Bartok’s room – Istvan Peter B’RAcz – Hungary 1989
In 1989, I was studying piano at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest Hungary with Balázs Szokolay and Péter Nagy, and was preparing some auditions for Grad School. I was working on Bartok’s Piano Sonata (1926), and I was in the Bartokterem (Bartok’s room) which has a bust of Béla B staring right at […]
You’re Sort of a Missionary, Right? – Bill Issel – UK 1978, Hungary 2008, Romania 2018
I’ll call him “Mr. Smith.” I meet him one afternoon on the Charles Bridge in Prague. I’m there to lecture on race, class, and politics in American history. It’s 1978 and I’m doing my first Fulbright at the American Studies Centre in London. I help get the Centre started, working with my English colleague Chris […]
Mistaken Identity – Leslie Burke Barratt – Hungary 1987
When I arrived in Hungary for my first Fulbright, I was introduced to the English Department at the Technical University of Budapest (who I would be teaching) and learned that I would be sharing an office with eight faculty, all of whom were female. They seemed quite surprised to see me and explained that they […]
Roma Health In Hungary – Sue Gena Lurie – Hungary 2009
My Fulbright experience as a lecturer at Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary in fall, 2009, began with visits to Roma health fairs with local Susan B. Komen Foundation staff that were arranged by Komen of Fort Worth, Texas, where I taught at UNT Health Science Center. We rode in a taxi from our flat near Erze’bet Hid […]
Fond Memories of the 50th Anniversary Conference – Stephen Hanzely – Hungary 1994
Stephen Hanzely – Fulbright to Hungary 1994
Monica Housen – Latvia 1997 & Hungary 2011
Finding Ourselves We were well into the second half of our Fulbright experience to Hungary when we traveled to a nearby country for vacation. The owner of the guesthouse invited us to a neighborhood party, describing the route to take to walk to the celebration. We listened politely, my husband and I, our three young […]