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    November 5 201809:00-17:00   Central European University(1051 Budapest, Nador street 15, Tiered Room 103)   The year of 2018 marks the centenary of the end of the First World War when the principle of self-determination entered center stage and led to the creation of several … [Read more...] about The Nation State in Contemporary Europe

  Fighting fire and drafting contracts: legal boundaries and practical hindrances of state building in the new Romania     Greater Romania, as a successor state of both the Tsarist and the Habsburg Empires fcaed the challenge of creating a state from four different composite … [Read more...] about Abstracts Gábor Egry

Local trajectories of Czechoslovak state-building in small towns of Eastern Slovakia, 1918–1923   In the Eastern part of daily Slovakia the establishment and the consolidation of the new Czechoslovak Republic was hardly an easy project, particularly in the case of urban … [Read more...] about Abstracts Veronika Szeghy-Gayer

The curious case of Prekmurje: Yugoslav nation state and the imposition of the imperial Austrian administrative regulations in the former Hungarian region   In July 1919, the Yugoslav delegation at the Paris Peace Conference received permission to occupy segments of two western … [Read more...] about Abstracts Jernej Kosi

A region in transition / a state in the making. The establishment of the state of Burgenland and its impact on the (Jewish) population.   After the end of WWI, as many other regions, the boundary region between Austria and Hungary (“Deutschwestungarn”) too was undergoing a period … [Read more...] about Abstracts Ursula Mindler-Steiner