past events, news, announcements

Wed 26 Jun

16:00 SEAS End-of-Year Meeting, Outstanding Thesis/Teaching Practice Award Ceremony, and Bring-and-Share Party, R356

Fri 14 Jun

09:00-17:00 Contemporary Crossroads V: Studies in English Applied Linguistics conference

Wed 12 Jun

16:00 trade union and students’ forum on the future of the University in B172

Tue 11 Jun

17:00 book launches: Barbara Papp, Kata Szlukovényi (Kossuth Klub, Múzeum utca 7)

Wed 5 Jun

17:00 Latino votes in the USA (discussion in Hungarian), R356

Mon 3 Jun

14:00-16:00 introducing the first English grammar in Hungarian, A047 (Gombocz)

Tue 21 May

17:30 Work-in-Progress, Postcards from Europe (with George Szirtes and Katalin Szlukovényi), R443

Mon 13 May

15:30 info session on BA specializations, R423

17:00-19:00 Sixth SEAS International Spring Festival

Thu 9 May

17:00 British–Australian film club: Shaun of the Dead, R356

Mon 22 Apr–Mon 29 Apr

14th International Student Poster Presentation Conference

Mon 22 Apr

16:00 Lili Zách, Trevor Noah's Comedic Resistance to Racial Hatred in South Africa and the USA, an EASPop event

Thu 18 Apr

17:00 British–Australian film club: Riff Raff (Robert Carlyle), R356

Thu 21 Mar

17:00 British–Australian film club: Under the Skin, R356

Tue 19 Mar

10:00-12:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

Wed 13 Mar

17:15-20:00 Ethnic and Migration Studies Research Group Film Club: Race (2016), R356

18:00 Enikő Bollobás, Énmegvonás és nyelvbe zártság (Gólyavári Esték)

Fri 8 Mar

19:00-20:10 three choirs of Trinity College, Dublin in Aula Magna (Egyetem tér 1–3, 1st/2nd floor; free but you must register)

Tue 5 Mar

17:30 Work-in-Progress: Réka Mihálka (Zürich), Byte-Sized Characters: Teaching Literature with AI-Based Tools (online talk)

Thu 29 Feb

16:00 British–Australian film club, Talk To Me (2022)

Wed 28 Feb

17:15-20:00 Ethnic and Migration Studies Research Group Film Club: Only the Brave (2006), R356

Tue 13 Feb

10:00-12:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

Thu 21 Dec–Fri 22 Dec

Össznyelvész 2023, a conference in linguistics

Thu 14 Dec

16:00 Christmas Caroling by the DELP Yelpers, 4th floor foyer; all staff & students welcome

Tue 12 Dec

17:30-19:45 UK–Australia film club: Sorry We Missed You (Ken Loach, 2019), R411

Fri 24 Nov

BA Open Day (for prospective students at ELTE)

Thu 23 Nov–Fri 24 Nov

Canada: Present and Future Challenges/Canada: Défis actuels et futurs, an international conference

Mon 20 Nov–Thu 23 Nov

MA Open Week (for prospective MA students)

Thu 16 Nov

13:45-15:15 Diversity Day event: Diversity in the family through pictures, R423

Fri 10 Nov

09:00-11:00 meet the Dean in R414

Thu 9 Nov

17:20-20:40 Akadémiai szabadság, vagy amit akartok, panel discussion, Corvinus University, building C, lecture hall V–VI (1093 Budapest, Mátyás utca 1.)

Thu 26 Oct

17:00-20:00 The film club of the Ethnic and Migration Studies Research Group presents the movie 42 in R356.

Tue 24 Oct

10:00-12:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

Fri 20 Oct

15:00-15:30 nomination meeting for SEAS instructor representatives in the Faculty Council and in the Institute Council (online)

Tue 17 Oct

17:30 UK–Australia film club: Peterloo (by Mike Leigh), R411

Fri 13 Oct

ELTEFeszt 2023

Fri 29 Sep

19:30-20:30 Kata Gyuris & Lili Zách, Discover South Africa through a board game, R443 (an event of the Researchers' Night series)

Tue 12 Sep

10:00-12:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

Thu 7 Sep

09:00-17:30 iDEaS conference and workshop in R423

Thu 29 Jun–Fri 30 Jun

44th American Indian Workshop

Wed 21 Jun

16:00 SEAS end-of-year meeting and Outstanding Thesis Award gala

Fri 16 Jun

Contemporary Crossroads IV: Studies in English Applied Linguistics conference

Thu 8 Jun

09:00–16:30 3rd Interdisciplinary PhD Research Conference of ELTE MODA

18:00 book launch: Nádasdy Ádám, Hordtam az irhámat

Thu 25 May

17:30 the UK–Australia Film Club presents The Wicker Man in R411

Tue 16 May

10:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

Thu 11 May

17:30 SEAS Film Club (Alice Lowe, Prevenge, 2016), in R411

18:00 book launch (Czigányik, Utopia between East and West in Hungarian literature), in R356

Mon 8 May–Fri 12 May

13th International Student Poster Presentation Conference

Wed 3 May

18:00 Magyarics Tamás, Hanyatlik-e az Egyesült Államok? [Is the United States in decline?], in Gólyavár

Thu 27 Apr

12:00 Diversity Day Event at DELP

Thu 20 Apr

17:15 the UK–Australia film club screening The Power of Dog in R423/a

Wed 19 Apr

11:00-12:00 Our Europe: Ireland and the European Union, 1973–2023

Thu 30 Mar

17:00-20:00 screening Alan Parker's Come See the Paradise (R356)

17:30-19:50 SEAS Film Club (Danny Boyle, Trainspotting, 1996)

Tue 21 Mar

13:30 BRaCeLeT talk series, #13: Jon Alkorta, Sentiment analysis in Basque texts from a linguistic perspective

Wed 15 Mar

14:30 Szabadságmenet: joint BME/ELTE march for freedom, meeting on northern side of new ethnography museum (near Hősök tere)

Tue 7 Mar

10:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

Fri 3 Feb

book launch: Tibor Frank (ed.), Az oszmán birodalom diadala és bukása

Fri 16 Dec–Sat 17 Dec

Össznyelvész 2022 conference

Wed 14 Dec

17:00 BMC (Budapest Metaphor Circle) talk: Zsófia Haase & Péter Csatár, Metaforikus anaforák

Thu 8 Dec

07:30-07:45 all-ELTE flashmob in support of teachers pics

Tue 6 Dec

10:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

Mon 5 Dec–Fri 9 Dec

classes online/consultation

Fri 2 Dec

Faculty Open Day

Thu 1 Dec

15:30-16:00 the DELP Yelpers invite you to a bit of carol singing in the 4th floor foyer

18:00-19:00 An Invitation to fear! A ghost story for Christmas: The Signalman

Wed 30 Nov

17:00 DELG TDK workshop

Tue 29 Nov

Our colleage, Enikő Öveges, head of DEAL, passed away. May she rest in peace.

Sat 26 Nov

11:00 book launch: Ágnes Péter, The price of independence – Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Fri 25 Nov

16:00 DES TDK workshop

Thu 24 Nov

16:00-19:00 DAS TDK workshop

Wed 23 Nov

17:00 BMC (Budapest Metaphor Circle) talk: Bálint Forgács & Csaba Pléh, What metaphors tell about the brain and what the brain tells about metaphors

Fri 18 Nov

SEAS team at the demonstration for teachers

Thu 17 Nov

18:00 public lecture: Kathleen Graces-Foley (Marymount, VA), Religious/Spiritual/None: The New Religious Landscape in the United States; R356

Tue 15 Nov

10:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

Thu 3 Nov

Péter Medgyes, professor emeritus, is awarded the Eötvös József wreath by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Congratulations to our colleague.

Thu 27 Oct–Sat 29 Oct

Canadian Landscapes conference

Thu 27 Oct

SEAS at the protest for teachers/schools

Wed 26 Oct

17:15 Taking the qualitative approach to classroom research

Wed 19 Oct

17:00 BMC (Budapest Metaphor Circle) talk: Mario Brdar & Rita Brdar-Szabó, Cumulative metonymies in sign languages

Fri 14 Oct

15:00 election of SEAS Faculty Council representative (online)

Wed 5 Oct

demonstration for teachers

Fri 30 Sep–Sat 1 Oct

Action Suited to the Word, a conference in memory of István Géher and Géza Kállay

Fri 30 Sep

16:00-17:10 Gyuris Kata, Afrika az Irodalomban – Kongói és Nigériai Kalandok, R443

Thu 29 Sep

17:00-20:00 movie screening: The Birth of a Nation (2016)

Tue 27 Sep

14:00 DELG dept meeting

Tue 20 Sep

10:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

Thu 15 Sep

Tibor Frank, former SEAS director, dies at 74. Requiescat in pace.

Wed 14 Sep

17:00 BMC (Budapest Metaphor Circle) talk: Ágnes Virág, Hungarian Parliamentary Arena: Co-Work of Figurative Devices in Editorial Cartoons during the Period of Transition (1989–1998)

Fri 9 Sep

10:00 reading marathon marking the 25th anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Wed 22 Jun

15:00 end-of-term party, Outstanding Theses Gala

Tue 21 Jun

09:30–17:00 MODA doctoral conference

Fri 17 Jun

09:00–17:00 Contemprary Crossroads 3 conference

Tue 14 Jun

15:00–18:00 MSB: Irwin Appel, theatre workshop

Mon 13 Jun

17:00 MSB: Irwin Appel, “When My Cue Comes Call Me”: Naked Shakes and a Life in Shakespearean Theater

Fri 3 Jun

15:00 booklaunch

Thu 2 Jun

10:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

Wed 25 May

18:00–20:00 MSB: Márta Minier on Shakespeare allusions in films

Thu 19 May

15:30 Krisztina Károly: How to publish an article in English

Wed 11 May

14:00 meet Tibor Fischer

Tue 10 May

10:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

Mon 9 May

16:30 launching of the Ethnic and Migration Studies Research Group

18:00 Paul Spickard, Shape Shiters: Sometimes Race Changes

Fri 6 May

10:00 Robert Eaglestone, Aristotle — but not the Poetics! — and literature

Thu 5 May

17:30 Robert Eaglestone, Hanna Arendt, Literature, and Democracy

Wed 4 May

17:30 How to get started on your MA thesis

Mon 25 Apr–Fri 29 Apr

12th International Student Poster Presentation Confrerence

Tue 12 Apr

10:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

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

18:00–19:30 MSB: Péter Rudolf interview

Mon 11 Apr

18:00 The Pity of War… Solidarity event for Ukraine

Wed 6 Apr

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

Wed 16 Mar

13:30 teachers’ right to strike solidarity photo: “A SZTRÁJK ALAPJOG”

Wed 9 Mar

17:30–19:00 student forum on Ukraine

Tue 15 Feb

10:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

Fri 17 Dec–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 about Anne Sexton's poetry (Work In Progress Special)

Tue 16 Nov

10:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

Tue 9 Nov

18:00 book première: Natália Pikli, Shakespeare's Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture

Wed 3 Nov

17:00–18:30 the first meeting of the Budapest Metaphor Circle

Tue 21 Sep

10:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

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

Sun 27 Jun

apply for teaching assistantship at DELG

Thu 24 Jun

14:00 the Outstanding Thesis Award gala

Fri 4 Jun

09:00–16:00 First Doctoral Research Conference of the Modern English and American Literature and Culture Doctoral Program (on Facebook)

Tue 11 May

10:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

Mon 3 May–Fri 7 May

11th Student Poster Presentation Conference

Mon 19 Apr–Fri 23 Apr

Infosztrájk: getting informed about and discussing academic freedom

Tue 13 Apr

10:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

Sun 11 Apr

Infosztrájk/Nádasdy Ádám: Shakespeare és autonómia

Wed 17 Mar

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

Tue 9 Feb

10:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

Tue 22 Dec

Össznyelvész 2020 Conference (in linguistics)

Tue 1 Dec

10:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

Fri 20 Nov

10:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

Tue 17 Nov

Shakespeare-kutatás az angolszász világban

Tue 3 Nov

10:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

Tue 27 Oct–Wed 28 Oct

1st English and American Popular Culture Conference (Encounters of the Popular Kind: Traditions and Mythologies in Dialogue

Tue 13 Oct

10:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

14:00–16:00 closing of Erasmus project: "Language Skills of Deaf Students for European Mobility"

Fri 9 Oct

17:00–18:30 FORDÍTSUNK! – Mesterek hibái – modern versfordítások angolból

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)

Tue 22 Sep

16:00 ELTE BTK trade union (PDSZ) on a solidarity walk out to SZFE

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

18:00–21:00 student forum on the state of universities

Tue 15 Sep

10:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

Tue 23 Jun

10:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes), Outstanding Thesis Awards gala

Wed 3 Jun

Our colleague Judit Zerkowitz passed away this morning, aged 74. Requiescat in pace.

Tue 12 May

10:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

Wed 22 Apr

Ádám Nádasdy wins the Aegon Literary Award 2020. Congratulations to our colleague!

Tue 21 Apr

10:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

Mon 23 Mar

online teaching begins

Wed 4 Mar–Wed 11 Mar

10th Student Poster Presentation Conference

Tue 18 Feb

10:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

Thu 6 Feb

09:30–17:00 The Reel Eye, film festival and workshop ⟦programme⟧

15:00 Tibor Frank, A polgári érintkezés modernizálódása a 19. században

Tue 4 Feb

15:00–17:00 SEAS Think Tank 2

Fri 24 Jan–Sat 25 Jan

Össznyelvész 2019+ conference

Thu 12 Dec

SEAS Christmas Party

Fri 29 Nov–Sat 30 Nov

conference on US Politics and the Media, programme

Thu 28 Nov–Fri 29 Nov

conference on Margaret Atwood 80: Central European Interpretations

Fri 15 Nov

awards for Győző Ferencz and Zsuzsanna Kutasi

Tue 12 Nov

10:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

Fri 8 Nov–Sat 9 Nov

Huxley 125 conference

Thu 7 Nov

13:45–15:15 Diversity Day Event: Diversity in writing styles

Thu 10 Oct

SEAS elections for Faculty Council and Institute Council

11:30–11:45 nomination (R414)

12:30–16:00 voting (R357)

Tue 8 Oct

10:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

Thu 3 Oct

17:00 László Borhi (Indiana University, Bloomington/MTA), The United States and the Cold War in East Central Europe

18:00 Seamus Heaney memorial lecture

Wed 25 Sep

14:00–15:50 Tibor Fischer at DES lectures

Mon 23 Sep

10:00–11:50 Miklós Lojkó, What price Brexit? (a public lecture)

Fri 20 Sep

Language Testing and Assessment Conference: New Challenges — Technology and Human Interaction in Language Assessment

Tue 17 Sep

10:00 Institute Council meeting (minutes)

Thu 12 Sep

11:00 BRaCeLeT talk series #11: Markus Pöchtrager (UniVienna), Recursion and GP 2.0

Tue 10 Sep

14:00 BRaCeLeT talk series #10: Markus Pöchtrager (UniVienna), Towards a unified theory of vowels