Konferencia | Inquiries 2024

​​​​​​14th June, 2024.

8.30 to 9.30
Plenary
Tamás Bényei
Chair: Péter P. Müller

10.00 to 11.30
British and American Fiction
Chair: Gabriella Hartvig

• Özlem Demirel
  The Sensational Double: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Methodological Challenges in the Study of Neo-Victorian Sensation Fiction
• Elizabeta Šimunić
  The Weird Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer
• Réka Boglárka Simon
  From Horror to Empathy: The Changing Face of Vampires in Literature

11.30 to 13.00 Lunch

13.00 to 14.30
Theatre, Poetry, Television
Chair: Csaba Maczelka

• Benadett M. László
  Difficulties in research of the Hungarian Television’s propaganda during the 1960’s
• Laura Mike
  Collective Trauma in Early Modern English Revenge Tragedy
• Buschné Káldy Sára
  Psalm Culture in Modernity

14.30 to 15.00 Coffee Break

15.00 to 16.30
History and Politics
Chair: Bencze Kvéder

• Zoltán Vajda
  Innovative Persuasions: Tradition as Context in a Case Study of Antebellum US Southern Political Thought
• Olga Kajtár-Pinjung
  At the Intersection of Life Writing and Legislation: Guantánamo Bay

18.00 Reception at Café Paulus
 

15th June, 2024.

8.30 to 9.30
Plenary
Zoltán Z. Varga
Chair:  László Sári B.

10.00 to 11.00
Hungarian Literature & Culture
Chair: László Sári B.

• Gabriella Gaál
  The city as memory in the light of the 1989 regime change in contemporary female Polish and Hungarian novels
• Ádám László Kiss
  An Abundance of Sources, a Limited Accessibility: Jules Verne in Hungary, 1948-1989

11.00 to 12.30 Lunch

12.30 to 14.00
Approaches to Media
Chair: Gabriella Vöő

• Nóra Sediánszky
  The Courtesan Theatre of Veronica Franco
• Andi Febriana
  Fanfiction and Classic Literature: Reinterpretation into the new forms
• Cynthia Kálmánova
  The Origins of Dark Academia

14.00 to 14.30 Coffee break

14.30 to 15.00
Theoretical Issues
Chair: Norbert Gyuris

• Arthur Muhia
  Moving the Centre for Ontological Turn in Transnational Literary Studies
• Yamina Haifan
  Methodological Insights in Exploring Identity and Representation in African American Literature