FRIDAY, May 31

from 9:00 REGISTRATION (corridor of the Institute of English and American Studies, 1st floor,

Main Building)

10:00-10:30 OPENING CEREMONY (venue: Lecture Hall X)

Welcome addresses by:

Emma Nagy, Cultural Attaché, US Embassy, Budapest

Tibor Glant, President of HAAS

Péter Csató, Chair of the North American Department, IEAS, UD

10:30-11:30 PLENARY 1 by Dr. Leah Perry (SUNY-Empire State College): “They are

Bringing Drugs, Crime, and Rape”: The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration and

Renegotiating American Identities in Hungary

Venue: Lecture Hall X

Chair: Dorottya Mózes (University of Debrecen)

11:30-12:00 Coffee break (Room 119)

12:00-13:30 SESSION 1

SESSION 1 Room 109

Pál Rosti and

Photos of the

Americas

Chair:

Balázs Venkovits

Room 121

Identity

Construction and

Narratology

Chair:

Katalin G. Kállay

Studio 111

Renegotiating

Narratives

Chair:

Judit Szathmári

Lecture Hall X

Early Republic

Chair:

Máté Gergely Balogh

12:00

Balázs Venkovits:

Travel Writing and

Photography: Pál

Rosti in the Americas

László B. Sári: Jew

as Joy: The

Construction of

Jewish Identity in

Jonathan Safran

Foer’s Everything Is

Illuminated

Orsolya Putz:

Identity Construction

in American

Presidential Speeches

Megan King:

Regenerate Souls’:

The Origins of

Patriot

Fundamentalism in

Colonial Boston

12:30

Éva Fisli: “The Rosti

Album”: A Problem

and Opportunity

Péter Csató:

Autobiograpy,

Confession, and

Metalepsis in Paul

Auster’s Invisible

Olga Thierbach-

McLean:

Reinventing

American

Individualism:

Traditional Notions

of Self-Reliance in a

Global Reality

Csaba Lévai: Two

Virginian Founding

Fathers and Two Last

Wills: The Problem

of Slavery and the

Testaments of

George Washington

and Thomas

Jefferson

13:00

Zsófia Bán: The

Photo Album as

Discursive Object:

Apropos Pál Rosti’s

Imola Bülgözdi:

Surviving the

Biopolitics of

Disposability in the

American South:

Scott Manning

Stevens:

“Confronting the

American Master

Narrative: Native

Zoltán Vajda:

Thomas Jefferson on

Native Americans as

Indigents

Five Photographic

Albums

Alternative

Narratives in Jesmyn

Ward’s Novels

American Histories

of Place”

13:30-14:15 Luncheon and launch of the spring 2019 issue of the Hungarian Journal of

English and American Studies (Room 119 and IEAS corridor)

14:15-14:30 Book Presentation (venue: Lecture Hall X)

14:30-15:15 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: American Studies in the US and Hungary

Venue: Lecture Hall X

Chair: Enikő Bollobás (Eötvös Loránd University);

Participants: Leah Perry (SUNY-Empire State College), Tibor Frank (Eötvös

Loránd University), Scott Manning Stevens (Syracuse University)

15:30-17:00 SESSION 2

SESSION 2 Room 109

Black Ecology

Respondent:

Jim Casey

Room 121

Arts and Identity

Chair:

Lenke Németh

Studio 111

Race and Gender in

Film

Chair:

Imola Bülgözdi

Lecture Hall X

Legacies of Power

Chair:

Balázs Venkovits

15:30

Dorottya Mózes: The

Heat’s on:

Racializing

Assemblages,

Vernacular Noise

and Breath-work in

Chester Himes’

Hardboiled

Detective Series

Vanessa Vollmann:

“Hamilton:” Hip

Hop Dancing Non-

White Founding

Fathers Now Make

Sense. What of the

Founding Mothers?

Fatma Chenini: The

Quest for Identity:

Representations of

African-American

Male Characters in

Early Twentieth-

Century Films

Dániel Cseh:

Constructing the

Image of the Enemy

Alien:

The Portrayal of

Japanese People in

Political Cartoons

16:00

Mark Harris:

Caribbean DIY

Sonic and Linguistic

Resistances

Katalin G. Kállay:

What Is Lost? A

Comparative

Reading of Carson

McCullers’

”Wunderkind” and

Géza Ottlik’s

”Nothing Is Lost”

Lívia Szélpál:The

Controversy behind

the Green Book:

Image versus Reality

Máté Gergely

Balogh: Changes in

American Society in

the 1960s Through

the Eyes of the

Hungarian State

Security

16:30

Péter Gaál-Szabó:

Nature in Black and

White in James H.

Cone’s Theology

Enikő Maior: Art

and Jewish

Orthodoxy in the

Works of Chaim

Potok

Holly Lynn

Baumgartner and

Susan Duran: One is

the Loneliest: Male

Silence, Isolation,

and Rage in Cinema

at the Turn of the

Millennium

Rasha Awale:

Counterculture and

Communism/

Socialism Then and

Now: The

Neoconservative

Take on the New

Left Revisited

17:00-17:30 Coffee break (Room 119)

17:30-18:30 HAAS Presidential Address and HAAS General Assembly (venue: Lecture Hall X)

19:30 CONFERENCE RECEPTION (venue: 3rd floor, Main Building)

SATURDAY, June 1

from 9:00 REGISTRATION (corridor of the Institute of English and American Studies, UD, 1st

floor, Main Building)

9:00-11:00 SESSION 3

SESSION 3 Room 109

Diasporic and

Ethnic Writing

Chair:

Andrea Szabó F.

Room 121

The Fantastic

Chair:

László B. Sári

Studio 111

Black

Women’s

Experiences

of Trauma

Respondent:

Dorottya

Mózes

Lecture Hall II

Migration,

Identity and

Politics

Chair:

Gabriella T.

Espák

Lecture Hall X

21st-Century

Challenges

Chair:

Zoltán Vajda

9:00

Agustín Cadena:

The Work of

C.M. Mayo:

Building

Bridges, Not

Walls

Ildikó Limpár:

Monstrosity and

Identity in Jon

Skovron’s

Frankenstein-

Themed Man

Made Boy

Zsuzsanna

Lénárt-

Muszka:

“From our own

lips”:

Narrative

Authority

and/as Healing

in Sherley

Anne

Williams’s

Dessa Rose

Mónika Fodor:

Ethnic

Subjectivity

Construction

in Post-

memory

Narratives of

Late

Generation

European

Americans

Irén Annus: Anger

to the nth Degree

9:30

Judit Molnár:

The Deixis of

˝here˝ and

˝there˝ in

Rohinton

Mistry’s Early

Fiction

Hajighasemi

Mahdokht:

American

Society in

Popular

Imagination:

Frank Baum’s

Fairy Tales

Yasmina

Khedhir:

“Bodies can

tell stories”:

Remembering

Katrina in

Jesmyn

Ward’s

Salvage the

Bones

Katalin Pintz:

Choosing

Between Two

Homelands:

The Ethnic

Return

Migration of

Second and

Later

Generation

Hungarian

Americans

from New

Jersey

Júlia Fodor: The

Story of Jane Roe

from Roe v. Wade

and the

Appointment of

Justice Kavanaugh

to the Supreme

Court

10:00

Anett Schäffer:

The Emigrant’s

Home: Space

and Identity in

Chimamanda

Magdalena

Wąsowicz :

Imagining

Trauma: Nazism

and American

Babett

Rubóczki:

Ruptured

Bodies and

Narrative Re-

Membering:

Orsolya

Kolozsvári:

Social Class

and

Stigmatization

in Appalachian

Éva Eszter Szabó:

The United States–

Canada Border and

the Changing

Security Landscape

Ngozi Adichie’s

Americanah

Alternate

History Novel

Edwidge

Danticat’s The

Farming of

Bones and

“Nineteen

Thirty-Seven”

Identities:

Sociological

and Literary

Perspectives

10:30

Rashideh

Badran:

Conflicts in the

Construction of

Diasporic

Female

Identities:

Mohja Kahf’s

The Girl in the

Tangerine Scarf

as a Case Study

11:00-11:30 Coffee break (Room 119)

11:30-12:30 PLENARY 2 by Dr. Jim Casey (Arcadia University): Fantastic Identities: Selves and

Others in Speculative Fiction

Venue: Lecture Hall X

Chair: Donald E. Morse (University of Debrecen)

12:30-13:30 Lunch Break (meal not provided) /Optional HAAS Presidential Lunch for PhD

students

Nearby restaurants: Villa Krúdy Restaurant (Medgyessy stny), Régi Vigadó (Pallagi út 2.),

Pálma Pub (Simonyi út 44.), Roy Café (Poroszlay u. 55.), PepePanini Sandwich Bar and Café

(Egyetem tér 1.), Both-Dega Büfé (Nagyerdei krt. 96.)

13:30-15:00 SESSION 4

SESSION 4 Room 109

Hungary and the

Anglo-American

World

Chair:

Csaba Lévai

Room 121

Exploring

Identities through

Popular Culture

Chair:

Péter Csató

Studio 111

Literary

Representation

and Visual Arts

Chair:

Judit Molnár

Lecture Hall X

Language and

Identity

Chair:

Sándor Czeglédi

13:30

Tibor Glant:

Supporting the

Vanquished: The

U.S. and Hungary

in the Second Half

of 1919

Eszter Susan

Csorba:

Disappearing in the

Mainstream: from

Italian Americans

to American

Italians

Katinka Krausz:

Assumed Identities:

Photography as a

Means of Control in

Margaret Atwood's

Sándor Czeglédi:

Renegotiating

Identity Politics—

Towards “Trump

2020”?

14:00

Ágnes Beretzky:

President Wilson

and the Founders of

The New Europe-

Weekly: Allied

Warriors of

National Self-

Determination?

Andrea Szabó F.:

You Are What You

Eat: Foodscapes

and Female Gothic

Romances

Pál Hegyi: Multiple

Framing in the

Making-of The

Man Who Killed

Don Quixote

Éva Forintos: The

Communication

Spaces of Identity

in the USA and

Canada

14:30

Zoltán Peterecz:

Royall Tyler and

Hungary in the

Interwar Years

Brigitta Hudácskó:

Crime and

Detection in

Netflix’s American

Vandal

Donald E. Morse:

Mr. Otis, America's

Foremost Primitive

Moderne Painter

Zoltán Dragon and

Dávid Levente

Palatinus: This Is

Not A.I.

Technology in the

Age of Artificial

Intelligence and

Post-Photography

15:00-15:30 Coffee break (Room 119)

15:30-17:00 SESSION 5

SESSION 5 Room 109

Investigating the “Us vs

Them” Binary

Chair:

Péter Gaál-Szabó

Room 121

Queering Affect,

Identity and Narrative

Respondent:

Leah Perry

Lecture Hall X

Real and Imagined

Borders

Chair:

Tibor Glant

15:30

Ágnes Bodnár: The

Transformative Power of

Self-Narration

Performed Self and

Narrated Self in An

Affecting Narrative of the

Captivity and Sufferings

of Mrs. Mary Smith

(1818)

Malou Kürpick: Sharing

is Caring: Queerness,

Intersubjectivity and

(Trans)Nationalism in

Sense8

Mónika Szente-Varga:

Legends and Identity. The

Case of Justo Armas

16:00

András Tarnóc: ”The real

war was about to begin:”

The Prisoner of War

Narrative as a Building

Block of the American

Myth of Origination

Bianka Szendrei:

Revolution of Love:

Deconstructing Identity

Barriers in Janelle

Monáe’s Dirty Computer

Borbála Bökös: On

Debrecen and Nagyvárad:

Border Cities in 19th

Century Anglo-American

Travel Writing

16:30

Neena Gandhi: Power

and Identity in Melville:

A Study of Typee, Omoo

and Moby Dick

Noémi Vona: Towards a

Broader Framework:

Recognizing Womxn-to-

Womxn Sexual Violence

Ibolya Csengel-Plank: A

Comparison of Hungarian

and American Civil

Airport Architecture in

the 1920s and 30s: A

Case Study of Budaörs

17:00 Farewell, closing of the conference (venue: Lecture Hall X)