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Oxford Hungarian Society - Hilary Term 2008
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Thursday 24 January, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.
Dagmar Wernitznig: "No documents, no history": A Political Biography of Rosika
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Dagmar, an Associate Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, is writing a D.Phil. on Schwimmer, the pioneering Hungarian pacifist, suffragist, and feminist.
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Friday 1 February, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.
Peter Zollman : Agnes Nemes Nagy, 51 Poems: A Bilingual Edition
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Peter introduces his translations of one of the great Hungarian poets of the 20C., with readings by Ann Zollman. Peter has published translations of most of Hungary’s great poets and is a winner of the 2007 Stephen Spender translation prize.
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Friday 15 February, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.
George Szirtes: The Perception and Presentation of Being Hungarian in the Company of English Poets
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George is a well known poet, and winner of the 2004 T. S. Eliot Prize for his collection Reel. He has translated a range of Hungarian poetry and prose.
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Friday 22 February, Lecture Theatre, Harris Building, Oriel College, 8 p.m.
Film : Fateless (Sorstalanság) |
directed by Lajos Koltai, released in 2005. It was based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same title by the Nobel Prize-winning author Imre Kertész, who also wrote the screenplay.
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Friday 29 February, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.
Judit Pásztor: An Evening of Lute Music
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On the programme: Joan Ambrosio Dalza (born 500 years ago) and contemporaries Bálint Bakfark, Vincenzo Capirola, Simone Molináro, Francesco da Milano.
Judit has been a teacher and as soloist has featured on television and radio. Current projects include a recording of renaissance lute works, and a transcription of Bakfark's lute music, as a special centenary edition for Akkord Publishing.
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