Friday 30 April, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.

Social Evening
to start the Term (with drinks and nibbles)

Friday 7 May, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.

Délia Vékony: Nationality and Identity, Past and Present:
How Contemporary Artists See It

Delia teaches art history at the International Business School in Budapest. She also works as a freelance curator and regularly writes for art periodicals. In this illustrated talk she will explore the concept of national identity through the works of young artists from Hungary and Transylvania.

Friday 14 May, Lecture Theatre, Harris Building, Oriel College, 8 p.m.
[please note venue: on the `Island Site', through the tunnel under the street]

Film show: Körhinta (Merry Go Round)
Zoltán Fábri's 1995 classic, with English subtitles

Friday 21 May, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.

Zsuzsanna Varga: The Grand Tour, Hungarian Style:
Reform Age Hungarian travellers in Britain

Zsuzsanna, an expert in Victorian literature, teaches Hungarian at Glasgow, and looks after Hungarian books at Oxford and SSEES. She will show how reform-minded Hungarians used their travel experiences not only to champion social change at home, but to redefine East and West.

Friday 28 May, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.

Bernard Adams: Ignoti Nulla Cupido
{i.e. what you don't know you don't miss!}

Friday 4 June, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.

István Vásáry: Armin Vámbéry and Britain

István, currently at All Souls College, is professor of Turkic and Central Asian Studies at Budapest (ELTE) and former Hungarian ambassador to Ankara and Tehran. He is a specialist in the medieval history of the Turkic peoples of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. So was the famous Hungarian Orientalist Vámbéry, but some claim he was welcomed in Britain above all because he was a spy.

Friday 11 June, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.

End of Term Social Evening
with a visit by Schola Cantorum of Oxford