On the occasion of March 15, our colleague Tamás Gusztáv Filep was awarded the Hungarian Silver Cross of Merit (Civil Division) in recognition of his work.

Our colleague, Csilla Fedinec, will participate in the CEU Democracy Institute’s election debate series on March 16, 2026.

How can Russian influence manifest in Hungarian politics? What role do disinformation and manipulated narratives spreading on social media play, and how do they affect the integrity of elections and public trust in democratic institutions?

With the support of our institute's research program, Ferenc Horváth's book Kommunista–zsidó–magyar: Gáll Ernő, a hontalan filozófus [Communist–Jewish–Hungarian: Ernő Gáll, the Stateless Philosopher] was published by Kriterion Publishing House. The table of contents and foreword can be read here (in Hungarian)

The Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University is organizing a conference titled "Common City Conference 2026" for researchers and activists on the right to the city, housing, and social justice in an urban context. The conference will take place in Uppsala from August 26 to 28, 2026. One of the conference panels, titled "A Feminist Social Provisioning? The Potentials and Obstacles of Commoning Housing and Care," is organized by research fellows Katalin Ámon and Fanni Dés from the ELTE Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Minority Studies, together with Angelina Kussy, a researcher at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.

Abstracts for conference participation are accepted until March 27, 2026.

For more information visit the Conference web page.

Our institution organized the annual international conference of DDI this year. The event attracted participants from 22 countries. 

Our colleague, Réka Marchut, will give a presentation on February 21 at the Living Heritage conference to be held in Nagykároly. The title of her presentation is: "Hungarian world", "Romanian world", the fate of the Swabians of Satu Mare - The history of the Swabians of Satu Mare from 1940 to the present

Programme: Part 1 | Part 2

On February 24, Rajk College is organizing a discussion entitled Bourdieu and Hatred, during which Gergely Pulay will give a lecture on Bourdieu's theories on social inequality.

The volumes of Lucidus Publishing's "Minority Research Library" series are available in the digital reading room of the ELTE Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Minority Studies

The study by Marianna Kopasz, Zófia Papp, Csilla Zsigmond, and Ildikó Husz examines the determinants of acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine in Hungary, with a particular focus on trust in science.

Nándor Bárdi participated in the conference entitled Republic: yesterday, today – tomorrow? held by the Institute of Political History on February 5, 2026, in the Political community, responsibility, and common issues – today roundtable discussion. The main topics were the integration deficit in Hungarian nation building and the problems of Hungarian-Hungarian relations.