Personal data: Name: András Lénárt Place/date of birth: Budapest, October 3, 1975. Email: lenart.andras@ella.hu
Education: 2002- PhD studies at the Loránd Eötvös University of Sciences (ELTE), Department of Economic and Social History, Budapest. 2002 Defence of degree work: 1. Spain's accession to the European Union (ELTE, Department of Spanish Language and Literature). 2. Advertising in Hungary in the 1960s (ELTE History Department). 1997-2002 ELTE Sociology Institute, sociology major specializing in media sociology. 1995-2002 ELTE Arts Faculty, history and Spanish language major. 1990-95 Secondary school studies: Mihály Károlyi Hungarian-Spanish Dual-Language Gymnasium, Dual-Language Section.
Language knowledge: Spanish: higher proficiency certificate (C1). English and German: intermediate proficiency certificates (B2).
Scholarships for study abroad: Spring semester, 2001: Erasmus Scholarship, Humboldt University, Department of European Ethnology May 2005: Kuno Klebelsberg Research Scholarship, Vienna, Collegium Hungaricum September 2005: Research scholarship, Vienna, Collegium Hungaricum 2009: Collegium Hungaricum and Ernst Mach scholarships, Vienna.
Scholarly work: Since 2003: research fellow at the 1956 Institute, Budapest
Publications
Studies Az életművész (The enthusiast-Oral History study). In: Az 1956-os Intézet Évkönyve 2000. (Yearbook of 1956 Institute). Budapest, 2000, 179-92.
Stíluskérdés? Az elbeszélt források néhány ismérvéről és publikálásukról (A question of style? Some principles of narrated sources and publication of them). In: Az 1956-os Intézet Évkönyve 2004. Budapest, 2004, 211-31.
A Magántörténelem 1956 és a Kádár-korszak projekt keretében szerkesztett interjúk (Dr. Forintos György, Gömöri György, Karátson Gábor, Pákh Tibor, Pelcz József) (Private History, 1956 and the Kádár Period programme).
"Az én huszadik századom". Recenzió Losonczi Ágnes: Sorsba fordult történelem c. könyvéről ("My 20th century." Review of Ágnes Losonczi's book History as Destiny). Múltunk, 2005 I/4, 201-6.
"Nevet nem szabad kérdezni!" Közvélemény-kutatás Magyarországon 1945 és 1949 között ("Ask no names!" Public-opinion research in Hungary in 1945-9). A demokrácia reménye Magyarország, 1945 (The hope of democracy. Hungary 1945). Évkönyv XIII. 2005. Budapest: 1956-os Intézet, 2005, 146-75.
Fluchtgeschichten von 1956er Jugendlichen. In: Die ungarische Revolution und Österreich 1956. Edited by Murber, Ibolya, and Zoltán Fónagy, Zoltán. Vienna: Czernin Verlag, 2006, 465-95.
Nyugdíjas diákok visszaemlékezései az ausztriai magyar gimnáziumokról, 2005-1956 (Recollections of elderly students of the Hungarian gymnasia in Austria). Educatio, 2006/3, 623-30.
Történetgyűjtés. Az Oral history tudományos műhelyei Magyarországon 1945 után (Collecting stories. The workshops of oral history in Hungary after 1945). Aetas, 2007/1 (forthcoming).
Magyar diákok Ausztriában 1956-7 (Hungarian students in Austria). Thematic website (writing and compilation).
Deutschland-Varianten in den Erzählungen der 1956er Emigranten. In: Der Ungarnaufstand. Das Jahr 1956 in der Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Hrsg. Kende, Péter und Wolgast, Eike Budapest, 2007. 73-82.
Újra "otthon". Hazalátogató ötvenhatos emigránsok (Home again. Visits home by '56 émigrés). In: Germuska, Pál, and János M. Rainer, eds: Évkönyv XV.
"Druzsba Express". Utazás az Express Ifjúsági és Diák Utazási Irodával az 1970-es években ("Drushba Express." Travels with the Express Youth and Student Travel Agency in the 1970s). Regio, December 2008. (Also in German-language volume of proceedings, December 2008.)
Az elbeszélt források használata a jelenkortörténet-írásban (The use of oral sources in contemporary historiography). In: Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis. Nova Series tom. XXXVI. Sectio Scientiarum Medialium. Also in: Az interjú mint sajtóműfaj és módszer c. konferencia írásban megjelent előadásai (Written contributions to the conference "The interview as a press genre and method"). Ed. József Martin. Eger: Eszterházy Károly Főiskola, Médiatudományi Tanszék, 2009, pp. 57-65.
Conference contributions Public-opinion research in Hungary in 1945-9. Hope of Democracy. Hungary, 1945. Budapest, June 2005.
We report in confidence. The image of Hungary in the background materials of Radio Free Europe. Changes of Concept: Social Inequality, the Agent Question, and National and Political Community in Central Europe. Budapest: László Teleki Institute, September 28-9, 2006.
Deutschland-Varianten in den Erzählungen der 1956er Emigranten In Memory of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften/Stuttgart Hungarian Cultural Institute, October 12, 2oo6.
Fluchtgeschichten von 1956er Jugendlichen. Die ungarische Revolution und Österreich 1956. Vienna: Collegium Hungaricum/Universität Wien/ Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, November 7-8, 2006.
Daniel takes a Train. (Film by Pál Sándor, 1984). Introduction. Cinemagrophy of the Holocaust, Budapest, March 8-10, 2007.
"Történetgyűjtés" - Oral history archívumok Magyarországon ("History collecting". Oral history archives in Hungary). Aetas, 2007/2:5-30.
Stefano Bottoni, ed. Az 1956-os forradalom és a romániai magyarság (1956-1959) (The 1956 Revolution and the Hungarian community in Romania, 1956-9). Múltunk, 2007/4 (forthcoming).
„Drushba Travels”. Hungarian foreign tourism in the 1970s. Lecture in the Final Conference of the Project „Hidden Past”: State Socialism and „transnational interspaces” 1956-1989. European University Institute, Florence, 18-21. September 2008.
"The wife has a say. Boundless relations: women and men." Contribution to the conference Latest results in research into social gender in Hungary. Budapest: MTA Etnikai-Nemzeti Kisebbségkutató Intézet, January 29-30, 2009.
Interviews in historiography. Conference on interviews as a press genre and method, Károly Eszterházy College, Eger, May 16, 2008 (publication forthcoming in 2009).
"Friendship's end? Tour guides and the change of system." Contribution to the conference Change (Changes) of system. Budapest City Archives, September 10, 2009.
"Boundaries. Methodological issues to do with interviews with '56 Hungarian emigrants." Contribution to the Qualitative Section of the 2009 Annual Conference of the Hungarian Sociology Society. Debrecen, November 13-14, 2009.
"Venues of the socialist period and tourism practice as remembered by tour guides." Contribution to conference entitled "Venues". Pécs: BTK Kommunikáció- és Médiatudományi Tanszéke és Néprajzi Múzeum, November 20-21, 2009.
Translations into Hungarian: How Alfonso X placed a ring on the finger of the cowled St Mary and how the statue crooked its finger for the ring (cantiga). In: Német, György: Love of statues. Café Bábel 20, 1996/2, 117-31. Also: Németh, György: Utopia of tyrants. Budapest: Atlantisz, 1996, 345-7.
Péteri, György: Purging and patronage: Kádár's counterrevolution and economics research in Hungary, 1957-8. Aetas, XXI, 2006/1, 186-210.
Other empirical research: 1997: Interviews with 13 participants in the 1989 National Round Table. (Central European University, Budapest, Political Science Department. Coordinator: András Bozóki).
1999: Interviews (Identity of today's Hungarian Jews. ELTE Social Minority Research Institute. Coordinator: András Kovács). 1999: Résumé analysis (Daily lives, 1956 Institute, Oral History Archive. Coordinator: János M. Rainer).
1999-2000: Interviews (The innovation ability and vision of elites. Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Political Sciences. Coordinator: László Guba.
2002: Workers' lives. Interviews (coordinator: Erzsébet Szalai). Poverty research. Interviews and questionnaires (University of Economics, Budapest. Coordinator: György Lengyel).
Interviews for Kopint-Datorg Rt. Monitoring survey of electronic signature use. Questionnaires and interviews (Szonett Marketing Consultancy and Market Research Association).
Interviews (Enable Age Project-European comparative study of the autonomy and social participation of the elderly. Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Sociological Institute. Coordinator: Zsuzsa Széman).
Educational projects This is the fashion! Dress and way of life in '60s Hungary. Exhibition by 1956 Institute/Hungarian National Museum. Sziget Festival, Budapest, August 2005, Coordinator.
56. UTCA. Exhibition by 1956 Institute/Káva Cultural Workshop. Sziget Festival, Budapest, August 2006 Coordinator.
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