Accepted Abstracts
Invited
Keynote Presentation -- Professor Paul Hanebrink
A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism
Plenary Talk -- Professor Cleopatra Charles
Beyond ChatGPT: How Nonprofit Organizations Can Leverage AI To Expand Reach and Enhance Giving Experiences
Cultural Studies
Antal-Ferencz, Ildikó
Being Hungarian in America: 37 interviews about the current state of the Hungarian diaspora and its future prospects in North America (Book)
Boros, Nicholas
Pilgrims in a Foreign Land: A Survey of Hungarian Catholic Shrines in the United States and Their Relation to Other Ethnic Shrines
Boros, Péter
From Jesuit Missionaries to Scholars of Sinology. Crossing Linguistic Boundaries through Editing Hungarian–Chinese Dictionaries (Panel)
Cseh, Gizella
A népszínmű tündöklése és bukása. Magyar művelődéstörténeti pillanatképek.
Dömötör, Teodóra
Saying Goodbye – A Comparative Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Expatriation and Mourning
Gazda, Angela
To Serve the Needs of Their Users: Two Natural-Philosophical Texts from Mrs. Heltai’s Printshop in Early Modern Transylvania
Kaplan, Jeffrey
The Hungarian Faith Church (Hit Gyülekezete): Domestic and International Activism
Langer, Armin
Rabbi Fulop Fischer's Sermons: Navigating Ambiguity and Advocacy in Hungarian Jewry
Lengyel, Zsanett
Theatre and Quarantine Culture
Lovra Éva
The Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things: Nationality Rooms in the Cathedral of Learning
Lovra, Éva
Book presentation: From the Miskolc Modernism to New York. Architecture of Victor Bohm (Book)
Lucas, Sarah
Professional Development Session: Publishing a Monograph (Panel)
Mervay, Mátyás
Writing a non-fiction book about the Hungarian Rescuer of Shanghai Jewish Refugees (Book)
Molnár, Eszter
Balogh Edit kárpitművész Szálvetés című monográfiája és a Magyar Kárpitművészek Egyesületének tevékenysége (Book)
Nemes, Márk
The Study of New Religions in Hungary Before and After the Fall of the Iron Curtain (Panel)
Nemes, Márk and Boros, Péter
Central European Symposium on the Academic Study of Religion (CESAR) Panel - Trajectories of academic study of religions in Central and Eastern Europe.
Petrás, Éva
The Many Lives of a Jesuit, Freemason, and Philantropist. The Story of Töhötöm Nagy (Book)
Réthelyi, Mari
Nationalism and Orientalism: The Usage of Obituaries in fin-de Siècle Hungarian Jewish discourse
Szabó, Éva
Social Media as “Religion"
Szőke, Dávid
The “Gypsy Problem” and Its Implications on the Hungarian National Identity in the Hungarian Press (1939-1945)
Venkovits, Balázs
100 Years of Hungarian Immigration to North America: Challenges and Opportunities for Research
Education
Csutak, Zsolt
Teaching Modules on the Outstanding Personalities of the American Hungarian Diaspora in Hungarian Secondary and Tertiary Education
Fehér, Krisztina
“Ez a legstickybb glue” – Patterns of Language Use in the Classrooms of Hungarian Heritage Schools in the Cleveland Area
Fejes, József Balázs
Principles and Implementation of a Hungarian Reading Comprehension Intervention
Fenyvesi, Kristóf; Kerekes, Judit and Eleonora Stettner
Cognitive Skill Development with Mathematical-Artistic Games: The Mondrian Blocks in the CogniTeach Project and Beyond
Hubai, Katalin
Teacher Preparation in Hungary: Exploring possible implications of research and reframing challenges from the US context
Iván, Emese
Legacy of a Female Junior Basketball Team
Mátay, Mónika
The Global Network Builder: Aurél Török
Németh, Tímea; Sütő, Annamária, and Balázs Sütő
Hungary as a Global Campus: Exploring the Hungarian Culture through the Eyes of International Students
Petreczky, Katalin
Bridging the Language Gap
Pölcz, Ádám
Rhetorics Education in Hungary in the 21st century
Somfalvi, Zita
Social and Cultural Capital of Unsuccessful Foreign Language Learners in Hungary
Stettner, Eleonóra
Adventures in the Universe of Education with Poly-Universe
Szász Saxon, János and Dárdai, Zsuzsa
Poly-Universe: Art, Game, Math (Workshop)
History/Political Science
Ambrus, László
"Under Uncle Sam's Flag" - The Hungarian American Experience in World War I
Bódi, Ferenc
The Hungarian Third Way Model: a reality or utopia as a political and economic alternative?
Bodó, Béla
Partners, allies or enemies? Asymmetrical dependencies and the fate of the German and Jewish minorities in Hungary, 1918-1947.
Csorba, Mrea
Remagining Borders -- Határ: Open frontier or Border Checkpoint?
Hevő, Péter
“The Danube Has Died.” Press Coverage in Komárom during the Breakup of the Hungarian State
Kovács, Beáta
The Fearful Right and the Brave Left? About the Ideological Dimensions of Fear
Kövecses, László
To Help or Not to Help? Moral Relativism and Historical Memory in Hungarian Public Discourse Since the 16th Century
Laczó, Ferenc
A Global History of Hungary. Concept, Implementation, Reflection
Larson, Luke
Home Across the Border: Subcarpathian Hungarian Immigration to Northeastern Hungary
Németh, Ferenc
Better than Ever? Conceptualizing Hungarian–Serbian Historical Reconciliation
Niessen, James P.
Cold War Flashpoint? Hungarian Christians and the Evanston Assembly of 1954
Petrás, Éva
A transnational Model Transfer: The attempts of Töhötöm Nagy to establish Catholic agrarian youth organizations in South America
Rakita, Eszter
"Two-Time Enemy Alien" - The Curious Case of Victor Gondos Sr.
Scheibner, Tamás
Navigating New Horizons: The 1956 Hungarian Exodus and Its Global Impact (Panel)
Somogyi, Ferenc
Cultural Survival and a Sense of Mission: Analysis of Cleveland Hungarian Community Organizations’ Emphasis on Hungarian Identity
Szigeti, Thomas
Learning the Rules of “Fair Play”: ‘English’ Influences on Hungarian State-Building, 1867-1918
Varju, Márton
Hungary in Europe: what the law can tell us about Hungary's integration into the European Union
Language/Literature
Bartal, Mária
Between Mind and Body: Decoding Illness in Karinthy's 'Journey Around My Skull'
Chesla, Elizabeth Lukács
You Cannot Forbid the Flower: Reimagining a Father's Life through Fact and Fiction (Book)
Csontos, Tamás and Tóth, Etelka
Orthography Without Borders
Currier, Grant
Steps Leading Nowhere?: The Forming of the Self in the Hungarian-American Imagination
Dánél, Mónika
Toward a Poetics of Accents: Re-mapping the National from Shared Borderland and Transnational Spaces
Fodor, Mónika
Intergenerational and Collective Memory’s Role in Constructing Ethnic Identity: A Study of Interview Narratives and Hungarian Folktales
Köves, Margit
Inventing new Boundaries of East and West in Szaturnuszi mesék 1 (Saturnian Tales 1 2023) by Gábor Lanczkor
Parapatics, Andrea
Voice actors on Hungarian dubbing: Attitudes and experiences
Rich, Suzanna Lippóczy
Still Hungary: A Poetry Reading
Music/Folklore
Biggs, Jackie
Frederic Balázs and Ernst von Dohnányi: From Budapest to the American Southwest
Bozzay Zina
Hungarian Folk Singing Workshop (Workshop)
Bozzay, Zina
Spinning and Singing: What Hungarian fonó can teach us about singing today
Csontosné Buzás, Zsuzsa
Introducing Musical Applications: games and assessment tools, based on recent research studies in Hungarian music education (Workshop)
Csontosné, Buzás Zsuzsa
Musicological and pedagogical aspects of the International Society for Research & Promotion of Wind Music from a Hungarian Perspective
Hooker, Lynn
Heritage Institutions and Support for Hungary’s “Gypsy Music”
Lucas, Sarah
Reiner, Brahms, and the American Hungarian Studies Foundation’s “Night at the Symphony”
Olson, Judith E.
Pushing the Boundaries of Hungary: Fostering Hungarian Dance in North America and Japan
Rideg, Tímea Bettina
The History of the Kodály Ensemble of Toronto: Masters-pupils-results
Salamon, Soma
Changing Times, Perpetual Tradition? Generational Narratives of Folk Music Interpretation in the Hungarian Táncház Movement.
Szentkirályi, Endre
Aranylakodalom: Fifty years of Cleveland’s Hungarian Scout Folk Ensemble
Tunbridge, Laura
American Bartók: The Sixth Quartet in Performance
Science/Economics
Nagy, Endre J.
Polányi Károly és Mihály: együtt vagy külön?
Novák, Tamás
Hungarian Scientists in the United States
Petersburger, Joe
You Are What You Eat or Drink... – The Chemo-preventive Effects of Some Polyphenols and Coffee