Bryan Cartledge : The Will to Survive

Bryan, a former British ambassador to Budapest and Moscow and member of our Society,talks about his recently published one-volume history of Hungary

Cristina Neagu : Nicolaus Olahus and his Hungaria–Athila

Cristina introduces the work of the great humanist archbishop of Esztergom (known to Hungarians as Oláh Miklós) and argues that what are generally assumed to be two distinct writings in fact constitute one very carefully thought-through single work

Film : White Palms

A showing of a new Hungarian film (with English subtitles). Directed by Szabolcs Hajdú.

Eszter Tarsoly : Language of Metaphors – Metaphors for Language:
A Comparative Approach to Hungarian Linguistic Purism

Eszter, a research student and postgraduate teaching assistant at UCL/SSEES, discusses attitudes towards language and the myth of purity in Hungarian linguistic thought

Márk Török : The Significance of the “Pan-European Picnic”, 19 August 1989

	Mark revisits the day when the Hungarian and Austrian authorities temporarily opened the border, thus contributing to the fall of the iron curtain and the end of Communism Réka Geambasu : Rural-Urban Migration in Communist Romania. The Case of Kolozsvár/Cluj Réka, a Chevening Scholar at St Hugh’s College this year, reports on her research work