Romanian Prime Minister Iuliu Maniu and the Hungarians of Transylvania
You can read the article by Réka Marchut on the Rubicon Institute website.
Established in 2012, the Centre for Social Sciences (CSS), a Centre of Excellence of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, is currently a partner in nine EU-funded projects within the frameworks of both Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe. This amounts to over €1.3 million in funding for excellent and innovative research.
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You can read the article by Réka Marchut on the Rubicon Institute website.
The Minority History Conference The Hungarians of Transylvania in the 20th century will be held for the third time in Târgu Mures on 23-24 May 2025. The conference programme is available here.
Ágnes Tóth's German-language book Deutsche in Ungarn 1950-1970. Die deutsche Minderheit zwischen Stalinismus und Kádár-Regime was published by De Gruyter Brill.
Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg waren die im Land verbliebenen Ungarndeutschen zahlreichen Repressionen unterworfen. Ab 1950 konsolidierte sich deren Lage allmählich. Ágnes Tóth analysiert anhand zahlreicher Archivbestände die von vielen Widersprüchen gekennzeichnete Politik der ungarischen Staats- und Parteiführung gegenüber den Ungarndeutschen sowie die Bemühungen der deutschen Minderheit, als Teil der ungarischen Gesellschaft anerkannt zu werden. Dabei mussten sich die Ungarndeutschen nicht nur gegen die Assimilierungspolitik der Staatsmacht behaupten, sondern auch an unterschiedlichste Ausprägungen der kommunistischen Diktatur anpassen. Diese Monografie bietet einen detaillierten Überblick über alle zentralen Aspekte der Lage der deutschen Minderheit in Ungarn, z. B. der Verbandsstrukturen oder des Bildungs- und Pressewesens, wodurch die Autorin die erste Gesamtdarstellung zur Geschichte der Ungarndeutschen während der ersten Hälfte der kommunistischen Herrschaft vorlegt.
On Thursday, 8 May 2025 at 17:00, the Volkskundemuseum Wien and the Institute for European Ethnology of the University of Vienna will host a discussion with Margit Feischmidt and Kristóf Szombati entitled Authoritarianism from below? Popular Support and Resistance in Hungary.
The full issue is available on the journal's website.
From the contents
Rural transitions
Vegetable growers in the Aranyosszék
Resources and communities in the mountains
German-Swabian heritage
German-German dictionary of Hungary
Language autobiographies
German literature in Hungary after 1945
German nationality kindergarten teacher, teacher and teacher training
Workshop
The situation of the Ladin community in South Tyrol
Settlement census in Óbuda in the 1970s
The PLEDGE consortium, with members from the HUN-REN CSS Institute for Political Science, focuses on the emotional dynamics of political grievances and their impact on democratic politics, with the aim of strengthening societal and political resilience.
Udvari, O., Szalma, I. Socio-demographic factors, informal payments and satisfaction with childbirth in the Hungarian context. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 25, 409 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-025-07521-3 (Q1, 2.8)
The study titled "Pandemic policymaking in European populist and liberal democracies: a comparison between Hungary and Portugal" by Marianna Kopasz, our Institute's Senior Research Fellow, Attila Bartha, our Institute's Senior Research Fellow, and Judit Takács, Research Professor of the Institute for Sociology, has been published in the journal "Political Research Exchange".
F. Albert, M. Gerdán, B. Dávid., Z. Brys (2025): Potential protective factors against negative interpersonal influence regarding COVID-19 vaccination - A cross-sectional study on Covid-19 vaccine discussion networks. ELSEVIER https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.101473 (Q1)
Szalma I, Heers M, Tanturri ML (2025) Measuring attitudes towards voluntary childlessness: Indicators in European comparative surveys. PLoS ONE 20(3): e0319081. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0319081 (Q1)
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Recently published (17.06.2025):
Kőszeghy Lea, Hilbert Bálint, & Csizmady Adrienne (2025). Urban Planning in the Context of Democratic Backsliding: The Case of Hungary. Urban Planning, Vol 10 (2025): The Role of Planning in ’Anti-Democratic’ Times. Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press. 0.592 (Q1), IF 1.7 (2024)
13 May, 2025
The book The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence for Law in Europe published recently by Springer was edited by Márton Varju and Kitti Mezei, as part of the book series Data Science, Machine Intelligence, and Law.
20 March, 2025
New publication:
Szalma I, Heers M, Tanturri ML (2025) Measuring attitudes towards voluntary childlessness: Indicators in European comparative surveys. PLOS ONE 20(3): e0319081. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0319081
New publication: Ágnes Győri, Éva Perpék, Szilvia Ádám: Mental health risk in human services work across Europe: the predictive role of employment in various sectors. Frontiers in Public Health-ben (Q1, IF: 3)
30 January, 2025
4 November, 2024
Expert workshop on 9 October, 2024
Manna, A., Koltai, J. & Karsai, M. Importance of social inequalities to contact patterns, vaccine uptake, and epidemic dynamics. Nature Communication 15, 4137 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48332-y
Ivett Szalma & Marieke Heers (2024) Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe. Understanding the Links Between Pronatalism and Voluntary Childlessness, International Journal of Sociology, DOI: 10.1080/00207659.2024.2319420