Religious History and Studies

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Aziz Al-Azmeh

University Professor
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Nadia Al-Bagdadi

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Edit Andras

Visiting Professor

Zsuzsanna Bajó

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Eszter Bartha

Visiting Faculty

Richard Bassett

Agnes Bendik

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Jeremy Braverman

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Julián Casanova

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Patrick Cohrs

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Francisca de Haan

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Mikhail V. Dmitriev

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Tolga U. Esmer

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Sheila Fitzpatrick

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András Gerő

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Dylan Mohan Gray

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Gabor Gyani

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Karl Hall

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Jan Hennings

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Esther Holbrook

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Michael Ignatieff

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Constantin Iordachi

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Victor Karady

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Laszlo Kontler

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András Kovács

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Tijana Krstić

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Sanjay Kumar

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Emese Lafferton

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Thomas W. Laqueur

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Petr Maťa

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Michael Laurence Miller

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Alexei Miller

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Aniko Molnar

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Mónika Zsuzsanna Nagy

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Hazal Papuççular

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Katalin Péter

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Vladimir Petrovic

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Zsuzsanna Reed

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Istvan Rev

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Alfred J. Rieber

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Matthias Riedl

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Oksana Sarkisova

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Ilona Sarmany-Parsons

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Ostap Sereda

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Charles Shaw

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Marsha Siefert

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Oana Adelina Stefan

Humanities Initiative Fellow

Gabor Szegedi

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Gyorgy E. Szonyi

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Balázs Trencsényi

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Alexandr Voronovici

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Carsten L. Wilke

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Brett Wilson

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Susan Zimmermann

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Current Courses

Academic Field Trip Seminar
Instructor: József Laszlovszky, Béla Zsolt Szakács
Academic Latin: An Introduction to Research Methodology
Instructor: Andra Juganaru, Andor Kelenhegyi
Advanced German Source Reading in Historiography
Instructor: Carsten L. Wilke
Advanced Hungarian Source Reading in Historiography
Instructor: Gabor Szegedi
Advanced Russian Source Reading in Historiography
Instructor: Mikhail V. Dmitriev
Advanced Source Reading Class in Arabic Historiography
Instructor: Nadia Al-Bagdadi
Advanced Source Reading Class in Ottoman Historiography (16th-17th centuries)
Instructor: Gunhan Borekci
Ancient Atomism and its Critics
Instructor: Georgina White
Archives, Evidence and Human Rights
Instructor: Iván Székely, Csaba Szilágyi, András Mink
Ascension on High: Occult Theories and Practice from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Instructor: Gyorgy E. Szonyi
ATRS - Greek: Hagiographic and Historiographic Texts from the Sixth-Seventh centuries
Instructor: István Perczel
ATRS Greek: Byzantine Liturgical Poetry: The Early Hymnographers
Instructor: Floris Bernard
ATRS Greek: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, excerpts from the Corpus
Instructor: István Perczel
ATRS Latin: Life, Love, and Death in Latin Inscriptions
Instructor: Cristian-Nicolae Gaşpar
Beyond Illustration: New Approaches to Research and Teaching with the Digital Humanities
Instructor: Marcell Sebők, Jessie Labov
Byzantine Art in the West
Instructor: Béla Zsolt Szakács
CC + tutorial: Allies of the Devil: Pagans, Heretics, Magicians, Antichrists and Witches
Instructor: Gábor Klaniczay
CC + tutorial: Central Europe in the High and Later Middle Ages
Instructor: Balázs Nagy, Katalin Szende
CC + tutorial: Early Christianity: from Messianic Sect to State Religion
Instructor: György Geréby, Volker Menze
CC + tutorial: The “Seventeenth-century Crisis” in Comparative Perspective: European and Ottoman Experiences
Instructor: Gunhan Borekci
Communism and Gender: Historical and Global Perspectives
Instructor: Francisca de Haan
Comparative Approaches to Historical Research
Instructor: Constantin Iordachi
Consumption and Consumer Culture under Capitalism and Socialism
Instructor: Oana Adelina Stefan
Core Class + Tutorial: Global Comparisons: Russia and the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1839
Instructor: Tijana Krstić, Jan Hennings
Core Class + Tutorial: History of Material Culture
Instructor: Alice Mathea Choyke, Gerhard Jaritz
Core Class + Tutorial: Texts and Communities in Byzantium
Instructor: Floris Bernard
East European History in Context: Problems and Debates
Instructor: Alexei Miller
East European History in Context: Problems and Debates 2016-2017
Instructor: Alexei Miller
Eastern Christians in the Ottoman Empire, 14th-18th Centuries
Instructor: Tijana Krstić
Empire and Nationalism in Russia and the Soviet Union
Instructor: Alexei Miller
Empires - Topical Survey
Instructor: Tolga U. Esmer, Floris Bernard
European Labor History in Global Context from the 18th Century to the Present
Instructor: Marsha Siefert
European Postwar Orders, 1919-1991. European and American Perspectives
Instructor: Patrick Cohrs
Everyday Life History In Empire and Beyond (lecture and seminar)
Instructor: Tolga U. Esmer, Peter Becker
Examining the Theatocracy: Drama and Politics in the Ancient World
Instructor: Georgina White
Faculty Research Seminar II.
Instructor: Katalin Szende, Balázs Nagy
Foundations Course II: Religion and Secularism
Instructor: Nadia Al-Bagdadi
Foundations I: Religion and State (Lecture)
Instructor: Aziz Al-Azmeh
From Atatürk to Erdoğan: Political History of Modern Turkey
Instructor: Brett Wilson
Gender under State Socialism
Instructor: Eszter Bartha
Gender, Medicine and Science
Instructor: Emese Lafferton
Global Comparisons: Russia and the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1839.
Instructor: Jan Hennings, Tijana Krstić
HIST 5032 - Academic Writing I.
Instructor: Sanjay Kumar, Borbála Faragó
HIST 5076 - Academic Writing II, for both 1YMA and 2YMA students
Instructor: Sanjay Kumar, Borbála Faragó
Historical Mapping and Geographic Information Systems
Instructor: Viktor Lagutov
Historical Narratives and the Moving Image: Theory and Practice
Instructor: Oksana Sarkisova, Jeremy Braverman
Historiography II: Grand Debates in Central European History
Instructor: Balázs Trencsényi, Marcell Sebők
Historiography II: Grand Debates in Mediterranean History
Instructor: Brett Wilson, Volker Menze
Historiography II: Grand Debates in Russian and Eurasian History
Instructor: Charles Shaw, Jan Hennings
Historiography II: Grand Debates in Russian and Eurasian History
Instructor: Charles Shaw, Jan Hennings
Historiography: Themes in Its History and Approaches to Its Theory (Lecture)
Instructor: Carsten L. Wilke, Daniel Ziemann
History on film / Film on History – Medieval and Renaissance Themes
Instructor: György Szőnyi
Intellectual Approaches to Filmmaking (scripted and unscripted)
Instructor: Dylan Mohan Gray
Intellectuals and World War I
Instructor: Karl Hall
Intelligentsia and Peasantry in Modern East European History: Social Processes and Cultural Constructions (19th-20th Centuries)
Instructor: Ostap Sereda
Interdisciplinary Methods of Comparative History
Instructor: Jan Hennings
Introduction to History and Sociology of Science
Instructor: Karl Hall
Introduction to Medieval Philosophy
Instructor: György Geréby
Introduction to Research Resources for Medievalists
Instructor: Balázs Nagy, József Laszlovszky
Introductory Academic Writing (2YMA History Students), Group 2
Instructor: Robin Bellers
Introductory Academic Writing (2YMA Medieval Studies Students), Group 1
Instructor: Eszter Timár
Jewish Cultural Heritage
Instructor: Carsten L. Wilke
Judaism and Christianity
Instructor: Carsten L. Wilke
Late Ancient and Medieval Science (5th-15th c.)
Instructor: Anna Somfai
Latin Palaeography, Book hand (4th-15th c.)
Instructor: Anna Somfai
Laws of War: Making and Breaking, Judging and Showing
Instructor: Vladimir Petrovic
MA Academic Writing Tutorial I-II
Instructor: Zsuzsanna Reed
MA Thesis Planning Seminar
Instructor: Katalin Szende, Jan Hennings
MA Thesis Prospectus Writing Seminar
Instructor: Katalin Szende, Jan Hennings
MA Thesis Seminar I
Instructor: Zsuzsanna Reed, Marcell Sebők, György Geréby
MA Thesis Seminar I
Instructor: Charles Shaw
MA Thesis Seminar II
Instructor: Marcell Sebők, Zsuzsanna Reed, Gábor Klaniczay
MA Thesis Seminar II.
Instructor: Brett Wilson
MA Thesis Workshop
Instructor: Marsha Siefert
Master Class in Historiography: The Russian Revolution as History
Instructor: Sheila Fitzpatrick
Media, Communication and Communism in International Context
Instructor: Marsha Siefert
Medieval Architecture
Instructor: Béla Zsolt Szakács
Medieval Codicology: The Physical and Intellectual Production and Use of Manuscripts (8th-15th c.)
Instructor: Anna Somfai
Medieval Heritage of Budapest
Instructor: József Laszlovszky
Medieval Latin Philosophical Text Reading: Cusanus
Instructor: György Geréby
Migration and Migrants (12th-16th c.)
Instructor: Gerhard Jaritz
Miracles: From Wonder-workers to Canonized Saints
Instructor: Ildiko Csepregi
Mobility, Exchange, and Revolution: Introduction to Modern Central Asian Historiography
Instructor: Charles Shaw
Orthodox Traditions in the East of Europe and beyond. Middle Ages – XXIst century.
Instructor: Mikhail V. Dmitriev
PhD Academic Writing Tutorial
Instructor: Zsuzsanna Reed
PhD Tutorial I
Instructor: Marsha Siefert
PhD Tutorial II
Instructor: Marsha Siefert
PhD Tutorial III
Instructor: Constantin Iordachi
Philosophical and Theological Traditions at the Universities of Central Europe (1370–1420)
Instructor: Edit Anna Lukács
Political Modernities and Nation-Building in Central and Southeast Europe: Texts and Contexts
Instructor: Balázs Trencsényi
Political Radicalism in Global Perspective
Instructor: Constantin Iordachi, Don Kalb
Political Visions in Literature
Instructor: Zsolt Czigányik
Problems and Paradigms in Jewish Studies
Instructor: Carsten L. Wilke
Projections of Polemic: Muslim-Christian Encounters in the Early Islamic World
Instructor: David Thomas
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite: The History of a Literary Fiction from the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century in East and West
Instructor: István Perczel
Race and Science
Instructor: Emese Lafferton
Re-imagining Pasts: Post-colonialism and Nationalism in South Asia (1945-2015)
Instructor: Sanjay Kumar
Reading Medieval Latin Charters (Palaeography)
Instructor: Katalin Szende
Reading Medieval Latin Charters (Palaeography) II
Instructor: Katalin Szende
Reading the Sources of Justinian’s Age – Introduction to the Political, Ecclesiastic and Intellectual History of the Sixth Century
Instructor: István Perczel
Reassessing the Great Patriotic War: World War II in Soviet History
Instructor: Charles Shaw
RELI 6002 University-Wide Doctoral Seminar: Reason, Unreason and Nature in Religion
Instructor: Aziz Al-Azmeh
Religion and Political Thought: Europe 1200-1700 - lecture
Instructor: Matthias Riedl
Religion and Political Thought: Europe 1200-1700 - Reading Seminar
Instructor: Matthias Riedl
Revolutions and Civil Wars in the Twentieth Century: a comparative analysis
Instructor: Julián Casanova
Science and Religion - Topical Survey
Instructor: Karl Hall
Social and Cultural History of the European Cities, 19th and 20th c.
Instructor: Gabor Gyani
Socialist Intermediaries: the Institutions and Practice of Transnational Communism
Instructor: Constantin Iordachi, Charles Shaw
South-East European History: Doing Balkan History Beyond the Balkans
Instructor: Tolga U. Esmer
The Art of Memory in China and the West
Instructor: Curie Virag
The Artist as an Agent of History. From Symbolic Politics to Visual Activism
Instructor: Edit Andras
The Atomic Age
Instructor: Karl Hall
The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (1848-1918). History and Memory
Instructor: András Gerő
The Bible for Medievalists
Instructor: György Geréby
The Diffusion of Renaissance Humanism: The Case of Venetian Dalmatia
Instructor: Luka Spoljaric
The Early Modern Habsburg Monarchy: Dynastic Agglomeration, Composite Monarchy, Fiscal-Military State
Instructor: Petr Maťa
The Middle East in the Age of Nationalism & Imperialism
Instructor: Dr. Hazal Papuccular
The Political Languages of Anti-Modernism
Instructor: Balázs Trencsényi
The Power of Ruins. Memory and Monuments.
Instructor: József Laszlovszky
The Soviet Experiment From Lenin to Stalin: Comparative and Entangled Perspectives
Instructor: Alexandr Voronovici
Topical Survey Course: Empires
Instructor: Tolga U. Esmer, Niels Gaul
Topical Survey Course: Science and Religion
Instructor: Karl Hall , Marianne Saghy
Totalitarianism and Mass Politics: Comparative Perspectives on Fascism and Communism
Instructor: Constantin Iordachi
Visual Culture - Topical Survey
Instructor: Gyorgy E. Szonyi, Gerhard Jaritz
Women’s and Gender History: An Introduction to Theory, Methods and Archives
Instructor: Francisca de Haan
Yugoslavia: Wars, Crimes, Trials
Instructor: Vladimir Petrovic

Events

March 12, 2014
Orthodox Christianity, Modernity and Post-Soviet Development