Last week, faculty and students from the Department of Historical Studies participated in the Medieval Central Europe Research Network's biannual conference in Munich. Over a very busy three days at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Cristian Gașpar presented on Romanian Noble Elites in Banat, Volachia, and the ius Volachie: the Emergence of a Regional Identity; Michal Machalski on Suspect Subjects: Language of Loyalty and the Unification of Kingdom of Poland; Daniel Ziemann on Representation and Perception of Female Rulership in the Second Bulgarian Empire; Balázs Nagy on Forms of Inclusion and Exclusion in 13th-Century Hungary: Twists and Turns of the Cuman Immigration in the Period of the Mongol Invasions; Katalin Szende on Small-Town Multilingualism: Inclusion or Particularity?; Béla Zsolt Szakács on Church Building Activity around 1500 in the Hungarian Kingdom; and Hanna Feuer on Self-Control as an Attribute of Dominance: a Comparative Analysis of Robert Curthose and Frederick Barbarossa through the Lens of Hegemonic Masculinity.
Current visiting doctoral student Mirjam Theodora Wien presented on "Pagans" ‐ "Egyptians" ‐ "Gypsies". Constructions of a group in late medieval Central Europe, and recent graudates also presented and organized panels, including Davide Politi and Kornél András llés in a panel on Narratives and Narrative Techniques of Inclusion and Exclusion, and Olga Kalashnikova on Politicized Medievalisms in Contemporary Russia: the Case of the Times of Troubles (1598-1613). The keynote on the third day from Paweł Kras, one of the first students to graduate from CEU.
Photo: Davide Politi, Emeritus Professor Gabor Klaniczay, Paweł Kras and Michał Machalski.