The Tom Lantos Institute cordially invites you to a Workshop on

HUNGARIAN MINORITIES IN AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE 

 

on Sunday 19 July 2015 from 10:00 to 16:00

in the Conference Room, Bérc utca 13-15, 1016 Budapest

 

Authoritative international experts reflect on, and discuss a series of presentations on Hungarian minorities from respected Hungarian scholars. The presentations will address Hungary’s kin-state policies, the perceptions and the impact of double citizenship, the implementation of language rights, and the mobilisation of Hungarian minority parties, in Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Ukraine.

Key-note speeches are delivered by:

 István Íjgyártó, Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade;

 Kinga Gál, Member of the European Parliament, Fidesz-European People’s Party Presenters include:

 István Csernicskó, Ferenc Rákóczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian Institute, Antal Hodinka Linguistic Research Centre, Beregszász;

 Viktória Ferenc, Research Institute for Hungarian Communities Abroad, Budapest;

 Zoltán Kántor, Research Institute for Hungarian Communities Abroad, Budapest;

 Tamás Kiss, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Cluj-Napoca/Kolozsvár;

 Attila Z. Papp, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest;

 István Gergő Székely, Centre for the Study of Democracy, Department of Political Science,"Babeș-Bolyai" University in Cluj-Napoca/Kolozsvár.

International Experts:

 Joshua Castellino, Dean of the School of Law, Middlesex University London;

 Brendan O’Leary, Lauder Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania;

 Jennifer Jackson Preece, Associate Professor, London School of Economics;

 György Schöpflin, Member of the European Parliament, Fidesz-European People’s Party.

The language of the workshop is English.

Please register here by Thursday 16 July.

 

10:00 – 10:10 Key-note speeches

10:10 – 12:50 Presentations

12:50 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 15:30 International Panel Discussion on New Challenges Facing Hungary’s Kin-state Policies

15:30 – 16:00 Conclusion

16:00 – 16:30 Press Conference