Challenges of Secularism and Nation Building in Central Eastern Europe since 1780
On September 30 and October 1, 2026 the “Sovereignty” ERC research group will organize the conference “State, Nation, Religion. Multiple […]
Between June 8-9 2026, the Austrian Historical Institute and the Slovak Historical Institute organized a conference in Rome under the […]
In addition to regular online meetings, members of the ERC research group Sovereignty meet in person twice a year. The […]
On December 10-11, researchers of the ERC Sovereignty project participated at a regular bi-annual project meeting in Budapest. Besides practical […]
Between October 20-23, the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies held its 57th annual convention in Washington DC. […]
Since 2013, Budapest City Archives regularly organize educational days for colleagues working at church archives in Hungary, as well as […]
With its partner institutions in Poland and Slovakia, the Committee of National Remembrance of Hungary (NEB) organized the third part […]
The International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES) held its eleventh World Congress in London between 21-25 July […]
On 17 July, the first Central European History Convention (CEHC) opened its proceedings at the University of Vienna. Organised by […]
For the first time since the project began in 2022, members of the ERC “Negotiating Sovereignty” research team organized a […]
On June 5 and 6, the “Sovereignty” ERC research group will organize the conference “The Catholic Church and the Political […]
How did the legal, social and political role of the Catholic Church in the Habsburg Empire change from the Josephinist […]
We are pleased to announce that the next regular open workshop and conference of the ERC Sovereignty project will take […]
Željko Oset has been awarded a Keston Fellowship to conduct research at the Keston Center for Religion, Politics, and Society […]
Photo: Lambert Attila/ Magyar Kurír On January 15, András Fejérdy, the PI of the Sovereignty research project held a talk […]
On December 12, 2024, Miklós Tömöry, research fellow of the ERC Sovereignty research group presented his paper “Loyalty of the […]
The Sovereignty ERC project aims to discover continuities and discontinuities of the state-church relationship with a particular reference to the […]
Between 20th and 24th of November 2024, seven members of the Sovereignty ERC research team, principal investigator András Fejérdy, Anca […]
Željko Oset presented the paper “There are no rules, just situations. Stella Alexander about the situation in Yugoslavia in the […]
On 10-11 June, École Française de Rome, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and University of Fribourg organised the second event of […]
On 5-7 June, András Fejérdy, PI, and Przemysław Pazik, postdoctoral researcher of the ERC project Sovereignty, participated in the international […]
On 3 May Przemysław Pazik, postdoctoral research fellow of the ERC Sovereignty project participated in the conference “Connecting Catholics in […]
report by Miklós Tömöry; pictures by Anca Şincan and Miklós Tömöry Since the beginning of the project, fellows of the […]
Research fellows of the Sovereignty project will present their findings considering church-state relations in the 20th century at the upcoming […]
On 19 February, a new round of the Assemani Seminar for Eastern Catholic History kicks off with Julia Buyskykh’s keynote […]
On 31 January 2024, Katalin Pataki, postdoctoral research fellow of the ERC Sovereignty project held a presentation at the Cambridge […]
On 18 January, the École Française de Rome, the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the University of Fribourg organised in […]
The Church History Committee of the Archdiocese of Esztergom, the Saint Adalbert Foundation for Central and Eastern European Studies, the […]
The third workshop of the research group Negotiating Sovereignty at the HUN-REN Institute of History took place on November 10, […]
Between 19 and 20 of October the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Religions and Laicity at the Free University of Brussels organized the conference “Committed but not activist? Engaging in Christian European and colonial social and healthcare charities (1945 – 2000)” Dr. Anca Șincan presented her paper “The reclassification of nuns in the public hospital services under the communist regime in Romania”.
Between 6 and 7 September 2023 Przemysław Pazik, a postdoctoral researcher in the Sovereignty team participated in the conference “Churches […]
In the winter semester of the academic year 2022/2023, the Department for the History of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe of LMU Munich organized a Master Course and Colloquium on Eastern European History which aimed to broaden knowledge of, and present recent research results on 19th-20th centuries in East-Central Europe.