3 November 2026

Our colleague Ferenc Eiler’s study, “Die Ansiedlung in den identitätspolitischen Bestrebungen der ungarndeutschen Organisationen in der Zwischenkriegszeit,” has been published in the volume Mit der Vergangenheit in die Zukunft: Verortung der frühneuzeitlichen Siedlungsmigration bei den Ungarndeutschen, edited by Márta Fata (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2026), pp. 35–52.

2 November 2026

Attila Z. Papp delivered a presentation titled THE HUNGARIAN DIASPORA. A brief historical overview: facts, trends, institutions as an invited speaker at the special session of the Hungarian Parliament’s Committee on Hungarian Diaspora and Minority Policy on October 20, 2026. This session was convened on the occasion of the upcoming 70th anniversary of the 1956 Revolution and Freedom Fight.

The video recording of the session is available on the Hungarian Parliament’s official YouTube channel.

The resolution adopted during the session can be read HERE (in Hungarian).

The Budapest Academic Freedom Initiative (BAFI) held its first project workshop on the 13th of October, 2026, at the premises of ELTE Centre for Social Sciences (ELTE CSS), Institute for Political Science .

30 October 2026

Attila Z. Papp delivered a lecture titled Youth Paradoxes at the MATURANDUS Conference, organized by the Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, in Csíkszereda (Miercurea Ciuc) on October 8, 2026.

The following online articles have been published about the event: HARGITA NÉPE ; SZÉKELYHON

29 October 2026

Our colleague, Réka Marchut, will give a presentation on October 31, 2026, in Potsdam, at the conference titled "Theologie, Humanitarismus und Minderheitenrechte - Symposium zum 100. Todestag von Johannes Lepsius" held at the Lepsiushaus. The title of her presentation is: Verschwunden aber lebendig? Die moldauischen Csangos an der Peripherie der ungarischen und rumänischen Nationsbildung im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Vanished yet alive? The Moldavian Csángós on the periphery of 19th and 20th-century Hungarian and Romanian nation-building).

28 October 2026

On Friday, October 30, as part of the annual conference of the Hungarian Sociological Association, a panel discussion entitled The Ambivalence of Borderlands and Minority Affiliations will take place. Drawing on the book Mezsgyevilágok: A határvidékek és a kisebbségi kötődések ambivalenciája (Borderland Worlds: The Ambivalence of Borderlands and Minority Affiliations) by our colleague Zoltán Ilyés, who passed away ten years ago, the panel participants will explore mixing and cultural interference in borderlands, as well as the institutional and everyday practices that regulate access to resources, belonging, and mobility. The panelists will be Krisztina Rácz, Karolina Lendák-Kabók, Csilla Zsigmond, and Zsuzsa Árendás. The panel is organised by Margit Feischmidt.

​The Hungary and the United Nations Research Group has published its first English-language volume of studies, entitled Hungary at the UN: Diplomacy, Human Rights, Presence, jointly issued by the Institute of History of the ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities and the ELTE Centre for Social Sciences.

The paper published in Environmental Communication by Dániel Oross , Dániel Mikecz, and Dominik Rákos addresses how the visual framing practices of the youth climate movement in Hungary challenge or reinforce post-political environmental discourse. 

19 October 2026

Csilla Fedinec discussed Ukraine’s legislative amendments affecting education for national minorities on the 14 October 2026 edition of ATV Start

16 October 2026

On 21 October 2026, Csilla Fedinec will take part in the opening event of the Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Study (VUIAS) for the 2026/2027 academic year at Uzhhorod National University. She will deliver a keynote lecture entitled “Transcarpathia in the Making: A Century of Borders, Minorities, and Belonging”. Established at the initiative of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the institute supports Ukrainian scholars working in Ukraine and abroad.