The Tom Lantos Institute, in partnership with the Central European University and with the cooperation of the Institute for Minority Studies of the Centre for Social Sciences at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, organised an international conference in June 2019. The conference, titled “The post-1989 Springtime of National Minorities? Minority Mobilisation, Human Rights Activism and the Accommodation of Ethno-cultural Diversity in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe”, was held in Budapest. Arie Nadler, a world-renowned professor at Tel Aviv University, presented the opening lecture.

Over the two days and 9 panel discussions of the conference, more than 40 experts discussed the effectiveness of minority mobilisation strategies and existing minority laws and policy regimes in the region. In addition, two new books were launched during the conference: the first volume of TLI’s book series, which presents the work of the Institute, as well as a book ‘Unequal Accommodation of Minority Rights: Hungarians in Transylvania’ published by Palgrave and edited by Transylvanian Hungarian authors.