24-25 August, 2026
9730 Kőszeg, Chernel str. 14. (Europe House 2nd Floor, Bibó Room)

Initiated by participants and students of our 31st International Summer University, iASK is happy to announce a follow-up seminar to discuss further intriguing, interdependent, intertwined and complex issues such as old and new traumas and identities in East and Central Europe, the newcharactereistics of theIndustrial Military Complex and the militarization of Europe, and energy crises combined with increasing emergy dependence in the context of unstobbele technological progress and the promisis and threats of AI.

Monday, 24 August, 2026
10:00 – 12:30 Keynote speaker: Ferenc Jordán (Institute of Biological Research): Socio-ecological adaptation to the unpredictable (15-20 min.)

Mohácsi Hunor: EU energy dependence, shortage of critical raw materials, the EU’s reliance on imports, and related bilateral agreements. (10 min.)
Discussion

Lunch break

14:00-16:30 Keynote speaker: Jody Jensen (iASK): The Great Disruption: When Climate and Economic Crises Collide—A World of Resistance or a Global Awakening? (15-20 min.)
Discussion

Tuesday, 25 August, 2026
9:00 – 12:00 Keynote speaker: Veronika Wittmann (University of Linz, iASK): “Development and Peace: Europe Between Hard Power and Soft Power” (15-20 min.)

Kovács Veronika Luca: Local connections in late state-socialist Central Europe and the Yugoslav region. (10 min.)
Széky Melinda: The concept of a common European army, strategic autonomy, shortcomings of the European defence industry, and dependence on U.S. technology. (10 min.)
Discussion

Lunch break

13:00-15:30 Keynote speaker: Balázs Barta (iASK): Ethical considerations of AI in social applications – through the example of human-robot interface (15-20 min.)

Feyrouz Ahlam Saidi (iASK): Small Towns and Regional Development: Challenges, Opportunities and Strategies (10 min.)

Comments, discussion:
• Izabella Agárdi (iASK)
• János Bogárdi (iASK, Ludovika University of Public Service)
• Zsolt Kosztyán (iASK)
• Szabolcs Márka (Columbia University, iASK)
• Zsuzsa Márka (Columbia University, iASK)
• Ferenc Miszlivetz (iASK)
• Szabolcs Morvay (iASK)
• Tamás Novák (iASK)
• Ivana Stepanovic (iASK)
• Fülöp József (iASK)

Students and their topics:

• Mohácsi Hunor (Ludovika University of Public Service, International Relations MA student): EU energy dependence, shortage of critical raw materials, the EU’s reliance on imports, and related bilateral agreements.

• Széky Melinda (Ludovika University of Public Service, International Public Administration BA student): the concept of a common European army, strategic autonomy, shortcomings of the European defence industry, and dependence on U.S. technology.

• Kovács Veronika Luca (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, PhD student): Local connections in late state-socialist Central Europe and the Yugoslav region, and how the societies of Central Europe and the Western Balkans can shape and reinterpret their historical experiences, with a focus on regional
cooperation as well as political coping strategies and opportunities.

• Katona Dániel (Ludovika University of Public Service, International Relations MA student): The impact of the AUKUS agreement on international relations and the nuclear non-proliferation regime, nuclear non-proliferation and arms control treaties, and an examination of the issue of a common European army from a historical and contemporary perspective

• Járfás Bence (Ludovika University of Public Service, International Relations MA student): Latin American political systems, populism and the geopolitical role of the region; Central European cooperation, the Visegrád Group and their role in EU policymaking; EU foreign policy, strategic autonomy and the Union’s role in the changing international order

• Lugossy Mira Erika (Ludovika University of Public Service)

• Bernát Dauner (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformated Church, Doctoral student): Chemical Warfare Branch of the Royal Hungarian Army.