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.

Gergely Pulay will give a presentation at the workshop "On the Urgency of Old Ideas A Counter-Disciplinary Workshop on Theory and Method" organized by the CEU Institute for Advanced Studies in Budapest on 5 June 2025 (Thursday). His presentation is entitled "Post-feudalism and Post-fascism in Hungarian Social Thought: an Intellectual History of Crises and Critique"

Eszter Neumann published an op-ed article in the Progressive Post magazine about the state-church relations in Hungary.