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. 
On Thursday, both will participate in a roundtable discussion evaluating the Hungarian parliamentary elections.
The titles of their presentations on Friday are: Balázs Vizi: Minority Right to Participation in Public Life in the Parliament under International Law and in Hungary; Balázs Dobos: Representation of Whom, by Whom, and for Whom? Minorities and the Hungarian Parliamentary Elections, 2014–2026.
Also on Friday, there will be a book panel of Balázs Dobos’s monograph, *Cultural Autonomy and Political Participation. Minority Elections in Central and Eastern Europe* (published by Routledge in 2025).
The full program of the conference is available at HERE.

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.