E-mail address: berlinert@uncw.edu
Home institution: University of North Carolina Wilmington
Academic position: Professor of Film Studies, University of North Carolina Wilmington, László Országh Distinguished Chair in American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University
Areas of research: film aesthetics; film narration;
American cinema; cognitive and neoformalist film theories.
Title of the presentation: On the Perception of Continuity
in Mainstream Cinema
E-mail address: erica.carter@kcl.ac.uk
Home institution: King’s College, London
Academic position: Professor and Head of German
Areas of research: German film and cultural studies
Title of the presentation: The Visible Woman in Béla Balázs
Mary Ann Doane
(keynote speaker)
E-mail address: madoane@berkeley.edu
Home institution: University of California, Berkeley;
Department of Film & Media
Academic position: professor of film and media
Areas of research: film theory, feminist theory, and semiotics
Title of the presentation: Cinematic Scale, Perspective
and the Modern Sublime
E-mail address: dragon@ieas-szeged.hu
Home institution: University of Szeged
Academic position: assistant professor
Areas of research: digital culture and theories,
film theories, adaptation, psychoanalysis
Title of the presentation: The Augmented Subject:
Technological Interfaces of Self, Skin and Geography
E-mail address: christoph.ernst@thewi.phil.uni-erlangen.de
Home institution: Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen Nuremberg
Academic position: research fellow
Areas of research: media theory, semiotics
(esp. diagrammatic reasoning), visual culture
Title of the presentation: The Mediation of Perception in Mythological Thinking
E-mail address: fogarasi@hung.u-szeged.hu
Home institution: University of Szeged
Academic position: associate professor
Areas of research: 18th-century aesthetics, (post)romantic
literature and philosophy, critical theory
Title of the presentation: Teletrauma:
The Notion of Distance in Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry
E-mail address: fuziza@yahoo.com
Home institution: University of Szeged,
Department of Visual Culture and Literary Theory
Academic position: associate professor
Areas of research: narrative theory, early film theory,
mediality, Hungarian film theory
Title of the presentation: Movement, Temporality, and
Medium Specificity in Early Hungarian Film Theory
E-mail address: gyorizs@yahoo.co.uk
Home institution: University of Debrecen
Academic position: assistant professor
Areas of research: film theory, film philosophy,
film and society, British cinema
Title of the presentation: The Sensation of Being Alive
E-mail address: hodosy.annamaria@gmail.com
Home institution: University of Szeged,
Department of Visual Culture and Literary Theory
Academic position: Senior Assistant Professor
Areas of research: metafiction, gender and queer studies,
cultural studies, postcolonialism
Title of the presentation: Misprecognitions: Minority Report on
the Postmodern Condition
E-mail address: kiss_a_m@yahoo.com
Home institution: University of Szeged
Academic position: associate professor
Areas of research: the postsemiotics of the subject, early
modern and postmodern drama, theater and theatricality,
Shakespeare studies
Title of the presentation: Theatricality as the Mediality of the Subject
E-mail address: mb@emc.elte.hu
Home institution: Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Academic position: Adjunct Professor
Areas of research: Formal history of film, classical film theory
Title of the presentation: The Role of the Body and the Senses
in the Different “First Contact” Narratives
E-mail address: magnes@lit.u-szeged.hu
Home institution: University of Szeged
Academic position: senior assistant professor
Areas of research: Transformations of the Vice-character in
late Medieval and Early Modern English Drama,
Metadrama and the ontology of artistic fiction,
Visual dramaturgy
Title of the presentation: “Shelter in the presence of onlooking strangers”
E-mail address: r.p.mckinney@sussex.ac.uk
Home institution: University of Sussex, England
Academic position: PhD Candidate, School of English
Areas of research: Aesthetics and catastrophe, trauma,
the sublime, psychoanalysis, reference and representation
in text and image, painting after photography
Title of the presentation: Real Time: DeLillo, Gordon, Hitchcock
E-mail address: molnar.gabor.tamas@btk.elte.hu
Home institution: Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Academic position: assistant professor
Areas of research: theory of the novel, theories of interpretatio
Title of the presentation: Figuration and the Experience of Fiction
E-mail address: jopaech@aol.com
Home institution: University of Constance
Academic position: Professor emeritus
Areas of research: theory and history of film and
new media; Intermediality of film, literature and traditional arts
Title of the presentation: Film was never the same
E-mail address: petho.agnes@gmail.com
Home institution: Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania
Academic position: associate professor
Areas of research: cinematic self-reflexivity, intermediality,
the poetics of modern and postmodern cinema
Title of the presentation: Cinema and the Phenomenology of
“Becoming” Intermedial
E-mail address: ep2038@columbia.edu
Home institution: Columbia University
Academic position: PhD Candidate
Areas of research: Early 20th century Central-Eastern
European Aesthetics
Title of the presentation: Invisible Man: Microcinematography
in early 20th century Europe
E-mail address: sandorkati17@gmail.com
Home institution: Babeş-Bolyai University
Academic position: assistant lecturer
Areas of research: intermediality, image-text relations, visual poetry
Title of the presentation: (Re)collecting Sensations in
Dubravka Ugrešić’s The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
E-mail address: sariblaszlo@gmail.com
Home institution: University of Pécs,
Department of English Literatures and Cultures
Academic position: assistant professor
Areas of research: Contemporary American fiction,
British film history, cultural studies
Title of the presentation: Transgression and intermediality in
contemporary American minimalist fiction
E-mail address: schroeter@medienwissenschaft.uni-siegen.de
Home institution: University of Siegen
Academic position: Prof. Dr.
Areas of research: Media Studies
Title of the presentation: Optical / Visual / Non-Optical Media -
the Complexity of Technical Images
E-mail address: seress.akos@gmail.com
Home institution: University of Kaposvár
Academic position: assistant professor
Areas of research: American drama, Theatre Studies
Title of the presentation: The Cognitive turn in
Theatre Studies
E-mail address: geszonyi@freemail.hu
Home institution: University of Szeged,
Central European University, Budapest
Academic position: Professor
Areas of research: mediality of culture,
image-word relations, early modern cultural history
Title of the presentation: Seeing: Natural or Conventional?
E-mail address: tarnaylaszlo@gmail.com
Home institution: University of Pécs
Academic position: associate professor
Areas of research: cognitive studies, film theory
Title of the presentation: Simulating Perception in New Media