One of the events that could take place after the long covid break was the European Social Science History Conference. This time the organisers from the International Institute of Social History chose the Swedish port of Gothenburg as the venue. The programme of the four-day conference was traditionally busy, with over 20 parallel sessions running at some points. Members of our team organized two sessions and participated in many others.

On 22–24 November 2022, the German Historical Institute in Warsaw hosted a conference entitled Forbidden Fruit. It was devoted to sexual life and Churches in Central Eastern Europe in different epochs. The programme opened with a very interesting keynote lecture given by Klaus van Eickels, professor at the University of Bamberg in Germany. ...

In mid-November, our team members organized another successful event with international participation. The workshop Careers in politics, politics as a career. Developments in 19th and early 20th century Europe was attended by experts from eight European countries, Israel, and the USA. The meeting took place at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the CAS in Prague.

On 12–13 October 2022, the 35th year of the traditional symposium was held in Mikulov. The theme of this conference was women in the history of Moravia. The papers dealt with the lives of specific women, their activities in associations, educational institutions and in public sphere in general. Attention was also paid to the possibilities of studying women in memory institutions in Moravia and Bohemia. ...

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. ...

The 74th conference of the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions (ICHRPI) took place between 21–23 September in Paris. Organized by the French Section of the ICHRPI on behalf of the Comité d’histoire parlementaire et politique (CHPP) and the University of Orléans, it had as scientific coordinators Jean Garrigues (Chairman of the CHPP), Pierre Allorant (Secretary General of the CHPP) and Walter Badier (Secretary General of the CHPP).

The 12th Congress of Czech Historians with the subtitle Profesní setkání historiček a historiků České republiky [Professional Meeting of Historians of the Czech Republic] took place in Ústí nad Labem. The tradition of this conference dates back to 1937, but only in the 1980s did it become a regular event. Since 2006, it has been held every five years. ...

Last week our team members participated in the international conference of historical sciences in Poznań. These congresses have been organised by the International Committee of Historical Sciences in regular – usually five-year – intervals for more than 120 years. The conference in Poznań was originally planned for 2020, but due to the epidemic of Covid-19 it was postponed until this year. ...

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. ...