Brigitta Schvéd, Junior Research Fellow at our Institute, will participate in the Fourteenth Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity, organized by the Reformation Research Consortium (REFORC), which will take place from 22 to 24 May 2025. This year’s conference focuses on the theme of religions and rebellions and will be hosted at the Vienna campus of Central European University (CEU), organised by Matthias Riedl and Martin Pjecha.
Brigitta Schvéd will give her presentation on the first day of the conference (22 May), within the panel titled “Perspectives on Early Modern Hungary”. In her talk ("Hungary as the Bilanx of Europe? Discourse on the European Balance of Power and the Role of Hungary in Early Eighteenth-century English Political Press"), she will explore English and Habsburg political discourses on the concept of 'balance of power' in the early eighteenth century, with particular emphasis on the years of Rákóczi's War of Independence and the reception of the Hungarian cause in the English political press and the Habsburg diplomatic correspodence.
More information on the conference website here; preliminary program here.
Cover picture: Mór Than: The national assembly of Ónod (1864); source: Wikimedia Commons