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
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On November 28, 2025, Viktória Bányai and Júlia Csejdy's book entitled The History of the Synagogue and Jewish Community in Mád will be presented at FUGA :: Budapest Architecture Center.
Galántai, J., Samu, F., & Takács, K. (2025). Gender norms and couples’ conversations on childbearing intentions: A spontaneous speech corpus-based text analysis. Discourse & Society, (D1; IF: 2.7). https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265251357964
On November 13, at 16:00, the Jewish Museum will present the book Az emlékzés rétegei [Layers of Memory: The Holocaust in Hungary Eighty Years Later: Research at the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives]. The editors of the volume are Viktória Bányai and László Csősz.
Our colleague, Csilla Fedinec, will participate in the event entitled "Once upon a Time a „Kárpátalja” – book launch and roundtable discussion" at the Research Institute for National Strategy on November 10, 2025
Report on the successful international conference “Flüchtlinge und Flüchtlingsfrage in Ostmitteleuropa (Slowakei, Rumänien, Ungarn, Jugoslawien, Österreich) 1938-1948,” organized jointly by the Institute for Minority Studies, Andrássy University, and the Commission for the History of Germans in Southeastern Europe.
The full issue is available on the journal's website.
From the contents:
Census in Hungary: statistical overview for 2022, survey on the future of ethnic data collection
Civil resistance in Serbia: the background to the university student protests
Emanual Rádl: The Czech-German War
The impact of dance houses in the diaspora
Reviews: Csilla Fedinec, Katalin Kovály, Gabriella Nóra Tar, Katalin Pallay, István Végső's books
Our colleague, Csilla Fedinec, will participate in the Re:Open Zakarpattia 2025 conference organized by the Institute for Central European Strategy in Ukraine on November 7-8, 2025. The main topics of the conference will be national minorities, European integration in Ukraine, and good neighborliness issues in the Central European region
Katalin Tardos, Veronika Paksi, Judit Takács, Rita Bencivenga (2025) Gender Equality Plans in European Research Performing Organisations. Social Inclusion. Volume 13 Article 11369. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.11369
Interview with our colleague, Csilla Fedinec, published on the Magyar Narancs online platform and in the weekly magazine on October 30, 2025.
Although negotiations on this issue began much earlier, the launch of local border traffic on the Soviet-Hungarian border dates back to the late 1980s. Csilla Fedinec's new study, based on materials from the Hungarian National Archives, presents the course of negotiations between the two countries and the extraordinary contradictions of this process. The study can be read here.
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9 July, 2025
Szikra, D., & Autischer, L. (2025). Illiberal Social Policy in Europe: When Policy Implementation Meets Welfare Ideas. Politics and Governance, 13, Article 9707. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.9707
Recently published (17.06.2025):
Kőszeghy Lea, Hilbert Bálint, & Csizmady Adrienne (2025). Urban Planning in the Context of Democratic Backsliding: The Case of Hungary. Urban Planning, Vol 10 (2025): The Role of Planning in ’Anti-Democratic’ Times. Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press. 0.592 (Q1), IF 1.7 (2024)
13 May, 2025
The book The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence for Law in Europe published recently by Springer was edited by Márton Varju and Kitti Mezei, as part of the book series Data Science, Machine Intelligence, and Law.
20 March, 2025
New publication:
Szalma I, Heers M, Tanturri ML (2025) Measuring attitudes towards voluntary childlessness: Indicators in European comparative surveys. PLOS ONE 20(3): e0319081. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0319081
