ÿþ<html><head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <style type="text/css">.prg { FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; TEXT-DECORATION: none } .prg { COLOR: #000000 } :unknown.prg { COLOR: #ff0000 } .topl { FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; TEXT-DECORATION: none } </style></head><body bgcolor="#ffffcc"> <br> <table width="725" height="11"><tbody> <tr> <td height="100"> <center> <p class="topl" align="center">Oxford Hungarian Society - Hilary Term 2008<br><br></p> <table width="600" height="748"> <tbody> <tr class="prg" bgcolor="#ffff99"><td height="146"> <p align="center"><font color="#3333ff"><b> Thursday 24 January, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m. </b></font></p> <p align="center"><b> Dagmar Wernitznig</b>: <i>"No documents, no history": A Political Biography of Rosika</i></b> <i>Schwimmer</i></p><p><p><table><tbody><tr class="prg"><td></td><td><p align="justify"> Dagmar, an Associate Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, is writing a D.Phil. on Schwimmer, the pioneering Hungarian pacifist, suffragist, and feminist. <br> &nbsp;</i></p></td></tr></tbody></table> </p></td></tr><tr class="prg"><td height="145"> <p align="center"><font color="#3333ff"><b> Friday 1 February, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m. </b></font></p> <p align="center"><b>Peter Zollman </b>: <i>Agnes Nemes Nagy, 51 Poems: A Bilingual Edition<br> </i></p><table height="57"><tbody><tr class="prg"> <td height="53"></td><td height="53"><p align="justify"> Peter introduces his translations of one of the great Hungarian poets of the 20C., with readings by Ann Zollman. Peter has published translations of most of Hungary s great poets and is a winner of the 2007 Stephen Spender translation prize.<br> &nbsp;</p></td></tr></tbody></table> </p></td></tr><tr class="prg" bgcolor="#ffff99"><td height="140"> <p align="center"><font color="#3333ff"><b> Friday 15 February, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m. </b></font></p> <p align="center"><b>George Szirtes</b>: <i>The Perception and Presentation of Being Hungarian in the Company of English Poets</i></p><p> <table height="73"><tbody><tr class="prg"><td height="69"></td> <td height="69"><p align="justify"> George is a well known poet, and winner of the 2004 T. S. Eliot Prize for his collection Reel. He has translated a range of Hungarian poetry and prose. <br> &nbsp;</i></p></td></tr></tbody></table> </p></td></tr><tr class="prg"><td height="39"> <p align="center"><font color="#3333ff"><b> Friday 22 February, Lecture Theatre, Harris Building, Oriel College, 8 p.m. </b></font></p> <p align="center"><b>Film</b> : <i>Fateless (Sorstalanság)</i></p><table><tbody><tr class="prg"><td></td><td><p align="justify"> directed by Lajos Koltai, released in 2005. It was based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same title by the Nobel Prize-winning author Imre Kertész, who also wrote the screenplay. <br> &nbsp;</p></td></tr></tbody></table> </p></td></tr><tr class="prg" bgcolor="#ffff99"><td height="175"> <p align="center"> <font color="#3333FF"><b>Friday 29 February</b></font><font color="#3333ff"><b>, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m. </b></font></p> <p align="center"><b>Judit Pásztor</b>: <i>An Evening of Lute Music</i></p><p align="center"> </p><p><table><tbody><tr class="prg"><td></td><td><p align="justify"> <b>On the programme: Joan Ambrosio Dalza (born 500 years ago) and contemporaries Bálint Bakfark, Vincenzo Capirola, Simone Molináro, Francesco da Milano.</b> <br>Judit has been a teacher and as soloist has featured on television and radio. Current projects include a recording of renaissance lute works, and a transcription of Bakfark's lute music, as a special centenary edition for Akkord Publishing. </p></td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr><tr class="prg"><td colspan="2" height="48"><br><br><i>For more information contact Kati Evans at <a class="prg" href="mailto:hungsoc@hungsoc.com">hungsoc@hungsoc.com</a>, tel: Oxford 736973. </i></td></tr><tr> <td colspan="2" height="35"><br><a href="http://www.hungsoc.com/" target="_top" class="prg"><b>Oxford Hungarian Society - www.hungsoc.com</b></a></td></tr></tbody></table></center></td></tr></tbody></table></body></html>