Our colleague Csilla Fedinec will be signing her latest book on 15 June 2025 during the 96th Book Week in Budapest.

Csilla Fedinec: Ethnopolitics and Parliamentary Representation from Gorbachev's Last Years to the Second Trump Era. Gondolat Publishing House, 2025. 466 pages. (in Hungarian), ISBN 978 963 556 632 7, http://doi.org/10.24362/ukrajna.fedinec.2025

The intellectual and political history of Ukraine cannot be reduced to the fixed nationalist aspect in the public consciousness. Furthermore, nationalism is not an exclusively negative concept. Minorities in Ukraine are not merely an incidental group, but also a factor in political life. This book seeks to answer the question of how the relationship between the state and minorities has evolved over the past three decades, the role of the prevailing political context in this evolution, and the extent to which Ukraine has been subject to the influence of the great powers. It also explores intriguing topics such as the Azov Brigade, Eurasianism, banderism, post-colonialism, solidarity, the 'good Russians' dilemma, and many other familiar and lesser-known issues

Csaba Molnár has been awarded the 2025 Aurél Kolnai Prize. This honour, given for the most outstanding political science publication of the year, was presented to our Institute's Research Fellow at the 30th Annual Conference of the Hungarian Political Science Association (HPSA) for his book "The Weight of Weightlessness" ("A súlytalanság súlya").

Edited by Eszter Neumann and Iván Bajomi, the thematic issue of journal Educatio entitled Education policy in authoritarian context will be published in September. The online conference launching the issue will take place on the afternoon of 19 June 2025. Details can be found here.

The study titled "Varieties of Corruption? A Typology of Country-Level Corruption Patterns Using Fuzzy-Set Ideal Type Analysis" authored by Áron Hajnal and Attila Bartha, our Institute's researchers, has been published in the journal "Political Studies Review" (Q1).

An article by Béni L. Balogh was published in issue 2025/1 of Történelmi Szemle. The title is ”You Will Be the Second Lenin." Petru Groza's Ideological Turn in the Late 1920s and the First Half of the 1930s. The article can be read here (in Hungarian)

The recording of the book presentation of Tamás Sárándi: Függőben. A román kisebbség helyzete Észak-Erdélyben (1940-1944) [The situation of the Romanian minority in Northern Transylvania] at Írók Boltja is available here.

Our colleague Csilla Fedinec is participating in a roundtable discussion at the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs on 5 June 2025. Details can be found here.

Margit Feischmidt will present at the conference "Populism For, Against or By the Minorities? Social Groups in Populism Research", to be held at Tallin University, Estonia, between 5th and 6th June. Her presentation will be entitled: Diaspora nationalism in the context of the expanding populist authoritarian state and the homeland attachments among the Hungarians living in Germany

The 30th Annual Conference of the Hungarian Political Science Association was held on May 29-30, 2025, hosted this year by the HUN-REN CSS Institute for Political Science. The Annual Conference is the primary forum for the political science community of Hungary, offering an opportunity for reflection, the evaluation of past achievements and the presentation of the latest trends in the field.

Viktória Bányai will give a lecture with Rita Horváth at the Department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University (Israel) on 4 June at 15:00 CET. Their lecture is titled Testimonial Drawings of Survivor Children in a Budapest Jewish School, 1945. You can join the lecture at this link.