CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Thursday, May 14

09.00 – 10.00 Registration – Room U13

10.00 – 12.30 Welcome address – Senate Hall Keynote speakers:  Peter Marsden: “My identity is your alterity – and as for his hybridity…”  Adrian Streete: “What bloody man is that?” Questioning Biblical Typology in Macbeth  Neil Foxlee: Intertextuality, Interdiscursivity and Identification in the 2008 Obama Campaign Book presentation – Claudia Hulpoi

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch break – Room U13

14.00 – 16.00 Concurrent sessions

Cultural and Literary Studies Cultural and Literary Studies Gender and Film Studies (I) (II) Moderators: Krisztina Dankó Moderators: Ioan Sava & Moderators: Maria Paradeisi & Michaela Praisler Ioana Mohor-Ivan & Ruxanda Bontilă Room: LF2 Room: U 11 Room: LF1 Krisztina Dankó Dana Monah Maria Paradeisi The Spirituality of Otherness in 1990/2007: aller–retour Suisse- Gegen die Wand, a film by Fatih Tennessee Williams Roumanie Akin Gabriela Iuliana Colipcă Oana Surugiu Rosa María García Periago Stereotypical Representations of Leonard Cohen – Poems Set to Addressing the Diaspora through the French Other in Tobias Music Cultural Hybridity: Maqbool, Smollett’s Novels Omkara and the American commodity, The Godfather Ioana Boghian Ecaterina Pătraşcu Claudia Hulpoi From Architecture to Textual Home, the 'third continent' in La Créature Representation in E. Brontë’s Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Wuthering Heights Maladies (presentation in French) Michaela Praisler Ioan Sava Ruxanda Bontilă “A Londoner’s London” Fictional Text and the Matter of The Other within the Self or the Freed Perspectives Quarrel with Time: The Female of the Species Petru Iamandi Ioana Mohor-Ivan Cătălina Bălinişteanu Racial Perfection – the Mengele Beyond the Shadow of Cathleen: The Image of the Woman in Way Tom Murphy’s Bailegangaire Heinrich Mann’s The Blue Angel

1 16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break – Room U13

16.30 – 18.30 Concurrent sessions

Cultural and Literary Studies Language and Translation Workshop FP7: (I) Studies Representations of National Identity in Film Moderators: Petru Iamandi & Moderators: Mariana Neagu Moderator: Ioana Mohor-Ivan Isabela Merilă & Gabriela Dima Room: LF2 Room: LF1 Room: U11 Pompiliu Ştefănescu Mariana Neagu Ezra Pound: Patching Together Ideological Positions and Cultural Identities (Im)partiality in Hard News Articles Cerasela Daniela Baston- Gabriela Dima Tudor Reconstructing Genre Identity. Maria Paradeisi Cultural Hybridity as Expressed Executive Woman Profile Ioana Mohor-Ivan through Lexical Choices in Michaela Praisler Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Gabriela Iuliana Colipcă Children Cristina Mălinoiu Antoanela Marta Dumitraşcu Self and Otherness in The Collocationally-Marked Cultural Magus and The French Identity Lieutenant’s Woman Gabriela Lupea Anca Gâţă Identity Crisis in Amitav A Taxonomy of Evidential Ghosh’s and Sunetra Gupta’s Functions Diasporic Selves Imagery Cătălina Neculai The NASDAQ Index of Writing: Financial Grammars and Market Behaviour in Jay McInerney’s Brightness Falls

Friday, May 15

9.30 – 11.00 Keynote speakers – Senate Hall  Ştefan Avădanei: The Cognitive Muse  Michael Goddard: ‘Our Theatre of Cruelty’: Reading Terror and Political Violence in the 1970’s as Media Strategies  Sonia Nuñez Puente: Cyberfeminism and Online Feminist Praxis in Spain

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break – Room U 13

11.30 – 13.30 Concurrent sessions

Cultural and Literary Studies Language and Translation Workshop FP7:

2 (I) Studies Representations of National Identity in the Press (I) Moderators: Odette Moderators: Elena Croitoru & Moderator: Gabriela Iuliana Blumenfeld & Iulia Blănuţă- Ana-Magdalena Petraru Colipcă Milică Room: U11 Room: LF2 Room: LF1 Odette Blumenfeld Ana-Magdalena Petraru The Historical Subject in the Functionalist Approaches Ioanna Vovou Plays of Susan-Lori Parks and Applied to the Translation of Jana Lozanoska Joan Schenkar Comics Gabriela Iuliana Colipcă Cristina Georgiana Voicu Elena Croitoru Mariana Neagu Hybridity versus Cultural Identity and (Un)translatability Gabriela Dima Alterity: A Paradigm in the Postcolonial Discourse Elena Maria Emandi Floriana Popescu and Carmen Feminine Identities in Edgar Maftei-Opriţ Allan Poe On Eponyms in Chemistry

Iulia Blănuţă Milică Daniela Şorcaru Creole Identity in Kate Chopin’s Text Identity in Simultaneous Fiction and Consecutive Interpreting Veronica Popescu Daniela Ţuchel Writing the Self: Sandra Playful Hybrid Titles Cisneros and the Tradition of Ethnic Autobiography

13.30 – 15.00 Lunch break – Room U13

15.00 – 17.00 Concurrent sessions

Cultural and Literary Studies Cultural and Literary Studies Workshop FP7: (I) (II) Representations of National Moderators: Simona Antofi & Moderators: Ligia Pîrvu & Identity in the Press (II) Carmen Andrei Daniela Şorcaru Moderator: Gabriela Iuliana Colipcă Room: A 01 Room: LF1 Room: U11 Simona Antofi Eleni Karasavvidou Forme ale naraţiunii identitare în The Hero as Nemesis, Kirki or literatura română de la 1848: Threat: A Comparative Study in Alecu Russo, Cântarea the Balkan Context Ioanna Vovou României Jana Lozanoska Carmen Andrei Lidia Mihaela Necula Antoanela Dumitrascu Facettes de l’altérité et de Fiction Unlimited: Lodgian Mariana Neagu l’hybridité dans la construction Inbetweenness and Hybrid Gabriela Dima de l’identité canadienne TextLabeling Gabriela Iuliana Colipcă Matei Damian Daniela Şorcaru Ioana Mohor-Ivan Jocul de-a informaţia la Mihail Glimpses into Subcultural Sebastian Identity: Instigation to Culture Nicoleta Ifrim Isabela Merilă Clişee politice şi miză literară în The Whole and Holes of the

3 discursul critic al Vieţii Human Heart româneşti – anul 1959 Ana Elena Constandache Ileana Chiru-Jitaru Identité et altérité dans la Against (the Fear of) Fidelity correspondance rimbaldienne (Theory) in Film Adaptation (The English Patient, Lolita) Doiniţa Milea Laura Ioana Leon Les territoires de l’autre : The Writer and the Literary Text dialogues textuels et culturels as Cultural Products

Saturday, May 16

10.00 – 12.00

Cultural and Literary Studies Language Studies Cultural and Language (I) Studies Moderators: Smaranda Moderators: Crina Herţeg & Moderators: Laura Leon & Ştefanovici & Steluţa Stan Corina Dobrotă Angelica Vâlcu

Room: LF1 Room: U11 Room: LF2 Smaranda Ştefanovici Crina Herţeg Rodica Frenţiu Conflict and Belonging in Fifth Time and Temporality in Haruki Murakami. Diverse Chinese Daughter Fictional Units tonalităţi ale eului: sub masca lui Boku / Watashi Oana-Maria Petrovici Adriana Teodorescu Corina Popescu Being a Nationalist and Denying The Impact of Computer- Refusing to Name Names: Lillian It – Edwin Muir’s Scottish mediated Communication on the Helman Facing the House Journey English Language Committee of Un-American Activities Steluţa Stan Diana Popa Angelica Vâlcu Mocking Authority(ies) in The Role of Political Satire in Communiquer dans des Metafiction (and not only) Democratic Societies. The Case of situations professionnelles Romania Andreia Suciu Adriana Teodorescu Alina Ganea From Communication to Defining English as an Reportative Evidential Strategies Miscommunication, or the Need International Language to Be Mediagenic in Malcolm Bradbury’s Work Mihaela Pricope Corina Dobrotă Gabriela Scripnic and Anca Race Relations and Rebellion English Loans in Romanian Gâţă Against the Norm in Hanif (Ad)Mirative Strategies Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia

4 13.00 – 15.00 Boat cruise & lunch

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