Our colleague, Réka Marchut will give a lecture on September 27, 2024 in Badacin (Romania) at the conference Destine frante in inchisorile comuniste (Fates in communist prisons). The title of her lecture: Procesul lui Iuliu Maniu si anii de inchisoare din perspectiva maghiara (Iuliu Maniu's trial and prison from a Hungarian perspective). The full program is available here.

Our colleague Tamás Turán will also present on 24th September in Vienna, at a workshop entitled Ignaz Goldziher and the Study of Islamic and Jewish Legal Cultures, organised by the Department of Islamic-Theological Studies at the University of Vienna, the CEU Center for Religious Studies and the CEU Jewish Studies Program. His presentation is entitled Consensus and Dissent: Goldziher's Ideas about Reform in Judaism and Islam.

On 12 September 2024, Balázs Vizi gave a presentation at the annual congress of the Italian Political Science Association in Trieste on how the political and linguistic rights of Roma are reflected in the monitoring procedure of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. The lecture is related to the research project of the Institute for Minority Research (NKIFH) No. K143523, "The parliamentary representation of minorities in international comparison". The Congress programme is available here.

The Association of Significant Cemeteries in Europe will hold its annual conference on 20 September in Budapest, on the theme "Cemeteries as Cultural Spaces of European Remembrance". Our colleague Viktória Bányai will also give a presentation at the conference. More information about the conference can be found here.

The 16th conference of the European Sociological Association entitled Tensions, Trust and Transformation was organised in Porto between 27th and 30th August 2024. Our institute was represented by Margit Feischmidt, Judit Durst, Eszter Neumann, Ildikó Zakariás, Csilla Zsigmond and Gergely Pulay.