Hungarian Studies in London
Our last Mansi sessions were spent studying a folktale in Tavda, a southern dialect which, before it died out in the 1920s, was probably the closest to Hungarian. Reflecting on his visit to the lower Tavda river area in 1894, Munkácsi initially assumed that Tavda was a separate language:
A Tavda folyó alvidékén csekély számban fönmaradt [...]
On 23 November, George Greskovits presented the subject of his doctoral work: representations of the Holocaust in post-1989 Hungarian political discourse. Having completed a degree in history and an MA in Holocaust Studies at Royal Holloway College, George is conducting his research at UCL-SSEES under the supervision of Dr Egbert Klautke and Dr Richard Mole.
George [...]
Peter Sherwood has been the deserving recipient of two recent awards: on 17 October, Nemzeti Szótárnap (National Dictionary Day), his Oxford University Press angol-magyar szótár nyelvtanulóknak (OUP English-Hungarian Language Learners’ Dictionary, 2002) was awarded the Kiváló magyar szótár díj (Outstanding Hungarian Dictionary Prize) at the MTA (Hungarian Academy Sciences). Based on the English Oxford Wordpower [...]
On 2 November, students and teaching staff watched Károly Makk’s 1971 film Szerelem, winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival that year, and arguably one of the greatest Central European films of all time. Two short stories by Tibor Déry (1896-1977) form the basis of Szerelem, for which Déry also wrote the [...]