‘Cultural Memory and Literature’
Conference
organized by the OTKA Research Project on British Literature and the Hungarian Cultural Memory (2008–2011)
Programme
Friday, 24 September
Venue: Building F, Kerényi Room
9–9.30 Welcome to the Conference by Prof. Tamás Dezső, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and Dr Judit Friedrich, Head of the Department of English Studies
9.30–10.15 Plenary lecture I
Venue: Building F, Kerényi Room
Chair: Prof. Ágnes Péter (ELTE)
Dr. Elinor Shaffer FBA (Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Germanic
10.15–10.45 coffee/tea
10.45–11.45 parallel sessions
1a: Chair: Dr. Márta Hargitai (ELTE)
Venue: Building R5, Room 443
Dr. Eglantina Remport (ELTE) Craig, Shakespeare and National Theatre
Dr. Natália Pikli (ELTE) Classic and/or Popular? Shakespeare in Present-day Hungarian Reception
1b: Chair: Dr Krisztina Szalay (ELTE)
Venue: Building F, Kerényi Room
Dr. Veronika Ruttkay (ELTE) The ‘Hungarian Burns’ in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
Prof. Ágnes Péter (ELTE) Jókai’s 4-act play on Milton
Prof. Géza Kállay (ELTE) A Stain of Blood as Cultural Transmission: Lady Macbeth and János Arany’s Mistress Agnes
11.45–12.30 Registration
12.30–14.00 Lunch break (lunch not provided, a list of places easy to reach from the venue will be available)
14.00–14.45 Plenary lecture II
Venue: Building F, Kerényi Room
Chair: Prof. Péter Dávidházi FHA
Professor John Drakakis (U of Stirling) ‘Antiquity forgot, custom not known’: Acts of Memory and Forgetting in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
15–16.30 Parallel sessions
2a: Chair: Prof. John Drakakis (U of Stirling )
Venue: Building R5, Room 030
Dr. Júlia Paraizs (CEU): An Embarrassing Memory: The First Hungarian Translation of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Dr. Veronika Schandl (PPKE) ‘The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind’: Collective memory and the theatre of the mind in Gábor Bódy’s 1981 Hamlet Production
2b: Chair: Dr. Katalin Halácsy (ELTE, PPKE)
Venue: Building R5, Room 031
Dr. Andrea Velich (ELTE) Space and Time in the City of the Dead (Cemeteries in London and Budapest
Andrea Hübner (ELTE) The Role of the Medieval World Maps in the Interpretation of the New World
16.30–17.00 coffee/tea
17–18.30 Parallel sessions
3a: Chair: Dr. Dóra Csikós (ELTE)
Venue: Building R5, Room 030
Boldizsár Fejérvári (PPKE) Lingering in the Memory: The After Effects of two Shelley Versions
Dr. Gabriella Hartvig (PE) Kölcsey and Sterne
Dr. Zsolt Komáromy (ELTE) Memory and the ‘Pleasures of Imagination’
3b: Chair: Dr. István Géher (ELTE)
Venue: Building R5, Room 031
Dr. Péter Benedek Tóta (PPKE) ‘The cud of memory’: British Literature and Cultural Memory in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry
László Munteán (PPKE) The Allied Bombing of Budapest in World War II and its Representations in Hungarian Cultural Memory after 1989
Géza Maráczi (ELTE) English Literature in a ‘Western Hungarian’ perspective: a case study in Dickens
Dinner for all participants (plenary speakers invited by the convenor of the conference) in Nevada Pub (Bartók Béla út 21.)
Saturday, 25 September
9–9.45 Plenary lecture III
Venue: Building F, Kerényi Room
Chair: Dr Veronika Ruttkay (ELTE)
Prof. Richard Cronin (U of Glasgow) The ‘history-ful’ and the ‘history-less’: deep and shallow time in the Regency
9.45–10.15 coffee/tea
10.15–11.00 Plenary lecture IV
Venue: Building F, Kerényi Room
Chair: Dr Győző Ferencz (ELTE)
Prof. Péter Dávidházi FHA (ELTE) ‘Can these bones live?’: The Waste Land, Ezekiel and Hungarian Poetry
11.00–11.30 coffee/tea
11.30–13.00 Parallel sessions
4a: Chair: Dr. Ferenc Takács (ELTE)
Venue: Building R5, Room 030
Dr. Judit Friedrich (ELTE) Blaming versus healing: facing communist informers of the past, and a literary example in Péter Esterházy’s Revised Edition
Dr. János Kenyeres (ELTE) 1956 in Cultural Memory
Máté Vince (ELTE/U of Warwick
4b: Chair Prof. Richard Cronin (U of Glasgow
Venue: Building R5, Room 031
Veronika Végh (ELTE) Reinventing the Romantics in the Postmodern
Dr. Éva Péteri (ELTE) Emblematic Woman with Emblematic Harp: Rossetti and Gulácsy
Andrea Kirchknopf (ELTE) Post-Victorian narratives of the Crystal Palace
13.00–14.30 Lunch break (lunch not provided, a list of places easy to reach from the venue will be available)
14.30–15.15 Plenary lecture V
Venue: Building F, Kerényi Room
Chair: Dr Marcell Gellért (ELTE)
Dr Alistair Davies (U of Sussex
15.30–17.00 Parallel sessions
5a: Chair: Prof. Aladár Sarbu (ELTE)
Venue: Building R5, Room 030
Balázs Csizmadia (ELTE) The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Hungary
Dr. Zsolt Czigányik (ELTE) Literature and censorship in Hungary
Réka Mihálka (ELTE) The Nostos of the Past in Ezra Pound’s Nō Adaptations
5b: Chair: Dr. Alistair Davies (U of Sussex
Venue: Building R5, Room 031
Dr. Andrea Timár (ELTE) From Psychological ‘Is’ to Ethical ‘Ought’: Memory Murdered in Agota Kristof’s Le Grand Cahier
Dr. Katalin G. Kállay (KGRE) ‘Memory Believes Before Knowing Remembers’
17.00–17.30 coffee/tea
17.30–18.15 Plenary lecture VI
Venue: Building F, Kerényi Room
Chair: Dr Andrea Timár (ELTE)
Prof Ronald Soetaert (U of Ghent
18.15–19.00 Closing Remarks
Venue: Building F, Kerényi Room
by Dr. Elinor Shaffer FBA and Prof. Ágnes Péter
After the formal closing all participants are invited to drinks and Hungarian “pogácsa” in Kossuth Klub (1088 Budapest
