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Friday 14 October, 8.15pm, Blue Boar Lecture Theatre, Christ Church College

Everything you always wanted to know about Hungary but were afraid to ask

HE Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky (Ambassador of Hungary to the United Kingdom)

In his talk the Ambassador assesses Hungary and her view of Europe, discusses the British-Hungarian relationship after Brexit, the Hungarian economy, and why Hungary is not sitting on the fence.

Friday 21 October, 8pm, Blue Boar Lecture Theatre, Christ Church College

Hungarian Law, A.P. Herbert and the Pertinacious Litigant

Martyn Rady (Masaryk Professor of Central European History, UCL, SSEES)

Martyn views the history of Hungarian law through the writings of the English reformer and humorist, A.P. Herbert.

Friday 28 October, 8pm, Blue Boar Lecture Theatre, Christ Church College

International Trend into National Statement: Melinda’s ‘Mad Scene’ and Allegory in Ferenc Erkel’s Bánk Bán

Belinda Robinson (DPhil Student, University of Oxford)

Belinda is a DPhil student working on the music and context of Erkel’s operas.

Friday 4 November, 8pm, Blue Boar Lecture Theatre, Christ Church College

Cartoons and the Political Circus: Hungary in Crisis before the First World War

Mark Cornwall (Professor of Modern European History, Southampton University)

Mark will show what we can learn about Hungary's social-political crisis from satirical cartoons.

Friday 11 November, 8pm, Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College

The Alien in the Chapel: Ferenc Békássy, Anglo-Hungarian Poet (1893-1915)

George and Mari Gömöri

Ferenc Békássy, Hungarian-born but educated in England, and at King’s College, Cambridge, was a poet who perished in World War I. George and Mari Gömöri introduce their first edition of most of the poems Ferenc Békássy wrote in English.

Friday 18 November, 8pm, Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College

Mom and Other Loonies in the Family

Film Night

Directed by Ibolya Fekete, the film is a zany tale of a family in the 20th century. Four generations of “fools” with Mom in the focus, who has lived 94 years and moved 27 times in her life. Moving was her only means of dealing with trouble, danger or conflicts. At the demented age of 94, Mom tells the story to her daughter – a playful, heart-warming and occasionally heartbreaking span of a hundred years.

Friday 25 November, 8pm, Harris Seminar Room, Oriel College

No Banks without States, No States without Banks: The Political Origins of the Austrian and Hungarian Banking Crises in 1931

Flóra Macher (PhD candidate, LSE)

Flóra is a PhD Candidate at LSE. She also works for a Central European merchant bank, Oriens, where she is responsible for investment and fund management.