11 September 2026

Eszter Neumann participated in the annual conference of the European Educational Research Association (EERA) between August 17 and 21, 2026. At the conference, Eszter co-facilitated a workshop titled 'Using drama-based research methods to explore how we can build a radically inclusive university'. Additionally, she gave a presentation titled 'Churches’ education policies under Hungarian Christian conservative politics' and took part in a panel discussion on 'Ecologies of education in the contexts of forced migration.

3 September 2026

Ágnes Tóth will give a lecture at the conference entitled “80 Jahre nach Flucht und Vertreibung der Deutschen im Kontext des Zweiten Weltkrieges: Historische Bilanzen im Lichte neuer Gewaltmigration” organized by the Zentrum gegen Vertreibung in Wiesbaden on September 16–17, 2026. The title of her lecture is: “The Deportation and Expulsion of the Germans of Hungary.”

3 September 2026

An edition of the diary of Lajos Jordáky, compiled as part of our institute’s research programme under Róbert-István Antal has been published (introduction, notes, editorial preparation): Jordáky, Lajos: Napló 1933–1974 [Diary 1933–1974]. Transylvanian Museum Association – Kriterion Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2026, 757 pp.

1 September 2026

A chapter by Violetta Zentai, Margit Feischmidt, Eszter Neumann, Ildikó Zakariás, and Csilla Zsigmond, entitled Modalities of Municipalism in Refugee Solidarity in Hungary: Assisting the Displaced from Ukraine, Post-February 2022, has been published in the volume Migration Governance in Central and Eastern European Cities Post-2015 (Springer, 2026). The full volume is available open access.

31 August 2026

Pál Nagy’s work, produced as part of the institute’s research programme, has been published: The Roma Population of Hungary and Transylvania in the 18th and 19th Centuries. National Institute for Minority Studies – Kriterion Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2026, 304 pp. The table of contents can be found here.

14 August 2026

A minority rights case law database compiled by Zsolt Körtvélyesi is now also available in our Institute’s Digital Reading Room. The database features selected minority rights cases from Slovakia and Hungary concerning the Hungarian and Roma minorities. It processes judgments from official court databases, providing summaries, English translations, and related cases. The database was developed as part of the research project 'MINOTEE: Minority Rights – Towards Effective European Enforcement' supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Programme.

10 August 2026

The electoral database elaborated within the project titled “Parliamentary Representation of Minorities in International Comparison: Descriptive or Substantive Representation?” (NKFIH K143523, 2022–2027) contains data on the number of voters registered as members of national minorities in Hungarian parliamentary elections, as well as the number of voters who cast valid ballots for the lists of national minority self-governments, broken down by national minority, county, and municipality for the period 2014–2026 (available HERE). Due to changes in certain electoral district boundaries over time, the same database is also available separately by electoral district for the 2014–2022 period (HERE) and for the recent 2026 elections (HERE).

10 August 2026

A review published in the Europäisches Journal für Minderheitenfragen praises the work of Ágnes Tóth, Deutsche in Ungarn 1950–1970. Die deutsche Minderheit zwischen Stalinismus und Kádár-Regime. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg (2025).

30 July 2026

Judit Durst and Zsanna Nyírő will be guests at the Humanities Courtyard of the Ördögkatlan Festival on August 7, 2026, where they will lead a discussion titled “Are You the First? – Social Mobility Up Close.” The event will focus on the mobility experiences of first-generation college graduates, as well as the individual and community dimensions of social mobility.

29 July 2026

A joint interview with our colleague Csilla Fedinec and Szabolcs Vörös of Válasz Online, published in the July 28, 2028 issue of Ukraine’s Infopost.