Hungarian Studies in London
1 February: Dr Gwen Jones will be giving a talk on contemporary urban regeneration efforts, and the development of mall culture (alias ‘plázaláz’).
8 February: Screening and discussion of Péter Bacsó’s 1983 film Te rongyos élet, a film that deals with the post-war practice of kitelepítés (forced resettlement), in which an actress is sent to live [...]
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 [...]
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.
This was the third international conference on Hungarian matters in as many years at SSEES: a conference commemorating [...]
On 16 March, Gwen Jones gave a talk on representations of Budapest in early twentieth-century Hungarian literature, the subject of her doctoral thesis.
The main theme running through her talk was the difficulty in finding a way in which to speak and write about Hungarian literature in English, avoiding the pitfalls of existing models. At one [...]
Sincere apologies to our readers who have not read anything on this site for more than a few months now. Outside commitments and ISP problems have conspired to hinder regular website updates. However, we have not been resting on our laurels, far from it!
Ob-Ugric classes have continued, and the long-overdue write-ups will be published here [...]
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 [...]
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, 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 [...]
On Friday 23 February, Eszter Tarsoly gave a presentation based on her doctoral research to the Oxford Hungarian Society, entitled ‘Language of Metaphors – Metaphors for Language: A Comparative Approach to Hungarian Linguistic Purism’.
Eszter discussed definitions of linguistic purism, and the origins of the privileging of the idea of conscious and planned intervention in [...]