Balázs Trencsényi

Associate Professor
Head of the 1YMA Program
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Department of History
Pasts Inc., Center for Historical Studies
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Qualifications: 
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, MA in Philosophy, 1997
Invisible College, Budapest, Hungary, 1991-1997
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, MA in Nationalism Studies, 1998
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, Ph.D. in Comparative History, 2004
Academic/Professional experience, and Achievements: 

Nuffic Scholarship, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 1995-1996

University of Hull, UK, scholarship, 1996

British Council/Open Society Institute Scholarship, University of Cambridge, 1999-2000

Guest Scholar, Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas, Leipzig, 2002

Associate Fellow, Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia, NEXUS Project, 2001-2002

Junior Visiting Fellow, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, 2002

Andrew W. Mellon-Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2002

Guest Scholar, Centre for the History of Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic: International Visegrád Fund Research Grant, 2002-2004

Research Fellow, Centre for Advanced Study Sofia-Collegium Budapest. Project: "We, The People: Visions of National Peculiarity and Political Modernities in the 'Europe of Small Nations'," 2004-2005

Junior Fellow, Collegium Budapest, Project: "Multiple Antiquities - Multiple Modernities: Antiques and their Entangled Histories in Nineteenth-Century Europe," 2005

Associate Fellow of the project Regimes of Historicity and Discourses of Modernity and Identity, 1900-1945, in East-Central, Southeast and Northern Europe, hosted by the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia, supported by the Thyssen Foundation, 2008-2009

Recipient of the European Research Council Starting Independent Researcher Grant as Principal Investigator of the project, "Negotiating Modernity”: History of Modern Political Thought in East-Central Europe (www.negotiating.cas.bg), over the period of five years (2008-2013), hosted by the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia, in partnership with CEU.

Together with Diana Mishkova, convener of the project European Regions and Boundaries. A Conceptual History, hosted by the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (2012-13).

Associate Editor of the periodical East Central Europe; and Editor of the book series CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: Regional Perspectives in Global Context (Brill).

 

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Affiliations: 
Department of History
Pasts Inc., Center for Historical Studies
Academic/research topics: 
intellectual history
nationalism
history of political thought
history of historiography
East Central Europe
Academic/Research Areas: 
History and Medieval Studies

Publications

Book
Reframing the European pasts : national discourses and regional comparisons : Part 2 : Translations and transfers, Edited by D. Müller, Z. Török and B. Trencsényi., 2009.
Reframing the European pasts : national discourses and regional comparisons : Part 1 : Practices and perceptions, Edited by D. Müller, Z. Török and B. Trencsényi., 2009.
Nemzeti liberalizmus : ideológiai hagyomány és elméleti érvényesség, Edited by B. Trencsényi., 2008. Abstract
Narratives unbound : historical studies in post-communist Eastern Europe, Edited by S. Antohi, B. Trencsényi and P. Apor. Budapest: CEU Press, 2007.
Trencsényi, B.. A politika nyelvei : eszmetörténeti tanulmányok. Budapest: Argumentum Kiadó, 2007.
Discourses of collective identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770-1945) : texts and commentaries, Edited by B. Trencsényi and M. Kopeček. Budapest: CEU Press, 2006. Abstract
Ész, természet, történelem : filozófiai tanulmányok, Edited by A. Czeglédi, Z. Novák and B. Trencsényi. Budapest: Áron, 2002.
Nation-building and contested identities : Romanian and Hungarian case studies, Edited by B. Trencsényi, D. Petrescu, C. Petrescu, C. Iordachi and Z. Kántor. Budapest: Regio Books, 2001.
Book Chapter
Trencsényi, B.. "History and character : visions of national peculiarity in the romanian political discourse of the nineteenth-century." In We, the people : politics of national peculiarity in Southeastern Europe, edited by D. Mishkova, 139-178. Budapest: CEU Press, 2009.
Trencsényi, B.. "Bunt protiv istorii : konservativnaia revoliutsiia i poiski natsionalnoi identichnosti v mezhvoennoi Vostochnoi i Tsentralnoi Evrope." In Antropologiia revoliutsii, edited by I. Prokhorova, A. Dmitriev, I. Kukulin and M. Maiofus, 207-241. Nauchnaia biblioteka. Moskva: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2009.
Trencsényi, B.. "Jön a tatár! : A nemzeti antiliberalizmusok kihívása Kelet-Közép-Európában." In Liberalizmus és nemzettudat : dialógus Szabó Miklós gondolataival, edited by I. Z. Dénes, 241-273. Vol. 8. Eszmetörténeti könyvtár 8. Budapest: Argumentum, 2008.
Trencsényi, B.. "Political romanticism and national characterology in modern Romanian intellectual history." In Re-searching the nation : the Romanian file, edited by S. Mitu. Cluj-Napoca: International Book Access, 2008.
Trencsényi, B., and P. Apor. "Fine-Tuning the Polyphonic Past : Hungarian Historical Writing in the 1990s." In Narratives unbound : historical studies in post-communist Eastern Europe, edited by S. Antohi, B. Trencsényi and P. Apor, 1-100. Budapest: CEU Press, 2007.
Kontler, L., and B. Trencsényi. "Hungary." In European Political Thought 1450-1700 : Religion, Law and Philosophy, edited by G. B. S. H. and Howell Lloyd, 176-207. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.
Trencsényi, B.. "Az állam hajójától Epikurosz kertjeiig." In Angliától Nagy-Britanniáig : magyar kutatók tanulmányai a brit történelemről, edited by T. Frank, 109-132. Budapest: Gondolat, 2004. Abstract
Trencsényi, B.. "Conceptual history and political languages : on the Central-European adaptation of the contextualist-conceptualist methodologies of intellectual history." In The history of East Central Europe and Russia, edited by Veber P. Roubal, 142-163. Vol. 1. Prague perspectives 1. Prague: National Library of the Czech Republic, 2004.
Trencsényi, B.. "A történelem rémülete : eszmetörténeti vázlat a két világháború közötti kelet-európai nemzetkarakterológiai vitákról." In A szabadság értelme – az értelem szabadsága : filozófiai és eszmetörténeti tanulmányok, edited by I. Z. Dénes, 299-324. Budapest: Argumentum Kiadó, 2004.
Trencsényi, B.. "Csontvázak a szekrényben : Lucian Boia a román történeti mítoszokról." In Társadalmi önismeret és nemzeti önazonosság Közép-Európában, edited by C. Fedinec, 111-127. Budapest: Teleki László Alapítvány, 2002. Abstract
Trencsényi, B.. "Államrezon – állam nélkül : a politikai közösség modelljei és a ragion di stato-diskurzus adaptációja Zrínyi Miklós írásaiban." In Ész, természet, történelem : filozófiai tanulmányok, edited by A. Czeglédi, Z. Novák and B. Trencsényi, 8-49. Budapest: Áron, 2002. Abstract
Trencsényi, B.. "Kulcsszavak és politikai nyelvek : gondolatok a kontextualista-konceptualista eszmetörténeti módszertan kelet-közép-európai adaptációjáról." In A történész szerszámosládája : a jelenkori történeti gondolkodás néhány aspektusa : a "Történelem – Társadalomtudományok" Konferencia anyagai, edited by A. Szekeres, 117-158. Vol. 3. Atelier füzetek 3. Budapest: L'Harmattan, 2002. Abstract
Iordachi, C.. "The California of the Romanians : the integration of Northern Dobrogea into Romania, 1878-1913." In Nation-Building and Contested Identities: Romanian and Hungarian Case Studies, edited by B. Trencsényi, C. Petrescu, D. Petrescu, C. Iordachi and Z. Kántor, 121-152. Budapest: Regio Books, 2001.
Trencsényi, B.. "The Münchausenian Moment : Modernity, Liberalism and Nationalism in the Thought of Stefan Zeletin." In Nation-Building and Contested Identities: Romanian and Hungarian Case Studies, edited by B. Trencsényi, C. Iordachi, C. Petrescu, D. Petrescu and Z. Kántor, 61-80. Budapest: Regio Books, 2001.
Trencsényi, B.. "Spinoza és a kora újkori politikai nyelvek." In Individuum, közösség és jog Spinoza filozófiájában, edited by G. Boros, 75-122. Budapest: Áron, 2000.
Trencsényi, B.. "The Political Languages of Hungarian Nationhood in the Early Modern Period." In The Garden and the Workshop : Disseminating Cultural History in East-Central Europe : In Memoriam Péter Hanák, edited by M. Turda, 25-48. Budapest: Central European University, 1998.
Trencsényi, B.. "Liberális paradigmák és Spinoza politikai filozófiája." In Spinoza-tanulmányok, edited by G. Boros, 87-134. Tények és érvek. Budapest: Áron Kiadó, 1994.
Journal Article
Trencsényi, B.. "Vesztes csapaton ne változtass! : Gyurgyák János : Ezzé lett magyar hazátok." 2000 20, no. 4 (2008): 3-12.
Trencsényi, B.. "Bevezető." Magyar Tudomány 169, no. 1 (2008): 2-4.
Trencsényi, B.. "K vostoku ot raja : debaty o Tsentralnoi Evrope v sovremennoi Vengrii." Neprikosnovennyi zapas 56, no. 6 (2007): 68-84.
Janowski, M., C. Iordachi, and B. Trencsényi. "Why bother about regions : debates over symbolic geography in Poland, Hungary and Romania." East Central Europe 32, no. 1-2 (2005): 5-58.
Trencsényi, B.. "2000 leütés." 2000 16, no. 6 (2004): 1.
Iordachi, C., and B. Trencsényi. "In Search of a Usable Past: The Question of National Identity in Romanian Studiess, 1990-2000." East European Politics & Societies 17, no. 3 (2003): 415-453. Abstract
Trencsényi, B.. "A felejtés emlékezete." 2000 15, no. 3 (2003): 51-55.
Trencsényi, B.. "Workshop a Közép-Európai Egyetemen : "Változó történetírás Közép-Európában – új témák, új módszerek"." Korall : társadalomtörténeti folyóirat, no. 7-8 (2002): 208-216.
Trencsényi, B.. "To Find the Voice of Angels and the Devils Dwelling in Details." Regio : Minorities, Politics, Society – English Edition 13, no. 1 (2002): 227-245.
Trencsényi, B.. "Conceptualizing Statehood and Nationhood: The Hungarian Reception of Reason of State and the Political Languages of National Identity in the Early Modern Period." East-Central Europe 29, no. 1-2 (2002): 1-26.
Iordachi, C., and B. Trencsényi. "A megújulás esélyei : a román történetírás tíz éve (1989-1999)." Replika : szociológiai viták és kritikák : társadalomtudományi folyóirat, no. 41-42 (2000): 165-194. Abstract
Trencsényi, B., and C. Iordachi. "A román történetírás kihívásai." Replika, no. 41-42 (2000): 165-265. Abstract
Miscellaneous
Trencsényi, B.. The nationalization of philosophy : constructing a Bulgarian "national ontology" in the interwar period. Sofia: Centre For Advanced Study Sofia, 2007. Abstract
Trencsényi, B.. Book review : Csontvázak a szekrényben., 2002. Abstract
Thesis
Trencsényi, B.. Early-modern discourses of nationhood. Budapest: Central European University, 2004.
Trencsényi, B.. Patriotism, elect nation, and reason of state : patterns of community and the "political languages of Hungarian nationhood" in the early modern period. Budapest: Central European University, 1998.