Curriculum Vitae
Date and place of birth: December 9, 1957, Budapest Nationality: Hungarian Languages: Hungarian (native), English and German, little French Education: - Ph. D., Corvinus University of Budapest, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, 2004;
- Central European University, Department of Political Science, Budapest, 1994-95, and Karl Marx University of Economic Sciences, Budapest, 1977-81
Fields of interest: political parties, media and politics, decision-making in the European Union
Present activities:
- chairman of the Hungarian Europe Society; - lecturer at the Budapest International Managements Semester of the École Supérieure des Sciences Commerciales d’Angers (ESSCA); - member of Team Europe Hungary Former activities: - lecturer at the Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences – University of California Education Abroad Program 2006-2009; - lecturer at the Budapest Institute of Graduate International Studies (BIGIS) of the Budapest Corvinus University, 1995-2005; - lecturer at János Kodolányi College University, Department of Communication, Székesfehérvár, 1995-2002; - member of the Advisory Ownership Board of the Hungarian News Agency (MTI), 1997-2001; - advisor to the Hungarian Soros Foundation on European Union affairs, 2000; - visiting scholar at the Institute on East and Central Europe, Columbia University, New York City, 1998; - advisor to the Central European University on European affairs, Budapest, 1995-97; - research fellow at the Hungarian Institute of International Relations, 1996; - lecturer at the Loránd Eötvös University Loránd, Department of Media Studies, Budapest, 1995; - member of the Hungarian Parliament, 1990-94 (member of the Committee on European Community Affairs, 1993-94, vice-chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, 1990-93); - participant at the Hungarian political negotiations about the democratic transition (delegated by the Opposition Roundtable, especially to the media committee), 1989; - research fellow at the Institute of Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1986-90; - journalist at the economic-political weekly HVG, 1985 Publications and presentations in English and German: - Media Representations of EU Matters in National Media Systems – The Hungarian Case. In: Karol Jakubowicz - Miklós Sükösd (eds.): Integrating Europe: Media, Nationalism, and European Identities, CEU Press, Budapest, 2010 (forthcoming); - EU Membership of a Relatively New Member State: the Hungarian Case. Presentation on the Summer Seminar for Young Leaders of the Western Balkans organised by the International Centre for Democratic Transition at the King Sigismund College, Budapest on 26 July 2010; - Euroscepticism, Europessimism Twenty Years After the Regime-Changes. Presentation at the conference “Inclusion completed, adaptation successful? - What divides new and old members in the European Union, 6 years on?” organised by the CEU Center for EU Enlargement Studies and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation at the Central European University on 14 May 2010; - EU Enlargements in Historical Perspective. Lecture on skype for the graduate students at the Center for Global Affairs, New York University, 26 March 2010;
- Twenty Years After the Regime-Change. Presentation at the seminar of the German Marshall Fund Paris Office and the Institute of European Democrats entitled „Divided Europe: 20 Years After. Lessons for Tomorrow?” in the Maison de l’Amerique Latine, Paris on 18 December 2009; - Hungary's and the Hungarians' Relationship to the European Union. Presentation at the meeting of Deputy Heads of Mission at the Embassy of Sweden to Hungary on 28 October 2009; - Hungary: Twenty Years after the Regime-Change, Five Years after EU Accession. Public lecture at the Center for European Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville on 9 September 2009; - Twenty Years of Political Polarisation and Partisanship - How Hungary Fits Into Models of Media Systems. Presentation at the conference entitled Beyond East and West - Two Decades of Media Transformation After the Fall of Communism organised by the CEU Center for Media and Communication Studies and the International Communication Association at the Central European University, Budapest, 25-27 June 2009; - Wer war wer in der Ungarischen Volksrepublik? Schwierigkeiten der Erinnerung an den Systemwechsel Presentation at the panel discussion entitled Der Wendeprozess oder der lange Weg zur Freiheit in the auditoriun of the University Justus-Liebig, Gießen on 18 June 2009; - Becoming a Hungarian-European. Presentation for the members of the UN Model - International Section at the Corvinus University Budapest, 29 April 2009; - The Reform Treaty and the Civil Society. Presentation at the conference „Reforming EU” of the European Movement Greece on 5-6 April 2009, Zappeion Megaro, Athens; - Gloomy Celebrations, Transitions Online, 9 March 2009, http://www.tol.cz/look/TOL/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&NrIssue=312&NrSection=2&NrArticle=20435; - Europeanisation of the Hungarian News Media – An Ever-lasting Process? Presentation at the conference “Europeanization of National Politics” of the Central European Political Science Association, Opatija, 4 October 2008; - European identity in Hungary. Presentation at the LoveDifference Festival, London, 7 September 2008;
- Censorship in Hungary at the End of the Kádár Era. Presentation at the conference of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London entitled Censorship as a Creative Force? Central Europe 1944-1989, London, 25 April 2008; - The Political Context of the Transition to Democracy in Hungary. Presentation at the conference entitled Transitions to Democracy in Eastern Europe and Africa: Implications for the Middle East and North Africa organised by the International Centre for Democratic Transition, Budapest, 19 October 2007; - Three Years after the First European Elections in Hungary. Presentation at the conference "Persuading Romanians to Vote at the European Election" at the House of Representatives, Bucharest, 26 September 2007; - On the Democratisation and the Freedom of the Media in Hungary. Presentation on the invitation of the CEU Center for Media and Communication Studies for students coming from Amsterdam University at the Central European University, Budapest on 18 July, 2007; - Soft Euroscepticism or Lack of Enthusiasm about the EU in Hungary? Presentation at the postgraduate conference entitled Life in Motion; Shifting Spaces, Transcending Times, Crossing Borders at Masaryk University, Brno, 29 June, 2007; - About the European Union and Hungary. Presentation for the General Electric Human Resources Leadership Program at Hotel Hilton, Budapest on 7 May, 2007; - Media and Politics in Hungary. Presentation at the conference "Comparing Media Systems - West Meets East" organised by Wroclaw University at Kliczkow Castle on 24 April 2007; - On 1956 and the Events Fifty Years Later in Hungary. Presentation for students arriving from Rome in the Empirió Bar, Budapest, 30 March, 2007; - European Elections and European Party Politics: Lessons Learned from the Hungarian European Campaign. Presentation at the conference entitled European Elections between Domestic and European Politics – Sharing Best Practices organised by the Centrul Roman de Studii Globale in Bucharest on 9 March 2007; - Political Life in Hungary Fifty Years After the Revolution. Presentation for the participants of the ELTE – University of California "Education Abroad Program", Budapest, on 19 October 2006; - European Governance: Challenges to Old and New Member States. Presentation at the summer school of University of Ronda (Malaga), 20 July 2006; - Media Power, Political Parties, Popular Culture and the EU Membership of Hungary. Presentation at the Postgraduate Symposium on CEE, Beyond ‘Core’ and Periphery’: Towards a New Understanding of Central Eastern Europe, The Graduate School for Social Research, IfiS, Warsaw, November 15-19, 2004; - Old Europe Versus New Europe? What Will be the Impact of the New EU Member States on the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU? Presentation at the workshop „The Common Foreign and Security Policy – What Lessons Can be Learned from the Iraq Crisis?” organised by the Cicero Foundation, Paris, 12-13 June 2003; - Hungary and the European Union: Ante Portas? Paper prepared for the international conference organised by the Department of International Relations at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 3-5 July 2002, manuscript; - Premature European Identity and "Europessimism" in the Hungarian Media. Presentation at the Internatinal Symposium on Ethnic Identities, Political Action in Post-Cold War Europe, Xanthi, Greece, August 16-19, 2001, Central European Political Science Review, Winter 2001, pp. 201-211; as well as in: Xirotiris, N. I.- Marangoudakis, M. (eds): Ethnic Identities and Political Action in Post-Cold War Europe, Volume 3, International Democritus Foundation, Greece, 2001, pp. 311-320; - Media and Politics (edited with P. Bajomi-Lázár), including the essay ‘Why do We Like the European Union?’, New Mandate Publishing House, Budapest, 2001; - Relations between State Authorities and NGOs. Presentation at a seminar organised by the Council of Europe in Tallinn, Estonia, 2-6 April 1997. In: Seminar on ’The Role of NGO-s in the Transition to a Democratic Society’, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 1997; - Costs and Benefits of Hungary's Integration into the EU. Presentation at the seminar of the Cicero Foundation, Paris, 13 June 1996. In: Marcel van Herpen (ed.): Going East – The Enlargement of the EU with the Countires of Central and Eastern Europe, Cicero Paper, 2/1996, Maastricht-Paris, pp. 53-64; - Enlargement of the European Union from a Hungarian Point of View. Presentation at the seminar of the European Movement Croatia, Selce, 20-31 August 1996. In: Ljubomir Cucic (ed.): Let's Re-think Europe, Europe House Zagreb, 1996, pp. 128-132; - FIDESZ: The struggle for political pluralism, East European Reporter, spring-summer 1989, pp. 17-20 |
