CulturalTextsandContextsin
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FACULTYOFLETTERS,UNIVERSITYOFORADEA
CULTURAL TEXTS AND CONTEXTS IN THE ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD (IV)
Conference Programme
Thursday, March, 26
9.00 - 10.00 10.00 - 10.30 -
12.30 - 13.30 13.30 - 15.30 15.30 - 16.00 16.00 - 17.30 -
Registration
Official Opening (Faculty of Letters – C 010)
Senior Lecturer Dan Negruţ, PhD – Head of the English Department
Prof. Constantin Bungău, PhD – Rector / Prof. Sorin Curilă, PhD – President of the Senate
Prof. Teodor Mateoc, PhD – Dean of the Faculty of Letters
Coffee Break
Plenary Lecture – Prof. Paul A. Wilson - A Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Emotions in British English and Polish
(Faculty of Letters, C010)
Lunch Break – University Cafeteria
Paper Presentations
Coffee Break
Paper Presentations
17.30 – 18.30
The Students’ Drama Club presents AMIDSUMMERNIGHT’SDREAM - at the Faculty of Letters – C 010
19.30-
Cocktail Party – Restaurant Capitolium
10.30 - 11.00 11.00 - 12.00 -
Friday, March, 27
9.30 - 10.30 10.30 - 11.00 11.00 - 13.00 13.00 - 14.30 14.30 - 15.30 -
Plenary Lecture – Prof. Andrei A. Avram, PhD- Identifying Varieties of English (Faculty of Letters, C010)
Coffee Break
Paper Presentations
Lunch Break – University Cafeteria
Informal Conclusions
Thursday, 13.30-15.30
BRITISH AND
COMMONWEALTH
LITERATURE
AMERICAN LITERATURE
CULTURAL STUDIES
GENDER STUDIES
TRANSLATION
STUDIES
LANGUAGE STUDIES
Room: C 20
Room: C 10
Room: C 21
Room: C 19
Room C 24
CHAIR:
CHAIR:
CHAIR: Amelia Precup
CHAIR: Bökös Borbála
CHAIR:
Timea Venter - Shadow Warriors:
Imagining the Enemy in Salman
Rushdie's Post-fatwa Works
Eszter Krakkó
Ioana-Maria Cistelecan - John Green, Simply
Narrating Life, Romance and Cancer
INGRIDA ZINDZIUVIENE ‐ Restatement of
Traumatic Experience in Victoria Hislop’s
Novel The Island
Ligita Judickaite-Pasvenskiene The
Translation of Children's Cartoon Titles
Ligita Judickaite
Hristina Petrova -Language Health
Analogies: Lexical Swinging between
Registers and Styles
Hristina Petrova
Busoiu Monica - Aspects of the Ritual
of Initiation in Alice Munro’s Short
Story
Teodor Mateoc - Beyond the Visible: Subversive
Imagination in the Fiction of the American
Renaissance
Bökös Borbála - On the Adaptation of Paul
Auster’s City of Glass into a Graphic Novel
Madalina Pantea - Gender and
Audiovisual Translation
Leah Claudia - To Be-from lexical
meanings to syntactical functions
Eszter Krakkó - Let Me Have Its
Bowels Then” : The Female Artist’s
Body in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of
Wildfell Hall
Mihaela-Elisabeta Poputa - Memory and the
control of Space in Paul Auster's Winter Journal
and Report from the Interior
Dr. Yousef Awad & Dr. Ghada - Tayem
Winners and Losers: Morocco’s Market
Liberalization and Contemporary Cultural
Representations
Suciu Giulia - Miss Representation of
Women in Today's Romanian
Mainstream Media
Anca Tomoioaga - Lexical Blends
Anemona Alb - A Narrator with a
Difference: Narrative Strategies in
Markus Zusak*s The Book Thief
Negrut Dan - Boundaries of the Self in Joseph
O'Neill's Netherland
Dana Sala - Spiritual Nourishment vs
.Compulsive Cooking in Elif Shafak`s `The
Forty Rules of Love``
Amelia Precup - The Manipulation of WorldBuilding Conventions in Woody Allen’s Short
Fiction
Peter Gaál-Szabó - Black Female Ethics and
the Church
Adina Pruteanu - Hyperbole and
Lexical Creativity
Thursday, 16.00-17.30
BRITISH AND
COMMONWEALTH
LITERATURE
AMERICAN LITERATURE
CULTURAL STUDIES
Room: C 20
Room: C 10
Room: C 21
CHAIR: Ana Drobot
Ottilia Veres - Stories of
Intersubjectivity in Beckett's Molloy
CHAIR: Blidariu Serban Dan
Blidariu Serban Dan - The Role of Education
in a Slave’s Path toward Freedom: The
Cases of Frederick Douglass and Topsy
CHAIR: Gyula David
Marinau Andrada - Intellectual Centers of
Medieval England
Carmen-Narcisa Albert - Waterland The History Teacher
Daniela Blaga - How 9/11 changed fiction.
Too soon for the great post-9/11 American
novel?
Ivasca Roxana Inbetween Worlds - Virginia
Wolf and Herta Muller. A Discourse on
Memory, Intertextuality and Fiction
Ana Drobot - Graham Swift’s and
Virginia Woolf’s Story Shapes
Olivia Betyna Fodor - Utopia vs. Distopia Huxley vs. Orwell
Gyula David - Diversity of Cultural Imprints
in Metaphorically-Motivated Idiomatic
Language
Diana Cordea– Social reflections of
the Industrial Revolution in the
Victorian Factory Novel: “NORTH
AND SOUTH” by ELIZABETH
GASKELL
Amada Mocioalca - Paule Marshall’s Quest
for Wholeness
Delia-Maria Radu - “WHAT’S IN A NAME?”
of Defining Others through their Dietary
Practices
Andrzej Dorobek - Beatific or Beaten?
Literary Encounters with Nature from
Transcendentalists to the Beats and Hippies
Ogasanu Mihaela - American Women
Novelists Between the Damned and
Condamned, Between Radiance and
Darkness
Friday, 11.00-13.00
BRITISH AND
COMMONWEALTH
LITERATURE
FILM AND DRAMA
LANGUAGE STUDIES
CULTURAL STUDIES
Room: C 20
Room: C 21
Room: C 19
CHAIR: Elisabetta Marino
Elisabetta Marino - Rejuvenating the
Stage: 'The Descent of Liberty, a Mask'
(1815), by Leigh Hunt
CHAIR: Julianna Borbély
Valeria Palut - Gulliver Travels Well in the
21st Century, Thanks To Jack Black
CHAIR: Sorin Ciutacu
Timea Ardelean - Language Use
Computer-Mediated Communication
Macineanu Laura - Home or There and
Back Again - A Dilemma in Epic
Fantasy (Tolkien, Lewis, Rowling)
Julianna Borbély - Combining modernity with
tradition in the Pride and Prejudice of 2005
Hajnalka Izsák - A cognitively oriented
analysis of certain emotion idioms
Adrian Radu - On Graham Swift
Vass Sonia -”An Elegant Suicide is the
Ultimate Work of Art” - Symbolic Meanings of
the Movie”Stay
Larisa Avram and Irina Stoica - Manner-ofspeaking blocks that-omission
Dan H. Popescu - Images of the Jews in
Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Between the
Woods and the Water
Szekely Eva - W.B. Yeats: 'At the Hawk's
Well': Success or Failure?
Sorin Ciutacu - Geoffrey Chaucer, the
Astrolabe and the Arab Connection
in
Maria Elena Gherdan - Understanding
IELTS
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Prof. Teodor Mateoc, PhD - Chairman
Prof. Andrei Avram, PhD - Organization and
communication
Prof. Paul Wilson, PhD - Organization and
communication
Prof. Florin Cioban, PhD Habil - Public relationships
and communication
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Name and Surname
Position
Senior Lecturer Dan Negrut PhD
University of Oradea
Assistant Lecturer Mădălina Pantea PhD
University of Oradea
Senior Lecturer Eva Szekely PhD
University of Oradea
Senior Lecturer Andrada Marinău PhD
University of Oradea
Senior Lecturer Ioana Cistelecan PhD
University of Oradea
Senior Lecturer Giulia Suciu PhD
University of Oradea
Chairman
Programme Editor
Volume Editor (contact person)
Publishing Coordinator
Coordinator for the electronic variant of the Proceedings
Logistics
SCIENTIFIC BOARD
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Prof. Teodor Mateoc PhD
Senior Lecturer Claudia Leah PhD
Senior Lecturer Maria Elena Gherdan PhD
Senior Lecturer Dan Negrut PhD (Head of Department)
Senior Lecturer Adina Pruteanu PhD
Senior Lecturer Andrada Marinau PhD
Senior Lecturer Mihaela Ogasanu PhD
Senior Lecturer Ioana Cistelecan PhD
Senior Lecturer Eva Szekely PhD
Senior Lecturer Giulia Suciu PhD
Senior Lecturer Anemona Alb PhD
Assistant Lecturer Madalina Pantea PhD
SPONSORS
HOTEL „IMPERO”
PRIMARIA ORADEA,
GRUP WEST PREMIUM
ASOCIAŢIA ARCADE
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
1. Alb Anemona - University of Oradea, Faculty of Letters, Oradea, Romania ([email protected])
2. Albert Carmen-Narcisa - Colegiul Tehnic de Comunicatii "Augustin Maior" Cluj-Napoca, Romania ([email protected])
3. Ardelean Timea - Partium Christian University, Oradea, Romania ([email protected])
4. Avram Andrei A. - University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania ([email protected])
5. Avram Larisa – University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania ([email protected])
6. Awad Yousef - University of Jordan, Jordan
7. Blaga Daniela - University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania ([email protected])
8. Blidariu Serban Dan - Independent Researcher, Romania ([email protected])
9. Bökös Borbála - Partium Christian University, Oradea, Romania ([email protected])
10. Borbely Julianna - Universitatea Crestinã "Partium", Oradea, Romania ([email protected])
11. Busoiu Monica -University of Oradea, Faculty of Letters, Oradea, Romania ([email protected])
12. Cistelecan Ioana-Maria - University of Oradea, Faculty of Letters, Oradea, Romania ([email protected])
13. Ciutacu Sorin - King Khalid University, Abha, KSA / Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara, Romania ([email protected])
14. Cordea Diana - University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania [email protected])
15. Dorobek Andrzej - Pañstwowa Wyzsza Szkola Zawodowa (State School of Higher Education) in Plock, Poland ([email protected])
16. Drobot Ana - Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, Romania ([email protected])
17. Fodor Olivia Betyna – University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania ([email protected])
18. Gaál-Szabó Peter - Debrecen Reformed Theological University, Debrecen, Hungary ([email protected])
19. Gherdan Maria Elena – University of Oradea, Faculty of Letters, Romania ([email protected])
20. Gyula David - Károli University, Budapest, Romania ([email protected])
21. Izsák Hajnalka - Partium Christian University, Oradea, Romania ([email protected])
22. Ivasca Roxana - Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca Branch, Romania ([email protected])
23. Judickaite –Pasvenskiene Ligita - Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
24. Krakkó Eszter - Instititute of English and American Studies, University of Derecen, Debrecen , Hungary, ([email protected])
25. Leah Claudia - University of Oradea, Faculty of Letters, Romania ([email protected])
26. Macineanu Laura - Universitatea de Vest Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania ([email protected])
27. Maior Enikõ - Partium Christian University, Oradea, Romania ([email protected])
28. Marinau Andrada Ramona - University of Oradea, Faculty of Letters, Oradea, Romania ([email protected])
29. Marino Elisabetta - University of Rome, Rome, Italy ([email protected])
30. Mateoc Teodor - University of Oradea, Faculty of Letters, Oradea, Romania ([email protected])
31. Mocioalca Amada - University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania ([email protected])
32. Negrut Dan - University of Oradea, Faculty of Letters, Oradea, Romania ([email protected])
33. Ogasanu Mihaela - University of Oradea, Faculty of Letters, Oradea, Romania ([email protected])
34. Palut Valeria - Universite de Sorbonne IV, Paris, France - M.A. Student, Etudes Anglophones, France ([email protected])
35. Pantea Madalina - University of Oradea, Faculty of Letters, Oradea, Romania ([email protected])
36. Petrova Hristina - Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv, Poland ([email protected])
37. Popescu Dan Horatiu - Partium Christian University, Oradea, Romania ([email protected])
38. Poputa Mihaela-Elisabeta -Universitatea de Vest, Timisoara, Romania ([email protected])
39. Precup Amelia- Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania ([email protected])
40. Pruteanu Adina - University of Oradea, Faculty of Letters, Oradea, Romania ([email protected])
41. Radu Adrian - Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania ([email protected])
42. Radu Delia Maria – University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania ([email protected])
43. Sala Dana - University of Oradea, Faculty of Letters, Oradea, Romania ([email protected])
44. Stoica Irina – University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania ([email protected])
45. Suciu Giulia - University of Oradea, Faculty of Letters, Oradea, Romania ([email protected])
46. Szekely Eva - University of Oradea, Faculty of Letters, Oradea, Romania ([email protected])
47. Tayem Ghada - University of Jordan, Jordan
48. Tomoioaga Anca - Universitatea Emanuel, Oradea, Romania ([email protected])
49. Vass Sonia - Petru Maior Univesity of Târgu-Mureș, Romania ([email protected])
50. Veres Ottilia - Partium Christian University, Oradea, Romania ([email protected])
51. Venter Timea - Independent Researcher/ Former Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca and Emanuel University of Oradea, Romania
([email protected])
52. Wilson Paul A. - University of Lodz, Poland ([email protected])
53. Zindziuviene Ingrida - Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania ([email protected])