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We congratulate Elke Hartmann, professor and co-founder of the Department of Armenian Studies on the successful completion of her habilitation at the Pázmány University!

Two of our students, Péter Récsei (History B.A.) and Kima Saribekyan (History M.A.) received second place and the special award respectively in the category of Modern and Contemporary History and Historical Memory.

We met three Armenian students at Sophianum to talk about the clashes in Karabakh from a very personal point of view.

The travel account of the Mekhitartist monk Minas Bžškeanc' has been published by Bálint Kovács and Grigor Grigorjan (Halle an der Saale) at Böhlau Verlag under the title Der Reisebericht des Minas Bžškeancʻ über die Armenier im östlichen Europa.

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, one of the world’s and the European Union’s biggest Armenian private foundations, supports the Armenian Studies Programme at PPCU for the fourth time. Its support is annually 25.000 EUR.

The treasures of Armenian religious tradition at the National Széchényi Library: Within a few years, the National Széchényi Library has hosted its third Armenian-themed exhibition.

The GWZO Institute of Leipzig publishes a book series of its own with Bálint Kovács as co-editor, at the Böhlau publishing house, entitled "Armenier im östlischen Europa – Armenians in Eastern Europe"

Prof Szabolcs Szuromi, Rector of PPCU signed an agreement of cooperation involving both research and education in the field of Humanities with UCLA on January 11th, 2019 in Los Angeles.

On May 20, 2017, Dr. Bálint Kovács, Head of the Armenian Department of PPCU, received a high-level recognition from the Armenian Ministry of Culture in Yerevan.