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FOREWORD
very grateful for her support. Many thanks to Hedvig Bubnó, Csaba Dupcsik
and Béla Makkai (Károli Gáspár University, Faculty of Humanities) for their
professional and practical advice. Mariann Nagy (Károli Gáspár University,
Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Historical Sciences), Ágnes Judit Szilágyi
(Elte), Marcel Nagy (independent researcher), Domingo Lilón (University
of Pécs), Lázár Balogh (conductor and music professor) and Gábor Egry
(Institute for Political History) helped me peer review each study.
Finally, I would like to say thank you to Maximiliano Gregorio-Cernadas
for supporting me in organising the conference and publishing this book, and
in the same way the Hungarian LATIMO Foundation. I am grateful to Hernán
Otero, who - like me — never gave up, made all possible efforts and came
to Budapest to give a highly interesting plenary lecture on the Argentinian
immigration’s impact on the formation of the nation. The plenary lectures of
Eugen Stancu (Lucian Boia: Demythologization of the Romanian historical
discourse after 1989), Javier Moreno Luzon (Nationalism and nation-building
in Spain 1875-1939), Csaba Dubcsik (The national idea as an integration
ideology — Hungarian dilemmas from the last third of 18 century to 1918),
Tamas Bubn6é (Nationality: Greek Catholic, Father Janos Boksay — Joann
Bodsaj (1874-1940), Subcarpathian composer) and Ion Bogdan Lefter (Politics
and culture in modern Romania: A country united, its success story, and its
political ups and downs (1866-1945) were just as interesting and innovative.
For years, I was intrigued by the idea of organising this conference.
However, as time passed, I spotted this topic emerging in the titles of several
other conferences. And when I heard someone say that the topic was no
longer relevant, I still did not give up, because I was certain that it will stand
the test of time and it will reveal something new, since it brings forward and
compares three specific marginal regions. That is how this scientific workshop,
our conference “National Identity and Modernity 1870-1945, Latin America,
Southern Europe and East Central Europe” came into being and its results are
now offered in a printed form.
Budapest, 23 April 2018
Viktöria Semsey
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