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International conference Settling and Unsettling

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.

International conference Identities, Representations and Policies: State-Minority Relations in the 20th and 21st Centuries

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

Conference Exploring Racial Capitalism

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.

Are minority rights (still) human rights? (25 Years of Minority Rights Regime in Europe and 75 Years of the UDHR)

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

The Hungarian Optants Question in Transnational Perspectives. International Organizations and Legal Dispute Settlements of Economic and Minority Problems in the Interwar Period

Réka Marchut will give a lecture on "The Influence of Germany on the Diplomatic Debates between Hungary and Romania Referred to the Optants Case" at the international conference on "The Hungarian Optants Question in Transnational Perspectives. International Organizations and Legal Dispute Settlements of Economic and Minority Problems in the Interwar Period", which will take place between 15-16 June at the University of Bucharest. The full programme of the conference is available at HERE.

11th Conference of the European Society on Family Relations

Nóra Kovács and her co-author will present their paper titled 'Resentment in the family. Considerations of an empirical pilot study from Hungary’ at the 11th Conference of the European Society on Family Relations 'Family Life – Troubling Family Relations and Practices' (June 14–16, 2023, Roskilde University, Denmark). The full programme of the conference is available at HERE.