Eseménynaptár

Részletek

November 8, Friday

Venue: HAS Central Building, Reading Room (Felolvasóterem)
1051 Budapest, 9 Széchenyi István square, 1^st floor

 9:00–13:30      Registration

9:15–9:30         Welcome to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences — Greetings
László Lovász, President of HAS
László Borhy, Rector of Eötvös Loránd University 

9:30–10:30      Plenary 1
Bernfried Nugel, “The Anti-Utopian Drift in Aldous Huxley’s Literary Utopias”; chair: Vita Fortunati

10:30–10:45    Refreshments: Scholars’ Coffee Room (Tudóskávézó), 1^st floor

 10:45–12:15     Session 1 (Nightmarish Futures)
 Chair: Zsolt Czigányik

Gregory Claeys, “‘Ending Is Better than Mending’: Aldous Huxley and the Ideology of Consumption”
Andrew Biswell, “Dystopia Revisited: Aldous Huxley and Anthony Burgess”
Károly Pintér, “Dream as a Literary Motif and a Scientific Phenomenon in Aldous Huxley’s Dystopian Works”

12:15–13:30       Lunch break

13:30–14:30     Plenary 2
Stephen Prickett, “Towards a Truly Scientific Religion: Mrs Ward, Ethnography & History”; chair: Gregory Claeys

14:30–14:45    Refreshments: Scholars’ Coffee Room (Tudóskávézó), 1^st floor

14:45–16:15     Session 2 (Science and Religion)
Chair: Angelika Reichmann

Péter Dávidházi, “Thomas Henry Huxley and the Naming of Agnosticism”
Zsolt Czigányik, “Fictionality and Non-Fiction in Aldous Huxley’s The Devils of Loudun”
Anna Campbell, “Ectogenesis and Class Politics in Huxley’s Brave New World”

16:30–17:30     Roundtable Around a Family

Keynote: Eörs Szathmáry, “Bulldog, Utopist, Nobelist: Notes on a Remarkable Family”
Roundtable, moderated by Gábor Soós

November 9, Saturday

Venue: Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of the Humanities
1088 Budapest, 5 Rákóczi street, 3^rd and 4^th floors, rooms 356 and 423

9:00–11:00      Late registration

9:15–9:30         Welcome to Eötvös Loránd University — Greetings (Room 356)

Judit Friedrich, Chair, Department of English Studies
András Kertész, President, Section of Linguistics and Literary Scholarship of HAS

9:30–10:30      Plenary 3 (Room 356)
Csaba Pléh, “‘Fashions in Love’ of Aldous Huxley and the Re-emergence of Romantic Relations”; chair: Andrea Timár

10:30–10:45    Refreshments (3^rd floor lobby)

10:45–12:45     Session 3a (Science, politics, and history) (Room 356)
Chair: Irina Golovacheva

Sándor Hites, “Science and the State: The Clash of T.H. Huxley and Herbert Spencer over Publicly Funded Research”
Miklós Réthelyi, “Julian Huxley (1887-1975) the Herald of Evolution”
György Kozma, “Karl Mannheim or Julian Huxley: The Imprevisibility Factor when Presidents Choose a UN Unit Director”
Maša Uzelac, “‘The Two Cultures’ from Huxley to Houellebecq”

10:45–12:45     Session 3b (The Senses and the Body) (Room 423)
Chair: Andrew Biswell

Andrea Timár, “Dehumanisation and Drugs in the Writings of S.T. Coleridge and Aldous Huxley”
Zsuzsa Hetényi, “Sinking in Senses: Huxley and Nabokov”
Ákos Farkas, “Who Nose Best? A Sensory-Ethical Approach to Eyeless in Gaza”

12:45–14:00    Lunch break

14:00–15:00    Plenary 4 (Room 356)
David Damrosch, “Brave New World Literatures: Aldous Huxley between Empire and Globe”; chair: Péter Dávidházi

15:00–15:30     Refreshments (3^rd floor lobby)

15:30–17:00     Session 4a (Across Boundaries) (Room 356)
Chair: Károly Pintér

Rodica Dimitriu, “Aldous Huxley Revisited: 85 Years of Romanian Reception”
Angelika Reichmann, “Bugs, Burrow, Inquisitor: Dostoevskian Intertexts in Eyeless in Gaza”
Gábor Bodnár, “Faith Counters Faith: Arts in the Arts from a Music Theorist’s Point of View”

15:30–17:00     Session 4b (Peace and War) (Room 423)
Chair: Hites Sándor

Vita Fortunati, “Huxley’s last works: Towards an Ecological and Pacifist Society”
Miklós Lojkó, “In the Shadow of Dictators: Sir Laurence Collier, Eminent Diplomat in the Huxley Family”
Irina Golovacheva, “War and Numbers in Aldous Huxley’s Letters and Brave New World”

17:15–18:15       Plenary 5 (Room 356)
Jerome Meckier, “Aldous Huxley and the Cure Scene in Modern Literary Utopias”, chair: Ákos Farkas

18:15–18:30      Closing and farewell