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28th Annual ASN World Convention

Balázs Dobos and Balázs Vizi will attend the 28th World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) to be held at Columbia University in New York between 16 and 18 May. The titles of their presentations: Balázs Dobos: Struggles for Representation and Recognition: Contested Identities Among New Minorities in Hungary, Balázs Vizi: How the Advisory Committee of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (Council of Europe) Identifies the Roma and Their Problems. The full programme of the convention is available at HERE.

Challenging the Reproduction of Inequality Through Higher Education

Our colleague Judit Durst will give the keynote address at the CEU Critical Romani Studies conference Challenging the Reproduction of Inequality Through Higher Education: Critical Approaches in Romani Studies and Beyond, held between 16-17 May in Vienna. Her presentation is entitled False Promises and the Racial Glass Ceiling: Can educational support programs challenge the reproduction of inequality in Higher Education?

Róbert-István Antal: The Socialist Who Loves His Nation. Lajos Jordáky (1913-1974).

Róbert-István Antal: The Socialist Who Loves His Nation. Lajos Jordáky (1913-1974).

With the support of our institute, the book by Róbert-István Antal: The Socialist Who Loves His Nation. Lajos Jordáky (1913-1974) was published in Cluj by Kriterion Publishing House and Transylvanian Museum Society.

Can a good communist be a good Transylvanian Hungarian? As a social-democratic and then communist politician, and as a devout Marxist who was displaced into the cultural sphere after the establishment of the state socialist dictatorship, he was confronted with the dilemma: Can the class emancipation of the Transylvanian Hungarian communities solve the challenges of minority existence?

The book's introduction and table of contents can be read here (in Hungarian). 

József Gagyi: Villanyos and His Community. Electrification, Modernization: History of the Nyárád Area (1945-1989)

József Gagyi: Villanyos and His Community. Electrification, Modernization: History of the Nyárád Area (1945-1989)

The book József Gagyi: Villanyos and His Community. Electrification, Modernization: History of the Nyárád Area (1945-1989) was published by Kriterion Publishing House and Transylvanian Museum Society in Cluj-Napoca with the support of our institute.

Domokos Sztrátya, a well-known electrician in the Nyárád region, was much more than just a data provider. In addition to reflecting on his own life and that of his community, he was also a curious observer of the villages and the times. He was a peasant farmer from a serf village, a civil servant, and a social scientist in „disguise”.

The book's introduction and table of contents can be read here (in Hungarian).