Hungarian Studies in London
The Mūnkēsiŋ uj-ēriɣ (’Song of the Creature of the Village of Munkes’), collected by Munkácsi in 1889, recounts the foraging activities, capture and death of a bear, followed by a bear feast. The narrator is the bear, who frequently refers to himself in the third person, Vojle-ōnle, ‘animal-majestic’. During summer, he gathers pine cones and [...]
Pushkin House, London’s oldest Russian cultural society, has a couple of forthcoming events with a Friday Circular theme:
Sun 21 October 2007 – 11.30am
Siberian poetry in London (In Russian)
Tickets: £4
Thu 1 November 2007 – 7.00pm
The Life and Art of Tivadar Csontvary Kosztka
Professor George Noszlopy on The Life and Art of Tivadár Csontváry Kosztka. (In English)
Tickets: £5
For [...]
As you may know, this year’s London Film Festival starts today. Here are some films showing that are either Hungarian, or have some link to Hungary:
Ópium, egy elmebeteg nő naplója (Opium - Diary of a Madwoman) - by János Szász, based on work by writer and psychiatrist Géza Csáth, won four awards at this year’s [...]
Opening tomorrow at the Kiscelli Museum in Budapest is Csaba Nemes’s REMAKE I-X, a series of ten animated sequences dealing with the riots in Hungary last year. The following is an excerpt from Maja and Reuben Fowkes’s ‘Sooner or Later the Tanks Will Appear’:
The work features ten animated sequences that originated in media coverage, video [...]
On Friday, 21 September 2007, an interdisciplinary conference took place at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London, marking the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of Hungarian studies at the host institution. The conference programme is available here as a Word document.
This was the third international conference on Hungarian [...]