The Friday Circle

The site has been moved and upgraded, so that I can develop it over the next 25 years or so. To begin with, more photographs and links have been added; posts follow shortly.

Posted on August 24th, 2008 under Site updates. Comments: None

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 [...]

Posted on September 23rd, 2007 under Activities, Site updates. Comments: None

The website has been redesigned recently, with a new theme, and new categories.
The banner, the image you see at the top of the page, is a detail from the 1912 embroidery by Anna Lesznai (1885-1966) entitled ‘Ady párna’ (Ady-pillow). Lesznai was active on the fringes of the first avant-garde artists’ group, Nyolcak (the ‘Eights’), in [...]

Posted on March 5th, 2007 under Site updates. Comments: None

From now on, our Friday seminars will focus on specific themes. Matters to be discussed include word profiling in Hungarian, the history of teaching Hungarian in London, understanding ‘Hungarianness’ in Hungary and abroad, the poet Imre Oravecz (link to a biography of Oravecz in English, and in Hungarian), and the depiction of Budapest in Hungarian [...]

Posted on January 28th, 2007 under Activities, Site updates. Comments: None