The VERITAS Research Institute for History, the Directorate for Public Collections and Public Education of the Office of the National Assembly and the Hungarian Historical Society jointly organize a conference titled History and Role of the Holy Crown of Hungary and its Regalia in the 20th Century*. President of the Republic of Hungary János Áder and Minister of Human Capacities Miklós Kásler give welcoming remarks. The VERITAS Institute is represented by:
Róbert Hermann: Orșova – Vienna – Pozsony: The Road Taken by the Crown Jewels between
1848 and 1853
Gábor Ujváry: Doctrine of the Holy Crown during the Interwar Period
Kálmán Kovács: Denominational Understanding of the Heritage of St. Stephen and the
Catholic–Protestant Feud of the 1938 Memorial Year
Gábor Hollósi: History of the Concept of the Holy Crown and the Eckhart Debate
János Rácz: By whom President Carter was Troubled: Hungarian Emigration
and the Return of the Holy Crown
Dávid Ligeti: Hungary and the Holy Crown (1945–1978)
Former Prime Minister of Hungary Péter Boross gives closing remarks.
If you would like to attend, please register here by November 16th, 2018.
Location: The House of Parliament – Upper House, Kossuth Square 1-3, Budapest
Date: 10 AM on (Tuesday) November 20th, 2018
*To keep it from falling into Soviet hands, the Holy Crown was spirited away to the United States following WWII. With President Jimmy Carter’s blessing, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance returned it to Hungary in 1978.
Source of photo: MTI (Jenő Papp)
