Hungarian Studies in London
An international exhibition considering ‘the resonances of social and political revolution in contemporary art against the backdrop of the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Uprising’ opened last week in Norwich (21 March-21 April).
Revolution is not a Garden Party has already exhibited at the Trafó House of Contemporary Arts in Budapest and Manchester Metropolitan University’s Holden [...]
The study of comparative linguistic purisms is Eszter Tarsoly’s work in progress. While numerous primary sources are available, little has been written about purism itself (the standard work in English is George Thomas, Linguistic Purism, London, Longman, 1991).
Two methods of linguistic purism may be identified: (i) purifying and (ii) enriching. The former focusses on the [...]
On Friday 30 March, Szilvia Molnár will talk about Imre Oravecz (b. 1943), narrative and the (im)possibilities of translation.
On 20 April, Peter Sherwood will give a talk to the Lewes Hungarian Society on Hungarians in the England of Elizabeth I. The evening starts at 7pm at the Southdown Lawn Tennis Club.
Reports on earlier talks [...]
A few links until the next Ob-Ugric posts are ready:
Bear feast songs collected by Wolfgang Steinitz (1905-67), the German Ostyakologist.
A map of the geographic distribution of Uralic languages - please don’t ask me why Slovenian is included in the first place, let alone in a novel location!
Survival International is an international organisation that campaigns for [...]
On Friday 16 March, Gwen Jones will talk about the prose fiction of Budapest, 1873-1939, discuss urban writing in the Hungarian and regional context, and suggest some ways in which we might approach the anomalies of Central European big city life and art in the era of High Modernity.
On 23 March, Eszter Tarsoly will present [...]
On Friday, 3 March, Peter Sherwood gave a talk on the history of Hungarian studies in London and the UK, based on an article he published in Hungarian, ‘Magyar stúdiumok Londonban’ (Hungarian Studies in London), in: Hungarológia I. Budapest, 1993, pp. 111–21.
The history of Hungarian studies in the UK stretches back over a century-and-a-half.
1850s
The first [...]
The website has been redesigned recently, with a new theme, and new categories.
The banner, the image you see at the top of the page, is a detail from the 1912 embroidery by Anna Lesznai (1885-1966) entitled ‘Ady párna’ (Ady-pillow). Lesznai was active on the fringes of the first avant-garde artists’ group, Nyolcak (the ‘Eights’), in [...]
Readers familiar with Hungarian politics may be dismayed, but perhaps not particularly surprised, to learn of the trouble surrounding the competition for the Hungarian Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale. The jury selected Csaba Nemes’s project Remake, which deals with the public disturbances in Budapest last autumn, only to have their choice overruled by [...]
The paintings of Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-41) are currently being shown at the Tate Modern (28 February - 22 April 2007; admission free). From the Tate Modern’s website:
Amrita Sher-Gil’s vibrant canvasses and her short but dynamic life have established her as one of India’s most celebrated modern artists. Born in Budapest in 1913, [...]
On Friday, 2 March, Peter Sherwood is going to explore the history of Hungarian Studies in London and the UK, in a short talk. Later in March, this presentation will be followed by another paper discussing linguists and philologists whose work served as a model for Peter’s and Daniel’s research, including, but not limited [...]