International Student Conference in English Studies
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Zagreb
May 15 – 17, 2025
CONFERENCE PROGRAM:
THURSDAY, MAY 15
9:00–10:00 | REGISTRATION | LIBRARY HALL |
10:00–10:15 | OPENING CEREMONY | CONFERENCE HALL (library, second floor) |
10:15–10:40 | Magdalena Hrga (University of Zagreb) – The Prole Paradox: Orwell’s Conflicted View of the Working Class in Nineteen Eighty-Four | CONFERENCE HALL |
10:40–11:05 | Viktória Vasiľovová (Matej Bel University) – Interpreting conflict and war | CONFERENCE HALL |
11:05–11:30 | Petra Kohlová (University of Pardubice) – Race, Space, and Place in Interior Chinatown | CONFERENCE HALL |
11:40–12:05 | Patrícia Hatiarová (Matej Bel University) – Bottom-up Approach in Translation and Interpreting Training | CONFERENCE HALL |
12:05–12:30 | Artiola Kajtazi (University of Graz) – ‘Ah done built it wid mah sweat’: Reclaiming Ownership and Power in Zora Neale Hurston’s Sweat (1926) | CONFERENCE HALL |
12:30–12:55 | Rahma Feki (University of Pécs) – Warped Communication and Identity in Infinite Jest | CONFERENCE HALL |
13:00–14:30 | BREAK | |
14:30–15:30 | KEYNOTE Jason Frederick Blake, PhD (University of Ljubljana) – Owning Flash Fiction | CONFERENCE HALL |
15:45–16:10 | Karmela Kolarić (University of Zagreb) – Abundance, Scarcity, and Utopia in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed | CONFERENCE HALL |
16:10–16:35 | Mihael Željko Crnčec (University of Zagreb) – Queens without Countries Staying at Hotels, Getting Murdered (So Gays Can Decorate Their Houses... or Some Shit) | CONFERENCE HALL |
21:00 | CONFERENCE PARTY | Ritam Grada (Gajeva ulica 2) |
FRIDAY, MAY 16
9:30–10:00 | REGISTRATION | LIBRARY HALL |
10:00–10:25 | Ana Lucija Abramović (University of Zagreb) – Language as a Means of Possession in R. F. Kuang's Babel | CONFERENCE HALL |
10:25–10:50 | Regina Varga (Eötvös Loránd University) – White Supremacy Pushed Online: Right-Wing Content Creators and Their Crusade Against ‘White Genocide’ | CONFERENCE HALL |
10:50–11:15 | Zoran Lutkić (University of Novi Sad) – Psychological Possession and Trauma in The Haunting of Hill House | CONFERENCE HALL |
11:30–13:00 | PANEL DISCUSSION Literature in ruins?: Navigating storytelling in the era of post-truth Jason Frederick Blake, PhD, Martina Domines, PhD, Renata Morresi, PhD, Iva Polak, PhD, Hrvoje Tutek, PhD | CONFERENCE HALL |
13:00–14:30 | BREAK | |
14:30–14:55 | Dóra Busi (Eötvös Loránd University) – “I want the truth”: Conspiracy and the construction of gender in The X-Files | CONFERENCE HALL |
14:55–15:20 | Miloš Veličković (University of Novi Sad) – Metaphors of Possession in Translation: A Case Study of Wuthering Heights in English and Serbian | CONFERENCE HALL |
15:20–15:45 | Dorka Lippai (Eötvös Loránd University) – Orientalism Observed Through the Iconography of Lamps in the Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti | CONFERENCE HALL |
16:00–17:00 | KEYNOTE Renata Morresi, PhD (University of Padua) – Writing (in) the Borderlands: Migration, Translation, and the Performance of Belonging | CONFERENCE HALL |
17:10–17:35 | Shahd Qazzaz (Eötvös Loránd University) – Protecting America and Her Interests: Framing Middle Eastern Affairs and American Security in Op-eds | CONFERENCE HALL |
17:35–18:00 | Mia Platužić (University of Zagreb) – Little More than a Piece of Property: Women and Possession in Buchi Emecheta’s Second–Class Citizen | CONFERENCE HALL |
SATURDAY, MAY 17
9:30–10:00 | REGISTRATION | D4 |
10:00–10:25 | Zaryab Khan (University of Szeged) – (Re/)Possession of Violated Women’s Narrative: Comparing Jenny and Goblin Market | D4 |
10:25–10:50 | Anna Róza Rieder (Eötvös Loránd University) – From master to partner. Early modern Sabbath beliefs in “WITCH AND THE DEVIL” by Rebecca Tamás | D4 |
10:50–11:15 | Antonia Vodan (University of Zadar) – Speech Bearers and Their Fiendish Guest: The Possession of Language and Power in Beowulf and Grendel (1971) | D4 |
11:15–12:45 | BREAK | |
12:45–13:10 | Taha AlSarhan (University of Pécs) – The Host That Was Always Hollow: Inevitable Possession in Lovecraftian Horror | D4 |
13:10–13:35 | Christian Šilović (University of Zagreb) – It Lives: Struggles of the Welsh Language in Face of the English Language Hegemony | D4 |
13:35 | CLOSING CEREMONY | D4 |