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Call for abstracts: Common City Conference 2026

Institute for Minority Studies

The Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University is organizing a conference titled "Common City Conference 2026" for researchers and activists on the right to the city, housing, and social justice in an urban context. The conference will take place in Uppsala from August 26 to 28, 2026. One of the conference panels, titled "A Feminist Social Provisioning? The Potentials and Obstacles of Commoning Housing and Care," is organized by research fellows Katalin Ámon and Fanni Dés from the ELTE Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Minority Studies, together with Angelina Kussy, a researcher at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.

Abstracts for conference participation are accepted until March 27, 2026.

For more information visit the Conference web page.

Living Heritage Conference

Institute for Minority Studies

Our colleague, Réka Marchut, will give a presentation on February 21 at the Living Heritage conference to be held in Nagykároly. The title of her presentation is: "Hungarian world", "Romanian world", the fate of the Swabians of Satu Mare - The history of the Swabians of Satu Mare from 1940 to the present

Programme: Part 1 | Part 2

Komárom/Komárno: Turning points in the history of the Hungarian minority

Institute for Minority Studies

On January 27, 2026, a discussion was held at the Csemadok headquarters in Komárom/Komárno on the turning points in the history of Hungarians in Slovakia over the past decades. The host, university lecturer Attila Petheő, posed questions to historian and archivist László Bukovszky, former Slovak government's commissioner for minority affairs, and Iván Gyurcsík, researcher at our institute and university lecturer.

The participants discussed three main topics: they outlined the significance of the period between 1968 and 1989 for Hungarians in Slovakia, then they assessed the events following the regime change in 1989, with particular regard to the 1994 general assembly of elected Hungarian minority representatives in Komárno,  and finally, they analyzed the Beneš Decrees, which reflect the principle of collective guilt and are currently the subject of public debate, as well as the punishability of addressing this issue.

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