Gergely Pulay will take part in the international conference Voices and Silences: 50 years of the Society for Romanian Studies, to be held at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, on 29-31 May.

His presentation will be entitled Everyday Livelihood and Popular Politics at the Margins of Bucharest. 

In addition to his lecture, he will participate in a round table discussion on Călin Goina's book Parallel Lives: An Empirical Exploration of The Concept of Generation.

On June 3, 2025, at 17:00, the book by Tamás Sárándi: Függőben. A román kisebbség helyzete Észak-Erdélyben (1940-1944) [The situation of the Romanian minority in Northern Transylvania] will be presented at Írók Boltja (1061 Budapest, Andrássy út 45). Nándor Bárdi, Réka Marchut, Pál Hatos, and Balázs Ablonczy will join the author for a discussion about the book.

In the course of MTA200 programme, Attila Papp Z., Director of our Institute, gave a lecture entitled Results of the PISA 2022 Competency Assessment with special focus on Ukraine at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on 22 May 2025.

 

A new article by Balázs Dobos and his co-author Tamás Szabó has been published on the 2024 elections of minority self-governments in Hungary in the recent special issue of Comitatus on the latest municipal elections. The article is available at the journal's website.

Balázs Dobos and Balázs Vizi will attend the 29th World Congress of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) which will take place between 22 and 24 May at the Columbia University, New York.

The titles of their papers are: 

Balázs Dobos: Talking about or to minorities? Understanding the role of minority spokespersons on Facebook in Hungary

Balázs Vizi: Minority Participation and Parliamentary Elections in Kosovo.

The full program of the congress is available at the convention website