Balázs Dobos and Balázs Vizi will attend the international conference entitled "Regional and Ethnoregional Parties in Europe and beyond" organized by the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the ELTE CERS Institute for Regional Studies in Pécs on December 4-5. The titles of their presentations are: Balázs Dobos: The parliamentary representation of minorities: presence, effectiveness, and the problem of evaluation. Balázs Vizi: Minority participation and parliamentary elections in Kosovo. The full program of the conference is available at HERE.

Csilla Fedinec’s new study has been published, offering an analysis of three decades of minority rights development in Ukraine: after the early period of openness and pluralism, the strengthening of a state-centric approach reshaped the regulatory framework, followed by further comprehensive legal reforms – partly driven by European integration efforts. The study can be read here.

Máté Csabai, journalist at Magyar Narancs, interviewed our colleague Csilla Fedinec about the United States' peace plans for Ukraine

Our colleague, György Szerbhorváth, will give a Serbian-language lecture titled “The De/Mythologization of the Village among Vojvodinian Serbian and Rusyn Authors” at the “Miloš Crnjanski” Vojvodina Institute of Culture in Novi Sad on 28 November 2025, during the conference Cultures in the 21st Century – The Challenges of Identity Patterns.

On November 28, 2025,  Viktória Bányai and Júlia Csejdy's book entitled The History of the Synagogue and Jewish Community in Mád will be presented at FUGA :: Budapest Architecture Center. 

On November 13, at 16:00, the Jewish Museum will present the book Az emlékzés rétegei [Layers of Memory: The Holocaust in Hungary Eighty Years Later: Research at the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives]. The editors of the volume are Viktória Bányai and László Csősz.

Our colleague, Csilla Fedinec, will participate in the event entitled "Once upon a Time a „Kárpátalja” – book launch and roundtable discussion" at the Research Institute for National Strategy on November 10, 2025

Report on the successful international conference “Flüchtlinge und Flüchtlingsfrage in Ostmitteleuropa (Slowakei, Rumänien, Ungarn, Jugoslawien, Österreich) 1938-1948,” organized jointly by the Institute for Minority Studies, Andrássy University, and the Commission for the History of Germans in Southeastern Europe.

The full issue is available on the journal's website.

From the contents:

    Census in Hungary: statistical overview for 2022, survey on the future of ethnic data collection

    Civil resistance in Serbia: the background to the university student protests

    Emanual Rádl: The Czech-German War

    The impact of dance houses in the diaspora

    Reviews: Csilla Fedinec, Katalin Kovály, Gabriella Nóra Tar, Katalin Pallay, István Végső's books

Our colleague, Csilla Fedinec, will participate in the Re:Open Zakarpattia 2025 conference organized by the Institute for Central European Strategy in Ukraine on November 7-8, 2025. The main topics of the conference will be national minorities, European integration in Ukraine, and good neighborliness issues in the Central European region