21 September 2026

A study by Csilla Fedinec and Imre Szakál: "... Nothing but devotion to the cause." The History of the Ruska Kraina Emigrant Governing Council, 1918-1921 has just been published in Fórum Social Science Review issue 2026/3, DOI: 10.61795/fssr.v28y2026i3.05

This study examines the Ruska Kraina Emigrant Governing Council (1918–1921) in the context of the political transformation of Central Europe following the collapse of Austria-Hungary. Augustin Stefan, former governor of Ruska Kraina, established the Council in exile in Poland to represent Rusyn interests and preserve political and administrative continuity linked to the Hungarian state. The Council maintained contacts with Hungarian diplomatic and military circles, conducted propaganda activities, and explored the possibility of military action with Polish support. Most of these plans remained unrealized as a result of the changing international environment. The history of the Council illustrates the complex interplay of nationalism, minority politics, state loyalty, and émigré political activism in Central Europe in the aftermath of the First World War.

18 September 2026

Csilla Fedinec will participate in the international conference “Ukraine and the European Union amid the Transformation of the Security Environment: Political and Governance, Socio-Philosophical, and Psychological and Pedagogical Discourses,” to be held at Uzhhorod National University on 25–26 September 2026. She will deliver a plenary lecture entitled “The Transformation of the European Union’s Enlargement Policy and Ukraine’s European Integration Process: Continuity and New Elements Compared with Previous Waves of Enlargement."

17 September 2026

Csilla Fedinec will participate in the international conference “Spatial Turns in Ukrainian Studies,” organized by Denkraum Ukraine at the University of Regensburg on 21–22 September 2026. She will give a presentation entitled “Minority, Borderland, Region? Rethinking Carpathian Ukraine Beyond National Frameworks” in the panel “Regions in Conflict and Entanglement: Carpathian Ukraine, Hungary and Ukraine.” The conference focuses on changing research frameworks in Ukrainian studies, knowledge production during wartime, and new approaches to Ukraine’s regions and borderlands.

15 September 2026

Our colleague, Réka Marchut, will give a presentation in Romanian at a conference held at the Iuliu Maniu Memorial House in Bădăcin (RO) on September 18, 2026. The title of her presentation is: Iuliu Maniu in Hungarian Political Life (1906–1915).

14 September 2026

In September 2026, the Horizon Europe research project titled TRANSFER: Evaluation and Research–Policy– Practice Transfer to Promote Equity and Inclusion was launched at our institute under the leadership of Eszter Neumann and with the participation of Marianna Kopasz (PTI); the project focuses on evidence-based decision-making and knowledge transfer processes involving education policy, expertise, and stakeholders.

11 September 2026

Eszter Neumann participated in the annual conference of the European Educational Research Association (EERA) between August 17 and 21, 2026. At the conference, Eszter co-facilitated a workshop titled 'Using drama-based research methods to explore how we can build a radically inclusive university'. Additionally, she gave a presentation titled 'Churches’ education policies under Hungarian Christian conservative politics' and took part in a panel discussion on 'Ecologies of education in the contexts of forced migration.

3 September 2026

Ágnes Tóth will give a lecture at the conference entitled “80 Jahre nach Flucht und Vertreibung der Deutschen im Kontext des Zweiten Weltkrieges: Historische Bilanzen im Lichte neuer Gewaltmigration” organized by the Zentrum gegen Vertreibung in Wiesbaden on September 16–17, 2026. The title of her lecture is: “The Deportation and Expulsion of the Germans of Hungary.”

A new study by Marianna Kopasz, Boglárka Herke, and Karolina Balogh has been published in the Q1-ranked journal Children and Youth Services Review. The study examines how 270 Hungarian primary school teachers responded to hypothetical child protection scenarios (vignettes).

3 September 2026

An edition of the diary of Lajos Jordáky, compiled as part of our institute’s research programme under Róbert-István Antal has been published (introduction, notes, editorial preparation): Jordáky, Lajos: Napló 1933–1974 [Diary 1933–1974]. Transylvanian Museum Association – Kriterion Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2026, 757 pp.

1 September 2026

A chapter by Violetta Zentai, Margit Feischmidt, Eszter Neumann, Ildikó Zakariás, and Csilla Zsigmond, entitled Modalities of Municipalism in Refugee Solidarity in Hungary: Assisting the Displaced from Ukraine, Post-February 2022, has been published in the volume Migration Governance in Central and Eastern European Cities Post-2015 (Springer, 2026). The full volume is available open access.