The Institute for Political Science at the Centre for Social Sciences calls for applications for a three-month visiting researcher fellowship in “Public policy in the digital age”. The successful candidate will be affiliated with the Department of Government and Public Policy.

The latest issue of Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics (IEEJSP) is now out. 

Expert seminar organized by the International Centre for Ethnic And Linguistic Diversity Studies and the Department of Russian and East European Studies, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University.

Our colleagues, Balázs DOBOS and Balázs VIZI participate in the panel discussion entitled The new challenges and new dividing lines between the ‘West’ and the ‘East’ and the future of the European minority rights regime.

The event takes place at the House of National Minorities, Prague on 6 December 2019.  

Rudolf Metz and Dániel Oross have recently published an article entilted „Strong Personalities’ Impact on Hungarian Party Politics: Viktor Orbán and Gábor Vona” in "Party Leaders in Eastern Europe”  edited by Sergiu Gherghina.

Workshop organized by Periféria Policy and Research Center.

Our colleague, Judit DURST attends and presents her paper entitled Spiralling debts of low-income households: the case of homemaking
grant (CSOK) in rural Hungary. 

The event takes place at the  Gólya Cooperative, on 22-23 November, 2019. 

Apache Spark is currently one of the most popular open-source cluster-computing frameworks. With its Machine Learning Library (MLlib) it supports the easy scaling of a range of feature extraction and machine learning tasks commonly employed in text mining. Furthermore, it works with both Python and R.

Our colleague, András MORAUSZKI attends and presents his paper entitled  What's on the other side of the river? Slovakians' mental maps on Hungary and vice versa.

The event takes place at the Corvinus University, Budapest, 5-7 November 2019. 

Workshop of the Anthropology of Humanitarianism Network (AHN) of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) and the Goettingen-based Centre for Global Migration Studies (CeMIG) in Goettingen, 1-3 November 2019. 

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