Abstracts of Submitted Papers 2012
Invited
Portuges, Catherine - Plenary Speaker
Hollywood on the Danube: Hungarian Filmmakers in a Transnational Context
Arts
Corbett, Joyce Berczik
Eva Zeisel: A Tourist in Life
Kish, Kathleen V.
Delicate Depictions of Bloody Women: Domján's Folk Art Heroines
Pigniczky, Réka - Documentary film
The Life of László Hudec: In His Own Words
Sabolcsi-Boros, Susanna
Do Artists Have Nationalities? Oral Histories of Hungarian Artists at the Archives of American Art
Szabó, Lilla
Az American Hungarian Foundation and Heritage Center képzőművészeti gyűjteménye
Cultural Studies
Biro, Ruth G.
Hungarian Émigré Women Reveal Resiliency in Their Life Stories on the Holocaust: Overcoming Results of Persecution and Reestablishing Identity in the USA
Borgos, Anna
Displaced Gardens: The Friendship of Anna Lesznai and Edit Gyömrői in Emigration
Fenyő, Mario
Hungarians in Africa
Fuchs, Márta
Hungarian Holocaust Legacy: A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father's Christian Rescuer
Fülemile, Ágnes
Roads toward Extinction – Hungarian Diasporas around Cluj/Kolozsvár
Igricz, Dorottya
The Relationship of Cultural Traits and Cultural Consumption in Hungary and France
Ivan, Emese
Personal Values and Sports Consumption of Hungarians – At Home and in the USA
Kürti, László
“To Die in a Foreign Land”?: Notions of Death and Burial in the American-Hungarian Diaspora
Magyar, Kálmán
American Hungarian Cultural Diplomacy; Lessons and Proposals.
Oláh, Krisztina
The Image of Hungary. What Kind of Picture is Promoted About Our Country?
Pereszlényi-Pintér, Mártha
A Hungarian ‘Madwoman in the Attic’: Rehabilitating Elizabeth Báthory, a Seventeenth Century ‘Serial Killer,’ a.k.a. ‘The Blood Countess Dracula’
Szapor, Judith
Disputed Past: The Friendship and Competing Memories of Anna Lesznai and Emma Ritoók
Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven
About the Problematics of (E)migration in the Work of Kertész and Márai
Vasvári, Louise O.; Borgos, Anna; Kürti, László; Portuges, Catherine; Sanders, Ivan; Sherwood, Peter; Sólyom, Erika; Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven
About Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies
Education
Fábián, Gyöngyi
Developing Students’ Critical Thinking in Hungarian Schools [withdrawn]
Gazda, Angela K.
Forced Assimilation and Language Shift Resistance through Education in Csángóland
Gémes, Tamás
High School Entrepreneurship Education in Practice: What Makes a Hungarian Bill Gates, Steve Jobs?
Greene, Jackie and Vazquez-Montilla, Elia
Bridging Cultural Borders: American Students Cross-Cultural Teaching Experiences in Hungary
Kovács, Mária and Kecskés, Judit
Együtthaladó - Oktatási program a Magyarországon tanuló migráns gyermekek számára
Maróti, Orsolya
A Pragmatic Approach to Heritage Language and Its Relation to HSL
Molnár, Erzsébet
The Role of the Mother Tongue in Foreign Language Teaching
Papp-Aykler, Susan M. and Papp, Klára K.
Softening the Edges of Hungary’s Borders: A Student-Centered Program for Hungarian Youth in Diasporas
Révay, Máté
Value Systems and Role Models Among Hungarian High School Students
Saunders, Will
Community Development and Civil Society - The Work of Project Harvest Hope in Transylvania
Sherwood, Peter
Forty Years in the Wilderness: Teaching Hungarian in the UK and the US, 1972-2012
Sólyom, Erika
The Importance of Cultural Competence in Teaching Hungarian as a Foreign Language
Szilágyi, Janka and Szécsi, Tünde
Hungarian-American Immigrant Children’s Use of Media Technologies to Maintain Their Heritage Language and Culture
Tarsoly, Eszter
Language Without Borders – Heritage Languages and Language Education in Cultural Identity Formation: The Case of Hungarian
History
Bártfay, Arthur A.
Louis Kossuth's Life Story & 1100 Years of Hungarian History - in 20 Minutes [withdrawn]
Beszedits, Stephen
The Kossuth Sisters and Their Families in America
Clark, Sylvia Csűrös; Ward, Judit Hajnal; Stewart, Molly
56ers 56 Years Later: The Hungarian Scholar Program at Rutgers University
Érdy, Miklós
A magyarság keleti eredete és hun kapcsolata
Eshbach, Robert W.
The Violinist and the Exiles of 1849: The Case of Ede Reményi
Fodor, Andrew (András)
László Tisza Belonged to the Giants of Physics: Traveler, Researcher, Observer, and Major Contributor to 20th Century Science
Freifeld, Alice
The Chastened to the Unchastened Crowd; Crowd Politics from Kossuth to Orbán
Gergely, Marianna
"How Many Roads Must a Man Walk Down?" - Individual Lives Examined Through the Lens of Economic and Political Transitions in Hungary in the 20th Century
Haba, Kumiko
Hungarian Borders and Hungarian Minorities after the Collapse of the Cold War and Joining the European Union
Hungarian Borders and Hungarian Minorities after the Collapse of the Cold War and Joining the European Union
Kádár Lynn, Katalin
The Unknown Tibor Eckhardt: Politician, Statesman, Cold War Intelligence Operative
Kecskés, Gusztáv D.
The Anatomy of a Humanitiarian Miracle [The Case of the 1956 Refugees]
Mazsu, János
Inside Borders - Jewish Settlement in Banned Cities: Jewish Immigration in Debrecen in the Periods between 1790-1870
Medalis, Christopher
The U.S. Higher Education Community's Response to October 1956: the Emergency Program to Aid Hungarian Students in the U.S., 1956-1958
Némethy, Judith Kesserű
Exiled Hungarians in Argentina: The Formation of a Community
Poznan, Kristina
“Hungary Exposed”: Hungarian Surveillance, Pan-Slavism, and the American Front of Identity Politics, 1902-1903
Prékopa, András
Commemorating János Bolyai, the World-Famous Hungarian Mathematician
Rab, Virág
Political and Economic Transitions in Hungary in the 20th Century
Rácz, Barnabás
Problems and Prospects of the 2012 Electoral Law and Dual Citizenship in Hungary
Rajec, Elizabeth Molnár
Deportation of the Hungarian Minority from Czechoslovakia to Hungary
Szabó, Juliet
The Emigration Policy of the Kádár Regime
Széchenyi, Kinga
Deportations in Hungary During the Rákosi Dictatorship
Waters, Leslie
Erasing Borders: The Reacquaintance of Trianon and Felvidék Hungarians
Language and Literature
Gál, Noémi
The Hungarian Language in Transylvania: Diaspora Existence and the Possibilities of Revitalization
Havas, Judit
Az utolsó szó keresése -- Jékely Zoltán, Szent György és a sárkány
Nagy, Éva
Látni, hallani a szöveget a romániai magyar audiovizuális médiában
Sanders, Iván
Would-be Émigrés and Internal Exiles in Péter Nádas’s Parallel Stories
Sárosi-Márdirosz, Krisztina-Mária
The Official Register of Hungarian Language Used in Transylvania
Sohar, Paul
Major Themes In György Faludy's Poetry
Zsemlyei, Borbála
Uncertain Suffix-Use in the Hungarian Electronic Media of Transylvania
Science/Economics
Bock, Julia - Library Science
The Hungarian Content in Virtual Access
Niessen, James P. - Library Science
Rutgers and the President's Committee for Hungarian Refugee Relief
Nyírády, Kenneth - Library Science
Digital Hungarica on the Library of Congress Web Site
Peter, Christina - Library Science
Collections Without Walls: Art Libraries Collaborate to Build Digital Repositories