Anglophonia 2024

International Student Conference in English Studies

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Zagreb
May 16 – 18, 2024

CONFERENCE PROGRAM:

THURSDAY, MAY 16

9:00 - 10:00REGISTRATIONLIBRARY HALL
10:00 - 10:15OPENING CEREMONYCONFERENCE HALL (library, second floor)
10:15 - 10:40 Jana Hallová (Masaryk University) - Memetic suggestions: A comparative sentiment analysis of multimodal and textual postsCONFERENCE HALL
10:40 - 11:05 Leoni Flower Finocchiaro (University of Zagreb) - Escape from Innsmouth and The Shadow over Innsmouth – The Role of The Reader in Postmodern Multimedial NarrativesCONFERENCE HALL
11:05 – 11:30 Dženeta Šišić Ibrakić (University of Tuzla) - Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World: Living in a Changed WorldCONFERENCE HALL
11:40 – 12:05 Rahma Feki (University of Pécs) - Chained to the Desk: Late Capitalism and Consumerism in American Psycho and Fight ClubCONFERENCE HALL
12:05 – 12:30 Anna Lehoczky (University of Miskolc) - Agency in WorldbuildingCONFERENCE HALL
12:30 – 12:55 Rasha Deirani (University of Pécs) - Intersecting Crossroads: Identity Formation in Second-Generation Migrants through Postcolonial and Transnational Perspectives CONFERENCE HALL
13:00-14:00LUNCH BREAK
14:00-15:00KEYNOTE
Mark Metzler Sawin, PhD (Eastern Mennonite University) -
The Literary History & Future(s) of Forking Paths
CONFERENCE HALL
15:15 – 15:40 Vladimir Jović (University of Novi Sad) - Ruritania Slaps Back: A Case of an Internalised Narrative of the OtherCONFERENCE HALL
15:40 – 16:05 Gita Skok (University of Zagreb) - The Sacred and the Profane: Symbolism in Eliot's "The Burial of the Dead" CONFERENCE HALL
21:00CONFERENCE PARTYRitam Grada (Gajeva ulica 2)

FRIDAY, MAY 17

9:30-10:00REGISTRATIONLIBRARY HALL
10:00 – 10:25 Anne I. Bertram (University of Leipzig) - Native American Women’s Writing: Decoding Sophia A. Callahan’s Wynema: A Child of the Forest (1891)CONFERENCE HALL
10:25 – 10:50 David Everson-Baltas (University of Vienna) - Orwell's Political Enigma: Decoding the Left-Right Conundrum in Interpretations of George OrwellCONFERENCE HALL
10:50 – 11:15 Andi Febriana Tamrin (University of Pécs) - It is Time for The Fans! How the Young Adult Fiction Authors Changing the Classic FictionsCONFERENCE HALL
11:30 – 13:00PANEL DISCUSSION
One step forward, two steps back: Nostalgia in Contemporary Culture
Sven Cvek, PhD
Fred L. Gardaphe, PhD
Petra Požgaj
Mark Metzler Sawin, PhD
Jelena Šesnić, PhD
CONFERENCE HALL
13:00 – 14:00LUNCH BREAK
14:00 – 14:25 Mehrdad Rezaie (LCC International University) - An Analysis of School English Textbooks in Afghanistan From the Perspective of Global EnglishesCONFERENCE HALL
14:25 – 14:50 Tatiana Gimeno Rios (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz) - Unreliable narrators and myth retellings: a study on the contemporary image of Penelope, Athena and Helen of SpartaCONFERENCE HALL
14:50 – 15:15 Linda Phenelope Guevara Rodas (Universidad de Guadalajara) - „Tell her I‘m not going anywhere. I‘m quite happy here in hell.“ Diasporic identities in construction: An analysis of two Iranian-American short storiesCONFERENCE HALL
15:30 – 16:30KEYNOTE
Fred L. Gardaphe, PhD (Queens College, City University of New York) - Anglo Phonies: English as an Acquired Taste
CONFERENCE HALL
16:40 – 17:05 Özlem Demirel Akin (University of Pécs) - The Lady is Always Causing Distress: Discussing the Representations of the “Sensational Double” within Neo-Victorian ContextCONFERENCE HALL
17:05 - 17:30 Mihael Željko Crnčec (University of Zagreb) - The Importance of Being an Androgynous Transatlantic Radio DemonCONFERENCE HALL
17:30 – 17:55 Taha AlSarhan (University of Pecs) - Perceptions Veiled in Cosmic Uncertainty: Unraveling Subjectivity in H.P. Lovecraft's 'The Nameless City'
CONFERENCE HALL
20:00CONFERENCE SOCIALKSFF

SATURDAY, MAY 18

9:30-10:00REGISTRATIOND4
10:00 – 10:25 Tijana Šuković (University of Belgrade) - Expanding the lexicon via analogy and schemas: A constructionist approach to proper names with suffixesD4
10:25 – 10:50 Kristian Kolar & Aja Barbič
(University of Maribor) - "The Dream Has Gone, but the Baby is Real." - Elements of Kitchen Sink Realism in UK Indie and Alternative Music
D4
10:50 – 11:15 Sara Klobučar (University of Zagreb) - The Contemporary Legacy of the Red ScareD4
11:15 – 12:15BREAK
12:15 – 12:40 Ayman Issam Rasheed Almomani (University of Pécs) - Pierre Bourdieu's Habitus in Relation to Orwell’s Newspeak in Nineteen Eighty-Four D4
12:40 – 13:05 Stefan Č. Čizmar (University of Novi Sad) - Men and Masculinity in Hari Kunzru’s TransmissionD4
13:05CLOSING CEREMONYD4