2014. május 24 – 26 között kerül megrendezésre az idei Kanadai Magyarságtudományi Társaság konferenciája, a St. Catherines-ban található Brock University kampuszán. Az elsősorban angol nyelvű, de magyar vonatkozású konferencia a Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences keretein belül kerül megrendezésre, mely kongresszus minden évben az ország legnagyobb akadémiai találkozója. St. Catherines városa a Niagara Falls térségben található, összesen 20 kilométerrel a Niagara-vízeséstől. 

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Program of the Hungarian Studies Association of Canada

At the 2014 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Brock University, May 24-26^th, 2014

Kongresszus 2014.

Saturday,  May 24^th  Location: Student Alumni Centre, Skybar

18:00 – 18:15 Welcome and introduction by Agatha Schwartz, President of HSAC

18:15 – 19:30 Conference Opening Session:

  “The Mingling of Borders: a Dialogue with Tamás Dobozy”

A reading and discussion with the award-winning Hungarian – Canadian author and professor of English from Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario.

19:30 – 20:30 Welcome reception

Sunday, May 25^th Location: International Centre 107

9:00 – 10:00 Session 1: Borders and Identities

Chair:  Nándor Dreisziger

Georg Michels (U of California, Riverside): Dangerous Border Crossers: Hungarians Accused of Turkishness (Törökösség) During the Seventeenth Century

Judit Pál  (Babes Bolyai U, Cluj-Napoca): A közigazgatási határok és az elitek a 19. századi Erdélyben [Elites and Borders in Public Administration in 19th century Transylvania]

10:00 – 10:30 Break and Refreshments

10:30 – 12:00 Session 2: Hungarians in Europe: Cross Border Initiatives

Chair:  Steve Jobbitt

Izabella Barati Stec  (Budapest Business School): Administrative centralization in Hungary in an EU context

Tamás Gémes  (CTP Youth Business Program, Budapest): Entrepreneurship education across borders in Central Europe

Magdolna Velki (Kanadai Magyar Műhely, Montreal): A magyar mint idegen nyelv oktatása a közös európai referenciakeret szintjei szerint [Teaching Hungarian as a Foreign Language According to the Levels of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)]

12:00 – 13:30  Lunch Break

13:30 – 14:30 Session 3: Historical Memory and the Birth of Environmentalism in the 19^th Century

Chair: Margit Lovrics

Roman Holec  (Institute of History of Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia): Nature knows no boundaries: „Discovering“ the Tatra Mountains and the birth of enviromental protection in the 19th century

Albert Zsolt Jakab (Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Cluj-Napoca, Romania):

Epoch, Boundary and Historical Consciousness. The Effects of the Austro–Hungarian Compromise of 1867 on the Commemorations in Cluj/Kolozsvár

14:30 – 15:15 Session 4: A Fine Line between Art and Technology

Chair: Judy Young Drache

Oliver Botár (U of Manitoba, Winnipeg)

„Training for Modernity: How László Moholy-Nagy Proposed to Help us Live with Technological Change.”

15:15 – 15:30 Break and Refreshments

15:30 – 16:45 HSAC Annual General Meeting

17:00 – 19:00 Brock U President’s Reception.  Location:  Congress Centre  (Walker Complex)

19:00   HSAC Dinner (Location: “Alphie’s Bistro” – the Faculty Club).

Monday, May 26^th Location: International Centre 104

9:00 – 10:30 Session 5: Hungarian Jews Before, During, and After the Holocaust

Chair: Elizabeth Vlossak

Attila Gidó (Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Cluj-Napoca, Romania):

Boundaries and Ties: Changing Hungarian-Jewish Relations in 20th Century Transylvania

Agatha Schwartz (University of Ottawa): Éva Heyman, the Hungarian Anne Frank: Writing against Persecution and Trauma

Christopher Adam (Carleton U, Ottawa): Memories of the Holocaust in Canada’s Hungarian Diaspora

10:30 – 11:00 Break and refreshments

11:00 – 12.30 Session 6: Hungary’s Foreign Relations from WWI to after WWII

Chair: Oliver Botar

Joseph Imre (Policy Analyst, Government of Ontario, Toronto): Counter-Revolutionary Hungary, Burgenland and the Banat Leitha Republic

Andras Becker (PhD candidate, U of Southampton, UK): A Step too far: The implications of the German ‘military passage’ through Hungary on the Anglo-Hungarian relationship, April 1940

Margit Balogh (Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences): „Isten szabad ege alatt”: Állami egyházpolitika és katolikus egyház a szovjet érdekszférába kerülve (1945–1948) [“Out into God’s sweet air”: Church policy and the Catholic Church in the Soviet sphere of influence, (1945-1948)]

12:30 – 14:30  Lunch break

14:30 – 16:00 Session 7: The Challenges of Globalization

Chair: Agatha Schwartz

Steve Jobbitt (Lakehead U, Thunder Bay, Ontario): Jobbik Nation: Reimagining Community in the Shadow of Globalization and European Integration

Krisztina Rácz (PhD candidate, U of Ljubljana and Visiting Fellow, U of Belgrade): Discourses and Practices of Multiculturalism: Hungarian Youth in Vojvodina

Natalya Timoshkina (Lakehead U, Orillia Campus, Ontario): Human Trafficking and Smuggling from Hungary to Canada

16:00 Closing Remarks by Agatha Schwartz current President of HSAC

16:00 – 17:00 Wine and Cheese Reception by the Federation for Humanities and Social Sciences. Location: Expo Event Space.

  With thanks to the members of the Conference Program committee:

Chair: Judith Szapor, McGill University; Oliver Botár, University of Manitoba; Katherine Magyarody, University of Toronto;

To our Local Arrangements Coordinator at Brock U: Elizabeth Vlossak;

And to Katherine Magyarody for assembling the abstracts.