Last week, on 22 and 23 May 2026, an interdisciplinary conference on “Disaster Nationalism” and Present-day Europe was held at Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Prague. Dr Svetluša Surová, director and senior researcher at the Minority Issues Research Institute, has participated in the session on “Varieties of Nationalism: Diasporic Identifications, Repressive Marginalization, Millennialist Conspiracies and Sacralized Nationhood”.

Our Director and Senior Researcher at the Minority Issues Research Institute, Dr Svetluša Surova, has participated in the Annual Conference of the School of Advanced Social Studies, with the theme “Societies in flux: navigating uncertainty, change and resilience,” taking place on 15-16 May 2026 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Minority Issues Research Institute (MIRI) organized the first MIRI Seminar on Current Affairs in 2026, focusing on the US confrontation with Venezuela, especially the current situation in Venezuela after the US capture of its president.