Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 revealed to the free world the oppressive nature of Communist regimes. The sight of insurgents confronting Soviet tanks shocked world public opinion.
The Hungarian historians invited to the round table, Gergely Fejérdy and Gusztáv Kecskés D., are specialists in Franco-Hungarian relations and have published extensively on the 1956 revolution. Catherine Horel, who is moderating the discussion, is a historian and specialist in the history of Central Europe in France.
We wish to associate the commemoration of the Hungarian revolution with the 100th anniversary of the birth of Lajos Nyéki, a Hungarian linguist and poet who was a professor at Inalco from 1979 to 1994.
Lajos Nyéki went into exile in France in 1956, after the crushing of the revolution.
With the participation of:
- Catherine Horel, director of research at CNRS, Paris, external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Gergely Fejérdy, deputy director of the Otto von Habsburg Foundation, research professor at Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Budapest
- Gusztáv Kecskés D., director of research at the Institute of History, University of Budapest (ELTE)
- Thomas Szende, professor emeritus, Inalco, Paris
- Kati Jutteau, lecturer in Hungarian history, Inalco, Paris
