| October 10, 1995 | Andrew Arato (Department of Sociology, The New School): Civil Society and Political Theory | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| November 1, 1995 | György Csepeli (Department of Social Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest): Everyday Conservatism in Contemporary Hungary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| November 9, 1995 | Ilona Kovács (Regional Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Science, Pécs): Challenges and Barriers of Decentralization | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| November 15, 1995 | András Gerô (Department of Economic and Social History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest and Department of History, University of Pennsylvania): Jews and the Making of Modern Hungary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| April 11, 1996 | Péter György (Departments of Aesthetics and Media, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and The New School, New York): Under Eastern Eyes: The News as the Decontextualization of the West in Hungary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| April 16, 1996 | Susan Zimmermann (Department of History, Central European University, Budapest, and Universität Linz, Austria): Making a Living from Disgrace: Prostitution and City Policies in the Budapest and Vienna of the Dual Monarchy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| April 22, 1996 | Mária Neményi (Institute for Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest): Why There Is No Women's Movement in Hungary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| October 15, 1996 | Attila Melegh (Institute for Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, Fulbright Visiting Instructor in Hungarian Studies, Rutgers University): "Ideas of 'The West': 20th-Century Intellectual Politics in Hungary" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| October 22, 1996 | Kim Lane Scheppele (University of Pennsylvania & Central European University, Budapest): The Law as Convergence of Expectations: The Social Construction of Constitutionalism in Hungary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| November 1, 1996 | János M. Rainer (Institute for Research on the History of the Revolution of 1956, Budapest): "The Beginning of the End of Communism . . .": The Hungarian Revolution Forty Years Ago and Today (Event co-sponsored with the Hungarian Alumni Association) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| November 18, 1996 | Antal Örkény (Program in Minority Studies, Institute for Sociology, Eötvös Loránd University and University of California Program in Central European Studies, Budapest): Notions of Social Justice and the Fall of the Redistributive State in Hungary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| February 12, 1997 | Éva Forgács (Budapest University of Arts and Crafts and the Art Center, Pasadena School of Design): Rise of an Art Market in Hungary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| February 17, 1997 | Marianne Sághy (Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest): Conquest and Christianity: Hungarians in the 9th and 10th Centuries | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| March 25, 1997 | Éva Fodor (Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles): State and Gender under Socialism:Women as a Corporate Group | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| February 26, 1998 | Mária Neményi (Institute for Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Worlds Apart: Some Sociocultural Reasons for the Miscommunication between Roma Mothers and the Hungarian Health Care System | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| February 27, 1998 | István Deák (Department of History, Columbia University): 1848-1998: From National Independence to Euro-Atlantic Integration | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| March 5, 1998 |
István
Hegedüs (Board of Directors, Hungarian News Agency,
Budapest):
Election Prospects for
Hungary
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April 22, 1998
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László Szörényi (Director, Institute for
Literary Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest): Hungarian
Literature in "the West"
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April 28, 1998:
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Miniconference Surviving Freedom: Visual Arts in
Hungary
since 1989 |
Participants and Lecture Topics:
Éva Forgács
(Art Historian and Critic; Professor,
Budapest University of Arts and
Design, currently teaches at the Art Center of the
Pasadena School of Design): Plays On the Narrative: Two
Artists from the Late 1980s Barnabás
Bencsik (Art
Historian and Critic; Director,
Stúdió Galéria, the Studio of the Young Artists
Association, Budapest): Who Pays the Bill? Transformation of Cultural
Policies and Institutions in Postcommunist Hungary. Edit András (Art
Historian and Critic; Research Fellow,
Institute for Art History, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest --
currently a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at NYU): Flirting with the
Body: Gender Aspects of Art after 1989 Gábor Andrási (Art Historian; Chief Curator,
Óbudai
Társaskör Galéria & Óbudai
Pincegaléria, Budapest): Beyond Modernism: New Generations and
Shifts in Perspective in Hungarian Art during the 90's
October 23, 1998
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Attila Szakolczai (Institute
for Research on the History of 1956, Budapest):
Revolution and Retribution in the Countryside (Event
co-sponsored with the Hungarian
Alumni Association) |
November 13, 1998
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Zsuzsa Gille (Department
of Sociology, University of California at Santa Cruz): Was state socialism
wasteful? Towards a sociology of waste (Event co-sponsored with the Department of Sociology) |
April 28, 1999
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Rogers Brubaker (Department
of Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles): Ethnicity
and Nationalism in a Transylvanian Town: Between Politics and
Everyday Life (Event co-sponsored with the Center for Russian, Central and
East European Studies) |
October 11, 1999
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Miklós Kontra
(Department of Linguistics, Szeged
University): Language Rights in Central Europe and their Curious
Connection to English Only
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February 21, 2000
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András Bozóki
(Department of Political Science, Central European University):
Consensual Transition, Non-Consensual Politics in Hungary |
March 20, 2000
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Attila Pók
(Institute for History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Scapegoating
in Modern East-Central Europe |
April 3, 2000
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Böröcz József
: Rationales for a Choice: How Substance
Enters Formal Law in the 'Eastern Enlargement' of the European Union |
November 22, 2003
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István Deák (Professor of History, Columbia
University): A haza bölcse
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January 23, 2004
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Miklós Vajda (Editor, Hungarian Quarterly): Budapest,
Invincible City in the Heart of Europe (poetry reading)
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March 25, 2004
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Attila Melegh (Demographic Research Institute, Budapest, Fulbright
Visiting Instructor in Hungarian Studies at Rutgers): Functions of the
East/West Slope: Eastern Europe and Late Capitalism
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March 27, 2004
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George Szirtes (poet and translator, UK): Hungarian Poetry in
English--Experiences and Reflections of the Poet-Translator of Imre
Mad&aachte;ch's The Tragedy of Man
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April 20, 2004
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Gábor Horváth (Consul General of the Republic of
Hungary to New York): Hungary's Accession to the EU from Close-Up: A
Diplomat's Perspective
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November 11, 2004
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András Bozóki (Associate Professor, Dept of Political
Science, Central European University)
Mission Accomplished? The Rise and Decline of Communist Successor Parties in Central Europe
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November 19, 2004
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László Molnár
(Ambassador of the Republic of Hungary to the United Nations)
Magyarország az Európai Unióban: eredmények,
gondok, tervek (Lecture in Magyar: "Hungary in the European Union: Achievements, Difficulties, Plans")
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November 11, 2005
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Papp László
(Executive Director, Urban Redevelopment Commission, Stamford, CT)
The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: Personal Recollections of A Revolutionary Workers' Council President.
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November 10, 2006
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Békés Csaba
(Founding Director, Cold War Research Center, Budapest)
Hot Autumn in the Cold War: 1956. New Jersey premiere of a new documentary on the Hungarian revolution, followed by a discussion with
Professor Békés.
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February 28, 2007
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Molnár Gábor Tamás
(Instructor of Magyar, Rutgers University)
The Selected Atrocities of Count Dracula: East European Otherness and Its Literary Representation
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March 23, 2007
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Frank Tibor
(Professor, ELTE School of English and American Studies)
Emigránsok Amerikában (Immigrants in America) (talk in Magyar).
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April 11, 2007 |
Feischmidt Margit
(Institute for the Study of Ethnic and National Minorities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Ethnicity Experienced in Everyday Interactions: Conclusions of a Study on nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town
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April 23, 2007 |
Csergô Zsuzsa
(Dept of Political Science, George Washington University)
Talk of the Nation: Language and Conflict in Romania and Slovakia
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