ELTE Social & Economic Geography

Paper of @PterBalogh6 and his co-author, Katalin Kovály, published in Nationalities Papers on securitization of Ukraine’s small ethnic Hungarian minority in recent years

On October 18-19, colleagues from Kyiv's Taras Shevchenko National University delivered a series of lectures "Urban Ukraine: Contemporary Geographical Issues" at our department, as part of their 8-day visit to ELTE within the Erasmus+ ICM mobility program.

The article analyses how environmental experts communicate and present environmental issues in the field and news media in Hungary facing different (re)presentational problems when addressing biodiversity, air pollution, water pollution, or climate change.

Priszcilla Hafenscher and Ferenc Jankó have published an article "(Re)presenting nature: contrasting field and media communication of environmental experts in a Hungarian context" doi.org/10.1080/103820… (50 free online copies).

Ferenc Janko has published a book, "From Borderland to Burgenland" with @CEUPress. It tells a story of how geographical knowledge helped transform Hungary's westernmost lands into an Austrian region. It's open access! ceupress.com/book/borderlan…

🔓📙 #New and #openaccess from @ceupress! Biopower in Putin’s Russia tinyurl.com/DownloadBiopow… From Borderland to Burgenland tinyurl.com/DownloadJanko Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights tinyurl.com/CEUPressFemini… #books #scholarly #research

Check out Peter Balogh's new article based on his fieldwork in Transcarpathia

Last week our department hosted Dr. Tobit Nauheim from @GIUB_Research, who presented his research on the history of geography, particularly 19th-century German geographer Johann Justus Rein's research journeys to Japan and his impact on German geographical imaginations of Japan.

Adam Labath @adam_labath, a PhD candidate in our department, wrote an essay about the walls and murals of Belfast in the Földgömb geographical magazine based on his fieldwork in Northern Ireland. You can read the article at this link [in Hungarian]. afoldgomb.hu/latest-cover/a…

My very first popular science articles were published in the Földgömb magazine. One article explains the complexity of Northern Ireland conflict, the other one presents the history of 'the Troubles' with the Belfast murals.

Our department's Dr. Ferenc Janko and Dr. Marton Berki @MartonBerki published their study of the dehumanization of migrant workers in the Western Hungarian city of Sopron. The article is open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Dr. Ferenc Gyuris and Dr. Robert Gyori form our department, together with Dr. Steven Jobbitt (@lakeheadhistory), published a new article on the history of fin de siècle Hungarian geography (in Annals of @theAAG): tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@GroomB @MartonBerki fyi

North-east England is a brick collector's paradise. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Dr. Ferenc Gyuris gave a presentation "Decolonizing “development” in and from the global semi-periphery: a historical approach from human geography" at ESSA Conference 2023 (University of Vienna, October 12-14, 2023).

Last week, our department hosted Muhayyoi Rahimzoda, PhD candidate at Corvinus University, who presented her research: "A Political Economy Analysis of the Design, Adaptation, and Implementation of Poverty Reduction Policies: A Case of Tajikistan".

Ferenc Jankó and Priszcilla Hafenscher published a paper, "The Water Histories of Hungary's Major Rivers", in the journal Historica. History and Related Sciences Review. The article is accessible in the latest issue: historica.osu.eu/current-issue/

Last week, members of our department, Péter Balogh and Gela Merabishvili, presented their research on borders at the ASN (Association for the Study of Nationalities) Europe conference hosted by Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

The new issue of Hungarian Geographical Bulletin includes György Mikle's review essay of "Recalibrating the Quantitative Revolution in Geography" (co-edited by the head of our department Ferenc Gyuris). ojs3.mtak.hu/index.php/hung…

György Farkas, assistant professor at our department, reviewed Atlas of Poland’s Political Geography (edited by Marcin Solarz) in Hungarian Geographical Bulletin. The review offers a "Hungarian" perspective on Polish geography. ojs3.mtak.hu/index.php/hung…