Dóra PÁL-Kovács PhD

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

2020	PhD in ethnography
2014–2017	PhD student ”Babeş–Bolyai” University, Faculty of Letters, Hungarian Department of Ethnography and Anthropology Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2011–2014	University of Szeged, Department of Enthnology and Cultural Anthropology Anthropology of dance (MA degree) Core unites: Antopology of dance, Folcloristic of dance, Labanotation, History of Dance
2008–2011	University of Szeged, Department of Enthnology and Cultural Anthropology Ethnographer (BA degree) Core unites: european ethnology, Hungarian and comparative folcloristic, Hungarian and comparative ethnography, research metodology, Culturel antropology
2004–2008	Bezerédj István Trade and Economics Secondary School
1996–2004	Babits Mihály Bilingual High Scool Special german class

EMPLOYMENT

2015–	professional rapportuer Intangible Cultural Heritage Department Open Air Museum (Szentendre)

PROFESSION EXPERIENCE

• 2012–2014
  Researcher intern
  The Hungarian Academy of Sciences Research Centre for the Humanities Intitute for Musycology
  
• 2010
  Professional practice
  The Hungarian Academy of Sciences Research Centre for the Humanities Intitute for Musycology (Budapest Hungary)
  
• 2009
  Intership
  Museum of Völgység (Bonyhád, Hungary)
  

RESEARCH SKILLS

• 2012–
  Gender studies in a transylvanian village, Magyarózd
  (The two main question of my research are: Which depth of autonomy is it provided for women at the couple dances from Magyarózd? How could we define more precisely relationship between the sexes at the folk-dance?)

SCHOLARSHIPS

• April 2013
  IPEDAM
  Intensive Erasmus Programme of Dance Ethnocoreology and Dance Anthopology. Dance Knoledge, Movements of Dance
  Norvegian Univerity of Sciense and Technology
  Norway, Trondheim
• April 2010
  IPEDAK
  Intensive Erasmus Programme of Dance Ethnocoreology and Dance Anthopology. Dance Knowledge
  Norvegian Univerity of Sciense and Technology
  Norway, Trondheim

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• 2015
  Guest speaker
  The Dance in the Mirror of the Individual Time
  Time-interpretations in the Hungarology
  University of Pécs
• 2015
  Guest speaker
  Bal of Carnival at Magyaród
  Kriza János Ethogpraphic Society, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• 2015
  Guest speaker
  The problems of the research of the gender roles in a dance tradition of a village in Malozsa-valley
  Methodological days in Szeged
  Folkdance - Connection of the theory and the practice
  Szent-Györgyi Albert Agóra, Szeged
• 2014
  Guest speaker
  “Woman’s view” - The women’s freedom in the couple dances of Magyarózd
  Look for your woman!
  Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest
• 2014
  Guest speaker
  “Women’s view’ - Analysis and interpretation in the couple dances in Magyarózd (Transylvania)
  Local Dance as Knowledge, Practice and Heritage, Choreomundus Symposium
  The Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute for Musicology, Budapest 21-23. November
• 2014
  Guest Lecturer
  “Women’s view” - Analysis and interpretation of couple dance in Magyarozd(Trancsylvania)
  University of Szeged, Department of Enthnology and Cultural Anthropology
  Course of Dance and Society
• 2013
  Guest speaker
  The women’s view at research of dance
  Creation - Reception - Criticism about the dance of arts, the pedagology of dance, and the research of dance.
  Research presented at the 4th Conferens of science of dance at Hungarian Dance Academy, Budapest, 8-9. November.
  

MEMBERSHIP

• 2014-
  Hungarian Etnocoreology Society, Budapest
• 2014-
  Kriza János Ethogpraphic Society

LANGUAGES

• Hungarian - Native language
• German - Intermediate level (B2)
• English - Intermediate level (B2)
• French - Conversation level Romanian - Beginner level