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The museum as a centre for preserving the historical and cultural heritage of the Carpathian region

Institute for Minority Studies

Our colleague, Csilla Fedinec, will participate and give a lecture at a conference on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Transcarpathian Local History Museum named after Tivadar Lehoczky in Uzhhorod on 19 June 2025 organised by the Museum, the Transcarpathian regional Council, the Transcarpathian Regional Military Administration and the Uzhhorod National University. Details can be found here.

Books and reflections about Ukraine

Institute for Minority Studies

Our colleague Csilla Fedinec and Liliána Grexa, the National Assembly's spokesperson for Ukrainian nationality, discussed Hungarian-Ukrainian relations and the role of science at the 96th Celebration of Book Week in front of the Gondolat Publishing House book tent. The video can be watched here.

Ukraine, nationalism, minorities

Institute for Minority Studies

Our colleague Csilla Fedinec will be signing her latest book on 15 June 2025 during the 96th Book Week in Budapest.

Csilla Fedinec: Ethnopolitics and Parliamentary Representation from Gorbachev's Last Years to the Second Trump Era. Gondolat Publishing House, 2025. 466 pages. (in Hungarian), ISBN 978 963 556 632 7, http://doi.org/10.24362/ukrajna.fedinec.2025

The intellectual and political history of Ukraine cannot be reduced to the fixed nationalist aspect in the public consciousness. Furthermore, nationalism is not an exclusively negative concept. Minorities in Ukraine are not merely an incidental group, but also a factor in political life. This book seeks to answer the question of how the relationship between the state and minorities has evolved over the past three decades, the role of the prevailing political context in this evolution, and the extent to which Ukraine has been subject to the influence of the great powers. It also explores intriguing topics such as the Azov Brigade, Eurasianism, banderism, post-colonialism, solidarity, the 'good Russians' dilemma, and many other familiar and lesser-known issues

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The activities of the research group Give Kids a Chance in 2018

Give Kids a Chance

The research team provides professional-methodological support for district and settlement programs aimed at improving children's chances and preventing the reproduction of disadvantages in the framework of a European Union co-financed consortium tender (EFOP-1.4.1-15 "Professional Support for Integrated Program for Children"). The primary objective and task of the research group is to assist the planning of Hungarian social policy interventions with policy-oriented research, analysis and evaluation.