Academics: Regional Studies
The 1956 Institute With the help of interviews, memoirs, discussions, and documents,scholars at the 1956 Institute have attempted to establish a genuine account of the events in Hungary in and around 1956. Resources include oral histories, a photo database and links to other important academic resources.
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Hungarian Studies
Professor Carol Rounds receives prestigious
Pro Cultura Hungarica award from the Republic of Hungary's Minister of Culture, with Consul General Viktor Polgar
officiating. The ceremony took place at the Center on June 3, 2010.
HIGHLIGHTS OF SPRING 2012 EVENTS
Monday, January 23, 2012
7 pm
Heyman Center for the Humanities - Common Room, Level 2
"The Holocaust as Culture: A Conversation with Imre Kertész"
Thomas Cooper in discussion with Ivan Sanders
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
12-1:30 pm
1219 International Affairs Building
"The End of Certainty or Quo Vadis Democracy? The Case of Europe and Hungary"
Professor Ferenc Miszlivetz
Deák Visiting Professor, Columbia University
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Monday, April 2, 2012
4-6pm
103 Knox Hall
"Hungary at the Vanguard of Europe's Rearguard? Emerging Subterranean Politics and Civil Dissent"
Jody Jensen
Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Political Science, Hungarian
Academy of Sciences and
Director of International Relations at the Institute for Social and
European Studies, Koszeg
Highlights of Spring 2011 Events
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
12 noon
1219 International Affairs Building
"Judging Edward Teller: A closer look at one of the most influential scientists of the 21st century"
Presentation and discussion by the author Istvan Hargittai
Thursday, March 24, 2011
International Conference on "Franz Liszt and the Birth of Modern Europe"
Hungarian Consulate General in New York City
Friday, March 25, 2011
1501 International Affairs Building, Columbia University
Thursday, April 14, 2011
12-1:30 pm
1219 International Affairs Building
Jewish (Over)tones in Viennese and Budapest Operetta
With Professor Ivan Sanders
Ivan Sanders is Professor Emeritus at Suffolk College, SUNY and adjunct professor at Columbia University. He has also taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York University, the Central European University, and the New School University. He has translated George Konrád, Péter Nádas, and other major Hungarian writers; for his translations, he has been awarded a Soros Translation Award (1988), the Füst Milán Prize (1991), and the Déry Tibor Prize. His reviews and articles have appeared in The New York Times Books Review, The New Republic, The Nation, and Commonweal as well as in a number of scholarly journals in the United States and Europe.
Professor Istvan Deak will introduce.
Monday, April 25, 2011
4:30 pm – 9 pm
Room 1512, School of International and Public Affairs
Hungarian Scientists in the US: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
For the full conference agenda please click here
Registration required: RSVP before April 20
E-mail: rsvpnyf@kum.hu or fax: (212) 755 5986
Fall 2010 Events
Thursday, October 14, 2010, 12 - 1:30pm
1219 International Affairs Building
"Alternative Modernity? Everyday Practices of Elite Mobility in Communist Hungary, 1956-1980"
György Péteri, Norwegian University of Science & Technology
Thursday, December 2, 2010
1219 IAB
Noon – 1:30 pm
Professor Tibor Frank (ELTE and Columbia Universities)
Migrations of Jewish-Hungarian Professionals through Germany to the United States, 1919-1945
Fall 2008 Events
National and National Minority Issues in Post-1956 Hungary
Wednesday, October 1, noon–1.30 p.m.
1219 IAB
With Gyorgy Foldes, Director of the Institute of Political History, Budapest.
For more information please email ap674@columbia.edu
The Dialectics of National Identity: Transylvanism at the Intersection of National and Regional Self-Awareness
Thursday, October 16, noon–1.30 p.m.
1219 IAB
With Gabor Egry, Institute of Political History, Budapest.
2007 Highlights
Political Transition In East Central Europe And The End Of The Cold War, 1985-1991
September 6, 12–2 p.m.
1219 IAB
With Professor Csaba Bekes( Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Columbia University)
The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and World Politics
November 1, 12–2 p.m.
1219 IAB
With Professor Csaba Bekes( Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Columbia University)
Dealing with the Past in East Central Europe
December 2-3: Schedule
1501 IAB
An international conference with: Jon Elster (Columbia University), Marek Kornat (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), Zdislaw Krasnobebski (University of Bremen), Pawel Machcewisz (University of Torun), John Micgiel (Columbia University), Piotr Naimski (Higher School of Business, National-Louis University, Nowy Sacz), Lavinia Stan (Concordia University, Montreal), Rafal Stobiecki (University of Lodz), Oldrich Tuma (Institute of Contemporary History, Prague), Helga Welsh (Wake Forrest University), Bronislaw Wildstein (Rzeczpospolita)and Artur Wolek (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw).
With generous funding from the Semper Polonia Foundation, Warsaw and The Kosciuszko Foundation, New York City
Hungarian-Jewish Responses to the Persecution, 1944-1945
December 4, 12–1.30 p.m.
1219 IAB
With Professor Gabor Kadar (ELTE University, Budapest)