Thursday 7 May, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.

Anna Dimitríjevics: On the Cusp of Coexistence:
Survey Evidence on Ethnic Relations in Northern Serbia

Anna, a research fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge, will discuss the factors that influence the relationship between the ethnic groups in the Vojvodina (Vajdaság) region that has been multicultural for centuries.

Friday 15 May, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.

Andrew Merkler: Awakening of Memories

Andrew introduces his new book about his extended Hungarian Jewish family, which has included a paprika mill owner as well as famous musicians and filmmakers. He is himself an author and translator of several plays.

Friday 22 May, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.

György E. Szônyi : Under the Influence: Hungarian Music and Europe, 1750-1920

György, professor at the University of Szeged, will take us on a journey through centuries of Hungarian composers and the European masters they influenced, with a full visual and musical accompaniment.

Thursday 28 May, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.

Borbála Kovács: Parental Leave in Romania and Hungary and EU Accession:
Welfare States Untransformed?

Bori, a doctoral student at the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, Oxford, will speak about the ways in which policy in these countries differs from EU trends, followed by a general discussion.

Thursday 4 June, Lecture Theatre, Harris Building, Oriel College, 8 p.m.
[please note venue: on the `Island Site', through the tunnel under the street]

Mihály Hoppál: Contemporary Forms of Shamanism
Accompanied by a short film made by the speaker during his fieldwork.

Mihály, director of the Institute of Ethnology, Budapest, will give us a wide-ranging verbal and visual report on his encounters with shamans from different tribes in Siberia and the Far East.

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