TDK event

The Department of English Studies is hosting an informal gathering for students who are planning on presenting their academic paper on British literature or history at the next national conference of the Students’ Scholarly Circle (OTDK, spring 2025). Instructors and former students of the Department’s scholarly circle will be talking about preparations for the forthcoming conference and sharing their experience with past OTDK events.

More information about OTDK in general on the Department’s website.

Time: 4.15pm, 25 April

Location: Könyvtár Klub (on campus)

Everyone is welcome to attend. Please indicate your interest in the event on our Facebook page here. Or, please contact our faculty members, Bálint Gárdos (gardos.balint@btk.elte.hu) and Dóra Janczer-Csikós (csikos.dora@btk.elte.hu).  

Student papers at past OTDK events:

• Orsolya Albert, “Blest Contemplation’s Placid Friend”: The Moon as a Mighty Confidante in the Works of Romantic Women Poets and Beyond
• Boróka Andl-Beck, Unbridling the ’Tamed Other’: Imagining ’the Gypsy’ in Late Victorian Gothic Fiction
• Mubashara Khan, Haywood and Reeve: Oriental Female Archetype in the Occidental Literary Imagination
• Dorka Lippai, Lanterns and Lamps: Symbolism and Cultural Diversity in William Holman Hunt's Painting
• Noémi Pintér, ”Theotormon hears me not": Shaming Women in 18th-century Rape Trials