7th November 2016, Hungarian Cultural Institute in Sofia
International Scientific Conference on the occasion of Hungarian Science Festival
Mission impossible – Courage as Virtue in the Politics
Sofia – Bulgaria
November 7, 2016
Organizer: prof. Ferenc Bódi, prof. László Kulcsár and Ralitsa Savova
10:00 Opening by Zoltán Horváth Deputy of Mission, Hungarian Ambassador to Bulgaria
First panel: Hungarian revolution in 1956 - impact of the revolution in Hungary and in Global Policy
Chair of the panel: Prof. Horváth M. Tamás
10:10 The Bravery in the Politics (Ferenc Bódi)
10:30 The Memory of 56: traces of past and cultural Heritage in Europe of an interrupted dream of democratizing socialism (Andrea Ragusa)
11:30 Relations to 1956 of NGOs and encounter movements (Péter Giczey)
11:50 Prometheus Bound by Lazar Nikolov – emblematic piece of art in the new Bulgarian music with a dedication of Hungarian Revolution in 1956 (Angelina Petrova)
Lunch time 12:30
Second panel: Hungary 60 - Hungary from the 1956’ revolution and up to the present.
Chair of the panel: prof. Bódi Ferenc
13:30 Change of the public administration from 'consolidation' till today (Tamás M. Horváth)
14:00 LOSS in Hungary, Early born Welfare State in East-Europe (Ferenc Bódi and Gergely Fábián and Giczey Péter)
14:30 Youth policy in Hungary between 1956 and 2016 (Andrea Szabó – Dániel Oross)
15:00 1956 revolution memorials in Hungary and in Bulgaria (Ralitsa Savova)
15:30 Between national interests and Comecon ambitions regarding the 'developing countries': the cases of Bulgaria and Hungary (Nadya Filipova)
16:00 Bulgarian and Hungarian relations: past, present, future (Tamás Jenő Szekeres)
16:30 Closing remarks
Next day 8th November 2016
Culture Program organized by Ralitsa Savova
http://tdf.kormany.hu/a-magyar-tudomany-unnepe-2016
Contributors
Bódi, Ferenc PhD, Senior research fellow at Institute for Political Science, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
Fábián, Gergely, PhD, Habil., Vice dean for General and Development Affairs, Faculty of Health, University of Debrecen, Hungary; Honorary Professor of the University of Louisville, USA.
Filipova, Nadya, PhD, Assist. Prof., Institute for Hisrorical Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Giczey, Péter PhD. candidate at Faculty of Sciences and Arts, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
Horváth, Tamás M. PhD, DSc, Professor, Head of department of Faculty of Law and Political Studies, University of Debrecen; leader of the MTA-DE Public Service Research Group, Debrecen, Hungary
Kulcsár, László CSc habil university professor, University of West Hungary, Faculty of Economics, head of doctoral program
Oross, Dániel PhD. Research Fellow at Institute for Political Science, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Petrova, Angelina PhD, Institute of Art Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria; Associate Professor at National Academy of Music “Prof. Pancho Vladigerov”, Sofia, Bulgaria
Ragusa, Andrea, Associate professor of Contemporary History, Department of Political and International Sciences, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
Savova, Ralitsa, PhD. candidate at Faculty of Economics, University of West Hungary, , Sopron, Hungary; Intern at Institute for Political Science, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Szabó, Andrea PhD., Head of Department at Institute for Political Science, Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Political Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Szekeres, Tamás Jenő, alumni of the Faculty of Slavic Studies, University of Szeged; establisher of Bulgarian – Hungarian Brotherhood Association, Sofia, Bulgaria