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
On May 24, 2024, our colleague Nándor Bárdi gave a lecture entitled 'The Várady saga' at the conference Várady 85 organised by Károli Gáspár University.
Our colleague, Viktória Bányai will also present at the conference The Hungarian Holocaust after 80 years. Deprivation of Rights - Deportation - Remembrance, which will take place in Szeged on 6-7 June 2024. Her presentation will be entitled: Desecrated Torah Scrolls in the Light of Two Surveys.
New open access book chapter by Csilla Fedinec was published.
Fedinec, Csilla: "Great Theorists of Central European Integration in Ukraine," in Gedeon, M. (ed.): Great Theorists of Central European Integration. Miskolc-Budapest: Central European Academic Publishing. pp. 393–442., 50 p.
‘Central Europe’ is a concept that varies in time and space. Ukraine is the second-largest country on the European continent, and is geographically located south-west of the Eastern European plain. The peculiarity of historical development and geographical location leads to the portrayal of Ukraine as a civilizational frontier area between the countries of the West and East. The nineteenth century was the period of birth of national histories, equally among non-historical (stateless) and historical (state) nations, while at the same time, at any historical moment, one can find the predecessor of the modern nation. The coherence of the Ukrainian narrative is ensured by proto-state and state forms: Kyivan Rus, the Principality of Galicia-Volhynia, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Cossack era, Ukrainian statehood in 1917–1921, Soviet era, Carpatho-Ukraine’s autonomous existence in 1938–1939, and independent Ukraine since 1991. The Kyivan Rus was oriented towards Byzantium, and the Principality towards Western Europe. The Hetmanate’s political structure recognised as a historical Cossack statehood. In the mid-17th century, the Cossack uprising led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky brought to the fore the dilemma of pro-Moscow or pro-Polish (in fact, pro-European) orientation. Since the late 18th century, Ukrainian territories have become the periphery of the empires, and ties with Europe have weakened. Europe almost forgot about Ukraine’s existence. The central powers of the First World War attempted to tear Ukraine away from Russia and push it politically and civilizationally towards the West, albeit without any international interest in the question of Ukrainian statehood aspirations. Later, the Soviet Union created Ukrainian borders, but deprived the Ukrainians of any political activity. Pro-European Union tendencies were always present in independent Ukraine, but only took definite shape following the Revolution of Dignity in 2014. In 2014 Ukraine and the European Union signed the Association Agreement, came into effect in 2017. Russia’s disastrous full-scale invasion against Ukraine accelerated Ukraine–EU rapprochement, and as a result Ukraine was granted EU candidate status in 2022. Europeanisation is not only a process of identity construction, but also a value-based supranational ‘ways of doing things’. In this context, Ukraine’s place in the buffer zone between Eastern and Western Europe has changed over the centuries. The study analyses the development of opinions on this topic, based on the works of some selected Ukrainian and Ukrainian-descent thinkers from the 19th century to the present day.
Organised by the European Parliament and the Embassy of Ukraine in Hungary, the documentary movie "Ukraine Overcoming the Darkness" will be screened, followed by a roundtable discussion with our colleague Csilla Fedinec. You can find more information about the event here.