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 - 10:00 | REGISTRATION | LIBRARY HALL |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | OPENING CEREMONY | CONFERENCE HALL |
| 10:15 - 10:40 | Jana Hallová (Masaryk University) - Memetic suggestions: A comparative sentiment analysis of multimodal and textual posts | CONFERENCE 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 Narratives | CONFERENCE HALL |
| 11:05 – 11:30 | Dženeta Šišić Ibrakić (University of Tuzla) - Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World: Living in a Changed World | CONFERENCE HALL |
| 11:40 – 12:05 | Rahma Feki (University of Pécs) - Chained to the Desk: Late Capitalism and Consumerism in American Psycho and Fight Club | CONFERENCE HALL |
| 12:05 – 12:30 | Anna Lehoczky (University of Miskolc) - Agency in Worldbuilding | CONFERENCE 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 |
| 13:00-14:00 | LUNCH BREAK | |
| 14:00-15:00 | KEYNOTE 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 Other | CONFERENCE 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 |
| 21:00 | CONFERENCE PARTY |
FRIDAY, MAY 17
| 9:30-10:00 | REGISTRATION | LIBRARY 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 Orwell | CONFERENCE 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 Fictions | CONFERENCE HALL |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | PANEL 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 – 14:00 | LUNCH BREAK | |
| 14:00 – 14:25 | Mehrdad Rezaie (LCC International University) - An Analysis of School English Textbooks in Afghanistan From the Perspective of Global Englishes | CONFERENCE 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 Sparta | CONFERENCE 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 stories | CONFERENCE HALL |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | KEYNOTE Fred L. Gardaphe, PhD (Queens College, City University of New York) - Phony Anglos: 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 Context | CONFERENCE HALL |
| 17:05 - 17:30 | Mihael Željko Crnčec (University of Zagreb) - The Importance of Being an Androgynous Transatlantic Radio Demon | CONFERENCE 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 |
| 20:00 | CONFERENCE SOCIAL | KSFF |
SATURDAY, MAY 18
| 9:30-10:00 | REGISTRATION | LIBRARY HALL |
| 10:00 – 10:25 | Tijana Šuković (University of Belgrade) - Expanding the lexicon via analogy and schemas: A constructionist approach to proper names with suffixes | CONFERENCE HALL |
| 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 | CONFERENCE HALL |
| 10:50 – 11:15 | Sara Klobučar (University of Zagreb) - The Contemporary Legacy of the Red Scare | CONFERENCE HALL |
| 11:15 – 12:00 | BREAK | |
| 12:00 – 12:25 | Marta Pocrnčić (University of Zagreb) - Perversion of history in Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things" | CONFERENCE HALL |
| 12:25 – 12:50 | Ayman Issam Rasheed Almomani (University of Pécs) - Pierre Bourdieu's Habitus in Relation to Orwell’s Newspeak in Nineteen Eighty-Four | CONFERENCE HALL |
| 12:50 – 13:15 | Stefan Č. Čizmar (University of Novi Sad) - Men and Masculinity in Hari Kunzru’s Transmission | CONFERENCE HALL |
| 13:15 | CLOSING CEREMONY | CONFERENCE HALL |