One-day academic event at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, organised by the Institute of English and American Studies as part of the Kathleen 80 project

In cooperation with the Kathleen E. Dubs Foundation, Hungary

The foundation was established in 2012 by individuals who are all confident that studying is the best long-term investment, in order to support talented young people who need financial aid to accomplish their educational goals. The grant is available for university and college students for any purpose essentially connected to their studies: tuition fees, asset acquisition, financial subsidy for foreign scholarships.

♠ Friday 29 Nov 2024
♠ Venue:  Rm 112, PPCU Sophianum (Mikszáth tér 1., Budapest)   Click for info >>

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In the coffee break area: students’ posters (G. Reuss)

9.00-9.10 Official opening by Head of Institute Károly Pintér

9.10-9.25 Introduction of the project and photoreport of the Ružomberok event

9.25-9.50 Ildikó Limpár (PPCU): Biblical and Tolkienian worldbuilding
in science fiction: Raana Raas’s futuristic mythopoesis

9.50-10.15 Larisa Kocic-Zámbó (U. of Szeged): Pullman’s revision of
the Genesis Fall

10.15-10.35 Coffee break

10.35-10.50 Personal memories (Mónika Rusvai, Tibor Fabiny) and
László Munteán’s (Radboud University) video

10.50-11.15 Mariia Kokh (MUNI): ‘Who’ll be the clerk?’: Repainted, rerhymed
and vaguely personal in the death of Cock Robin

11.15-11.40 Beatrix Balogh (PPCU): From puritan humor and
the genteel tradition to vitriolic pamphleteering: Reading Franklin’s satire
with Kathleen E. Dubs

11.40-12.05 Zsuzsanna Péri-Nagy (KGU Budapest): Transcendental visitations: The Friar’s Tale and Mann’s Doctor Faustus

12.05-13.00 Lunch break // Student projects

13.00-13.10 Introducing the K. E. Dubs Foundation

13.10-13.35 Ianina Volkova (MUNI): Liminal aspects in Neil Gaiman’s novel American Gods

13.35-14.00 Laura Škrobánková (MUNI): The Cthulhu mythos through the ages: From Lovecraft circle to Derleth mythos to cosmic cycles

14.00-14.40 Fantasy roundtable and book launch (G. Reuss, I. Limpár) & book presentation: J.R.R. Tolkien in Central Europe - Context, Directions, and the Legacy, edited by Janka Kaščáková and David Levente Palatinus 

14.40-15.00 Coffee break

15.00-15.15 Personal memories (Katalin Halácsy, Tamás Karáth) and János Barcsák’s video

15.15-15.40 Attila Starcevic (ELTE Budapest): The secret life of Old English enhancement

15.40-16.05 Szilárd Szentgyörgyi (U. of Pannonia, Veszprém): Englishes in the Lord of the Rings movies: The source of the linguistic landscape of 21st century fantasy films

16.05-16.20 Short break

16.20-16.45 Mária Adorján (KGU Budapest): Frequency, focus and topic progression in L2 argumentative essays

16.45-17.10 Andrea Reményi (PPCU): Verb phrase versatility as a syntactic complexity indicator in L2-English written texts

17.10-17.15 Concluding remarks

18.00- Conference dinner (+ screening of shorts/reels)

 

The student projects have been produced under the auspices of Gabriella Reuss’s Journeys in Fantasy BA in English Studies course by Patrícia Bús, Dóra Czézner, Anna Garami-Bessenyei, Orsolya Hajdú, Fanni Siku, Dóra Fazekas, Zsófia Tücsök-Asbóth, Alexandra Rojkó, Angelika Németh, Bianka Nagy, Virág Reichart, Domonkos Varga.

The project titled Crossing borders between countries, scholars, genres: Commemorating the late Kathleen E. Dubs
is supported by the Visegrad Fund (ID:22420198). Project coordinator: Katalin Balogné Bérces (e-mail)