James M. Skelly (research fellow of iASK) gave a presentation at the conference First Year of President Trump – The Challenges & Future for Progressive Forces, in the EU Parliament (Brussels, Belgium) last week, on the 8th of November 2017.
iASK fellows, Anikó Magasházi and Péter Balogh took part on 19th October, 2017 at the “Looking back to the future 10 years Doctoral Schools @KU Leuven Conference” in Belgium. The old building of the university, where the education started almost 600 years ago, dates back to 1317 and is still used by students and researchers. Reine…
From Tolling to Tolling – Novel of Kőszeg (1529-1532) Ceremonial Booklaunch Date: On the 06th of November at 5.00 p.m. Venue: Jurisics Castle (Knight’s Hall) – Kőszeg 9730 Rajnis st. 9. Program will be held in Hungarian! Welcoming Speech by László Huber (Mayor of Kőszeg) Medieval Martial Art Show Historical Songs by Zoltán Kátai Reading…
Ferenc Miszlivetz, Director-General of iASK received the Ad Memoriam Obsidionis Kőszegiensis. The Prize was awarded by László Huber, mayor of Kőszeg in the Knights’ Hall of the Jurisics Castle.
Studies on Collective Memory and Memory Politics in Context This volume deals with a number of case studies in continuities and discontinuities, global, regional and local approaches to memory and memorialization in 20th century Hungary. The point of reference is the emergence, power control and decay of communism as the longest chronological period of this…
The factories that emerged as a result of the first Industrial Revolution and the machinery they cut the worker off from the object of his work and put him in such a process the rules of which he did not set.
On behalf of the UNESCO Chair of Kőszeg, Péter Balogh (scientific secretary of iASK) participated in the 25th Anniversary Conference of UNITWIN held in Paris 31st October 2017. Launched in 1992, the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme, which involves over 700 institutions in 116 countries
25th of October 2017, Wednesday 10.00-16:00 (Venue: Zwinger II. floor Kőszeg Chernel st. 16.)
An explanation of the rise and fall of the South American Giant The objective of this paper is to analyze the concept of autonomy, using Brazil under the government of the PT (Workers Party) between 2003 and 2016 as a case study. Our theoretical framework combines perspectives of Latin-American structuralism with those of realism and…
Why both the Spanish and the Catalan governments think they come out reinforced from the referendum clash? The PP may be seen as sole guarantor of Spanish unity, while support for pro-independence parties morphs into a reaction against repression by the Spanish government and its conservative values. By Felipe G. Santos (iASK researcher) The whole article…
“Dear commemorating and celebrating residents of Kőszeg! What is the message of the Hungarian Revolution and Freedom Fight today, 61 years after its outbreak? What kind of impact did 1956 have on democratisation, international relations and most importantly on individual responsibility? It is difficult to define those old concepts according to which “it opened up…
