Appendix 5
country report –
hungary
October 2002 – March 2003
1. New
courses
ELTE Budapest
- Contrastive Studies in English, American and
Canadian Poetry (Tamas Juhasz)
- Contrastive Studies in English, American and
Canadian Poetry (Katalin G. Kallay)
-
Northrop Frye (Tibor Fabinyi)
- The
Interdependency of Nature and Regionalism in Canadian Short Prose (Judit
Nagy)
-
Continentalism in North American Literature (Anna Jakabfi)
- Women
in Canadian Frontier Literature (Angela Pap)
N.B. North American specialization opened at ELTE Budapest 2 March 2003 and the ceremony welcomed Yvon Turcotte, Political Councillor from the Canadian Embassy, who gave a lecture as well.
University of Debrecen
- Theme and Image in Canadian Poetry (Judit
Molnar)
- Is There A Canadian Culture?
(Judit Molnar)
2. Conference
participation
“Canada in the European Mind”, Debrecen, 24-27 October, 2002, organized by Peter Szaffko, Judit Molnar and Szabolcs Szilagyi
-
Katalin Kurtosi: “Stage Representations of Indians in Canada”
- Maria
Marosvari: “La polyphonie dans l'ecriture d'Antonie Maillet: Les Cordes-de-
- Judit
Molnar: “Cultural and Geographical Spaces in Italian-Canadian Literature”
- Judit
Nagy: “The Significance of Weather Images in Modern Canadian Fiction”
- Nora Sellei: “The Body and Sexuality in Alice Munro's ‘Wild Swans" and Margaret Atwood's ‘Rape Fantasies’"
- Peter Szaffko: “The Hungarian Connection: Hungarians and the
Canadian Theatre”
- Edina
Szalay: “Neo-gothic Texts in Contemporary Canadian Fiction: Margaret
Atwood's Alias Grace”
- Szabolcs Szilagyi: “David French and the Tarragon”
- Gabriella Tothne Espak: “Minorities, Multiculturalism and the
Constitution”
- Arpad Vigh: “Le bon usage Quebecois”
Hungarian Society for the Study
of English Conference VI
- Katalin Kurtosi: “Theories about
Ethnicity in Literature”
- Judit Molnar: “Spatial Layouts in a Hungarian
Immigrant's Journey to Canada: A
Case Study of In light of Chaos by Bela Szabados”
- Dora
Podor: “Usage Surveys of Canadian Mainstream English”
- Peter Szaffko: “The Concept of Syncretic Theatre and Postcolonial
Theory”
- Szabolcs Szilagyi: “An
Alternative in the Mainstream”
N.B. Ron Halpin, the Ambassador of Canada to
Hungary was among the speakers who opened the conference (over 200
participants)
4.
Visiting lecturers
October 7-8: Christiane Harzig (University of Bremen), Ulrike Gerhard (University of Wurzburg), Gabe Scardellato (University of Toronto), Kathy Scardellato (Public Library of Toronto) on topics: Multiculturalism, Cities' Development, Italian-Canadian Literature, Library On-Line System in Toronto respectively. (ELTE, Budapest)
Yvon Turcotte, Councillor Political from the
Canadian Embassy, gave a lecture at Karoli Gaspar University (Budapest) this
year 21st of February and presented the university with a book donation.
5.
Grants
Katalin Kurtosi gained the FRP and spent time in Ottawa , Montreal and Toronto doing research.
6.
Young Canadianists
University of Miskolc
- PhD thesis defended: Istvan Molnar: A
Quebec-kerdes fobb aspektusai Kanada
alkotmanyos szabalyozasanak
tukreben (The Primary Aspects of the
Quebec
Problem in Relation to Canada's
Constitutional Regulations)
ELTE, Budapest
- MA theses defended in January
2003:
-
Katarina Farkas: The Development of Theater Life in British Columbia
and the Cult of Shakespeare
- Krisztina Csiki: The Quest for Identity in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing
and
- Gyorgy Toth: Make Yourself
at Home - Hungarian Immigration and Life in
Canada During the Great Depression
MA theses in progress at the
University of Szeged and University of Debrecen; 1 PhD thesis in progress at
the University of Debrecen
9.
Other
Arpad Vigh (University of Pecs) is teaching Canadian literature and stylistics at the University of Laval during the first semester in 2003.