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Viktor Pal
MA, Doctoral Candidate, Researcher

viktor.pal@uta.fi    Tel.: + 358-40-71-55-261   

Downloadable CV, May 2008

Finnish info at the University of Tampere


Activities in 2008

In 2008 I focus primarily on the wiritng and finalization task of my disseration on the environmental history of CEE during state-socialism. 

Publications in 2008: 

Helsingin Sanomat, 01.04.2008. "Unkari tarvitsee kipeästi uudistuksia"

SIRP Eesti Kultuurileht, 04.04.2008. "Ungarlased ja töötusmaastikud"

Conference organization: 

LOC member: XXIII International Congress of History of Sciences and Technology 

26-31 July 2009, Budapest, Hungary. 

Public lectures in 2008: 

17.01.2008. Hermann Ottó Museum, Main Building. "The Environmental History of the valley of the River Sajó".

Environmental activism:

Lobbying for bike paths and sustainable traffic patterns in Miskolc, Northern Hungary in cooperation with the Ecological Institute in Miskolc.


Activities in the past:

Lecturing: 

University of Helsinki, Finland

The Environmental history of Central and Eastern Europe (2006 Fall, University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Insitute) 

Course outline: here

Lectures and talks: 

UCLA Institute for the Environment, Los Angeles, CA, USA23.04.2007.

Environmental hot spots in Central and Eastern Europe under socialism (working title)

Aktivismi ja ympäristö Itä-Euroopassa (University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute, 14.09.2006; part of the "Järjestelmän vastustamisen muodot itäblokissa" course.
Lecture abstract: here

Ember és környezet a szocializmusban (Herman Otto Museum, Miskolc, 11.10.2006)
Lecture abstract: here


Online texts:

English:

1st Tensions of Europe Summer School report

The Politicisation of the River Danube after 1945

Dead River Cities. Water and society in Hungary in 1950s—1970

Sewage Treatment and Pollution in the Carpathian Basin

Industrial development and water control in Northern Hungary, 1945-2003,

River Runs RedUrbanization, industrial development and water control in the Sajó river valley, Northern Hungary, 1945-2003” 

How to define a topic in case of water history?

Finnish:

Integroitumista soppakulhon äärellä.

Kielen opettamisen kultaiset keinot.

Suomi – paratiisi hyvän viinin ystävälle 

Hungarian:

A változás nem az urnáknál kezdődik Index.hu

Nyugaton még a kampány is tisztább? FigyeloNet 

„A tamperei Finlayson gyárterület,”  Észak-magyarországi kulturális és műemléki hírlevél.

"Hol tart ma a magyar bölcsészet?"  Szemeszter,

"Görbe tükör",  Népszabadság

A finn oktatásról.  Szemeszter.


Other:

Travelogues: 

Szálló egy stockholmi börtönben FigyeloNet

Kolozsvári manele és Dacia-hangulat FigyeloNet 

Brit sznobság és skót motorolaj 

A 66-os úton

Music:

Music Video: http://katdam.hu/irmedia/videoklip/point.mpg

Gigs and albums with my death metal band since 1996. http://www.varso.org/

One of the main roles of Royal Flush, an award winning short in 2004. www.irmedia.hu/royalflush/

Columns:

Columnist 2000-2004, Mert, the official weekly of the University of Miskolc, Hungary. I have written over a hundred reviews and columns for them.. You can find all my articles in their database. http://www.mertnet.net/


Links:

Csaba Fazekas’s website   

Department of Modern and Contemporary Hungarian History at the University of Miskolc  

University of Miskolc

The City of Miskolc     

Hungarian Highlands                

Hungary


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