ACADEMIC INVITED TALKS
Scroll down for non-academic talks and roundtables.
2025
- “Comics as Encounter and Research” – Keynote at the joint conference of IGNCC and IBDS (International Graphic Novels and Comics Conference, International Bande Dessinée Society, Brussels, 4 July
- “Bodies and Embodiment in Graphic Medicine – Exploring Drawing and Zinemaking.” Graphic Medicine: How Comics Can Bridge Humanities, Medicine, and Social Sciences – a CHARM Seminar, Ghent University, 27 March
2024
- “Zines of Change: Comics and Society in Hungary,” University of Washington, Seattle, 5 March
- “Drawing and Embodiment”, University of Oregon, Eugene, 23 Jan
2023
- “Comics Festivals and Female Artists in Hungary,” Women Power in Comics Conference, Novi Sad, Serbia, 7-8 September
- “Comics and the Body” Drawing Invisible Lines and Historical Timelines” American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 28 April
- “Comics and Graphic Design”, guest lecture at University of Ghent, Belgium, 7 March
- “Comics and the Body: Embodiment, Thinking, Dialogue,” guest lecture at UCLouvain, Belgium, 9 March
2022
- “How to Read Contemporary Hungarian Comics,” Guest lecture at the University of Szeged, 7 April
- Violence, Politics, and the Graphic Novel, online panel organized by Columbia Maison Francaise and the Hayman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, 17 February. YouTube.
2021
- “The Drawn Line in Comics” Guest lecture at the American University of Beirut, 6 October
- “Comics and the Body” Guest lecture at the Harvard Extension school, 8 April
Pre-2020
- 2020 I was a guest of Prof. Frederick Luis Aldama’s videocast series. My topic was “The Body and the Vulnerability of the Line” Link
- 2018 “The Weight of Abuse: Figural Representations and Abstract Elements in Katie Green’s Lighter Than My Shadow.”3rd Conference on Tendencies in Contemporary Hungarian Comics and Comics Scholarship. Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, 18-19 May 2018
- 2017 “Comics in the Congo. The visual world of Kittenberger.” 2nd Conference on Tendencies in Contemporary Hungarian Comics and Comics Scholarship. University of Pécs, Department of Communication and Media Studies, 5-6 May 2017
- 2016 “Pictorial Embodiment and Self-representation in Autobiographical Comics.” 1st Conference on Tendencies in Contemporary Hungarian Comics and Comics Scholarship. Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, 6-7 May 2016
Invited Non-Academic Talks, Roundtables, and Interviews (selection)
NON-ACADEMIC (selection)
- 2024 Roundtable discussion on the Future, featuring Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Alexandra Köves, Attila Schillinger, and Kamill Kószó, Sziget Festival, 12 Aug 2024
- 2023 interviewing Zerocalcare (IT) at PesText Festival, Budapest, 28 Sept 2023
- 2023 moderating a roundtable discussion on feminism and comics in the Balkans, Women Power in Comics conference, Novi Sad, Serbia, 7-8 Sept 2023
- 2023 interviewing Anna Kudron on sustainable fashion, Think for Tomorrow, Sziget Festival, 10 Aug 2023
- 2023 moderating a roundtable discussion with NGOs on the lives of Ukrainian refugees one year into the war, Think for Tomorrow, Sziget Festival, 11 Aug 2023
- 2022 launching Black hole (Fekete lyuk) by Charles Burns, 3 October 2022
- 2022 launching Arrival (Érkezés) by Shaun Tan, 30 Sept 2022
- 2022 discussion with Hannah Berry (UK) and Brecht Evens (BE) at PesText Festival, Budapest, 29 Sept 2022
- 2022 launching Ink by Matz and Attila Futaki, Budapest Book Week, 11 June 2022
- 2021 roundtable discussion on women in comics, PesText Festival, Budapest, 24 Sept 2021
- 2021 roundtable discussion on biopoetics and criticism, organized by Műút Literary and Cultural Journal, Három Holló, Budapest, 23 Sept 2021
- 2021 book launch of Anna Krztoń’s graphic memoir, 13 May 2021, online
- 2021 I moderated a discussion on Franco-Belgian comics called “Representing What Cannot Be Noticed.” Guests Zeina Abirached, Mathieu Burniat and Attila Futaki, organized by the French Institute and the Belgian Center, Budapest, 13 April 2021, online
- 2019 participant of a roundtable discussion on The Body in Fantasy, ViTa, Budapest, 30 Nov
- 2019 I opened an exhibition of the works of Hungarian comics artist Márk László – Very Bad Dreams, Klauzál13 Gallery, Budapest 10 May
- 2018 I opened the Kids’n’Comics exhibition at the Youth Art Gallery, Budapest, 7 Sept
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