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The war that puts an end to all wars
May 8 and 9, 2014
The war that puts an end to all wars – To the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War
At the request of the Faculty of Arts of Eötvös Loránd University, the Department of Modern and Contemporary History organized an international scholarly conference on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I. The conference was supported, among others, by the First World War Centenary Memorial Committee and was held with the participation of the following speakers:
Tamás Dezső: Dean's welcoming address
Ferenc Glatz: The hundred years' war of Europe
Robert Evans: A new approach to the development of World War I
Mária Schmidt: Europe's fraternal war
Vilmos Kovács: Hungarian military industry during World War I
Zoltán Maruzsa: István Tisza and the crisis leading to World War I
Ferenc Szávai: The economic effects of the war in Central Europe
Ferenc Fischer: Zeigen der Flagge (Signs of the flag). Three warships of Wilhelm II and the special mission of Prince Heinrich von Hohenzollern in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile in the spring of 1914
Tibor Frank: Wars and peaces: Attempts at a separate peace treaty at the end of World War I
András Gerő: From the assassination to the declaration of war: The last month of peace in the Hungary of the Monarchy (from June 28, 1914 to July 28, 1914)
András Kocsis: The outbreak of the Great War: Assassination, ultimatum, mobilization and declaration of war
Ferenc Pollmann: The panic in Pančevo (Pancsova)
Tibor Balla: Generals of Hungarian origin in the Austrian-Hungarian armed forces and the Great War
Dávid Ligeti: The fall of a field-marshal – Thoughts on the relief of Chief of the General Staff Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf in 1917
József Kaló: The Schlieffen Plan and its failure: the first year of the war on the western frontline
Tamás Pintér: The memory of the battle of Doberdo: The war of mines
Norbert Stencinger: The application of war gases in the defence of the Doberdo Plateau, June 1916
Ferenc Kaiser: The escape of the battle cruiser SMS Goeben in the summer of 1914 (The ship that has overthrown an empire)
Mihály Krámli: Navalism and the preparation of the Austrian-Hungarian Navy to the Great War
Gábor Antal: From the sea to the desert: The history of the battle cruiser EMDEN on the basis of the memoirs of Navy 2nd Lieutenant Hellmuth von Mücke
Gábor Székely: The geopolitical shift of power at the end of the Great War – to Germany
Eszter Edina Molnár: The limits of alignment
Péter András Tóth: While we mobilized ten soldiers, they did fifteen. The judgment of the Central Powers in the circles of the Entente Cordiale and the US
Gergely Egedy: Lloyd George and the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy
Zoltán Garadnai: Charles de Gaulle in World War I
Mária Pallagi: The question of Spanish neutrality as seen in Viennese diplomacy (from 1914 to 1918)
István Pál: The intelligence agency dimensions of the Unites States going to war
József Juhász: New interpretations of the Balkans question and the role of Serbia in the outbreak of the world war
Etleva Lala: Albania between Austro-Hungary and Italy at the beginning of World War I
Melek Çolak: The Turkish soldiers who escaped to Hungary during the First Balkan War (On the basis of Hungarian sources)
Patrik Szeghő: Montenegro in the Balkan policy of the great powers from the Eastern Question to the Paris
Peace Conference
Gábor Búr: War sites of World War I outside of Europe from the first to the last shots
Viktor Marsai: The end of an illusion – the collapse of the German colonial empire in Africa
Gábor Szabó-Zsoldos: The Boers and the British. The Maritz mutiny (1914–1915): an almost civil war in the Great War
Ákos Ferwagner: The dilemmas of British Near Eastern policy (1914–1916)
Andrea Pető: The memory of the Great War on the basis of genders
Balázs Sipos: Women and the world war – women in Hungary after the war
Anita Madarász: What is the value of suffrage, if we are losing the country in which we can vote? – The history of British women's suffrage movement (1914–1918)
Gábor Benedek: The place of New Europe in Masaryk's oeuvre
László Gulyás: An attempt at building a nation-state, Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1939
Andrej Tóth: World War I as a path leading to the foundation of the Czechoslovak state
József Vonyó: World War I and racial protection
Tamás Krausz: World War I in Lenin's interpretation
Géza Gecse: Expansion and self-reflection, or rather the lack thereof, in Russian politics – from Sarajevo to the Prince Islands (1914–1919)
Gyula Papp: The roots of World War I: imperialism and imperial ideologies
Imre Garaczi: The consequences of World War I in the geopolitical fate of East Central European small states
Csaba Surányi: Was the war unavoidable?
Péter Szatmári: The Europe of lunatics? Who is responsible for the outbreak of the war?
Ates Uslu: The Great War and its Origins in the Levantine Press of Istanbul
Nikolay Baranov: World War I as seen in contemporary German and Russian literature
Eszter Balázs: "Official literature" and the war (1914-1916)
Zoltán Oszkár Szőts: Topics chosen in Hungarian-language book publishing during World War I
Miklós Veres: Nightmares of a great war in utopian and science fiction literature in the era of the Dual Monarchy
Miklós Zeidler: World War I in the school textbooks of the Horthy era
László Tamás Vizi: The signatories of the Trianon Peace Treaty in World War I
Péter Hevő: Germany's relationship with its eastern neighbors during the time of Stresemann's foreign policy
Pál Pritz: The opportunities and massive limits of the enforcement of Hungarian national interests during World War I
Zoltán Szász: Ethnic minorities in World War I
Zsolt Vesztróczy: Budapest? Vienna? Prague? Possible directions of the Slovak national movement in the 1910s
Csaba Csapó: The diary of Elemér Simontsits senior
Péter Csunderlik: Listen, and swear well – The "anti-military" activity of the Galilei Circle during World War I (1914-1918)
János Majdán: The railroad schedule has collapsed... – Hungarian railroads in the first period of the Great War
András Balogh: The effect of World War I in Asia and Africa
Ágnes Judit Szilágyi: The effect of the European Great War on Brazilian social movements (1917-1920)
László Tőkéczki: István Tisza on the Hungarian nation, the Monarchy and the war
Iván Bertényi junior: The King is dead – Long live the King! Preparation for the coronation of Karl IV
Ferenc Maczó: The coronation of the last king and the satirical political papers
László Kósa: The memory of World War I in family tradition
Mónika Mátay and Henrietta Trádler: The victims of the war after the fights – arsenic in Tiszazug
Eleonóra Géra: Death came by streetcar. Budapest weekdays in the threat of Spanish flu
Bence Péter Bozó: The Orvosi Hetilap (Medical Weekly) and World War I
István Majoros: Picture postcards from the frontline: The visual war
