism and Historical Politics: Instrumentalizing the Past in the Unrecognized Republics of Donbas and Transnistria. The speaker compared these two para-states (also called “de facto” or separatist states) and their historical-cultural narratives. The…
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…
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