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2021
2020
2019

events, news, announcements

Fri 30 Sep/Sat 1 Oct: Action Suited to the Word, a conference in memory of István Géher and Géza Kállay

Fri 6 May, 10:00: Robert Eaglestone, Aristotle — but not the Poetics! — and literature (reading: Eaglestone, Truth and Wonder: A literary Introduction to Plato and Aristotle, pp. 118–151; contact timar.andrea@btk.elte.hu)

Thu 5 May, 17:30: Robert Eaglestone, Hanna Arendt, Literature, and Democracy

Thu 28 Apr, 18:00–19:30: Magyar Shakespeare Bizottság: Péter Rudolf interviewed by Zsolt Almásy & Veronika Schandl (Kerényi terem, building F)

Mon 25/Fri 29 Apr: Kedvezményes Könyvvásár az Anglisztika Tanszéken 2022. 04.25-29. között: Az angol irodalom története (főszerk. Bényei Tamás/Kállay Géza), 1-4. kötet

Mon 25/Fri 29 Apr: 12th Student Poster Presentation Conference

Tue 12 Apr, 15:00–16:30: BRaCeLeT talks #12: Iva Kovač (Vienna): Agreeing to control

Mon 11 Apr, 18:00 (5pm UK time, 7pm Ukraine time): The Pity of War… Solidarity event for Ukraine: Poetry reading with Alan Maley, Kimwei McCarthy, Charlie Hadfield, Jill Hadfield, Sharoon Sunny, Vishnu Rai Singh, Vahid Nimehchisalem, Sana Khan, Andrew Wright, John Liddy, Gerard Hocmard, and Mike Swan. https://vimeo.com/698668066

Wed 6 Apr, 17:00: Introducing Encounters of the Popular Kind: Traditions and Mythologies, a collection of essays

Wed 9 Mar, 17:30–19:00: student forum and discussion on war over Ukraine, Múzeum krt. 6–8, 252

2021

Fri 17/Sat 18 Dec: Össznyelvész 2021, conference in linguistics organized by BRaCeLeT/NYEKK

Thu 2 Dec: Zsófia Bán receives the Füst Milán Prize for Prose. Congratulations to our colleague!

Tue 23 Nov, 18:00: Work In Progress Special (in Hungarian ): About Anne Sexton‘s poetry — recently translated into Hungarian; a conversation with the translators of the poems

Tue 9 Nov, 18:00: book première: Natália Pikli, Shakespeare’s Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture; introduced by Eglantina Remport, hosted by Zsolt Komáromy; in D126 (1088 Budapest, Múzeum körút 4)

Wed 3 Nov, 17:00–18:30: the first meeting of the Budapest Metaphor Circle: Zoltán Kövecses, Anger in a New Light (followed by an informal discussion) in Kari Tanácsterem, Building A (1088 Budapest, Múzeum körút 4)

Sun 19 Sep: Zsófia Bán is awarded the Spycher: Literaturpreis Leuk. Congratulations to our colleague!

Fri 17 Sep: The Reel Eye ’21, film festival and workshop

Thu 2 Sep: iDEaS Conference and Workshop

Sat 24 Jul: Megtörtént. Minden szó igaz, a book by our late colleague, Judit Zerkowitz

Thu 24 Jun, 14:00: the Outstanding Thesis Award gala

Fri 4 Jun, 9:00–16:00: First Doctoral Research Conference of the Modern English and American Literature and Culture Doctoral Program (on Facebook)

Tue 11 May: apply for teaching assistantship at DELG, deadline: Sun 27 Jun

Mon 3–Fri 7 May: 11th Student Poster Presentation Conference

Mon 19–Fri 23 Apr: Infosztrájk: getting informed about and discussing academic freedom

Sun 11 Apr: Infosztrájk/Nádasdy Ádám: Shakespeare és autonómia

Wed 17 March, 16:00: A gótika kikel sírjából by EASPop (English and American Studies Popular Culture Research Group)

2020

Tue 22 Dec: Össznyelvész 2020 Conference (in linguistics)

Tue 17 Nov: Shakespeare-kutatás az angolszász világban

Tue 27–Wed 28 Oct: 1st English and American Popular Culture Conference (Encounters of the Popular Kind: Traditions and Mythologies in Dialogue

Tue 13 Oct, 14:00–16:00: The Department of English Applied Linguistics of Eötvös Loránd University invites all who are interested to the on-line closing event of the Erasmus+ project entitled “Language Skills of Deaf Students for European Mobility” carried out in collaboration with Czech, Austrian, and British participants. The program includes the introduction of the project and the presentation of the research findings of the Hungarian team. This will be followed by the experience reports of Deaf participants about their process of learning English and the project outputs they participated in. The event is going to conclude with a question and answer session. Venue: MSTeams, register at wein.kata@btk.elte.hu. Sign language interpretation will be provided. All are welcome!

Fri 9 Oct, 17:00–18:30: FORDÍTSUNK! – Mesterek hibái – modern versfordítások angolból, Nádasdy Ádám és Horváth Viktor műhelybeszélgetése, Magvető Café, VII. Dohány utca 13; a Fókusz Könyváruházon (Rákóczi út 14) át egy kis folyosón keresztül is megközelíthető

Sat 3 Oct, 18:00–18:30: SEAS members on solidarity walk out to SZFE

Thu 1 Oct, 14:00: opening of the Writing Center

Tue 29 Sep, 18:00–20:00: Shakespeare-ünnep (on Facebook), Magyar Shakespeare Bizottság, Dobos Dániel és zenekara, Nádasdy Ádám, Szőnyi György Endre, Dicső Dániel, Schiller Mariann, Reuss Gabriella; D nagyelőadó

Tue 22 Sep, 18:00–19:00: Medgyes Péter, Milyen a jó előadó? (könyvbemutató)

Tue 22 Sep, 18:00–21:00: student forum on the state of universities

Tue 22 Sep, 16:00: ELTE BTK trade union (PDSZ) on a solidarity walk out to SZFE (pic)

Tue 23 Jun, 10:00: Outstanding Thesis Awards gala

Wed 3 Jun: Our colleague Judit Zerkowitz passed away this morning, aged 74. Requiescat in pace.

Wed 22 Apr: Ádám Nádasdy wins the Aegon Literary Award 2020. Congratulations to our colleague!

Wed 4–11 Mar: 10th Student Poster Presentation Conference

Thu 6 Feb, 9:30–17:00: The Reel Eye, film festival and workshop ⟦programme⟧

Thu 6 Feb, 15:00: Tibor Frank, A polgári érintkezés modernizálódása a 19. században. An inaugural lecture at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA, Felolvasóterem, 1051 Budapest, Szécsenyi István tér 9)

Tue 4 Feb, 15:00–17:00: SEAS Think Tank 2

Fri 24–Sat 25 Jan: Össznyelvész 2019+ conference

Wed 1 Jan: check your final exam committee

2019

Wed 18 Dec: referee’s reports are available in department offices, get it, look at it before the defence

Thu 12 Dec: SEAS Christmas Party

Fri 29–Sat 30 Nov: conference on US Politics and the Media, programme

Thu 28–Fri 29 Nov: conference on Margaret Atwood 80: Central European Interpretations

Fri 15 Nov: Győző Ferencz has received the József Ürményi Award in recognition of his excellence in teaching, Zsuzsanna Kutasi has received the Ferenc Barkóczy Award for her outstanding work as a librarian (pictures). Congratulations to both colleagues for their achievement!