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

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Satu Mare is organizing a conference on August 7-8, 2025 titled "Sathmarland, du meine Heimat" The Swabians of Sathmar from the Settlement to the Present Day. Two of our colleagues will also give presentations at the conference. The title of Ferenc Eiler's presentation is: "Dangerous Friends" The Fundamental Dilemmas of German-Hungarian Cooperation in Romania. The title of Réka Marchut's presentation is: The Swabians of Sathmar and the Catholic Church during the Years of the Second World War (1940-1944). Réka Marchut is also a member of the conference's organizing team.

Ana Stojilovska, Senior Research Fellow at our Institute, won a new project titled Local Initiatives for Green Housing Transitions (LIGHT) funded by the European Climate Foundation. The project aims to empower trusted local actors to co-create structural solutions for affordable, low-carbon housing through shared learning and practices in Hungary.

The article titled "Political Socialization Scenarios Leading to Party Membership in an Autocratizing Democracy: Insights From an Interview-Based Study", authored by Annamária Sebestyén (our Institute's Research Fellow) has been published in the journal Political Studies (D1).

Tibor Valuch’s study titled "The future of deindustrialization – a social and cultural turn? The future of former industrial landscapes and industrial societies in Central Eastern Europe" has been published in issue 1/2025 of the Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe (Q1, IF: 0.9).

Csilla Zsigmond's book Kötődések hálójában – A nemzeti identitás mintázatai a kisebbségi magyar fiatalok körében [In a web of attachments: Patterns of national identity among minority Hungarian youth] has been published as part of the Szociológiai Tudástár series of the University of Debrecen.

The publication is available for free.