Conference Participants

Zoltan Feher ’02, an alumnus of Bard’s Kellner Scholarship program, studied international relations with James Chace and music with Richard Teitelbaum in 2001–02. He has worked at the Embassy of Hungary in Washington since 2005, initially in political and security affairs. In 2006, Feher was appointed the Embassy’s Chief Creative Officer, responsible for press, media, public relations, and special events. He was instrumental in designing and organizing the series of commemorative events for the 50th Anniversary of the 1956 Revolution in Washington D.C. in Fall 2006. Feher attended Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest in 1996 – 2001, graduating with an MA in American Studies and an MA in Political Theory in 2002. He studied law at the University of Miskolc and at the Catholic University of Hungary, graduating with a JD in 2004. In 2002, he joined the Hungarian foreign serviceand worked in the Foreign Ministry’s office

of United Nations affairs until 2005, and has been a guestlecturer in Political Science and International Relations at Eötvös Loránd University and King Sigismund College, Budapest, between 2002 and 2005. He is a founder and activist of several nonprofit organization and is president emeritus of Federation of Regions – Association of Young Intellectuals. Feher has published in scholarly journals, including the Bard Journal of Social Sciences; his study on George Kennan, the designer of U.S. Cold War foreign policy, is to appear in spring 2007 in a collection of studies edited by Professor Tibor Frank.

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