Dr. Réka Krizmanics

Employment
2023 February - 2025 January: DFG Walter Benjamin Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Bielefeld
2022 November - Akademische Rätin auf Zeit, University of Bielefeld, Profile Area for Global and Entangled History (on hold for the duration of the DFG position)

Education
2015-2020: PhD in Comparative History, CEU, Budapest
2014: MA in Nationalism Studies, Central European University (CEU), Budapest
2011-2012: Erasmus scholarship, Humboldt University of Berlin
2012: BA in History, Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest

Fellowship
2021 October-2022 June: Research Fellow, Imre Kertész Kolleg, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena

Teaching
2020 September - 2021 January: Teaching Fellow, Global History Lab (GHL), Princeton University (OSUN)
2019-2021 Collaborating Lecturer, University of Leipzig

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

2023 Réka Krizmanics, Vedran Duancić, Introduction to the dossier of European Review of History: Eager to (Let) Know: Knowledge Production and Dissemination in State Socialist Eastern Europe, European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, Vol. 30, No. 2., 143-156.

2022 Trianon in Popular History in Late-Socialist and Post-Transition Hungary: Memory Politics and Shifting Institutional Landscapes of Historical Knowledge Production, East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures, Vol. 36, No. 3, 1036-1060.

2020 Addressing the Trianon Peace Treaty in Late Socialist Hungary: Societal Interest and Available Narratives, Vol 9 No. 1. Hungarian Historical Review, 101-123.

Chapters in collective volumes

2023 ''Kommunistaként az osztályharc frontján, valamint magyarként a nemzeti kérdésekben. Trianon és a határon túli magyarság kérdései a későszocialista történeti diskurzusokban [As a Communist on the Front of Class Struggle and As a Hungarian in National Issues: Trianon and the Issue of Hungarian Diasporas in the Carpathian Basin in Late Socialist Historical Discourses in The Collective and Historical Remembrance of Trianon, edited by Balázs Ablonczy (forthcoming, 2023).

2013 "Nation-Characterology of Dinko Tomasić." In Us and Them: Symbolic Divisions in Western Balkan Societies, edited by Ivana Spasić and Predrag Cvetičanin. Niš: Sven, 2013, pp. 57-72.

Book reviews

2023 Globalizing Eastern Europe: Consolidating the Field of Inquiry. A review of Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation, edited by James Mark and Paul Betts. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2022 (A review and long read). CEU Review of Books, June 2023. https://ceureviewofbooks.com/longread/globalizing-eastern-europe-consolidating-the-field-of-inquiry/

2022 The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene, written by Theodora K. Dragostinova. Cornell University Press: Ithaca. H-Soc-Cult, 12/5/2022.

2019 Social Sciences in the Other Europe Since 1945. edited by Adela Hîncu and Victor Karady. Hungarian Historical Review, 8 (4), 2019, 874-876.

2018 Of Red Dragons and Evil Spirits: Post-Communist Historiography between Democratization and New Politics of History. Edited by Oto Luthar. CEU Press: Budapest, New York. Hungarian Historical Review, 7 (2), 2018, 411-413.

2016 Az elképzelt köztársaság. A Magyarországi Tanácsköztársaság utóélete 1945-1989, written by Péter Apor. Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont: Budapest. East Central Europe, 47 (3), 2016, 356-358.

Conference activity

Conference organized

2019 Communist Parties in East Central Europe: Frameworks of Knowledge Acquisition and Dissemination 1945-1989. Central European University, Budapest, April 26th.

Papers presented (selection)

2023 "Sisters in Solidarity: The Solidarity Work of the Hungarian Women's National Council in the Global Scene During Late Socialism. ENIUGH Seventh European Congress on World and Global History, The Hague, 29 June - 1 July, 2023.

2023 "A One-Time, Joint Solidarity Action": Mass Organizations and the (Gendered) Practices of Socialist Solidarity in State Socialist Hungary. EEGA Annual Conference, Leipzig, 16-17th May.

2022 "Women of the Whole World": The Solidarity Work of Hungarian Women Within the Framework of Socialist Internationalis: Hungary's Relations with the Global South, Institute of History, ELRN & Károli Gáspár Reformed University, Budapest, 9th December.

2022 (Un)learning Boundaries? The Confluences of Area Studies and Global History. Relations in the Ideoscape: Middle Eastern Students in the Eastern Bloc, 1950s-1990, Forum Transregionale Studien, July 6-7th.
2022 Socialist Internationalism(s): Local, Global, and Gendered Aspirations. Cold War Dis: connections and the Transformation of Internationalisms, International Workshop, Munich, June 8-10th.

2022 "... these Clever, Educated Girls Are Going to Rebel Against the Old-Slave-Woman Life.": Depictions of Women's Lives in Sub-Saharan Africa by Hungarian Women 1960s-1980s. The Red Globe: Writing the World in Eastern European Travel Literature of the Cold War, Berlin, ZfL, 1-3 June.

2022 "Women as Co-Producers of the Global (Socialist) Condition. Transregional Dynamics in Eastern Europe and the Americas: New Empirical Approaches. Leipzig, March 3-4.

2021 "One Can Hardly See a Woman Who Would Not Carry a Heavy Load - They Are Toiling Like Beasts of Burden": The State Socialist Female Gaze in Travelogues about the Global South 1960s-1980s. Viva Africa 2021: Africa and (the other) Europe: Imageries - Discourses - Exchanges. Prague, September 15-17.

2021 "Hungarian Experts' Travelogues of the Global South" as part of the panel "Globalizing Eastern Europe: Methodological Challenges". Panel members: Anna Calori, Vedran Duančić, Bogdan C. Iacob. Discussant: Steffi Marung. Globalizing Eastern Europe - New Perspectives on Transregional Entanglements of an Often Neglected Region, 2nd BASEES Regional Conference, Leipzig, April 21-24.

2020 "Women on a Mission - Hungarian State Socialist Female Expert Experiences in the Global South", GWZO Colloquium Comparative and Transregional Research on Eastern Europe, Leipzig, December 1.

2019 "Illékony történészi monopólium. Trianon-diskurzusok a késő Kádár-korszakban" [The Volatile Monopoly of Historians: Trianon-Discourses in the Late Kádár Era], 1989 és a rendszerváltás: a társadalmi cselekvés lehetőségei [1989 and the regime change: the opportunities for social action], Szeged, November 28-30.

2019 "Historical Scholarship in Late Socialism: Institutional Landscapes in Hungary and in Croatia", South/Eastern and Central European Histories of Science and the Humanities (International Pre- and Postdoc Workshop), Erfurt, July 12.

2018 "Where is the Left?": The Revolution of 1956 in Hungarian Memory Politics 1960-2018", Making and Re-Making Europe: The Czech and Slovak Contribution, Toronto, November 7-9.

2017 "My History, Our History: The Institutionalization of Popular History in Late-Socialist Hungary", 49th Annual Convention of ASEEES, Chicago IL, November 9-12.

2017 "Party Expectations and Popular Demand: The Rise of Popular History in Late-Socialist Hungary", The Making of the Humanities VI, Society for the History of the Humanities, Oxford, September 28-30.

Professional collaborations

2022-: external collaborator in the History of Globalization Research Group, a collaborative network of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network, the Eötvös Loránd University and the University of Szeged (Hungary)

2022-: member in the SFB 1288: Practices of Comparison. Ordering and Changing the World, University of Bielefeld

2020-: WORCK - Worlds of Related Coercions in Work, co-leader of Working Group 4 on Intersecting Marginalities, leader of the reading group on state socialism and coercion

2017-2022: Collaborator in the project "Handbook of the Horthy Era" (funded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

2016-: Collaborator in the project "Trianon 100 (funded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

Services to profession
2021-: peer-reviewing
2018-: Review editor, 20th century history, Hungarian Historical Review

Courses taught

Global History Lab [in collaboration with Prof. Jeremy Adelman, Princeton University], BA and non-traditional (refugee) students
A History of the World since 1300 [2020/2021 Fall, teaching two seminar groups]

Global and European Studies Institute, University of Leipzig, MA courses, seminars
The Non-Aligned Movement: History, themes and current debates [2019/2020 Spring, co-teaching, Dr. Anna Calori]
Introduction into the History of State Socialism in Eastern Europe [2019/2020 Spring, 2018/2019 Spring]

Central European University, teaching assistantship, MA course, seminar
Historiography: Themes in its history, and approaches to its theory [2017/18 Fall]

Languages
Hungarian (native)
English (fluent, primary working language)
German (fluent)
Croatian (intermediate)
Vietnamese (beginner)

Public engagement

Radio talks, podcast appearances

2020 Félreértések, félremagyarázások és legendák Trianon kapcsán [Misunderstandings, Misinterpretations and Myths Concerning Trianon]. Partizán (YouTube, podcast), 03 June.

2020 Új beszédmódok a trianoni békeszerződésről [New Narratives about the Trianon Peace Treaty]. Moderator: Gábor Egry (ERC-NEPOSTRANS). Klubrádió, 24 January.

Popularizing lecture
2019 Trianon a népszerű történetírásban [Trianon in Popular Historiography], Central European University: Bibó István Free University, 3 December.

Professional memberships
Association for Women in Slavic Studies
Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies