In Honour of Father Didák Kelemen, on the 265. Anniversary of His Death

„THERE WILL ALWAYS BE POOR PEOPLE IN THE LAND” INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POVERTY

IN HONOUR OF FATHER DIDÁK KELEMEN, ON THE 265. ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH

MISKOLC, 2009. MAY 4-5.

MAIN PATRON: PÉTER ERDŐ CARDINAL, PRIMATE ESZTERGOM-BUDAPEST ARCHBISHOP PATRONS AND SUPPORTERS OF THE EVENT:

SÁNDOR LEZSÁK VICE PRESIDENT OF THE PARLIAMENT DR. LÁSZLÓ SURJÁN VICE PRESIDENT OF KDNP, MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ZOLTÁN POKORNI MAYOR, MEMBER OF THE PARLIAMENT DR. FERENC ÓDOR PRESIDENT OF THE ASSEMBLY OF B.-A.-Z COUNTY, (PRESIDENT OF MÖSZ) DR. JUDIT CSIHA MEMBER OF THE PARLIAMENT GYÖRGY SZABÓ PRESIDENT OF THE NORTH-HUNGARIAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL DR. CSABA TERNYÁK ARCHBISHOP DR. FÜLÖP KOCSIS GREEK CATHOLIC BISHOP JÓZSEF CSOMÓS REFORMED BISHOP IMRE SZEBIK RETIRED EVANGELIC BISHOP ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF HUNGARIAN CHURCHES, PRESIDENT DR. JÁNOS BOLYKI REFORMED PROFESSOR OF TEOLOGY, HONORARY DOCTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISKOLC KÁLMÁN MÉSZÁROS PRESIDENT OF THE HUNGARIAN BAPTIST CHURCH ISTVÁN CSERNÁK HUNGARIAN METHODIST CHURCH, SUPERINTENDENT

”MLTSGOS HÁZHOZ TARTOZANDÓ ÚRI COMPÁNIÁJÁVAL NAGYSÁGODAT ALÁZATOSAN INVITÁLOM, S KÉREM IS, HOGY AZON SZ. NAPOT […] NAGYOBB ÁJTATOSSÁGNAK OKÁÉRT MAGA MLTSGOS PRAESENTIÁJÁVAL CONDECORÁLNI MÉLTÓZTASSÉK.” (FR. DIDACUS KELEMEN)

PLACE OF THE CONFERENCE: MTA REGIONAL COMMITTEE OF MISKOLC, SALOON (MISKOLC, 3. ERZSÉBET PLACE)

ORGANIZERS: UNIVERSITY OF MISKOLC, INSTITUTE OF SOCIOLOGY MTA REGIONAL COMMITTEE IN MISKOLC, COMMITTEE OF SOCIAL THEORY, BOARD OF SOCIOLOGY GREY FRIARS (OFM, OFM. CONV.) PONTIFICIAL MISSIONARY SOCIETIES

CURATOR OF THE CONFERENCE: MARIANNE DOBOS

ACCESSIBILITY: 06 70 506-8802 06 20 980-6243

[email protected] [email protected] PROGRAM OF THE CONFERENCE

MONDAY, MAY 4. 2009.

9 30-10 20 – Opening address of the patrons

10 20-13 00 – Section I. Chair: Kinga Szabó-Tóth (ME head of institute, associate professor) Gabriella Vukovich (DEMO-STAT Social-scientific, Demographic, Statistical Professional Agency, director) Who are the poor and how large is their population according to statistical data? Lajos Besenyei (ME professor, rector emeritus) Poverty as a global problem

1120-1140 Coffee break

Éva Gyulai (ME head of institute, associate professor) The poor and most poor on Miskolc at the end of the Middle Ages and the early Modern Age (Data on the question of oppidal cotters and hospitals) Zita Horváth (ME assistant professor) Peasantry – poverty? Zsombor Bódy (ME assistant professor) The institution of social security in the grip of social tensions, economic constraints and political aspects. Social security during the Great Depression of 1929-1933

Discussion 13 00-1345 Lunch

13 45-16 00 – Section II. Chair: Lajos Besenyei (ME professor, rector emeritus) Ágnes Utasi (SZTE professor) Social solidarity and poverty Márta Pankucsi (ME associate professor) The hopelessness and hopes of the poor Kinga Szabó-Tóth (ME head of institution, associate professor) Opportunities of breaking out from poverty Béla Janky (BME associate professor) The minority-majority conflict and the transformation of the social system: North- American observations

Discussion

1520-1540 Coffee break

15 40-17 30 – Section III. Chair: Lajos Besenyei (ME professor, rector emeritus) Helga Mihályi (ME assistant professor) Tendencies of poverty in the past 20 years in B.-A.-Z. - county Krisztina Jász (MTA, RKK, research fellow) The problem of social exclusion from the vievpoint of a regional researcher Éva G. Fekete (ME associate professor) Opportunities in the development of small-village areas Gusztáv Nemes (MTA, KTI, research fellow) „The first step is the hardest”- social economy, self-organization, rural development and rural poverty György Gyukits (ME assistant professor) Healthcare development in the slums Discussion

1830 Taeizé prayer at the grave of Didák Kelemen 19 00 Reception at the Minorita Church

TUESDAY, MAY 5. 2009.

9 30-13 00 – Section I. Chair: Nándor Bosák (bishop) Dr. Károly Csókay SJ Who brightens our lives The contemporary Hurtado Saint Albert. Lacatuşu Stefan (Ofm.Conv.) God reveals himself in poverty András Székely (SOTE, Insitute of Behavioural Studies) The role of religion and family in preserving our health and the quality of life

1030-10 50 Coffee break

P. Dr. Avin Kunnekkadan (SVD friar, doctor of Indian religion and philosophy) Evangelisation and helping the downtrodden in Hungary P. Sebastian Madassery Svd (head of the Pontificial Missionary Societies) European christianity from an Indian perspective Gábor Máthé (KRE professor) Poverty –social administration in civil Hungary Ágnes Tóth (social-politician) Dreams and reality in Hungarian soical politics between the two world wars Marianne Dobos The wholly broken alabaster box Discussion 13 00-1345 Lunch

13 45-15 30 – Section II. Chair: Fülöp Kocsis (bishop) Sheik Dr. Abdel Rahman Mihalffy (Founder of the Hungarian Islamic Community) Realm of the money-god Mihály Tapolyai (psichiatrist-, professor of teology) Chances of perseverance Jenő Szigeti (ME professor emeritus) What does a poor man need? The problem of poverty from Biblical and ethical perspectives. Mária Lubinszki (ME assistant professor) Strategies of solution in the case of poverty as crisis

Discussion 1530-1550 Coffee break

15 50-17 10 – Section III. Chair: Lóránt Kabdebó (ME professor emeritus) Mónika Dunai (ME PhD-student, commune representative) On the edge of the city. Poverty-politics in Rákosmente Gabriella Szirbik (ME assistant lecturer) „If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.” Péter Farkas Zárug (ME assistant professor) Freedom, poverty, democracy

Discussion Gyula Patkó, the President of the University of Miskolc and Csaba Fazekas, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Miskolc, close the Conference