On 28 March, the Lutheran Central Collection, together with the Otto Habsburg Foundation, organised a conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Gusztáv Gratz. At the conference, our colleague Ferenc Eiler gave a lecture entitled Gusztáv Gratz's dilemmas in connection with the Hungarian German Folk Culture Association after the death of Jakob Bleyer.

Our colleague Réka Marchut will give a lecture in German in Erdweg on 19 March 2025, at the workshop entitled Resettlements from a Comparative Perspective. Suotheastern Europe between 1938/1940 and 1945, organised by the Institut für Deutsche Kultur und Geschichte Südosteuropas. Her presentation will be entitled: Minority Policy in Southeastern Europe in the Interwar Period

Our colleague Nándor Bárdi will give a lecture on the recent history of the Hungarians in Romania after 1989 on 18 March 2025 at 18:00 at the Miguel Serveto Cultural Centre in Budapest.

 

The Andrássy Gyula University, the Kommission für Geschichte und Kultur der Deutschen in Südosteuropa and the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences will organise an international conference on "Refugees and the Refugee Question in East-Central Europe (1938-1948)" in Budapest, Hungary, 2-4 October 2025. The conference will be accompanied by a seminar for doctoral students.

You can find the call for presentations here.

You can find more information about the seminar for doctoral students here.

On 6 March 2025, Béni L. Balogh gave a lecture in Romanian at the scientific conference "Comunismul la putere. 80 de ani de la instaurarea guvernului Petru Groza, 6 Martie 1945". The title of the lecture was "Cotitura de stânga al lui Petru Groza la sfârșitul anilor 1920, începutul anilor 1930" ("Petru Groza's leftist turn at the end of the 1920s, beginning of the 1930s").