Video recordings of my talks
Plenary lecture at the online conference ‘Crisis, Change and Perspectives’. The Intercultural Confluences Research Centre, Miercurea Ciuc, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, April 2021
At the Digital Roundtable on Transdisciplinary Trauma Studies, organized by the Memory Studies Association, on 20th December 2021, I talked about my research on digital trauma and transdiscplinarity.
The talk is available on YouTube
Talks and Presentations (2024–2013)[1]
– ‘Following Up: Second Response to Disasters. The Hungarian snow and transport collapse of 2013.’ The International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place. 21st Annual Conference: (Un)precedented Times? – Reflecting on Global Disasters as places of destruction and spaces for opportunity. Liverpool John Moores University, UK, April, 2026
–‘Traumatic History and Historical Trauma-Processing in Videogames: The Mission US Games.’ The Memory Studies Research Centers 2nd meeting: Teaching Memory Studies, Nottingham, UK, November 2024.
– ‘Meeting the Trauma of others: A Trauma-Informed Transdisciplinary Overview of Theory and Practice.’ In the lecture series: Documenting the Full-Scale War in Ukraine: Oral History Perspective, Centre for Memory Studies and Post-Conflict Cultures, University of Nottingham & Humanities Faculty, Ukrainian Catholic University, Nottingham, UK, 20 March 2024.
– ‘Trauma and Literature: Alaine Polcz: One Women in the War.’ Oxford Hungarian Book Club, UK, March 2024.
– ‘Sheltering from the Pain of Others: Trauma-Dynamics in Ida Fink’s Holocaust Short Stories.’ Conference talk at the panel of the Trauma and Memory Working Group at the Annual conference of the Memory Studies Association, Newcastle, UK, July 2023.
– ‘Trauma and Transcultural Healing: Popular Trauma Theories in Edith Eger and Gábor Máté’, invited talk at the conference ‘Transculturalism in the Context of Hungarian Literature’, University of Warsawa, Poland, May 2023.
– ‘Traumatic History and Historical Trauma-Processing in Videogames, in the Panel Video Games as a New Form of Social Interaction: Inclusive Spaces, Trauma and Representations of War. 5th UNESCO MOST Winter School. Resilience in the Times of Uncertainty: Building Peace through Culture and Education, iASK, ISES, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary, February 2023.
– ‘Cultural Memory and Oral History in Transdisciplinary Trauma Studies.’ Invited speaker, Winter School ‘How to Document the Present: Oral History and Cultural Memory of the War’. University of Insubria, Como, Italy, co-organised with The University of New Europe, Bern University, Zürich University, Leinbitz Zentrum, Potsdam, Centre for Research Minorities, Como, Italy, January 2023.
– Panel speaker in the roundtable discussion ‘Archives, digital technologies, networking and public interaction’, at the First EHRI-AT-Conference ‘Connected Histories. Memories and Narratives of the Holocaust in Digital Space’, Vienna, Austria, May 2022 –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en54wR3hVqg&list=PLtc5-6OirysWUyKmLdcUqkIxVLHzt5n9b
– ‘Digital Trauma and Transdiscplinarity’. Roundtable on Transdisciplinary Trauma Studies, Memory Studies Association, December 2021 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWW6ihJF8Ak
https://www.memorystudiesassociation.org/event/transdisciplinary-trauma-studies/
– ‘The Holocaust on Social Media.’ Online discussion panel in the framework of the Digital Holocaust Memory Project, University of Sussex, UK, May 2021.
– ‘Trauma in the Digital Age. The Representation, Transmission and Processing of Trauma on Social Media.’ Plenary talk at the online conference ‘Crisis, Change and Perspectives’. The Intercultural Confluences Research Centre, Miercurea Ciuc, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, April 2021 – https://www.menyhertanna.hu/eloadasok-talks/
– “Trauma in the Digital Age.” Fellowship public talk, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna & The Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Vienna, Austria, March 2021.
– ‘Trauma and Digital Media: Digital Trauma Studies in the Context of Contemporary Hungary’. Invited talk at the EAST Seminar Series, European Studies Department, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 2020.
– ‘Trauma in the Digital Age‘; ‘Gender and Trauma‘: Guest lectures, University of Florence, Italy, November 2020.
– ‘Trauma Narratives of Hungarian Women Writers in the Socialist Era: War Trauma and Rape in the Works of Alaine Polcz and Magda Szabó’. Invited talk and workshop at the Italian-Hungarian Seminar ‘Literary Memory of Dissent Culture’ as part of the COST Network ‘New Exploratory Phase in Research on East European Cultures of Dissent’, University of Florence, Italy, November 2019.
– Anna Menyhért & Anna Bentley: ‘Five Hungarian Women Writers: Their Reception and Publication.’ Paper at the conference ‘Translating Women: Breaking Borders and Building Bridges in the English-language Book Industry’, Institute of Modern Language Research, University of London, London, UK, October 2019.
– ‘Transcultural and Transgenerational Trauma Policy in Europe: Processing Peregrinating Traumatic Legacies in the Digital Age in the Context of Intra-European East-to-West Migration.’ Paper at the conference ‘Remembrance, Trauma Transmission and Experiental Learning’, Turku, Finland, May 2019.
– ‘The Peregrination of Traumatic Memories on Social Media’. Paper at the 3rd annual conference of the Memory Studies Association, Madrid, Spain, June 2019.
– ‘Transcultural and Transgenerational Trauma Policy in Europe’. Paper at the Symposium ‘War, Society and Emotions. Dealing with Traumatic Pasts in Europe,’ at the annual conference of the European Society of Traumatic Stress Studies: ‘Trauma in Transition: Building Bridges’, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, June 2019.
– ‘A Free Woman: Writing About Renée Erdős’s Life’. Paper at the conference ‘Transnational Perspectives on Artists Lives.’ University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, January 2018.
– ‘Digital Homes in Migrant Blogs’. Keynote talk at the ‘Transculturalism and Multi-Language Usage in Literature’ conference, Konstantin University, Nitra, Slovakia, November 2017.
– ‘Trauma Studies in the Digital Age’. Presentation at the international expert workshop ‘Engaging New Generations: The Holocaust and Knowledge Dissemination in the Digital Age’, NIOD, Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, November 2017.
– ‘Digital Memory and Trauma”. Invited as a seminar-guest to the Memory Studies Reading Group at Leiden University, the Netherlands, October 2017.
– Invited expert in the NIAS workshop ‘Women Writers in History’, Huygens-NIAS, Amsterdam, June 2017 Invited participant of the seminar ‘Digital Memory of War’, KNAW, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 2017.
– ‘Transcultural Trauma and Digital Homes: Blogs and Facebook Communities of Hungarian Migrants in Europe.’ Presentation at the workshop organized in the framework of my MSCA project on ‘Trauma Studies in the Digital Age’, University of Amsterdam-NIAS, the Netherlands, May 2017.
– ‘Stone vs Debris: Official Ideology vs Civilians and Social Media: the Dialogue of Memorials in Budapest’s Liberty Square.’ Presentation at the conference ‘Confronting Violent Pasts and Historical (In)Justice.’ NIOD, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, November 2016.
– ‘Trauma Studies in the Digital Age.’ Presentation at That Camp, the Humanities and Technology non-conference, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, October 2016.
– ‘Trauma Processing in the Digital Age.’ Presentation as an EHRI Fellow at King’s College, Digital Humanities Department, London, UK, June 2016.
– ‘Excluded or Enclosed: Women’s Literature and Hidden Stereotypes.’ Keynote speech, Annual Assembly of the Association of Teachers of Hungarian Literature, Széchenyi Library, Budapest, Hungary, June 2016.
– ‘The Image of Maimed Hungary in 20th Century Cultural Memory and the 21st Century Consequences of an Unresolved Collective Trauma: the Impact of the Treaty of Trianon.’ Paper presented at the conference ‘Aftermath: the Cultural Legacies of World War I.’, King’s College, London, UK, May 2015.
– ‘Digital Trauma Processing in Social Media Groups.’ Paper presented at the conference ‘Memories and Identities in Central and Eastern Europe.’ IARCEES, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, May 2015.
– ‘Women’s Literary Tradition’. Paper presented at the conference ‘Writing Women’s Lives’, Bath Spa University, UK, April 2015.
– ‘Women Poets in Hungary: Ágnes Nemes Nagy.’ Conference keynote speech together with George Szirtes, moderator Zsuzsanna Varga, at the conference ‘Contemporary Hungarian Studies: Multidisciplinary European Perspectives.’ University of Glasgow, February 2015.
– ‘Women’s Literary Tradition. Women Writers in Hungarian Cultural Memory.’ Invited talk at Cambridge University, CRASSH, seminar series ‘Places of Amnesia’, Cambridge, UK, January 2015.
– ‘Literature and Women’s Literature in Hungary’. Invited participant in roundtable discussion and reading, with Anna T. Szabó and George Szirtes at the Nottingham Writers’ Studio, Nottingham, UK, February 2014.
– ‘Cultural Memory and 20th Century Hungarian Women’s Literature.’ Invited talk at the University of Vienna, Department of European and Comparative Literature, Austria, May 2013.
– ‘The Patchwork of Memory in the Novel “In the Beginning Was the Garden” and the Diaries of Lesznai Anna’. Paper at the conference ‘Transnational Woman’s Literature in Europe’, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 2013.
– ‘Trauma Theory and Literature.’ Invited lecture at the Department of Hungarian Studies, Matej Bel University, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, 2013.
– ‘Creative Writing in the Dovetail Project.’ Creative writing trainer at an international creative writing workshop held at the Nottingham Writers’ Studio, Nottingham, UK, 2013.
– ‘20th Century Hungarian Women’s Literature.’ Invited talk at the University of Florence, Italy, May 2012.
– ‘Hidden Tradition. 20th Century Women’s Literature.’ Keynote speech at the conference ‘Gender and Tradition’, organized by the Trauma and Gender Research Group and the Association of Teachers of Hungarian Literature, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), 2013.
[1] Due to the Covid pandemic the conferences where I was supposed to give talks/co-organize panels were cancelled in 2020. These were the following: a co-authored paper at the conference ”The Stage of War: Popular and Academic Representations of Large-Scale Conflicts” in Rotterdam, with M. Makhortykh, entitled “Digital trauma and WWI computer games: Narrating mass violence via a new historical form”; co-organizing, with Annie St John-Stark and M. Makhortykh, two panels on Transdisciplinary Trauma Studies at the 2020 Memory Studies Association (MSA) conference in Charlottesville, and one panel at the Annual Conference of the International Association for Life-Writing and Biography and Autobiography (IABA) in Turku. At both conferences my talks on trauma and bystanders were accepted; I was also an invited speaker, introducing my monograph Women’s Literary Tradition at the conference “Rethinking Intimacy in Women’s Reading and Writing” at Gothenburg University, Sweden.
Invited talk: women’s literary tradition
Places of Amnesia Seminar Series at the University Cambridge
Abstract
Hungarian literary history tends to forget about women writers, they are not included in school curricula, even if they had been well known and highly appreciated in their own times. Anna Menyhért’s book Női irodalmi hagyomány (Women’s Literary Tradition) was the first to explore the reasons for the amnesia. Her talk will introduce the book, participants can read and discuss Hungarian women poets in translations by George Szirtes made specially for the occassion.
Hungarian Women’s Poetry Event
Contemporary Hungarian Studies Conference, University of Glasgow, 2015
Traumaelmélet.
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