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Montclair, NJ: Montclair State University’s Hungarian Festival of the Arts and Humanities continues through the month of April with a series of lectures. On Monday April 3 at 1:00pm, Dr. Tibor Glant of Debrecen University in Hungary will speak on "Hungarian Perspectives on America" in the Student Center Room 419. Dr. Glant is the Chair of the North American Department at Debrecen University in Hungary.
Dr. Glant specializes in American-Hungarian relations, especially in the 20th C. and American history and foreign policy in the 20th C. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Warwick in England, and received a Senior Fulbright Scholarship for George Washington University, a Soros Scholarship for work at Princeton University, and a Herbert Hoover Presidential Library association Research Grant. He is the author of several books and textbooks, including Through the Prism of the Habsburg Monarchy: Hungary in American Diplomacy and Public Opinion During the First World War, and United States History: A Brief Introduction for Hungarian Students. Dr. Glant’s residency at MSU is made possible through a grant from the Coordinating Committee of the Hungarian Freedom Fighters Federation.
On Tuesday April 11 at 7:00pm, also in Room 419 of the Student Center, Dr. Károly Nagy will address "The Hungarian Diaspora in America: Preserving a Culture". Dr. Nagy has taught sociology at MSU, Rutgers University, Middlesex County College and in Hungary at Janus Pannonius and at Debrecen Universities. Dr. Nagy was educated in Hungary, and participated in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution as elected president of the Erdosmecske Revolutionary National Council. After the Soviet military suppression of the Revolution, he came to the U.S. and completed his studies at Rutgers University and at the New School of Social Research. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Central Europe, sociology, literature, social services and education, and edited the first English-language volume on István Bibó, Hungary’s modern political theorist.
On Tuesday April 18 at 3:00p.m.in Dickson Hall, Dr. Ivan Sanders, a professor of Slavic Languages and Linguistics at Columbia University, will provide insights on "A Question of Identity in Kertesz’s Work". Dr. Sanders has taught at Central European University in Budapest, at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, at the New School and at Suffolk College. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University, and has published translations of the works of Péter Nádas, Milán Füst and George Konrád, among others. He has been the recipient of numerous grants, including the Soros Fellowship, an IREX Grant, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a NEA Translation Fellowship.
The final lecture of the series will be on Tuesday April 20 at 3:00p.m. in Dickson Hall, and will feature journalist Juliana Bika on "Arpádhon: Hungarians in New Orleans". Ms. Bika, who completed her studies at Karl Marx University of Economics in Budapest, is the editor of Western News a monthly e-journal published in Hungarian. She has lived in New Orleans since 1990, and is married to the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Hungary.
The events, which are offered as part of the semester-long Hungarian Festival of the Arts and Humanities, are free and open to the public, but reservations are recommended.
For further information or directions call Karen Segraves-Pender in the Global Education Center at Montclair State University: (973) 655-4499 or segravesk@mail.montclair.edu.
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.
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April 3, 2006
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