The American Corner invites you to its weekly documentary screening: American Cinema. In the next episode you can learn about the beginning of a new era in the history of American Cinema: The Age of Television. Come and join us on Wednesday, December 3, 2008!
Thanksgiving Celebration Friday, November 28, 2008
The American Corner cordially invites you to its Thanksgiving Celebration on November 28th, 2008. Attendence is free but preliminary registration via e-mail or phone is needed! Take a look at the details!
Fulbright Road Show Thursday, November 13, 2008
Are you interested in studying, doing research or teaching in the US? Do you want to know more about the US education system, the visa waiver program and what the new president is gonna do next? Join us on Thursday, November 13, 2008!
What does it take to win the White House? Produced by award-winning filmmaker Theodore Bogosian, this unprecedented behind-the-scenes account of the 2004 Republican and Democratic national conventions examines how candidates build their platforms and generate momentum.
Time: 3 p.m.
Date: October 6 (Monday)
Place: Nagy Laszlo Room
Eotvos Karoly County Library
H-8200 Veszprem, Komakut ter 3
International Education Week! 18-20 November, 2008
We invite you to the Theodore von Karman memorial and science day in the Eotvos Karoly County Library.
Learn more about the famous Hungarian born physicist, inventor and mathematician.
What does it take to win the White House? Produced by award-winning filmmaker Theodore Bogosian, this unprecedented behind-the-scenes account of the 2004 Republican and Democratic national conventions examines how candidates build their platforms and generate momentum.
Time: 3 p.m.
Date: October 6 (Monday)
Place: Nagy Laszlo Room
Eotvos Karoly County Library
H-8200 Veszprem, Komakut ter 3
- January 17, Thursday English Conversation Club Topic:Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
- January 23, Wednesday D-day Event A presentetion was held in Hungarian about the D-day by Zsebe Attila, D-day researcher.
- January 24, Thursday English Conversation Club Topic: The geography of the USA
- May 21 (Wednesday) Movie Night -Jewish American Heritage Month
Click hereto check out the poster.
Vote for the movie you would like to watch.
- May 22 (Thursday) English Conversation Club Topic: Physical Fitness and Sports
- May 26 (Monday) Hungarian Conversation Club Click here for the poster.
- May 28 (Wednesday) Presentation on the Western National Parks of the USA 2in Hungarian
Click herefor the poster.
Peresenter: Juliánusz Félix Maxim
Time: 6 pm
Venue: Nagy Laszlo Room, Eotvos Karoly County Library
- January 30, Wednesday Movie Night
- January 31, Thursday English Conversation Club Topic: "American Idioms"
- February 6, Wednesday English Conversation Club & Movie Night Topic: "Hollywood and its Stars" We dedicated this Movie Night after the Conversation Club to Heath
Ledger, the talented young actor, who died in January.
- February 13, Wednesday Movie Night - Films about the American Presidents Time: 6 pm
Venue: dr Nagy Laszlo Room, Eotvos Karoly County Library
- February 14, Thursday English Conversation Club Topic: American Presidents
- February 21, Thursday English Concversation Club Topic: Presidental Elections
- February 27, Wednesday Movie Night
- February 28, Thursday
Presentation by Murry Nelson
"The Brown v. Board of Education Case of 1945 and How It Inspired teh Civil Rights Movement"
- February 28, Thursday English Conversation Club Topic: Civil Rights Movement (Continuing the topic of the presentation held before the Conversation Club)
- March 3, Monday
Presentation by Michael J. Hurley "US Presidential Elections"
- March 20, Thursday English Conversation Club
Topic: New York
- March 23, Sunday
Easter Friendship Concert (no entrance fee!)
Contributing: Perrysburg Symphony Strings from Perrysburg, Ohio and their hosts
- March 25, Tuesday
A Presentation by Amy Walter, one of America's top political forecasters
A joint program of the U.S. Embassy, Budapest, the American Corner, Veszprem and the Department of English and American Studies of the University of Pannonia.
- March 27, Thursday
"GrammarWon't Bite!" - könyvbemutató
- April 3, Thursday Advising Seminar
Fullbright Scholar Matthew D. Smith will help You construct
realistic resumes, cover letters and personal statements.
- April 3, Thursday English Converastion Club
- April 10 (Thursday) English Conversation Club Topic: "U.S. Life - People"
Sponsored by:
University of Pannonia - Institute of English and American Studies
Embassy of the United States of america in Budapest
Hungarian Fulbright Comission
American Corner
April 14 (Monday)
AMERICAN CULTURE AND THE HUMANITIES
Venue: University of Pannonia (Veszprém, 10 Egyetem Street), Building B, Conference Room - Opening remarks by Dr. István Szilágyi, Dean (University of Pannonia)
time: 4.00 pm
- Dr. Charles Sullivan III, Fulbright Lecturer (University of Debrecen)
THE FRONTIER IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN LEGEND ANDITS CONTINUING INFLUENCE ON AMERICAN CULTURE time: 4.30 pm
- Dr. Scott Campbell, Fulbright Lecturer (University of Pannonia) AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY AND THE VALUE OF EDUCATION time: 5.00 pm
- Dr. Paul Titchmarsh, Senior Lecturer (University of Pannonia) “BLOOD ON THE NASH AMBASSADOR”: CARS AND AMERICAN CULTURE
time: 5.30 pm
April 15 (Tuesday)
SPORTS IN AMERICAN AND HUNGARIAN LIFE Venue: American Corner, Eötvös Károly County Library (Veszprém, 3 KomakútSquare), Kisfaludy Conference Room
- Dr. Murry Nelson, Fulbright Lecturer (University of Debrecen) BABE RUTH AND THE RISE OF THE AMERICAN SPORTS HERO time: 4.00 pm
- Mr. Zoltán Kész, Fulbright Alumnus, High-School Teacher (Padányi Biró Márton Catholic School)
FROM LARRY CSONKA TO THE VESZPRÉM WILDFIRES: HUNGARIANS IN MAJOR AMERICAN LEAGUES, AND AMERICAN SPORTS IN HUNGARY time: 4.30 pm
- Movie at the American Corner (Nagy László Room)
time: 5.30 pm
April 16 (Wednesday)
GOSPEL, JAZZ AND THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN MUSIC Venue: VEAB Building (Castle, Veszprém, 37 Vár Street)
- Dr. Jenő Bárdos, Fulbright Alumnus, Professor, Chair of the Institute of English and American Studies (University of Pannonia) A SHORT HISTORY OF GOSPEL MUSIC time: 4.00 pm
- Dr. Tseng-Hao Huang, Fulbright Lecturer, (Eötvös Loránd University) AMERICAN MUSIC: JAZZ AND MORE (PIANO PERFORMANCE) time: 5.00 pm
Special thanks to the VEAB (Regional Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Veszprém)
April 17 (Thursday)
SPECIAL PRESENTATION Venue: University of Pannonia, Building B, Conference Room
Mr. Jeffrey D. Levine, Deputy Chief of Mission (U.S. Embassy - Budapest) CONTINUITY IN U.S. – HUNGARIAN RELATIONS AFTER THE 2008 ELECTIONS time: 12.00 noon
LINGUISTICS, DIALECTS, AND AMERICAN IDENTITY Venue: University of Pannonia, Building B, Conference Room
- Dr. Paula Winke, Fulbright Lecturer (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) YOU’VE GOT A FUNNY WAY OF SAYING THAT! DIALECTS AND IDENTITY IN THE UNITED STATES
time: 4.00 pm
- Dr. Szilárd Szentgyörgyi, Fulbright Alumnus, Associate Professor (University of Pannonia) AMERICAN VS. BRITISH ACCENTS: INVENTION VS. CONSERVATIVISM? time: 4.30 pm
- Dr. Sándor Czeglédi, Assistant Professor (University of Pannonia) REASSERTING THE AMERICAN CREED: ASSIMILATION-ORIENTED EXPECTATIONS IN OFFICIAL ENGLISH PROPOSALS
time: 5.00 pm
- Apri 24 (Thursday) English Conversation Club Topic: "Environmental Protection - Global Warming"
Since April 22 is Earth Day.
- May 7 (Wednesday) Movie Night - Fun Films
- May 8 (Thursday) English Conversation Club
Topic: Stress Management
- May 15 (Thursday) English Conversation Club Topic: Jewish Life in America
American Adventures
16.00, October 15, 2008
Venue: Nagy Laszlo Room, Eotvos Karoly County Library
Are you interested in the American summer adventures of your fellow students and what experiences you can gain during a summer spent uin the U.S.?
Come and join us on Wednesday, October 15.
National Teen Library Days October 7-12, 2008
This week in the American Corner you can participate in lots of interesting programs designed to the young and about the young.
Ambassador Foley visited Veszprem Tuesday, October 21, 2008 Ambassador Foley’s Pre-Election Outreach in Veszprém Ambassador Foley’s Pre-Election Outreach in Veszprém
Ambassador Foley spoke to more than a hundred students about the U.S. elections at a meeting in the American Corner in Veszprém on October 21. The attending students came from three different high schools and asked a variety of questions ranging from who the Ambassador thinks will win the elections and what does an average American know about Hungary to whether Hillary Clinton supporters will possibly vote for Sarah Palin. Students were also interested in U.S.-Hungarian bilateral relations. The Ambassador offered the Hungarian military’s operation in Afghanistan as an example of the excellent relations and close cooperation between the two countries.
After the meeting, the Ambassador visited the famous porcelain factory at Herend and then met with students of the Dohnanyi Music High School in Veszprém where she learned to sing a Hungarian folk song.
Meeting with Reka Pigniczky, director of Journey Home
Monday, October 27, 2008
This is a multiple award winning documentary by director Réka Pigniczky. The movie is English/Hungarian with Hungarian subtitles.
Taking place in Budapest a half-century after the fateful events that took nearly 3,000 lives and forced more than 200,000 Hungarians to emigrate, Journey Home documents László Pigniczky’s daughters as they take a personal – sometimes disturbing, sometimes humorous – trek into the history of 1956. Armed only with their deceased father’s vague anecdotes and their own curiosity about the past, they try to piece together the puzzle of their father’s role in Hungary’s seemingly futile battle against the Soviet Union.
The sisters research their father’s story at the Hungarian secret service archives, interview surviving ‘56ers who might have known and fought with their father, consult with historians, and physically try to retrace their father’s footsteps from the first days of the revolution, through the street fights of early November, until his escape through Yugoslavia to the United States.
We are happy to invite
you to the joint Halloween Party
of Smile Language School
and the American Corner, Veszprem!
Come and join us on Friday, October 31.
Contests, individual performances,
costume comptetitions,
a standing dinner reception etc.
