Zoltán Ilyés Senior Research Fellow (MTA TK KI) Department: Academic Title: PhD
Research Interests heritagisation and politics of memory in minority groups, nationalism, ethnic- and religious geography Selected Publications Zoltán Ilyés: The Csángós of Moldavia. In: Bárdi N., Fedinec Cs., Szarka L. (szerk.:): Minority Hungarian communities in the twentieth century. Boulder: Atlantic Research and Publications, 2011. pp. 605-617. (East European monographs; 774.) Zoltán Ilyés: Military Activities: Warfare and Defence. In: Szabó József, Dávid Lóránt, Lóczy Dénes (szerk.): Anthropogenic Geomorphology: A Guide to Man-Made Landforms. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010. pp. 217-232. Ilyés Zoltán: Etnicitás és szimbolikus geográfia. A táj kisajátítása, különösen határvidékek, kontaktzónák esetén. In: Feischmidt Margit (szerk.): Etnicitás: Különbségteremtő társadalom. Budapest: Gondolat MTA Etnikai-Nemzeti Kisebbségkutató Intézet, 2010. pp. 114-125. Ilyés Zoltán: Mezsgyevilágok. Etnikus interferenciák és nemzeti affinitások térbeli mintázatai a Kárpátmedencében. Budapest: Lucidus Kiadó, 2008. 199 p. (Kisebbségkutatás Könyvek) Ilyés Zoltán: Researching and Interpreting Diaspora - Remarks on Social Science Research into the Diaspora Communities of the Carpathian Basin. In: Balázs Balogh, Zoltán Ilyés (szerk.): Perspectives of Diaspora Existence. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2007. pp. 47-65. Ilyés Zoltán: A tájhasználat változásai és a történeti kultúrtáj 18-20. századi fejlődése Gyimesben. Eger: Eszterházy Károly Főiskola, Földrajz Tanszék, 2007. 191 p. (Disszertációk az Eszterházy Károly Főiskola Földrajz Tanszékéről; 1.) Zoltán Ilyés: Veränderungen der sakralen Raumstruktur in einer religiösen Kontakztone der Ostkarpaten. SIEDLUNGSFORSCHUNG. ARCHÄOLOGIE – GESCHICHTE – GEOGRAPHIE 20. pp. 187-202.(2002) Ilyés Zoltán: Die Wirkung der Exogamie auf den Zustand der Muttersprache und die ethnische Identität. ETHNOGRAPHICA ET FOLKLORISTICA CARPATHICA 27/28:(9/10) pp. 84-98. (1998)
Academic Career Work experience 2002- Research Institute of Ethnic and National Minorities, Hungarian Academy of Science, senior research fellow 1993- University of Miskolc, Department of Cultural and Visual Anthropology, assistant (1993-2000), senior lecturer (2000-2002), docent (2002-) 1992-2008 Eszterházy Károly (Teacher Training) College Eger, Department of Geography, parttime teacher (1992-93), assistant (1993 -1997), senior lecturer (1997-2002), docent (2002-2008) Fellowships 14–20 May 2002: field trip in the framework of the SOCRATES/ERASMUS 2.2 program in Kulturgeografiska institutionen, Uppsala, Sweden 18 February – 10 March 2002: research scholarship in Institut für Länderkunde, Lepzig, Germany 1 September 2001 – 31 August 2004: Bolyai-Scholarship, Hungarian Academy of Sciences 1–31 October 2000: research fellowship in Herder Institut e. V., Marburg an der Lahn, Germany 1 September 1999 – 31 December 1999: DAAD fellowship, Universität Tübingen, Lehrstuhl für Geographie Osteuropas, Germany Projects 2009-2012 Zoltán Ilyés − László Szarka – Patrik Tátrai – Richárd Papp – Éva Szemet: Examples of Ethnical Equipoise, Local Models of Coexistence in Two Small Multi-etnhical Regions (Tövishát, Zoborvidék), OTKA (National Scientific Research Foundation), Research Institute of Ethnic and National Minorities, Hungarian Academy of Science and Department of Cultural and Visual Anthropology, University of Miskolc (leader and researcher) 2008-2011 researcher of the project Changing Discourses of Nation Concept on Identities and Differences in the Relation of Hungarian Citizens and Hungarians Living in Minorities, OTKA (National Scientific Research Foundation), Research Institute of Ethnic and National Minorities, Hungarian Academy of Science (leader: Margit Feischmidt) 2005-2007 Richárd Papp − Boglárka Bakó – László Szarka – Zoltán Ilyés: Horné and Dolné Saliby. Forum Institute in Slovakia (leader: László Szarka) 2003-2006 Richárd Papp − Boglárka Bakó – Nóra Kovács – Zoltán Ilyés: Diaspora Researches in the Carpathian Basin, Research Institute of Ethnic and National Minorities, Hungarian Academy of Science
2001 leader and researcher of the project Changes of National, Regional and Local Identity of Mantaks Living in Medzev (today in Slovakia) in the 19th–20th Century, Pro Renovanda Cultura Hungariae 2000-2004 Gábor Biczó – Zoltán Ilyés – Ágnes Molnár – Gyula Gulyás – Péter Lágler – József Kotics: Modernisation in Rural Regions of Carpathian Basin, OTKA (National Scientific Research Foundation), University of Miskolc, Department of Cultural and Visual Anthropology (leader: Gábor Biczó) 2000-2002 leader and researcher of the project Micro-regional Effects of the Revival of Ethnical Identity. Case Studies in German Villages of Subcarpathia and Slovakia, FKFP (Foundation for Research and Development in Higher Education), Eszterházy Károly College, Department of Geography, Eger 2000-2003 Ilona Tomisa − Zoltán Magyar – Péter Berta – István Virt – Zoltán Ilyés: An Unknown Ethnographical Region in Transylvania – The Layering of Tradition in the Culture of “Hárompatak” situated on the Hungarian-Romanian Boundary of Language, OTKA (National Scientific Research Foundation), Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Ethnography (leader: Ilona Tomisa) 1999-2001 Róbert Keményfi – László Szarka – Zoltán Ilyés: Boundary of Language at the Millennium, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of History and Workshop for Minority Studies (leader: László Szarka) 1998-2001 Gyula Gulyás – József Kotics – Gábor Biczó – Zoltán Ilyés: Multicultural Regions in Transylvania (Valley of Lapuş, Teaca), OTKA (National Scientific Research Foundation), University of Miskolc, Department of Cultural and Visual Anthropology (leader: Zoltán Ilyés) 1997-1999 Péter Pozder – Zoltán Ilyés: Revival of Traditional Patterns of Land Using and Agriculture. Landscape-potential Dependant Innovations of Agricultural Practices and Farm Management in Three Hungarian and Multi-ethnical Villages in Transylvania, FKFP (Foundation for Research and Development in Higher Education), Department of Geography, Eszterházy Károly Teacher Training College, Eger (leader: Péter Pozder) 1995-1998 Gábor Biczó – Zoltán Ilyés: Social and Philosophical Anthropological Survey of a Valley of Ghimes, OTKA (National Scientific Research Foundation), Department of Cultural and Visual Anthropology, University of Miskolc (leader: Gábor Biczó) 1993 leader and researcher of the project Ethnicity, Religion, Identity in Alpine Settlements (Magyarcsügés, Kostelek, Gyepece) from South of Ghimes, Pro Renovanda Cultura Hungariae
Education 1994-1997 Institute of Geo- Sciences, Department of Applied Landscape-Geography, PhD Program, Kossuth Lajos University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Debrecen
1987-1993 Kossuth Lajos University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Debrecen, Geography and Biology Membership in Academic and Professional Organisations; Editorial Board Membership 1994- Hungarian Geographical Society 1998- Hungarian Ethnographical Society 1999- István Györffy Ethnographical Society 2000- Hungarian Cultural Anthropological Association (governor) 2013- Arbeitskreis für historische Kulturlandschaftsforschung in Mitteleuropa e.V Awards and Honours 2005 János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, certificate of merit 2004 Master Teacher Gold Medal (Council of National Scientific Students' Associations) Teaching Experience Nations in Central Europe Historical-cultural Regions of Europe Cultures of Australia and Oceania Anthropology of National Cultures Environment and Society I. Research of Social Sciences in Urban Spaces Environment and Society II. – Historical Ecology, Historical Geography, Environmental History Ecological anthropology Nations and Minorities in Europe Migration and Mobility Globalisation and Regionalism Anthropology of Regional Development Further Affiliations University of Miskolc, Faculty of Arts, Institute of Cultural and Visual Anthropology Languages
Hungarian (Native) German (Proficient) Russian (Intermediate)