The recording (in Hungarian) of the roundtable discussion of János Fiala-Butora, Tamás Kiss and Nándor Bárdi on the possible directions of research on minority Hungarian communities is available on the Egyház és Társadalom website.
Csilla Fedinec will participate in the roundtable discussion "Security Policy in the EU" organised on 15 November 2023 by the Representation of the European Commission in Hungary.
The debate will cover foreign, security and defence policy issues that have a major impact on Europe's place in the world. How has Europe's security policy map been rearranged since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war, what issues and urgent actions has this highlighted? What are the possible ways forward for stabilising security, and how can Member States, including Hungary, move forward? Can Europe defend itself? Is the role of the defence industry in Europe changing?
Our colleague Réka Marchut will give a lecture at the international conference Collective guilt in Central Europe after Second World War and now organised in Budapest at the Ludovika University of Public Service on 8th November 2023. Her presentation is entitled: The Issue of Responsibility for the Expulsion of Ethnic Germans from Hungary
Judit Durst and Gergő Pulay participated at the workshop of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Europeanist Network held in Lisbon on 2-3 November. Their presentation was entitled: Crises and Moralities of Dependent Relations in Northern Hungary and Romania: Notes towards a Comparative Ethnography
Viktória Bányai was the guest of the programme Tűréshatár on Klubrádió, where she talked about about the research project "Child Survivors of the Holocaust in Hungary", especially about the possibilities of trauma processing after the Holocaust, and its support through community and artistic activities. You can listen to the programme here (in Hungarian).
Our colleague Zsombor Csata will give a lecture at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Hungarian Regional Science Association, organized on the occasion of the Day of Hungarian Science on 2nd November 2023 in Pécs, Hungary. His presentation is entitled: Interethnic relations in Transylvania in the context of marketization.
You can find more information about the conference here.
Béni L. Balogh's short book reviews of Dávid Turbucz's, Balázs Apor's, Zsolt Krahulcsán's and Gábor Tabajdi's recent books were published in the Ex libris section of the 27 October issue of Élet és Irodalom.
Ildikó Zakariás' and Nora Al-Awami's article Adult Migrants’ Language Training in Austria: The Role of Central and Eastern European Teachers was published in Social Inclusion issue Vol. 11, Issue 4.
Abstract
Language has gained increasing importance in immigration policies in Western European states, with a new model of citizenship, the ius linguarum (Fejes, 2019; Fortier, 2022), at its core. Accordingly, command of the (national) languages of host states operates both as a resource and as an ideological framework, legitimating the reproduction of inequalities among various migrant and non-migrant groups. In this article, we analyse the implications of such processes in the context of state-subsidised language teaching for refugees and migrants in Austria. Specifically, the article aims to explore labour migration, namely that of Central and Eastern European (CEE, including EU and non-EU citizen) professionals—mainly language teachers who enter the field of adult language teaching in Austria seeking a living and career prospects that they cannot find in the significantly underpaid educational sectors of CEE states. This article shows that the arrival of CEE professionals into these difficult and precarious jobs is enabled first by historical processes linking the CEE region to former political and economic power centres. Second, it is facilitated by legal, administrative, and symbolic processes that construct CEE citizens as second-order teachers in the field of migrant education in Austria. Our article, based on ethnographic fieldwork and qualitative interviews, highlights nuanced ways in which historically, economically, and politically embedded language geographies contribute to the reproduction of hierarchies of membership, inclusion, and exclusion in present-day immigration societies.
A round table discussion on Hungarian minorities through the eyes of experts is organised by Egyház és Társadalom (the public, online journal of the EPMSZ and MPR) as part of the Lehet-e? [Can it be?] Forum with the participation of János Fiala-Butora (HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies), Tamás Kiss (Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities) and Nándor Bárdi (HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Minority Studies).
Location: Háló Community and Cultural Centre (Budapest V. Semmelweis u. 4.)
Date: 31 October 2023 from 17.00
Nóra Kovács will present on October 28th at the annual conference of the Hungarian Cultural Anthropological Association (MAKAT) in Pécs. Her presentation (with coauthor Zsuzsa Puskás-Vajda) is titled "Sértődés a családban. Egy emprikus pilot kutatás tanulságai" [Taking Offence in the Family. Lessons from an Empirical Pilot Study]