Introductory Party, with Welcome
for New Arrivals
Andrew Merkler: The Life and Work of Sir Alexander Korda
Mr. Merkler, a Hungarian writer living in London, will speak about his distant
relative and benefactor, the famous film-maker.
Andras Kappanyos: Joyce magyarul
Andras is a former Soros scholar, now a senior researcher at the Institute of
Literary Studies in Budapest, who is on a return visit to Oxford. He will
discuss in Hungarian how translators have
dealt with James Joyce.
Laszlo Grof: In Peter Bod’s Footsteps in Transylvania
A talk by one of our long-standing members about a recent trip to the
Szeklerland, discovering the traces of this celebrated 18th-century
Calvinist antiquarian and man of letters.
Nicholas Parsons: Scotland and Hungary in the Reform Era
Nicholas is a freelance writer on central European themes, based in Vienna.
This second talk of his to the Hungarian Society will discuss the parallels and
contrasts between two ancient kingdoms in the crucial decades before 1848.
Film evening: The Lord’s Lantern in Budapest
A new film by Miklos Jancso, with English subtitles, by courtesy of the Hungarian Cultural Centre in London. (A
small charge will be levied to cover expenses.)
Laszlo Solyom: The Role of the Constitutional Court in the New
Hungarian Democracy
Dr Solyom is the former President of the Hungarian Constitutional Court, and
now professor at the University of Cologne.
George Gyomori and Clive Wilmer: Gyorgy Petri’s Eternal
Monday
The two poets and translators present a new collection of Petri’s work in
English, which has been issued to coincide with the Hungarian theme of this
year’s Frankfurt Book Fair.
Mikulas Party (by kind invitation of Michael Hurst)
Our traditional bring-and-share end-of-term event. (Please come with some
finger food and: or drink.)
For more information contact
Kati Evans at ke@bodley.ox.ac.uk or
call 01865 73.69.73.