Oxford Hungarian Society - Michaelmas term 2001

Week : Thursday 18 October, MacGregor room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.

A Night of Poetry with Sandor Eles

Hungarian-born British actor Sandor Eles reads his personal selection of 19th and 20th century Hungarian poetry in English translation and a few in the original, with a brief review of the poets and the climate in which the poems were created..

Week : Thursday 1 November, MacGregor room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.

Spirited Farming: Agrarian Reform and the Abolition of Hungary’s Feudal System

A talk by social historian Gyorgy Kurucz.

Week : Wednesday 7 November, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.

The Milling Revolution : A 19th Century Success Story

A talk by Gyorgy Balazs, deputy director of the Ethnographical Museum, Budapest.

Week : Monday 12 November, MacGregor room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.

Ireland and Hungary : a Study in Parallels

A talk by Thomas Kabdebo, Hungarian writer and British-Irish historian.

Please note that there will be additional events organized by the Society which could not be included in this current booklet.


Members will be sent our own programme from early October and information will be posted on the website: ouhs.tripod.com.


For more information contact Kati Evans at hungsoc@yahoo.com