On 18th March, Viktória Bányai gave a lecture at the opening conference of the Gábor Sztehlo Memorial Year titled The sites and organisers of Jewish child rescue during and after the war . You can find a report on the conference on evangelikus.hu.

At our event last Tuesday, in connection with the film Nyersanyag (Raw Material), Martin Boross, the director of the film, Fanni Szántó, co-screenwriter, Rodrigó Balog, artistic director of the Independent Theatre, and our colleague Judit Durst, a researcher of the topic, whose work inspired the film, discussed the dependency relationships in Hungarian villages. Ágnes Kende wrote about the film and the event on Qubit.

On 22 March 2024, an international expert discussion will be held at the Uzhhorod National University on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first democratic parliamentary elections in the region, with the participation of Ukrainian members of Parliament, local government representatives and academics from Ukraine, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary. Hungary is represented by Csilla Fedinec.

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.