Accepted Abstracts

Vilma doktorasszony. Hugonnai Vilma emlékezete (Accepted)

Type of Abstract (select): Paper presentation

Abstract (max. 250 words):
Vannak nők, akiknek az élettörténete első pillantásra filmvászonra kívánkozik. Ilyen nő volt Alma Mahler, Greta Garbo, Amrita Sher-Gil, és ilyen a magyar nő-, orvos- és tudománytörténet egyik legkiemelkedőbb alakja, Hugonnai Vilma grófnő-doktorasszony "életregénye" is. Ezen a közös "emlékezet-felidézésen" megismerkedhetünk a 19. század második és a 20. század fordulója, majd első fele európai/közép-európai/magyarországi lánynevelésének és a női művelődésének főbb jellemzőivel, ezen túlmenően pedig az 'orvosdoktor" nyomdokain haladva, az ő nyomait követve nagyvonalakban megismerkedhetünk e kiváló női személyiség élete legfontosabb helyszíneivel, illetve felidézzük/felfedezhetjük munkássága egyediségét, különleges értékeit.


Brief Professional Bio (max. 100 words):
Gizella Cseh is a philologist and teacher in Hungarian, Hungarian as a foreign language and culture, Slovak language, language coach, PR-Spokesman, journalist in culture, tourist guide.

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“She kept her secret going long time.” Multimodal Intergenerational Trauma Telling in Life History Interviews. A Case Study. (Accepted)

Type of Abstract (select): Paper presentation

Abstract (max. 250 words):
“My grandfather had done some really, really bad things in World War 2.” Intergenerational trauma as an embedded story in life history interviews is an authoritative and dynamic narrative tool to reveal the complex beliefs shaping the self and their identity choices. In this talk, I will discuss a case study based on the analysis of the life history of a Hungarian American man living in Hungary as told in a series of interviews with an unusually long time in between. The narrative analysis highlights how the multimodal collective remembering induced by the Terror Háza museum in Budapest informs the trauma telling. Moreover, the case study analysis reveals how intergenerational trauma positions the storyteller as an agency in his life history and how he understands that the processes he cannot control shape his identity. I will discuss concepts such as the impact of the perpetrator’s trauma, controlling the meaning-making in intergenerational memory narratives, the construction of narrative tellability, and the effect of collective remembering by photographs on individual identity construction.


Brief Professional Bio (max. 100 words):
Mónika Fodor is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Literatures and Cultures at the University of Pécs. She has published on the conversational and discourse analysis of narratives, identity, ethnicity, oral histories, narrative, and memory in ethnic identity construction and using culture as content in the EFL classroom. Her recent research focuses on the role of intergenerational memory in narrative meaning-making in collective remembering.

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The Double-Faced Design (Accepted)

Type of Abstract (select): Paper presentation

Abstract (max. 250 words):
In this presentation, I have chosen the theme of design, which has become a popular phenomenon in different contexts today. For the practical nature of design draws attention to cardinal issues, while at the same time, with due sensitivity, design theorists and designers are nurturing solutions that connect with currents discourses such as overproduction or even sustainability. In the light of all these aspects, I see design not as an inherently bad or inherently good tool or function, but rather as an opportunity, capable of offering apparent, temporary, partial or real solutions to problems, both in action and in thought, at the individual or social level.

During my presentation, I highlight the various terms of design, I also mention definitions by Herbert A. Simon and Victor Papanek as well while Herbert A. Simon’s words are leading my research: „Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. The intellectual activity that produces material artifacts is no different fundamentally from the one that prescribes remedies for a sick patient or the one that devises a new sales plan for a company or a social welfare policy for a state.” (Simon, 1996: 111)

I connect the issue of design with the visual culture’s characteristics, and I bring some Hungarian examples to demonstrate, what kind of contemporary trends are dominate the Hungarian design scene.

Herbert A. Simon (1996) The Sciences of the Artificial. MIT Press



Brief Professional Bio (max. 100 words):
Zsanett Lengyel is currently a PhD researcher at University of Debrecen. She has teaching experience (since 2020), and she has received 5 degrees in various field right now (Fintech Management, design theory, mediation ect), and gave more than 40 paper presentations as a young researcher during previous the years. She is a design and art theorist and manager, and her side researches focuses on design theory. In her dissertation, she's dealing with Hungarian cultural industries through digital transformation.

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