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A historian of East Central European political and cultural thought, co-director of Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies, and director of the History in the Public Sphere Erasmus Mundus MA Program at CEU. From 2021, he has been leading the Democracy in History Work Group at the CEU Democracy Institute. Elected member of Academia Europaea. His main field of interest is the history of modern political thought in East Central Europe. Between 2008 and 2013, he was Principal Investigator of the European Research Council project, “Negotiating Modernity”: History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe. He has held fellowships at Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin; Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin; Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena; Centre for Advanced Study Sofia; IWM Vienna; and Collegium Budapest. He is currently working on a project of comparative history of crisis discourses in interwar Europe.
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OTA: Overcoming The Aggressor
Trencsényi, B. (Main researcher at CEU)
1/08/24 → 31/07/26
Project: Research
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AUTHLIB: Neo-authoritarianisms in Europe and the liberal democratic response
Enyedi, Z. (Researcher), Fodor, E. (Researcher), Ignatieff, M. (Researcher), Iordachi, C. (Researcher), Jenne, E. K. (Researcher), Miklósi, Z. (Researcher), Mikola, B. (Researcher), Moles, A. (Researcher), Schneider, C. Q. (Researcher), Trencsényi, B. (Researcher), Vedres, B. (Researcher), Wagner, F. (Researcher), Koszegi, V. (Project Manager) & Miklósi, Z. (Researcher)
European Commission - Horizon Europe
1/10/22 → 30/09/25
Project: Research
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Crisis without Catharsis? Crisis Discourses and the Problem of Political Modernity in Interwar East Central Europe
Trencsényi, B., 2024, East Central European Crisis Discourses in the Twentieth Century: A Never-Ending Story?. Trencsényi, B., Balikić, L., Blagojević, U. & Grubački, I. (eds.). New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 27-54 28 p.Research output: Contribution to Book/Report types › Chapter › peer-review
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East Central European Crisis Discourses in the Twentieth Century: A Never-Ending Story?
Trencsényi, B. (Editor), Balikić, L. (Editor), Blagojević, U. (Editor) & Grubački, I. (Editor), 2024, New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 427 p.Research output: Book/Report types › Book › peer-review
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Revisionisms revised. Does the radical right appropriate or disrupt historical narratives through revisionism?
Szafonova, T., Trencsényi, B., Buzalka, J., Apor, P., Neumann, K. & Egry, G., 2024, In: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe. 32, 1, p. 1-13 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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The enchantment of national culture in East Central Europe
Trencsényi, B., 2022, In: Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics. 8, 2, p. 207-210 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Faces of Crisis: Rethinking a Key Concept in View of the Transnational Intellectual History of Europe
Trencsényi, B., 2022, Networks, Narratives and Nations. Brolsma, M., Drace-Francis, A., Lajosi-Moore, K., Maessen, E., Rensen, M., Rock, J., Rodríguez, P. Y. & Snel, G. (eds.). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, p. 211-222 12 p.Research output: Contribution to Book/Report types › Chapter › peer-review
Activities
- 2 Editorial work
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East Central Europe (Journal)
Trencsenyi, B. (Editor in chief)
2005 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial work
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2000: Irodalmi és társadalmi havi lap (Journal)
Trencsenyi, B. (Member of editorial board)
2003 → 2019Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial work