16 July 2026

Our colleagues, Judit Durst and Fanni Dés will participate at the EASA 2026 Conference in Poznań. The programme can be found here.

Judit Durst will be one of the lab convenors of the Household Finance Lab, and copresents with Fanni Dés their paper Violence and care in the prostitution industry in semi-peripheral Hungary within a polarized world.

9 July 2026

On June 11, 2026, Zsanna Nyírő and Judit Durst presented at the conference Understanding and Enacting Social Change in Education: Working with Bourdieu, organized by the British Sociological Association – Bourdieu Study Group in Livorno. The title of their presentation was: Agents of Change or Segmented Success? Ethnic Capital and Bounded Mobility among First-in-Family Roma Graduates.

7 July 2026

The database contains the number of valid votes cast for the parties that ran for and won seats in Kosovo’s 20 reserved—and later guaranteed—minority seats, broken down by local municipality from 2001 to 2026, and is available at HERE.

Ana Stojilovska, Sára Szabó, and Lili Szücs participated in the closing event of the WISE (Women in Solidarity for Energy) project in Brussels on 9 June 2026 with three presentations: a housing-focused presentation for the New European Bauhaus Festival, a presentation about the WISE implementation in Hungary, and a Workshop about engagement with local actors to address energy poverty. This marked the end of the WISE project that aimed at raising awareness about the gendered aspects of energy poverty faced by single women in Europe. CSS was the Hungarian partner in the consortium.

2 July 2026

A new study by Csilla Fedinec published in the Political Studies Journal of the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Fedinec, Csilla: Nagorno-Karabakh as an Example of Resolving a “Frozen Conflict”: Geopolitical, Legal, and Humanitarian Consequences. POLITICAL STUDIES, 2016, (12) 2, pp. 144-162. https://doi.org/10.53317/2786-4774-2026-2-8

The latest study by Gabriella Szabó, Eszter Farkas, Orsolya Ring, and Timm Beichelt examines the strategic use of anger in political communication on social media during the 2019 and 2024 European Parliamentary elections in Germany and Hungary.

24 June 2026

On June 24 and 25, Tamás Gusztáv Filep will participate in the conference Erdélyi Helikon 100, jointly organized by the Hungarian Literary History Society and the Petőfi Literary Museum. On June 24, from 5:00 p.m., he will take part in a roundtable discussion, and on June 25 he will deliver a lecture entitled “Marosvécs, Couleur Locale, and the Helikon of Slovensko.”

24 June 2026

On 26 June 2026 at 5:00 p.m., as part of Dombos Fest in Mali Iđoš (Kishegyes), researchers from our institute — Judit Durst, Nóra Kovács, and Csilla Zsigmond — together with Zoltán Ádám from the Institute for Political Science, will join György Szerbhorváth for a discussion on how the Hungarians of Vojvodina are perceived from external perspectives and how these views may be reconsidered from within, in the local context itself. The conference program can be found here.

24 June 2026

June 20, 2026, our colleague Nándor Bárdi participated in a roundtable discussion organized by the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs titled The Hungarian National Policy (Kin-state Policy): Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. The slides of his presentation can be found here.

Ana Stojilovska's book chapter is an outcome of the workshop titled “Mapping the intersections of Social Policy & Climate Change” that took place online on the 19th and 30th November 2021, organized by the Social Policy Association’s Climate Justice and Social Policy Group. The workshop aimed to map the intersections between social policy and climate change, in order to generate actionable knowledge and challenges for the discipline as a whole to take forward in an integrated manner.