The latest study by Gabriella Szabó, Eszter Farkas, Orsolya Ring, and Timm Beichelt examines the strategic use of anger in political communication on social media during the 2019 and 2024 European Parliamentary elections in Germany and Hungary.

24 June 2026

On June 24 and 25, Tamás Gusztáv Filep will participate in the conference Erdélyi Helikon 100, jointly organized by the Hungarian Literary History Society and the Petőfi Literary Museum. On June 24, from 5:00 p.m., he will take part in a roundtable discussion, and on June 25 he will deliver a lecture entitled “Marosvécs, Couleur Locale, and the Helikon of Slovensko.”

24 June 2026

On 26 June 2026 at 5:00 p.m., as part of Dombos Fest in Mali Iđoš (Kishegyes), researchers from our institute — Judit Durst, Nóra Kovács, and Csilla Zsigmond — together with Zoltán Ádám from the Institute for Political Science, will join György Szerbhorváth for a discussion on how the Hungarians of Vojvodina are perceived from external perspectives and how these views may be reconsidered from within, in the local context itself. The conference program can be found here.

24 June 2026

June 20, 2026, our colleague Nándor Bárdi participated in a roundtable discussion organized by the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs titled The Hungarian National Policy (Kin-state Policy): Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. The slides of his presentation can be found here.

Ana Stojilovska's book chapter is an outcome of the workshop titled “Mapping the intersections of Social Policy & Climate Change” that took place online on the 19th and 30th November 2021, organized by the Social Policy Association’s Climate Justice and Social Policy Group. The workshop aimed to map the intersections between social policy and climate change, in order to generate actionable knowledge and challenges for the discipline as a whole to take forward in an integrated manner.

Between 16 and 18 June 2026, the Council for European Studies will hold its 32nd International Conference at University College Dublin. Csilla Zsigmond and Margit Feischmidt will participate in the event with their presentation entitled “Hope, Solidarity – Activism? Some Characteristics of the Public Engagement of the Tisza Islands from the Perspective of Transformative Solidarity.”

Our colleague, Béni L. Balogh, gave a lecture on the Day of National Cohesion on June 4, 2026, as part of the Public Affairs Café (Közéleti Kávéház) event series in Timișoara. The title of his lecture was: "Transylvania in Hungarian Public Consciousness Before and After Trianon." Following the lecture, Bartha Csaba conducted an interview with the speaker.

8 June 2026

Csilla Fedinec will participate and give a presentation at the conference titled Constitution-Making, Identity Building and Migration in Ukraine on 9 June 2026.

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.