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.

31 August 2026

Pál Nagy’s work, produced as part of the institute’s research programme, has been published: The Roma Population of Hungary and Transylvania in the 18th and 19th Centuries. National Institute for Minority Studies – Kriterion Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2026, 304 pp. The table of contents can be found here.

28 August, 2026

14 August 2026

A minority rights case law database compiled by Zsolt Körtvélyesi is now also available in our Institute’s Digital Reading Room. The database features selected minority rights cases from Slovakia and Hungary concerning the Hungarian and Roma minorities. It processes judgments from official court databases, providing summaries, English translations, and related cases. The database was developed as part of the research project 'MINOTEE: Minority Rights – Towards Effective European Enforcement' supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Programme.

10 August 2026

A review published in the Europäisches Journal für Minderheitenfragen praises the work of Ágnes Tóth, Deutsche in Ungarn 1950–1970. Die deutsche Minderheit zwischen Stalinismus und Kádár-Regime. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg (2025).

The Institute for Legal Studies hosted the first summer university of the re:constitution alumni network in Budapest from 3 to 6 August 2026, on the theme What comes after liberal constitutionalism?

Márton Bene and Krisztina Burai's latest book chapter in The Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics investigates the relationship between populism and social media.