Pázmány Day 2024

At the ceremony, one of the university's distinguished professors delivers a lecture on their own research area every year.

The Pázmány Day Lecture will be by Miklós Király, professor at the Faculty of Law of ELTE, head of the Department of Private International Law and European Economic Law, who will share his thoughts with the university community on Comparative Law and Artificial Intelligence. The prelector of the lecture was awarded the University's Jubilee Silver Memorial Medal.

Following the lecture, the ”Doctor et Professor Honoris Causa” awards will be handed out. The university awards this title to scholars of great influence who generally have had fruitful relationships with ELTE for several decades.

Our New Honorary Doctors

• Bernhard Eitel, geographer, professor at Heidelberg University,
• Svend Hansen, archaeologist, professor at Freie Universität Berlin,
• Zoltán Ivics, biologist, research professor at the Paul Ehrlich Institute in Langen,
• Kristie Long Foley, public health researcher, professor at Wake Forest University in the United States, and
• Jeremy Webber, constitutional law scholar, professor at the University of Victoria in Canada.

You can read about the work of the university's honorary doctors on the following link.

Honorary Doctorate Lectures:

Bernhard Eitel

Svend Hansen

Zoltán Ivics

Kristie Long Foley

Jeremy Webber

The Choir of the Institute of Arts Communication and Music at the ELTE Faculty of Humanities will perform at the event.Conductor: Ákos Erdős, Habil. Associate Professor

Concert and dance performance

First part

• M. J. Vicenç: Pasodoble Nr.3., Op. 81.
• Leó Weiner: Fox Dance
• G. Rossini: Carnevale di Venezia
• K. Jenkins: Exsultate, jubilate
• J. Mäntyjärvi: El Hambo
• Tamás Daróci Bárdos: Carnival Revelry (excerpt)

Performing: ELTE Béla Bartók Choir and University Orchestra

Conductor: László Kovács, Liszt Prize winner, distinguished artist

Second part

• Clear Source (Romanian and Hungarian Dances from Kalotaszeg)
• Dance of Magyarbőd
• Dances of Magyarózd

Performing: ELTE Folk Dance Group

Art Director: Melinda Szokolik and Szabolcs Szokolik

Please indicate your intention to participate in the event registration interface by May 6, 2024.