Annual Conferences at North American universities (every five years in Hungary) provide a scholarly forum and opportunity for workshops and discussion groups devoted to topics of special interest

List of All AHEA Conferences

The AHEA was organized in 1974 at the Magyar Találkozó in Cleveland, Ohio.  The following year we held our meeting again in Cleveland, as a one-day event.  1976 saw the start of independent conferences of two days (Friday and Saturday), expanded in 1983 to include a program on Thursday evening and occasionally a study tour or cultural program on Sunday.  Many of the conferences were co-sponsored by departments or programs from the host university as well as various local or national organizations.
                             1^st        1976    Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
                             2^nd       1977    Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
                             3^rd        1978    Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
                             4^th        1979    Silver Spring, MD
                                          1979    Special Symposium on Transylvania, Kent State University, Ohio
                             5^th        1980    St.  Michael’s College, U.  of  Toronto, Toronto, Ont.  Canada
Beginning with the 1981 Conference there has been a unifying theme given to each:
                             6^th        1981    Kent State University, Kent, OH
                                                     Symposium on the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
                             7^th        1982    Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, NJ
                                                     Culture of Hungarians  in the USA
                             8^th        1983    St.  Michael’s College, University  of  Toronto, Toronto, Ont.  Canada
                             9^th        1984    Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
                                                     Hungary and Hungarians – Accomplishments and Prospects
                            10^th      1985    Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
                                                     A Ten-Year Retrospective       
                             11^th      1986    St.  Michael’s College, University  of  Toronto, Toronto, Ont.  Canada
                             12^th      1987    Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, NJ
                                                     Hungary and Its Neighbors – Hungary and the West
                             13^th      1988   University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
                                                    Contributions of Hungarians and those of Hung. Descent to World Civilization
                             14^th      1989    St.  Michael’s College, University of  Toronto, Toronto, Ont.  Canada
                                                     With the Hungarian Studies Association of Canada
                             15^th      1990    Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, NJ
                                                     Hungary in an Age of Crisis
                              16^th      1991    Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
                                                     The Life and Times of Ernő Dohnányi
                              17^th      1992    University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
                                                       A Commemorative Conf. on the Centennial of the Birmingham Neighborhood
                              18^th      1993    University  of Maryland, College Park, MD
                                                      Hungary in the 1990's: New Possibilities in a New Context 
                              19^th      1994    Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
                                                      Fifteen Million Hungarians in Transition Today
                              20^th      1995    U.  du Québec, Montréal, Montreal, Que.  Canada
                                                      At the Learned Societies of Canada Conference
                              21^st      1996    Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ
                                                      Hungarian Anniversaries: 896 and 1956
                                           1996   Library of Congress: Commemorating 1100 years of Hungarian Statehood
                                                     Hungary on the Threshold of the 21^st Century
                              22^nd      1997    U.  of Maryland, College Park, MD
                                                      A Thousand Years of Hungarian Education: Toward the Second Millennium
                               23^rd      1998  Columbia University, New York, NY
                                                     Reform, Revolution, Integration: Hungary Past and Present
                               24^th      1999  John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH
                                           Memory, Culture and Identity: The Hungarian Global Village at the End of the Millennium
                               25^th      2000  Magyar Kultúra Alapítvány/Hungarian Culture Foundation, Budapest, Hungary
                                                     Hungarians in North America – Magyarok Észak Amerikában
                               26^th      2001  Georgetown University, Washington, DC
                                                     Hungarian Culture – Central European Culture
                               27^th      2002  University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont, Canada
                                                     At the Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities in Canada
                               28^th      2003 Columbia University, New York, NY
                                                     Hungarian Culture, Global Culture
                               29^th      2004 Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ
                                                    Hungarians at a Turning Point
                              30^th      2005 Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
                                                   Looking Forward – Looking Back: The AHEA at Thirty
                              31^st      2006 Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
                                                   Commemorating the 50^th Anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution 
                                                   Cold War Hungary, the Revolution of 1956, and its Aftermath
                               32^nd     2007 St.  John’s University College of  Professional Studies, New York, NY
                                                    Hungarians in a Larger World
                               33^rd      2008 Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA
                                                   Hungarian Identity in an Intercultural World
                               34^th      2009 University of California, Berkeley, CA
                                                    Hungarians in the New World
                              35^th      2010 University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
                                                   Bridges Between Hungarians  – Magyar-Magyar Kapcsolatok
                              36 ^th       2011 John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH
                                           Whither Europe? Whither Hungary? The Challenges of Pluralism in the Twenty-first Century
                              37^th      2012 Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, New York
                                                   Hungarian Borders, [Im]migrations, Diasporas
                              38^th      2013 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
                                                   Preserving the Past, Finding the Future – Őrizzük a múltat, keressük a jövőt.
                               39^th     2014 University of Florida, Gainesville
                                                   Turning Points in Hungarian Life and History 
                                                   Fordulópontok a magyar életben és történelemben
                               40^th      2015 Kolozsvár/Cluj-Napoca
                                                    Identities Beyond Borders ― Határokon átívelő identitások
                               41^st      2016 University of Maryland Conference Center
                                            ― Migration and Emigration ―  On the 60th Anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution 1956
                                     ― Migráció és emigráció ― Az 1956-os Forradalom és Szabadságharc 60. évfodulója alkalmából
                               42^nd      2017 Ryerson University, Toronto, ON Canada
                                                     Joint Meeting with the Hungarian Studies Association of Canada
                                                     Sovereignty, Compromise, and the Making of Modern Hungary: 1867 and Beyond
                                                     Függetlenség, Kiegyezés és a modern Magyarország kialakulása: 1867 és azután
                              43^rd       2018  Cleveland State University                        
                                                      Forging the Future, Facing the Past: Hungary and its Diaspora
                                                     A jövőbe tekintve, figyelembe véve a múltat: Magyarország és a diaszpóra
                               44^th        2019  University of Pittsburgh
                                                       Identity: Hungarian, European, Global?
                                                       Identitás: magyar, európai, globális?
                               45^th        2020/2021   University of Pécs, postponed from 2020 to 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic
                                                                Online conference: Cultural Crossroads
                               46^th        2022  University of Pécs, Zoom conference 
                                                     Interactions between Hungarians and Hungarian Communities Abroad 
                               47th     2023  Quinnipac University, Hamden, Connecticut
                                                     Dependencies and Alliances

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