Montclair State Hosts Noted Hungarian Author and Social Psychologist
Lecture by Dr. Gyorgi Csepeli, Hungarian Parliamentary State Secretary, is part of semester-long Hungarian Festival for the Arts and Humanities
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MONTCLAIR, N.J. -- Dr. Gyorgi Csepeli, Hungarian Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Informatics and Communication, will speak at Montclair State University ( www.montclair.edu ) on "Hungarian National Identity in the Information Age". This lecture, offered as part of the University's Hungarian Festival for the Arts and Humanities, will be held March 2 at 7:00 pm in Brantl Lecture Hall in Dickson Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Dr. Gyorgy Csepeli is the Hungarian Parliamentary State Secretary, Ministry of Informatics and Communication and is a professor of Sociology at Eotvos Lorand University. He has also served as the Chair of the Department of Social Psychology and the Chair of the Department of Cultural Anthropology at his university. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at UCLA, a Dubach Distinguished Professor at Oregon State University, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan, The New School for Social Research, and Yale University. He is the author of numerous publications, including "Construction of the Roma Identity in Eastern and Central Europe", "Blindness to Success: Social-psychological Objectives Along the Way to a Market Economy in Eastern Europe", and "National Identity in Hungary at the Turn of the Millenium".
Montclair State's Hungarian Festival of the Arts and Humanities is a semester long series of events relating to Hungarian culture, its origins, and its influences. The festival includes theatrical and musical performances, art exhibitions, films, and lectures.
Organized by the University's Global Education Center, the Office of Arts and Cultural Programming and the School of the Arts, the Festival continues through May 2006.
The Hungarian Festival of the Arts and Humanities is made possible with generous grants from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities and the Trust for Mutual Understanding. The Terplan Family Foundation and the Hungarian Cultural Center of New York have also provided support for various Hungarian initiatives.
For additional information, contact the Global Education Center at (973) 655-4185 or email simonw@mail.montclair.edu.
Montclair State is New Jersey’s second largest and fastest growing university. It offers the advantages of a large university--a comprehensive undergraduate curriculum with a global focus, a broad variety of superior graduate programs, and a diverse faculty and student body--combined with a small college’s attention to students. More information on the University is available on its Web site at www.montclair.edu.MSU is located at the intersection of Valley Road and Normal Avenue in Montclair. The campus is one mile south of the junction of routes 3 and 46, 14 miles west of New York City.
February 17, 2006
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