On the occasion of March 15, our colleague Tamás Gusztáv Filep was awarded the Hungarian Silver Cross of Merit (Civil Division) in recognition of his work.

Our colleague, Csilla Fedinec, will participate in the CEU Democracy Institute’s election debate series on March 16, 2026.

How can Russian influence manifest in Hungarian politics? What role do disinformation and manipulated narratives spreading on social media play, and how do they affect the integrity of elections and public trust in democratic institutions?

With the support of our institute's research program, Ferenc Horváth's book Kommunista–zsidó–magyar: Gáll Ernő, a hontalan filozófus [Communist–Jewish–Hungarian: Ernő Gáll, the Stateless Philosopher] was published by Kriterion Publishing House. The table of contents and foreword can be read here (in Hungarian)

The Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University is organizing a conference titled "Common City Conference 2026" for researchers and activists on the right to the city, housing, and social justice in an urban context. The conference will take place in Uppsala from August 26 to 28, 2026. One of the conference panels, titled "A Feminist Social Provisioning? The Potentials and Obstacles of Commoning Housing and Care," is organized by research fellows Katalin Ámon and Fanni Dés from the ELTE Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Minority Studies, together with Angelina Kussy, a researcher at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.

Abstracts for conference participation are accepted until March 27, 2026.

For more information visit the Conference web page.

Our colleague, Réka Marchut, will give a presentation on February 21 at the Living Heritage conference to be held in Nagykároly. The title of her presentation is: "Hungarian world", "Romanian world", the fate of the Swabians of Satu Mare - The history of the Swabians of Satu Mare from 1940 to the present

Programme: Part 1 | Part 2

On February 24, Rajk College is organizing a discussion entitled Bourdieu and Hatred, during which Gergely Pulay will give a lecture on Bourdieu's theories on social inequality.

The volumes of Lucidus Publishing's "Minority Research Library" series are available in the digital reading room of the ELTE Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Minority Studies

Nándor Bárdi participated in the conference entitled Republic: yesterday, today – tomorrow? held by the Institute of Political History on February 5, 2026, in the Political community, responsibility, and common issues – today roundtable discussion. The main topics were the integration deficit in Hungarian nation building and the problems of Hungarian-Hungarian relations.

Our colleague, Réka Marchut, participated in a roundtable discussion on February 6 on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the expusion of Germans from Törökbálint. Her discussion partners were András Grósz and Péter Ferenc Somlai. The discusssion was moderated by Vendel Pettinger-Szalma.

On January 27, 2026, a discussion was held at the Csemadok headquarters in Komárom/Komárno on the turning points in the history of Hungarians in Slovakia over the past decades. The host, university lecturer Attila Petheő, posed questions to historian and archivist László Bukovszky, former Slovak government's commissioner for minority affairs, and Iván Gyurcsík, researcher at our institute and university lecturer.

The participants discussed three main topics: they outlined the significance of the period between 1968 and 1989 for Hungarians in Slovakia, then they assessed the events following the regime change in 1989, with particular regard to the 1994 general assembly of elected Hungarian minority representatives in Komárno,  and finally, they analyzed the Beneš Decrees, which reflect the principle of collective guilt and are currently the subject of public debate, as well as the punishability of addressing this issue.