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You are kindly invited to the
Canadian Generations in Culture and the Arts:
Synchronic and Diachronic Approaches
International Conference Organized by
KÁROLI GÁSPÁR UNIVERSITY OF THE REFORMED CHURCH IN HUNGARY
and
EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY
to be held at the Faculty of Humanities of Károli Gáspár University
(address: 1146 Budapest, Dózsa György út 25-27)
on November 29th from 10:30 am to 8:00 pm
and at the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Loránd University
(address: 1088 Budapest, Rákóczi út 5)
on November 30th from 9:00 am to 7:15 pm
featuring
Michelle Gadpille (University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia)
as keynote speaker
The keynote lecture will be preceded and followed by sessions with the participation of Hungarian, Central European and Canadian experts in Canadian Studies. The conference will also host a French session coordinated by Pázmány Péter Catholic University, a teacher training event delivered by the Canada in the English Classroom Research Group of Károli University, and a film screening with introduction.
PROGRAM
DAY 1 November 29 (Thursday)
Venue: Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary (1146 Budapest, Dózsa György út 25-27, 2nd floor, room 215)
10:30-11:45 Student Session 1
11:45-12:00 Coffee break
12:00-12:30 Opening – welcome speeches (Canadian Embassy, KRE, ELTE)
12:30-13:30 Keynote: Michelle Gadpaille (University of Maribor, Slovenia) - What Ever Happened to Anne (with an E)? Reading Canadian with Millennial Values
13:30-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-16:00 Session 1 (Chair: Michelle Gadpaille)/ PKU Contest (room 117)
Mónika Kósa: Voices from the Deep: Cultural Pluralism and the Construction of Native American Female Identity in Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach
Philipp Reisner: Canada’s Confederation Poets and the Residential School System
Teodóra Dömötör: Identity and Otherness - Hemingway's Complicated Transcultural Experience in Toronto
16:00-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-17:45 Teacher Training Event (Canada in the English Classroom research group)
17:45-18:00 Coffee break
18:00-20:00 Film club (film screening – Moderator: Dóra Bernhardt)
DAY 2 November 30 (Friday)
Venue: Eötvös Loránd University (1088 Budapest, Rákóczi út 5 (building R5) 3rd floor, room 356)
9:00-10:30 Session 2 (Chair: Judit Nagy)
Bianka Speidl: The importance of the concept of authority in the process of integration
Boglárka Vermeki: Storybooks Hungary, providing multilingualism
Lindsey Paek: Implications of the ESL program for 1.5 generation Korean youths’ identity negotiation in the context of public schools in Toronto
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:15 Session 3 (French Session, Chair: Anikó Ádám)/ Student session 2 (room 423)
François-Emmanuël Boucher: Génération X : la question de la haine, du désespoir et de l’identité dans les productions télévisuelles de François Létourneau et de Jean-François Rivard
Martonyi Éva: Transculturalisme - ou comment revivre le passé individuel vs collectif dans l’œuvre de Jacques Poulin
Simone Grossman: Entre Budapest et Montréal, les générations entremêlées
12:15-13:15 Lunch break/ HUNCS meeting
13:15-15:15 Session 4 (Chair: Mária Palla)
Éva Zsizsmann: Mothers and émigré sons: A Mavis Gallant film adaptation
Katinka Krausz: Photographs and Authorship in Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin
Krisztina Kodó: Transcultural experiments of early modernist repertory theatres in Canada and the US
Vera Benczik: Apocalypse as metaphor in Margaret Atwood’s “The Salt Garden”
15:15-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-17:30 Session 5 (Chair: Dóra Bernhardt)
Ahmed Joudar: The experience of immigrants in Canada between Home and Homeland
Gertrúd Szamosi: Transgenerational Narratives in Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What the Body Remembers
Judit Nagy: Immigrant Life in Canada: Ann Y. K. Choi's Kay's Lucky Coin Variety
Mária Palla: Generational Differences in Women’s Lives: Anita Rau Badami’s Tamarind Mem
17:30-17:45 Coffee break
17:45-19:15 Session 6 (Chair: Vera Benczik)
Attila Takács: Ford’s Western - Kunuk’s Northern? A Reinterpretation of Traditional Western
Dóra Bernhardt: “The keeper of generations:” Rebuilding the Indigenous Family
Miklós Vassányi: First Contact: General Patterns of First Encounters with the Inuit in Early Modernity
