The College Movement and the Political Transition in Hungary

Nov282019

Roundtable discussion organized by iASK Participants – Former founders, leaders and members of the László Németh Collegium Movement of Szombathely: Ferenc Miszlivetz (director of iASK) Erzsébet Tokaji Nagy (chief librarian at Hungary’s National Széchényi Library) Ildikó Szommer (historian, Savaria Museum – Saint Martin Institute) Gábor Szabó (sociologist, project-coordinator – Klebelsberg Centre) István Sümegi (philosopher) Moderator: Katalin Kondor  Date: 25th of November 2019.…

Brexit and the European Legal Cooperation by John F. Larkin

Nov272019

The Future of Europe in Global Context – iASK Lecture Series Lecturer: Dr. John F. Larkin (QC – Attorney General for Northern Ireland) Brexit and the European Legal Cooperation “In his lecture, the Attorney General for Northern Ireland sets out a proposition about the future of international co-operation after Brexit and then explores three current…

Nationalism and Conservatism in Contemporary Europe by Ferenc Hörcher

Nov182019

The Future of Europe in a Global Context 2019 – iASK Lecture Series Nationalism and Conservatism in Contemporary Europe, with special attention to Britain and the V4 countries Lecture by Dr. Ferenc Hörcher (D.Sc. Philosophy, Professor at the University of Public Services) Date: 12 November 2019, Tuesday, 2 p.m. Venue: Zwinger Old-Tower Kőszeg H-9730 Chernel…

Ahmet Evin: Europe, Eurasia

May82018

Lecture by Ahmet Evin – Sabanci University, iASK Eurasia both poses a critical challenge and offers an opportunity for the EU. The demise of the Soviet empire has had unexpected consequences globally and, in particular, for the Atlantic Alliance. The EU’s enlargement fatigue, following the “big-bang” eastern enlargement has had a centrifugal effect on the…

The Ottomans in Europe – Lecture by Ahmet Evin at iASK (2nd part)

May42018

At its heyday, Ottoman territories in Europe extended roughly to the same borderline that divided the eastern and western commands of the Tetrarchy formalized at the end of the third century AD. The Ottoman – Hapsburg border, in retrospect, seems to have perpetuated the Roman administrative division as well as the borderline between the Catholic West and the Byzantine East.

 The Ottomans in Europe – Lecture by Ahmet Evin at iASK (1st part)

May32018

The rapid Ottoman expansion from Thrace to the Danubian Europe is remembered as posing the greatest threat to Christendom. It gave rise to the widely shared image of the “terrible Turk” as the most feared enemy of European peoples and civilization and has helped enriched particularly the German language with specific references to measures adopted to warn or fend off the Turkish menace, such as Türkensteuer, Türkenglocken, and the overall Türkenfurscht.