Once more, private histories and political history are revealed to be mutually constitutive, as this blog entry presents the contexts and the complex conditions under which life-affecting choices were made in the era. The head of our research group, Balázs Ablonczy writes about themes familiar from the opening contribution to this series by Veronika Szeghy-Gayer.

The Trianon 100 Momentum Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Chair of Dutch Studies of the Faculty of Humanities at Eötvös Loránd University is organizing a conference, to be held on 9-10 November, 2018 in Budapest with the aim of assessing the state of the art, explore new vistas and perspectives for research with regard to research into post-World War I refugees, forced and voluntary migrant and refugee integration. The aim of the conference is to survey and summarize accumulated findings in this subfield of historical research.