Christopher Adam

News/Hírek

2011 november 4:Cikket írtam az Élet és Irodalom című hetilapnak--"A párt, az egyház és az emigráció"
2011 áprilisában a Galamus G-7 című rovatának voltam a vendégszerzője. Öt cikkem jelent meg a portálon: Alkotmány és polgári engedetlenség, Sokszínű nemzetépités, Bűn és bünhődés, A pártállam hosszú árnyéka és Jézus sírt.
2011 április 4-én a Népszabadságban jelent meg az Irathiány átka című írásom.
2011 március 18: Az Élet és Irodalom publikálta a Világ lát, hall tiltakozik, Magyarország hallgat című összeállításomat, melyet Kenedi Jánossal együtt készítettem.
March 18, 2011: Moving Image Archive News publishes a lengthy piece on my state security archives campaign.
March 4, 2011: The Associated Press (AP) published a lengthy report on my campaign against Hungarian government Resolution 1283/2010, which would have led to the destruction of the country's state security archives.
March 4, 2011: Centretown News published an article entitled Online Centretown Petition has International Impact on my campaign to save Hungarian state security documents.
February 28, 2011: The Economist's Eastern European blog published on a piece on my campaign to save the Historical Archives of Hungarian State Security.
2011 február 25-én az Élet és Irodalom Egy tiltakozás utóélete címen közölt tudosítást az állambiztonsági levéltári iratok megőrzéséért indított kampányomról.
2011 január 21-én készült interjú velem a Klubrádióban.
January 13, 2011: My article, entitled Hungary erases the past and whitewashes the future appeared in the National Post.

Previous news items

The Toronto Star interviewed me for a piece on Hungary's 2010 parliamentary elections

Borsai Gábor: Családunk kapcsolatai az erdélyi magyar írókkal és általában az erdélyi magyar irodalmi és művészeti élettel, 1920-1940

Christopher Adam: Az Ádám és Borsai család az 1920-as/ 1930-as években

Borsai Endre: Péter emlékére

Over two dozen photo albums have been uploaded to the gallery section of this site, focusing on my travels over the past three years.
A book I edited, entitled The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: Hungarian and Canadian Perspectives and published by the University of Ottawa press is available for order through the Amazon website.

Conference Papers & Speeches

Opening remarks at the reconsecration of the Kapuskasing Internee Cemetery, October 13, 2011

"Hungary's endangered state security archives," Hungarian Media and Archives Policies Today: Big Controversies in a Small Country, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ), April 20, 2011

"The end of the Hungarian Canadian communist movement," Hungarian Studies Association of Canada (HSAC), Concordia University (Montreal), May 29-30, 2010

"The Language of Repression – The Hungarian Communist Press and the Suppression of the Catholic Church of Hungary," Persecution of Churches in the Communist Countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Bratislava, October 1, 2009

"The Activities of Hungarian State Security in Canada, 1956-1989," Hungarian Studies Association of Canada (HSAC), Carleton University (Ottawa), May 23, 2009

"The Hungarian-Canadian émigré press, the political immigration and conflict with Hungary, 1956-1989," Secret weapon or victims of the Cold War? Central and Eastern European Émigrés, Lublin, November 13, 2008

“Eyes across the Atlantic—Hungary’s State Security and Canada’s Hungarians, 1956 – 1989.” International Conference on NKVD/KGB Activities and its Cooperation with other Secret Services in Central and Eastern Europe 1945 – 1989 (SUZA, Bratislava, November 15, 2007)

"Cold War Politics and the Hungarian Canadian Press, 1956-1989," Canadian Ethnic Studies Association (CESA), 19th Biennial Conference, Winnipeg, September 28, 2007.

"Dans l’ombre de la révolution hongroise--Vers la démocratie et la société libre," Les Belles Soirées et Matinées, Université de Montréal (Montreal and Laval Campuses), October 19, 2006.

"Changing Times: The Canadian Hungarian Worker and the 1956 Revolution," The 1956 Revolution 50 Years Later—Canadian and International Perspectives, Institute of Canadian Studies – University of Ottawa, October 14, 2006 .

"Canada’s Churches and the Reception and Integration of Hungarian Refugees, 1956-57.” Hungarian Studies Association of Canada (HSAC) , York University (Toronto) Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, May 2006 .

"’Not an Unmixed Evil’—the Eisenhower Administration and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution." Pierre Savard Graduate Student Colloquium / Le Colloque Pierre-Savard des Étudiants Diplômés , Department of History - University of Ottawa , April 2006 .

"Hungary's Cultural Struggle: Church, Youth and the New Order-- 1946." Hungarian Studies Association of Canada (HSAC) , University of Western Ontario (London, ON.) , Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences , May 2005 .

"The Apologetics of the Accused: Fascism and the Catholic Church of Hungary, 1945-1949." Hungarian Studies Association of Canada (HSAC) , University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, MB.) Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, May 2004.