2018 ITT-OTT Conference

Program

ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROGRAM

No Hungarian language skills needed for the following:

1. Field trip to area Hungarian-American mining settlements and cemeteries on Wednesday during the day

2. Music program of the Üsztürü Folk Music Ensemble on Wednesday evening at the lakefront picnic site

3. Üsztürü Concert on Thursday evening in the Lodge

4.  Dance House opportunity to learn basic Hungarian folk dance steps to live music by Üsztürü on Friday evening

Additionally, any of the following programs will be held in the event that at least five people express interest.  These will be scheduled for Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and/or Friday, at mutually agreeable times.  Please contact Hajnal Minger at (313)580-0651 by August 1st* to express interest in individual programs.

Menu of additional English language programs:

The legacy of King Hunyadi Corvin Mátyás:  560 years later (András Ludányi)

ITT-OTT/MBK 50 years later:  Who are we? (András Ludányi)

Transylvanian  traditional woodworking:  The symbolism of the „kopjafa”  (László Soltay)

Hungarians living around current Hungary’s borders:  Challenges of everyday life and lessons in ethnic survival  (László Brenzovics)

The Diaspora Council:  What is it and what is its intended role?  (Erika Bokor)

ReConnect Hungary

The Friends of Hungary Association:  Activities  (Péter Kovalszki and Ágnes Fülöp)

The Re-Conquests of Hungarians  (Balázs Somogyi)

Szekely Hungarians in Transylvania:  Landscape, wood carving, and the symbolism of their flag, anthem and crest (Ferenc Pozsony)

Born in the USA, Hungarian roots:  Second generation lives (Csilla Megyeri)

Hungarian Inventions, famous Hungarians (Csilla Megyeri)