Director General of HUN-REN BTK Receives Prestigious Award

The István Györffy Memorial Medal is awarded by the Hungarian Ethnographic Society to its members in recognition of outstanding achievements or an exceptional body of work, according to the Institute’s report on the award ceremony.

At the ceremony, Balázs Balogh gave a lecture entitled "Double Change of Sovereignty from Below – Hungarian–Romanian Conflicts, Antecedents, and Impacts in Kalotaszeg between 1940 and 1944 Reflected in Memoirs and Sources."

A detailed tribute and analysis of the awardee’s research areas can be found on the website of the HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities.