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.

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.

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

Edited by Eszter Neumann and Iván Bajomi, the thematic issue of journal Educatio entitled Education policy in authoritarian context will be published in September. The online conference launching the issue will take place on the afternoon of 19 June 2025. Details can be found here.

An article by Béni L. Balogh was published in issue 2025/1 of Történelmi Szemle. The title is ”You Will Be the Second Lenin." Petru Groza's Ideological Turn in the Late 1920s and the First Half of the 1930s. The article can be read here (in Hungarian)

The recording of the book presentation of Tamás Sárándi: Függőben. A román kisebbség helyzete Észak-Erdélyben (1940-1944) [The situation of the Romanian minority in Northern Transylvania] at Írók Boltja is available here.

On 30 May 2025, as part of the MTA 200 programme series, our colleague Nándor Bárdi discussed Hungarian scholarship in Slovenia with László Göncz and Attila Kovács.

Our colleague Csilla Fedinec is participating in a roundtable discussion at the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs on 5 June 2025. Details can be found here.

Margit Feischmidt will present at the conference "Populism For, Against or By the Minorities? Social Groups in Populism Research", to be held at Tallin University, Estonia, between 5th and 6th June. Her presentation will be entitled: Diaspora nationalism in the context of the expanding populist authoritarian state and the homeland attachments among the Hungarians living in Germany

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Aetas journal, Nándor Bárdi gave a lecture on 29 May 2025, "This side of deconstruction? Have the ‘great stories’ been changed by minority history?"