During the winter semester of the academic year 2022/2023 the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest held a course on authoritarian systems and discrimination.
The seminar was organised forbachelor students in history. The subject matter examined various aspects of discrimination, prejudices. The first block followed aspects of colonialism and French nationalism. Then a special colonial theme was discussed: Japanese imperialism, its European and Asian aspects. Then followed issues on Portugal, the issue of Italian women, aspects of Italian and German racism-antisemitism-nationalism, and the various forms of discrimination that took place in Central Europe during the first half of the 20th century. Finally, issues of methodology were discussed during two lectures in the Parliament library.
Each seminar focused on a specific topic, as described in the following timetable:
14 September 2022
Introduction (lecturer: Tarafás Imre)
21 September 2022
Revolutionary passion and anti-Semitism. How did nascent nationalism in France affect the question of nationality? How was the idea of civil equality reconciled with the extremist ideologies of the 20th century? (lecturer: Tarafás Imre)
28 September 2022
Educational discrimination between the French and the colonials. How and why did the education of the French colonial population change? What concepts were behind the process? (lecturer: Tarafás Imre)
5 October 2022
Japan: yellow peril for Europeans, oppressive Asians for neighbours. The Japanese great power was associated with an imperialist foreign policy, which also influenced the public opinion in Europe and the surrounding regions in Asia. This duality allows for special investigations. (lecturer: Stempler Ádám)
12 October 2022
Fascism and the gender question. How did fascism treat women? To what extent was the period of the dictatorship forward-looking, and to what extent did it limit opportunities? (lecturer: Juhász Balázs)
19 October 2022
Central European forms of discrimination in the first half of the 20th century. Not only totalitarian dictatorships were characterized by discriminatory measures. In the first half of the 20th century, as a result of growing nationalism, various methods of discrimination appeared in Central Europe. (lecturer Andrej Toth)
26 October 2022
Salazar and the rescue of JewsThe attitude of Salazar's Portugal to the Jewish question is interesting. The examination of this contradictory situation is particularly interesting in the light of historical traditions. (lecturer: Szilágyi Ágnes Judit)
2 November 2022
Race and nationality question in the Italian (and German) way. Anti-Semitism, racism, oppression of nationalities are all different discriminatory measures, which affected the population of Germany and Italy with different intensity and at different times. Examining the differences and similarities is necessary to get a detailed picture. (lecturer: Juhász Balázs)
9 November 2022
Portugal and the case of retornados. The situation of compatriots who settled in the colonies and then returned home with the loss of the colonies resulted in various discrimination phenomena in Portugal, the causes and forms of which are examined in this lesson. (lecturer: Szilágyi Ágnes Judit)
16 November 2022
Library lesson in the Parliamentary Library: basic library skills. The library is an important location for research. Learning about its use and special collections also helps in learning about human rights and national struggles.
23 November 2022
Library lesson in the Parliamentary Library: the United Nations collection. The library is an important location for research. Learning about its use and special collections also helps in learning about human rights and national struggles.
30 November 2022
End-of-semester questionnaire
