The Institute for Hungarian Studies at Rutgers is pleased to invite you to the
first two events in its Spring Speaker Series. Please mark your calendar...
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12 noon to 1:30 pm on Tuesday, February 26
Seminar Room, Institute for Health, Health Policy and Aging Research
30 College Avenue, Rutgers University
Dr. Maria Nemenyi (Institute for Sociology, Hungarian Academy of
Sciences): "WORLDS APART: SOME SOCIO-CULTURAL REASONS FOR THE MISCOMMUNICATION
BETWEEN ROMA MOTHERS AND THE HUNGARIAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM"
The Roma (a.k.a. the Gypsies, a group of Dravidic origin present in the
Carpathian Basin for centuries) constitute Hungary's only ethnic minority that
is systematically discriminated-against. The "Roma" position--itself a very
imprecise label for a set of complex ethnic and linguistic practices and
social class locations ranging from some of the country's most popular "Gypsy"
music stars and jazz musicians to a quasi-pariah rural underclass-is ever more
present in the headlines due to the increasingly automatic identification of
the label "Gypsy" with criminality, poverty, idleness, and deprivation in the
popular imagination as well as in the rhetoric of some politicians (on the
left as well as the right). Doctor Nemenyi's research--an extension of a
pioneering project begun under the principal investigatorship of sociologist
Istvan Kemeny over twenty years ago--focusses on the point of interaction
between Roma mothers and the--in principle completely universal and to a large
extent still free-on-demand--Hungarian health care system to seek for some
social causes behind such lamentable outcomes as the low life expectation at
birth and high rates of mortality and morbidity among the Roma.
(Talk sponsored jointly by the Institute for Health, Health Policy and Aging
Research and the Institute for Hungarian Studies.)
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7:30-9pm, Friday, February 27
Rm 411ABC, Student Center, College Avenue Campus
Professor Istvan Deak (Department of History, Columbia University):
1848-1998: NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE AND EURO-ATLANTIC INTEGRATION.
March 15 is the oldest and in many ways the most cherished national holiday in
Hungary. It marks the anniversary of the 1848 Revolution and War of
Independence against Habsburg rule. The two main issues of 1848--progress and
national independence-are ironically and in a very interesting way
recontextualized at the current juncture with Hungary's entry into NATO and
pending application for membership in the European Union. Professor Deak will
consider some of the related complexities.
(Talk sponsored jointly by the Hungarian Alumni Association and the Institute
for Hungarian Studies at Rutgers.)
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