Water & Risk – Thoughts of the Paradigm Shift
Lecturer: Prof. János Bogárdi (hydrologist – Univesity of Bonn)
Date: 14th September 2020 at 6. p.m.
The lecture will be accessible by online streaming on the Facebook-page of iASK!
340-Year-Old Renewed Building of the Benedictine Convent & School was Inaugurated in Kőszeg
The newly renovated heritage building of the former Benedictine Convent and School has reopened in Kőszeg as a hotel on Monday, September 7.
Covid-19 – The New Age of the Armchair Anthropology
In this podcast episode, Astrea Pejović and Dragana Kovačević Bielicki discuss their personal experiences with digital methods in anthropological research and the situation in which they had to digitally adapt their researches.
Central Europe – The Hungarian View – Recommendation by Iván Bába
Our book has been written in response to this invitation for debate, as a kind of reflection on the work of the two Austrian authors, Emil Brix and Erhard Busek. We did this as Central Europeans, from a Hungarian perspective, on a national democratic ideological basis. It is well known that all of us depict the world on the basis of our personal experiences—we find it hard to “step out” of our skin and stand nowhere, yet we strove to approach the ideas that do not meet our agreement or, contradicting our own experience and knowledge, provoke our disparate thoughts or beliefs “objectively,” with tolerance and empathy as much as possible.
Tamás Fejérdy and Zoltán Deák received a prestigious Hungarian State Award
The Forster Gyula Merit – for the cultural heritage management – was given to prof. Tamás Fejérdy and Zoltán Deák architects by the Head of the Prime Minister’s Office.
Expansive Horizons – 6th Creative City & Sustainable Region Conference
New Approach, Cooperation, Development – Creative city, sustainable region
Venue: Kőszeg, Jurisics Castle, Knights’ Hall
Date: 21-22 September 2020
András Nagy: Fatal compassion: the “Hungarian question” and the UN 1956-1963
The book is available in Hungarian.
Interreg Europe – Local Flavours Project
With the partnership of 9 institutions in 8 countries, the Institute of Advanced Studies Kőszeg has started the implementation of the INTERREG EUROPE project Local Flavours (Spicing up authentic tourism in towns with rich heritage through reviving local cultural flavours) on 1st August 2019.
Sounding City Kőszeg 2020
24-30 August 2020
Kőszeg Hungary 9730 Zwinger, Europe House Bibó Auditorium, Szent Jakab Temple
Including concert videos!
Singapore and the COVID-19
The summer issue of the quarterly journal of the Faculty of Economics of Széchenyi István University in Győr carries an article on how the Asian island nation of Singapore had coped with the first phase of the coronavirus crisis.
Pál Kerekes: Cyborg Legends – KönyvkonnektorBlog 19.07.2020
György Csepeli: Human 2.0. – Economic and Social Consequences of the Artificial Intelligence Kossuth Publishing – Institute of Advanced Studies Kőszeg, 2020. 272 p.
Information about the Entry Restrictions and Classification by the Government of Hungary
After 1st September 2020, foreign citizens will not be allowed to enter the country, except for a few special reasons.
Dancing with Uncertainty – Short Remarks on Marshall McLuhan’s Thesis
Half a century ago Marshall McLuhan, some people’s messiah, was quoted to say ’when faced with a totally new situation we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We march backward into the future.’
Serenata Italiana – Concert by Uwe Scheer & Friends
Date: 8th of July 2020. Wednesday at 6. p.m. (CET)
Venue: Europe House, 9730. Kőszeg Chernel st. 14. Bibó Auditorium
5th day of the ISU 2020 – Hungary’s EU Strategy and the Future University
All events of the ISU 2020 will be held in Central European Time (CET) in Zoom and iASK Facebook!