08.07.2015
Buenos Aires 4.
I started the day the Argentinean Council of International Affairs (CARI), where we had a meeting together with the Hungarian ambassador and the academic director of the Council. Nearly all Hungarian foreign ministers (after the democratic transition) hold lectures here and their pictures are all in the "hall of fame" of the Council. I will suggest to make something similar back at home. :-)
After the meeting I went to the MALBA (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires) with my Hungarian friend, Anita. The permanent exhibition was all right, but even more interesting was the temporal exhibition of the early works of Rogelio Polesello, who said that he was inspired by the art of Victor Vasarely. Then we walked through the district of Palermo, which is the home of the Argentinean high class and the fanciest foreign ambassadors. From there we finished our walk at the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), where I had a meeting with a Jean Monet professor and his colleague, Alejandro. I am sometimes complaining about the poor infrastructure of Corvinus. Now I will do it less... In the UBA just the heads of departments have offices, which they share with the secretary. The rest of the professors don't have any infrastructure. They prepare for the classes at home, there is a club (common salon) for the colleagues where they can sit and have a rest between classes. In the classrooms the students have wooden banks made during the "colonels dictatorship" (1975-1984), surely much older than me and there is one flip-chart per room. Forget about ppt or prezi... It was a bit shocking for me...
After we went to have a coffee and a "medialuna" with Alejandro, which sounds very exotic but it is a small croissant. :-) It was an other good day.