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.

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.