On 7 November 2025, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) held a major conference at its headquarters in Budapest entitled “HAS 200 – Mohács 500. The Latest Research Results in Archaeology, Anthropology, and Historical Studies.” The event, organized in the …
The Fraknói Research Group at the First International Congress of the History of Dioceses in Lisbon The Centro de Estudos de Historia Religiosa of the Catholic University of Portugal (Lisbon) and the História, Territorios, Comunidades research centre of th…
On October 14–15, 2025, the Gál Ferenc University hosted a conference entitled Holy Years and Jubilees, organized by the university’s Bálint Sándor Research Group for the Study of Religious Culture and the History and Ethnography Section of the Saint Stephen A…
The National Committee of Hungarian Military Historians held a conference entitled Military History Research in Hungary at the National University of Public Service on 20 October 2025. At the event, Viktor Kanász delivered a presentation entitled Nunciature Re…
On October 2–3, 2025, the University of Hradec Kralové and the University of Pardubice held a joint international conference on the early modern period entitled "Three centuries in the heart of Europe. European Aristocracy in the Early Modern Period". On th…
On Thursday, 9 October 2025, at 6:00 p.m., the Slovak Historical Institute hosted the book launch of Dejiny slovenského historického výskumu v Ríme [The History of Slovak Historical Research in Rome], authored by Ivana A. Petranský, a research fellow of the In…
On 8 October 2025, following the Székesfehérvár event, the presentation of the Lexicon of Bishops 1804–1918 (Magyarország egyházmegyéi és püspökei (1804–1918). Intézménytörténeti és életrajzi lexikon I–IV (CST I/7) szerk. Szirtes Zsófia–Tusor Péter–Rupert Klie…
Organized by the Veszprémi Szemle Urban History Public Benefit Foundation, the launch event of the 78th issue of the Veszprémi Szemle urban history journal was held on 26 September 2025 at the Eötvös Károly Library. At the event, Viktor Kanász, research fellow…
Organised by the Hungarian Military Science Society and the “Szülőföldünk” Local History Association, the conference entitled “Győr County in Hungarian Military History” was held in Győr between 29 September and 1 October 2025, with Gábor Nemes and Viktor Kaná…
On 18–19 September 2025, the international conference “Giubileo e giubilei. Arte, mete e riti tra Roma e Santiago di Compostella” (“Jubilees and Holy Years. Art, Destinations and Rites between Rome and Santiago de Compostela”) took place at Sapienza University…
On 23–24 September 2025, the conference Western Transdanubia Before and After Mohács took place at the Nádasdy Cultural Centre in Sárvár. From the Fraknói Research Group, Viktor Kanász participated in the organisation; in addition to him, the large audience co…
On the afternoon of 11 September 2025, a double book launch was held at the Somogy County Archives of the Hungarian National Archives. On this occasion, alongside Éva Knapp’s volume Regeneratio et constantia. Egy 18. századi dél-dunántúli település, Mesztegnyő…
As part of the Fraknói Centenary, a major international event took place on 6 June 2024 at the headquarters of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani (INSRI) on the Aventine Hill, in the immediate vicinity of the Palace of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta…
The public defense of the doctoral dissertation of Róbert Oláh, assistant research fellow of the Vilmos Fraknói Vatican Historical Research Group, was held on 4 September at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University. Prepared under the supervision of Péter Tusor a…
Under the title “We have not come to celebrate, but to pay the tribute of reverence …”, an academic conference on the Battle of Mohács and its age was convened by the Municipality of Székesfehérvár, the Institute and Museum of Military History, and János Kodol…
On 11 August 2025, precisely on the 125th anniversary of his death, a commemorative session honouring Bishop Fülöp Steiner (1839–1900) was convened at the episcopal palace in Székesfehérvár. The event was formally opened by Bishop Antal Spányi of Székesfehérvá…
The scholarly legacy of Vilmos Fraknói in Rome is today embodied by the Collectanea Vaticana Hungariae—the series that revived the Monumenta Vaticana Hungariae in 2002/2004. These volumes, which present the results of ongoing fundamental research, are publishe…
On June 12, 2025, the concluding symposium of the multi-year international project titled "Curia romana e nazioni europee" took place in the Eternal City, within the prestigious halls of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani (the same venue where the Research…
The public defense of Tamás Kruppa’s doctoral dissertation for the title of Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (DSc), entitled From the Jagiellonians to the Szapolyais: Two Decades from the History of the Kingdom of Hungary (1519–1541), was held on 12…
Organized by the Fraknói Research Group and the Gyula Moravcsik Institute of the HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, the Fraknói Summer Academy was held for the eleventh time between 29 and 31 May 2025. After being held in Nagyvárad last year, this yea…