The HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences and the NIOK Foundation will organise a workshop entitled "Meeting of researchers and developers for the Hungarian third sector" on 9th September 2024 from 13:00, where Margit Feischmidt will give a presentation entitled "Is there a local turn in solidarity? Institutional and policy lessons from NGO assistance to refugees from Ukraine". She will present the recent results of the research project "Work, values, hope in spaces of solidarity. The possibilities and limits of transformative solidarity in Hungary". The programme of the workshop is available here.

The Szeged Jewish Community, the National Rabbinical Seminary – Jewish University, and the University of Szeged are organizing an international academic conference between 4th and 6th September in Szeged titled "The Life and Work of Immanuel Löw." The conference will be held primarily in Hungarian, with some sessions in English. 

Our colleagues, Viktória Bányai and Tamás Turán will also give lectures at the conference.

The conference programme and further information can be found here.

The books published by Kriterion Publishing House as part of the research programme of the Institute for Minority Studies of the HUN-REN CSS will be presented on Friday, August 30, 2024, in Miercurea Ciuc, at 18:00 at the Kájoni János County Library and on Saturday, August 31, 2024, in Târgu Mureș, at Teleki Teka, at 11:00.

Gagyi József „Villanyos és közössége. Villamosítás, modernizáció: történet a Nyárád-mentén (1945-1989)

Sárándi Tamás „Függőben. A román kisebbség helyzete Észak-Erdélyben (1940-1944)

Kovács Eszter „»Egy kis figyelmesség«. Informális hálózatok és gyakorlatok a Gyergyói-medencében (1970-1989)

Hullóidő. Székely identitásépítés a 19-20. században

Participants in Miercurea Ciuc: József Gagyi, Sándor Oláh, Tamás Sárándi, József Nagy, Eszter Kovács, Andrea Sólyom, Nándor Bárdi and Lázár László Lövétei. In Târgu Mureș the authors accompanied by Lóránt László, Zoltán Novák and András Vajda.

With the support of the research programme of the HUN-REN CSS Institute for Minority Studies, an annotated bibliography of articles by Beke György: Népi Egység (1944-1948) was prepared, which is also available online in the Transylvanian Hungarian Databank [Erdélyi Magyar Adatbank].

The research of the daily newspaper of the Hungarian People's Alliance can greatly contribute to the history of Hungarians in Romania between 1944 and 1948.

"You can say anything on cross-border issues, because who will hold you to account?" Judit Windisch's interview with Nándor Bárdi of the HUN-REN CSS Institute for Minority Studies can be read on the 444.hu news portal about support for Hungarians beyond the border and transnationalisation.

On 23rd August 2024 Nóra Kovács gives a presentation at the international symposium organized by ZRC SAZU Glasbenonarodopisni inštitut in Ljubljana. The title of her presentation is 'Intangible cultural heritage as a vehicle of transnational nation building: the Dance House Method in the South American Hungarian Diaspora'. The programme of the three-day conference is available here.

The HUN-REN CSS Institute for Minority Studies co-organizes the 5th edition of the Erdélyi Történész tábor [Transylvanian Hungarian Historian workshops and camp] (5-8th September 2024). Here, new research results will be presented, manuscript discussions and book presentations will take place. The programme can be found here.

The news portal Napunk.sk published an interview with Nándor Bárdi

Interview with Csilla Fedinec on 444.hu.

Eszter Kovács's book „Egy kis figyelmesség” Informális hálózatok és gyakorlatok a Gyergyói-medencében (1970-1989)  / 'A Little Attention' Informal Networks and Practices in the Gheorgheni Basin (1970-1989) ] was published by Kriterion Publishing House and the Erdélyi Múzeum Egyesület in Cluj-Napoca with the support of our institute's research programme.