100 books on the history of nationalities in Hungary in the 19th and 20th centuries
Now available in our institute's Digital Reading Room: Ferenc Eiler (ed.): 100 books on the history of nationalities in Hungary in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Now available in our institute's Digital Reading Room: Ferenc Eiler (ed.): 100 books on the history of nationalities in Hungary in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The book by Sandor Fedir: War chronicle of Transcarpathia. Eras, Events, People will be presented at the 30th International Book Festival Budapest The book presentation will be moderated by our colleague, Csilla Fedinec.
Our colleague Csilla Fedinec will participate in the conference entitled "Ukraine-Hungary: 1000 Years of History in Christianity" in Budapest on October 3, 2025
The latest issue of the European Journal of Risk Regulation, a Cambridge-based Q1 academic journal has been published under the guest editorship of Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz and Zoltán Szente, research professors at the Institute for Legal Studies.
Viktória Bányai will give a presentation with Rita Horváth at the conference Year Zero: The Experience of 1945 – Endings, Transformations, and Renewal in Vienna on September 12, 2025. The title of their presentation is Drawing to Document: How Holocaust Survivor Jewish Girls Depicted Their Surroundings in Budapest in 1945.
The complete video recording of the CEU István Bibó Free University course entitled "DEPENDENT RELATIONSHIPS: Hierarchy, Moral Economy, Clientelism" is now available for the spring semester. The course was led by our colleague Gergely Pulay. The course syllabus can be found here.
A Romanian-language article by Béni L. Balogh has been published in issue 1-2/2025 of the quarterly journal Arhivele Totalitarismului (Archives of Totalitarianism), published by the National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism (Institutul Naţional pentru Studiul Totalitarismului) in Bucharest. The title of the article is "Cotitura de stânga al lui Petru Groza la sfârșitul anilor 1920, începutul anilor 1930" ("Petru Groza's left-wing turn at the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s").
Paksi, Veronika – Tardos, Katalin – Takács, Judit – Suhajda, Ccilla Judit – Mazancová, Jana – Bojnec, Stefan – Kobolák, Julianna (2025) Gender Equality Barriers in Agriculture and Life Sciences in Central European Universities. Social Inclusion, 13, Article 10086. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.10086
Szalma, I., & Pélyi, L. (2025). Selective Pronatalism and Reproductive Autonomy: Attitudes Toward Medically Assisted Reproduction in Hungary.
Social Inclusion (Q2, IF: 1.2) https://doi.org/10.17645/si.10390
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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
New publication: Ágnes Győri, Éva Perpék, Szilvia Ádám: Mental health risk in human services work across Europe: the predictive role of employment in various sectors. Frontiers in Public Health-ben (Q1, IF: 3)
30 January, 2025
4 November, 2024