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He is a lecturer and researcher at the Institute of History at the University of Debrecen. He obtained his PhD in 2018 from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Debrecen. His research interests include the history of the Balkans, the study of geopolitical regions, and the 19th-century foreign policies of Austria-Hungary, the Russian Empire and Great Britain. He is a member of the Bulgarian–Hungarian Joint Committee of Historians and the Bulgarian–Hungarian Academic Mobility Project, as well as the international organisations Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies (SGNCS) and Gesellschaft für Turkologie, Osmanistik und Türkeiforschung (GTOT). Since January 2025, she has been the principal investigator of the NRDIO (STARTING 150326) research project.

Publications: Hungarian Scientific Works Repository (Katalin Schrek’s profile)

Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of History, ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities, and a member of the Department of South-Eastern European History. He obtained his PhD in 2006 from the Faculty of Humanities at Eötvös Loránd University. He is a regular editor of the historical journal Világtörténet and a member of the editorial board of Istraživanja – Journal of Historical Researches (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad). His research focuses on the history of the Balkans in the 19th and 20th centuries, the formation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and issues relating to the Yugoslav state structure. In addition, his research examines in detail the process by which the major European powers intervened in the Balkans.

Publications: Hungarian Scientific Works Repository (László Bíró’s profile)

He is a lecturer at the University of Pécs and Eötvös Loránd University. He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in History from the University of Pécs, and subsequently earned a Master of Arts in International Studies from Corvinus University of Budapest. His main areas of research include the history of international relations, 19th-century foreign policy decision-making, and its implications for media history. He defended his doctoral thesis in 2024 at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Pécs, entitled ‘Telegrams from London’. The Foreign Policy of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and Great Britain from the Appointment of Count Gyula Andrássy to the Congress of Berlin (1871–1878). He is a member of the Hungarian Historical Society and the Research Group on Modern Russia. He is a member of the editorial board of Pontes, the journal published by the Institute of History at the University of Pécs.

Publications: Hungarian Scientific Works Repository (Bertalan Bordás’s profile)

Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of History, ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities, and Head of the Department of South-Eastern European History. He obtained his PhD in 2008 from the Faculty of Humanities at Eötvös Loránd University. He is a member of the Albanien Institute. His research focuses on Austria-Hungary's Balkan policy and colonial approach, as well as the examination of humanitarian interventions. His most recent monograph dealt with the Balkan orientation of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy’s foreign policy (‘We have no colonies and no intentions of conquest’: Hungarian participation in the Monarchy’s colonial endeavours in the Balkans. Budapest: Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities, 2022.)

Publications: Hungarian Scientific Works Repository (Krisztián Csaplár-Degovics’s profile)

Senior Research Fellow at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, ELTE. He obtained a PhD in History and Earth Sciences from the University of Debrecen in 2007–2008 and was awarded a habilitation in Historical Geography in 2017. He defended his MTA doctoral thesis in October 2025 in the field of historical sciences (historical statistics, history of spatial inequalities: Regional development conditions and spatial inequalities in historical Hungary. The possibilities and difficulties of hGIS and quantitative historiography, 1720–1910).  His research interests include the diplomatic and socio-economic history of the Balkans and Austria-Hungary, historical GIS (GISta Hungarorum: http://gistahungarorum.abtk.hu; balkanethnicmaps.hu), historical statistics (balkans-in-numbers.eu), and historical geography and environmental history. He is Vice-Chair of the Hungarian Section of the Hungarian-Bulgarian Joint Committee of Historians.

Publications: Hungarian Scientific Works Repository (Gábor Demeter’s profile)

Professor at the Institute of History, University of Pécs;  Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of History,  ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities; Head of the Department of Modern History, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pécs. He obtained his PhD in 2001 from the Faculty of Humanities at Janus Pannonius University (Pécs). His research focuses on the history of the Balkans in the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular emphasis on Serbia, as well as Hungarian–Yugoslav diplomatic relations in the 20th century. He is a member of the Pécs Academic Committee’s Research Workshop on the History and Culture of Eastern Europe and the Balkans, the Hungarian–Bulgarian Joint Committee of Historians, and the Serbian Historical Society (Društvo istoričara Srbije).

Publications: Hungarian Scientific Works Repository (Árpád Hornyák’s profile)

Adam Balogh earned his PhD in 2007 from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Szeged. His research focuses on the history of the Balkans in the 19th and 20th centuries, especially the formation of modern Greece. He is a research fellow at Deák Ferenc High School in Szeged.

Publications: Hungarian Scientific Works Repository (Adam Balogh’s profile)

From 2019 until September 2025, Ágnes Ordasi served as an archivist at the Hungarian National Archives. Since September 2025, she has been a research fellow at the Central European Research Institute of the Eötvös József Research Centre at the National University of Public Service (NKE). She defended his doctoral dissertation, titled 'The Relationship Between Society and the State in Fiume During the Dual Monarchy Era: The Possibilities, Means, and Limits of Hungarian State Power in Fiume', at Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in 2022.

Her primary research area is the exercise of power within the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. In particular, he focuses on the various levels of power and how specific social groups assert their interests, using Fiume during the Dual Monarchy era as an example. She is also interested in the political manifestations of economic and social historical issues, as well as the relationships between the parties involved in the discourse.

Publications: Hungarian Scientific Works Repository (Ágnes Ordasi’s profile)