Canadian and International Perspectives
October 12, 2006-National Arts Centre
The conference opening evening with the keynote address is open to the public!
| 18.00 -18.20: | Welcome-Greetings – Peter Herrndorf (President-National Arts Centre) – Dénes Tomaj (Ambassador of the Republic of Hungary) – Gilles G. Patry (President of the University of Ottawa) |
| 18.20- 19.10: | Mark Pittaway (Open University, UK) Keynote Address: Towards a Social History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution |
| 19.10- 21.00: | Réception du recteur / President’s Reception |
| October 13, 2006-University of Ottawa | |
| 8.30- 9.00 | Registration |
| 9.00-9.20: | Opening Remarks – Pierre Anctil, Director of the Institute of Canadian Studies – George Lang, Dean of the Faculty of Arts (University of Ottawa) – François Houle, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences (University of Ottawa) |
| The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and its Impact on Hungary Chair: Tibor Egervari (University of Ottawa) |
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| 9.20-10.00: | János M. Rainer (1956 Institute-Budapest) Keynote Speaker: “The 1956 Hungarian Revolution-Causes, Aims and the Course of Events” |
| 10.00-10.30: | Susan Glanz (St. John’s University-New York) “The Economic Platform of the Re-formed Political parties in 1956” |
| 10.30-11.00: | Júlia Vajda (Eötvös Loránd University-Budapest) “The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 as narrated by Shoah survivors” |
| 11.00-11.15: | Coffee/Tea Break |
| 11.15-11.45: | Mária Palasik (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) “The Role of Women in the 1956 Revolution” PowerPoint Presentation Accompanying Text for PowerPoint Presentation |
| 11.45-12.15: | Heino Nyyssönen (Academy of Finland) “The Hungarian Uprising of 1956 in 1989 and After” Abstra |
| 12.15-13.30: | Lunch Break-Complimentary lunch with registration |
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The 1956 Hungarian Revolution from an International Perspective
Chair: Pierre Anctil (Institute of Canadian Studies – University of Ottawa) |
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| 13.30-14.10: | Csaba Békés (1956 Institute-Budapest) Keynote Speaker “The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and World Politics” |
| 14.10-14.50: | Judith Kesserü Némethy (New York University, NY) “Impact of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in Argentina” |
| 14.50-15.05: | Coffee/Tea Break |
| 15.05-15.45: | Tadeusz Kopys (Jagiellonian University-Poland)
“Commemoration of the Tenth Anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution in Canada and Western Europe.” |
| 15.45-16.25: | Peter Pastor ( Montclair State University ) “1956 in the Perspective of the Hungarian Revolutions of 1848-49, 1918, and 1919” |
| October 14, 2006-University of Ottawa The Canadian Response to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution Chair: Mark Stolarik (University of Ottawa) |
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| 9.00-9.40: | Harold Troper (University of Toronto) Keynote Speaker “Canada and Hungarian Refugies: the Historical Context” |
| 9.40-10.10: | Greg Donaghy (Foreign Affairs Canada-Historical Section) “Too Far and Too Fast: The Hungarian Revolution and Canadian Foreign Policy” |
| 10.10-10.40: | Peter Hidas (Emeritus, Dawson College, Montreal) “Arrival and Reception-Hungarian Refugees, 1956-1957” |
| 10.40-10:55: | Coffee/Tea Break |
| 10.55-11.25: | Susan Papp (MHSO and Rakoczi Foundation) “A Piece of My Heart: the Oral Testimonies of Hungarians who immigrated to and settled in Canada following the Revolution of 1956” |
| 11.25-11.55: | Christopher Adam (University of Ottawa) “Changing Times–The Canadian Hungarian Worker and the 1956 Revolution” |
| 11.55-13.00: | Lunch Break – Complimentary lunch with registration |
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The Contributions of Hungarian Immigrants to Canada
Chair: Leslie Laczko (University of Ottawa) |
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| 13.00-13.40: | N.F. Dreisziger (Royal Military College of Canada) Keynote Speaker “The 1956 Refugees in the Context of a Century of Hungarian Immigration to Canada” |
| 13.40-14.10: | Eniko Pittner (University of Toronto) “Believe and Build– Honourable George W. Vari’s 50 Years in Canada” |
| 14.10-15.45 | – Panel on the Arts and Culture Chair: Judy Young (Canada-Hungary Educational Foundation) “The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and its Cultural Expressions in Canada” |
| 14.10-14.25 | Oliver Botar (University of Manitoba) “The Modernist Revolution: Differing Modes of the Memorialization of 1956 in the Work of Two Hungarian-Canadian Modernists.” |
| 14.25-14.40 | George Bisztray (Emeritus, University of Toronto) “The Contribution of Hungarian Refugee Writers Who Came to Canada After 1956” |
| 14.25- 14.55 | János Csaba (Emeritus, National Arts Centre Orchestra) “1956 and Hungarian music and musicians in Canada” |
| 14.55-15.10 | Discussion “The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and its Cultural Expressions in Canada” |
| 15.45-17.30: | Reception -Closing Remarks by Robert Major, Vice Rector Academic and Provost (University of Ottawa). |