Konferencia az Angol-Amerikai Intézetben

Cultural Memory and Literature
Conference
organized by the OTKA Research Project on British Literature and the
Hungarian Cultural Memory (2008–2011)
Department of English Studies
School of English and American Studies
Faculty of Arts
Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)

2010. 24-25 September

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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 and Romance Studies)
Affinities and Antagonisms: the processes of reception

10.15–10.45 coffee/tea

10.45–11.45 Parallel sessions

1a: Chair: Dr Márta Hargitai (ELTE)
Venue: Building R5, Room 445

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 R5, Room 423a

Dr Veronika Ruttkay (ELTE) The 'Hungarian Burns' in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
Prof. Ágnes Péter (ELTE) Jokai's 4-act play on Milton’s Life
Prof. Géza Kállay (ELTE) A Stain of Blood as Cultural Transmission: Lady Macbeth and Janos
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 443

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 Gabor Body’s 1981 Hamlet Production

2b: Chair: Dr Katalin Halácsy (ELTE, PPKE)
Venue: Building R5, Room 423a

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 443

Boldizsár Fejérvári (PPKE) Chatterton’s Rowley’s Bristol: Remembering the Dark 15th Century Dr Gabriella Hartvig (PE) Kolcsey and Sterne
Dr Zsolt Komáromy (ELTE) Memory and the “Pleasures of Imagination”

3b: Chair: Dr István Géher (ELTE)
Venue: Building R5, Room 423a

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)

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 n 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 443

Dr Judit Friedrich (ELTE) Blaming versus healing: facing communist informers of the past, and a iterary example in Peter Esterhazy’s Revised Edition
Dr János Kenyeres (ELTE) 1956 in Cultural Memory
Máté Vince (ELTE/U of Warwick) ‘One single story falls to nineteen fifty six pieces’: Papp & Terey’s azamaták and the Memories of the Revolution

4b: Chair Prof. Richard Cronin (University of Glasgow)
Venue: Building R5, Room 423a

Veronika Végh (ELTE) Reinventing the Romantics in the Postmodern
Dr Éva Péteri (ELTE) Emblematic Woman with Emblematic Harp: Rossetti and Gulacsy
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 aviliable)

14.30–15.15 Plenary lecture V

Venue: Building F, Kerényi Room
Chair: Dr Marcell Gellért (ELTE)

Dr Alistair Davies (U of Sussex) British Culture and the Memory of the First World War

15.30–17.00 Parallel sessions

5a: Chair: Prof. Aladár Sarbu (ELTE)
Venue: Building R5, Room 443

Balázs Csizmadia (ELTE) The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Hungary
Dr Zsolt Czigányik (ELTE) Literature and censorship (Burgess)
Réka Mihálka (ELTE) The Nostos of the Past in Ezra Pound’s NōAdaptations

5b: Chair: Dr Alistair Davies (U of Sussex)
Venue: Building R5, Room 423a

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) Memory as Rhetoric: Construction of Memory in
Education and Nations

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, 7 Muzeum utca)

For abstracts, notes on the speakers and more information, please visit http://kulturalisemlekezet.blogspot.com/