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On the Verge of a New Era: The Armies of Europe at the Time of the Battle of Mohács

2021. November 27.

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On the Verge of a New Era: The Armies of Europe at the Time of the Battle of Mohács

RCH researchers also take part in an international collaboration exploring the history of horse domestication

A new paper with a focus on archaeogenomics on the history of horse domestication has been published in Nature, in which the authors also report on the results of their study of Br... read more..

2021. November 19.

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On the Verge of a New Era

The Battle of Mohács (29 August 1526) is a singular event of symbolic significance for Hungary and the whole of Central Europe. Over the last thirty years, extensive work by Hungarian historians to re... read more..

Ceremony to present the 2021 ELKH academic awards

2021. November 16.

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Ceremony to present the 2021 ELKH academic awards

The Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH) Secretariat has established the Eötvös Loránd Research Network Prize and the Róbert Bárány Prize applicable to young researchers to recognize outstanding acad... read more..

Researchers from the Research Centre for the Humanities have also contributed to the ethical guidelines for DNA testing of human remains published in Nature

2021. November 2.

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Researchers from the Research Centre for the Humanities have also contributed to the ethical guidelines for DNA testing of human remains published in Nature

Two researchers from the ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities, Eszter Bánffy and Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, participated in a multidisciplinary workshop aimed at developing ethical guidelines that can be... read more..

The Tépe Treasure - new volume from József Szentpéteri

2021. September 21.

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The Tépe Treasure - new volume from József Szentpéteri

The richly illustrated new volume of József Szentpéteri's book, The Tépe Treasure presents the story of an exciting investigation in both English and Hungarian. Exactly 110 years have passed since the... read more..

Physics meets Philosophy 7: Conceptual Foundations of Relativity

2021. August 30.

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Physics meets Philosophy 7: Conceptual Foundations of Relativity

The Research Group for Philosophy of Physics, Institute of Philosophy, RCH, cordially invites you to its interdisciplinary workshop on Physics Meets Philosophy 7: Conceptual Foundations of Relati... read more..

New Chapters from Polish and Hungarian Intellectual History

2021. August 27.

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New Chapters from Polish and Hungarian Intellectual History

The Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre for the Humanities (IP RCH) & the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN), cordially invite you to the... read more..

Evaluation of the findings from the archeological excavation in the Royal Crypt at the Benedictine Abbey of Tihany begins

2021. July 25.

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Evaluation of the findings from the archeological excavation in the Royal Crypt at the Benedictine Abbey of Tihany begins

In addition to the validation of the 1953 research, the aim of the wall research and archaeological excavation carried out in the Royal Crypt at Tihany Abbey led by the ELKH Research Centre for the read more..

Presentations by Gusztáv D. Kecskés, Miklós Mitrovits and Tamás Scheibner at the HSAC online conference

2021. July 22.

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Presentations by Gusztáv D. Kecskés, Miklós Mitrovits and Tamás Scheibner at the HSAC online conference

The online annual international conference of the Hungarian Studies Association of Canada entitled Hungary: Northern Relations took place on May 29-31, 2021. The Research Centre for the Humanities was... read more..

Pál Fodor elected external Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

2021. July 2.

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Pál Fodor elected external Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

The Austrian Academy of Sciences has elected Pál Fodor – Honorary Director General of the Research Centre for the Humanities (BTK), scientific advisor to the BTK Institute of ... read more..

Ferenc Hörcher’s new book was published at a US publishing house

2021. June 25.

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Ferenc Hörcher’s new book was published at a US publishing house

The new monograph of Ferenc Hörcher, entitled The Political Philosophy of the European City. From Polis, through City-State, to Megalopolis was published at the end of May 2021 by Lexin... read more..

The excavation of the King’s Crypt in the Abbey of Tihany led by BTK is complete

2021. June 21.

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The excavation of the King’s Crypt in the Abbey of Tihany led by BTK is complete

Excavations led by the ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities have been completed in the undercroft of the Abbey of Tihany, where the tomb of its founder, King Andrew I, is located. Bas read more..

Recently discovered Brutus-manuscript brings fresh perspective on early modern Hungarian historiography

2021. May 10.

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Recently discovered Brutus-manuscript brings fresh perspective on early modern Hungarian historiography

The Venetian heterodox émigré, Gian Michele Bruto (in Latin: Johannes Michael Brutus, 1517-1592) worked on his monumental Hungarian history as court-historian of István Báthory first in Gyulafehérvá read more..

2021. May 3.

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Talk by Sebastian Lutz

The Institute of Philosophy, RCH, cordially invites you to the upcoming online talk Sebastian Lutz (Uppsala University): he Philosophy of Measurement Made Boring Abstract: I sugges read more..

Tenth Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity

2021. April 28.

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Tenth Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity

May 6-8, 2021, the Tenth Annual RefoRC Conference on Early Modern Christianity will take place in Budapest, hosted by the Research Centre for the Humanities. PROGRAM PLENARY ... read more..

2021. April 18.

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Two new institutes were established within the Research Centre for the Humanities

According to the decision of the Governing Body of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network and with the approval of its president Miklós Maróth two new institutes of the Research Centre for the Humanities ... read more..

Ancient and Modern Selves: Tension or Complementarity?

2021. April 14.

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Ancient and Modern Selves: Tension or Complementarity?

The Institute of Philosophy, RCH, cordially invites you to the upcoming online workshop on Ancient and Modern Selves: Tension or Complementarity? Date: 16 April 2021 The notion of the self is not o... read more..

2021. April 2.

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Talk by Zoltán Gendler Szabó

The Institute of Philosophy, RCH, cordially invites you to the upcoming online talk: Zoltán Gendler Szabó (YALE) How specific should I be? Abstract: You can’t normally utter ‘I like t... read more..

2021. March 5.

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Balázs Balogh has been elected Director General of the Research Centre for the Humanities

Balázs Balogh, the Director of the Institute of Ethnography was elected Director General of the Research Center for the Humanities for five years at the last meeting of the Governing Body of the Eötvö... read more..