INVITATION

Herewith I invite You to participate (and deliver a lecture) at the 27th Finnish-Hungarian Semiotic Symposium „Food and Eating Semiotics” in Budapest, which will be held on 31st October (Monday) at the Department of Folklore (address as above, room „földszint 26” – ground floor to the left from the entrance) from 10 A.M. until 4 P.M. (lunch included) papers (30 minutes each).

Henri BROMS: Remarks on Hungarian Food in Hungarian literature
Altti KUUSAMO: The matrix of cafés: al banco a tutta la Roma – the survival of Roman 20th century cafféterias
Hannu RIIKONEN: Oskar Levin’s Party at Porvoo
Géza BALÁZS: A well known Hungaricum: pálinka (with pictures)
Mihály HOPPÁL: Food code in the Hungarian peasant weddig (including video presentation of an ethnographic film)
Győző ZSIGMOND (Bucuresti): Semiotics of Mushrooms in food habits 1st November (Tuesday)

Morning: excursion, cultural program, including a round-table discussion:

Further tasks in food and eating semiotics —  lead by Vilmos VOIGT)

Evening : reception
for the participants of the Russian-Hungarian Symposium on Food organized by the MTA Néprajzi Kutatóintézet + Ethnographic Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (between 2nd and 4th November 2005 in Budapest (at the Ethnographic Research Institute: Budapest I. Országház utca 30).

Our symposium participants are cordially invited to the reception.

Thus: two full days in Budapest, from morning to evening.
All participants cover their own expenses.

5th September 2005

Vilmos Voigt
president
Hungarian Association for Semiotic Studies