New Publication Examines the Question of Academic Relevancy in Communist Hungary
1 August 2014 - Thunder Bay
Steven Jobbitt's latest publication examines the question of academic relevancy in Communist Hungary between 1948 to 1962. "Scholarly Production in Desperate Times: Ferenc Fodor and the Question of Academic Relevancy in Communist Hungary, 1948-1962" appears in Földrajz- és földtudomány az Eötvös Collegiumban (Geography and Earth Sciences at the Eötvös Collegium) edited by Róbert Győri and published by Eötvös Collegium.
Szatmár, Memories of Ferenc Fodor: Memory and Identity in ‘Szatmár Földje, Szatmár Népe, Szatmár Élete’] employs postmodern theory to examine the complex existential relationship between memory and the negotiation of identity during the early communist period in Hungary.