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.
The new article by Eszter Neumann and Pawel Rudnicki is now published in Journal of Contemporary European Studies (IF 1.208) and is available at HERE.
Abstract. In the European political landscape characterized by the strengthening influence of Eurosceptic, radical-right, and populist parties, Hungary and Poland represent insightful cases for understanding how the populist radical right uses its power in government and acts in full capacity to design education policies. From a systematic comparison of the education policy trajectories taken by Hungarian and Polish populist radical-right governments, we identified three characteristic patterns of populist radical-right education policy-making in the two countries: commitment to a conservative-nationalist agenda through comprehensive, systemic interventions, the implementation of Christian identitarianism through conceptualising public education as Christian upbringing, and finally, the gradual extremisation of the education agenda combined with the growing influence of transnational conservative knowledge transfer centred on the ‘gender wars’. We find that the boundary between far-right nativist and nationalist positions and Christian-conservative standpoints has faded away, and the two governments, which identify as Christian conservative, have increasingly mainstreamed far-right agendas.