The Friday Circle

The third annual Hungarian film festival in London has begun at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith. The theme of this year’s festival is migration. For more information, visit the website Check the Gate.

Posted on June 25th, 2010 under Events, Film. Comments: None

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 [...]

Posted on May 13th, 2010 under Events, Hungarian studies. Comments: None

On Thursday 28 May, London-based journalist Vali Tóth will give a talk at UCL-SSEES entitled ‘One click away from the truth?’, on how the internet has transformed Hungarian media, and in particular, news language. Modern technology has changed both form and content of the news, and Vali will discuss these changes and characteristics of language used [...]

Posted on May 10th, 2009 under Current affairs, Events. Comments: 2

Csaba Bollók’s 2007 film ‘Iska utazása’ (Iska’s Journey) is being screened at 7 pm on Saturday 25 April at Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, as part of the East End Film Festival. The double bill screening also includes a Q&A with the director, and Valeriya Gai Germanika’s 2008 film ‘Everybody Dies But Me’. ’Iska utazása’ is a documentary-like [...]

Posted on April 20th, 2009 under Events, Film. Comments: None

On Thursday 26 March we will have the pleasure of Len Rix’s company once again, for a special seminar on translation in which we will discuss Len’s translations of Magda Szabó’s Az ajtó and Antal Szerb’s Utas és holdvilág. The seminar will take place in room 519 from 5.30 pm at UCL-SSEES. Those interested in [...]

Posted on March 23rd, 2009 under Events, Translation. Comments: 2

This SocialEast symposium considers the involvement of art during the Cold War with espionage, both on the level of international exchange and in specific national contexts. It deals with attempts within the Eastern Bloc to monitor artists through surveillance and networks of informers, the role of art espionage as an instrument of Sovietisation, and the methods used to control the [...]

Posted on February 21st, 2009 under Arts, Events. Comments: None

 
On 11 December 2008, the Friday Circle convened a roundtable discussion and exhibition celebrating the centenary of literary journal Nyugat (West, 1908-41). Anniversary events in Hungary included a year-long exhibition at the Petőfi Literary Museum, numerous talks, lectures and public events, a Nyugat 100 bus that toured the country for six months with a mobile [...]

Posted on February 8th, 2009 under Events, Literature, Nyugat. Comments: None

 
A small exhibition will accompany the roundtable discussion, ‘Hungary’s ‘West’?: Literature and Culture at the Centenary of Nyugat‘, and will be on display on Thursday 11 December until 5 pm, on the second floor of the SSEES library, 16 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW.

Inspired by the SSEES Library’s rich Nyugat collection, the exhibition presents a [...]

Posted on December 7th, 2008 under Events, Hungarian studies, Literature, Nyugat. Comments: None

We are delighted to announce the roundtable discussion, ‘Hungary’s ‘West’?: Literature and Culture at the Centenary of Nyugat‘, to be held on Thursday 11 December, 3.00-6.00 pm, in the Old Refectory, Wilkins Building, University College London.
On the occasion of the centenary of the literary periodical Nyugat (‘West’, 1908-41), scholars, translators and journalists will discuss Hungarian [...]

Posted on December 2nd, 2008 under Events, Hungarian studies, Literature, Nyugat. Comments: 1