The conference entitled "National Images: Hungarians about Romanians, Romanians about Hungarians from the 19th century to the present day", organised by our Institute on 16 May, was reported by the Romanian nationality programme Ecranul nostru of Hungarian Television.
On 25 October, the Ernő Fábián 90 Memorial Day was held in Covasna (Romania), where our institute was represented by Nándor Bárdi and Tamás Gusztáv FIlep.
On 28 October, the Society of Hungarian Writers in Slovakia organised the first Day of Hungarian Literature in Slovakia, where Tamás Gusztáv Filep presented the posthumous volume of László Dobos: "... nem maradhatunk az alázat porában..." (ed. János Tamási Orosz).
Our colleague Csilla Fedinec will be one of the participants of a discussion about the impact of the Russian-Ukrainian war and the Middle East crises on the security policy of the European Union. For more information (in Hungarian) on the event, click here.
The full issue is available on the journal's website.
From the contents
National images
Image of Hungarians of Romanians during the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Iuliu Maniu and Petru Groza
Romanians in Szeklerland
International protection of minorities – panel discussion
The plans of the Beneš emmigration
Holocaust memory
House of Hungarian Culture in Berlin
Images of Hungarian identity among political activists
On 29 October 2024, Zsuzsanna Sütő will give a lecture at the conference “Minority Languages and Education in Slovakia: Present, Past, and Future,” organized by the Centre of Languages and Cultures of National Minorities, University of Prešov. Her presentation is entitled “Immobility Aspirations of Minority and Majority Hungarian Students in Central Europe.”
Balázs Dobos and Balázs Vizi will attend the 18th Serbian Political Science Association (SPSA) International Annual Conference titled "Super Election Year 2024" in the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade on 26-27 October. The titles of their presentations: Balázs Dobos: Electoral mobilization in minority council and parliamentary elections in Central and South Eastern Europe, and Balázs Vizi: Parliamentary Representation and Linguistic Minorities in Italy – Effective form of participation? The full program of the conference is available at HERE.
A joint historical comparative study of faith and morals education in Slovakia and Hungary by Eszter Neumann, Ondrej Kaščák and Zuzana Daniškova has been published. The study is published in the open access volume Educational Secularization within Europe and Beyond - The Political Projects of Modernizing Religion through Education Reform (edited by Mette Buchardt), available by clicking on the title.
On 24 October 2024 Prof Attila Papp Z and Zsuzsanna Sütő will give lectures at the conference ‘Instruction and Education in the Service of Societal Welfare. Challenges of Education and Instruction in the Age of Crises’. 24th National Conference on Educational Science, organised by the Scientific Committee of Education, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Titles of their presentation:
Attila Papp Z.: The school achievement of non-migrant minority students in PISA
Zsuzsanna Sütő: Individual and institutional factors supporting immobility among minority and majority Hungarian higher education students in Central Europe
On 11 October 2024, our colleague Béni L. Balogh gave a lecture at the international conference "Churches and Minorities" organised by the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities in Cluj-Napoca. The title of his presentation was "O prietenie sinceră. Relațiile dintre episcopul unitarian Elek Kiss și Petru Groza" ("A sincere friendship. The relationship between the Unitarian Bishop Elek Kiss and Petru Groza").