Biography
After obtaining her diploma from the Faculty of Humanities at Eötvös Loránd University, she received her Candidate of the Arts degree in 1984. In 2004 she became a Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Together with Gábor Kapitány, she is the author of over thirty books and more than 300 articles and studies published in English, German, and French, in addition to Hungarian. She has been active in higher education for over 40 years. She is a founding and management member of several academic societies (Hungarian Cultural Anthropological Association, Hungarian Association for Semiotic Studies). She is a member of the Committee on Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Awards and accolades
In 2016, she received the Széchenyi Prize for her academic lifetime achievements, and in 2022, she was given the Kopp-Skrabski Award.
Selected monographs
Ágnes Kapitány and Gábor Kapitány. Symbolisation. How Do We Act with Symbols? (A szimbolizáció. Hogyan cselekszünk szimbólumokkal?)
Ágnes Kapitány and Gábor Kapitány. The Intellectual Production Method. (A szellemi termelési mód.)
Ágnes Kapitány and Gábor Kapitány. Symbolic Elements of Everyday Culture. (English edition)
Ágnes Kapitány and Gábor Kapitány. Symbolic Elements of Everyday Culture. (A mindennapi élet jelrendszereiről. Hungarian edition)
Ágnes Kapitány and Gábor Kapitány. Visible and Invisible Worlds at the Turn of the Millennium – and After. (Látható és láthatatlan világok az ezredfordulón – és utána.)
Ágnes Kapitány and Gábor Kapitány. Survival Strategies. (Túlélési stratégiák.)
Ágnes Kapitány and Gábor Kapitány. Talking Houses. (Beszélő házak.)
Ágnes Kapitány and Gábor Kapitány. Hungarian Symbolic Elements of Everyday Culture. (A mindennapi élet magyarság-szimbólumai. Work in progress)