Bázis – Hungarian Association of Literature and Arts in Slovakia is an association for autunomous, independent literature, art and science in Slovakia.

The spring semester starts this week, and unfortunately this is the time of year when the university administration takes over: which courses start, which don’t, whether we’ll have the number of hours, how much overtime we have, uploading course descriptions to useless systems, checking numbers, whether the people who need to take the course have […]

Kinga Tóth will give a lecture and a sound poetry performance at the Central European University in Vienna. Location: Vienna Campus, Quellenstrasse 51, Room: Auditorium. Time: Friday, February 14, 2025, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm. More information: https://events.ceu.edu/2025-02-14/mariamachina. “In MARIAMACHINA, the posthuman cyborgs from ALL MACHINE are brought to life. They are joined by chants, songs, chorales, and […]

Márton Simon‘s book of poems, Cold Pizza, will be presented in New York. Location: New York, 215 E 82nd St, New York, NY 10028, USA. Time: Feb 13, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM. Moderator: Aniko Szucs. More information: https://www.hungarianlibrary.org/event-details/poetry-reading-cold-pizza-with-marton-simon “About the Event Simon Márton (born 1984) is a poet and one of the most-read […]

I started working at the University of Turin in Italy in July. There used to be a Hungarian Studies department 25 years ago, my task is to rebuild it. I spent the previous semester preparing and started teaching now. The Italian university system is very different from what I was familiar with, so it requires […]

Mónika Dánél gave a lecture on Ádám Bodor – Multilingual Originals in Translations: The Acoustic Poetics of Invented Names – at the Institute of World Literature SAS on January 29, 2025 (Wednesday) at 14:00 CET. For more information visit: https://usvl.sav.sk/wp/?p=9376&lang=en. “Ádám Bodor’s novels The Sinistra Zone (1992) and Birds of Verhovina (2011) are set somewhere in a Romanian, Ukrainian, Polish, […]

This week I have to take music exams at school, so I’m preparing for those, as well as for my graduation exams, which are also approaching. Additionally, I’m preparing for my concert at the end of February, which will be in Bulgaria with the Bulgarian Radio Orchestra. I will perform as a soloist with two […]

Interview with Márió Nemes Z. on Hungarian Literature Online! Part I. https://hlo.hu/interview/mario-z-nemes-and-that-you-couldnt-do-as-a-lone-weirdo.html Part II. https://hlo.hu/interview/mario-z-nemes-and-that-you-couldnt-do-as-a-lone-weirdo-ii.html

The Rokko Juhász‘s next performance will take place in Vanuatu, on the Tanna volcano, between December 10-14, 2024. “The performance will be the conclusion of a series that has been going on for years, in which I traveled across the 5 continents of the world with my grandfather’s 1922 suitcase from Kéménd. Vanuatu was chosen […]

Szilvia Szarka, Magdalena Garbacik-Balakowicz, Magdalena Roguska-Németh, members of Bázis, along with Dávid Szolláth and Zoltán Z. Varga will present their papers on the 3rd International Congress | Humanities – Society – Identity | DIVERSITY IN EQUALITY. Included in the Congress is the panel ‘Poetics of the Contemporary Central European Novel’.🕒 December 4, 11.30 am🏠 Room […]

Magdalena Garbacik-Balakowicz will give a lecture in Polish on Sándor Márai at the Faculty of Modern Language (Dobra 55, Strefa Współpracy) of the University of Warsaw. Date: December 3, 2024, 3 pm.

Kinga Tóth will take part in several activities (readings, lectures, performances, exhibitions) in December 2024: “1. 11:00 Wir bauen eine Lyrik-Stadt: Matinereading (online)5. 19:30 Mondmeerundmarguerite Lesung-Performance curated by Raoul Eisele13. 15:00 workshop (intern) 18:30 lecture-performance-talk (offen) CEU17. Installation-performance-presentation MQ EXHIBITIONS – graphic, sound and video art/poetry till 4. Grafische Werkstatt, Salzburg1. Expoesies Radio Polyphoniqueis, L’Officine, […]

Prometheus Unbound, video opera by András Cséfalvay will accompany Salt. Clay. Rock. exhibition’s opening in Berlin (Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 11) on November 29th, 6. pm. More information can be found on Facebook: “In the midst of the current energy crisis, how do we think about nuclear energy and the search for energy alternatives? Can we imagine energy […]

Members of the Bázis literary and artistic association were astonished to learn from a report in the daily Napunk how the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic intends to change the language law. For example, it plans to order employees of post offices, railways and bus transport to communicate with customers exclusively in Slovak. […]

Erzsébet Fanni Tóth will give a lecture at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno. More information on the website of the Czech Academy of Sciences: “Erzsébet Tóth at Department of Memory Studies in Brno, Monday, Oct 21th, 14:00 The Institute of Ethnology CAS, Department of Memory Studies, invites you to a lecture by Erzsébet […]