Carolina Seminar • Gábor Egry (Institute of Political History, Budapest)

Gábor Egry is a historian and director-general of the Institute of Political History, Budapest. His research interests include nationalism, everyday ethnicity, politics of identity, politics of memory, and economic history in modern East Central Europe. His work has been published in European Review of History, Slavic Review, Hungarian Historical Review, and Südost-Forschungen. From 2018 to 2023 he was the principal investigator of the ERC Consolidator project “Nepostrans – Negotiating post-imperial transitions: from remobilization to nation-state consolidation. A comparative study of local and regional transitions in post-Habsburg East and Central Europe.”

The seminar series is co-sponsored by the Carolina Seminar Program, and the UNC Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies. Please note that the participants will give an overview of their projects, but will not read a formal paper. Instead, papers or book chapters will be circulated ahead of time to those who are interested in attending and participating in the discussion. Please contact Dr. Eren Tasar for more information (etasar@email.unc.edu).