Pécs2010 Management - Artistic Board
Dr. Éva Lauter
Dr. Éva Lauter completed her studies in history and Russian at the Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University. With the support of the Department of the History of the Middle Ages and Early Modern History she pursued research work in archives in Vienna in 1985 while studying at Eötvös Loránd University. Between 1987 and 1989 she was a training grantee of the Scientific Qualification Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and then worked as an assistant professor for the Department of the History of the Middle Ages and Early Modern History at Eötvös Lorand University from 1989 to 1997. She taught seminar courses in history and reading historical sources and participated in the further training programme for secondary school teachers of history. She won the scholarship of the Peregrináció Foundation on two occasions and conducted research in Bratislava and Vienna.
She earned a degree in legal studies at the Faculty of Law, Eötvös Loránd University in 1998 and worked as a lawyer-candidate for a private lawyer, Dr. Anikó Horváth until 2001. From 2001 to 2003 she worked for the Dr. RADNAI Law Firm as a candidate-lawyer and was engaged with issues related to company and economic law. After passing the specialist legal examination she became head of the LAUTER Law Firm in 2003.
From September 2003 she worked as an adviser for the Ministry of National Cultural Heritage. On October 15, 2004 she was appointed director of the Balassi Bálint Institute as a ministerial commissioner. In March of 2007 she was made director-general of the Institute.
She has attended several national and international conferences in Budapest, Belgium, Vienna and Slovakia. The conferences include, among others, the 10th International Conference on Economic History held in Leuven in 1990 with the support of the Soros Foundation, the Conference on Historiography and Tradition organised by the Collegium Hungaricum in Vienna in 1996, the Bocskai Day in the Érmellék Scientific Conference and the Balassi Bálint Memorial Conference held in Rozsnyó in 2004.
She speaks excellent Russian and conversational English and Latin. Her fields of interest in teaching and research include historical ecology, cultural history (series of educational programmes broadcast by the Hungarian Television), the legal regulations of electronic commerce (e-commerce) and Hungarian political history.
She fulfils functions in several national and international professional organisations. Between 2003 and 2006 she was member of the supervisory board of the Middle Eastern Research Public Foundation and between 2004 and 2005 she acted as the curator of a subcommittee in the Interim Professional Board of National and Ethnic Minorities of the National Cultural Fund. She has been a member of the editorial board of Lymbus Hungarological Sources since 2004 and the International Hungarological Society established at the initiative of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1997.