Ráday Salon

Photos: Stereotyping and Discrimination Salon and McDaniel College Human Rights Forum

We had a great turnout for our 20 November Salon on Stereotyping and Discrimination.  For those of you who were unable to attend our Salon, or the Human Rights Forum at McDaniel College the following day, photos are available on our Facebook page:

Ráday Salon: Stereotyping and Discrimination photo album

McDaniel College Human Rights Forum photo album

Ráday Salon evening -- Stereotyping and Discrimination-- Thurs. Nov. 20, 7pm

For our next Ráday Salon event, happening Thursday, 20 November, we will be screening a short episode from a US news program called "What Would You Do?" The program is a series of hidden camera episodes where unsuspecting people are put into a situation involving an ethical dilemma. The episode we will be watching challenges viewers to examine how stereotypes and discrimination influence our behavior.

As we mentioned in our previous post, the day after our Salon, on Friday, 21 November, McDaniel College Budapest will be hosting a Human Rights Forum, where the theme will be “Inclusion, Mobility, and Cultural Encounters”. We hope to have many of the conference participants present at the Salon, and we encourage our Salon friends to attend the conference (click to see the conference poster and schedule with paper abstracts). Anyone may attend either event or both, but we hope that for those who do attend both events, the Salon will be an opportunity not only to discuss topics related to the conference theme, but also to meet and get to know other participants over food, drink, and friendly conversation. 

As an added treat, one of our Salon friends will be opening the evening with a little Latvian folk music, too!

Human Rights Forum -- 21 November 2014, McDaniel College Budapest

November is here, and we’ve been busy preparing for our next Salon, which we are holding in conjunction with an upcoming event to be held at the McDaniel College Budapest campus. This coming Friday, 21 November 2014, McDaniel will host a Human Rights Forum in partnership with the McDaniel College US campus and the Migrants Help Association of Hungary. The Forum is a full-day conference on human rights, migration, and multiculturalism highlighting student research papers, many focused on our immediate geographical region. The final session is a panel discussion by human rights experts on minority and migrant rights in the region as well.

For more information, we encourage you to take a look at the conference schedule and paper abstracts. It promises to be an excellent and varied event, and we hope very much to see many of you there! At the end of the day, there will also be a reception and open-mic event, where we will enjoy multi-cultural food and drink and conversation and music, which guests are invited to participate in as well! To learn more about the conference -- including interviews with presenters -- follow the Human Rights Forum page on Facebook.

Our Salon will be held the previous evening, Thursday, 20 November, so our guests will be able to meet and interact with conference presenters -- more information on the Salon will be coming to you soon, in a separate email.


For full details on the Forum, please see the conference program linked above, but in summary:

McDaniel Human Rights Forum
21 November 2014
9:00 to 16:40
McDaniel College Budapest, Bethlen Gábor tér 2
(Reception and open-mic event to be held at Bharata Kulturtér, Tivadar u. 3, 19:00 - 21:00)


PS: One extra note -- For those of you who follow us on Facebook, you will already have seen our posts about one of our favorite Budapest events, the Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, going on right now. In case you missed it, we encourage you to check out their website and see some of the films.

And don't forget to follow us on Facebook!