22 May 2026
Gergely Pulay will present at the conference Between Cultural Appropriation and Ethnic Shifting, organized from 27 to 29 May by the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His presentation is titled Cultural Appropriation and the Urban Margins of the Post-Socialist European Periphery.
19 May 2026
On 21 May 2026 Viktória Bányai will present at the conference of the Association for Historic Building Conservation (RÉKE), and Tamás Turán will give a plenary lecture at the 16th Hungarian Conference on Classical Studies.
On the occasion of Europe Day, an international forum titled “Dialogues on Europe” was held in Uzhhorod, where Csilla Fedinec also took part.
The conference on the history of the Hungarian minority in Romania will be held for the fourth time on May 15–16, 2026, in Sfântu Gheorghe, in the Béla Bartók Hall of the Szekler National Museum.
A new study by Csilla Fedinec has been published: Hungarian Turul and Ukrainian Trident. Understanding the Role of National Symbols in the Context of the Russian–Ukrainian War. In: Nation-Building and Symbolic Politics in Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Twentieth Century: Our Flags, Our Heroes, Our Words. New York, Bloomsbury Academic, 2026, pp. 233-260. DOI: 10.5040/9798881893422.0011
Gergely Pulay's article Post-feudalism and post-fascism at the end of the Orbán-regime in Hungary can be read on Focaal Blog.
Our colleague, György Szerbhorváth, will participate between May 7 and 9, 2026, in Subotica, at an interdisciplinary conference, workshop, and festival focusing on the history, culture, and possible return of guest workers (Gastarbeiter). The event will be held in Serbian and Hungarian at the Klara and Rosa civic cultural center.
Interview with Margit Feischmidt on the European University Institute's webpage.
Csilla Fedinec’s analysis in the April 24 issue of Jelen.
The concept of regime change always presupposes that a political system is not merely subject to modification, but from time to time loses the very basis of its own legitimacy. Regime change becomes necessary when legal and institutional frameworks can no longer credibly reflect the functioning of society, or when the relationship of trust between power and society is durably broken.