Talks

2011 Spring https://polyaklevente.net/teaching/2011-spring/budapesti-muszaki-egyetem-megelt-varos-varostervezes-epiteszet-es-a-szubjektivitas-terei/

2010 Fall Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design: The Post-Socialist Transformation of Central European Cities

2010 Fall Budapest University of Technology: The Post-Socialist Transformation of Central European Cities

2010 Fall PATTERNS_Lectures course – Fragmented Space: The Transformation of Central European Cities

2010
Lecture at the Politecnico, Milan (I): Socialist architectures revisited: conceptions, evolutions and legacies

Presentations at the Anatomy of a Street symposium series, Budapest (H), Bratislava (SL) and Warsaw (PL)

Lecture at the ‘Public space and the challenges of urban transformation in Europe: politics and culture’ conference, Vienna (A): Exchange in the Street: Rethinking Open-Air Markets in Budapest

Lecture at the ‘Infracity’ conference, Paris (F): Vulnerabilities and Inequalities Revealed: Alternative Mapping Practices and the Infrastructures of Cities

Lecture at the ‘Once Upon a Place: Architecture and Fiction’ conference, Lisbon (P): Filming Budapest: Peripheral Views Between Cienma and Politics
Lecture at the ‘History Takes Place’ symposium, Paris (F): The Politics of Architecture Exhibitions

Lecture at the ‘International Congress of East European Studies’, Stockholm (SWE): The Anatomy of a Street. On the Urban Transformation of Budapest

Lecture at the Krétakör theatre company’s ‘Urban Therapy’ symposium, in Pécs (H): Affective Spaces and Urban Therapies

2010 Spring Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design: Metropolitan Dynamisms
Budapest University of Technology: The Experience of the City

2009 Fall
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design: Urbanism and the Urban Society
Budapest University of Technology: The Form of the City and its Communities

2009
Podium discussion at the 2^nd Budapest Architecture Film Days: Architecture and Passion

Presentation at the seminar ‘Challenges of the Sustainable City’ at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (BRA): Participatory democracy and the sustainable city: limitations and challenges of engagement

2006
Lecture at the ‘Tibor Weiner Memorial Conference’ organised by the Institute of Contemporary Art Dunaújváros: Palaces of Culture

Lecture at the ‘IndusTrial: Cultural Reutilisation of Industrial Buildings’ conference organised by the Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre: Rozsdaérzékenység. Kulturális érdeklődés a marginalitás terei iránt (Rust-sensibility. Cultural attention towards the spaces of marginality)

Lecture at the conference ‘The Political Aspects of Cultural Heritage’ organised by the Weimar Klassik Foundation and the Goethe Institut in Sofia (BG): Heritage as argument, heritage as authority: Notions and positions in contemporary Budapest urban planning discourse

Lecture at the conference ‘City_space_positions’ organised by the Kultúra 2010 Társaság, Pécs (H): Strukturális fejlesztések az európai kulturális fővárosok projektjeiben, példák a „kreatív városfejlesztés” gyakorlatára (Structural Developments in European Cultural Capitals‘ Projects, examples for “Creative Urban Planning”

Lecture at the conference ‘Urban Contact Zone’ organised by Projektgruppe, Hamburg (D): Heritage and Progress: Narratives of Past and Future in Contemporary Budapest Urban Regeneration and Entering the city through films: urban discourse and contemporary cinema in Budapest

2005
Lecture at the conference ‘City&Film: The Visual Culture of the Metropolis’, organised by the Hungarian National Film Archive and the Austrian Cultural Forum: Periférikus látás: Az ezredforduló Budapestje fiatal filmesek szemével (Peripheric view: Budapest of the Millennium seen by young directors)

2004
Lecture at the conference ‘Urban Mindscapes of Europe’, organised by the De Montfort University: Drifting Bridges – Semantic Changes of the Bridge Metaphor in Recent Budapest. Leicester (UK)