Lendület Research Group “MIXED” launched its activities with a kick-off workshop on February 26, 2026. The event brought together 24 researchers from 14 institutions in Hungary and abroad to discuss current research on ethnic and religious mixing, minority cultures, and mixed spaces.

Participants represented a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, political science, history, geography, cultural studies, and minority studies. Their presentations addressed issues of ethnic choice and mixing in both historical and contemporary contexts. The workshop was structured around four thematic panels: Ethnic Choice, Mixing and (Armed) Conflict; Roma under Kádár and Beyond: Patterns of Mixing, Segregation, and Identity Choice; Trials of Modern Hungarian Nationality and Minority Politics; and Contemporary Dimensions of Mixedness.

The program also featured a keynote lecture by Prof. Viktor Karády, entitled A Sketch of the Central Socio-Historical Problem Areas in the Study of Culturally Mixed Marriages. In addition, a roundtable discussion, Mixed Families: A Socially Transformative Force?, brought together Zsuzsi Kiss (ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences), Margit Feischmidt (ELTE Centre for Social Sciences), Gábor Egry (Institute of Political History, Budapest), and Miklós Hadas (ELTE Institute of Regional Studies). The discussion was moderated by the research group leader, Karolina Lendák-Kabók (ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences), and was followed by an active Q&A session with the audience.

Students from the Institute of Sociology and the Institute of Political and International Studies also attended the workshop. The event will be followed by the publication of an open-access book of abstracts and an English-language edited volume focusing on minority- and mixing-related issues, drawing on the presentations and the participants’ ongoing research.