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Oxford Hungarian Society - Michaelmas Term 2008
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Thursday 16 October, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.
An introductory meeting/party
to start the new academic year and to welcome newcomers
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Friday 24 October, Lecture Theatre, Harris Building, Oriel College, 8 p.m.
[please note venue: on the ‘Island Site’, through the tunnel under the street]
Film: ‘Children of Glory’ (Szabadság, Szerelem)
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A recent Hungarian film with English subtitles, directed by Krisztina Goda.
At the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, the Hungarian water polo team faces off against the Russians in what will become known as one of the bloodiest matches in the sport's history.
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Thursday 30 October, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.
Desert Island Poems: An evening of favourite Hungarian poems
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In Hungarian; but translations will be available.
The evening will be led by members Judit Brody and Laszlo Solymar. Please bring along your own favourites.
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Friday 14 November, Lecture Theatre, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.
Nick Clapton : Budapest, City of Music |
Nick, one of our members, talks about and reads from his forthcoming book about music in Budapest, to be published in December. A book for Budapest-bound music-lovers, perhaps it will contain things to surprise even nth generation Budapesters
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Friday 21 November, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.
Ladislaus Lob : Rezso Kasztner: A Jewish Schindler? |
Ladislaus (or László) is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Sussex and author of Dealing with Satan: Rezso Kasztner’s Daring Rescue Mission.
He tells how Kasztner, himself a Hungarian Jew, saved him and 1,670 others from the Holocaust through a deal with Adolf Eichmann and was subsequently murdered
by Jewish extremists in Israel.
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Thursday 27 November, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.
Robert Evans and Martyn Rady : Master and Pupil or a Lesson in Contrasts? C.A. Macartney and László Péter as Historians of Hungary |
A commemoration of the life and work of Péter, international scholar and doyen of his field in Britain, who has just died, and of his notable mentor at Oxford, who died just thirty years earlier.
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Friday 6 December
Mikulás party |
Mikulás party
We are hoping to have our usual end of year party – details later.
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For more information contact Kati Evans at
hungsoc@hungsoc.com, tel: Oxford 736973.
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Oxford Hungarian Society - www.hungsoc.com | |