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Traditional Easter Eggs: an unorthodox method for polishing medical doctors’ manual skills.
Education/Social SciencesTraditional Easter egg dying is a way more complex activity than ordinary people would think about. This basic recognition gave the idea to create a university elective course, which might help to polish manual skills for medical students through a dramatically alternate way they got used to.
The aim of the course is to develop and polish manual skills through alternative ways, which causes not just pleasure but creates artwork. Besides manual skills, this course helps to develop patience, focus, precision, and tolerance of monotony. It is well-known that widely acknowledged doctors were also skilled in different fields of arts (graphics, music, painting, sculpting, etc.). Just as Prof. Dr. János Szentágothai, a celebrated and determinate figure of the Medical School at the University of Pécs.
Within the frames of the course, students can polish their manual skills by absorbing several aspects of traditional Easter egg-dying methods. Activities include engraving and carving with a professional engraver; Syringe and medical needle use; wax melting; precision wax applying to the uneven surface; precision painting; acidic etching. On top of it, created artworks can be exhibited as well.
The aim of the course is to develop and polish manual skills through alternative ways, which causes not just pleasure but creates artwork. Besides manual skills, this course helps to develop patience, focus, precision, and tolerance of monotony. It is well-known that widely acknowledged doctors were also skilled in different fields of arts (graphics, music, painting, sculpting, etc.). Just as Prof. Dr. János Szentágothai, a celebrated and determinate figure of the Medical School at the University of Pécs.
Within the frames of the course, students can polish their manual skills by absorbing several aspects of traditional Easter egg-dying methods. Activities include engraving and carving with a professional engraver; Syringe and medical needle use; wax melting; precision wax applying to the uneven surface; precision painting; acidic etching. On top of it, created artworks can be exhibited as well.
Traditions for Sale
Music/FolkloreTraditions for Sale (1996) is a 50-minute documentary directed and edited by folklorist and filmmaker Sally Gati, focusing on some very special folk artists living in an area of Hungary known as Matyó. Hungary had already been looking westward when the Berlin Wall fell in l989, so for the traditional arts, Hungarian capitalism signaled the loss of government support. The village folk artists realized they would have to be entrepreneurial and sell the work themselves. It was not such an easy transition, but they did it. You will meet some very talented folk artists. We talk to a woman who creates the designs. We see older women who make the detailed embroidery goods to be sold in souvenir shops in their own town and in Budapest. We meet a woodcarver who makes furniture to sell overseas, and we watch his son paint the colorful flowers that will decorate items to be sold in their folk art store. We also hear lively Hungarian folk music as young costumed men and women put on a wedding for tourists. Spurred on by the marketplace, we see the dynamics of folklore and the revival of cultural traditions. It is a document with historical roots as well as present-day significance.
Transatlantic Conservatism: Otto von Habsburg and the Shaping of American Political Thought
History/Political ScienceThe paper examines the intellectual and political influence of Otto von Habsburg – last heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and long-serving Member of the European Parliament – on the development of American conservative thought and institutions. Placing his activity within the wider context of Central European and Hungarian engagement with the United States, it argues that the Archduke acted as a significant, yet understudied, intermediary, channelling new perspectives into the American political environment. Long known in the US as Otto of Austria-Hungary, he built close relationships with prominent American politicians and policymakers. His initial contacts emerged from the Democratic
milieu, but during the Cold War he developed strong ties with leading conservatives and Republicans – the two camps, whose positions occasionally conflicted – including Russell Kirk, William F. Buckley, Barry Goldwater, Edwin Feulner, and several political actors who later became central to the Reagan administration. From the early 1950s onwards, he played a pivotal role in establishing far-reaching transatlantic networks, creating spaces for interaction and exchange for European and American political stakeholders that, despite the many differences, ultimately facilitated a shared vocabulary of norms, principles, and strategic approaches. The paper explores how Otto von Habsburg and his networks, connecting European Christian-democratic traditions and the U.S. conservative movement, actively shaped both the intellectual frameworks and practical implementation of American conservatism, influencing policy debates, political strategy, and broader transatlantic engagement throughout the Cold War.
milieu, but during the Cold War he developed strong ties with leading conservatives and Republicans – the two camps, whose positions occasionally conflicted – including Russell Kirk, William F. Buckley, Barry Goldwater, Edwin Feulner, and several political actors who later became central to the Reagan administration. From the early 1950s onwards, he played a pivotal role in establishing far-reaching transatlantic networks, creating spaces for interaction and exchange for European and American political stakeholders that, despite the many differences, ultimately facilitated a shared vocabulary of norms, principles, and strategic approaches. The paper explores how Otto von Habsburg and his networks, connecting European Christian-democratic traditions and the U.S. conservative movement, actively shaped both the intellectual frameworks and practical implementation of American conservatism, influencing policy debates, political strategy, and broader transatlantic engagement throughout the Cold War.
Transatlantic Insights: The Scholarship of Hungarian Jewry in the AmericanAcademia during the Cold War
Cultural Studies/ArtsThis paper explores how a North American academic, as an absentee traveler, approached the subject of Hungarian Jews during the Cold War. I will focus on the well-known work of William McCagg, a historian who specialized in Central and Eastern Europe. McCagg served as the director of the Russian and East European program at Michigan State University for 30 years. His notable publications include Jewish Nobles and Geniuses in Modern Hungary (1972), A History of Habsburg Jews (1990). He passed away in the 1990s. In examining his writings on modern Hungarian Jewry, I will highlight how he utilized specific characteristics of Hungarian Jewish identity and how his geographical distance from the region allowed romanticized notions to flourish in his portrayals. His reliance on both academic and non-academic sources from earlier eras—many of which had questionable agendas—raises concerns about the validity of his conclusions. This paper argues that today's academic standards challenge some of McCagg's problematic assumptions about Eastern and Central Europe, which continue to influence public perceptions.
Translating the spirit of the text: Nádas’s Fire and Knowledge and Örkény’s in Memoriam Dr KHG
Language/LiteraturePéter Nádas in his short story entitled Fire and Knowledge relates that according to Hungarian media the four corners of the country have been ignited and the fire is spreading fast towards the capital. People „translate” the news as something is afoot, but certainly not as what they are told is the truth, and
as a result they do nothing. This phenomenon could be termed, modeled on Kundera's diagnosis of the Kafkan, as suspension of belief. If disbelief can cause communication breakdown between speakers of the same language it can cause even more problems in translations from one language to another. This talk
will present some translations that reflect the problem of staying too close or straying too far from the letter of the source text, due to a misunderstanding or due to the above willing suspension of belief in the spirit of the text. In everyday life such mistranslations are eventually clarified, as in Kertész’s recent interviews on his 80th birthday, but in literature consensual interpretation is hard to reach. Two English language translations of István Örkény’s In Memoriam Dr KHG will be analyzed and compared to illustrate how, once the spirit of the text is captured, stylistic differences can create delightful and in no way unacceptable versions.
as a result they do nothing. This phenomenon could be termed, modeled on Kundera's diagnosis of the Kafkan, as suspension of belief. If disbelief can cause communication breakdown between speakers of the same language it can cause even more problems in translations from one language to another. This talk
will present some translations that reflect the problem of staying too close or straying too far from the letter of the source text, due to a misunderstanding or due to the above willing suspension of belief in the spirit of the text. In everyday life such mistranslations are eventually clarified, as in Kertész’s recent interviews on his 80th birthday, but in literature consensual interpretation is hard to reach. Two English language translations of István Örkény’s In Memoriam Dr KHG will be analyzed and compared to illustrate how, once the spirit of the text is captured, stylistic differences can create delightful and in no way unacceptable versions.
Transnational Advocacy for Vojvodina: Hungarian–American Lobbying amid the Breakup of Yugoslavia
History/Political ScienceThe disintegration of Yugoslavia and the armed conflicts of the 1990s created profound uncertainty for the Hungarian minority in Vojvodina, Serbia's multiethnic northern province. Amid fears of ethnic cleansing similar to those unfolding in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo, members and organizations of the Hungarian diaspora in the United States-most notably the Hungarian American Coalition and the Hungarian Human Rights Foundation-mobilized to internationalize the Vojvodina issue.
The paper traces the history, strategies, and impact of these actors' advocacy in Washington, D.C., and their transnational cooperation in Budapest and Belgrade. Drawing on policy documents, organizational memoranda, and media reports, it examines how Hungarian-American activists framed the situation of Vojvodina and especially its Hungarian community through the lens of human rights, democracy, and self-determination-core values within American foreign-policy discourse at the time.
Through lobbying efforts and awareness-raising calls, these actors sought to reframe Vojvodina's minority question from a domestic Yugoslav/Serbian matter into an international concern tied to regional stability. Ultimately, the paper demonstrates how diaspora communities can leverage normative ideals and strategic networks to shape international perceptions and contribute to minority rights agendas in post-conflict regions.
The paper traces the history, strategies, and impact of these actors' advocacy in Washington, D.C., and their transnational cooperation in Budapest and Belgrade. Drawing on policy documents, organizational memoranda, and media reports, it examines how Hungarian-American activists framed the situation of Vojvodina and especially its Hungarian community through the lens of human rights, democracy, and self-determination-core values within American foreign-policy discourse at the time.
Through lobbying efforts and awareness-raising calls, these actors sought to reframe Vojvodina's minority question from a domestic Yugoslav/Serbian matter into an international concern tied to regional stability. Ultimately, the paper demonstrates how diaspora communities can leverage normative ideals and strategic networks to shape international perceptions and contribute to minority rights agendas in post-conflict regions.
Transylvania (or the Greatest Part Thereof): How the Hungarian‒Romanian border was debated by the Great Powers (1940‒1945)
History/Political ScienceThe Armistice agreement between Romania and the victorious Great Powers signed in Moscow on September 12, 1944, left the Hungarian‒Romanian border issue unresolved. Article 19 of the Armistice agreement is the result of a Soviet‒British‒American compromise: the Allied Governments agreed that “Transylvania (or the greater part thereof) should be returned to Romania, subject to confirmation at the peace settlement”. The allied Great Powers had weighed the war record of the two ex-enemy countries to be similar. At different times and with different motivations they were considering a border revision based on ethnic equity in favor of Hungary. After the annexation of Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina, the Soviet Union (from July 1940 to 23 June 1941) supported Hungarian territorial claims against Romania. U.S. Secretary of State James Byrnes initiated minor rectifications of the Hungarian‒Romanian border to take account of local ethnic factors to adjust the border in Hungary’s favor at the September 20, 1945, meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers session in London. Great Britain and France supported the American position because they considered the Hungarian‒Romanian border drawn by the Treaty of Trianon of 1920 – to quote them – as “unjust”, “unequitable” and not “raisonnable”. However, in March 1945 Stalin had forced a Communist government of Dr. Petru Groza on Romanian King Michael and given Transylvania to the Romanians as a “gift”. Stalin retroactively accepted the Trianon decision on the border issue. And so, the Transylvanian question joined the maelstrom of arguments between the victorious Great Powers leading to the Cold War.
Transylvanian-Hungarian Poets Today
Language/LiteratureThis presentation previews a selection of present-day Hungarian poets born and active in Transylvania; the translation of an anthology was commissioned by EMIL (Edélyi Magyar Irók Ligája, the League of Transylvanian-Hungarian Writers) from the presenter who published a similar book (Maradok-I Remain) a generation ago in his translation. The ten poets were selected by Karácsonyi Zsolt, but the poems were compiled by the poets. While the earlier generation concerned themselves with the problems of their minority status under the Ceausescu regime, the poets now seem to be influenced by the Western European mood of inward orientation; preoccupation with personal conflicts. The styles vary from traditional to very modernistic, from narrative to Dadaist experimentation; thus, the selection gives a broad cross-section of the current poetry scene.
Transzilvanizmus a tányéron avagy Miért az erdélyi konyhakultúra az egyetlen jelentős regionális konyhája a Kárpát-medencének?
Cultural Studies/ArtsÉtkezési szokásainkban – mint cseppben a tenger – hűen tükröződik identitásunk, a nagy történelmi folyamatok lenyomatai és korunk divatja. A társadalmi és gazdasági változások, sőt a politikai események is vizsgálhatók a gasztrotörténet szemszögéből. Az ugyanis, hogy mit, mikor és hogyan eszünk, árulkodó lakóhelyünk természeti adottságaira, mezőgazdaságának fejlettségére, kereskedelmi kapcsolataira, valamint az ott élők kulturális, vallási, nemzeti szokásaira nézve.
Nincs ez másként az erdélyi konyha esetében sem, amely a Kárpát-medence legjellegzetesebb regionális konyhája, mely a 15-17. században öltötte fel sajátos regionális színezetét. Ekkor és itt ugyanis a középkori európai étkezéskultúra a protestantizmus, az olasz reneszánsz, az Újvilág felfedezése, valamint a Balkán felől érkező török hatás révén színesedett, s nyerte el máig hatóan sajátos arculatát. Előadásomban azt fogom bemutatni, hogy mit tudunk az erdélyi konyha történetéről: kialakulásáról, s későbbi változásairól. Rá fogok mutatni, hogy miért csak az erdélyi konyha tekinthető a történelmi Magyarország egyetlen jelentős regionális konyhájának. Mindemellett olyan kérdéseket is feszegetni fogok, hogy miként viszonyult az erdélyi konyha a történelmi Magyarország többi részének étkezéskultúrájához, hogyan jelent meg a nacionalizmus és a polgárosodás hatása a 19. században, s milyen hatással volt az erdélyi konyhára a huszadik századi impériumváltás. Előadásom arra a nem kis mértékben provokatív tézisre épül, miszerint a szakácskönyvek hűbb képet rajzolnak a társadalmi folyamatokról, mint az ideológiai programnyilatkozatok és anyanyelvi statisztikák.
Nincs ez másként az erdélyi konyha esetében sem, amely a Kárpát-medence legjellegzetesebb regionális konyhája, mely a 15-17. században öltötte fel sajátos regionális színezetét. Ekkor és itt ugyanis a középkori európai étkezéskultúra a protestantizmus, az olasz reneszánsz, az Újvilág felfedezése, valamint a Balkán felől érkező török hatás révén színesedett, s nyerte el máig hatóan sajátos arculatát. Előadásomban azt fogom bemutatni, hogy mit tudunk az erdélyi konyha történetéről: kialakulásáról, s későbbi változásairól. Rá fogok mutatni, hogy miért csak az erdélyi konyha tekinthető a történelmi Magyarország egyetlen jelentős regionális konyhájának. Mindemellett olyan kérdéseket is feszegetni fogok, hogy miként viszonyult az erdélyi konyha a történelmi Magyarország többi részének étkezéskultúrájához, hogyan jelent meg a nacionalizmus és a polgárosodás hatása a 19. században, s milyen hatással volt az erdélyi konyhára a huszadik századi impériumváltás. Előadásom arra a nem kis mértékben provokatív tézisre épül, miszerint a szakácskönyvek hűbb képet rajzolnak a társadalmi folyamatokról, mint az ideológiai programnyilatkozatok és anyanyelvi statisztikák.
Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and the Cleveland Hungarians
History/Political ScienceTruman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and the Cleveland Hungarians
Zsolt Máté
The Hungarians of Cleveland always been very active in the Hungarian diaspora. Their influence reached all around through the D.P. founded organizations – such as the scouts in exile or the Hungarian Assocation -, but individually as well with many personal success stories. In my presentation I will talk about letters written by Cleveland Hungarians to President Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy.
Writing a letter to the President of the United States of America is not a daily task for most of the politically active people either. But there were major events inside the community or in Hungary when some approached the leader of the leader of the chosen home. In the case of President Truman the Cleveland Hungarians acted as lobbyist to let the D.P. Hungarians in the United States faster. The communication most of the time was one directional from Cleveland to the Capital, but in case of several churches for their anniversaries or gala invitations were answered.
Dwight D. Eisenhower received the most letters from Cleveland Hungarians, due to the 1956 Hungarian revolution and the following refugee crisis. Eisenhower received telegrams and letters not just to send troops or to help Hungary, but through the Presidential Committee for Hungarian Refugee Relief dozens of job, housing, orphanage offers was addressed to him. Parallelly John F. Kennedy as a senator was approached too, because of the same purpose.
Zsolt Máté
The Hungarians of Cleveland always been very active in the Hungarian diaspora. Their influence reached all around through the D.P. founded organizations – such as the scouts in exile or the Hungarian Assocation -, but individually as well with many personal success stories. In my presentation I will talk about letters written by Cleveland Hungarians to President Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy.
Writing a letter to the President of the United States of America is not a daily task for most of the politically active people either. But there were major events inside the community or in Hungary when some approached the leader of the leader of the chosen home. In the case of President Truman the Cleveland Hungarians acted as lobbyist to let the D.P. Hungarians in the United States faster. The communication most of the time was one directional from Cleveland to the Capital, but in case of several churches for their anniversaries or gala invitations were answered.
Dwight D. Eisenhower received the most letters from Cleveland Hungarians, due to the 1956 Hungarian revolution and the following refugee crisis. Eisenhower received telegrams and letters not just to send troops or to help Hungary, but through the Presidential Committee for Hungarian Refugee Relief dozens of job, housing, orphanage offers was addressed to him. Parallelly John F. Kennedy as a senator was approached too, because of the same purpose.
Turning Point in the Research of Hungarica Collections?
History/Political ScienceResearchers of Hungarian emigrant history, for various reasons (earlier political taboos, fragmented worldwide diaspora, lack of sources and expertise) have been struggling with a backlog for at least two generations. The discipline of emigrnt literature, both in Hungary and abroad, is still painfully lacking its own research institute or any kind of scientific infrastructure. Much of its primary sources are not properly explored, though they are more and more endangered by the passing away of the most active emigré generation, that of the onetime young ’56-ers. The failed efforts of the past two or three decades for saving what could be saved have clearly proven by now. Without an overall, systhematic resource exploration of scientific standards both in Hungary and worldwide there is no chance to preserve the rich and far branching herritage of the Hungarian diaspora in the West. Our planned OTKA-project from Fall 2014 may well be the next extanded phase of such a field research work with similar explorations of Hungarica diasporas. Our main goal is to conduct a new systematic research project in order to explore, save, and publish resources – mostly manuscripts – of the Hungarian western diaspora. During the past decades there have been a number of initiatives by researchers with a similar purpose; however these mostly remained sporadic, ad hoc, and only partial, often ending with not much success. The rescue of archival emigrant documents, in the meantime, has become more and more compelling both morally and practically, due to the rapid loss of the emigré generation. Thus we are fully convinced that it is high time to expand and speed up our efforts.
Twentieth-Century Departures from the Oldest Hungarian Text: Kosztolányi, Márai and Reményik
Language/LiteratureThe Magyars likely had no written language when they occupied their present home, the Carpathian Basin, in the late ninth century C.E. A few Hungarian place names find their way into the mid-eleventh century Latin document founding the abbey of Tihany, but it is a late twelfth-century text that provides the first surviving complete work in (Old) Hungarian. The extant manuscript, the “Pray Codex,” gives the Latin title of “Sermo sup. Sepulchrum” to this text—in fact the translation of a text from Old French—that is the foundational monument of literary Hungarian. Commonly referred to as the “Funeral Oration” (“Halotti beszéd”), its opening is known to every school child in Hungary: “My brethren, you see with your own eyes what we are: verily, we are dust and ashes.” In the twentieth century, three poets took these lines as their points of departure: Dezső Kosztolányi, Sándor Márai and Sándor Reményik. Departing from the same origin, their poems set out on disparate journeys: Kosztolányi reflects ruefully and wryly on the death of a friend; Márai broods on the atrophy of the mother tongue in exile; Reményik sees death as a transformation from one form of beauty into another—as long as one dies in one’s native environment. Not surprisingly, the poems differ sharply in tone and technique. Each presents different challenges to the literary translator. A brief analysis of the poems is followed by a discussion, with examples, of how two translators met these challenges.
Twenty Years After: Shifting Regional Voting Patterns In Hungary 1990-2010
History/Political ScienceSimilar to most parliamentary democracies Hungary shows significant differences in regional voting preferences. There emerged a traditional voting pattern between 1990 and 2008 when a tectonic change occurred. The south-west/north-east axis reflected primarily the conservative forces south of the axis while the left parties dominated the areas mostly north of the divide. The analysis suggests that the old electoral map became largely overshadowed on the 2008 referenda and 2009 EP election but still survived as a subterranean phenomenon playing some role on the 2010 elections too. The outcome of this landmark shift may open up the spectre of substantive changes in the political/constitutional system and may also trigger sensitive reactions in the larger East European area.
Twenty Years After: Shifting Regional Voting Patterns In Hungary 1990-2010
History/Political ScienceSimilar to most parliamentary democracies Hungary shows significant differences in regional voting preferences. There emerged a traditional voting pattern between 1990 and 2008, when a tectonic change occurred. The south-west/north-east axis reflected primarily the conservative forces south of the axis while the left parties dominated the areas mostly north of the divide. The analysis suggests that the old electoral map became largely overshadowed on the 2008 referenda and 2009 EP election but still survived as a subterranean phenomenon playing some role on the 2010 elections. The outcome of this landmark shift may open up the spectre of substantive changes in the political/constitutional system and may also trigger sensitive reactions in the larger East European area.
Twice Told Tales—Narrative and discourse features of ethno-cultural identity construction in re-storied life episodes
Language/LiteratureIn this paper I discuss the narrative and discourse features of meaning making and identity construction in selected life episodes told more than once by second and third generation Hungarian Americans. The stories are part of a database of 34 qualitative interviews with 12 persons. According to Elliot G. Mishler, the process of restorying lives has long been a dilemma in identity related narrative and discourse studies. A generally held view about the retelling of the same event in multiple discourse settings is that each telling is different from the other and such anomalies decrease the truth validity of these narratives. I argue, however, that the qualitative interview setting triggers a special rhetorical interaction of small story and Labovian (or big) story templates, which remain identical or close to identical at each telling, thus making the identity work of the individual accountable.
Üdvözöljük az Egyesült Államokban: A Hungarian Diaspora Response to the Hungarian Refugee Crisis, 1956-1957
History/Political ScienceThis paper investigates the response of the Hungarian diaspora to efforts by the US government to transport, process, and resettle over 38,000 Hungarian refugees and parolees in the months immediately following the failed uprising by drawing upon a collection of Hungarian-language diaspora newspapers. The diaspora community would serve two critical functions during this process: translation and integration. These publications provide insights into the recruitment of Hungarian speakers, and the broader Hungarian diaspora, to participate in the processing, resettlement, and integration of newly arrived Hungarian refugees and parolees. As such, this paper reveals how local communities participated in national policy initiatives while also showing how US foreign policies affected domestic communities.
Új utakon a City University of New York (CUNY) és az Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) Budapest együttműködésében
Education/Social SciencesA Bolyai János Matematikai Társulat, Rátz László Vándorgyűlés éves Konferenciáján 2017-ben két professzor új álmokat szőtt. Az amerikai City University of New York és a magyar Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem matematikaprofesszorai megosztották egymással elemi iskolai tanárképzési tapasztalataikat és azok hatását a diákjaikra. Ennek nyomán együttműködési pályázatot adtak be, amivel elnyerték az ERASMUS Plus Pályázat ötéves ösztöndíját.
A logikus gondolkodás közös kutatásában négyszáztizenkét diák vett részt. Az ezerhatszáz adatot feldolgozták, s magas szintű nemzetközi konferenciákon mutatták be, például az European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA) Konferencián, ami a legnagyobb és a legjelentősebb óvoda- és alsó tagozatos gyermekpedagógiai tudományos fórum Európában. “Az 5-6 éves gyermekek matematikai gondolkodásának különbségei és hasonlóságai New Yorkban és Budapesten” (Differences and Similarities in the Mathematical Thinking of 5-6 Year Olds in New York City, USA and Budapest, Hungary) című rendkívül érdekes kutatási eredményeiket az AHEA-konferencia hallgatósága is megismerheti majd az előadás során.
Diákcserék is részei voltak a pályázatnak. A diákok egy-egy félévet tanulhattak a partnervárosokban (New Yorkból Budapestre és Budapestről New Yorkba érkezve). Akkreditált kreditrendszerben számolták ki az egyetemek a másik földrészen szerzett krediteket. A szállást és a tandíjat is a Pályázat költségvetése fedezte. Emellett oktatói cserével nyolc-nyolc előadást tartottak az érintett intézmények professzorai a partner egyetem diákjainak.
A logikus gondolkodás közös kutatásában négyszáztizenkét diák vett részt. Az ezerhatszáz adatot feldolgozták, s magas szintű nemzetközi konferenciákon mutatták be, például az European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA) Konferencián, ami a legnagyobb és a legjelentősebb óvoda- és alsó tagozatos gyermekpedagógiai tudományos fórum Európában. “Az 5-6 éves gyermekek matematikai gondolkodásának különbségei és hasonlóságai New Yorkban és Budapesten” (Differences and Similarities in the Mathematical Thinking of 5-6 Year Olds in New York City, USA and Budapest, Hungary) című rendkívül érdekes kutatási eredményeiket az AHEA-konferencia hallgatósága is megismerheti majd az előadás során.
Diákcserék is részei voltak a pályázatnak. A diákok egy-egy félévet tanulhattak a partnervárosokban (New Yorkból Budapestre és Budapestről New Yorkba érkezve). Akkreditált kreditrendszerben számolták ki az egyetemek a másik földrészen szerzett krediteket. A szállást és a tandíjat is a Pályázat költségvetése fedezte. Emellett oktatói cserével nyolc-nyolc előadást tartottak az érintett intézmények professzorai a partner egyetem diákjainak.
Unbridged Divides: Francis Joseph in Hungarian Nationalist Narratives and Public Memory
History/Political ScienceThis paper explores nationalist narratives and public memory of Francis Joseph and the Habsburg era in Hungary. In this work, Budapest’s Liberty Bridge serves as a lens and reference point of sorts in an examination of nationalist historical narratives and public memory of Francis Joseph and the era of the Dual Monarchy in Hungary. In particular, this paper will trace the way in which ruling governments have attempted to impose their own versions of history and identity onto the public spaces of Budapest and into the minds of their citizens.
Beginning with the years following the 1848 revolution, this paper touches on views of Francis Joseph during the Dual Monarchy, before moving on to the Emperor-King’s role in the Horthy and Socialist eras. In Budapest, one reason that the Liberty Bridge never regained its pre-Socialist era name, Francis Joseph Bridge, is due to a lack of popular positive memory of Francis Joseph, in contrast to several other important Hungarian historical figures. In the contested field of Hungarian national narrative the memory of Francis Joseph never truly found its place; for while he did gain a significant degree of popularity in the later decades of his reign, Hungary’s longest-ruling monarch never gained a place in the country’s imagination.
By turns marginalized, vilified and ignored over the course of the twentieth century, the king who oversaw the creation of modern Budapest is today largely absent from public space and from public discourse.
Beginning with the years following the 1848 revolution, this paper touches on views of Francis Joseph during the Dual Monarchy, before moving on to the Emperor-King’s role in the Horthy and Socialist eras. In Budapest, one reason that the Liberty Bridge never regained its pre-Socialist era name, Francis Joseph Bridge, is due to a lack of popular positive memory of Francis Joseph, in contrast to several other important Hungarian historical figures. In the contested field of Hungarian national narrative the memory of Francis Joseph never truly found its place; for while he did gain a significant degree of popularity in the later decades of his reign, Hungary’s longest-ruling monarch never gained a place in the country’s imagination.
By turns marginalized, vilified and ignored over the course of the twentieth century, the king who oversaw the creation of modern Budapest is today largely absent from public space and from public discourse.
Uncertain Suffix-Use in the Hungarian Electronic Media of Transylvania
Language/LiteratureThe aim of the paper is to present the uncertainties of the use of suffixes in the Hungarian electronic media (radio and TV) of Transylvania. The research is based on the data base gathered as a result of an extended monitoring of the Hungarian electronic media in Transylvania. This project was realized with the cooperation of researchers from Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania and Babeș‒Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania in 2010 and 2011. The monitoring focused on the language use of reporters and presenters of Hungarian radio and TV stations in Transylvania, and included exclusively news and cultural programs.
The present paper focuses on the misuse of both derivative and inflexive suffixes (eg.: -ba/-be instead of -ban/-ben) and tries to determine the causes of why this may happen (eg.: in a bilingual context as Romanian influence, the emotions of live shows etc.).
The present paper focuses on the misuse of both derivative and inflexive suffixes (eg.: -ba/-be instead of -ban/-ben) and tries to determine the causes of why this may happen (eg.: in a bilingual context as Romanian influence, the emotions of live shows etc.).
Unintended Consequences of Refugee Aid: Cold War Politics, ‘Freedom Fighters’ and Jim Crow
History/Political ScienceWhen the Hungarian uprisings of late 1956 sent two hundred thousand people fleeing across national borders in Central Europe, the United States boasted a well-established, decade-old regime of overseas refugee relief and domestic refugee resettlement. Emerging from the intertwined humanitarian and geopolitical crises spawned by the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War, the American system of refugee aid that took root in the middle to late 1940s was composed largely of a crisis-driven, ad-hoc series of programs. It employed the human and institutional resources of what I have elsewhere labeled a thoroughly hybrid blend of state and non-state (or “voluntary”) actors.
As elaborated in the first of two central claims my paper marshals, the nature of the U.S. refugee aid system would remain largely unchanged during its engagement with the Hungarian refugee crisis. The imperatives of Cold-War politics in the United States kept the role of the American state muted, particularly regarding refugee resettlement initiatives on U.S. soil, amid concerns that too robust a government role would spur red-baiting charges of government largesse in what were effectively social welfare programs for non-U.S.-citizens.
But as my paper’s second claim describes, the de-centralized, charity-heavy nature of that system came with a price, one a growing chorus of American critics of that system predicted. Poor management of refugee camps in Austria was credited with precipitating suicides and repatriation back across the Iron Curtain. Something similar happened on the American domestic front, as advocates of the U.S. Hungarian Refugee Program demanded the speedy resettlement of the forty thousand “Freedom Fighters” eventually admitted to the U.S., but were left to operate a program with insufficient resources and central oversight, particularly with regards to the state. The final portion of the paper follows the unintended and sometimes fascinating consequences of this confluence of phenomena through the case of one such Freedom Fighter who was unwittingly enrolled at a historically black university in the American Deep South, crossing the Jim Crow color line and sparking regional, national and international controversies that brought the limitations of America’s system of refugee aid into sharper relief.
As elaborated in the first of two central claims my paper marshals, the nature of the U.S. refugee aid system would remain largely unchanged during its engagement with the Hungarian refugee crisis. The imperatives of Cold-War politics in the United States kept the role of the American state muted, particularly regarding refugee resettlement initiatives on U.S. soil, amid concerns that too robust a government role would spur red-baiting charges of government largesse in what were effectively social welfare programs for non-U.S.-citizens.
But as my paper’s second claim describes, the de-centralized, charity-heavy nature of that system came with a price, one a growing chorus of American critics of that system predicted. Poor management of refugee camps in Austria was credited with precipitating suicides and repatriation back across the Iron Curtain. Something similar happened on the American domestic front, as advocates of the U.S. Hungarian Refugee Program demanded the speedy resettlement of the forty thousand “Freedom Fighters” eventually admitted to the U.S., but were left to operate a program with insufficient resources and central oversight, particularly with regards to the state. The final portion of the paper follows the unintended and sometimes fascinating consequences of this confluence of phenomena through the case of one such Freedom Fighter who was unwittingly enrolled at a historically black university in the American Deep South, crossing the Jim Crow color line and sparking regional, national and international controversies that brought the limitations of America’s system of refugee aid into sharper relief.
