Abstracts of Submitted Papers 2013
Invited
Deák, István
National Socialist Germany’s East European Allies and Ethnic Cleansing
Arts
Sabolcsi-Boros, Susanna
A Hungarian American Collector and his Contribution to Hungarian Museums
Szabó, Lilla
The Collection: Past and Present Acquisitions. An Ongoing and Changing Exhibition.
Cultural Studies
Beszedits, Stephen
The Origin and History of the Kossuth Hat
Fodor, Andrew (András) P.
Istvan Farkas, Painter, Books and Magazines Publisher, an Outstanding Representative of the Twentieth Century Hungarian and European Paintings and my Savior during the Siege of Budapest
Oláh, Krisztina
What are the Communication Patterns of Hungarian Americans?
Orosz, József
"Meeting of Worlds, Melting of Cultures" -- A journey from East to West
Pereszlényi, Martha Pintér
1 Hungarian Folk Tale + 1 French Fairy Tale = Paul Fejős’ Fantasy Film: Preserving Images of Hungary Between the Two World Wars in Marie, Légende hongroise (1932)
Sólyom, Erika
Bicultural Bridges: Cultural Diplomacy at the American Corner Budapest
Tőke, Lilla
Béla Tarr and the Past and Future of Hungarian National Cinema
Tyeklar, Nora
Discriminatory Discourse as the Means to Political Ends
Vasvári, Louise O.
Hungarian Women's Traumatic Embodied Narratives of the Holocaust
Watson, Tanya
Childless in Nők Lapja
Young, Judy
The Hungarian Jewish Museum’s Attempts in the Years 1939-44 to Preserve the Past in the Face of an Uncertain Future
Education
Biro, Ruth
Reprising the Raoul Wallenberg Commemorative Year in Hungary: Generations Remember Moral Courage and Humanitarian Leadership in the Holocaust
Brinda, Wayne
Memories: A short play about the Hungarian Holocaust that preserves the past and connects to the future.
Brockhauser, Ildikó
The Role of Tales in Socialization
Clark, Sylvia Csűrös, Judit Hajnal Ward, Molly Stewart
Eyewitness to History: Follow up on the Hungarian Scholar Program at Rutgers University
Dömötör, Gábor
Preserving Hungarian Language and Culture among Young People of Hungarian Descent. The example of the Hungarian Scout Association in Exteris.
Gaál, Julianna
English Teaching Upside Down
Ivan, Emese and Nagy, Edit
Becoming NET SMART – Dos and Don’ts in Teaching International Joint Courses
Jókay, Károly
Educating in an International Environment: The Role of the Fulbright Commission in Budapest
Maróti, Orsolya
Cultural Components of Successful Communication: about Pragmatic Competence Regarding Polite Refusals
Molnár, Erzsébet
The Role of the Mother Tongue in Foreign Language Teaching
Pók, Attila
Planning for the Future: the István Deák Visiting Professorship at Columbia University
Szentkirályi, Endre
Only 10% of Hungarian-Americans speak Hungarian at home. Why?
Tömöry, Éva and Velki, Magdolna
Olvasófüzetek - szöveg- és feladatgyűjtemény nyelvi készségek fejlesztésére
Varga, Valeria
Special Challenges of Teaching Hungarian Language in the American Higher Education
History
Adam, Christopher
Building a National Diaspora: the Kádár Regime and Hungarian Communities in North America
Bártfay, Arthur A.
The Enduring Legacies of Kossuth's American Visit--with quotations about Kossuth from Presidents Abraham Lincoln & Theodore Roosevelt
Bock, Julia
“Doctor's Families”: Social History of Hungarian Jewish Health Professionals
Deák, Nóra
1956 and its ’lieux de mémoire’ in Hungary and the USA as evidence of Hungarian cultural heritage
DeRose, Kathy
Sister of Social Service, Sara Salkahazi, Beatified Martyr of the Hungarian Holocaust
Fazekas, Csaba
Bishop Ottokár Prohászka and the Formation of the Horthy Regime in Hungary
Freifeld, Alice
World War II War Crime Trials in Hungary
Gazda, Angela K.
Witch Trials in Transylvania in the Early Modern Period
Glanz, Susan
Emil Kiss, a Hungarian Success Story
Kovács, Ilona
Second Generation American Hungarian Soldiers in the US Army During World War II 1942-1945
Kovács, Tamás
Jews on the Borders – Some Fragments of the Activities of KEOKH
Lotstein, Tara
Hungarian Autonomy in Vojvodina: Hungarian-Serbian relations – Past, Present, and Future
Michels, Georg
Why the Counter-Reformation Failed in Seventeenth-Century Hungary
Ó hAnnracháin, Tadhg Pól
Finding the Future in the Past: Péter Pázmány’s Felelet
Pastor, Peter
The Pervasiveness of a Libel: Count Mihály Károlyi as the Traitor Responsible for the Peace Treaty of Trianon
Rothblatt, Raul
Joseph Goldmark and How the Ideals of 1848 Transformed the United States
Széchenyi, Kinga
Deportations During the Worst Communist Terror in Romania (1948-1964)
Várdy, Steven Béla
Displaced Persons among Hungarian Immigrants
Vermes, Gábor P.
Magyars, Serbs, and Slovaks: An Apparent Paradox in Magyar-Slav Relationss
Language and Literature
Allen, Marguerite
Initiation into a World with no Future: Ferenc Barnás's The Ninth (A Kilencedik) and Görgy Dragomán's The White Knight (Fehér Király)
Basa, Enikő M.
Hungarian Poets: Using Historical Narrative to Prepare for a Better Future
Di Francesco, Amedeo
Márai Sándor Nápolyban és Nápolyról
Faragó, Borbála
Hungary's Immigrant Women Poets: Reading the Works of Zsófia Balla
Gál, Noémi
The effects of the EU's language policy on revitalizing endangered languages: the case of Hungarian in minority contexts
Kerekes, Judit
The Forgotten Author, Julianna Zsigray
Lénárt-Cheng, Helga
The Correspondence of Alexander Lenard
Rajec, Elizabeth Molnár
Ferenc Molnar's Play "Liliom" Blooms Anew in "Carousel"
Rosen, Ilana
Family Documentary Lore - Reading a 1970s-1980s Correspondence between Jerusalem and Nagyvárad
Sárosi-Márdirosz, Krisztina
A Linguistic Institute in the service of Hungarians living in Transylvania
Sohar, Paul
Major Themes in György Faludy's Poetry
Zsemlyei, Borbála
The complete thesaurus of the old Hungarian language used in Transylvania
Music/Folklore
Baranello, Micaela
From Kálmán Imre to Emmerich Kálmán: Framing Hungary in "Der Zigeunerprimas"
Fülemile, Ágnes
The Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Katona, Csaba
From Detroit to Padova. The Romance of a Gypsy Violinist and the Daughter of a Millionaire
Olson, Judith E.
YouTube as Hungarian Dance Archive: Mining for Gold in a Popular Culture Source
Science/Economics
Gémes, Tamás
Budapest Startups - A new tech hub after Silicon Valley and Silicon Roundabout?
Gyékényesi, John P.
The Story of Theodore von Kármán - Pioneer in Aviation and Pathfinder in Space
Mazsu, János
The Market and Its Space. The Spatial Representation of Capital Investment in Debrecen
Szilágyi-Gál, Mihály
Antipolitics in Hungary
Voisin, Éva E.
The Role of Hungarian Diplomacy in Preserving and Promoting Hungarian Culture and Business Relations