Please note a change to our advertised programme:
The talk by Marius Turda on Transylvania, originally
advertised for May 23, will now be on Thursday May
24 at 8 pm in the Basil Mitchell Room at Oriel.
This is because on May 23 at 7.30pm there will be a
special concert in the Sheldonian to commemorate
Zoltan Kodaly’s connection with Oxford.
The Oxford Orchestra da Camera will play Kodaly
and Elgar and the programme will be introduced
by Sarolta Kodaly, the composer’s widow.
Week 1: Wednesday
25 April, MacGregor room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.
Jonathan Morgan: An Englishman in Tartu: A
Personal View of the International Finno-Ugric Congress, 2000
Jonathan Morgan is the Archivist to Dr Williams’
Library in London and has a growing interest in Uralic studies.
Week 2: Thursday 3 May, Lecture
Theatre, Kellogg College (i.e. Rewley House, St John St.), 8
p.m.
Film: Hagyjállógva Vászka/Letgohand Vaska
A modern fairytale, spiced with gallows humour,
directed by Péter Gothár, with English subtitles. It will be
introduced for us by Bence Nánay, an art critic and doctoral student
at Cambridge and at Berkeley.
Week 3: Wednesday
9 May, MacGregor room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.
Graeme Murdock: Dreaming Hungary
Dr Murdock (University of Birmingham) was a student
at Oxford and his doctorate here on the history of Hungarian Calvinism
has just been published. His talk is on the changing ideas of
Hungarian identity and Hungary’s role in Europe.
Week 4: Wednesday 16 May,
MacGregor room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.
Amanda Bayley: Bela Bartok’s National
Identity: Pride and Prejudice
Dr Bayley is senior lecturer in Music at the
University of Wolverhampton and editor of the new Cambridge Companion
to Bartok. She will discuss aspects of the composer’s life and works
during a time of political turmoil.
Week 5: Wednesday
23 May, MacGregor room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.
Marius Turda: Transylvania Imagined: An
Apolitical Romanian Perspective
Marius is a doctoral candidate of the Central
European University at Budapest and a visiting graduate student of
Oriel College.
Week 6: Thursday 31 May,
MacGregor room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.
Balazs Deri: Coptic Music from Personal
Experience
The liturgy of the Copts, or Egyptian Christians, is
of great antiquity. Some of the most important students of it have
been Hungarians. Balazs Deri is a classical philologist and
musicologist who has spent four years among the Copts. His talk will
be illustrated with his own audio and video recordings.
Week 7: Saturday
9 June, from 9 a.m.
Mystery Tour?
A Proposed Outing to some local places of interest,
with picnic lunch en route (please bring) and high tea at the Evans’
house in Sunningwell. Please let us know by 23 May if you would
like to come, and whether you are willing to be a driver or need to be
driven. More details to follow.
For more information contact Kati Evans at mailto:ke@bodley.ox.ac.uk or call
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