Global Healers: Arts and Humanities

Free elective online course for all majors available in Neptun! For details download the PDF document.
Here is the list of lectures with their respective dates:
  • 10-FEB Holly Case, Brown University: “Robot Revolutions: Why Do Robots Always Rise Up?”
  • 17-FEB Anna Kérchy, University of Szeged: “The cultural history of freak shows: navigating between mythical, biomedical, and social constructionist understandings of disability — towards a healthier society”
  • 24-FEB Kent Cartwright, University of Maryland, College Park:  “Laughter, Surprise, and Wonder:  The Healthfulness of Shakespearean Comedy.”
  • 3- MAR Fatima Vieira, University of Porto: “Alimentopia: Utopian Foodways”
  • 10-MAR, Lilla Farmasi, University of Szeged: “Cognitive science and literature: Literary representations of the subjective experience of being ill”
  • 17- MAR Paola Spinozzi, University of Ferrara: “The Ecological Humanities and Ecocriticism for Sustainable Wellbeing”
  • 24-MAR Beata Glinka, University of Warsaw:” Organisations in a social context: how volunteering influences employees”
  • 31-MAR Shaul Bassi, University of Venice: “The Medusa and the Mermaid: Thinking and Feeling with the Environmental Humanities”
  • 7-APR Andrea Némedi, software development manager, coach, soft skill trainer: “The Artistic and Literary Language of Albert-Laszlo Barabasi’s Network Science”
  • 21-APR Helena Sandberg, Lund University: “Media and health – a happy marriage?”
  • 28-APR István Szendi, University of Szeged: “The Narrative Facilitation of Recovery”
  • 5-MAY Patrick Gray, University of Durham: “Dramatic Representations of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Sophocles, Seneca, Shakespeare, and the Question of Anachronism”
  • 12-MAY Dávid Marno, University of California, Berkeley: TB

Fall Semester Dates 2018

The dates of Fall Semester 2018:

Enrolment: August 27 – September 1, 2018
Study Period: September 3 – December 8, 2018
Fall Break: October 22-24, 2018
Exam Period: December 10-21, 2018 and January 2-26, 2019
Re-exam Period: January 28-February 2, 2019

LDE (levelezős) contact dates:

September 14-15 and 28-29, 2018
October 12-13, 2018
November 9-10 and 23-24, 2018
November 30-December 1, 2018

For the full syllabus click HERE.

Public Lecture by Dr Béatrice Laurent

The Gender Research Group (TNT) is hosting a public lecture by Dr Béatrice Laurent (Bordeaux Montaigne University, France), entitled “Sleeping Beauties in Victorian Britain: Cultural, Artistic and Literary Explorations of a Myth.” The event will be held on April 18, 2018 at 5 p.m. in the Faculty’s Conference Room. For more details see the event’s flyer.