Eszter Neumann published an op-ed article in the Progressive Post magazine about the state-church relations in Hungary.

On 30 May 2025, Edgár Dobos, guest researcher of our institute, will give a lecture entitled “International Intervention and Local Ownership in Bosnia and Herzegovina after 1878 and 1995” at the 30th Annual Conference of the Hungarian Political Science Association.

Review of Csilla Fedinec and István Csernicskó's monograph in Ukrainian in the Ukrainian-American journal "KRYTYKA. Thinking Ukraine"

On May 22 Nóra Kovács gave a presentation entitled "Authenticity, Ethnicity, Ownership? The Peculiar Dynamics of Translocal Social Dance Communities of ICH in a Globalised World and the Example of Tango Argentino" at the conference HOW SUSTAINABLE IS DANCE AS INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE? in Ljubljana.

Gergely Pulay will take part in the international conference Voices and Silences: 50 years of the Society for Romanian Studies, to be held at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, on 29-31 May.

His presentation will be entitled Everyday Livelihood and Popular Politics at the Margins of Bucharest. 

In addition to his lecture, he will participate in a round table discussion on Călin Goina's book Parallel Lives: An Empirical Exploration of The Concept of Generation.

On June 3, 2025, at 17:00, the book by Tamás Sárándi: Függőben. A román kisebbség helyzete Észak-Erdélyben (1940-1944) [The situation of the Romanian minority in Northern Transylvania] will be presented at Írók Boltja (1061 Budapest, Andrássy út 45). Nándor Bárdi, Réka Marchut, Pál Hatos, and Balázs Ablonczy will join the author for a discussion about the book.

In the course of MTA200 programme, Attila Papp Z., Director of our Institute, gave a lecture entitled Results of the PISA 2022 Competency Assessment with special focus on Ukraine at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on 22 May 2025.

A new article by Balázs Dobos and his co-author Tamás Szabó has been published on the 2024 elections of minority self-governments in Hungary in the recent special issue of Comitatus on the latest municipal elections. The article is available at the journal's website.

An article by Nóra Kovács: Social and Moral Remittances of Diaspora in Homeland Politics: Two Cases from Hungary was published.

Kovács, Nóra: Social and Moral Remittances of Diaspora in Homeland Politics: Two Cases from Hungary. In: Vytis Ciubrinskas and Ninan Glick Schiller (eds) Transnationalities of Migrant Moral Economies in a Transforming World. Berghahn, 167-190.

On April 15, HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Political Science, in cooperation with Habitat for Humanity Hungary, organized a film screening and discussion on the intersection of energy poverty and gender inequality, as part of the WISE project.