The recording of the book presentation of Tamás Sárándi: Függőben. A román kisebbség helyzete Észak-Erdélyben (1940-1944) [The situation of the Romanian minority in Northern Transylvania] at Írók Boltja is available here.

Our colleague Csilla Fedinec is participating in a roundtable discussion at the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs on 5 June 2025. Details can be found here.

Margit Feischmidt will present at the conference "Populism For, Against or By the Minorities? Social Groups in Populism Research", to be held at Tallin University, Estonia, between 5th and 6th June. Her presentation will be entitled: Diaspora nationalism in the context of the expanding populist authoritarian state and the homeland attachments among the Hungarians living in Germany

The 30th Annual Conference of the Hungarian Political Science Association was held on May 29-30, 2025, hosted this year by the HUN-REN CSS Institute for Political Science. The Annual Conference is the primary forum for the political science community of Hungary, offering an opportunity for reflection, the evaluation of past achievements and the presentation of the latest trends in the field.

Viktória Bányai will give a lecture with Rita Horváth at the Department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University (Israel) on 4 June at 15:00 CET. Their lecture is titled Testimonial Drawings of Survivor Children in a Budapest Jewish School, 1945. You can join the lecture at this link.

Gergely Pulay will give a presentation at the workshop "On the Urgency of Old Ideas A Counter-Disciplinary Workshop on Theory and Method" organized by the CEU Institute for Advanced Studies in Budapest on 5 June 2025 (Thursday). His presentation is entitled "Post-feudalism and Post-fascism in Hungarian Social Thought: an Intellectual History of Crises and Critique"

Eszter Neumann published an op-ed article in the Progressive Post magazine about the state-church relations in Hungary.

On 30 May 2025, Edgár Dobos, guest researcher of our institute, will give a lecture entitled “International Intervention and Local Ownership in Bosnia and Herzegovina after 1878 and 1995” at the 30th Annual Conference of the Hungarian Political Science Association.

Review of Csilla Fedinec and István Csernicskó's monograph in Ukrainian in the Ukrainian-American journal "KRYTYKA. Thinking Ukraine"

On May 22 Nóra Kovács gave a presentation entitled "Authenticity, Ethnicity, Ownership? The Peculiar Dynamics of Translocal Social Dance Communities of ICH in a Globalised World and the Example of Tango Argentino" at the conference HOW SUSTAINABLE IS DANCE AS INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE? in Ljubljana.