Similar to the this January presentations, a conference was held on April 28, 2015 for the Returned Hungarian Fulbright Grantees AY 2013/2014. The purpose of the conference – attended by Jaye Chen, Executive Vice President, IIE New York and Daniel Kramer, Director, IIE Fulbright U.S. Student Program – is to give an opportunity to 10 returned Hungarian grantees to present on their Fulbright experience in the U.S.

In this conference the student grantees gave a 15-20 minutes presentation on their Fulbright project and research in Hungary. The presentations included a great variety of interesting topics. Please find the detailed program here.

New agreement signed between the University of Pécs and Fulbright Hungary on Friday, April 10 in Pécs. The agreement supports US ‎Fulbright‬ scholars who would like to teach or do research at Hungary’s first university founded in 1367, Pécs, in 2016-17 and beyond. We look forward to receiving many applications over the next few years.

Pécs’ Rector Prof. Dr. József Bódis greeted the visiting U.S. Fulbright grantees and highlighted the internationalization of the University through its very long and active affiliation with Fulbright. Pécs is one of the most active sending and receiving universities in Hungary and we intend to continue this into the future.

Roma in Contemporary Europe Symposium at Duke University by Angéla Kóczé (’12 Wake Forest University) on April 7-8, 2015. The Symposium on “Global Governance, Democracy and Equality: Roma/Gypsies in Contemporary Europe” gives a recognition and visibility for a newly emerging scholarly theme of the struggle of Roma as a racialized ethnic group, which has been under- researched and theorized in the academic context.

Iconic Places: Elsewhere – TOPOS 3 Conference at English and American Studies Institute, University of Pannonia featuring 4 Fulbright alumni: Ildikó Limpár (’02 Study of the US Institutes), Éva Federmayer (’07 University of Illinois), Tibor Glant (’00 George Washington University) and Károly Pintér (’03 Texas Christian University) on March 27-28, 2015

33rd György Ránki Hungarian Chair Conference: Transformations of Urban Social Fabric in East Central Europe, 1880 to present on March 28 -29, 2015 at Indiana University, Bloomington featuring Ambassador Réka Szemerkényi (’93 Johns Hopkins University), László Borhi (’12 Indiana University, Bloomington & ’96 Dartmouth College), Erika Szívós (’95 Boston University), Lynn Hooker (’11 Hungarian Academy of Sciences & ’95 Institute of Musicology), Robert Nemes (’94 Eötvös Loránd University) and Bence Ságvári (’14 Indiana University, Bloomington)

The Hungarian-American Fulbright Commission and Bard College Conservatory of Music are pleased to announce that they have signed an agreement to establish a jointly funded grant in Advanced Performance Studies for a student from Hungary starting in the Academic Year 2016-17. The agreement was presented in a ceremony held in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY on March 24 by Dr. Robert Martin, Director of Conservatory and Fulbright Executive Director Dr. Károly Jókay.

Hungarian music students who have completed the bachelors degree (by July, 2015) and are interested in joining the Advanced Performance Studies (APS) Program of the Bard College Conservatory of Music in September 2016 should apply to the Hungarian-American Fulbright Commission for Educational Exchange by September 1, 2015. Those accepted for the Fulbright award and by the Bard Conservatory APS Program will receive two years of financial support, the first year from Fulbright and the second year from the Bard Conservatory.

TechTea: After Digitization: Using Digital Humanities to Explore Art History at MOME – Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest with Kelly Cannon (’14 Hungarian House of Photography – Mai Manó Ház) on March 26, 2015

Ambassador H.E. Réka Szemerkényi, Embassy of Hungary in Washington DC and Fulbright Hungary co-hosted a concert, presentation and reception by and for Fulbright alumni from the US and Hungary on Friday, March 20th in Washington, D.C. About 70 Fulbrighters, family and stakeholders attended. Ambassador Szemerkényi shared a few thoughts about her own experience as a Fulbrighter studying at Johns Hopkins, and Károly Jókay, Executive Director, announced several new grants available to US applicants interested in coming to Hungary during the 2016-17 academic year.

Shelby and Daniel Sender (’10 Liszt Academy of Music) played the piano and violin to get us in the mood. Scott Campbell (’07 University of Pannonia), Brittany Carlino-Marburger (’13 Veres Pálné Gimnázium), Jozsi Jalics (’13 Wigner Research Center for Physics) and Eric Lopez (’08 Central European University) gave powerful, personal and convincing testimonials about the impact of their time spent in Hungary, and the way in which their lives have been changed by their experiences there.

All attendees enjoyed a sumptuous feast prepared by the Embassy’s chef and catering staff.

Thank you to the Ambassador and to Dávid Singer, First Secretary, Cultural Affairs for their support and organization, and to all Fulbrighters and stakeholders who joined us that evening. Kudos to Annamaria Sas for her work with past, present and future US grantees to Hungary.

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Lisa Romain (’14 Liszt Academy of Music) performed at the Gala Concert of the 61th Annual Berlin Seminar for American Fulbright Grantees, March 15 – 19, 2015 organized by the German Fulbright Commission.