Hungarian Research Institute - A Research Ancillary of the University of Toronto

Academic Highlights

• Major Research Publications

A Bonkalo, S.: Rusyns (Columbia University Press)

Bibó, I.: Democracy, Revolution, Self-Determination (Columbia University Press)

Gábor Vermes: István Tisza: The Liberal Vision and conservative Statecraft of a Magyar Nationalist (Translation to German)

Werbőczy's ”Tripartitum” - the 16th century codex of the laws of Hungary (English translation and publication of selected chapters)

• Visiting Statesmen / Scholars Program 

Károly Grósz - Prime Minister of Hungary

Árpád Göncz - President of Hungary

Géza Jeszenszky - Foreign Minister of Hungary

Rudolf Joó - Secretary of State, Hungarian Ministry of Defense

István Balsai - Minister of Justice

Mrs. M. Kovács-Kósa - Hungarian Minister of Labour

Imre Szekeres - Vice-President (MSzP)

Károly Lotz - Minister of Transport

Eörsi Mátyás - Chair, Foreign Affairs Committee, Hungarian Parliament

Iván Pető - President (FIDESz)

Viktor Orbán - President (FIDESz)

Rezső Bányász, Kálmán Kulcsár and Károly Gedai - Ambassadors of Hungary to Canada

• Conferences and Seminars

”Modernism / Postmodernism: A Division in the Heritage of Europe” - International Symposium (Trent University)

”The Challenge of Central Europe: Thirty Years After the Hungarian Revolution” - International Symposium (York University)

”Dilemmas of Transition - The Hungarian Experience” - Conference co-sponsored with the American Liszt Society and the Liszt Prize in 1993 and 1996

”The Politics of Ethnicity: Hungary and Romania” - G. Schöpflin (London School of Economics)

”East Central Europe”- Géza Jeszenszky (U of T)

 ”I. Nagy, J. Kádár and the Russians: A Reassessment ” -  Charles Gáti (U of T)

”Poverty, Women and Socialist Ideas in Hungary and Hungary under Károly Grósz” - Iván Völgyes

”Magyarságkutatás Magyarországon” (Hungarian Research in Hungary) and ”Új esélyek régi realitások a magyar külpolitikában” (New Opportunities vs. Old Realities in Hungarian Foreign Politics) -  Rudolf Joó

”A Scientific Critique of the Daco-Roman Theory” - Béla Borsi-Kálmán