| 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)
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| 18.20- 19.10: | Mark Pittaway (Open University, UK)
Keynote Address: Towards a Social History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
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| 19.10- 21.00: | Réception du recteur / President’s Reception
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October 13, 2006 – University of Ottawa
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| 8.30- 9.00 | Registration
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| 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)
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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”
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| 10.00 – 10.30: | Susan Glanz (St. John’s University – New York)
"The Economic Platform of the Re-formed Political parties in 1956"
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| 10.30 – 11.00: | Júlia Vajda (Eötvös Loránd University – Budapest)
"The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 as narrated by Shoah survivors"
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| 11.00 – 11.15: | Coffee/Tea Break
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| 11.15 – 11.45: | Mária Palasik (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
"The Role of Women in the 1956 Revolution"
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| 11.45 – 12.15: | Heino Nyyssönen (Academy of Finland)
“The Hungarian Uprising of 1956 in 1989 and After”
Abstra
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| 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”
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| 14.10 – 14.50: | Judith Kesserű Némethy (New York University, NY)
“Impact of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in Argentina”
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| 14.50 – 15.05: | Coffee/Tea Break
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| 15.05 – 15.45: | Tadeusz Kopys (Jagiellonian University – Poland)
“Commemoration of the Tenth Anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution in Canada and Western Europe.”
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| 15.45 – 16.25: | Peter Pastor ( Montclair State University )
“1956 in the Perspective of the Hungarian Revolutions of 1848-49, 1918, and 1919”
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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"
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| 9.40 – 10.10: | Greg Donaghy (Foreign Affairs Canada – Historical Section)
"Too Far and Too Fast: The Hungarian Revolution and Canadian Foreign Policy”
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| 10.10 – 10.40: | Peter Hidas (Emeritus, Dawson College, Montreal)
“Arrival and Reception – Hungarian Refugees, 1956-1957”
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| 10.40 – 10:55: | Coffee/Tea Break
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| 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”
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| 11.25 – 11.55: | Christopher Adam (University of Ottawa)
“Changing Times--The Canadian Hungarian Worker and the 1956 Revolution”
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| 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”
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| 13.40 – 14.10: | Eniko Pittner (University of Toronto)
“Believe and Build-- Honourable George W. Vari’s 50 Years in Canada”
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| 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”
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| 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.”
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| 14.25 – 14.40 | George Bisztray (Emeritus, University of Toronto)
“The Contribution of Hungarian Refugee Writers Who Came to Canada After 1956”
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| 14.25– 14.55 |
János Csaba (Emeritus, National Arts Centre Orchestra)
“1956 and Hungarian music and musicians in Canada”
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| 14.55 – 15.10 | Discussion
“The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and its Cultural Expressions in Canada”
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| 15.45 – 17.30: | Reception
-Closing Remarks by Robert Major, Vice Rector Academic and Provost
(University of Ottawa).
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