With her research project on ‘Women and Trade Unions in Europe and internationally, 1920s to 1980s’ Susan Zimmermann has won a fellowship at re:work, the International Research Center on Work and Human Life Cycle, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, for the Academic Year 2016/2017. The project aims at the rejuvenation of an all-European labour history and wishes to make an original contribution to the development of the new global labour history.
This is a major new study of the successor states that emerged in the wake of the collapse of the great Russian, Habsburg, Iranian, Ottoman and Qing Empires and of the expansionist powers who renewed their struggle over the Eurasian borderlands through to the end of the Second World War. Surveying the great power rivalry between the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan for control over the Western and Far Eastern boundaries of Eurasia, Alfred J.
On Wednesday, November 4, Professor Ilona Sarmany-Parsons gave a farewell lecture entitled "Art History in Transition" to members and friends of the Department of History. During her talk, Professor Sarmany-Parsons traced her own intellectual development against the backdrop of major changes in the field of art history in Hungary over the course of the twentieth century.
On the anniversary of the 1956 revolution in Hungary on October 23, CEU History students traveled to Szeged for a guided city tour by Professor (and Szeged local) Gyorgy Szonyi. Starting at the iconic, Art Nouveau-style New Synagogue, the second largest in Hungary, students explored other historical sites, including the Reök Palace and a famous Franciscan monastery.
