Sensation – Perception – Mediation
University of Szeged (Hungary), June 7-9, 2012
Thursday, June 7
10.00- Registration
11.30-12.00 Welcoming Remarks
12.00-13.10 KEYNOTE LECTURE
Chair: Izabella Füzi
- Mary Ann Doane (University of California, Berkeley, USA):
Cinematic Scale, Perspective and the Modern Sublime
13.10-14.40 Lunch Break
14.40-15.50 Session 1: ON DISTANCE AND SPATIAL PERCEPTION
Chair: Mary Ann Doane
- György Fogarasi (University of Szeged, Hungary):
Teletrauma: The Notion of Distance in Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry- Todd Berliner (University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA):
On the Perception of Continuity in Mainstream Cinema
15.50-16.20 Coffee Break
16.20-18.40 Session 2: EARLY FILM THEORY: PRESENCE, MOVEMENT, EXPERIENCE
Chair: Zsolt Győri
- Izabella Füzi (University of Szeged, Hungary):
Movement, Temporality, and Medium Specificity in Early Hungarian Film Theory- Eszter Polonyi (Columbia University, New York, USA):
Invisible Man: Microcinematography in Early 20c Europe- Erica Carter (King’s College, London, England):
The Visible Woman in Béla Balázs- Beja Margitházi (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest):
The Role of the Body and the Senses in the Different “First Contact” Narratives
19.00- Reception
Friday, June 8
9.00 -10.10 KEYNOTE LECTURE
Chair: Todd Berliner
- Jens Schröter (University of Siegen, Germany):
Optical / Visual / Non-Optical Media – the Complexity of Technical Images
10.10-10.40 Coffee Break
10.40-12.25 Session 3: NEW MEDIA, DIGITAL AESTHETICS, INTERACTIVITY
Chair: Jens Schröter
- Zoltán Dragon (University of Szeged, Hungary):
The Augmented Subject: Technological Interfaces of Self, Skin and Geography- László Tarnay (University of Pécs, Hungary):
Simulating Perception in New Media- Christoph Ernst (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen–Nuremberg, Germany):
The Mediation of Perception in Mythological Thinking
12.25-14.00 Lunch Break
14.00-16.20 Session 4: SENSING AND READING IMAGES
Chair: Attila Kiss
- Ágnes Pethő (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Romania):
Cinema and the Phenomenology of “Becoming” Intermedial- Zsolt Győri (University of Debrecen, Hungary):
The Sensation of Being Alive- György Endre Szőnyi (University of Szeged, Hungary):
Seeing: Natural or Conventional? After the Iconicity Debates- Annamária Hódosy (University of Szeged, Hungary):
Misrecognition: Minority Report on the Postmodern Condition
16.20-16.50 Coffee Break
16.50-18.35 Session 5: CORPOREALITY/THEATRICALITY
Chair: Gábor Tamás Molnár
- Attila Kiss (University of Szeged, Hungary):
Theatricality as the Mediality of the Subject- Ágnes Matuska (University of Szeged, Hungary):
“Shelter in the Presence of Onlooking Strangers”: Perception and the Theatrum Mundi Metaphor- Ákos Seress (University of Kaposvár, Hungary):
The Cognitive Turn in Theatre Studies
19.00- EVENING PROGRAM
Saturday, June 9
9.00-10.10 KEYNOTE LECTURE
Chair: György Endre Szőnyi
- Joachim Paech (University of Constance, Germany):
Film Was Never the Same
10.10-10.40 Coffee Break
10.40-13.00 Session 6: CONTEMPORARY FICTION AND MEDIATED PERCEPTION
Chair: György Fogarasi
- Ronan McKinney (University of Sussex, England):
Real Time: DeLillo, Gordon, Hitchcock- László Sári B. (University of Pécs):
Transgression and Intermediality in Contemporary American Minimalist Fiction- Katalin Sándor (Babeş–Bolyai University, Romania):
(Re)collecting Sensations in Dubravka Ugrešić’s The Museum of Unconditional Surrender- Gábor Tamás Molnár (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest):
Figuration and the Experience of Fiction
13.00-13.30 Closing Remarks