Words to Works
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Zagreb
May 6 – 7, 2016
Programme
Friday, May 6
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Registration |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Prof. Stipe Grgas - Does Literature Still Speak to Us? |
| 10:45 - 11:45 | Julia Schwob (University of Wien) - The Development of Cross-cultural Relationships in Australian Literature after 1950 |
| Filip Medar (University of Zagreb) - That's not a Knife! Building the Image of the Australian Man in Selected 19th and 20th Century Short Stories | |
| Maša Huzjak (University of Zagreb) - Texts from Mallory Ortberg: Subverting the Literary Canon through Humour, Rewrites and Text Messages | |
| 12:00 - 12:40 | Ana Popović and Marko Vrančić (University of Zagreb) - Discourse Analysis of the Media Reports on Edward Snowden's Disclosures |
| Filib Klubička (University of Zagreb) - Hashtags as Discourse Markers in Digital Communication | |
| 12:40 - 14:15 | Lunch Break |
| 14:15 - 15:15 | Ivana Verveger (University of Zagreb) - Free Will in Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange |
| Anamarija Tkalec (University of Zagreb) - The Slavery in Parable of the Sower | |
| Ena Hustnjak (University of Zagreb) - The Notion of Race in Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym | |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Andrea Kovačević and Branimir Križanec (University of Osijek) - The Effect of Video Games on Foreign Language Vocabulary Acquisition |
| Cassy Prskalo (University of Osijek) - Learners' Motivation at the University Level | |
| Vesna Tunjić (University of Osijek) - Croatian EFL Learners and the Use of Prepositions | |
| 16:45 - 17:45 | Gracija Horak (University of Zagreb) - Nightmares are Dreams too: The Notion of the American Dream in Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
| Smiljana Rakonjac and Anja Stoilković(University of Novi Sad) - A Deterioration in the Values of the Original American Dream | |
| Karlo Krznarić (University of Zagreb) - Who Finances the North Pole? Growing up in William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience | |
| 17:45 - 18:00 | Closing Session |
Saturday, May 7
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Registration |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Prof. Milena Žic Fuchs - The Humanities in New Contexts of Research |
| 10:45 - 11:45 | Lovro Furjanić (University of Zagreb) - The Economic Singularity in Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis |
| Adna Oković (University of Sarajevo) - A Bakhtinian Reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby | |
| Manuela Neuwirth (University of Graz) - The Good Death: An Author-Oriented Approach to Writing Suicide in Hemingway's Short Fiction | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Tino Jakšić and Jurica Korade (University of Zagreb) - Cognitive Motivation Behind the Use of the Definite Article and Toponyms |
| Tena Jurišić (University of Zagreb) - Phrasemes with Numerical Component(s) in English and Croatian: Mutual Concepts | |
| Ivica Jeđud (University of Zagreb) - Let's Talk about the Birds and the Bees: Euphemisms Associated with Sexual Behavior in the English Language | |
| 13:00 - 14:15 | Lunch Break |
| 14:15 - 14:55 | Petra Pugar (University of Zagreb) - A Marvellous (Hi)story: An Analysis of Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana |
| Nikolina Prskalo (University of Sarajevo) - Kurt Cobain: The Byronic Hero of the Grunge | |
| 15:10 - 15:50 | Petar Miočević (University of Zagreb) - Totalitarianism in Interwar Europe and the Alternate World of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four |
| Barbara Mravunac (University of Zagreb) - Defining Social Science Fiction on Caves of Steel | |
| 16:05 - 17:05 | Aleksandra Krstić (University of Novi Sad) - The Role of a Linguist in the Analysis of the Language Production in the Disordered Brain |
| Juraj Bezuh (University of Zagreb) - Heidelberg, Geneva and Paris: A Comparison of Note-taking Methods for Consecutive Interpreting | |
| Anamarija Miličević (University of Zagreb) - Language and Translation of No Country for Old Men | |
| 17:05 - 17:20 | Closing Session |
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