8 Dec 2025 Monday / 17:20-18:50 / C.204

On 8 December 2025, the IR TALKS event series reached a remarkable milestone. Corvinus students and a guest speaker contributed to the professional roundtable discussion, comparing student- and youth-led protest movements organized in six countries (their home countries).

The speakers attended the course ’Regime Types and Human Rights’ by Eszter Kirs (Institute of Global Studies, Department of International Relations). They prepared the roundtable discussion as part of their coursework, and the high quality of the discussion justified sharing the presentation with the university public. In addition to our students, guest speaker Emilija Milenković (a young activist and student of the University of Belgrade) broadened the perspective. The roundtable discussion focused on protest movements organized by students and youth in six countries (Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Macedonia, Serbia, and Sri Lanka), exploring their identities, goals, structures, mobilization efforts, performative tools, and impacts.

Participants of the roundtable discussion were:

Sesilia Pocev – International Relations BA student at Corvinus University of Budapest

Lèonie Beving – International Relations BA student at DCU university, currently an Erasmus student at Corvinus University of Budapest

Nishadi Kumarasiri – International Organizations and Crisis Management MA student, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany, currently an Erasmus+ student at Corvinus University of Budapest

Ronja Theodora Vehmas – Arts & Culture BA student at the Maastricht University in the Netherlands, currently an Erasmus+ student at the Corvinus University of Budapest

Klaudia Uzonyi – Philosophy, Politics, Economy BA student at the Corvinus University of Budapest

Emilija Milenkovic – youth activist, student of the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade

IR TALKS is a series of guest and roundtable talks organised by the Department of International Relations at Corvinus University to make sense of the world we live in at a time of turbulent international politics.