Oxford Hungarian Society - Trinity term 2006

Friday 5 May, MacGregor room, Oriel College, 8 p.m

Jon Fox: Nationalism in Transylvania: mobilising ethnicity or ethnicising mobilisation

Jon Fox is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on two domains: ethnicity and nationalism, and international migration. He is interested in the meanings and uses of nationalism in everyday life.

Friday 12 May, MacGregor room, Oriel College, 8 p.m

Lilla Russell-Smith: From the Tüköry Utca to Kabul - Sir Aurel Stein's expeditions to Central Asia

Lilla (Bikfalvy) Russell-Smith is an art historian specialised in research on Chinese Buddhist art, especially paintings from Dunhuang

Thursday 18 May, MacGregor room, Oriel College, 8 p.m

Rachel Beckles Willson: The Musical 'Genius' in Communist Hungary: Historical and Political Paradoxes

Rachel is Senior Lecturer in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London

Monday 29 May, MacGregor room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.

Social Evening with
Michael Petrou: Hungarians in the Spanish Civil War
and Ferenc Hammer: Blue Jeans in Socialist Hungary

Michael Petrou is a correspondent for Maclean's magazine in Canada. Ferenc Hammer is International Research Fellow at Birkbeck College

Tuesday May 30 - Monday June 12, Wigmore Hall, London

Bartók Festival

Programme, details and discount. Link to Wigmore Hall

Saturday June 10

A Whole Day's Excursions

Details later



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