I might dedicate this book to my children: I wonder how they interpret the world around them, since curious reaction is the duty of each generation. With a grand gesture, I might as well dedicate this book to the people living in the Carpathian Basin, since we have all gone through radical changes and we have to speak about them.

CRR of the HAS, Pécs–Hungary, Forum Minority Research Institute, Šamorín–Slovakia, 2010

Political development in Central European countries took a peculiar turn after their accession to the European Union in 2004 but especially after a series of national elections in 2005 and 2006. They put in driver’s seat politicians whose mode of expression, style of pursuing political goals and attitude to political opponents was – to say the least – unusual for suave politicians from Western European saloons. Analysts, journalists and civic activists openly began to speak of the rise of new populism.

This publication appears thanks to the support of the Open Society Institute, Budapest (in the frame of the project Challenging National Populism and Promoting Interethnic Tolerance and Understanding in Slovakia)

Forum Minority Research Institute Šamorín – Somorja, 2010

The quarterly social science review is published in Hungarian, with English summary of each article.

Published by Fórum Institute, Šamorín, 2010. 164 pp.

The research work was built upon the project "Basic research on the social and economic aspects of the Slovak-Hungarian border region" HUSKUA/05/02/117

The publication was supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic – the National Minorities Programme in 2009

Forum Minority Research Institute, Šamorín 2009

Published by: Forum Minority Research Institute, Šamorín, 2009. 244 pp.

Ročenka Výskumného centra európskej etnológie. Jahrbuch des Forschungszentrums für Europäische Ethnologie.

Our yearbook - besides the fact that it mainly gives account of the results of cultural research of the Hungarian ethnic in Slovakia - is open for everyone wanting to showcase the folk culture of ethnicities in the Danube-basin. In line with the research priorities of the Ethnologic Research Centre in Komárno, we emphasize the diversified scope of issues found in sacral ethnography, as this ethnographic branch is one of the most neglected both in Hungarian and Slovak reference. Moreover, we stress the importance showcasing the results of the research of interethnic relations, as well as the results of contemporary and alteration studies.

Published by Fórum Institute, Komárno - Šamorín, 2009. 288 pp.

The quarterly social science review is published in Hungarian, with English summary of each article.

Published by Fórum Institute, Šamorín, 2009. 167 pp.

The publication entitled “The Roundtable of Hungarians in Slovakia” offers an insight to the conference of the umbrella organization of 51 NGOs of Hungarians living in Slovakia which was held in Hotel Kormorán, Šamorín-Čilistov on 29 January 2009. In comparison with similar initiatives, this meeting took place on an institutional base for the first time. The participants of the conference were national organizations of Hungarians in Slovakia, companies and enterprises supporting the institutional system, as well as renowned personalities of the community. The conference was designed to face the increasingly alarming processes of assimilation resulting at a drastic reduction in the number of Hungarians living in Slovakia, and, to find the appropriate institutional level for stopping these processes, or, at least, to make them mitigated.
The seriousness of the situation has been confirmed by the very vivid projections of demographic and sociological evidence. The very fact that at the conference there were present the representatives of almost all institutions, businesses and personalities, indicates that everyone considers the issues raised important to discuss and seriously deal with.

The booklet on Folk Ballads of the Nitra Region was published in 1944, which included the Ballad of László Fehér noted down by Éva Putz in 1941 in the present Žirany. This publication was to be followed by the complete repertory of the Folk Ballads of the Nitra Region as the 2nd volume of the Bulletin of Hungarians in Slovakia. Unfortunately, the heralded publication could not be published for the war conditions and the Hungarian ethnography until the most recent times had assumed that the entire material of this folk poetry was lost.

The inheritance of László Arany A. was found recently, including a prepared volume of folk ballads almost ready for publication, with additional texts and versions of folk ballads. Our publication of László Arany A. illustrated by contemporary photographs taken by the author, provides an almost complete selection of the above mentioned repertory.

Published by the Forum Minority Research Institute, Šamorín, 2009. 200 p., illustrated by contemporary photographs taken by László Arany A.

available at: foruminst@foruminst.sk