Personal data

Name: Dávid Kaposi
Date of birth: 28 November 1979.
Place of birth: Budapest
Citizenship: Hungarian
E-mail: dkaposi@hotmail.com

Education

• 2004: Social Psychology, Research Student, Social Science Department, Loughborough University, supervisor: Prof. Billig, Michael
• 2003: PhD student in spcial psychology,University of Pécs, Faculty of Humanities, supervisor: Prof. János László
• 1999-2004: MA in psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of  Pedagogy & Psychology (Thesis: On discursive remembering - the Eichman-trial, supervisor: Anikó Kónya associated professor)
• 1998-2003: MA in Hungarian Language and Literature, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Humanities (Thesis: Kertész versus Kertész - cultural schemes and Auschwitz-interpretations; supervisor: Gábor Schein associated professor)
• 1994-1998: Apáczai Secondary Training School of Eötvös University

Scholarships

• 2005: Eötvös-Scholarship

Language skills

• English: fluent
• Latin: degree of intermediate level
• German. fluent

Teaching experience

• 2004: Seminar on "Holocaust, remembering, discourse" at Social Theory College of Corvinus University of Budapest

Research specialization

• discursive psychology
• tradition and discursivity
• Holocaust

Research support and cooperation

• 2002: Summer University (course title: Nationalisms) of the Helsinki University

Professional membership & activity

• 12-16 July 2006, 29th Annual Meeting of International Society of Political Psychology "The discursive construction of nationalism - the case of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem". See: http://ispp.org/
• 29-30 June 2006, at University of East Anglia, Norwich , conference entitled Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines in "From Ahabath to Love - the politics of "re-presentation" in the Arendt-Scholem exchange". The homepage of the conference: http://discourse.uea.ac.uk/
• 19-20 March 2004, Memory as language game - discourse approach to Eichmann-trial. Conference on remembering and communication. Narratives of constructing individual, social and collective identities, Targu Mures (Romania)
• 23-24 October 2003, History and remembering: a discourse approach. Collective remembering workshop at Annual Conference of Hungarian Association of Psychoanalysis, Budapest
• 5 April 2003, Being narrativelessly. Conference of Teachers of Hungarian Luanguage and Literature, Budapest
• 12-13 March 2003, Narratives and humans. Conference on psycholanalysis, Pécs

Publications in English or German (studies)

• Narrativlosigkeit. Kulturelle Schemen und der Roman eines Schicksallosen. In Scheibner, T. - Szegedy-Maszák, M. (eds.): Imre Kertész. Wien: Kortina-Passagen Verlag, 2004.
• Narrativlosigkeit. Kulturelle Schemen und der Roman eines Schicksallosen. Hungarian Studies, 2003, Vol. 17, No. 2: 183-213. p.
• 'Narrativeless' - cultural concepts and the Fateless. Spiel: Siegener Periodicum für Empirische Literaturforschung, 2002, Heft 1: 89-105. p.

Latest publications in Hungarian

• Emlékezet mint nyelvjáték - az Eichmann-per diszkurzív megközelítése. [Memory as language game - discourse approach to Eichmann-trial] 2000, 2004. June, 43-56. p.
• "Tetten ért emlékezés" - egy diszkurzív kutatás esélyei ["Rembering caught in the act" - possibilites of a discursive research]. Magyar Pszichológiai Szemle, 2004. 4: 301-320. p.