2013

A young scholar and a journalist. Holds BA in Media an Communication Studies with Journalism specialization, currently researching the public discourse on Holocaust in post-WWII Hungary for her master degree in Media Research at Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest. From this September Eszter will focus on Nationalism Studies at Central European University. Besides her academic activities Eszter is a permanent guest author of hvg.hu (the online edition of HVG weekly) writing mostly about civil society, the social welfare system and covering topics related to unprivileged groups of society.

Expert in cultural studies, publisher (Ha!art publishing house), editor, and lecturer at the Chair of Contemporary Culture of the Faculty of Culture at the Jagiellonian University, the Polish National Film, Television and Theater School (PWSFTviT) in Łódź and the Kraków School of Screenplay. His interests include Polish literature after 1989, independent culture, new media literature, film adaptations, and screenwriting. He recently edited the book “Hiperteksty literackie. Literatura nowych mediów” (“Literary Hypertexts.

Graduated from the University of Economic Sciences in Budapest, he studied for a doctorate at the Institute of World Economy in Budapest and obtained his Ph.D. in the field of international integration processes from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Since 1979 has held various posts at Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including diplomatic posts in Berlin and Budapest. Has been the Polish National Coordinator for Visegrad Cooperation since 2010. He specializes in regional and transfrontier cooperation.