Conferences / 2025 - University of Pécs, Hungary / Accepted Abstracts

Cultural Studies

Antal-Ferencz, Ildikó -- Book PresentationBook Presentation: Being Hungarian in America

Cseh, GizellaKét variáció: 1. A népszínmű tündöklése és bukása. Magyar művelődéstörténeti pillanatképek, 2. Hugonnai Vilma emlékezete. Hugonnai, az "egészségnevelő".

Csorba, MreaSkita Artifacts of the Carpathian Basin: dissemination, inclusion and dialogue between Hungarian and American scholars

Fábián, GyöngyiOn the Terminology of Community Work in a Higher Education BA Program in Hungary

Fenyvesi, Anna and Réka Bakos -- Book PresentationBook Presentation: “Hungarian Roots & American Dreams”: Preserving Heritage and Forging Transatlantic Connections

Fodor, MónikaMoral Stance in Intergenerational Trauma Memory Narratives

Hegedüs, AndrásVárkonyi Nándor és Pécs

Lenart-Cheng, HelgaFamily Secrets and Personal Narratives: The Restless Hungarian

Ludányi, AndrewToledo Hungarians and Margaret Mead

Molnár, EszterArchetypal Symbolization and Magical Images. An interdisciplinary case study

Pásztor, SabrinaCommunicative Practices of First, Second and Third-generation American-Hungarians in the United States

Pölcz, ÁdámRhetoric as an Independent Scientific Basis: questions and answers regarding the Hungarian context of a scientific field

Réthelyi, MariTransatlantic Insights: The Scholarship of Hungarian Jewry in the AmericanAcademia during the Cold War

Scheibner, TamásComparative Literature in Times of Conflict: Jean Hankiss as Scholar and Culture Politician in the 1930s and 1940s

Schwartz, Agatha and Robert SvarcReflecting on Hungarian Diasporic Identity Through the Music of the Vojvodina-based Sógor Együttes

Szabó, ÉvaA magyar kultúra öröksége az emigráció tükrében - az Örly Múzeum küldetése

Szentkirályi, EndreCleveland’s Hungarian School: Strengthening a Diaspora Community since 1958

Education

Csomán, KatalinPittsburgh-based Global Learning: Local Communities as Resources and Partners (Panel Discussion)

Fekete, AdriennIntroducing an Identity-based and Student-centered Model of Teaching and Facilitating Intercultural Communication

Fogarasi, MiklósInnovative Paths for Experiential Learning in Hungarian and US Medical Education

Gomory, TomiCross Cultural Poetry Therapy Class

Kerekes, Judit, Imre Kökényesi and Ödön VancsóExplore New Innovative Playmath, Love and Understand Mathematics Experience from New York, Budapest to Beijing (Panel Discussion)

Kollár, Ágnes and Ildikó VecsernyésEgyszerűsített magyar nyelvtan: videók magyartanuláshoz

Lakatos, Lilla, Katalin Pelcz and Gyöngyi PozsgaiStudy in Hungary: Summer Schools for Diaspora Students. Experiences of the Hungarian Diaspora Scholarship Program and Beyond (Panel Discussion)

Maior, EnikőTalent Development at Partium University

Mátyás, DénesA Common Platform for Sustainable Education: A Joint Online Course by Fourteen Hungarian Universities

Mayer, GhislaineExploring the Pros and Cons of Student Peer Mentoring

Petreczky, KatalinBalancing Act: AMIT’s Role in Supporting Hungarian Language Education Engaging Diverse Learners while Maintaining Group Harmony

Stachó, László -- Book PresentationGradus ad Parnassum: Two late 19th-century country boys’ journey to Budapest

Szécsi, Tünde and Janka SzilágyiHungarian American Parents’ Perspectives on Translanguaging in Family Communication

Tunceren, Li-LeeTeaching Freedom in a Hungarian High School

Túri, KrisztinaEmbracing the Challenges of a Transatlantic Life With the Help of Such Cognitive Tools as Mental Time Travel and Mental Imagery

Váradi, JúliaCultural Anthropological Study of International Students in Pécs

Williams, Thomas A.Foreign But Not Alien: Life narratives of Anglophone international students in Hungary

History/Political Science

Balogh, Máté Gergely"Reporting from the Other Shore" - Pál Ipper and the United States of America

Behrendt, AndrewAmerican Girls, Danubian Currents: Rezső Török’s Vadevezős and the Fate of the New Woman in Interwar Hungary

Bliss, AshtonOvercoming Transatlantic Isolationism through Feminism

Bordás, BertalanThe US vs. Britain: Traces of the Alabama affair (1867) in the Historical Collections Department of the University of Pécs

Csunderlik, Péter“The Red Sea of Judeo-Bolshevism” – The Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919) and the Theory of “Judeo-Bolshevik Conspiracy"

Csutak, ZsoltBrothers-in-arms: Hungarian heroes who fought for Uncle Sam

Deák, GeorgeLajos Esztergár, Mayor of Pécs, and the Holocaust; Lessons from his Wartime Private Correspondence.

Fülöp, MihályTransylvania (or the Greatest Part Thereof): How the Hungarian‒Romanian border was debated by the Great Powers (1940‒1945)

Gazsó, DánielDiaspora Policies and Kin-State Activism

Glant, TiborSetting the Rules for "Business as Usual": Establishing Bilateral US-Hungarian Relations, 1919–1925

Hevő, PéterThe Political Debate on Hungary’s Accession to NATO

Kopyś, TadeuszHungarian Refugees in the United Kingdom in the Context of Domestic Policy (1956–1957)

Kovács, BálintThe Federation of Free Hungarian Jurists

Lang, TündeRoman Baths in Pécs, Sopianae

Leech, PatrickHungarians Otthon: Camp Kilmer, Világmagyarság, and the Hungarian Crisis

Máté, ZsoltThe 1956 Hungarian Revolution and its American Heritage

Mathey, ÉvaHungarian Ministers in the United States during the Interwar Period—Count László Széchenyi and János Pelényi

Medley, CarsonFrom Coal to Congressional Medal of Honor: The Act of Creation in Research

Németh, FerencMinority Participation in Practice: Case Study of Hungarians in Serbia

Niessen, JamesZoltán Béky, The First Hungarian American Bishop: From Sárospatak to Washington, DC

Petrás, ÉvaThe Power of Words - The emigrant activity of István Barankovics, 1949-1974

Stark, TamásThe Memory of “Malenkij Robot”. Historiography and Memory Politics about the fate of Hungarian POWs and Internees in Soviet Labor Camps.

Suly, RitaHungarian Parish Priests in the US during the 1930s and 1940s

Szálkai, KingaHungarian Perceptions of the American 'Indian'

Szigeti, ThomasUntraveled Avenues: Hungarian Political Imaginaries of France, 1867-1894

Tárkányi, SándorHelytörténeti adalékok a magyar zsidó aranyvonat transzatlanti kutatásához

Timár, BálintNew Visions for the International Order

Zachar, Peter KrisztiánThe reception of corporate ideas in interwar Hungary - Life and work of Jesuit László Varga (1901–1974)

Language/Literature

Bartal, MáriaSándor Weöres's Tűzkút (Firewell): Editorial History

Basa, Enikő M.Hungarian Ethnic Literature in the United States

Czipott, Péter -- Book PresentationBook Presentation: Inebriate of Dawn: An Anthology of Kosztolányi poems in English

Farkas, Ákos István“The Enemy Is the Enemy Is the Enemy”: The Timely Implications of Benedek Totth’s Second Novel

Fenyvesi, Anna and Máté HuberAmerican Hungarian Cemeteries: A linguistic landscape

Kovács, Ágnes ZsófiaDetecting Borders in Contemporary Hungarian Crime Fiction

Lugossy, Réka“Words That Must Not Be Named”: Narratives of language, power, and identity in Communist Romania

Pavlish, JamesKosztolanyi’s Aranysarkany at 100

Pusztai-Varga, IldikóExploring Hungarian Heritage Language Learning Motivations

Sárosi-Márdirosz, KrisztinaTerminological Challenges in Translating Official Forms from Romanian to Hungarian (a project of bilingualization)

Stachó, LászlóBook presentation: “A zongoraművész Bartók: Modellek és ideálok” (“Bartók the Pianist: Models and Ideals”)

Szabó T., Annamária UllaNames and Heritage Identity

Varga, ZsuzsannaDownplaying Modernism: The translation of A Scots Quair into Skócia lánya: politics, publishing and dialects in the Hungarian translation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s fiction

Vöő, GabriellaThe Poe Galaxy: Cultic (Mis-)translations of Poe between the 1970s and 1990s

Zsemlyei BorbálaGrammatical Characteristics of the Online Hungarian Media in Transylvania

Music/Folklore

Czipott, PeterLiszt the European and His Transylvanian Rhapsody: An Idyll of Intercultural Harmony

Hooker, LynnHungary’s Rajkó Ensemble at Home Abroad: Socialist Cultural Diplomacy or Capitalist Commodity?

Lucas, SarahThe Writings of Conductor Fritz Reiner

Olson, JudithHow Far Can You Go Without Losing Your Soul? Hungarian rural dance improvisation across boundaries of space and time

Papp, Klára K.Folktales: An integral part of Hungarian culture

Stier, AlexaDomestic Music-Making in the Concert Hall: György Kurtág's 'Játékok' for Four Hands within the Socio-Cultural Context of Socialist Hungary

Szemere, AnnaAfter Zhdanov: Jazz, Bartók, and Musical Modernism in János Maróthy’s Work

Szives, Márton„Let´s play Music!” – Typology of Attention

Science/Economics

Bódi, FerencHungary's Third Way model: A reality or utopia as a political and economic system alternative?

American Hungarian Educators Association (AHEA)

Accepted Abstracts

Cultural Studies

Education

History/Political Science

Language/Literature

Music/Folklore

Science/Economics