The 49th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association took place on 16–19 November 2023. The organisers chose the hotel Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill as the venue of the conference and enabled the participants to spend some time near the heart of American democracy. The theme of this year's meeting was Pursuits of Wellbeing. ...

At the time of the 140th anniversary of the death of the first mayor of the Benešov district, Karel Drahotín Villani, the conference Between Municipality and State opened the topic of district governments. Historians and archivists explored district self-government in relation to public administration, tracing its development and composition from its origins to the mid-20th century. A number of papers dealt with prominent figures in county councils.

The 75th conference of the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions took place in Rome and Naples from 25 to 28 September 2023. The first two conference days were organised under the auspices of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament in Palazzo Montecitorio in Rome.

At the end of summer, the 5th Conference of the Society of Historical Demography took place in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. It was attended by 227 experts from 34 countries. The papers were very diverse, covering traditional topics such as fertility, nuptiality and mortality, but also new research challenges arising from the use of state-of-the-art technology. ...

At the beginning of the summer, a conference was held in Cluj-Napoca, organised by the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Babeș-Bolyai University and the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities. Although the presentations focused mainly on contemporary nationalism and populism, several panels were also devoted to historical background. ...

The first book published as a result of our project is out. The main topic of the volume is elites in East-Central and South-East Europe in the 19th century and their gregarious tendencies. Sixteen authors contributed altogether, including five members of our team. Judit Pál, Vlad Popovici and Oana Sorescu-Iudean wrote the foreword titled Elites and Groups in East-Central and South-East Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century. ...

Four members of our team have contributed to the latest issue of Transylvanian Review. Martin Klečacký analysed how the death of the breadwinner affected social mobility among Czech civil servants in the second half of the 19th century. The topic of Alice Velková’s research was the specificities of family life of senior civil servants in Bohemia in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. ...

Publication: Employing Digital Prosopography in the Study of Mid- and Upper Social Strata in Transylvania (Mid-Eighteenth to Mid-Twentieth Centuries): Tools and Approaches The journal Annales Universitatis Apulensis. Series Historica has published a paper written by our team members Vlad Popovici and Angela Lumezeanu. The paper focuses on using databases and other digital tools for historical research. ...

We cordially invite you to a lecture by Mag. Dr. Therese Garstenauer from the University of Vienna, who will take us into the world of civil servants at the end of the Habsburg Monarchy and the beginning of the new Austrian Republic. The lecture will focus on the family relations of civil servants, including the transformation affecting the traditional division of labour within these families.