I was happy to discuss the role of economic shocks, symbolic class war, the unraveling of liberalism, and physical & mental suffering as drivers of #populism in the US and Hungary with Al Scott on his podcast, The Rational View.

I talked with Reimagining Post-Socialist Georgia Podcast about how th post-socialist mortality crisis emerged, its political implications for today, and what types of methodologies are most effective for researching these topics and more in post-socialist countries.

Éber Márk Áronnal beszélgettem a Partizán podcastjában arról, hogy miért fontos megismerni azt a társadalmi koalíciót, amely a Fidesz hegemóniájának a támasza.

Invited lecture and panel discussion with Chriss Hann at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Presentation at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Annual Meeting

Book panel at the Thirty Years of Capitalist Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe Conference. Chair: Don Kalb (University of Bergen). Panelists: Attila Antal, Gabor Scheiring, Kristof Szombati, Mary Taylor

Presentation at the British Sociological Association's 70th Annual Conference (online)

I discussed my book (The retreat of liberal democracy, Palgrave, 2020) with Tim Jones from the New Books Network.

Video features a discussion of the Sociology special issue 'Nationalism's Futures', published Volume 54 Issue 6, December 2020

Mayor of Budapest Gergely Karacsony joined the discussion about my recent book (The retreat of liberal democracy, Palgrave, 2020), organized by the Foreign Press Association, Milan

Larry Liu - Ph.D. researcher at Princeton Sociology - invited me to join him for an open-ended conversation about my research and my political involvement.

A presentation on my book and the political economy of the Orbán regime, as part of the online seminar series organized by the Párbeszéd Fenntarthatósági Műhely

Varieties of dependency, varieties of illiberalism: the crisis of democracy in East-Central Europe. Presentation at the Critical Political Economy Research Network (CPERN) Mid-Term Workshop, "What’s Next? Critical Political Economy at the End of Neoliberalism?", Limerick, Ireland (online workshop).

The current global pandemic could easily lead to a societal collapse similar to the 2008 global economic crisis. In today’s program, we spoke with economist Gábor Scheiring about what the economic and political elite should do to prevent such a catastrophe.

I talked with The Correction Podcast about the changes Hungary has undergone over the last eight years. We discuss how countries slide towards authoritarianism, the failures of the liberal elite, and what West Virginia has in common with rural Hungary.

I talked with The Correction Podcast about the changes Hungary has undergone over the last eight years. We discuss how countries slide towards authoritarianism, the failures of the liberal elite, and what West Virginia has in common with rural Hungary.

Panel discussion: Speaking truth to power: Media capture, disinformation, and democracy. Indiana University Bloomington

“Illiberalism in Hungary: The Socioeconomic Roots in Comparative Perspective”, Public Presentation at the International Forum for Democratic Studies at the National Endowment for Democracy, Washington, D.C

Hungary Today: A Retrospective on the Past Quarter-Century. A conference organized by the 25-year-old Foundation for Political History and the Social Theory Workshop of the Institute of Political History, Budapest

Ökopolitikai Nyáriegyetem, Horány, 2011