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Erdélyi Helikon 100

24 June 2026

On June 24 and 25, Tamás Gusztáv Filep will participate in the conference Erdélyi Helikon 100, jointly organized by the Hungarian Literary History Society and the Petőfi Literary Museum. On June 24, from 5:00 p.m., he will take part in a roundtable discussion, and on June 25 he will deliver a lecture entitled “Marosvécs, Couleur Locale, and the Helikon of Slovensko.”

Perspectives on the Hungarians of Vojvodina: Looking from the Outside and Reflecting from Within

24 June 2026

On 26 June 2026 at 5:00 p.m., as part of Dombos Fest in Mali Iđoš (Kishegyes), researchers from our institute — Judit Durst, Nóra Kovács, and Csilla Zsigmond — together with Zoltán Ádám from the Institute for Political Science, will join György Szerbhorváth for a discussion on how the Hungarians of Vojvodina are perceived from external perspectives and how these views may be reconsidered from within, in the local context itself. The conference program can be found here.

Book launch in Budapest for Károly Tóth’s The Spectre of Autonomy

11 June 2026

On May 21, 2026, the Institute for Minority Studies at the ELTE Research Center for Social Sciences, in collaboration with the Forum Institute in Somorja and the National Institute for Minority Studies in Cluj-Napoca, presented “Károly Tóth: The Ghost of Autonomy. Studies, Essays, Articles, Conversations 1982–2013” at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ Research Center for the Humanities in Budapest. The recording of the book launch can be found here.