The Hungarian-American Fulbright Commission arranges a monthly visit to someplace in Hungary for both faculty and student Fulbright scholars. This gives us a chance to learn more about where we live and to make new connections. This month it was the city of Eger, population about 60,000. It is a lovely town in one of the wine regions of Hungary and its primary architecture is Baroque, though there is an old castle on the hill, which, famously in the 1500s fended off an attack by the Turks--even the women fought.
Some of us attended one day of a conference on the Internationalization of Higher Education at Karoly Eszterhazy College. Here is a link to that college: http://old.ektf.hu/ujweb/index_en.php?page=59 . The main speaker was Hans de Wit. I found his morning presentation to be very interesting. We also heard a fine talk on how Esterhazy College does intercultural training for outgoing Eszterhazy students and incoming international students. The next day Fulbrighter Dr. Gabriel Melendez, who is teaching at Esterhazy, gave a talk on the "celluoid curriculum"--what we learn (often stereotypes, but not always) about race and many other topics just through films. Then we did a tour of the college and the town of Eger.
Here are photos of the College's original library room (largely closed except to experts needed the old documents--the College has more modern facilities, of course). It was developed in the last quarter century or so of the 1700s.
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| I think this would do for my library. Love the book ladder. |
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| Part of the ceiling fresco |
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| The bolt of lightening from heaven is striking some evil books. It is odd for a library to do this...on the other hand, US libraries often pull books that the local community thinks are bad. |
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