Our colleague Réka Marchut will give a lecture at the international conference Settling and Unsettling. Towards a "Settler Turn" in the Study of the East of Europe (1700s - Present) organised in Tübingen, Germany, from 12-14th October. Her presentation is entitled: The Plan and Practice of the "Resettlement" of the Szeklers from Bukovina and the Moldavian Csángós during and after the Second World War.

You can find more information about the conference here.

The Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities is organizing an international conference on October 5-6, 2023 at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj titled Identities, Representations and Policies: State-Minority Relations in the 20th and 21st Centuries. The conference will be held in English and Romanian.

Four members of our Institute will also give presentations:

October 5th:

Béni L. Balogh: Românii din Transilvania de la sfârșitul secolului al XIX-lea până la 1918.

Réka Marchut: Iuliu Maniu in Viena

October 6th:

Nóra Kovács: The Changing Role of Hungarian Folk Dancing in a Hungarian Diaspora Community in South America

Csilla Zsigmond: Paterns of National Identity Among Minority Hungarian Youth

Ágnes Tóth will participate and present a paper at the international conference ’Vertreibung und Erinnerung. Forschungsstand und Geschichtspolitik im östlichen Europa’, organised by the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies on 6-7 October 2023 in Regensburg, Her presentation is titled Verschleppung und Vertreibung der Ungarndeutschen in der ungarischen Geschichtsschreibung.

On 20 October, Gergely Pulay will present a paper at the online conference Exploring Racial Capitalism: Critical Romani Studies in Central and Eastern Europe, organised by Babeș-Bolyai University, CEU and Critical Romani Studies. His presentation is titled Personalized value struggles amid marketization on the margins of Bucharest. The conference can be followed online. The conference programme and all information is available on the official website.

Balázs Vizi will give a presentation titled "Participation in Public Life: Is It a Special Minority Right?" at the international conference organized by the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade and the Tom Lantos Institute on 28-29 September in Belgrade. The full programme of the event and the abstracts are available at HERE.

A live stream of the conference will be available at

Thursday: https://www.sanu.ac.rs/direktan-prenos/

Friday: https://pravni.webex.com/pravni/j.php?MTID=m7649f02c6d530bd1fd5f58ba39c3779d