Project workshop in Bratislava – April 2026
In addition to regular online meetings, members of the ERC research group Sovereignty meet in person twice a year. The […]
Continuities of Church and Religion under East Central European Communist Regimes. Presentations by “Sovereignty” research group members at the 2025 ASEEES annual convention
Between October 20-23, the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies held its 57th annual convention in Washington DC. […]
Presentation of András Fejérdy at the workshop of ecclesiastical archivists
Since 2013, Budapest City Archives regularly organize educational days for colleagues working at church archives in Hungary, as well as […]
Our researchers at the conference “Churches and Religious Associations Behind the ‘Iron Curtain’” in Budapest
With its partner institutions in Poland and Slovakia, the Committee of National Remembrance of Hungary (NEB) organized the third part […]
Research on State and Church in East Central Europe at the Congress of East European Studies (UCL)
The International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES) held its eleventh World Congress in London between 21-25 July […]
The First “Political Oath” in the Habsburg Monarchy: The Oath-Taking of Piotr Bielański on 23 September 1781
by András Fejérdy In his 1928 work Der Politische Eid, Ernst Friesenhahn introduced the concept of the “political oath” as […]
Presentations of Katalin Pataki and Tomasz Hen-Konarski at the Central European History Convention in Vienna
On 17 July, the first Central European History Convention (CEHC) opened its proceedings at the University of Vienna. Organised by […]
Conference “The Catholic Church and the Political Oath from the Advent of the Modern State: Models, Practices, Conflicts” in Budapest
For the first time since the project began in 2022, members of the ERC “Negotiating Sovereignty” research team organized a […]
Upcoming Conference: “The Catholic Church and the Political Oath from the Advent of the Modern State: Models, Practices, Conflicts”
On June 5 and 6, the “Sovereignty” ERC research group will organize the conference “The Catholic Church and the Political […]
Conference and Workshop of the ERC Sovereignty Research Group in Târgu Mureş
How did the legal, social and political role of the Catholic Church in the Habsburg Empire change from the Josephinist […]
Keston Fellowship awarded to Željko Oset
Željko Oset has been awarded a Keston Fellowship to conduct research at the Keston Center for Religion, Politics, and Society […]
Željko Oset and Miklós Tömöry on the Bishop’s Oath in the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Križevci before and after 1918
The Sovereignty ERC project aims to discover continuities and discontinuities of the state-church relationship with a particular reference to the […]
The ERC Sovereignty research team at the 2024 ASEEES annual convention in Boston
Between 20th and 24th of November 2024, seven members of the Sovereignty ERC research team, principal investigator András Fejérdy, Anca […]
Željko Oset’s presentation in Zagreb on Stella Alexander and Yugoslavia in the 1980s
Željko Oset presented the paper “There are no rules, just situations. Stella Alexander about the situation in Yugoslavia in the […]
Loyalty and Topography
by Katalin Pataki Illustration: Map of the Diocese of Vác, 1773 (copy of the original document published in 1675). With […]
Presentations of András Fejérdy and Przemysław Pazik in Lyon
On 5-7 June, András Fejérdy, PI, and Przemysław Pazik, postdoctoral researcher of the ERC project Sovereignty, participated in the international […]
Workshop and Open Seminar of the Sovereignty ERC Project in Warsaw
report by Miklós Tömöry; pictures by Anca Şincan and Miklós Tömöry Since the beginning of the project, fellows of the […]
Open Seminar in Warsaw on April 24, 2024
Research fellows of the Sovereignty project will present their findings considering church-state relations in the 20th century at the upcoming […]
Assemani Seminar for Eastern Catholic History
On 19 February, a new round of the Assemani Seminar for Eastern Catholic History kicks off with Julia Buyskykh’s keynote […]
Presentation of Katalin Pataki in Cambridge on the 1781 introduction of the Oath of Allegiance
On 31 January 2024, Katalin Pataki, postdoctoral research fellow of the ERC Sovereignty project held a presentation at the Cambridge […]
Presentations of András Fejérdy and Emília Hrabovec in Rome
On 18 January, the École Française de Rome, the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the University of Fribourg organised in […]
Ordination of Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński to the Archbishop of Warsaw in 1862
Saint Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński around 1862 (photographed by Jan Mieczkowski)