Week 1: Monday 8 October,
College Bar, Lincoln College, 8 p.m.
Social event
A very informal social event to begin the year. Come along and meet members of
the society old and new, by kind arrangement with Stuart Schulzke.
Week 2: Thursday 18 October,
MacGregor room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.
A Night of Poetry with Sandor Eles
Hungarian-born British actor Sandor Eles reads his personal selection of
19th and 20th century Hungarian poetry in English translation and a few in
the original, with a brief review of the poets and the climate in which
the poems were created..
Week 4: Thursday 1 November,
MacGregor room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.
Spirited Farming:
Agrarian Reform and the Abolition of Hungary’s Feudal System
Historian Gyorgy Kurucz shows how English ideas and techniques played a
crucial part in transforming Hungary’s economy and society in the age of Reform.
Week 5: Wednesday 7 November,
MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.
The Milling Revolution : A 19th Century Success Story
A talk by Gyorgy Balazs, deputy director of the Ethnographical Museum,
Budapest, takes us back to the era when Hungary’s flour mills were the envy of Europe.
Week 6: Monday 12 November,
MacGregor room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.
Ireland and Hungary : a Study in Parallels
Thomas Kabdebo, writer and historian, shows how much modern Irish
nationalism owed to the Hungarian model
Week 7: Friday 23 November,
Rewley House, Kellogg College, 8 p.m.
Private Hungary
A collection of home movies, specially edited by the well-known documentary
film director Peter Forgacs, which provide intimate and moving insights
into life in Hungary before, during and after the Second World War.
(English subtitles)
Week 8: Friday 30 November,
St Giles House, St John's College, 6 p.m.
Mikulas Party
Our traditional bring-and-share seasonal social occasion, by kind
invitation of Zoltán Molnar. Bring family and friends!
For more information contact Kati Evans at kati.evans@nettaxi.com
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