21 October 2026

Csilla Fedinec was a guest on the 15 October 2026 edition of Kilátó, a programme broadcast by Klubrádió.

Could Ukraine be put at risk as Donald Trump makes increasing concessions to Russia? How long can Putin’s economy sustain the war, and what would happen if peace were suddenly achieved? Csilla Fedinec, a researcher at the Centre for Social Sciences, and András Németh, a foreign affairs journalist, discuss the latest developments in the Russian–Ukrainian war, the relationship between Trump and Putin, uncertainties surrounding US support, and the exceptionally difficult winter facing Ukraine. The discussion also explores the situation of the Hungarian minority in Transcarpathia, the rapprochement between Péter Magyar and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s accession to the European Union, and whether an internal crisis in Russia could ultimately bring the war to an end.

The paper published in Environmental Communication by Dániel Oross , Dániel Mikecz, and Dominik Rákos addresses how the visual framing practices of the youth climate movement in Hungary challenge or reinforce post-political environmental discourse. 

19 October 2026

Csilla Fedinec discussed Ukraine’s legislative amendments affecting education for national minorities on the 14 October 2026 edition of ATV Start

16 October 2026

On 21 October 2026, Csilla Fedinec will take part in the opening event of the Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Study (VUIAS) for the 2026/2027 academic year at Uzhhorod National University. She will deliver a keynote lecture entitled “Transcarpathia in the Making: A Century of Borders, Minorities, and Belonging”. Established at the initiative of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the institute supports Ukrainian scholars working in Ukraine and abroad.

15 October 2026

Balázs Dobos, Nóra Kovács, and Balázs Vizi are participating in the international conference "Nation-Building and Minority Strategies in a Changing International Environment" organized by the Institute for National Minority Studies in Cluj-Napoca, EURAC in Bolzano, the Institute of Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies in Tübingen, and Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania in Cluj-Napoca on October 16–17. 

The titles of their presentations: 

Balázs Dobos - Ágnes M. Balázs: The Representation of Minorities in Parliaments or the Representation of Parliaments among Minorities?

Vizi Balázs: The Right to Participation in Public Life and Minority Parliamentary Representation under International Law – Looking at Case Studies from Central Europe

Nóra Kovács: Embodied Regional Integration: Intimacy, Mobility and Cross-Border Inter-Ethnic Tango Relationships from a Hungarian Perspective

13 October 2026

The new Horizon Europe project TRANSFER sets out to address these challenges by strengthening policy evaluation and knowledge exchange between research, policy and practice through an integrated approach, while placing equity and inclusion at the centre of its work.

Gabriella Szabó's and István Benedek's article in Central European Journal of Communication examines cringe communication as an emerging form of affective political communication that combines mockery, moral judgement, and partisan mobilization.

9 October 2026

On 29 September 2026, Dr Kornél Klement, President of the Federation of Hungarian Organizations in Germany (BUOD) and Vice-President of the Federation of Hungarian Organizations in Western Europe (NYEOMSZSZ), delivered a lecture in Budapest entitled “Who Are Hungarians in the Diaspora, and What Should We Do with Them?” at the Institute for Minority Studies of ELTE’s Centre for Social Sciences. Drawing on the experiences of Hungarian communities in Germany, the lecture covered topics ranging from the definition of the diaspora and community self-organisation to the transmission of identity and the institutional and political aspects of relations with Hungary. The event was moderated by Dr Iván Gyurcsík, an external collaborator at the Institute.

7 October 2026

Viktória Bányai will participate in the international conference Hungarian Jews and the 1956 Revolution, organized by the Jewish Theological Seminary - University of Jewish Studies (OR-ZSE) and held in Budapest on October 13–14.

5 October 2026

Our colleagues, Réka Marchut and András Morauszki, will participate in the annual conference of the Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies (IdGL) in Tübingen from October 8 to 10. The conference is entitled Erinnerung – Tradierung – Mobilität. Transformationen der deutschen Minderheiten in Mittel- und Südosteuropa.

Their presentations are entitled:

Réka Marchut: Erinnerung und Gedächtnis an die Deportation der Sathmarer Schwaben

András Morauszki: The German Minority in Hungary Today: Identity Patterns and Sociodemographic Characteristics in the Light of the 2022 Census