On 20 June 2024, Csilla Fedinec will participate in Kyiv at the conference "Ukraine - Hungary: the current state and prospects of interstate relations" at the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Topics discussed: Hungarian-Ukrainian interstate relations, Ukrainians in Hungary - Hungarians in Ukraine, security policy aspects, economic, military-technical cooperation, cross-border relations.

The volume entitled Hullóidő. Székely identitásépítés a 19-20. században [The construction of Szekler identity in the 19th-20th centuries] was published. The work was produced at the HUN-REN CSS Institute for Minority Studies. The authors are: Ablonczy Balázs, Bárdi Nándor, Bokor Zsuzsa, Mohay Tamás, Nagy Szabolcs, Orbán Zsolt, Sándor Klára,  Szőcsné Gazda Enikő,  Tompa Zsófia, Vallasek Júlia.

The HUN-REN CSS Institute for Minority Studies and the Haáz Rezső Museum in Odorheiu Secuiesc are organizing a conference on the history of minorities entitled Transylvanian Hungarians in the 20th century with 22 speakers, film and book presentations on 21-22 June in Odorheiu Secuiesc. The programme is available HERE.

Ágnes Tóth will give a presentation on 20 June 2024 in Freiburg at the international coference "Standortbestimmung, Intentionen und Perspektiven der Minderheitenkultur der Deutschen in Ungarn gegenwärtig" organised by the Institut für Volkskunde der Deutschen des östlichen Europa (IVDE). Her presentation is entitled: Die "Rückkehrer" / "Hazatértek". Eine Ausnahmeerscheinung in der ungarndeutschen Minderheit.

Our colleague, Tamás Gusztáv Filep will give a presentation on 14 June at the Forum Social Science Review conference "Science in the Hungarian Minority Context" in Šamorín. His presentation will be entitled: Literature-centred science - scientific interpretation of literature and history.

Our colleague, Eszter Kovács will be signing her book entitled ’Elismerés és megszólítottság. Magyar diaszpórapolitika makro- és mezoszintű megközelítésben’ and published by Gondolat at the 95th Festive Book Week of Budapest on 16 June 2024 at 5 p.m. All interested readers are welcome at the event. Details can be read HERE.

On 4 June 2024, our colleague Csilla Fedinec will be the guest of the Foreign and Security Policy Section of the National Association of Hungarian Journalists, where she will be interviewed by István Kulcsár about the situation in Ukraine.

The editorial staff of Regio will organize a discussion on the transformation of international minority protection, in connection with the works of Balázs Vizi, on 6 June 2024, at 2 pm, at the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, with the invited speakers Géza Jeszenszky, Levente Salat, Csaba Tabajdi, Judit Tóth.

Our colleague György Szerbhorváth will be the guest of Vojvodina Television's programme “Napjaink” on June 3rd 2024 from 8 p.m. He will discuss the municipal elections in Serbia held on June 2nd, and the Hungarian EP elections to be held on June 9th. The live broadcast can be followed here, or later in the archive.

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

From the contents

German self-organisation

        The Germans from the Spiš region in Czechoslovakia

        Volksbund in Transcarpathia

         Kin-state support for German language education in Hungary at the time of the regime change

School in the pandemic

         The situation and challenges of disadvantaged pupils, pupils with disabilities and pupils with special educational needs

          The legal framework in Hungary

          Local experiences of adaptation

Ignotus as a journalist in Cluj-Napoca and Košice