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Currents in Education: Navigating Change in Languages, Cultures, and Communities

The Department of English Language Pedagogy of Eötvös Loránd University and the International Association for Intercultural Education (IAIE) held its international scientific conference ‘Currents in Education: Navigating Change in Languages, Cultures, and Communities’ on the Faculty of Humanities campus between 11 and 13 June 2025. In addition to presenting the results of research in teaching and teacher education concerning intercultural, inclusive, and democratic current issues, the aim of the conference was to exchange experiences, strengthen our professional community and learn from each other. The main themes of the conference included intercultural communication, diversity, multilingualism, global competence and media literacy development, inclusive education and innovative pedagogies. The local organizing team of the conference included Ildikó Lázár, Rita Divéki, Anna Zólyomi, Gabriella Jenei, Cecilia Gall, and Anna Pereszlényi. The conference was supported by the Eötvös Publishing House, the University Excellence Fund and the NRDIH Scientific Patronage Program.

ARRC 2025 Conference: Acculturation, Romanization, Roman Civilization

The international conference, organized in cooperation with the HUN-REN – ELTE Interdisciplinary Archaeology Research Group and the Department of Ancient Archaeology, explored issues of Romanization, acculturation, and Roman civilization based on archaeological finds from the provinces of the Roman Empire. More than 50 researchers from numerous European countries, from England and Spain to Germany and Italy to Bulgaria and Ukraine, gave presentations at the conference. The presentations covered a wide range of topics, including settlement history and architecture, burials, costume history, glassmaking, ceramic vessels, sculpture, shipbuilding, and the interaction between Roman culture and barbarian peoples within the Empire and beyond its borders, from the Republican era to the early Migration Period. At the conference, the MédiaMűhely team interviewed ELTE Rector László Borhy and Simone Pastor, archaeologist at the Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali.