Gender Through Literatures and Cultures in English
MA in English ~ Institute of English & American Studies ~ University of Szeged
ARCHIVES
Here you will find archive files of conferences, public lectures, research seminars, workshops, research projects and publications. Enjoy browsing.
Here you will find the archive files of our annual interdisciplinary conference Language, Ideology and Media (Nyelv, Ideológia, Média). Click on the title of the conference to see the details.
NYIM6: A társadalmi nemi viszonyok intézményesülése.
A „magyarság” és „nemiség” metszetei. October 1-2, 2010.
You can check out the program and abstracts.
NYIM5: A szexualitás terei, September 18-19, 2009.
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NYIM4: A nő és a test/iség, September 19-20, 2008.
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NYIM3: A nő/férfi identitás és tapasztalat, September 7-8, 2007.
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NYIM2: A nő és a női(es)ség sztereotípiái, September 8-9, 2006.
You can also check out the conference program, the abstracts and the bookcover of the conference proceedings.
NYIM1: A nő helye a magyar nyelvhasználatban, September 8-9, 2005.
You can also check out the conference program, the abstracts and the bookcover of the conference proceedings.
The American Studies Department, Eszterházy Károly College, Eger hosted its second interdisciplinary conference MI/MÁS 2 (Us/Others 2) on October 28-29th, 2010. Our Gender Studies Research Group, TNT submitted a panel to present the results of our research in the field. The title of our panel was Political Correctness, Tolerance and Hate Speech in the Context of the EU and North-American Practice.
The four talks in our panel were as follows (for their abstracts click HERE):
Federmayer Éva: Multikulturálitás és tolerancia a "nyóckerben": Egy dokumentumfilm elemzése
P. Balog Andrea: Hasonlóak és/vagy különbözőek: Az idegenkedés normái és formái az európai integráció kontextusában
Barát Erzsébet: A "politikai korrektség"-re hivatkozás ideológiai csapdái: A nyelvhasználat kérdései az elmúlt tíz év oktatáspolitikai küzdelmeinek erőterében
Kérchy Anna: A fogyatékokkal élők elfogadását célzó média/művészeti megnyilvánulások lehetőségei, korlátai, és recepciója a mai Magyarországon
CLICK on the image to see the photogallery of the event.
HUSSE (Hungarian Society for the Study of English) had its 9th biannual conference on January 22-24 2009 organized by the English Department, University of Pécs. The Gender Studies Research Group, TNT submitted a panel with the title The Cultural/ Textual Construction of the Gendered Body. The titles of the talks were as follows:
Annus, Irén: Columbia and her sisters: Female representations of the nation in 19th century visual culture
Barát, Erzsébet: Queer Intervention into the desire and pleasure in the spectator/visual image relationship
Federmayer, Éva: Racial/ethnic queerness: Rebecca Walker and Danzy Senna
Kérchy, Anna: Unraveling the myth of Lewis Caroll’s Alice
Reschné Marinovich, Sarolta: Literary creativity and the (gothic) female bodyFor further information visit the conference WEBSITE.
The American Studies Department, Eszterházy Károly College, Eger organized an interdisciplinary conference, MI/MÁS (Us/Others) on March 19-20th 2008. It was the first time the Gender Studies Research Group, TNT submitted a panel to present the results of our research in the field. The title of our panel was The Cultural representation of sexual identity. The aim of the organizers was to bring together research on tolerance from the perspective of social, cultural, ethnic and sexual practices in Hungary on the occasion of the Year of Cultural Dialogue in the European Union.
The four talks in our panel were as follows:
RESCHNÉ MARINOVICH, SAROLTA: The relationship between gender identity and authorship in Noemi Kiss’s short stories. (A nemi identitás és az írói identitás viszonya Kiss Noémi elbeszéléseiben)
KÉRCHY, ANNA: Dilemmas of transgender in contemporary theories of gender and popular culture (A transznemű identitás dilemmái a kortárs gender-elméletek és populáris kulturális reprezentációk tükrében)
BARÁT, ERZSÉBET: Queer fashion: The redefinition of ‘gaze’ at the intersection of sexuality and gender (Queer divat: A tekintet fogalmának átértékelése a nem és szexualitás metszéspontjából)
P. BALOGH, ANDREA: Lesbian identities and transgender performances in post-socialist Hungarian culture (Leszbikus identitások és transgender alakítások a poszt-szocialista magyar kultúrában)
For further information please visit the conference WEBSITE.
On 25th of Feburary 2011, at 3 pm, TNT has hosted an Epideictic Conference on behalf of Eva Federmayer's 60th Birthday. For the invitation click HERE.
Feminist Auto/Biographical Cartography in Kim Mahood's Craft for a Dry Lake - Martina Horakova (Nov 17th, 2010)
Marching from Strenght to Strenght - Asha Choubey (Oct 6th, 2010). For the full transcript of her talk click HERE.
A Társadalmi Nem Tudománya filozófiai alapvonalai Beauvoirnál - Mária Joó (Mar 17th, 2010)
Takács Mari Eltitkolt Évek (2009) - chair Louise O. Vasvári (Dec 3rd, 2009)
Without Queering There is No Border: Translocality, sexual subjects, and history - Hanna Hacker (Apr 29th, 2009)
Life Writing by Central European Women Holocaust Survivors – Louise O. Vasvári (Nov 26th, 2008)
Reading Sexualities: The Need for a Hermeneutic Theory – Donald E. Hall (May 14th, 2008)
Nations Within: Sovereignty, Gender, and American Indians - Cari M. Carpenter (May 3rd - 13th, 2010)
Zimermann on Gender Studies in the Universities of Central East-Europe - Mária Adamik (Nov 18th, 2009). For Zimmermann's article click HERE.
But who supposes I'm striving for lucidity?" Harold Pinter's Concept of the Author - Andrea P. Balogh (Apr 1st, 2009)
The Cultural Migration of a Musical Idiom: Race, Class, and Gender in the Ragtime Culture of Millennial Budapest – Federmayer Éva (Apr 16th, 2008)
Globalization and Queer Theories - Donald E. Hall (May 6th - 14th, 2008)
Changing the World: One Sexist City at a Time (Oct 19th - 20th, 2010). A workshop followed by a street performance by Guerrila Girls on Tour. For the event's flyer click HERE. Below you can see an excerpt from the workshop.
Workshop on Sexuality (Apr 29th, 2009). For the event's flyer click HERE.
LINEE
"Languages in a Network of European Excellence" (2007 - 2010) is a scientific network co-funded under the 6th framework programme of the European Commission. It is part of Priority 7 and the topic "Linguistic diversity in a European knowledge-based society". The Gender Task Force in the project is run by two members of our Research Group, Iren Annus (member) and Erzsebet Barat (task force leader). To visit the official website of the network click HERE.
MIGRATION AND NARRATION
The Migration and Narration Erasmus LLP Intensive Programme's Scholarship, for participating in a two-week, inter-European summer course in Krosno, Poland (17-30 July, 2011), has been awarded to:
Kinga Szőnyi, Réka Balogh and Veronika Békéssy (BA students)
Suzana Kunyi and Noémi Nagyapáti (MA students)
Paulina László (PhD student)
Kérchy, Anna. Body-Texts in the Novels of Angela Carter. Writing from a Corporeagraphic Perspective. Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2008. (pp. 372, ISBN10: 0-7734-4892-6 ISBN13: 978-0-7734-4892-6)
Barát Erzsébet – Sándor Klára eds. A nő és a nő/i/esség sztereotípiái. (’Woman’ and Her Stereotypes), Nyelv, ideológia, média, Vol. 2., Könyvtártudományi Tanszék, SZTE, Szeged, 2009.
Barát Erzsébet – Sándor Klára eds. A nő helye a magyar nyelvhasználatban (‘Woman’s’ Place in Hungarian), Nyelv, ideológia, média, Vol. 1. JATE Press, Szeged, 2007.
