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Oxford Hungarian Society - Trinity Term 2008
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Friday 2 May, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.
Gwen Jones: "Magyar Metropolis: Notions of Budapest in Hungarian Literature"
(with particular reference to the early 20C.)
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Gwen holds a doctorate in Hungarian literature from SSEES in London. She is a translator and also Communications Consultant to the Hungarian Cultural Centre.
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Friday 9 May, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.
Len Rix: Landscapes of the Mind: The Artistry of Antal Szerb
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Len Rix is an award-winning translator and has translated, among others, several of Szerb’s novels.
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Friday 23 May, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.
Nora Berend: Immigrants in Earlier Medieval Hungary: Ornament of the Royal Court or Enemy?
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Nora is a senior lecturer in History at Cambridge and author of At the Gate of Christendom: Jews, Muslims and 'Pagans' in Medieval Hungary c. 1000-c. 1300 (2001).
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Thursday 29 May, Lecture Theatre, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.
John Pinfold : Foreign Devil Riders: The English and Horse-Racing in the Dual Monarchy |
John Pinfold recently retired as Librarian of Rhodes House, Oxford. He has long been interested in the history of horse-racing and has written a history of the Grand National, Gallant Sport (1999). He is now uncovering the forgotten story of English involvement in Austro-Hungarian racing
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Saturday 7 June
An all day excursion by minicoach
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For details contact Kati Evans (kati@evansgate.com); to register please email Bence Melykuti (bence.melykuti@keble.ox.ac.uk)
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Tuesday 10 June, Lecture Theatre, Harris Building, Oriel College, 8 p.m.
[please note venue: on the ‘Island Site’, through the tunnel under the street]
Film : A tanú (The Witness, 1969, English subtitles) |
Known as the best satire about communism, it was initially banned for over a decade.
Péter Bacsó's film has now achieved unparalleled cult status in Hungary.
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For more information contact Kati Evans at
hungsoc@hungsoc.com, tel: Oxford 736973.
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