The Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities is organizing an international conference on October 5-6, 2023 at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj titled Identities, Representations and Policies: State-Minority Relations in the 20th and 21st Centuries. The conference will be held in English and Romanian.

Four members of our Institute will also give presentations:

October 5th:

Béni L. Balogh: Românii din Transilvania de la sfârșitul secolului al XIX-lea până la 1918.

Réka Marchut: Iuliu Maniu in Viena

October 6th:

Nóra Kovács: The Changing Role of Hungarian Folk Dancing in a Hungarian Diaspora Community in South America

Csilla Zsigmond: Paterns of National Identity Among Minority Hungarian Youth

Ágnes Tóth will participate and present a paper at the international conference ’Vertreibung und Erinnerung. Forschungsstand und Geschichtspolitik im östlichen Europa’, organised by the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies on 6-7 October 2023 in Regensburg, Her presentation is titled Verschleppung und Vertreibung der Ungarndeutschen in der ungarischen Geschichtsschreibung.

On 20 October, Gergely Pulay will present a paper at the online conference Exploring Racial Capitalism: Critical Romani Studies in Central and Eastern Europe, organised by Babeș-Bolyai University, CEU and Critical Romani Studies. His presentation is titled Personalized value struggles amid marketization on the margins of Bucharest. The conference can be followed online. The conference programme and all information is available on the official website.

Balázs Vizi will give a presentation titled "Participation in Public Life: Is It a Special Minority Right?" at the international conference organized by the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade and the Tom Lantos Institute on 28-29 September in Belgrade. The full programme of the event and the abstracts are available at HERE.

A live stream of the conference will be available at

Thursday: https://www.sanu.ac.rs/direktan-prenos/

Friday: https://pravni.webex.com/pravni/j.php?MTID=m7649f02c6d530bd1fd5f58ba39c3779d

Balázs Dobos, Margit Feischmidt, András Morauszki and Balázs Vizi will attend as paper presenters and commentators in book panels the 2023 European conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) in Cluj between 6-8 July. The full programme of the conference is available at HERE.

Margit Feischmidt and Violetta Zentai (CEU) will present their paper titled "Challenges of progressive localism in spaces of solidarity in Hungary" at the 20th annual conference of the International Migration Research Network (IMISCOE) "Migration and inequalities. In search of answers and solutions" (Warsaw, 3-6. July). The full programme of the conference is available at HERE.

As part of the webinar series of the European Educational Research Association (EERA), Judit Durst, Zsanna Nyírő, and Julianna Boros will present their research with the title The hidden costs of Educational Upward Mobility Among First-in-Family Roma and Non-Roma Graduates in Hungary at 5 pm on 20 June. ZOOM link.

Réka Marchut will give a lecture on "The Influence of Germany on the Diplomatic Debates between Hungary and Romania Referred to the Optants Case" at the international conference on "The Hungarian Optants Question in Transnational Perspectives. International Organizations and Legal Dispute Settlements of Economic and Minority Problems in the Interwar Period", which will take place between 15-16 June at the University of Bucharest. The full programme of the conference is available at HERE.

Nóra Kovács and her co-author will present their paper titled 'Resentment in the family. Considerations of an empirical pilot study from Hungary’ at the 11th Conference of the European Society on Family Relations 'Family Life – Troubling Family Relations and Practices' (June 14–16, 2023, Roskilde University, Denmark). The full programme of the conference is available at HERE.

Judit Durst will give a lecture on "The moral economy of "flexploitation": informal migration intermediaries and their role in transnational labour migration of the rural Hungarian working poor" at the 16th International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) congress on Living Uncertainty, which will take place between 7-10 June in Brno. The panel on "Dependence and Livelihood in times of uncertainty" will also be organised by Judit Durst, Gergely Pulay and Stefánia Toma (National Institute for Minority Research, Cluj-Napoca). The full programme of the event is available HERE.