Curriculum Vitae
Peter Bokody
E-mail: bokody.peter@gmail.com
Permanent residence: Panoráma utca 5, H-8600 Siófok, Hungary
Degrees earned
2006 MA, Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Thesis title: “Image-within-picture” in the Legend of St. Francis
2004 Art History, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Budapest
Thesis title: “The Inferior Degree of Reality in the First Half of the Trecento”
2004 Aesthetics, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Budapest
Thesis title: “The Aesthetic Implication of Emmanuel Levinas’ Thought”
Awards, scholarships
2009 Visiting Researcher, Kunsthistorisches Institute, Florence
2009 Visiting Researcher, Index of Christian Art, Princeton University
2008 Research Leave, University of Birmingham, Birmingham
Languages
- Hungarian native language
- French excellent reading, good writing, good speaking
- English excellent reading, good writing, good speaking
- Italian good reading, fair writing, fair speaking
- German poor reading, poor speaking
- Latin fair reading
Publications
2008a “Az arc előtt és után: Lévinas bölcseletének folytathatóságáról” (Before and after the face: the Legacy of Lévinas’ Philosophy). HOLMI 20 (2008): 918-930.
2008b “A beszéd és a testek” (The Saying and Bodies). In: Transzcendencia és megértés – Lévinas etikája és metafizikája, ed. Péter Bokody, László Kenéz and Nóra Szegedi, 269-281. Budapest: L’Harmattan, 2008.
2008c Translation, with Marcell Mártonffy: Lévinas, Emmanuel. Etika és végtelen (Ethics and Infinity). In: Transzcendencia és megértés – Lévinas etikája és metafizikája, ed. Péter Bokody, László Kenéz and Nóra Szegedi, 13-55. Budapest: L’Harmattan, 2008.
2008d Edited volume, with László Kenéz and Nóra Szegedi: Transzcendencia és megértés – Lévinas etikája és metafizikája (Transcendence and Understanding – Lévinas’ Ethics and Metaphysics). Budapest: L’Harmattan, 2008.
2008e Book review: “A tapasztalat fenomenológiája felé” (Towards a Phenomenology of Experience). Pannonhalmi Szemle, 16, no. 3 (2007): 129-135. (László Tengelyi: Experience and Expression)
2007a “Between Reality and Symbol: ‘Images-within-Pictures’ in the Upper Church at Assisi.” Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU 13 (2007): 75-96.
2007b “Az erős és a gyenge. Lévinas művészetfelfogásának recepciójáról és az életmű lehetséges irányairól” (The Strong and the Weak. The reception of Lévinas’ philosophy of Art and the possible directions of research). Partitúra 2, no. 1 (2007): 69-77.
2007c Book review: “A pluralitás ígérete” (The promise of plurality). Pannonhalmi Szemle, 15, no. 3 (2007): 86-91. (Hans Belting: End of Art History)
2006a “A leírástól a megalapozásig” (From describing to foundation). In Látvány/színház, ed. Adam Mestyán, 87-98. Budapest: L’Harmattan, 2006.
2006b “A többes idegentapasztalat” (The experience of plurality). In Tarkaság dícsérete, ed. Tibor Bárány, 43-52. Budapest: Erasmus Kollégium, 2006.
2004a “Lévinas és a politikai” (Lévinas and the political). Pannonhalmi Szemle 12, no. 1 (2004): 71-94.
2004b Book review: “Képe és teste” (His picture and his body). Pannonhalmi Szemle, 12, no. 3 (2004): 140-145. (Hans Belting: Picture-anthropology)
2004c Book review: “Képek, terek, elbeszélések” (Images, spaces, narratives). Pannonhalmi Szemle, 12, no. 4 (2004): 125-131. (Max Imdahl: Giotto, Wolfgang Kemp: The spaces of the painters)
2003a “Dániel – megjegyzés a klosterneuburgi oltár Feltámadás reggele-táblájának ikonográfiájához” (Daniel – Note on the iconography of the Morning of the Resurrection table of the Klosterneuburg Altarpiece). Művészettörténeti értesítő 52 (2003): 233-236.
2003b Translation: Nouzille, Philippe. “Szent Benedek arca” (The face of Saint Benedict). Pannonhalmi Szemle 11, no. 3 (2003): 130-136.
2003c Translation: Critchley, Simon. “Lévinas keze Blanchot tüzében” (Holding Lévinas hand’s in Blanchot’s fire). Vulgo (Budapest) 4, no. 2 (2003): 102-110.
2002a “Szerepjáték és fantasy” (Role-playing and fantasy). HOLMI 14 (2002): 1299-1307.
2002b “Művészet, transzcendencia, etika” (Art, transcendence, ethics). Pannonhalmi Szemle 10, no. 3 (2002): 118-136.
2002c Book review: “Mesterek és tanítványok” (Masters and disciples). Pannonhalmi Szemle 10, no. 4 (2002): 145-150. (Docete! Benedictines serving Hungarian education)
2001a Book review: “Kövekről” (On stones). Pannonhalmi Szemle 9, no. 2 (2001): 125-129. (Paradisum plantavit exhibition and catalogue)
2001b Translation: Lévinas, Emmanuel. “Jegyzetek az értelemről” (Notes on sense). Pannonhalmi Szemle, 9, no. 3 (2001): 3-5.
2001c Translation: Pór, Peter. “Opfer: áldozat vagy áldozathozó – a kétértelműség labirintusai a Don Carlosban” (Opfer: victim or sacrifice – the labyrinths of ambiguity in the Don Carlos). HOLMI 13 (2001): 44-55.
2000 Translation: Jankélévitch, Vladimir. “Először és utoljára” (The first and the last time). Pannonhalmi Szemle 8, no. 2 (2000): 3-6.
Conferences, workshops, summer universities
2009
“Giotto’s Circle.” The Courtauld Institute of Art. London
Paper presented: “Pictorial and Iconographic Reflexivity in Italian Painting.”
“Framing the Middle Ages.” The Courtauld Institute of Art. London
Paper presented: “The Frame of Life: the Allegories of Justice and Injustice in the Arena Chapel.”
“Bridges and Boundaries: Revisiting the Byzantine Inheritance.” Center for Hellenic Traditions, Central European University, Budapest
Paper presented: “Kronotopos. Narrative strategies in the Homilies on the Life of the Virgin.”
“44th International Congress on Medieval Studies.” Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
Paper presented: “Presence and Performativity: Imago and the Enlivened Marginal Details.”
“Medieval Mise-en-abyme: the Object Depicted Within Itself.” The Courtauld Institute of Art. London
Paper presented: “Between Art and Iconography: Representation-within-representation in Assisi.”
2008
“International Medieval Congress: The Natural World.” Institute for Medieval Studies, Leeds
Paper presented: “How to Petrify: Pseudo-Sculptural Animal Decoration in the Lower Church of Assisi.”
“The Iconology of Law and Order.” Eastern & Western Traditions of European Iconography 4. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of English and American Studies, and Cultural Iconology and Semiography Research Group, Szeged.
Paper presented: “The Art of Justice and the Justice of Art: Pictorial Consideration of the Allegories of the Scrovegni Chapel.”
“Letteratura profetica, oracolare e sibillina fra XIII e XV secolo.” Seminario internazionale di ricerca organizzato nell’ambito del Progetto di lavoro su: Profezie come codice linguistico-letterario della comunicazione morale, sociale e politica nei secoli XIII e XIV. Palazzo dei Musei, Modena
Paper presented: “Between Ubertino and Olivi: The Allegory of Obedience in Assisi.”
“Global Webbing of Diverging Agendas: Synchronicity and Asynchronicity in Contemporary Culture and Politics.” Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest
Paper presented: “Body and Word: The Ethical Significance of Virtual Communities.”
“Bildanalyse – interdisziplinär: Bildverständnis in den Wissenschaften.” Deutsch-Italienisches Zentrum Villa Vigoni
Paper presented: “A History of Image-within-Picture in the Art of Medieval Italy (1290-1350).”
2007
“International Medieval Congress: Medieval Cities.” Institute for Medieval Studies, Leeds.
Paper presented: “The Just and the Infidels: Constructing Contrasts of Early Trecento Urban Space.”
“Topics, Theories, and Methods in the History of Politics beyond Great Events and Great Men.” Graduate Conferences in European History, Central European University, Budapest.
Paper presented: “An Iconography of Tolerance and Hostility: St. Francis in the Court of the Sultan.”
“The Supernatural and Its Visual Representation in the Middle Ages.” Interdisciplinary workshop, Central European University, Budapest.
Paper presented: “… o chiami con la mano a vedere – Statues Explaining the Meaning of a Miracle in Early Trecento Painting.”
2006
“Eurotop for Topstudents – The Quality of the University of the Future.” University of Maastricht, Maastricht. (Participant.)
“Angelo Clareno Francescano.” Società Internazionale di Studi Francescani and Centro Interuniversitario di Studi Francescani, Assisi. (Participant.)
“Université Européenne d’Été – L’Europe à venir: secularization, justice, démocratie.” Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj.
Paper presented: “La notion de la justice chez Lévinas.”
2005
“Université Européenne d’Été – Langues et langage.” École Normale Supérieur – Rue d’Ulm, Paris. (Participant.)
2004
“Kunstgeschichte am Scheidewege – Art History at the Crossroads.” Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Central European University, Budapest.
Paper presented: “Iconographic structure.”
