Anglophonia 2025

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)
10:15–10:40Magdalena Hrga (University of Zagreb) – The Prole Paradox: Orwell’s Conflicted View of the Working Class in Nineteen Eighty-FourCONFERENCE HALL
10:40–11:05Viktória Vasiľovová (Matej Bel University) – Interpreting conflict and warCONFERENCE HALL
11:05–11:30Petra Kohlová (University of Pardubice) – Race, Space, and Place in Interior ChinatownCONFERENCE HALL
11:40–12:05Patrícia Hatiarová (Matej Bel University) – Bottom-up Approach in Translation and Interpreting TrainingCONFERENCE HALL
12:05–12:30Artiola Kajtazi (University of Graz) – ‘Ah done built it wid mah sweat’: Reclaiming Ownership and Power in Zora Neale Hurston’s Sweat (1926)CONFERENCE HALL
12:30–12:55Rahma Feki (University of Pécs) – Warped Communication and Identity in Infinite JestCONFERENCE HALL
13:00–14:30
BREAK
14:30–15:30
KEYNOTE
Jason Frederick Blake, PhD (University of Ljubljana) – Owning Flash Fiction
CONFERENCE HALL
15:45–16:10Karmela Kolarić (University of Zagreb) – Abundance, Scarcity, and Utopia in Ursula K. Le Guin's The DispossessedCONFERENCE HALL
16:10–16:35Mihael 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
10:00–10:25Ana Lucija Abramović (University of Zagreb) – Language as a Means of Possession in R. F. Kuang's BabelCONFERENCE HALL
10:25–10:50Regina Varga (Eötvös Loránd University) – White Supremacy Pushed Online: Right-Wing Content Creators and Their Crusade Against ‘White Genocide’CONFERENCE HALL
10:50–11:15Zoran Lutkić (University of Novi Sad) – Psychological Possession and Trauma in The Haunting of Hill HouseCONFERENCE 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
14:30–14:55Dóra Busi (Eötvös Loránd University) – “I want the truth”: Conspiracy and the construction of gender in The X-FilesCONFERENCE HALL
14:55–15:20Miloš Veličković (University of Novi Sad) – Metaphors of Possession in Translation: A Case Study of Wuthering Heights in English and SerbianCONFERENCE HALL
15:20–15:45Dorka Lippai (Eötvös Loránd University) – Orientalism Observed Through the Iconography of Lamps in the Works of Dante Gabriel RossettiCONFERENCE 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
17:10–17:35Shahd Qazzaz (Eötvös Loránd University) – Protecting America and Her Interests: Framing Middle Eastern Affairs and American Security in Op-edsCONFERENCE HALL
17:35–18:00Mia Platužić (University of Zagreb) – Little More than a Piece of Property: Women and Possession in Buchi Emecheta’s Second–Class CitizenCONFERENCE HALL

SATURDAY, MAY 17

9:30–10:00
REGISTRATION
D4
10:00–10:25Zaryab Khan (University of Szeged) – (Re/)Possession of Violated Women’s Narrative: Comparing Jenny and Goblin MarketD4
10:25–10:50Anna Róza Rieder (Eötvös Loránd University) – From master to partner. Early modern Sabbath beliefs in “WITCH AND THE DEVIL” by Rebecca TamásD4
10:50–11:15Antonia 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
12:45–13:10Taha AlSarhan (University of Pécs) – The Host That Was Always Hollow: Inevitable Possession in Lovecraftian HorrorD4
13:10–13:35Christian Šilović (University of Zagreb) – It Lives: Struggles of the Welsh Language in Face of the English Language HegemonyD4
13:35
CLOSING CEREMONY
D4