Hungarian-Bulgarian History Conference

POLITICAL, SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL ELITES IN THE CENTRAL- AND EAST-EUROPEAN STATES

IN 19^TH-20^TH CENTURIES

Budapest, 14–15 May 2009

WORK PROGRAM

ORGANIZERS

Hungarian-Bulgarian Joint Academic History Commission

Institute of History at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Institute of History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

KINDLY SUPPORTED BY

Bulgarian Ambassy in Budapest

Medieval and Early Modern History Department and Modern History Department at the Pécs University

Europa Institute Budapest

Center for Balkan Studies - Budapest

Hungarian National Archives

Thallóczy Lajos Foundation

VENUE

Institute of History at the HAS, Conference Hall (Úri u. 53)

SCHEDULE

14 May, Thursday
9.00	Оpening IKONOMOV, Dimitar Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
9.20	STOJANOW, Valery  Institute of History, BAS	On the Early History of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms. The Change in the Minority elites.
9.40	RESS Imre Institute of History, HAS	The National Awareness of the Dynastic Scientific Elite of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. The Archivist Example.
10.00	PANDULA Attila Eötvös Loránd University	The Research of the Bulgarian Ruling Elite in the Light of the Honors. Tsar Ferdinand Saxe-Coburg-Gotta’s Decorations and Orders.
10.20	Coffee Break
10.50	SZABÓ Dániel Institute of History, HAS	Changes in the Hungarian Political (Parliamentary) Elite in the Age of Dualism.
11.10	ZAPRYANOVA, Antoaneta Institute of History, BAS	“The Birth” of the Bulgarian Political Elite at the End of the 19^th C. and Its Consequences till the Beginning of the 21^st C.
11.30	Discussion
12.00	Lunch Break
13.00	CSORBA László Institute of History, HAS	Aristocracy and Elite in the 19th-century Hungary.
13.20	Jr. BERTÉNYI Iván Pázmány Péter Catholic University	"Conflict or Cooperation?" The Elite of the Multiethnic Bachka in the Age of Dualism.
13.40	BAGDI Róbert–DEMETER Gábor Debrecen University	"Advancement and Declassation." Statistical Examination of the Social Transformation in a County in the Age of Dualism.
14.00	Coffee Break
14.30	HRISTOVA, Marina Institute of History, BAS	Der Familienstamm als Faktor bei der Formierung der geselschaftpolitischen Elite im Bulgarien.
14.50	SERES Attila Institute of History, HAS	The Moldavian Csángós. Historical Reasons for the Emergence of a Non-elite Ethnic Group.
15.10	KOLONTÁRI Attila Pécs University	Management Changes in the Soviet Foreign Policy in the Interwar Period.
15.30	Discussion
16.00		The Online Edition of the Papers of the Second Bulgarian-Hungarian Scholarly Forum – Sofia, 16-18 May 2007. Presentation.
15 May, Friday
9.30	EGRY Gábor Institute of Political History, HAS	„Front, no-man's land or a fortress ?” The Hungarian Minority Elite in Romania between the National and Regional identity in 1918-1944
9.50	NJAGULOV, Blagovest Institute of History, BAS	Bulgarian Minority Elites in Greater Romania (1918-1940).
10.10	Coffee Break
10.40	PEYKOVSKA, Penka Institute of History, BAS	Minority Elite of the Bulgarians in Hungary in the Interwar Period
11.00	HORNYÁK Árpád Pécs University	A Self-styled Leader. Szántó Gábor, the "First man" of the Hungarians in Yugoslavia
11.20	Discussion
11.50	Lunch Break
13.00	RITTER László Institute of History, HAS	Transformations of the Yugoslav Communist Party Elit in the 1940s and 1950s.
13.20	GJUROV, Alexander Researcher	The Bulgarian and the Hungarian Red Party Elites Common Palliumban 1956-1989. Identities and Differences.
13.40	Coffee Break
14.10	KŐSZEGI Margó Pázmány Péter Catholic University	From Being a Power to Being a Minority. Situation and Change og the Ethnic Turks in Bulgaria in 19^th – 20^th C. from Ethnogeographical Point of View.
14.30	WATANABE Tomoki Institute of History, BAS	The Rock Opera ‘Stephen, The King’ as a Source for the Opposition of the Cultural Elite in Hungary in the 1980s.
14.50	MARCHEVA, Iliana Institute of History, BAS	The Bulgarian Model of Transition: Privatization and the Emergence of the New Economic Actors.
15.10	JOBBÁGY István Selye János University	Politikal Elite and Institutional System in Slovakia (1990–2004).
18.30		BULGARIA AFTER THE ACCESSION TO THE EU. Round table discussion organized by the Center for Balkan Studies