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Animal symbols: Literature and Art History mosaics and Animal Symbolics - Visual and verbal interactions in European cultural history.

Talking about the latest volumes of the Animalia eBooks series with editors Edit Újvári and Éva Vígh, moderator Anna Kérchy Organizer: SZTE NKI, SZTE BTK Italian Department of Language and Literature

Animalia e-Book series Founded in 2017 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Szeged, ANIMALIA Research Centre aims at interpreting animal life in the form of scientific symposiums, lectures, book presentations, the multifaceted relationship and interpretation of humanitas and animalitas in general. The increased interest in the research area and the need to present interdisciplinary research results brought the Animalia eBooks series to life in 2024. http://ebook.ek.szte.hu/index.php/animalia_ebooks

Edit Újvári (1963) Head of the Department of Culture Sciences of the University of Szeged. He is co-editor of the Szimbolumtár, involved in the drafting of the articles of the Állatsymbolumtár. His research interests include visual semiotics, iconography and animal symbols, member of the Seminary Working Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, secretary of the Animalia Research Centre.

Éva Vígh is the emeritus of the Italian Literature Professor at the Italian Department of the University of Szeged. His research area is the history of old Italian literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, especially with regard to court literature, the history of physiognomy, and the physiognomical analysis of character in art and literature. His books, books and journals, his studies were published in Italian, Hungarian and English. He is also a Hungarian translator of many authors of old Italian literature. Founder of Animalia Research Centre SZTE Antiquities and Renaissance: Head of Source and Reception Research Centre and Vice-President of Giovan Battista Della Porta International Research Centre (Naplely-Sorrento). Recent books on animal symbolism: Animal symbolism in the Middle and New Italian Literature (2018), Animal symbol library (ed. 2019).

Anna Kérchy, Professor of the English Department of the University of Szeged, Head of the Doctoral Program of Literatures and Cultures in English. Her main research areas are Victorian and postmodern women's literature, children's literature and fantastic literature, as well as the theories of posthumanism, human-animal relations and body sciences. More than 200 publications, including The Victorian Nonsense Poetics and Politics (2024, Academy Publisher).