Hungary on the border-land of two world powers: the Habsburgs and the Ottomans
Sat, Mar 23, 9:00 am to Sun, Mar 24, 12:00 pm
Dogwood Room, Indiana Memorial Union
SATURDAY, March 23, 2013
9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:30 Welcoming Remarks
Patrick O`MEARA, Vice President Emeritus, Professor of Political Science and Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
Anna STUMPF, Congressional Liaison and Political Attaché, Embassy of Hungary, Washington, DC
10:00 Panel I: Devastating Wars between Habsburgs and
Ottomans
Chair: TBA
The Transitional Empire
Charles INGRAO, Professor of History, Purdue University
The Ottoman-Habsburg Wars: A Reassessment
Gábor ÁGOSTON, Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University
Towns, Villages, Depopulated Settlements – Population
Movements in Ottoman Hungary
Géza DÁVID, Professor, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of
Humanities, Budapest
Questions/remarks
12:00 Buffet Lunch, University Club President’s Room
1:30 Panel II: Life in War and Peace
Chair: Toivo U. RAUN, Professor, Indiana University Department of Central
Eurasian Studies
The Ottoman Danubian Serhad in the Early 16th century:
Challenges and Policies
Nikolay Atanasov ANTOV, Assistant Professor of History, University of
Arkansas
The Hungarian Campaign in 1566, and the Battle of Szigetvár in Ottoman Sources
Snjezana BUZOV, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and
Cultures, The Ohio State University
The Kingdom of Hungary in the "Long" 16th Century
Szabolcs VARGA,Theological College of Pécs
Questions/remarks
3:30 Coffee break
3:45 Panel III: Transylvania: Between Two World Empires
Chair: TBA
At the border of two worlds: the legal status of the Principality of Transylvania between the Habsburgs and Ottomans
Teréz OBORNI, Institute of History of the Research
Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of
Sciences, Budapest
Together or apart? The Family Strategies of the Hungarian and Transylvanian Political Elite in the 16th Century
Ildikó HORN, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of
Humanities, Budapest
Questions/remarks
SUNDAY, March 24, 2013
9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:30 Panel IV: Aftermath of the Ottoman Period
Chair: Lászlo BORHI, Hungarian Fulbright Professor, Indiana University
Central Eurasian Studies Department, Senior Research Fellow, Hungarian
Academy of Sciences
From “alla Turca” to “style hongrois:” Musical exoticism on the
borderland
Lynn HOOKER, Associate Professor, Central Eurasian
Studies, Indiana University
Enthusiasm for a Hereditary Enemy: Demonstrations for Turkey in Budapest
during the 1877-78 Russo-Turkish War
Iván BERTÉNYI, Jr., György Ránki Hungarian Chair Professor, Indiana University / Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Humanities, Budapest
The Turanian Language Concept in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-
Century Hungary
Matthew CAPLES, PhD Candidate, Central Eurasian
Studies Department, Indiana University
Questions/remarks
11:30 Closing remarks
TBA
The symposium is free and open to the public. The courtesy of advance registration is encouraged (to aid seating and lunch counts) but is not mandatory.
Write to Karen Niggle, kniggle@indiana.edu, using subject line HUNGARIAN.
If you have a disability and need assistance, arrangements
can be made to accommodate most needs.
The György Ránki Hungarian Chair Symposium is sponsored by the Indiana University György Ránki Chair in Hungarian Studies, Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, and Russian and East European Institute.
Department of Central Eurasian Studies
Indiana University, Goodbody Hall 157
1011 E. 3rd Street, Bloomington IN 47405-7005
Telephone: 812-855-2233, Fax: 812-855-7500
