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Papers Presented at Scientific Colloquia and Guest Lectures  

“East-West Discourse in Hungarian Jewish Art: Painters of the Zionist Journal Mult es Jovo (Past and Future) “, European Encounters: East–West Discourse in Modern Jewish Art, Literature and Culture, Department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University, and the Center for Jewish Studies, University of Graz, May 27–29, 2025.

“Jewish Forced Laborers in Quest of Identity: Satirical Drawings by Hungarian Artists during the Holocaust,“ International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, September 5, 2024.

“Hungarian Jews, Gender, and Communism: Questions of Gender in the Art of Zsuzsa Szenes and Hédi Tarján, “ British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies, University of Bristol, July 8–10, 2024.

“Holocaust Art Comparisons: Forced Laborers in Hungary and Romania,“ Holocaust comparisons: controversies, difficulties, and potentials, British and Irish Association for Holocaust Studies, University of Exeter, July 4–5, 2024.

“Jewish (Neo) Art Nouveau Tapestry in Hungary,” Department Seminar, Department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University, December 27, 2023.

“From Baroque Parochet to Neo-Avant-Garde Textile: Representation of Jewish Identity in the Tapestries of Hédi Tarján (1932–2008),” Twelfth EAJS Congress, Branching Out. Diversity of Jewish Studies, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt/Main, July 16–20, 2023.

“Art of Maurycy Gottlieb (1856–1879),” Learning Together, Frankel Leo Synagogue, Budapest, April 19, 2023.

“Jewish Artist Confronting the Holocaust, Communism and Integration into Israeli Society: Fra Angelico’s Annunciation Reinterpreted by Hédi Tarján (1932–2008),” Annual James A. Barnes Graduate History Conference, Temple University, Philadelphia, March 17–18, 2023.

“Holocaust Survivor Art Students in Post-War Budapest,” The Post-War Period As Reflected Through Art, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, October 25–26, 2022.

“Hungarian Israeli Artists in Quest of Identity: Fra Angelico’s Annunciation Reinterpreted by Hédi Tarján (1932–2008),” The Eighteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, August 8–12, 2022.

“Hédi Tarján (1932–2008) and Uri Asaf (b. 1942–): Hungarian Jewish Artists Confronting the Holocaust, Communism and Integration into Israeli Society,” Tenth Session of the International Forum of Young Scholars on East European Jewry, Taube Department of Jewish Studies, University of Wroclaw, July 3–7, 2022.

“Representation of Holocaust by Hungarian Israeli Artists before 1989: Comparative Case Study of Hédi Tarján’s Works,” Art of the Holocaust until 1989: Beyond an East/West Divide, Central European University, Budapest, June 8–10, 2022.

“Jewish Artist in Quest of Identity: Fra Angelico’s Annunciation Reinterpreted by Hédi Tarján (1932–2008),” The Seventeenth Annual Conference of The Canadian Society for Canadian Jewish Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, online, May 9–12, 2022.

“Hungarian Israeli Artists in Quest of Identity,” The Twelfth Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, online, April 22, 2022.

“Simon Hantaï and the Écriture rose (1958/1959),” Romance‒Hungarian relations, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, December 8, 2012.