Archive for May, 2013

Fulbright initiates Quinnipiac-Semmelweis University Talks

Written by Fulbright on 05/30/2013. Posted in News

Fulbright initiates Quinnipiac-Semmelweis University TalksEarlier this month (May), Professor David Hill, Director of the Global Public Health Program at Quinnipiac University’s Frank. H. Netter MD School of Medicine, was hosted by Professor Dr. Judit Mészáros, Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, Semmelweis University of Medicine, in Budapest. Initiated by Fulbright Hungary Executive Director Károly Jókay, Dr. Hill spent two days at Semmelweis in a full range of meetings. It is hoped that the two institutions and Fulbright Hungary can establish productive forms of cooperation.

Picture: From the left, Gábor Ulakcsai, International Relations Department, Semmelweis University; Dr. István Vingender, Vice-Dean; Károly Jókay, Executive Director, Fulbright Hungary; Professor Dr. Judit Mészáros, Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences; and David Hill, M.D, Professor and Director of Global Public Health, Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine, Quinnipiac University, CT.

7th World Congress of Hungarian Librarians

Written by Fulbright on 05/29/2013. Posted in News

World Congress of Hungarian librarians2 Fulbright alumni: Pongracz Sennyey (’10 University of Szeged) and Nóra Deák (’07 Library of the American Hungarian Foundation) gave a talk at the 7th World Congress of Hungarian Librarians in Budapest, May 28-29, 2013.

STANDARDS / UTILITY / FLAUNTING IT

Written by Fulbright on 05/22/2013. Posted in News

Trevor Amery SkanzenSTANDARDS / UTILITY / FLAUNTING IT is a Solo Exhibition of Trevor Amery‘s sculptures at the Skanzen Museum in Szentendre, Hungary. On view is a selection of works created over the past 8 months during Mr. Amery’s residence as a Fulbright Scholar in Hungary. The exhibition takes place in a traditional peasant-style home on the grounds in a tiszta szoba (lit. clean room), a special room which inspired much of Mr. Amery’s research and subsequent artwork in Hungary. Vernissage: May 22nd from 6 pm – 8 pm.

The Unfinished Peace

Written by Fulbright on 05/21/2013. Posted in News

Fülöp MihályZsolt Németh, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs; Tibor Frank, (’87 University of California) Director of the School of English and American Studies, ELTE and György Schöpflin, Member of the European Parlament contributed to the launch of Mihály Fülöp‘s (’03 George Washington University) book ‘The Unfinished Peace: The Council of Foreign Ministers and the Hungarian Peace Treaty of 1947′ distributed by Columbia University Press at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on May 3, 2013. Huba Brückner, Fulbright Director Emeritus also attended the event.

Kaddish in Budapest

Written by Fulbright on 05/15/2013. Posted in News

Kaddish by Barbara LanciersThe stage adaptation of Nobel Prize ’02 winner Imre Kertész’s novel is directed by Barbara Lanciers (’07 Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute). Kaddish will be performed in Budapest on June 5,6,7 at Jurányi Art and Cultural Incubator.

This is the 2nd Fulbright related Hungarian premiere of a play following Ashlin Halfnight‘s (’05 National Theater, Budapest) God’s Waiting Room last year in Kőszeg.

Contemporary Artists Reassess The Past

Written by Fulbright on 05/14/2013. Posted in News

Linnea West‘What is Hungarian? Contemporary Artists Reassess The Past’ lecture on reimagining the near past and constructing local identities by Linnea West (’12 Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art) on May 29, 2013 at Art School Budapest, a small art school in English Language with NVC (Nonviolent Communication) principals, offering a variety of courses in contemporary art and creativity development.

Skanzen visit

Written by Fulbright on 05/13/2013. Posted in News

Skanzen, SzentendreOn May 3, 2013 the Commission organized a visit to the Skanzen Open Air Museum in Szentendre for the U.S. Fulbright grantees to Hungary to present folk architecture, interior decoration, farming and way of life in the Hungarian language area through original and authentic objects, relocated houses arranged in old settlement patters.

Golden Prize of the Academy

Written by Fulbright on 05/09/2013. Posted in News

Damjanovich SándorSándor Damjanovich (’96 National Institutes of Health), full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences has been awarded the Golden Prize of the Academy in the presence of the Prime Minister. The Prize has been awarded for one member of the Academy each year since 1961.

Tibor Frank (’87 University of California, Santa Barbara; UCLA; University of Nevada-Reno), former Chair of the Fulbright Board in Hungary and István Vásáry (’88 Smithsonian Institution) have been elected corresponding members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. There are 21 Fulbright Alumni members of the Academy to date.

Presidential Award of the Chamber of Hungarian Architects

Written by Fulbright on 05/08/2013. Posted in News

Bettina FabosBettina Fabos (’12 Open Society Archives at Central European University) accepted the 2013 Presidential Award of the Chamber of Hungarian Architects Landscape Planning Section on behalf of her father, Julius Gyula Fabos professor emeritus at University of Massachusetts–Amherst.

Children with hearing impairment

Written by Fulbright on 05/07/2013. Posted in News

Paula BrownPaula Brown (’12 Eötvös Loránd University) delivered a talk on April 23 at the ELTE Bárczi School of Special Education and on April 29 at the University of West Hungary Győr Campus entitled ‘Instruments to observe and measure how children with hearing impairment are doing in the classroom with inclusion and integration’.