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SCHOOL OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES

Faculty of Humanities Eötvös Loránd University

The conference was sponsored by Trefort-kert alapítvány

12th Conference of the Hungarian Association for American Studies

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

25-26 May, 2018

Venue: Trefort-kert campus of Eötvös Loránd University

1088 Budapest, Múzeum krt. 4/A and Rákóczi út 5.

 

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25 MAY (Friday) 8:30 – REGISTRATION (Ground floor lobby, Trefort-kert entrance, Bdg R) 10:00-10:20 – OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE (Bdg R, Rm 414) 10:30-12:00 – PARALLEL SESSIONS 1 (Bdg R) 1.1 Chair: Pál Hegyi Rm 315a

1.2 Chair: Veronika Szelid Rm 356

1.3 Chair: Éva Eszter Szabó Rm 414

1.4 Chair: Vera Benczik Rm 423a

Mónika Dénes: Focusing on the maternal body: constructing female (inter)subjectivity in Toni Morrison's novels Hima Kalesh Tracing African American Childhood and its Literary Representations Dorottya Mózes: In America, You Are Black, Baby: On Vernacularity, Blackness, and Diaspora in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah (2014)

Zoltán Kövecses: Theorizing the Spread of English Metaphorical Idioms Orsolya Putz: The concept of the nation in American English Szilárd Szentgyörgyi: The RP accent as a metaphor of distance in the United States

Károly Pintér: The Cult of the Constitution as Criticism of the US: Originalism as a Form of Radicalism Áron Tábor: The construction of American exceptionalism: Countering "America First" in the 1940s

Éva Vancsó: "Trial by American Idol" - Social commentary on social media obsessed culture in The Orville Ewa Ziomek: America's Future in the TV series Black Mirror Ildikó Limpár: "What's in a Name?": Communication through Names in HBO's Westworld

12:00-13:00 – LUNCH (to be arranged individually) 13:00-14:30 – PARALLEL SESSIONS 2 (Bdg R) 2.1 Chair: Ildikó Limpár Rm 315a

2.2 Chair: Réka Cristian Rm 356

2.3 Chair: Károly Pintér Rm 414

2.4 Chair: Zoltán Vajda Rm 423a

Mónika Rusvai: The Monstrous Father in Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book András Molnár: The Subversion of the Subject-Object Relationship and the Decline of the Anthropocene in the Works of H. P. Lovecraft Miklós Korcok: George R.R. Martin´s strategy of killing characters in his fantasy saga A Song of Ice and Fire

Enikő Bollobás: Triangular Structures of Desire in American Literature Judit Kónyi: Emily Dickinson and Changing Publication Practices Ágnes Zsófia Kovács: Edit Wharton's Italian Journeys

Tibor Glant: "Packaging Difficulties": A Forgotten Országh Story from 1965 Katalin Pintz: Transnational Relations between Hungary and the Hungarian Diaspora: The Reception of Hungarian Folklore in the Eastern United States Ildikó Hortobágyi: Reading new e-voices! Negotiating Contextual and Transnational Identity in CMC Platforms related to the Americas

Zsófia Anna Tóth: The Proliferation of American Female Humorists in the 21st century Péter Csató: The President's Fool, or Don Rickles Tells It Like This Réka Fehér: American Pundits

 

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14:30-15:00 – COFFEE BREAK (3rd floor communal space, Bdg R)

15:00-15:50 HAAS ASSEMBLY (Rm 414, Bdg R)

16:00-18:00 PLENARY LECTURE (Faculty Council Hall, Building A) Chair: Enikő Bollobás

16:00-17:00 Tibor Frank Adjusting the Past: Changing Perceptions of American History 17:00-18:00 Celebrating Tibor Frank’s 70th birthday (This section of the program will be conducted in Hungarian.) Birthday greetings given by:

• Gábor Sonkoly, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University • László Borhy, Rector of Eötvös Loránd University • Lajos Vékás, Vice-President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

The Anniversary Volume will be presented by János Kenyeres (Director of the School of English and American Studies) and Tamás Magyarics (Head of the Department of American Studies) 18:00-20:00 – CONFERENCE RECEPTION (Faculty Council Hall, Building A) – free for all participants

 

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26 MAY (Saturday) 9:00-10:30 – PARALLEL SESSIONS 3 (Bdg R) 3.1 Chair: Judit Friedrich Rm 315a

3.2 Chair: Pál Hegyi Rm 356

3.3 Chair: Andrea Kökény Rm 414

3.4 Chair: Éva Eszter Szabó Rm 423a

3.5 MA Chair: Réka Fehér Rm 432

Alexis Finet: Rethinking Postcolonialism through Waberi's "realitopia," Aux Etats-Unis d'Afrique Mustafa Wshyar: Invisible Violence in Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns Eszter Enikő Mohácsi: Racial Melancholy in Korean American Literature

Vera Benczik: Virgin Warrior: The iconography of the strong female lead in contemporary SF/F films Imola Bülgözdi: Freedom-fighters of the Future: Net Neutrality in Ernest Cline's Ready Player One Orsolya Szujer: Peggy Carter and the Patriarchal Script

Éva Mathey: The Hungarian Image of the United States as "Arbiter Mundi" between the World Wars Máté Gergely Balogh: The Hungarian State Security's Perception of the American Political System Zoltán Peterecz: Hungary through the Eyes of an American Officer in 1919

Julius Rozenfeld: The Concept of a New Nation or the New Concept of a Nation Dániel Cseh: Japanese Americans and the "Power of Words:" The Redress Movement and the Language of Internment Balázs Venkovits: Fear, Restrictions, and Quotas: Changing Immigration Patterns to the USA in the Early 20th Century

Anna Török: The Problem of Personal Pronouns in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Eszter Csorba: The Impact of Media Coverage on History: Rise and Fall of Richard Nixon Gergő Téglási: Cultural Turn in the Discourse of Love: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Call Me by Your Name

10:30-11:00 – COFFEE BREAK (3rd floor communal space, Bdg R) 11:00-12:30 – PARALLEL SESSIONS 4 (Bdg R) 4.1 Chair: László Sári B. Rm 315a

4.2 Chair: Enikő Bollobás Rm 356

4.3 Chair: Imola Bülgözdi Rm 414

4.4 Chair: Zoltán Peterecz Rm 423a

Michaela Beck: Containing Plurality in the U.S. Today: 'We' Narration and the Voice of the Middle-Class in 21st Century American Novels Katalin Kállay G.: Sites and Sights of Hemingway's "Indian Camp" Katinka Krausz: Photographs and Authorship in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin

Andrea Szabó F.: America, Appropriated: Transcultural Gothic Art Film and the Western Orsolya Karácsony: Being a Rat in a Maze - The Psychological and Sociopolitical Reading of Shutter Island Réka Cristian: Mis/Matched Journeys Into Night: Time of Change and the Cultural Construction of Aging in Our Souls at Night and in Cas and Dylan

Gabriella Vöő: The Creativity of Matter in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Gardens in the Dunes Ágnes Bodnár: Manifestations of Intersubjectivity in Indian Captivity Narratives Patricia A. Lobo: Reframing the New Mestiza: identity politics and social commitment in Chicana Border Art

Éva Eszter Szabó: The US-Mexican Border Barrier and the Emergence of Global Walls András Lénárt: Fear vs. Facts: Donald Trump's Presidency from the Latin American Perspective Andrea Kökény: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and its Consequences

12:30-13:30 – LUNCH (to be arranged individually)

 

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13:30-14:30 HAAS 25 ROUNDTABLE (Rm 414, Bdg R) Chair: Tibor Glant

Participants: Zoltán Abádi Nagy, Enikő Bollobás, Réka Cristian, Tibor Frank, Ildikó Hortobágyi, Katalin G. Kállay, Zoltán Kövecses, Károly Pintér, Gabriella Vöő 14:30-15:00 – COFFEE BREAK (3rd floor communal space, Bdg R) 15:00-16:30 – PARALLEL SESSIONS 5 (Bdg R) 5.1 Chair: Andrea Szabó F. Rm 315a

5.2 Chair: Katalin Kállay G. Rm 356

5.3 Chair: Tamás Magyarics Rm 414

5.4 Chair: Vera Benczik Rm 423a

Éva Federmayer: Reading Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad (2016) Ecocritically András Tarnóc: The Slave Ship as the Chronotope of the Black Atlantic: Interaction between Space and Time as Reflected in the Antebellum Slave Narrative Babett Rubóczki: "Marred Testaments" of Political Violence: Environment and the Somatic Body in Cherrie Moraga's Heroes and Saints and Edwige Danticat's The Farming of Bones

Pál Hegyi: "Based on a True Story": Oscillating Tales of the Real Simulacra László Sári B.: Masculinity, Affect, Addiction and the Postmodern Condition in America in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest Judit Friedrich: Paul Beatty The Sellout (2016), the First American Novel to Win the Man Booker Prize

Lívia Szélpál K.: Free State of Jones: Legend or Historical Fact? Zsolt Palotás: Uncle Sam in Barbary Reconsidered: Tunisian-American Relations during and after the Tripolitan War, 1805-1807 Zoltán Vajda: "Mystic Chords of Memory:" Abraham Lincoln's Sentimental Conception of the Nation in his First Inaugural Address

Júlia Fodor: Child Pornography: America's Greatest Shame Zsuzsanna Lénárt-Muszka: The Black Maternal Body in the 21st Century: The Politics of Media Representation Anett Schäffer: Emigration and Identity in Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn

16:30 – CLOSING OF THE CONFERENCE (Rm 414, Bdg R)

 

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

• The BOOK OF ABSTRACTS will be available on the Conference webpage in pdf format, and hard copies will be deposited for perusal at the Registration desks.

• We will provide emergency access to the internet at the Registration desks. Last minute changes are possible!

We look forward to welcoming you in Budapest!