Hungarian Studies in London
2008 marks the hundredth anniversary of the publication of Nyugat (West, 1908-41), Hungary’s modern literary journal par excellence. Together with the translation workshops, we will be organising a few activities to discuss Hungarian literature and culture at Nyugat’s centenary, with a focus on the constructions, collocations, and location (geopolitical or otherwise) of ‘West’.
Celebratory and [...]
The programme of the Friday Circle in the third term will focus on the theme of translation, including discussions not only on the (im)possibility of translation, but also on the practice of translating Hungarian into English, and English into Hungarian, although practice and discussion will not be limited to these two languages. We regard all [...]
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 [...]
On Friday, 3 March, Peter Sherwood gave a talk on the history of Hungarian studies in London and the UK, based on an article he published in Hungarian, ‘Magyar stúdiumok Londonban’ (Hungarian Studies in London), in: Hungarológia I. Budapest, 1993, pp. 111–21.
The history of Hungarian studies in the UK stretches back over a century-and-a-half.
1850s
The first [...]