International Student Conference in English Studies
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Zagreb
May 3 – 5, 2018
Thursday, May 3
| 8:30 – 9:30 | REGISTRATION | LIBRARY LOBBY |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | OPENING CEREMONY | CONFERENCE HALL |
| 10:00 – 10:40 | Manuela Neuwirth (University of Graz) Magnanimality: Aristocratic Animals and the Great Chain of Being from Naturalism to Postmodernism | CONFERENCE HALL |
| Ema Sandalić (University of Zagreb) Language and Visuality in The Turn of the Screw |
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| 10:50 – 11:30 | Željka Boduljak, Ivica Jeđud (University of Zagreb) Violation of Grice's Maxims of Cooperative Principle as the Basis of Humor: The Case of Chandler Bing and Phoebe Buffay in the American Sitcom Friends | CONFERENCE HALL |
| Lucija Žinić (University of Zadar) Bedroom Lights and Bedroom Slippers - Does Lexical Relatedness Have a Stronger Influence on Noun-noun Compounds than Underlying Relationships? |
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| 11:30 – 12:40 | LUNCH BREAK | |
| 12:40 – 13:40 | KEYNOTE Dr. Ellen Elias-Bursać (Fulbright Guest Professor at the University of Zagreb & Vice President of the American Literary Translators Association) The Translator/Interpreter as a Negotiator of Meaning | CONFERENCE HALL |
| 13:50 – 14:50 | Flavia Schneider (University of Zurich) A Country with an Attitude: English in Switzerland | CONFERENCE HALL |
| Andrej Labudić (University of Osijek) Linguistic Landscape in Tvrđa, Osijek |
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| Anda-Illeana Duta (University of Bucharest) Anglicisms and Vocabulary Dynamics in Romanian Online Communication |
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| 15:00 – 16:00 | Adela Mirolevska (University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”) A Man’s no Horse: Reason, Language, and the Thing Which Is Not in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels | CONFERENCE HALL |
| Nikolina Tomić, Milica Stanković (University of Belgrade) The Concept of Time in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega |
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| Teodora-Cristina Vela (West University of Timisoara) Violence and Religion in Nick Cave and Flannery O’Connor |
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Friday, May 4
| 9:30 – 10:00 | REGISTRATION | LIBRARY LOBBY |
| 10:00 – 10:40 | Nikolla Elgoni (University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”) Exploring the Communist Past of Albania through American Drama on Stage | CONFERENCE HALL |
| Petar Miočević (University of Zagreb) Nah, there was definitely an ostrich involved, sir. Bridging the No-Man’s Land Between Histories of the Great War |
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| 10:50 – 12:20 | PANEL DISCUSSION Prof. Tvrtko Jakovina, Asst. Prof. Brian Willems, Asst. Prof. Tihana Klepač, Asst. Prof. Sven Cvek An American Utopia? | CONFERENCE HALL |
| 12:20 – 13:30 | LUNCH BREAK | |
| 13:30 – 14:10 | Giulia Cirillo (Jagellonian University in Krakow) The Realm of Reason Recovered: Translating Mental Concepts in the Treatises of British Empiricists | CONFERENCE HALL |
| Daniela Unger (University of Vienna) Dominant Gender Discourses and Boys‘ Interest in Foreign Language Learning |
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| 14:20 – 15:20 | Justyna Kielkowicz (Jagellonian University in Krakow) J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, Philip Roth’s The Dying Animal and the Use of Campus Novel | CONFERENCE HALL |
| Ádám Boldizsár Molnár (Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest) The Heraclean Detective: Sherlock Holmes and the Changing Anxieties of Society |
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| Ena Raonić (University of Zagreb) Creating Heterotopia out of Place: 18th and 19th Century Australia |
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| 15:30 – 16:10 | Loren Leong (University of Vienna) Subversive Femininity and Misandry in David Fincher's Films | CONFERENCE HALL |
| Joanna Mrowiec (Jagellonian University in Krakow) Can Zadie Smith’s White Teeth Be Read as a Multicultural Feminist Manifesto? |
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| 16:20 – 17:05 | TEFL WORKSHOP Borka Lekaj-Lubina, PhD (Profil-Klett) Hands-on with Special Ed Learners of English | LECTURE ROOM A122 |
| 20:00 – 23:00 | CONFERENCE SOCIAL | IQ BAR Ulica Lavoslava Ružičke 66, Zagreb Directions on Google Maps |
Saturday, May 5
| 9:30 – 10:00 | REGISTRATION | LIBRARY LOBBY |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Assembly of English Students' Associations in Croatia * | LECTURE HALL D1 |
| 11:10 – 12:10 | Andrea Jović (University of Split) Black Panther as Afrofuturism's Status Quo | LECTURE HALL D1 |
| Jožef Kolarič (University of Maribor) Literary Intertextuality in Rap Lyrics |
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| Luca Garai (Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest) Racism in the American Education System |
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| 12:10 – 13:10 | LUNCH BREAK | |
| 13:10 – 14:10 | KEYNOTE Asst. Prof. Brian Willems (University of Split) Speculative Labor: Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti Trilogy | LECTURE HALL D1 |
| 14:20 – 15:20 | Petra Sršić (University of Osijek) Master Has Given a Sock: The Construction of Society and Marginalized Groups in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series | LECTURE HALL D1 |
| Saška Petrović (University of Osijek) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep: The Philosophy of Being Human |
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| Valentina Markasović (University of Osijek) The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and The Book of Lost Things: Escape into Fantasy as a Way of Dealing with War |
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| 15:30 – 16:30 | Dorota Jagódzka (Palacký University in Olomouc) Syntax of Complex Nominal Phrases in English and Slavic Languages | LECTURE HALL D1 |
| Matjaž Zgonc (University of Ljubljana) English Prepositions: A Non-specific Contrastive Perspective |
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| Petra Charvátová (Palacký University in Olomouc) Does Number Agree? Structure of Number of NPL Phrases with Respect to Agreement |
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| 16:30 – 17:00 | CLOSING CEREMONY | LECTURE HALL D1 |
* English Student Club X.a. hosted a formal session with representatives of other English students’ associations from Croatia – Glotta from the University of Osijek and iTHEom from the University of Split. The session was a chance for each association to present its past and current projects, as well as plans for the future, including more extensive cooperation between the three associations.
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Download the Book of Abstracts here.
Download the Conference Proceedings here.
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