North American Department, University of Debrecen

MA STUDENTS
Call for Papers: aspeers 20, graduate-level peer-reviewed American studies journal
Deadline: October 11, 2026

aspeers, the first peer-reviewed print journal for MA-level American studies scholars in Europe, calls for papers for its twentieth issue by October 11, 2026.

As in previous years, aspeers calls for general submissions of excellent academic work by MA-level students as well as for work specifically focused on this year’s topic of “Individualism in Community.”

For more information, please refer to the following URLs:

* General Submissions:
https://www.aspeers.com/sites/default/files/aspeers-20_2027_cfp_general.pdf

* Submissions on “Individualism in Community”:
https://www.aspeers.com/sites/default/files/aspeers-20_2027_cfp_topical.pdf

aspeers is a unique opportunity for students to get published early on in their career and to gain experience with the process of publishing academic work. If you have any questions, please consult https://aspeers.com/2027 or get in touch with us directly via [email protected].

www.aspeers.com

We are delighted to announce that our colleague, Éva Mathey is delivering a lecture today at the Kossuth House in Washington
https://kossuthfoundation.org/about-the-foundation/

Sok szeretettel gratulálunk Judit Szathmari és Tibor Glant kollégáink frissen megjelent, open access elérhető tanulmányaihoz, amelyek az USA 250: Amerika magyar szemmel című kötetben jelentek meg.
A kötetet Csizmadia Gábor és Glant Tibor szerkesztették.

Glant Tibor
A kétoldalú amerikai–magyar diplomáciai kapcsolatok
kiépítése, 1919–1925

Szathmári Judit
Egyszer volt, hol (nem) van: az Amerikai Egyesült Államok
elmúlt 250 éve őslakos szemszögből

https://doi.org/10.36250/01320_00

Congratulations to our MA students on the completion of their studies with excellent results at the State Exam! Wishing you all the best in your future endeavours, and looking forward to meeting some of you in September in our PhD program.

MA state exam over, congrats to masters and padawans. Post-photo session pics.

Sok szeretettel gratulálunk kollégánknak, Gabriella Espaknak, aki Ausztrália szakértőként vett részt a Delta legutóbbi adásában, amelynek témája egy világörökségi helyszín, az ausztráliai Uluru tanúhegy volt.
➡️ Az adás visszanézhető a Médiaklikk oldalán:

Delta, Ausztrália/ Uluru | MédiaKlikk A vörös tanúhegyre, az ausztráliai Uluru vidékére utazik a nézőkkel Bíró Ada, a Delta kilencedik részében. Ez a hosszú évmilliók alatt fejlődött magányos szigethegy több tekintetben is különlegességnek számít, kiváltképp a kőzetei és a hegységképző mozgások miatt, ame...

We are so happy to welcome back Professor Leah Perry who was Fulbright Scholar (2018-19) and Fulbright Specialist (2019) at our department! Prof Perry has authored Indigenous Dispossession, Anti-Immigration, and the Public Pedagogy of US Empire (Ohio State University Press, 2024) and The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration, Gender, Race, and Media (NYU Press, 2016).
All are welcome to her talk on May 19, 11 AM, Studio 111

We are delighted that so many of our MA and PhD students took part in the Károli English Studies Conference for Graduate and Post-Graduate Students, Budapest, 7 May 2026.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Safa Merzougui: Haunting Across Generations: Gothic Motifs as a Manifestation of Intergenerational Trauma in Mansoura EzEldin’s Maryam’s Maze (2007)

Rita Júlia Jansik: Postmodern Hauntings: The Unhomely in Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves

Éva Urbán: Indigenous Cosmological Storytelling and Contemporary Social Issues in Bad Medicine

Regina László: Domesticating Sovereignty: Televisual Modernity and the Reinvention of Monarchy in Royal Family (1969)

Fedoua Manar Grouri: Beyond the Poetics of Military Condemnation: Technology and Perception Interwoven in David S. F. Wilson’s Bloodshot (2020)

Minh Duc Ngo: Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022): Reinterpreting and Reconstructing Asian Identities in Contemporary American Cinema

Mawada Saeed: Nostalgia and Haunting in Jamal Mahjoub’s Wings of Dust (1994)

Chahra Zed Khodja: Intergenerational Trauma and Spiritual Healing in Sahar Mustafah’s The Beauty of Your Face (2020)

Réka Törzsök: “Delude the world to its undoing”: War, Religion, and Ethics in Theodora Wilson Wilson’s The Last Weapon

Zouhour Kacem: The Deferred Wound: Delayed Remembrance and Trauma in Beloved

Sára Viktória Valicskó: Weird Girl Lit: Shifting Representations of Twenty-First-Century American Womanhood

Eszter Krakkó: From Narrator into the Object of the Male Gaze: Transformations of the Female Figure in Tracy Chevalier’s and Peter Webber’s Girl with a Pearl Earring

Tabish Nabi: “These Bones Shall Live”: The Body as Mnemonic Archive in Enslaved Christian and Muslim Practice

Last week at Andrássy University we had a major conference on Central Europe and the USA on account of USA 250. The conference was organized by Walter Grunzweig, our old friend from TU Dortmund (our last surviving ERASMUS). UD lecturers included Máté Balogh and Tibor Glant from NAD and Csaba Lévai of the history department.