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On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the launching of the Polish program, the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Debrecen (UD) hosted an alumni meeting in connection with the Alumni Festival. At the event, held on Saturday in the building of University Church, former students and lecturers recalled memorable moments of the past decades.

Gábor Pusztai, head of Dutch Studies at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Debrecen (DE), has received a prestigious Dutch award. The Ridder in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau (Knight of the Order of Oranje-Nassau) was presented by the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Hungary on behalf of King William-Andrian.

The Confucius Institute of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Debrecen (DE) will hold the traditional Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival on Saturday, 14 September. This time, Chinese students and lecturers of the institution will present a colorful program of music and dance in connection with the Panda Days of the Nagyerdei Cultural Park.

The teaching of the Japanese language was the primary focus of an international Japanese language conference hosted for the first time by the University of Debrecen (UD) on August 26 and 27. The conference, which was organized by the Foreign Language Center of the Faculty of Humanities (FoH), was attended by participants from as many as ten different countries.

Researchers affiliated with universities in countries like the United States, Belgium, Cuba, Poland, San Marino and Hungary gave papers on the background and global impact of the 1924 US Immigration Act as well as on key issues of migration at the University of Debrecen (UD). The international “hybrid” conference, titled Johnson-Reed 100 Years Later, was organized on August 22 and 23 by the Institute of English and American Studies of the Faculty of Humanities (FoH) at UD in cooperation with the American Hungarian Educators Association.

This program aims to provide distinguished PhD holders who were also Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship holders with an opportunity to pursue their research under the mentorship of their previous supervisors.

The Memory of János Xántus: Joint Projects of UD Faculty of Humanities and Sunway University, Malaysia

Joint Projects of UD Faculty of Humanities and Sunway University, Malaysia

Springer Nature published a book in April by Dr. Horváth Lajos, Assistant Professor at UD, Department of Philosophy

Partnership for the future

The University of Bonn, one of Germany’s top five leading higher education institutions, plans to collaborate with the University of Debrecen in several fields of research.

Irish Ambassador’s visit at the University

At the invitation of the Faculty of Humanities’s Institute of English and American Studies (IEAS) Ragnar Almqvist, Ireland’s Ambassador of Hungary, visited the University of Debrecen for the first time.