Tamás Turán will give a lecture (in Hungarian) at the John Lukács Institute on 18 March 2024, entitled Carl Schmitt and Israel's Local World War. He will examine the applicability of Carl Schmitt's concept of war to the Gaza-Israel conflict. The speaker is a Hebraist, his approach is unique and he analyses the situation from the perspective of the rabbinic tradition.

Place and date: 1083 Budapest, Ludovika square 1. Wing Building, John Lukacs Room: 18th March 2024, 14:00

The lecture by Nándor Bárdi, which took place in Cluj in December 2023, titled "Minority Society - Church Society," as part of the Forrpont event series organized by the Institute for the Study of Religions in Cluj, is now accessible (in Hungarian). Apart from exploring the ways to understand minority society, the lecture aimed to provide a historical framework for the Hungarian minority's experiences in Romania over the past hundred years.

The full issue is available on the journal's website.

From the contents:

Szekler matrix: measurement of identity, identity building, historical memory
State intervention - local economy: the Rijeka Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Purim-spil after the Holocaust
Nationalities in Serbia 1944-1964

The documentary collection of Attila Seres is presented by Csilla Fedinec. More information about the book launch can be found here.

A Ukrainian-language volume entitled "Ukraine’s Patronal Democracy and the Russian Invasion: The Russia-Ukraine War", with two studies by Csilla Fedinec, has been published by Academic Studies Press in Brooklyn. The volume is freely available here.

The essay by philosopher Sándor Pethő on Tamás Gusztáv Filep's 2021 volume can be read here.

Our colleague György Szerbhorváth will be the guest of Vojvodina Television's programme “Fókusz” on February 22, 2024 from 8 p.m., and will discuss the effects of wars, Serbia's EU accession process and other current topics. The live broadcast can be followed here, or later in the archive.

The article analyses the relationship between the Ukrainian political and military leadership during the two years of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Csilla Fedinec's article (in Hungarian) can be read on 444.hu.

A new security zone is emerging, stretching from Scandinavia to Romania. Ukraine could become a bridge not necessarily between East and West, but between Poland and Romania. How does current Hungarian policy relate to this and what are the consequences?

Csilla Fedinec's article (in Hungarian) can be read on 444.hu.

On February 5, 2024 Réka Marchut will give a lecture in Carei at the scientific symposium organized in memory of Iuliu Maniu. The title of her presentation: Familia Maniu in mediile interetnice