Anglophonia 2019

International Student Conference in English Studies

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Zagreb
May 9 – 11, 2019

Conference Programme:

Thursday, May 9

8:30 – 9:30	REGISTRATION	LIBRARY LOBBY
9:30 – 10:00	OPENING CEREMONY and promotion of Patchwork student journal	CONFERENCE HALL
10:00 – 11:00	Barbara Bočkaj (University of Zagreb): 'Full of Scorpions Is My Mind': Trauma in Macbeth	CONFERENCE HALL
	Iva Kurtović (University of Zagreb): Negotiation of Sentimental and Abolitionist Traditions in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
	Susana Prieto (Complutense University of Madrid): Listening from the Middgard
11:10 – 12:00	Dorotea Švraka (University of Zagreb): Wow, so paper, much grownup: A Linguistic Analysis of Dogespeak	CONFERENCE HALL
11:10 – 12:00	Nives Kovačić (University of Zagreb): Perception of Cognate Similarity	CONFERENCE HALL
12:00 – 13:00	LUNCH BREAK	FACULTY CAFETERIA
13:00 – 14:00	KEYNOTE Mark Metzler Sawin, PhD (Eastern Mennonite University): Pick-Uppity: A New Cultural Frontier for a Threatened Masculinity	CONFERENCE HALL
14:15 – 15:00	Ivana Emily Škoro (University of Zagreb): Alternative Facts, Social Media, and Political Polarization: Is America Truly Living in a Post-Truth Society?	CONFERENCE HALL
14:15 – 15:00	Petra Požgaj (University of Zagreb): Witnessing a New Kind of American Family: Recognizing the Work of Social Reproduction at a Time of Crisis in Brenda Ann Kenneally's Upstate Girls	CONFERENCE HALL
15:00 – 16:00	HUPE (Croatian Association of Teachers of English) PRESENTATION: The CPD (Continuous Professional Development) Framework; The New Croatian Educational Curriculum for Teaching English as a Foreign Language	CONFERENCE HALL

Friday, May 10

9:30 – 10:00	REGISTRATION	LIBRARY LOBBY
10:00 – 10:40	Marija Đurđević (University of Belgrade): Always the Years Between Us: Michael Cunningham’s The Hours as a Postmodern Representation of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway	CONFERENCE HALL
10:00 – 10:40	Yuliia Perederii (University of Warsaw): An Analysis of Language Condesation on the Example of Alice Munro`s Short-story "Thanks for the Ride"	CONFERENCE HALL
11:00 – 12:30	PANEL DISCUSSION Mark Metzler Sawin, PhD (Eastern Mennonite University) Aritha Van Herk, PhD (University of Calgary) Tihana Klepač, PhD (University of Zagreb) Jason Hansen, PhD (Furman University) Panel title: "Frontier Societies"	CONFERENCE HALL
12:30 – 13:30	LUNCH BREAK	FACULTY CAFETERIA
13:30 – 14:30	Dragana Mišković (University of Belgrade): New Historicist Interpretation of Margaret Atwood’s Novel The Handmaid’s Tale	CONFERENCE HALL
	Ádám Boldizsár Molnár (Eötvös Loránd University): The Quality of Mercy: Antisemitism and The Merchant of Venice in Production
	Elgoni Nikolla (Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"): Staging The Crucible in Times of Political Hysteria on the Edge of a Falling Regime
14:40 – 15:40	KEYNOTE Vladimir Cvetković Sever Poetry and Pedantry: A Look at a Translator's Toolkit	CONFERENCE HALL
16:00 – 17:00	Ivan Stanić (University of Zagreb): Creating Hyperrealities: Westworld and San Junipero	CONFERENCE HALL
	Manuela Neuwirth (University of Graz): Infirm Borders: Women's Cancer Narratives Disarming the Cancer Myth Between the Kingdom of the Well and the Kingdom of the Sick
	Patricia Díaz Muñoz (Complutense University of Madrid): Accommodation in Fiction: The Role of Convergence in Intergroup Encounters
20:00 – 23:00	CONFERENCE SOCIAL	Veliki Tolk ("The Big Tolk") Opatovina St. 49, Zagreb Directions on Google Maps

Saturday, May 11

9:30 – 10:00	REGISTRATION	LIBRARY LOBBY
10:00 – 11:00	Matjaž Zgonc (University of Ljubljana): Some Cognitive Properties of English Continuation-Marking Aspectual Particles	LECTURE HALL D1
	Alex Redpath (University of Edinburgh): Grammar Politics and Construction Machines: Reading Deleuze and Guattari into Construction Grammar
	Hans Wilke (University of Edinburgh): Are Syntactic Constructions at the Interface with Information Structure Harder To Learn?
11:10 – 12:10	Anisa Begović (University of Sarajevo): Integrated Language Teaching	LECTURE HALL D1
	Marta Jaén Campos (Complutense University of Madrid): The English Teacher and the Language Gap in CLIL Secondary Settings: Towards a New Conceptualization of the Roles of the EFL Teacher
	Csenge Érsek (Eötvös Loránd University): Inside the Mind of a Translator Trainee
12:10 – 13:00	LUNCH BREAK	Unfortunately, the faculty cafeteria is closed on Saturdays.
13:00 – 14:00	KEYNOTE Julian Bradfield, PhD (University of Edinburgh): Tolkien and Language	LECTURE HALL D1
14:15 – 15:00	Andrea Jović (University of Split): “Bitch, I'm a cow” – Commodification of Feminism in Contemporary Female Rap	LECTURE HALL D1
14:15 – 15:00	Anja Zidar (University of Ljubljana): (Post)postmodernist Writing: Doorstoppers	LECTURE HALL D1
15:00 – 15:30	CLOSING CEREMONY	LECTURE HALL D1

Dr Mark Sawin’s keynote lecture on masculinity and the automotive industry in the United States

The panelists from the panel “Frontier Societies”, from left to right: Dr Tihana Klepač (University of Zagreb), Dr Jason Hansen (Furman University), Marta Jurković (X.a. president 2018-19, panel moderator), Mark Metzler Sawin (Eastern Mennonite University), Dr Aritha van Herk (University of Calgary)

Dr. Julian Bradfield giving a keynote lecture on Tolkien’s fictional languages

Andrea Jović (University of Split)’s presentation on commodification of feminism in contemporary female rap

Hans Wilke’s presentation “Are Syntactic Constructions at the Interface with Information Structure Harder To Learn?”

Vladimir Cvetković Sever’s keynote lecture “Poetry and Pedantry: A Look at a Translator’s Toolki”

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Conferenece proceedings are available here or here.

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