ABSTRACTS

Árpád FuruArchitectural Heritage, Value

Protection, and Community Buil-ding in RimeteaKeywords: Hungarian culture, Rime-tea, built heritage, community buildingThe cultural value and natural beau-ty of Rimetea establishes the town asan outstanding place among the sett-lements of Transylvania. Surroundedby high rocky peaks, the village islocated in one of the narrow valleysthat are parallel with the course of theArieº river. The development of ironmining and manufacture determinedthe history of the valley between thelate 14th century and the late 19th

century. The settlement was conside-rably rebuilt after the devastation bythe fire in 1870. The representative,classicist or eclectic ornamented,white buildings form the most un-spoiled vernacular site of the region.The richness of this architecture,rough iron locks, door handles, win-dow grids, painted traditional furni-ture, local embroidery, and colourfulfolk costumes reflects the flourishingperiod of Rimetea, that was reachedby the second half of the 19th century.A few well preserved 18th-centuryminers’ houses and early and late 19th-century rural buildings also carrysignificant architectural value. Inorder to maintain the architecturalheritage of Rimetea, the TransylvaniaTrust launched a conservation projectin 1996, founded by the Budapest 5th

District Municipality. As a result, a

large number of historic buildingshave already been restored.

Csilla HegedüsSince One Thousand Years in

Transylvania, and One HundredYears in Romania: What the Tran-sylvanian Hungarian CommunityHas Put on the Table Keywords: value collection, Kriza Já-nos Ethnographic Society, Value Col-lection of the Székely LandValue collection can only become anauthentic movement if it transcendsthe online medium, and not onlycollects values on a webpage, but alsoorganizes offline movements. Therehave been several such movementssince the beginnings: the Kriza JánosEthnographic Society has organizeda conference and an exhibition thatoffered the possibility to get to knowthe criteria according to whichvalues can be selected. Additionally,they also visited several localities,encouraging the locals to establishtheir own, local value collections.Following this work and example,the Value Collection of the SzékelyLand was established in the summerof 2016. In this case, the goal was tocollaboratively collect the valueswhich make this region special. Thisis how values from the category of“health and lifestyle” have come tobe included into the TransylvanianValues’ Collection: the complex reha-bilitation system employed in the Dr.Benedek Géza Cardiovascular Reha-bilitation Hospital from CovasnaCounty.

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Imola HenningGarden Artworks: In the Light of

Claude Monet's and Sándor Ziffer'sOeuvreKeywords: Claude Monet, Sándor Zif-fer, Giverny, flowers, landscape, plein-airTwo painters and the fate of twogardens – Monet and Ziffer’s oeuvreare embedded in their historical andgeographic context, and indepen-dently of their social status, are un-repeatable. The love of nature, theinspirational power and the interac-tion with nature is their commonfeature. While Monet first experimen-ted and created, physically as well,his inspirational environment atGiverny, Ziffer worked on the intel-lectual field: from his physically mo-dest garden, he created an artisticenvironment on the canvas. While inMonet’s garden, the spectacle of therich flower species contributes to thebest impressionist painting, Ziffer’sgarden puts the master’s imaginationto the test. In both cases, in differentways, they subordinated their art tothe landscape. Although the presen-tation of the two painters was ratherdifferent, there were common impul-sive forces to create their works: theimpulses generated by the force of theplein-air’s spirit and the desire to for-mulate the unvarnished emotion. Inboth cases, the end result is a richoeuvre and two gardens. One of them islucky, and the other one less fortunate.

Magor KádárThe Szent László Heritage Route

Keywords: cultural branding, brandingresearch methodology, Szent LászlóHeritage Route, heritage elementsThe study presents the backgroundresearch and evaluation methodsused for data gathering in the pro-

cess of creating the Szent Lászlócultural heritage route. In order toidentify and describe the culturalbranding elements – locations, builtheritage sites, legend-connected sites,natural values –, both primary andsecondary researches were perfor-med, such as monographic/data col-lection and analysis, online mediaanalysis for the regions and settle-ments, online visual representationanalysis, structured and in-depthinterviews and visual documenta-tion of heritage elements.

Éva NagyThe American Hungarian Educa-

tors Association and the HungarianStudies Association of CanadaKeywords: interdisciplinarity, confe-rence, Toronto, Ryerson University,Hungarian cultureThe 47th edition of the InternationalConference in Toronto was held atthe end of May 2017 at RyersonUniversity. Interdisciplinary topicswere presented, such as: Hungarianculture, literature, linguistics, histo-ry, art, music and ethnography. Thevarieties of presentations followingthe above-mentioned topics caughteveryone’s attention by being veryengaging and beautifully accom-panied by video and slide shows.The 50 speakers were from Canada,United States of America, Australiaand Europe. The Hungarians livingoverseas emphasized topics likeimmigration, Hungarian teachingprograms in universities, Hungarianartists in America and Canada, Hun-garian culture and the diplomacy inAmerica and Canada, etc. From Ro-mania, in addition to myself, therewere two other speakers from Clujand Bucharest.

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