Balázs Dobos and Balázs Vizi will attend the 28th World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) to be held at Columbia University in New York between 16 and 18 May. The titles of their presentations: Balázs Dobos: Struggles for Representation and Recognition: Contested Identities Among New Minorities in Hungary, Balázs Vizi: How the Advisory Committee of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (Council of Europe) Identifies the Roma and Their Problems. The full programme of the convention is available at HERE.

Our colleague Judit Durst will give the keynote address at the CEU Critical Romani Studies conference Challenging the Reproduction of Inequality Through Higher Education: Critical Approaches in Romani Studies and Beyond, held between 16-17 May in Vienna. Her presentation is entitled False Promises and the Racial Glass Ceiling: Can educational support programs challenge the reproduction of inequality in Higher Education?

Launching event of the book 'A MURAVIDÉK ÚTJA A DÉLSZLÁV KIRÁLYSÁGBA' by László Göncz led by Balázs Ablonczy.

Date: 14 May 2024, 6 pm / Venue: Domus Café (Budapest Abonyi u. 10.)

Béni L. Balogh will give a presentation at the Hungarika workshop organised by the Hungarian National Archives on 8th May 2024. His presentation will be entitled Hungarika research in Romania. The programme of the workshop can be found here.

On 3rd May 2024 Nóra Kovács participates in the conference 'Methodology. Dance Research Now' in Budapest. The title of her presentation is 'Possibilities of the Notion of Habitus in Dance Research'.

The programme of the two-day conference is available here.

The new book by our colleague Tamás Gusztáv Filep entitled Mindennek van "azonban"-ja (Everything has a "however") was published by Kriterion Publishing House.

With the support of our institute, the book by Róbert-István Antal: The Socialist Who Loves His Nation. Lajos Jordáky (1913-1974) was published in Cluj by Kriterion Publishing House and Transylvanian Museum Society.

Can a good communist be a good Transylvanian Hungarian? As a social-democratic and then communist politician, and as a devout Marxist who was displaced into the cultural sphere after the establishment of the state socialist dictatorship, he was confronted with the dilemma: Can the class emancipation of the Transylvanian Hungarian communities solve the challenges of minority existence?

The book's introduction and table of contents can be read here (in Hungarian). 

The book József Gagyi: Villanyos and His Community. Electrification, Modernization: History of the Nyárád Area (1945-1989) was published by Kriterion Publishing House and Transylvanian Museum Society in Cluj-Napoca with the support of our institute.

Domokos Sztrátya, a well-known electrician in the Nyárád region, was much more than just a data provider. In addition to reflecting on his own life and that of his community, he was also a curious observer of the villages and the times. He was a peasant farmer from a serf village, a civil servant, and a social scientist in „disguise”.

The book's introduction and table of contents can be read here (in Hungarian). 

Our colleague, Béni L. Balogh's article about the friendship between Petru Groza and Unitarian bishop Elek Kiss was published by Erdélyi Krónika. The article can be read here (in Hungarian).

The Blinken Open Society Archives and the Embassy of Ukraine in Hungary will organize a roundtable discussion entitled "Quo vadis Ukraine? Two Years of War and Future Perspectives" on 18th April 2024 at the Central Gallery in Budapest with the participation of András Rácz, Russia expert, István Balog, Ukraine's interim ambassador, Szabolcs Vörös, journalist of Válasz Online, and our colleague, Csilla Fedinec. You can find the detailed programme here.