Friday 22 January, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.

Social Evening
To start the new term; we are also planning a book exchange.

Friday 29 January, Lecture Theatre, Harris Building, Oriel College, 8 p.m.
[please note venue: on the `Island Site', through the tunnel under the street]

Film: Szabadíts meg a gonosztól (Deliver Us from Evil)

In this dark comedy by Pál Sándor, the loss of a coat sets off a frantic search resulting in widespread death and mayhem. It is 1944, and the loss of the coat represents the family’s loss of social standing, even when everyone is suffering from the Nazi occupation. The social chaos of the times is exposed by the family’s search, which involves murders and more.

Friday 5 February, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.

Vivien Halas: John Halas, the Hungarian Grandfather of British Animation

Vivien tells us, through screening some of Halas & Batchelor’s best short films, how the vision of her émigré father, and mother Joy Batchelor, laid the foundation for the British animation industry. Their studio, the largest and most influential in Europe, used innovative techniques to tackle everything from politics and modern art to entertainment and education.

Friday 12 February, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.

DavidSingmaster : Hungarian Mathematicians and their Mathematics
A Short Survey of an Extraordinarily Mathematical Nation

David, an emeritus professor of mathematics, has been involved with the history of mathematics and recreational mathematics, including Rubik’s Cube.

Friday 26 February, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.

Magda Czigány : ‘Just Like Other Students’
Reception of the 1956 Hungarian Refugee Students in Britain

Magda was a Hungarian refugee student in 1956 and later on became Director of Library Services at Imperial College. Her book ‘Just Like Other Students’: The 1956 Hungarian Refugee Students in Britain was published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in the summer of 2009.

Friday 5 March, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.

James Hamilton : György Gordon (1924-2005): A Hungarian Artist in Britain

James Hamilton is a writer and curator who knew György Gordon well for thirty years. He is an art historian and the biographer of Turner and Faraday. His exhibition Turner and Italy was shown in Budapest in summer 2009.

Friday 12 March, MacGregor Room, Oriel College, 8 p.m.

John C. Swanson : Máriakéménd: A Village in Hungary

John is an American historian with a special interest in Hungary. He and his wife will show a film that they have made about this formerly Hungarian-German village in the south of Hungary. It is, he says, about ‘Heimat, nostalgia, expulsions, and reconciliation’.

For more information contact Kati Evans at hungsoc@hungsoc.com, tel: Oxford 736973.