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The Joseph and Violet Magyar Lecture in Hungarian Studies: Charm, Politics and Media in Contemporary Hungary

Color image of women sitting at a table with a coffee cup in front of her.  She has shoulder length brown hair, is wearing a white blazer, and appears to be in conversation.
September 23, 2026
Julia Sonnevend in conversation with Elliot Posner and Narcisz Fejes

6 PM | Tinkham Veale University Center Ballroom C | 11038 Bellflower Road, Cleveland, OH 44106

Registration requested.  Register HERE.


About the speaker:

Julia Sonnevend is the author of Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics (Princeton University Press), Stories Without Borders: The Berlin Wall and the Making of a Global Iconic Event (Oxford University Press), and co-editor of Education and Social Media: Toward a Digital Future (MIT Press). Her work has been published in interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journals including New Media & Society; Information, Communication & Society; International Journal of Press/Politics; Media, Culture & Society and the American Journal of Cultural Sociology. She is also active in public-facing scholarship internationally; check out her recent op-ed in MS NOW. Sonnevend received her PhD in Communications from Columbia University, her Master of Laws degree fromYale Law School, and her Juris Doctorate and Master of Arts degrees in German Studies and Aesthetics from Eötvös Loránd University Budapest.
 

Click HERE to visit Julia Sonnevend's website.