Accepted Abstracts

Hungarian Women and Alcohol Use: A Systematic Review

Type of Abstract (select): Paper presentation

Abstract (max. 250 words):
Hungary has one of the highest rates of alcohol use disorder (AUD) and mortality from liver cirrhosis in the world. While the field of addiction research has assessed the impact of AUD in Hungary, researchers have predominately assessed AUD in Hungarian men. Furthermore, the literature demonstrates a correlation between AUD and intergenerational trauma yet there is a dearth in research assessing the relationship between AUD and intergenerational trauma in Hungarians. The purpose of this systematic review is to determine the relationship between Hungarian women and alcohol use and the impact of intergenerational trauma on Hungarian women’s alcohol use. There were 526 articles initially identified; 17 articles were assessed for full-text review, and 10 were excluded due to lack of rigor or falling outside of the scope. The remaining seven articles demonstrated moderate evidence that Hungarian women consume less alcohol than Hungarian men. Furthermore, the studies showed that women with co-occurring mental health disorders may experience higher rates of AUD. While a history of trauma may correlate with increased alcohol use, there is insufficient evidence regarding intergenerational trauma’s impact on Hungarian women’s consumption of alcohol. Future research should focus on changing patterns of alcohol consumption in Hungarian women, particularly those with a history of intergenerational trauma.


Brief Professional Bio (max. 100 words):
Bonnie Horgos, MSW, LGSW is a third-year PhD student in Social Work at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her research focuses on how gender and culture impact Hungarian-American women's perceptions of alcohol use, misuse, and disorder. She is a licensed graduate social worker with clinical experience in co-occurring substance and alcohol use disorders, intergenerational trauma, gender-based violence, and mass incarceration. In addition to her studies, Bonnie works for the University of Minnesota's Department of Psychiatry and the University of Minnesota’s School of Social Work.

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Cultural Hybridity; Can Transnational Identity Be De-territorialized? (Accepted)

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This paper investigates the interplay between transnationalism, identity, and space. Notwithstanding the processes of hybridization expected from a transnational theoretical frame, the vast majority of recent studies pertaining to transnationalism take the approach that migrants experience a duality between place of origin and place of residence. Literary texts written by or about expatriates often disclose the fact that the native component of one’s identity has a greater influence on how they perceive the world as they view it through the lens of their native bias. Consequently, cultural hybridity – which refers to the complete internalization of more than one culture, enabling people not to be stuck in only one way of thinking – comes across as a slightly problematic term. Transnational individuals may feel comfortable dealing with several cultures simultaneously, but the multiple and continuous linkages that they sustain across borders modify their sense of belonging to a place and influence their identity as well. The concepts of transnationalism and identity inherently call for juxtaposition, highlighting that the distinct space that transnational individuals occupy – neither here nor there or both here and there – represents a third, separate, unique sphere marked by a constant sense of in‐betweenness. The central questions of ‘where we are’ and ‘who we are’ are, therefore, intertwined with each other.


Brief Professional Bio (max. 100 words):
Teodora Domotor received her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Surrey, UK. She currently works as an Assistant Professor at Karoli Gaspar University in Budapest, Hungary. Her primary research goals are directed towards the study of twentieth-century transnational American literature with a strong emphasis on the narrative representation of national and gender identity, immigration, and trauma. She is committed to interdisciplinary research: psychoanalysis, gender studies, and social history form the basis of her arguments. Her articles, chapters, and book reviews have appeared (or are forthcoming) in American and European publications.

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Disease, Diet, and Decoction: Recipe Books and Medicinal Practice in Early Modern Transylvania (Accepted)

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Abstract (max. 250 words):
In early modern Transylvania, providing family members with sanative care – from identifying ailments to preparing basic remedies to treat or prevent them – fell within the established practice of a woman running a household, one of the foremost sites of health-promoting activities. Healing and the maintenance of health were quotidian concerns entwined with culinary and other household activities. This study examines the salient characteristics of household recipe practices in the principality, drawing together sources that have not been previously considered in relation to one another. Attention is given in particular to seventeenth- through mid-eighteenth-century recipe collections of influential noblewomen whose writing, collecting, and exchange of medically-themed recipes comprised part of their activities of providing home-based sanative care. Household recipe collections, as a form of protracted thinking, also functioned as venues for intellectual practice and self-representation. Because recipes were an important part of the vernacular medical literature, their study offers indispensable insights into the period’s medical culture and the non-canonical actors who helped shape it.


Brief Professional Bio (max. 100 words):
Angela Gazda is a scholar of east central Europe whose current work focuses on the history of science, especially early modern medicine.

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‘De ma már úgy isznak, mint az apjuk’: A Pilot Qualitative Study of Hungarian-American Women and Alcohol Use (Accepted)

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Abstract (max. 250 words):
Hungary has one of the highest rates of alcohol use disorder (AUD) and rates of mortality from liver cirrhosis in the world. Research shows there is a correlation between AUD and intergenerational trauma across all cultures, yet there is little research that assesses the impact of intergenerational trauma within the Hungarian-American community and how it contributes to AUD. Given the impact of Hungary’s historical events such as the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, the Treaty of Trianon, and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, this is a critical issue. Furthermore, rates of AUD continue to rise in women, yet this is largely unexplored in Hungarian-American women. This pilot project explores how Hungarian-American women’s perceptions of alcohol use, misuse, and disorder may be shaped by intergenerational trauma, as well as Hungarians’ cultural practices around alcohol. These customs include the portrayal of alcohol as medicine, the omnipresence of alcohol in childhood, drinking as a social activity, and the overall normalization of alcohol in everyday life. Furthermore, these perceptions may be shaped by the extreme portrayals of AUD in Hungary, as well as gender roles surrounding alcohol. As consumption of alcohol continues to rise in women, future research must investigate Hungarian-American women’s potential increased risk of AUD, as well as culturally relevant clinical interventions.


Brief Professional Bio (max. 100 words):
Bonnie Horgos, MSW, LGSW is a second-year PhD student in Social Work at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her research focuses on how gender and culture impact Hungarian-American women's perceptions of alcohol use, misuse, and disorder. She is a licensed graduate social worker with clinical experience in co-occurring substance and alcohol use disorders, intergenerational trauma, gender-based violence, and mass incarceration. In addition to her studies, Bonnie works for the University of Minnesota's Department of Psychiatry and the University of Minnesota’s Office of Institutional Research, Assessment, and Policy Analysis.

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The Widow in the Old House or The Elevator Is Out Of Order (Accepted)

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Abstract (max. 250 words):
On several occasions, composers György Ligeti (1923-2006) spoke about an early literary memory that he credited with the origins of his meccanico style. He recalled reading a short story by Gyula Krúdy (1878-1933) at the age of five, in which Krúdy supposedly wrote about a widow who lived in an old house filled with constantly ticking clocks. To date, the best Krúdy experts have been unable to identify the story in question, and it is reasonable to assume that in Ligeti's mind, actual elements from the writer's work were freely recombined and reimagined at a time when the compositions partly inspired by the Krúdy experience had already been written.
In addition, there is an aspect of Ligeti's recollection of Krúdy that has not received all the attention it deserves. In his conversations with Péter Várnai, the composer spoke of machines that were working or not working (emphasis mine), and elevators stopping at the wrong floor, or not starting at all. Some of the meccanico works are worth revisiting in search of such “malfunctions” as we try to reimagine the old house where not all the clocks might have been running like clockwork.
This paper proposal is submitted in honor of the 100th anniversary of Ligeti’s birth.



Brief Professional Bio (max. 100 words):
PETER LAKI graduated from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest in 1979 and received his Ph. D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989. He was Program Annotator of the Cleveland Orchestra and taught at Case Western Reserve University, Kent State University, John Carroll University and Oberlin College between 1990 and 2007. He is currently Visiting Associate Professor of Music at Bard College.
Dr. Laki has published and lectured internationally. He edited Bartók and His World (Princeton University Press, 1995). In September 2017, he was one of three keynote speakers at an international Bartók symposium held in Budapest.

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Collective Covid Diaries in Hungary and the US (Accepted)

Type of Abstract (select): Paper presentation

Abstract (max. 250 words):
Based on my 2022 book Story Revolutions (https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5758/) I will discuss current trends in collective diary-writing in Hungary and the US, with a specific focus on online Covid diaries. My presentation will first sketch the historical origins of crowd-sourced collective diaries in the Enlightenment and the 1930s. I will also contrast the "forgotten" 1918 flu pandemic with the heavily documented 2020 pandemic.
In examining contemporary cases of collective digital diaries, I will mostly focus on the issue of data privacy, and the ethical and legal implications of sharing one's personal story on public platforms.


Brief Professional Bio (max. 100 words):
Helga Lenart-Cheng grew up in Hungary, studied at JATE and ELTE and received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University. She teaches at Saint Mary's College of California, where she is also Director of the Honors Program. Her co-authored book on Alexander Lenard (Lénárd Sándor, no family relations, ) was published in Hungarian in Budapest in 2016: https://www.atlantiszkiado.hu/en/konyv/lenard-sandor-vilagok-vandora/. Her newest book, Story Revolutions: Collective Narratives from the Enlightenment to the Digital Age, came out in 2022. For more information visit helgalenartcheng.com

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The Hungarian Museum Area during the Quarantine Culture - Core and Peripheral Cultural Industrial Mechanisms (Accepted)

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Abstract (max. 250 words):
During my research paper, I focus on the impact of technology, digital rearrangement, and digital development on museums- I review the previously peripheral segment of the cultural industry, operating with a different mechanism from the core cultural industrial logic - David Hesmondhalgh's work (titled The Cultural Industries) is my theoretical starting point.

I apply the mentioned framework to the solutions of the quarantine culture. (1) I overview the field of museum which is focusing on emerging new types of solutions, and it shows the new museum pedagogy’s solutions as well. (2)During my presentation I give a picture of an „aggressive”, non-organically developed media mediation in the field of museum. My samplings comes from the analysis of the practices of the Hungarian cultural scene. I analyze the new solutions which particularry appeared during the quarantine culture, during the pandemic: I focus on presence, I summarize virtual exhibition’s solutions and practices. After the theoretical framework, and sampling, I discuss my main thesis: the peripheral cultural segment found its practices to join the core cultural segment’s operation with the help of the non-organic media presence. (3)



Brief Professional Bio (max. 100 words):
Zsanett Lengyel is currently a student of the Doctoral School of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Debrecen. There, she earned a communicator degree and then, at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, she earned a design and art theorist degree in 2020, futhermore, she became a design and art manager in 2022. She has tearching and research experience. In her researchers, she deals with different aspects cultural studies withing theatre and museums. She has earned many research sholarships during the past 8 years.

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The Life and Times of Francis F. Dobo: archiving his remarkable estate and collection (Accepted)

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Abstract (max. 250 words):
This is a presentation on my on-going archival project relating to Francis F. Dobo, his relationship to Hungarian photographers and his newly discovered archive of original works. Dobo was a lifelong friend and affiliated with noted Hungarian Street Photographers, Brassaï and André Kertész. During his early years in Paris, late 1920s to early 1930s, Dobo also befriended, writer and artist émigrés such as Ylla, Ergy Landau, Henri Nouveau, Paul Winkler, Lajos Tihanyi and Frederic Littman, as well as Composers Paul Arma and Tibor Harsányi. Eventually he formed a smaller, intimate clique with four of his closest friends, Novelist Henry Miller, Brassaï, Writer Alfred Perlés and Impressionist Painter Hans Reichel. It was also during this time that, as a Literary Agent, he was instrumental in the publication of the first works by French authors Céline and Raymond Queneau. I am currently mid-way through a project to archive the significant collection of never published correspondence, rare books, possibly unseen artworks, personal diaries and other materials. The present owner of the collection is Francis’ son, Michael Dobo.The presentation will discuss the life of Francis Dobo and the current state of the archival project, as well as share a selection of some of the most interesting findings to date.
Előadás magyarul.


Brief Professional Bio (max. 100 words):
György Németh, currently a visiting scholar at Quinnipiac University, studied at the University of Pécs. He is a freelance academic researcher studying the history of photography. Much of his work over the past several years has been on behalf of The Hungarian House of Photography in Budapest. His area of interest has focused on researching the diaspora of notable Twentieth Century Hungarian émigré photographers and their networks of friends and associates. His main area of interest has centered upon the Hungarian photographers who were working in 1930s Paris – including André Kertész, Brassaï, Ylla, Nora Dumas and Ergy Landau – and their subsequent career paths throughout the remainder of their lives.

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Around the World with Science - Hungarian Scientists in the USA (Accepted)

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Abstract (max. 250 words):
There are hundreds or thousands of Hungarian scientists in the United States. Many of them have been working in the U.S. for decades; others have been there only recently. Many of them have become very successful in their scientific field; some others have not only accomplished remarkable results, but have also been able to achieve business success. They brought their basic knowledge from Hungary and found many opportunities here that do not exist in other parts of the world. The combination of knowledge provided by the Hungarian educational system and the conditions offered by the U.S. research and scientific enterprise is a distinct characteristic of most of these scientists. Many of them give back to the Hungarian in science clubs, fellowships, diaspora communities, and in many other ways. For this reason, the "Around the World with Science - Hungarian scientist in the US" project was launched. The goal is to create a video archive where a collection of interviews with these scientists is available. The work started in 2021, and the presentation will show the genesis of the idea and its implementation. Short clips will also be shown to describe the key findings. The 14 films already completed are available in Hungarian on the "Magyar tudósok - USA" Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@magyartudosok-usa7399


Brief Professional Bio (max. 100 words):
Tamas Novak has been an S&T diplomat at the Consulate General of Hungary in New York since 2018. Prior to his current position, he worked at the Budapest Business School, where he was the Chair of International Business and held various leadership positions. In addition to his teaching duties, he was a research fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 2013-2014, he spent a year at SAIS in Washington DC. as a research fellow of the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation. Tamas holds an MSc in Economics and a PhD in International Relations from Corvinus University in Budapest.


Olívia Olah was previously the editor-in-chief of Ferencváros television station and produced live broadcasts and many other programs. She is currently making portrait films about well-known and prominent Hungarians living in the diaspora (especially in the USA) for the program Duna TV program: Five Continents - One Nation. She is one of the creators (cameraman, editor, narrator) of the series "Around the World with Science '', which introduces famous Hungarian scientists.

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Hungarian Cultural Studies: An Introduction and Workshop for Prospective Contributors

Type of Abstract (select): Workshop

Abstract (max. 250 words):
Paul Olchváry and Zsuzsanna Varga, the editors of Hungarian Cultural Studies (HCS) since last September, will introduce AHEA's open-access, academic journal, which is set to publish its sixteenth annual issue in summer 2023. They will discuss their collaboration with HCS's new editorial team and recently expanded editorial board, as well as their vision for the journal's future. Prospective contributors--whether of articles, peer reviews, or book reviews--are encouraged to attend. In addition to providing an overview of the editorial and submission process, including scholarly and formal elements required of contributors, Paul and Zsuzsanna will engage participants in a workshop of exercises focusing on these questions: What are the key considerations to bear in mind before submitting an article, a peer review, and a book review? The session will welcome open discussion and an exchange of views and experiences.


Brief Professional Bio (max. 100 words):
Paul Olchváry is editor-in-chief of Hungarian Cultural Studies, Journal of the AHEA.
editorhungarian@gmail.com

Zsuzsanna Varga is Deputy Editor of Hungarian Cultural Studies Zsuzsanna.Varga@glasgow.ac.uk

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Gastronationalism or Globalism? In Which Direction is Hungarian Gastronomy Headed? (Accepted)

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Abstract (max. 250 words):
Cultural historians have called food “fundamentally political” and “one of the essential commodities with which political powers at various levels are concerned,” because food is an expression of both identity and identity maintenance. Gastronationalism or culinary nationalism is the use of food and its history, production, control, preparation and consumption as a way of promoting nationalism and national identity. Will fusion cuisine (=combines elements of different culinary traditions that originate from different countries) destroy Hungarian identity, even if it is Hungarian Sushi at a Michelin starred restaurant in Budapest? Or should we recall that paprika, pasta, and sweet peppers introduced to Hungary from foreign lands have completely infiltrated its historic gastronomy? Will Mangalica pigs raised in the USA challenge Hungary’s claim to fame? Is the European Union threatening Hungarian gastronationalism? For example, Pick “Téliszalami” was declared a “Hungaricum” in 2014, meaning that it has a value worthy of distinction and highlighting, and with its characteristic features, uniqueness, distinctiveness, and quality, the peak achievement of Hungarianism. In early 2023, a 250-gram packet of téliszalami in a German shop cost EUR 5.70, but in Hungary around EUR equivalent 8.90-10. How heavily will local Hungarians protest this intrusion? A 2020 article published by Cambridge UP found that while the concept of gastronationalism had not been fully developed in academia, scholarship is developing quickly. This paper seeks to demonstrate that Hungarian gastronationalism has the potential – or NOT - to challenge the conceptions of the homogenizing forces of globalism.


Brief Professional Bio (max. 100 words):
Mártha Pereszlényi-Pintér is the former Chairperson of the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Cultures and Associate Professor of French at John Carroll University in Cleveland, OH. She earned her Ph.D. in Romance Languages from The Ohio State University, and studied at the Institut de Touraine (Tours) and the Bryn Mawr Program (Avignon) in France. Her research and publication accomplishments include French and also Hungarian Literature and Culture of the pre-modern period (Medieval, Renaissance, 17th century), Film, and Language for Business & the Professions. She has read papers at national and international conferences. While at OSU, she wrote or co-wrote 16 manuals for individualized instruction in both French and Hungarian with group grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Annenberg Foundation. She was born in Austria and emigrated to the USA with her Hungarian parents. She is also a past President of AHEA, and chaired or co-chaired four past AHEA annual Conferences.

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A 3D technológia és a művészet kapcsolata (Accepted)

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Abstract (max. 250 words):
A 3D-nyomtatás kapcsán a sokszorosíthatóság, prototípusok gyártása mellett felvetül művészeti eszközként való használatának problémája is. A 3D nyomtatáshoz szorosan kapcsolódik a már meglévő tárgyak 3D szkennelése. Utóbbi kapcsán fennáll a veszély, hogy ha rosszul használják fel, akkor veszélybe kerülhet a mű értéke és tömegcikké válhat. Mint ami történt például a Méloszi Aphrodité szoborral. A már amúgy is veszélybe került művet árucikké alakításával értékében inflálták. Jelenleg a mai technológiával egy köztéri szobrot is be tudunk szkennelni, és akár kinyomtatni bármekkora méretben és mennyiségben. Nagyon jó lehetőség lenne így dokumentálni köztéri szobrokat a leírások és fotók mellett. Victor Vasarely szerint „a számítógép nyitja majd meg a plasztikai térben az alapvető kutatások korát”. Vasarely ezzel a kijelentésével is előre mutatta, hogy az új plasztikai formákat a számítástechnikai eszközök kihasználatlansága miatt még a későbbiekben rengeteg lehetőségeket hordozhatnak magukban. Rochitz elvárása a kortárs esztétika igénye felé „a »szép« keresése csakis a kortárs művészet logikájának elfelejtése árán teljesíthető”, így egy újabb krízist állítva fel a kortárs művészet felé. Mivel ezzel a szkennelési és nyomtatási technológiával, nemcsak az eredetiség, hanem a művész jelenléte is feleslegessé válhat. Előadásomban magyar és nemzetközi példák kapcsán az alábbi kutatói kérdéseke vizsgálom: Miért kellene a művész ahhoz, hogy a látott természetet és körülötte lévő embereket és tárgyakat újra leírja a saját nyelvével? Tényleg nem szükséges a művész keze?


Brief Professional Bio (max. 100 words):
Eszter Varga is sculpture artist from Hungary, where she learned at University of Pécs. At the Hungarian Countrywide Student Competition (OTDK) achieved a second place. Her technique is 3D modelling and printing, mainly non-figurative.

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