The book entitled

A History of the Hungarian Constitution.
Law, Government and Political Culture in Central Europe,

edited by Ferenc Hörcher and Thomas Lorman, collecting essays by Hungarian and British experts on the field, published by IB Tauris, will be discussed at a book launch, organised at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of University College, London.

Participants of the roundtable discussion will include:

Ferenc Hörcher (RIPG, NUPS; RCH, HAS) and Thomas Lorman (SSEES, UCL) – editors
Martyn Rady (professor of Central European History) and Philip Barker (SSEES) – authors

The event will start with the welcome speech by
His Excellency, Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky, Hungary's Ambassador to the United Kingdom.

Venue: Masaryk Room, SSEES, 16 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW
Date: 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm, 07 May 2019
Entry is free and all welcome.

See further details here.

Gábor Szabó is giving a talk titled "Bell's Local Causality in Local Physical Theories" at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy on 4 May at a workshop on Relativistic Locality.

The Institute of Philosophy, RCH HAS, cordially invites you to the conference

Rethinking the European City: New Conceptions and the Living Heritage

Date: 26-27 April 2019
Venue: Budapest (Budapest University of Technology and Economics; Institute of Philosophy, RCH HAS)

Keynote speaker: Shane Epting (president, Philosophy of the City Research Group)

The detailed program is available here.

The MTA BTK Institute of Philosophy cordially invites you to its upcoming conference on

The Registers of Philosophy V.

Date: Saturday, 13 April 2019
Helyszín: MTA BTK Institute of Philosophy, 4 Tóth Kálmán str., 1097 Budapest, 7th floor, room "Trapéz"

Program:

9:30 – 9:40 Opening remarks (Ferenc Hörcher, Tamás Paár)
9:40 – 10:40
KEYNOTE LECTURE
Günter Figal (University of Freiburg): Description and Conceptuality. Phenomenological, Metaphysical, and Hermeneutical Aspects
10:40 – 11:00 Commentary by István Fehér M. (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
11:00 – 11:40 Discussion
11:40 – 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 – 12:20 Antonia Egel (University of Salzburg): Philosophical Writing Interacting with Poetry. Notes on Husserl, Arendt, and Heidegger
12:20 - 12:30 Discussion
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 - 14:30
KEYNOTE LECTURE
Sharon Rider (Uppsala University): The Unsettling of Ideas and the Power of Style
14:30 – 14:50 Commentary by Csaba Olay (ELTE)
14:50 – 15:30 Discussion
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:20 Tamás Paár (PPKE): Metaphors, Irony and Lying in the Light of a MacIntyrean Ethics of Enquiry
16:20 – 16:40 Tibor Görföl (Theological College of Pécs): Lack and Hypertrophy of Speech. Remarks on the Language of Mysticism
16:40 - 17:00 Discussion

Organizers: Ferenc Hörcher (MTA, NKE), Tamás Paár (PPKE)

Poster

Ferenc Hörcher presents a paper in Hungarian with the title Mi a szerepe a posztkommunizmusnak a mai európai válságban? (What is the Role of Post-Communism in the Present European Crisis?), on 4 April, 2019, at 4.00 pm., in the Institute for Political Science of the Hungarian Academy of Science (4 Tóth Kálmán Street, 1097 Budapest, Hungary). His talk is part of the conference Vezér, demokrácia, politikatudomány: Konferencia a 60 éves Körösényi András tiszteletére (Leader, Democracy, Political Science, Conference in honour of the 60th Birthday of András Körösényi).