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The Confucius Institute of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Debrecen (DE) will hold the traditional Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival on Saturday, 14 September. This time, Chinese students and lecturers of the institution will present a colorful program of music and dance in connection with the Panda Days of the Nagyerdei Cultural Park.

The teaching of the Japanese language was the primary focus of an international Japanese language conference hosted for the first time by the University of Debrecen (UD) on August 26 and 27. The conference, which was organized by the Foreign Language Center of the Faculty of Humanities (FoH), was attended by participants from as many as ten different countries.

Researchers affiliated with universities in countries like the United States, Belgium, Cuba, Poland, San Marino and Hungary gave papers on the background and global impact of the 1924 US Immigration Act as well as on key issues of migration at the University of Debrecen (UD). The international “hybrid” conference, titled Johnson-Reed 100 Years Later, was organized on August 22 and 23 by the Institute of English and American Studies of the Faculty of Humanities (FoH) at UD in cooperation with the American Hungarian Educators Association.