Gergely Pulay will give a presentation at the workshop "On the Urgency of Old Ideas A Counter-Disciplinary Workshop on Theory and Method" organized by the CEU Institute for Advanced Studies in Budapest on 5 June 2025 (Thursday). His presentation is entitled "Post-feudalism and Post-fascism in Hungarian Social Thought: an Intellectual History of Crises and Critique"
Eszter Neumann published an op-ed article in the Progressive Post magazine about the state-church relations in Hungary.
On 30 May 2025, Edgár Dobos, guest researcher of our institute, will give a lecture entitled “International Intervention and Local Ownership in Bosnia and Herzegovina after 1878 and 1995” at the 30th Annual Conference of the Hungarian Political Science Association.
Review of Csilla Fedinec and István Csernicskó's monograph in Ukrainian in the Ukrainian-American journal "KRYTYKA. Thinking Ukraine"
On May 22 Nóra Kovács gave a presentation entitled "Authenticity, Ethnicity, Ownership? The Peculiar Dynamics of Translocal Social Dance Communities of ICH in a Globalised World and the Example of Tango Argentino" at the conference HOW SUSTAINABLE IS DANCE AS INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE? in Ljubljana.
Our colleague Csilla Fedinec has spoken several times in recent days about Ukraine, the country's accession to the European Union and Hungarian-Ukrainian relations:
"Building a Good Neighbourhood in Central Europe for Ukraine's Successful Accession to the EU" (workshop organised by the Institute for Central European Strategy in Uzhhorod)
"Hungarians cannot be treated as a homogeneous mass" (Ukrainian newspaper New Voice on Hungarian-Ukrainian diplomatic relations)
"Ukraine's EU membership is a lifeline for Europe" (on the changing European security architecture for Ukrinform news agency)
Knowledge and power (on Tilos Radio with Viktor Olivér Lőrincz)
Current issues on Ukraine today (with János Dési on Klubrádió)
Gergely Pulay will take part in the international conference Voices and Silences: 50 years of the Society for Romanian Studies, to be held at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, on 29-31 May.
His presentation will be entitled Everyday Livelihood and Popular Politics at the Margins of Bucharest.
In addition to his lecture, he will participate in a round table discussion on Călin Goina's book Parallel Lives: An Empirical Exploration of The Concept of Generation.
On June 3, 2025, at 17:00, the book by Tamás Sárándi: Függőben. A román kisebbség helyzete Észak-Erdélyben (1940-1944) [The situation of the Romanian minority in Northern Transylvania] will be presented at Írók Boltja (1061 Budapest, Andrássy út 45). Nándor Bárdi, Réka Marchut, Pál Hatos, and Balázs Ablonczy will join the author for a discussion about the book.
In the course of MTA200 programme, Attila Papp Z., Director of our Institute, gave a lecture entitled Results of the PISA 2022 Competency Assessment with special focus on Ukraine at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on 22 May 2025.
A new article by Balázs Dobos and his co-author Tamás Szabó has been published on the 2024 elections of minority self-governments in Hungary in the recent special issue of Comitatus on the latest municipal elections. The article is available at the journal's website.