On May 23, 2025, Károli Gáspár University and Yonsei University co-hosted their first hybrid graduate student conference, titled “Urban Culture in the Twenty-First Century”. Although it was KRE’s first joint event with one of South Korea’s oldest and most prominent universities, we hope it will become a tradition, along with further future inter-institutional collaboration.
The purpose of the conference was to give graduate students of both universities the opportunity to present their research, and acquire firsthand experience planning and attending a scientific conference in a supportive academic community. The event was planned and organized by Károli and Yonsei MA and PhD students, who were supervised by Gábor Patkós of the Institute of English Studies (KRE) and Hyungji Park of the Department of English Language and Literature (Yonsei University).
Following Dean Csoma Mózes’ introductory remarks in English and Korean, seven student papers from the two universities were presented, along with those of three renowned scholars who delivered the keynote lectures at the event:
- Lieven Ameel (University of Tampere): “Studying the City Novel: Observations on Referential, Spatial, Linguistic, and Temporal Relations”
- Péter Makai (Kazimierz Wielki University): “The City Built on Love Stories: How Fallen London Structures Its Unconscious”
- David Roh (University of Utah): “The Infrastructural Turn in Techno-Orientalism”
