Register of events
41 scholarly conferences and 25 symposia, 1990–2026
The Society has held scholarly conferences since 1990 and symposia since 2001. The register below contains all 66 events with date, title and venue; the digitised invitations and information sheets can be opened directly.
Most recent event
2 October 2026
Balassagyarmat City Mayor's Office · 2660 Balassagyarmat, Rákóczi út 12.
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1990–2026 · 41 events
The founding general meeting resolved in 1990 to launch the scholarly conference series; the sessions have convened annually ever since, typically in autumn.
I. The relationship between the Hungarian law enforcement bodies and the organs of local government, 1848–1945
II. Current questions of research, treatment and teaching in law enforcement history
III. Tradition and modernity
IV. Law enforcement in dualist Hungary
V. War, Revolution, Trianon
VI. Law enforcement in the Kingdom of Hungary between the two world wars
VII. From war into dictatorship
VIII. The path of the Napoleonic public security guard corps from Paris — through Italy and Austria — to Budapest
IX. Our economic law enforcement in the 19th and 20th centuries
X. The influence of Western law enforcement on Hungarian law enforcement in the 19th and 20th centuries
XI. Free movement in the Carpathian Basin
XII. Changes in the relationship between public administration, the armed forces and law enforcement in the period of the bourgeois Hungarian state
XIII. Public security is our common European heritage
XIV. A thousand years of Hungarian law enforcement
XV. European and Hungarian law enforcement in the 19th and 20th centuries
XVI. The history of professional training in law enforcement
XVII. The human relations of law enforcement
XVIII. Tasks of the armed constabulary in the service of crime prevention and peacekeeping in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries
XIX. A decade and a half in the service of research into our national law enforcement history
XX. The impact of the Hungarian revolutions of the 19th and 20th centuries on our national law enforcement system
XXI. The development of Hungarian law enforcement in the 19th and 20th centuries
XXII. The effects of a century and a half of changes of regime upon our national law enforcement
XXIII. Hungarian law enforcement bodies of national competence abolished between the Compromise and the turn of the millennium
XXIV. The gendarmerie in Austria-Hungary, and in Austria and Hungary, 1849–2005
XXV. Public security is our common Carpathian Basin heritage
XXVI. Militarism and demilitarisation in the law enforcement of the Hungarian state in the 19th and 20th centuries
Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law, Faculty Council Chamber · 1053 Budapest, Egyetem tér 1–3.
XXVII. The national security organisations of the Hungarian state in the 19th and 20th centuries
National Security Service headquarters, training centre · 1022 Budapest, Tövis u. 13.
XXVIII. Hungarian law enforcement, aviation and reconnaissance in the 19th and 20th centuries
XXIX. The history of the fire service
XXX. Hungarian law enforcement in the period of exceptional powers
National University of Public Service, Faculty of Military Science and Officer Training, Building 'A' · 1101 Budapest, Hungária körút 9–11.
XXXI. Militarily organised armed guard corps and civil armed guard corps in the border control of the Hungarian state in the 19th and 20th centuries
National University of Public Service, Faculty of Law Enforcement · 1121 Budapest, Farkasvölgyi út 12.
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XXXII. The history of the financial guard. The 150th anniversary of the Royal Hungarian Financial Guard
National University of Public Service, Ludovika Campus, Zrínyi Hall · 1083 Budapest, Ludovika tér 2.
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XXXIII. Fifty years on. Border guards, intelligence officers, soldiers of the Honvéd, police officers
1101 Budapest, Hungária krt. 9–11.
XXXIV. The Hungarian police forces were nationalised 100 years ago
National University of Public Service, Ludovika, Saint Ladislaus Chapel Hall · 1083 Budapest, Ludovika tér 2.
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XXXV. "The law behind you, and the law before you too!" The Royal Hungarian Gendarmerie and its age
Online conference (Ópusztaszer National Historical Memorial Park)
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XXXVI. The Royal Hungarian Customs Guard was established 100 years ago
Veritas History Research Institute and Archives · 1093 Budapest, Zsil utca 2–4.
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XXXVII. The establishment of the Royal Hungarian State Police of Budapest and of the Royal Hungarian River Guard, and their successor organisations
1139 Budapest, Teve utca 4–6.
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XXXVIII. Hungarian law enforcement in Transylvania in the 19th and 20th centuries
Gyergyóremete Commune Hall · 537250 Gyergyóremete, Cseres Tibor tér 10.
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XXXIX. The Hungarian parliamentary guard, crown guard and bodyguards of the 19th and 20th centuries
Parliament Building · Budapest
XL. Law enforcement in the bourgeois Hungarian state
Veritas History Research Institute and Archives · 1093 Budapest, Zsil utca 2–4.
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XLI. The beginnings of Hungarian border control in Palócföld
Balassagyarmat City Mayor's Office · 2660 Balassagyarmat, Rákóczi út 12.
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2001–2026 · 25 events
The symposia, begun as a branch of the conference series, work through the sources of the history of public security and of the gendarmerie, traditionally in February.
I. The Hungarian gendarmerie was established 120 years ago
II. The gendarmerie in Hungary
III. Faithfully, honourably, bravely
Budapest
IV. Crime prevention in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries
Kaposvár
V. The gendarmerie and public security in the countryside
Kaposvár
VI. 125 years of Act III of 1881 on the organisation of the public security service
Budapest
VII. Law enforcement in the Hungarian countryside in the 19th and 20th centuries
Budapest
VIII. The first centralised public security guard corps of the bourgeois Hungarian state
Budapest
IX. Public order policing in the Kingdom of Hungary, 1867–1945
Budapest
X. Public order policing in the bourgeois Hungarian state
Budapest
XI. The centralised public security guard corps of the bourgeois Hungarian state: the Royal Hungarian Gendarmerie
Ministry of Defence Institute and Museum of Military History · Budapest
XII. Law enforcement in the Hungarian countryside, 1867–1945
Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law · 1053 Budapest, Egyetem tér 1–3.
XIII. European and Hungarian gendarmeries in the 19th and 20th centuries
Budapest
XIV. Exceptional powers and public security
Eötvös Loránd University · 1053 Budapest, Egyetem tér 1–3.
XV. 65 years in the service of public security in the bourgeois Hungarian state. 25 years in the service of cultivating the history of the first centralised public security guard corps of bourgeois Hungary
Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law, Faculty Council Chamber · 1053 Budapest, Egyetem tér 1–3.
XVI. 125 years since the interior portfolio of the bourgeois Hungarian state entered border control
Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law, Faculty Council Chamber · 1053 Budapest, Egyetem tér 1–3.
XVII. Militarily organised armed guard corps in the service of law enforcement in the bourgeois Hungarian state
Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law, Faculty Council Chamber · 1053 Budapest, Egyetem tér 1–3.
XVIII. Did the Hungarian law enforcement model change 100 years ago?
Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law · 1053 Budapest, Egyetem tér 1–3.
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XIX. Martyrs, heroes and those who died in service in the 19th and 20th centuries in defence of the Hungarian nation
Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law · 1053 Budapest, Egyetem tér 1–3.
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XX. The reorganisation of Hungarian public security after the First World War and the revolutions that followed it
Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law · 1053 Budapest, Egyetem tér 1–3.
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XXI. History dressed in uniform — "faithfully, honourably, bravely." The Royal Hungarian Gendarmerie was established 140 years ago
Szeghalom
XXII. Militarily organised armed guard corps in the law enforcement of the bourgeois Hungarian state
Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law · 1053 Budapest, Egyetem tér 1–3.
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XXIII. The Royal Hungarian Prison Guard corps and its successor organisations
Veritas History Research Institute and Archives · 1093 Budapest, Zsil utca 2–4.
XXIV. The history of Hungarian border control from the Conquest to the Second World War
Veritas History Research Institute and Archives · 1093 Budapest, Zsil utca 2–4.
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XXV. The history of Hungarian border control from the end of the Second World War to the present day
Veritas History Research Institute and Archives · 1093 Budapest, Zsil utca 2–4.
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