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

The Lajos Grendel Conference was held in Bratislava on April 16–17, 2016, at the Museum of Hungarian Culture in Slovakia. The event was organized by the Department of Hungarian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University, with Pál Száz as the conference organizer.A photo report from the conference is available below.

I was encouraged to write this in English, and it surprised even me how radically different the answer becomes in two languages. To explain what I’m working on, I need to briefly outline what I’ve been doing lately, and I find it refreshing that within these frames I now look at the economy and applied science of communication, and […]

Beatrix Visy and Dávid Szolláth delivered presentations at Cleveland State University as part of the American Hungarian Educators Association (AHEA) 50th anniversary conference 250 Years of Hungarian Contributions to the United States of America. For further details and the full program, please visit the AHEA website: https://ahea.net/conferences/2026-cleveland-state-university/conference-theme-and-sponsors.

I am deliberately waiting until Monday to write these lines because it started raining in the neighboring country on Sunday after a very long, dry season. Most people expected river levels to rise, and that is exactly what happened. The river began to rise, and with it came the hope that the flood would bring […]

Only on the absolutely unavoidable. And even that, without focus. And yet, focus is exactly what would be needed. There’s the pile: unmarked tests, assignments to grade, a life to be lived—everything waiting patiently. Time will sort it out, in theory — but maybe I’ve been misreading time. You can focus in the noise, they […]

Shared silence. Erzsébet Fanni Tóth will give a lecture in Hungarian College for Advanced Studies in Bratislava. More information on Facebook: “In connection with the Memorial Day of Deportees, we are preparing an event together with mi/y: párhuzamos buborékok//paralelné bubliny, one that builds on the historical legacy and politics of memory of collective guilt – […]

Erika Vályi Horváth, literary translator, co-founder of Abacus+ Publishing, and literature therapist This week I am working on two projects that approach their subject from different directions, yet ultimately converge on the same question, how a text can open itself to new spaces and new reading experiences. One of them is the Hungarian edition of […]

Rokko Juhász and Anikó Mazán have been invited to the 9th International Performance Art Festival “Between Cloud and Rain,” taking place from March 21–27, 2026, in Dehradun, India, at the foothills of the Himalayas. This year’s central theme, “Ecological Echo,” explores the relationship between ecological aesthetics and art in an international context. In addition to […]

Magdalena Roguska-Németh will give a lecture on the first Hungarian female humanists on April 1, 2026, at a conference held at Sorbonne University. Detailed program:

Call for papers: Expanding Horizons: Krasznahorkai and World Literature:

Zoltán Csehy‘s poems can be read in the anthology Áthajlás – Enjambment (Helikon, 2026), translated by Joe Váradi, which offers a selection of contemporary Hungarian poetry in English. Photos: Joe Váradi’s Facebook page.

Works by the members of Bázis Erika Szőke, Richard Aradský, and Csilla Nagy on display at the contemporary Slovakian art exhibition BLŠÁK. Date: Saturday, January 31, 2026, 6:00 p.m. Location: Dom umenia – House of Arts, 2nd floor of the NOC building, Nám. SNP 12, Bratislava. The exhibition can be viewed until February 8, 2026. […]

Now it is my turn to receive the question from the Bazis: What will you work on next week? And I cannot answer it. I cannot interpret the question at all. At least I cannot apply it to myself in any part. Work? I haven’t had a job in decades — I mean no ordinary […]

Mónika Dánél’s study, Chapter 9 Poetical and Institutional Nomadism: Figures of In-betweenness in the Hungarian Neo-Avant-Garde, has been published in the Brill volume A Hundred Years of Avant-Gardes. For more information: https://brill.com/display/title/71958.