May 31, 6 pm Baseball: előadás az Amerikai sportágról
Angol nyelvű előadás magyar tolmácsolással, melynek tárgya a Baseball mint amerikai szabadidős és önfejlesztési tevékenység. Az előadást Brett Cumiskey, a debreceni Tigers Baseball-Softball Club vezetője és elnöke tartja, aki azt is elmondja, hogy Debrecenben milyen lehetőségek vannak a sport űzésére.
Rosszhal ("Badfish") is the first acoustic ensemble to combine American
ska/punk and Hungarian folk music.
Rosszhal was born in Debrecen during the spring of 2011 as a tribute to the defunct U.S. ska/punk band Sublime,which rose to widespread fame with its eponymous 1996 album. May 26th will be the debut of the group's acoustic blend of Sublime cover songs and traditional Hungarian folk music. It will also serve as the group's farewell concert, so don't miss your chance to see the band live!
Rosszhal consists of Judit Jákim (vocals), Attila Tanyi (bass guitar), Borbála
Mózes (percussion, wooden spoon), and Blase Ur (acoustic guitar).
Are you a bad fish, too?
Free admission.
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A ROSSZHAL-ZENEKAR BEMUTATÓ/BÚCSÚ KONCERTJE
"Rosszhal" az első olyan akusztikus zenekar, ami egyesíti az amerikai
"ska/punk"-ot a magyar népzenével.
Az együttes 2011 tavaszán alakult Debrecenben az egykori amerikai ska-punk Sublime zenekar emlékére. A Sublime az 1996-os, a zenekar nevét viselő nagylemezzel várt széleskörben híressé. Május 26-án lesz a Rosszhal bemutatkozó- és egyben búcsúkoncertje is, ami Sublime dalok és magyar népdalok akusztikus keveréke lesz. Ne hagyd ki az egyetlen élő Rosszhal koncertet!
A Rosszhal tagjai: Jákim Judit (ének), Tanyi Attila (basszusgitár), Mózes Borbála (ütős hangszerek, fakanál), és Úr Balázs (akusztikus gitár).
Te is rosszhal vagy?
A koncert ingyenes. Mindenkit szeretettel várunk!
May 24 A Brief History of Chinese in America
A presentation by Public Affairs Officer, Ed Loo celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
May 23, 3 pm Baseball - The American Pastime Comes to Debrecen
Cultural historian Jacques Barzun once observed: “Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.” Brett Cuminskey will speak of “America's national pastime,” with special attention to what this sport has to offer for personal growth. One of the central topics will be how baseball is an important “tool in life." He will talk about failure and success and how baseball relates, as well as how it can help even in everyday situations. Information will be also available on opportunities to play the game in Debrecen and beyond, for the Hungarian national team and abroad. Brett Cuminskey is the current president and head coach of the Debrecen Tigers Baseball-Softball Club. He previously played baseball and served as a coach in Austria, the Czech Republic, Italy, Switzerland, Ukraine, and the United States.
April 29, 6: 30 pm VRTO
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A 30-minute theater performance by the students of Eötvös József High School from Nyíregyháza. Participation is free of charge.
April 28, 6 pm Crime and Violence Along the Texas-Mexico Border
A presentation by Professor Richard W. Griffin, Fulbright scholar and lecturer at Ferris University. The presentation will focus on the prevalence of violence along the United States-Mexican border, its roots in history, and its connection to crime. The audience can learn about the influence of the drug cartels, the problems created by gun running and other smuggling operations along the border.
If you are interested in the presentation, please register at gabor.horvath@americancorner.hu no later than the 26th of April.
April 26, 6:30 pm Blood is Blood Canadian Poetry Night
The American Corner in cooperation with the Institute of English and American Studies of the University of Debrecen presents a reading and presentation by two Canadian poets entitled Blood is Blood. Blood and Blood is a powerful encounter between two poets - from diametrically opposed backgrounds - whose cultural and personal lives intersect, clash and confront the truths and fictions that have become the destructive reality of Jews and Arabs trying to co-exist. Although set in the troubled Middle East, its narrative speaks to tribal wars that have wreaked havoc around the globe. Carolyn Marie Souaid, of Lebanese Christian descent, and Endre Farkas, the child of Jewish Holocaust survivors, give this piece a special resonance.
Endre Farkas was born in Hungary. He and his parents escaped during the 1956 uprising and settled in Montreal. His work has always had a political consciousness and has always pushed the boundaries of poetry. - Farkas is the author of eleven books, including Quotidian Fever: New and Selected Poems (1974-2007). He is the two-time regional winner of the CBC Poetry “Face Off” Competition.
Carolyn Marie Souaid has been writing and touring her poetry for over 20 years. The author of six books and the winner of the David McKeen Award for Swimming into the Light, she has also been shortlisted for the A.M. Klein Prize and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Much of her work deals with the bridging of worlds; the difficulty, perhaps the impossibility of it, but the necessity of the struggle.
March 29, 6 pm Women in Arts
“When she talks I hear the revolution” – The riot grrrl movement
It’s a little known fact that in the 90s the Pacific Northwest was the scene of a revolution. Women stood up to claim their rights at the voting booths, the workplace, recruiting offices and their homes and after a long struggle they finally received equal treatment. Legally. But the society still had a lot of prejudice towards women. A couple of young women had enough so they plugged in their guitars, sharpened their art pencils and donned a hot pink pair of Doc Martens, the necessary equipment for a social revolution.
Kitt Asztalos, AC Volunteer is going to give this short presentation celebrating Women’s History Month.
Shooting Women - Movie Night 6.30 pm
Featuring more than 50 camerawomen from around the world, and shot over a period of six years, Shooting Women, by pioneering filmmaker and cinema studies professor Alexis Krasilovsky, celebrates the amazing talent and unflinching spirit of image-making women from the sets of Hollywood and Bollywood to the war zones of Afghanistan.
This internationally-acclaimed documentary, based on Krasilovsky’s book “Women Behind the Camera,” broaches the persistent issues of the glass ceiling, sexual harassment, and childcare for professional camerawomen around the globe—working from environments where raising such issues is seen as “unprofessional.”
March 22, 6 pm Women in Science
Presenters:
Barbara Price
US Fulbright Scholar and Professor of Finance and Quantitative Analysis, Georgia Southern University
Blase Ur
US Fulbright Grantee and co-founder of the Hungarian American Science Mentorship Program Kathryn Hymes US Fulbright Grantee and co-founder of the Hungarian American Science Mentorship Program Candiece White Director of Rutgers University's Women in Engineering Initiative (joining via videoconference)
Six years ago, Larry Summers, then President of Harvard University, suggested that "innate differences" between men and women might explain why fewer women than men pursue careers in science. The firestorm in response to these remarks greatly contributed to Summers' ouster as Harvard's leader. Why did these remarks provoke such an intensely negative reaction in the US, and what does this reaction illuminate about American culture? Most importantly, what barriers continue to stand in the way of gender equality in the sciences?
In this talk, we will discuss contemporary issues in the battle for equal opportunity in scientific careers. We will discuss the prominent contributions many women have made to the world's scientific knowledge as well as the barriers these accomplished scientists overcame in order to succeed. Unfortunately, gender discrimination in the sciences persists in both the US and worldwide. We will highlight programs that fight against this inequality and debate American and Hungarian attitudes towards women in science. Our presentation will conclude with an overview of opportunities for both American and Hungarian young women to pursue scientific careers.
If you are interested, please register no later than the 20th of March, at gabor.horvath@americancorner.hu
March 17, 6 pm Diplomatanők rivaldafényben
Dr. Glant Tibor előadása, mely során Magyaroszág és az Egyesült Államok első diplomatanői kerülnek a rivaldafénybe. Rosika Schwimmer egy polgárpukkasztó, feminista vezető volt mielőtt Svájcba küldték Magyarország diplomáciai képviselőjeként. Vira Boarman Whitehouse diplomáciai karrierbe kezdett a társadalmi nyomásnak és gazdag férje által biztosított egyéb lehetőségeknek ellenállva vált az Egyesült Államok első hivatalos női diplomatájává, ugyancsak Svájcban. Ezen két nő élete, története és tettei lesznek a középpontban az előadás alatt.
Részvételi szándékot kérjük előre jelezni március 15-ig, a gabor.horvath@americancorner.hu e-mail címen.
March 17 St. Patrick's Day
..is a national holiday in Ireland, celebrating the most well-known patron saint of the country, Saint Patrick. It is also recognized and celebrated in other countries, most notably in the United States. It is believed St. Patrick used the shamrock to symbolize the holy trinity, and therefore it is customary to wear something green on this day, and some cities even dye their rivers or some of their buildings green. In the United States it is celebrated since the colonial times, when Irish soldiers were part of the British army. George Washington was so impressed by these Irish soldiers he was fighting against in the War of Independence that he allowed his soldiers to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day as a sign of solidarity and respect. Parades are usually organized on this day as well, and the first St. Patrick’s Day parade was held in 1762 in New York, when Irish soldiers from the British army marched through the city.
The American Corner will be holding two programs in honor St. Patrick's Day
9:30-11 am
Crafts workshop for children, where they can learn about St. Patrick's Day,its origins, and tcraft their own leprechaun figures. If you know a child who would like to attend, then please register them at debrecen@americancorner.hu
5 pm
Since Tuesday is the 15th of March, a National Holiday, we are moving the Conversation Club to Thursday, the 17th. This will be a special themed Conversation Club, so if you don't want to be pinched, then wear something green.
March 10, 5 pm
Movie Screening The Last of the Mohicans
The movie screening will be followed by a discussion.
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