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.

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

From the contents:

Szekler matrix: measurement of identity, identity building, historical memory
State intervention - local economy: the Rijeka Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Purim-spil after the Holocaust
Nationalities in Serbia 1944-1964

The documentary collection of Attila Seres is presented by Csilla Fedinec. More information about the book launch can be found here.

A Ukrainian-language volume entitled "Ukraine’s Patronal Democracy and the Russian Invasion: The Russia-Ukraine War", with two studies by Csilla Fedinec, has been published by Academic Studies Press in Brooklyn. The volume is freely available here.