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Archive for May, 2010

Conference on antisemitism in Hungary and Poland

To mark the culmination of the research project Antisemitism in an Era of Transition: The Case of Post-Communist Eastern Central Europe, initiated in 2006 by the late Professor John Klier and funded by the Rothschild Foundation Europe, the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies is organising an international two-day conference, Antisemitism in Hungary and Poland: Genealogies, Transitions, Practices, Impact at [...]

Talk by Vali Tóth, One click away from the truth?

London-based Hungarian freelance journalist Vali Tóth gave an excellent talk last year concerning contemporary journalism in Hungary and the impact of political transformation and the internet on news media.
Vali contextualised technological and political changes of the past decades, from the late 1970s when there were no direct phone calls between Szeged and Pécs, to the [...]