Authors of the best publications of our institutes are acknowledged each year. On 5 March, 2025, Zsolt Boda, General Director, handed out the awards at the annual meeting of the Centre for Social Sciences, followed by brief presentations of the research findings.
We inform our partners that due to a government decision, our research centre was integrated into ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. As of 1 August 2025, our legal name is ELTE Centre for Social Sciences
Featured news
The Association for the Study of Nationalities will hold its 30th Annual World Congress at Columbia University in New York from May 28–30, 2026, with Balázs Dobos and Balázs Vizi among the participants.
22 May 2026
Gergely Pulay will present at the conference Between Cultural Appropriation and Ethnic Shifting, organized from 27 to 29 May by the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His presentation is titled Cultural Appropriation and the Urban Margins of the Post-Socialist European Periphery.
The Hungarian Psychodrama Association received the Nets4Dem Emerging Innovation Award in Brussels for the work carried out within the framework of the INSPIRE research project
As part of the WISE (Women in Solidarity for Energy) and LIGHT (Local Initiatives for Green Housing Transitions) projects, Lili Szücs, Sára Szabó, and Ana Stojilovska, from the Institute for Political Science, organized the “Energy Solidarity Days”.
A new publication by Andrea Szabó, András Bozóki, and Zoltán Gábor Szűcs has been published Democracy Seminar , in which the researchers characterize the 2026 parliamentary elections using the concept of an “electoral revolution.”
19 May 2026
On 21 May 2026 Viktória Bányai will present at the conference of the Association for Historic Building Conservation (RÉKE), and Tamás Turán will give a plenary lecture at the 16th Hungarian Conference on Classical Studies.
On the occasion of Europe Day, an international forum titled “Dialogues on Europe” was held in Uzhhorod, where Csilla Fedinec also took part.
The conference on the history of the Hungarian minority in Romania will be held for the fourth time on May 15–16, 2026, in Sfântu Gheorghe, in the Béla Bartók Hall of the Szekler National Museum.
A new study by Csilla Fedinec has been published: Hungarian Turul and Ukrainian Trident. Understanding the Role of National Symbols in the Context of the Russian–Ukrainian War. In: Nation-Building and Symbolic Politics in Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Twentieth Century: Our Flags, Our Heroes, Our Words. New York, Bloomsbury Academic, 2026, pp. 233-260. DOI: 10.5040/9798881893422.0011
Gergely Pulay's article Post-feudalism and post-fascism at the end of the Orbán-regime in Hungary can be read on Focaal Blog.
Our results
July, 2026
Ivett Szalma, Lóránt Pélyi, Orsolya Udvari, Kata Mária Udvarhelyi-Tóth, Erika Kispéter, Enikő Kubinyi (2026) Dogs, Motherhood, and Reproductive Choices: A Qualitative Study of Women’s Decision-Making in a Pronatalist Country. Journal of family Issues, First published Jul 7, 2026
June 2026
Katona, N., & Gábriel, D. (2026). The quiet collapse: Authoritarian neoliberalism and the crisis of care of older people in Hungary. Economy and Society, 55(2), 301–323. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2026.2632445
May 2026
Written by Andrea Szabó, András Bozóki, and Zoltán Gábor Szűcs-Zágoni
March 2026
Benedek István (2026): Polarizing transition? Opposition strategies and the rise of Péter Magyar and the Respect and Freedom Party (TISZA) in Hungary. Comparative European Politics.
