The study The future imaginaries and counter-politics of solidarity work: non-formal education for displaced Ukrainians in Hungary by Eszter Neumann, Ildikó Zakariás, Margit Feischmidt, Violetta Zentai, and Csilla Zsigmond was published in the journal British Journal of Sociology of Education. Based on interviews with Hungarian civil society actors assisting Ukrainian refugees, the study analyzes the educational infrastructure created by these civic initiatives. The paper summarizes the findings of the research project Helping Displaced People from Ukraine: Collective Forms and Social Contexts of solidarity.

The new monograph by Balázs Dobos entitled 'Cultural Autonomy and Political Participation: Minority Elections in Central and Eastern Europe' will soon be published by Routledge and is now available for pre-order at HERE.

Our colleague, Réka Marchut, will give a lecture in Bucharest on October 14 at 18:00, as part of the In memoriam Miskolczy Ambrus conference series. The title of her lecture is: “Between the Anvil and the Hammer” – Hungarian Catholics in Bucharest from the Beginnings to the Second World War.

Our colleague Csilla Fedinec will be participating in, and giving a plenary presentation at, the 'Development of relations between Ukraine and the European Union in the context of geopolitical turmoil, the Russian–Ukrainian war, electoral practices and the political participation of ethnic minority groups' conference at Uzhhorod National University on 10–11 October 2025

Our colleague, Réka Marchut, will give a presentation on October 8 in Cluj-Napoca at a conference organized by the Romanian Institute For Research On National Minorities, entitled Minority Education in Central and Eastern Europe. Policy Aspects, Educational Equity and Cultural Recognition. The title of her presentation is: The School Issue in the Swabian Villages of Satu Mare during World War II (1940-1944)

The conference program is available here.

A chapter by our colleague, György Szerbhorváth, titled „Die Vojvodina als Ort multiethnischen, multikonfessionellen Zusammenlebens – Ein Vorbild für die Europäische Union?”, has been published by Leipziger Universitätsverlag in the book „Durch den Eisernen Vorhang nach Europa – Osteuropa nach 1989”, edited by Maik Reichel and Wolfram Tschiche.

Behind the books. Interview with Csilla Fedinec at the 30th International Book Festival. Reporter: Áron Zoltán. 

Now available in our institute's Digital Reading Room: Ferenc Eiler (ed.): 100 books on the history of nationalities in Hungary in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The book by Sandor Fedir: War chronicle of Transcarpathia. Eras, Events, People will be presented at the 30th International Book Festival Budapest The book presentation will be moderated by our colleague, Csilla Fedinec.

Our colleague Csilla Fedinec will participate in the conference entitled "Ukraine-Hungary: 1000 Years of History in Christianity" in Budapest on October 3, 2025