Thursday 16 October, MacGregor room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.

Welcome reception

A social evening with wine, nibbles and some music to start the new Academic Year and to welcome new arrivals.

Cancelled due to rescheduling of the speaker

The Hungarian Road to Europe

The speaker, György Csepeli, is professor of social psychology.
Curriculum Vitae and Publications, Ministry of Informatics and Communications, Research Committee on Political Socialisation and Education, Jel-Kép
Konformitás és Machiavellizmus (1999), Reménytelen, de nem komoly - Vita a felsooktatasrol (2002)

Thursday 6 November, MacGregor room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.

On Miklós Radnóti, a Great Poet of the Second World War

The Cambridge academics and poets George Gömöri and Clive Wilmer introduce some recent translations of Radnóti’s oeuvre.

Biography,
Eroltetett menet (válogatott versek),
In Your Two Arms,
Later [Epitaph],
Of My Wife: A Silly Song,
Portrait,
War Diary,

Thursday 20 November, MacGregor room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.

A Commemoration of Nicholas Kürti

The physicist and polymath Miklós Kürti (1908-98) was the most eminent of Oxford Hungarians and an unforgettable character John Sanders leads a tribute on the fifth anniversary of his death.

Obituary in Nature,
Kürti Miklós a Clarendon Laboratóriumban

Thursday 27 November, MacGregor room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.

Comedies and Parodies in Yiddish in Hungary

Szonja Komoróczy, who is working towards an Oxford doctorate on the history of Yiddish, presents some of her findings.

Council of Europe on Yiddish culture today

Saturday 6 December, St. Giles House, St. John's College, 5 p.m.

Mikulás Party

Our traditional bring-and-share seasonal occasion, by kind invitation of Zoltán Molnár. Do bring family and friends. Contributions of drinks and nibbles also welcome!

For more information contact Kati Evans at hungsoc@hungsoc.com, tel: Oxford 736973.