CURRICULUM VITAE AGORA, Zsuzsanna (née KISS) Office: University of Pécs, Centre for Teaching Foreign Languages for Special Purposes Email: dr.susanna.agora@gmail.com EDUCATION Ph.D. University of Pécs (summa cum laude) 2012 Modern History M.A. Budapest Business School 2002 Business Administration M.A. University of Pécs (Class I Honours) 1995 History German Studies Pedagogy POSITION HELD Assistant professor of German and History, University of Pécs (Hungary) Centre for Teaching Foreign Languages for Special Purposes since 2006, scientific associate, Department of Modern History U of Pécs Professor of Grastyán Endre Advanced Studies Special Programme, U of Pécs, Hungary since 2014 Counselor in German Society for Psychohistory and Political Psychology Heidelberg since 2015 Mentee of Ted Hopf (Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore) PREVIOUS POSITION Research Assistant, Institute of German Studies, University of Pécs 2010 2013 FIELD OF INTEREST Historical Psychology (Using Psychology in Historical Research) Construction of Historical Identities Nationalism Psychological Perspectives of National Socialism The Role of Emotions in Political Ideologies New Research Methods for Historians/Humanities Culture of remembrance/ victim narratives RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IN PROJECTS Conference organisation and editorial work in Interactions Germanlanguage Literature and Culture in a Regional and International Context (2010) Institute of German Studies of U Pécs (Hungary) Research participant Universities in Times of Transition (2011) international project of Austria- Libraries, Institute of German Studies of University of Pécs (Hungary), University of Graz (Austria) Research Assistant: Medialization of the Collaps of the Austrian-Hungarian Dual Monarchy in Germanlanguage Local Newspapers in the peroid of 1880 1914 (2013) international project of Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs of Austria, Austria-Libraries, Institute of German Studies of University of Pécs, Austrian Academy of Sciences Research manager of Identity and Locality. Developing a Community Board Game with Students. Project of University of Pécs (Talent Support Centre), National Ministry of Human Ressources (Hungary)
Research manager of Broadcasting Vienna in Transnational Space in Hungary. Joint project of University of Vienna (Institue for Media and Communication Studies), Grastyán Endre Advanced Studies Special Programme, University of Pécs (Hungary). TEACHING EXPERIENCE BA and MA courses at the University of Pécs in fields of National Socialism, German Culture, Minorities in Germanlanguage Countries, Culture of Remembrance, Methods of Textual Analysis, Creative Writing, Academic Writing and Presentations, Business German since 2006 Visiting Lecturer in Seminar Heroes and Constructiong Heroes and Seminar History and Psychology, Department of Modern History, Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg (Germany) (2011) Westphiladelphia High School with prof. Joan Miller (Bloomberg University) and Virag Rab (University of Pécs) (2015) Joint Course with Joan Miller (Bloomberg University) and Virag Rab (Universuty of Pécs) (2014) PhD courses in History of Psychoanalysis, Using Psychology in Historical research, Narrative Analysis since 2012 SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS Grant for Excellence of the Hungarian Republic (1993/1994) Pécs (Hungary) German Academic Exchange Service DAAD (1991/1992) Bonn (Germany) Bayhost Bavarian Academic Center for C., E. and S. Europe (2010) Regensburg (Germany) German Academic Exchange Service - DAAD (2010 and 2014) Passau (Germany) Campus Hungary (2015) Montego Bay (Jamaica) Erasmus Teaching Staff Mobility (2011) Freiburg (Austria) Österreich-Bibliotheken (2013 and 2014) Vienna (Austria) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES Berlin 2008, Germany (GPPP) Vienna 2013, Austria (International Elias Canetti Society) Vienna 2013, Austria (Austrian Academy of Sciences) Pécs 2012, Hungary (Institute of History/U Pécs) Montego Bay 2014, Jamaica (GASI) San Antonio 2014 (ASEEES) Philadelphia 2015 (GASI) Heidelberg 2015, Germany (GPPP) Philadelphia 2015 (ASEEES) MEMBERSHIP IN SOCIETIES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies 2014- Österreich-Bibliotheken 2013- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychohistorie und Politische Psychologie 2008- Association of Hungarian Historians 2007- WORK IN PROGRESS Book project: Introduction to Historical Psychology. In progress with Böhlau Publishing Book project: Looking for the Human Evil. Psychlogical Perspectives of National. In progress with Kronosz Publishing. SPOKEN LANGUAGES Hungarian C2 German C1+ English B2+
EXPERIENCE OF TRANSLATIONS IN GERMAN Offical translator of Tchibo Hungary 1993-1995 Translator of Steinmüller GmbH Gummersbach in Hungary 1995-2000 Interpreter and translator in conferences and workshops since 2012 ORGANIZED CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS Grastyán Endre International and Interdisziplinary Conference (U of Pécs/Hungary) since 2012 every year contributor Identity and Locality workshops every semester since 2014 Broadcasting Vienna International Workshop and Conference Pécs/Hungary 5-7. Nov. 2015 AWARDS 2013. Award of University Pécs (for effective and diligent talent support) 2015. Award of Grastyán E. Advanced Studies SP (for successful mentoring) 2015. Kriszbacher Mentoring Award PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PAPERS A Historical Account of Shell Shock and Horror during the First World War in Central Europe. Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, Philadelphia (USA) (19-22 Nov., 2015) Which of the two was mentally ill? Psychiatry and the individual in the interwar period Psycho-Politics: The Cross-Sections of Science and Ideology in the History of Psy-Sciences. International conference organized by the Social and Cultural Psychology Group of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Central European University, Budapest (Hungary) (30 31 Oct., 2015). Identity and Locality Research, Field Working and Developing a Board Game with Students. Conference Horizons and Dialogues at the University of Pécs (Hungary) (07.May, 2015.) The Evil in the Mirror of German Language Nationalism. The Stranger (workshop). U of Pécs, Institute of Psychology. Doctoral School of Psychoanalysis. Pécs (Hungary) (29.Apr., 2015) The Influence of a Joint Course on US and Hungarian Student Perceptions of Globalization, Identity, and Solidarity. Montego Bay (Jamaica) 21/24. May, 2014 Old Skills in New Context. Literature and Authors. 46th Annual Convention. Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies. San Antonio/Texas (USA) 20-23.Nov., 2014. The Importance of Emotions: How to Analyze Emotions in Written Historical Sources. Montego Bay (Jamaica) (21/24.May,2014) Remembrance and Identity in the Frame of Nation. Conference Identities: Mental Constructions of Remembrance in Europe (20th Century). International Elias Canetti Society, Ministry for European and International Affairs of Austria Vienna (Austria) (6/8. Nov.2013) The Current State of the Hungarian National Identity. Using Narrative Categorical Analysis for Decoding the Process of Identity Construction. Conference Transnationale und transkulturelle Kommunikationsforschung in Mittel- und Osteuropa: Trends, Entwicklungen, Debatten. Annual Meeting of Society for International and Intercultural Communication. Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik und
Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK), Academy of Science, Comenius University Bratislava. Vienna (Austria) (4-5.Oct.,2013) Heroes and Scapegoats in the Weimar Germany. International Conference on Scapegoats in the 20th century) Pécs (30-31.March,2012) Missbrauch der Gefühle als Quelle pseudoreligiöser Bindungen. Angaben zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus. Gesellschaft für Psychohistorie und Politische Psychologie (GPPP) Wurzeln und Barrieren von Bezogenheit. 25. Annual Meeting. Berlin-Kreuzberg. (25-27.March,2011) SOLICITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS A Plea for Historical Psychology. Association of Hungarian Historians. Budapest (Hungary) (12.03.2013) Gewalttätige Kommunikation in der NS-Propaganda. (in English: Violent Communication in Nazi Propaganda) Non-violent Communication Interdisciplinary Conference of DAAD, Pécs (Hungary) (18.10.2011) History of Psychoanalysis. The Theory of Freud from the View of Historians. Interdisciplinary Doctoral School. U of Pécs (Hungary) (since 2012 every year) How to Use Psychology in Historical Research. New Methods. A történeti pszichológia lehetőségei a történeti kutatásban. Interdisciplinary Doctoral School. U Pécs (Hungary) (since 2012 every year) Using Narrative Categorical Analysis in Historical Research. Interdisciplinary Doctoral School. U of Pécs (Hungary) (08.11.2014) The Practice of Historical Psychology. New Methods in Historical research. Interdisciplinary Doctoral School. U of Pécs (Hungary) (08.11.2014) Psychologische Geschichtsforschung in Ungarn. Gegenwart und Zukunft. (in English: Historical Psychology in Hungary. Current Research) Gesellschaft für Psychohistorie und Politische Psychologie. 29. Annual Meeting. Heidelberg Germany (18.04.2015.) Competition or Cooperation? The Importance of Cooperation in Scientific Research. VI. International and XII. National Interdisciplinary Conference of Grastyán ASSP. Pécs (Hungary) (19.03.2014) Missbrauch der Emotionen Zur Gefühlskomponente der NS-Propaganda. German Studies Research Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Pécs (Hungary) (06.04.2011) Using Psychology in Historical Research. VII. Grastyán Endre Interdisciplinary Conference Pécs (Hungary) (23-25. 03.2009) PUBLIC LECTURES Uncried Tears. Holocaust in the Collectice Remembrance (Hungary) Forum. Decentered Society Pécs (Hungary) (23.03.2015)
How to Analize Emotions in Propaganda Speeches. Research Group for Crisis-History. Budapest (Hungary) (12.04.2015) Emotions at the Service of Nazi Propaganda. University of Seniors. Pécs (Hungary) (20.01.2012) Emotions and History. University of Seniors. Pécs (Hungary) (13.01.2012)