14th ESSE Conference Programme

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1 Plenary Lectures Anne Fogarty Modernist Aftermaths?: Joyce Effects in Contemporary Irish Fiction Scala, Moravské náměstí 127/3 Wed 14:30–15:30 Marta Mateo The sound of English literature in musical translation Scala, Moravské náměstí 127/3 Thu 13:30–14:30 Alfred Thomas Shakespeare's Bohemia: Religious Toleration in an Age of Confessional Polarization Scala, Moravské náměstí 127/3 Fri 13:30–14:30 Josef Schmied Functional Linguistic Approaches to Non-Native Academic Writing: Global Comparisons of Abstracts, Theses and Articles Scala, Moravské náměstí 127/3 Sat 13:30–14:30 Parallel Lectures Stefania Nuccorini PL01 The Lexicographical Management of English. Usage, Authority and Stance (1961-Present Day) Room N51, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Fri 9:00–10:00 Elena Seoane PL02 A Register Approach to Morphosyntactic Variation in World Englishes Room N41, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Thu 9:00–10:00 Jan Chovanec PL03 The Multimodal Poetics of Football, Language and the Media Room 200, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Sun 9:00–10:00 Izabela Szymańska PL04 Norms and Strategies in Translating Children’s Literature. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in Polish Room N41, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Fri 9:00–10:00 Anthony Johnson PL05 Texts in Time and Time in Texts: Embodied Cultural Moments in Literature and Language Room N21, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Sat 9:00–10:00 Jean-Rémi Lapaire PL06 Choreographers of Speech: Social Space as Performance Space Room N51, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Thu 9:00–10:00 Maurizio Calbi PL07 Shakespeare and Contemporary Media Culture Scala, Moravské náměstí 127/3 Sat 9:00–10:00 Martin Procházka PL08 A Dialogue Between the East and the West? Uses and Abuses of Sharawadgi Room N21, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Fri 9:00–10:00 María José Coperías-Aguilar PL09 In Their Own Voice: Women’s Periodicals in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain Room 200, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Sat 9:00–10:00 Laura Mª Lojo-Rodríguez PL10 Women’s Words: Victoria Ocampo and the Reception of Virginia Woolf in Hispanic Countries Room N21, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Thu 9:00–10:00 Lilla Maria Crisafulli PL11 Frankenstein 1818/2018: Science and Gender in Mary Shelley’s Novel Room N51, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Sun 9:00–10:00

2 Tamás Bényei PL12 The Monument and the Voice: Commemoration and Spectrality in British Literature of the Great War Room N41, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Sun 9:00–10:00 Daniel Smith PL13 Out of Hand: John Donne and Manuscript Circulation Room N41, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Sat 9:00–10:00 Gert Buelens PL14 Speculative Selves: Money and Subjectivity in Transatlantic Fiction since 1870 Scala, Moravské náměstí 127/3 Fri 9:00–10:00 Ludmilla Kostova PL15 Risks of Mediation: On Guides and Interpreters in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century British and Anglo- Irish Travel Writing on the Ottoman Empire Scala, Moravské náměstí 127/3 Thu 9:00–10:00 Virginia Richter PL16 Sandcastles and Beach Chairs: Banal Geopolitics in Modernist Literature Room 200, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Thu 9:00–10:00 Anne Fogarty PL17 Art is every Inexplicable Thing: Affect, Materiality and Pain in Eimear McBride’s A Girl is A Half-Formed Thing (2013), Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones (2016), and Sara Baume’s A Line Made by Walking (2017) Room 200, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Fri 9:00–10:00 Dieter Fuchs PL18 Why Read Joyce in the 21st Century? Room N51, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Sat 9:00–10:00 Catherine Bernard PL19 Re-affecting Vision: the Body Politic of Contemporary English Art Room N21, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Sun 9:00–10:00 Round Tables RT1 Literary Journalism and R/Evolution Room 213, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Thu 10:30–12:30 Participants: John S. Bak David Abrahamson Julie Wheelwright Talal Victor Hawshar RT2 Unpacking Anti-Gender Campaigns in the Context of Rising Populism in Europe Room 213, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Fri 10:30–12:30 Participants: Erzsébet Barát Pilar Cuder-Domínguez Zuzanna Sanches Katharina Wiedlack RT3 Cross-Border Dynamics: Mediation and Hybridity across the British Isles, Italy and France Room 213, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Thu 17:30–19:30 Roundtable jointly chaired by: Antonella Braida Céline Sabiron

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3 Alberto Gabriele – Cross-Border Dynamics: Mediation and Hybridity in the Nineteenth Century Culture Industry Paola Gaudio – The Translator’s Poetics in the Italian Translations of Jane Eyre Matthew Reynolds – Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a Global Novel across Languages RT4 Meeting of the Gender Studies Network Room 213, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Thu 15:00–17:00 Participants: Işil Baş Florence Binard Renate Haas María Socorro Suárez Lafuente Seminars S01 – Environmental issues and the Anthropocene: Problems and Opportunities Room 107, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Douglas Mark Ponton Małgorzata Sokół (1) Sat 15:00–17:00 Cinzia Bevitori, Jane Helen Johnson – Climate change and migration: Exploring the nexus from a corpus-assisted discourse analysis perspective Anna Franca Plastina – Changing discourses of climate change: Comparing mediated meanings of social-ecological resilience Hermine Penz – Communicating climate change: How to touch a cord with people and promote action Angela Zottola, Claudio de Majo – The Anthropocene: Genesis and popularization in the press (2) Sat 17:30–19:30 Małgorzata Sokół – Interdiscursive (co-)construction of lay people’s ecological voices on YouTube Daniela Francesca Virdis – Environmental issues in the Victorian Era: An ecolinguistic examination of metaphor use in J. Ruskin’s The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century (1884) Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska – Multimodality and rhetoric in environmental charity appeals Lucia Abbamonte, Flavia Cavaliere – The ‘sustainable’ languages of Greenpeace – a multimodal investigation 3) Sun 10:30–12:30 Douglas Mark Ponton – Closeness and ecology in post-industrial narratives Reinhard Heuberger – Human-centered language patterns and possible alternatives Cecile Bianchi – Storytelling in environmental discourse: Identifying patterns leading towards the specialisation of language S02 – Seminar cancelled S03 – Specialised Discourse: Wherefrom and Whereto? Room N51, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Convenors: Olga Dontcheva-Navrátilová, Maria Freddi (1) Fri 10:30–12:30 Matthias Hofmann – Protest American English Influence or protest against it? Changing Prepositions in Nigerian Twitter English Magdalena Szczyrbak – Verbal patterns in trial discourse: The case of I think Radek Vogel – Credibility-boosting devices in corporate annual reports Renata Povolná – Cross-cultural variation in the expression of directives as important persuasive strategies in the genre of technical manuals Martin Adam – Pathos in Sermons: Employing Affect to Enhance Persuasion (2) Fri 17:30–19:30 Maria Freddi – The changing rhetoric of science: knowledge dissemination through science blogs Jane Helen Johnson – “And this is a really fundamental point”. Marking importance in office hours interactions in an EMI environment: a corpus-assisted study Krystyna Warchał – Tracing rhetorical change: Polish journal article introductions revisited Tereza Guziurová – Discourse reflexivity in written academic ELF

4 Olga Dontcheva-Navrátilová – Academic persuasion: Intercultural variation in stance and engagement in linguistics research articles S04 – The Language of Cyberbullying: Verbal aggression in Online Communication Room 409, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Isabel Ermida Minna Palander-Collin (1) Fri 17:30–19:30 Elsa Freitas – (De)constructing the Kardashians: an analysis of aggressive forms of humour found in online comments on celebrity-related news Liisi Laineste – Humour and aggression in social media Ivan Stamenković – The Functions of Expletives in Facebook CMC Simona Ignat – Definition and taxonomy of flaming on Social Media platforms (2) Sat 17:30–19:30 Renata Bočková – The Use of Punctuation, Emoji and Emoticons in YouTube Abusive Comments on LGBT Videos Fabio Carrella – Like, Share, Hate: Interpreting Users’ Reactions to Populist Aggressive Discourse Rita Faria – “People like yourself are frightening” – online address in English and in Portuguese S05 – Language and Crime Room 410, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: John Douthwaite Ulrike Tabbert Sat 10:30–12:30 Ulrike Tabbert – Using Stylistics in forensic authorship identification/attribution Jiřina Popelíková, Veronika Volná – Legal Doublets in the Old Bailey Corpus Azianura Hani Shaari – Online Romance Scam in Malaysia: A Content Analysis of Actual Online Conversations between Scammers and Victims Jitka Vlčková – Concept of Crime and Politeness in Cross-cultural Communication in Australian Courtrooms John Douthwaite – A Cae in Point: Ideology in Midsommer Murders S06 – Exploring Rhetorical Aspects and Strategies in Specialised Discourse Room S117, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Catherine Resche Caroline Peynaud Alessandra Molino (1) Thu 15:00–17:00 Jana Kozubíková Šandová – Rhetorical Strategies in English and Czech Academic Texts. A Contrastive Study. Olga I. Oparina – “Chatty Style”. Communication Strategy in Written Academic Discourse Geneviève Bordet – Authorial credibility and encapsulating “this”: forging an academic voice. (2) Thu 17:30–19:30 Mathilde Gaillard – “Tools for action”: American think tanks’ policy briefs Caroline Peynaud – Persuading to act against climate change: the metaphors of climate as rhetorical devices in the British and US press. Catherine Resche – A comparative approach to the pragma-rhetoric of research articles in economics, central bank reports, and CEO annual letters through the lens of Searle’s M(eaning)-intentions. S07 – Finite and Non-Finite Modes of Expression in Contemporary English Room N21, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Convenors: Marcela Malá Wojciech Witkowski Wed 16:00–18:00 Galina Gumovskaya – Infinitive versus Gerund Ljiljana Janković – Finite or Non-Finite? Jakob Lenardič, Gašper Ilc – English Raising Predicates and (Non-)Finite Clauses. A Corpus Based Analysis of Appear, Seem, and Be Likely

5 Wojciech Witkowski, Paulina Witkowska – Agentivity of Polish Object Experiencer Verbs: Corpus Analysis of Non-Finite Clauses Marcela Malá – Increasing Prominence of Non-Finite Clauses in Written English – a Corpus-Based Study S08 – Seminar cancelled S09 – Further Advances in the Study of the Information Structure of Discourse Room N21, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Convenors: Libuše Dušková Renáta Gregová (1) Thu 10:30–12:30 Gabriela Brůhová, Markéta Malá – English presentative sentences with have Martin Adam – ‘Panic seized me’: a transitive verb operating in presentation sentences Libuše Dušková – Information structure in parallel texts: a Czech-English view of translating problems Vladislav Smolka – The position and FSP role of -ly adverbials in small distributional fields (2) Thu 15:00–17:00 Anna Kudrnová – English and Czech It-Clefts in translation Jiří Lukl – Attributive relative clauses in the hierarchy of communicative units and distributional fields within the theory of FSP Lucie Malá – Metamorphosis in fiction: a supra-sentential analysis Renata Pípalová – Constructing the global from the local: On the FSP status of keywords in academic discourse Leona Rohrauer – FSP and the essence of a text S10 – Discursive Strategies in Politically Sensitive Media Texts Room N41, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Convenors: Jasmina Đorđević Bledar Toska (1) Thu 15:00–17:00 Jasmina Đorđević – The Discursive Strategy of Argumentation in Serbian Media: Exerting Effect and Pursuing a Political Strategy Bledar Toska – Britain Faces a Wave of Mass Immigration from Bulgaria and Romania: The Conservative Press Anticipating and Legitimizing Fear and Concern Biljana Mišić Ilić – Discourse Analysis of Terrorist Attacks Coverage in British Newspapers Mohammed Ayodeji Ademilokun, Georg Forster – Politics in the Economy or Economy in Politics: Discursive Construction of Nigeria’s Economic Crisis in the Media Texts of State Actors (2016-2017) (2) Thu 17:30–19:30 Jovanka Lazarevska-Stančevska – Language of News Media Irina Petrovska – Investigating the Language in Media Discourse Bisera Kostadinovska-Stojčevska – Playing the Nationalism Card: Critical Discourse Analysis of the Political Speeches during the Local Election Campaign in Bitola in 2017 Berhanu Asfaw – THEM and US in political reporting: Ethiopian Perspective S11 – Seminar cancelled S12 The Transformation of News Discourse in the Age of Social Media Room S116, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Jan Chovanec Roberta Facchinetti Thu 15:00–17:00 Magda Sučková – Czenglish memes about this divný národ: Kavárna strikes back (or does it?) Dominika Kováčová – Social media trespassing: The analysis of news articles reporting on the 2017’s most liked Instagram post Jan Eichler – Trump’s Twitter Time Jan Chovanec, Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska – Online news: from providing content to enabling interaction S13 – Lexis in Contrast: Empirical Approaches Room N42, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Convenors: Naděžda Kudrnáčová

6 Michaela Martinková Ada Böhmerová (1) Sat 15:00–17:00 Naděžda Kudrnáčová – Human locomotion in a cross-linguistic perspective: The case of walk Steven Coats – Using word embeddings to explore code-switching and lexical borrowing Jiří Rambousek – False cognates in translation Jaroslav Emmer – Boring as hell: Intensifying postmodification of predicative adjectives of the ‘ADJ as NOUN’ type in the Spoken BNC2014 Michaela Martinková, Markéta Janebová – Degree adverbs in contrast: the case of quite (2) Sat 17:30–19:30 Ondřej Klabal – Company law terminology and phraseology in English and Czech contrasted Lýdia Borková – Comparative analysis of experimentally elicited blends in Slovak and English Jose A. Sánchez Fajardo – Clipped bases in English and Spanish compounds: a contrastive study Hana Mihai – Lexis creating a human dimension of a destination: Comparative discourse analysis of English and French parallel texts Anna Y. Shirokikh – A comparative study of terminology for finance: the content and didactic aspects S14 – Advances in Cognitive-Linguistic Approaches to Grammar Room N51, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Convenors: Naděžda Kudrnáčová Wei-Lun Lu Vladan Pavlović (1) Wed 16:00–18:00 Wei-lun Lu – Free Indirect Style Across Languages: The Case of John Updike’s Writing and Its Mandarin Renderings Vladan Pavlović – The V N2 into N3 construction in English – a collostructional approach Marija Milojković – Effects of animacy and information status on the dative alternation in Serbian-English interlanguage Inés Lozano Palacio – Patterns of metaphorical combination as constraining factors on argument-structure constructions in English (2) Thu 10:30–12:30 Olga Steriopolo – Social deixis and grammatical gender Jelena Prtljaga – Deontically used modal verbs in English and Serbian language: Prototypical approach Jacek Rysiewicz – Can Working Memory replace Foreign Language Aptitude as a predictor of foreign language proficiency? Bisera Kostadinovska-Stojchevska – Cognitively-oriented curriculum: Implementing the Theory of the Prototype in EFL classes in the higher educational level curricula (3) Thu 15:00–17:00 Elena Nikolaenko – On conceptualizing action quantity “greater than the norm” through Water-metaphors in English fiction Natalia Sergienko – Linguo-Cognitive Categorization of Linguo-Mental Sphere FAMILY in British and American Linguo- Cultures Olha Vuiek – Construing reality of Irish poetry S15 – Blunders and other deviations from manners and politeness: Literary and linguistic approaches Room 300, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Andreas H. Jucker Irma Taavitsainen (1) Sat 10:30–12:30 Tatjana Silec-Plessis – Ipomadon and the satire of good manners in medieval literature Laura Pereira Domínguez – Dissident gestures for medieval women Urszula Kizelbach – Blunders and (un)intentional offence in Shakespeare Andreas H. Jucker – Manners, conduct and the discourse of im/proper behaviour in Restoration and eighteenth-century drama Erzsi Kukorelly – Blundering into anger: Young women’s controlled bodies in eighteenth-century conduct books (2) Sat 15:00–17:00 Polina Shvanyukova – ‘A kind of unpolish’d Roughness of Behaviour’: Transgressions as a strategy of socialisation in eighteenth-century professional settings Irma Taavitsainen – “To pamper his Vanity”: Medical debates in eighteenth-century polite society Nuria Calvo Cortes – “I am Greatly Distresed at present gentlemen”: 18th and 19th century lower class women’s petitions

7 Isabel Ermida – Impoliteness in Blunderland: Carroll’s Alice books and the manners in which manners fail Steve Buckledee – “Collect a thousand loyalty points and you get a free coffin.” Creative impoliteness in the TV comedy drama Doc Martin S16 – The Life of the Text: Paratext in/as Life Writing Room N43, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Convenors: Eva C. Karpinski Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak (1) Sat 15:00–17:00 Sarah Herbe – The “interest of the Bookseller”: Paratextual construction of poetic authorship in the seventeenth and eighteenth century Teresa Bruś – Facepoeia: Author's images as paratexts Charles I. Armstrong – Framing the Self: Vona Groarke’s Liminal Autobiography Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak – Philip Ridley’s ‘Introductions’ to two volumes of collected plays: Life writing in paratext Valérie Baisnée – “Beginnings”: the paratexts of contemporary New Zealand women’s autobiographies (2) Sat 17:30–19:30 Elena Basile – Thresholds of authorship across languages and genders. The case of Nathanaël. Han Lili – Paratext in image translation: The case study of Luís Gonzaga Gomes Antonín Zita – The Beat Generation in communist Czechoslovakia: The editorial paratexts and the construction of the author Eva C. Karpinski – Translator’s preface: Paratext as a site of knowledge production and activism S17 – Communicating across Cultures: Local and Translocal Features of Genres in Online and Offline Environments Room 410, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Renáta Tomášková Tamás Eitler (1) Sat 15:00–17:00 Milan Ferenčík – English in a place: between global distribution and local practice Renata Kamenická – Embedded personal narratives in the self-help and guide genre: a comparative study of English and Czech Martin Kolář – The Czech and the British Political Websites Renáta Tomášková – University website blogs: tailoring the posts for translocal audiences (2) Sat 17:30–19:30 Ondřej Procházka – Metapragmatic reflexivity and translocality in a ‘Czech’ Facebook meme page Simona Korytářová – Orchestration of Modes in Mathematics Video Tutorials: Can a Symphony Be Played by a Chamber Orchestra? Veronika Rusňáková – Mirroring Polyphony in Ballet: Multimodal Analysis of European Theatres’ Websites (3) Sun 10:30–12:30 Christopher Hopkinson – Speech acts in L1 English vs. ELF: a contrastive pragmatic study of the expression of oppositional stance in a web genre Magdalena Hanusková – Boundary Cases of Repair in ELF Academic Discourse Monika Maňáková – Culture/discipline based use of author-reference pronouns in ELF S18 – Transferring Knowledge within Academic and Institutional Contexts: A Focus on New and Hybrid Digital Genres Room N41, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Convenors: Giuliana Diani Rosa Lorés Sanz (1) Wed 16:00–18:00 Isabel Corona – A window to the world: visual design and research visibility of European research projects homepages Liisa Vilkki – Hedging in the philosophical Chora mailing list Girolamo Tessuto – Making sense of ECJ institutional press releases on the web: A genre and medium-based investigation (2) Thu 10:30–12:30 Jurate Ruzaite – Discursive construction of product identities by commercial institutions in digital contexts Isabel Herrando-Rodrigo – ‘Who’s talking to me?’: the construction of writers’ identity in digital medical genres

8 Stefania Consonni – Medical PowerPoint as an epistemic machinery for knowledge dissemination: an integrated multimodal approach S19 – Lexical Issues in L2 Academic Speech and Writing Room 257, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Katalin Doró Päivi Pietilä (1) Thu 15:00–17:00 Signe-Anita Lindgrén – On Varying and Not Varying Vocabulary in L2 Academic Speech and Writing and Communicative Success Csilla Sárdi – TEFL Students’ Disciplinary Literacy in a University CLIL Context: A Focus on Lexis Irina Frisk, Anne Holm – Sustainable Writing: A Corpus-based Approach to Improving Teacher Trainees’ Writing Skills in English Marja-Leena Niitemaa – English Vocabulary and Cohesive Devices in L2 Essays: A Data-driven Approach (2) Thu 17:30–19:30 Katalin Doró, Päivi Pietilä – Collocations in L2 English Essays: The Role of L1 Gabriel Jay Rauhoff – Outlining Research Issues from L2 Lexical Collocational Performance in Two Different Writing Tasks Feryal Cubukcu – The Decomposition View in Lexical Competence in L1 and L2 S20 – The Sounds of English: Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Aspects Room S116, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Ivo Fabijanić Andrej Stopar (1) Sat 10:30–12:30 Smiljana Komar – The Challenges of Teaching GB Pronunciation to L2 Slovene Students of English in the Context of English as Lingua Franca Serkan Şen – Helping Turkish Learners with Pronunciation of Four Close Vowels through Blended Learning and Affective Strategies Ivo Fabijanić– On Approaches to IPA Symbols Teaching/Learning Ingrid Pfandl-Buchegger – Mastering pronunciation in a foreign language – using new technologies in pronunciation training (2) Sat 15:00–17:00 Magda Sučková – First language attrition on the phonetic level: The case of Anglophone expatriates in the Czech Republic Emilija Mustapić, Frane Malenica – Sign language phonology Andrej Stopar – FL vowel perception in Slovenian university students of English S21 – ESP and the Popularization of Knowledge across Genres Room N51, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Convenors: Patrizia Anesa Barbora Chovancová Thu 17:30–19:30 Larissa Manerko – Cognitive insights into knowledge representation in multimodal scientific discourse Tatiana Fedulenkova – Business English phraseological units as specialized terms in specific domains Barbora Chovancová – Mediation in lawyer client interaction: understanding the needs of ESP practice Patrizia Anesa – The popularization of law online: discursive and social insights Štěpánka Bilová – Motivation via appreciation: good practice from ESP classes S22 – English as a Foreign Language for Students with Special Educational Needs – Chances and Challenges Room 200, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Ewa Domagała-Zyśk Jitka Sedláčková (1) Wed 16:00–18:00 Edit H. Kontra – Deaf Adults in Language Schools: Chances and Challenges Melanie Bartz – Chances and challenges of using signed English (SE) in the Deaf classroom Nuzha Moritz – Using optimal phonetic features to improve the intelligibility of English as a foreign language for deaf and hard of hearing learners

9 Jitka Sedláčková, Lenka Tóthová – Academic mobilities of students with hearing impairment: Welcoming the challenges with specialized online course of written English (2) Thu 10:30–12:30 Patricia Pritchard – Hearing-impaired pupils and phonic reading as a strategy in learning to read English Anna Podlewska – Teaching Legal English to Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) Students – Practical Ideas for Introducing and Recycling Legal Terminology Beata Gulati – Deeper and deeper – how best to improve the vocabulary skills of postgraduate deaf and hard of hearing students. Ewa Domagała-Zyśk – Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and deaf and hard of hearing students S23 – Current Trends inTeaching English as a Foreign Language Room S117, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: František Tůma Katalin Doró Nikola Fořtová Linda Nepivodová (1) Sat 15:00–17:00 Jesús Ángel González – From EMI to CLIL: Teaching strategies for bilingual teaching at University Judith Barna – Space design and language teaching in formal learning environments Ágnes T. Balla, Katalin Doró – The effective language teachers as seen by final year teacher trainees Irina Ioana Spătaru – Teaching Shakespeare with film adaptations in the Romanian classroom: Localized patterns of viewing and learning (2) Sat 17:30–19:30 Věra Sládková – Dependent preposition patterns in Czech students’ school-leaving essays as a contribution to corpus- informed teaching of English Monika Černá – Individual learning histories – beyond research results Jill Salomon – Current trends in teaching English as a foreign language. The case of French primary schools Beatriz Valverde,Tania Mateos-Blanco, Rosa María Perales Molada, Marisa Farina-Sánchez – Film sound, immersion and learning: Field study on 3D Surround Sound to improve listening comprehension in EFL class (3) Sun 10:30–12:30 Thomas E. Bieri – WebQuests in teaching English for business in Japan Eva Skopečková – Let’s (Finally) Translate: Innovation in EFL Teacher Preparation Kateřina Dvořáková – Assessment: The Waldorf School perspective František Tůma, Nikola Fořtová, Linda Nepivodová – Peer interaction in EFL classes in Czech upper-secondary schools S24 – Telecollaborative Learning/Teaching in English: The Many Facets of the Concept Room S117, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Martin Štefl Szilvia Malaczkov Sat 10:30–12:30 Jana Zvěřinová, Szilvia Malaczkov – Telecollaboration of international student groups: facilitating autonomous learning Alena Hradilová – Let’s dial Helsinki! Martin Štefl – Networking with Multiple Partners: Telecollaboration as a Transversal Skill Prue Goredema, Lidia Agofonova – Joint Teaching, Synchronous Learning and Assessing Web 2.0 Tools: A Tale of Two Cities S25 – A European Perspective on ESP Teaching and Learning Research Room N21, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Convenors: Cédric Sarré Barbora Chovancová Danica Milosevic Shona Whyte 1) Fri 10:30–12:30 Teaching and learning activities: experiments in ESP teaching Danica Milosevic – Integrating Soft Skills in an ESP course for IT Students: Finding the Right Measure Natalia Borza – Mind your languaculture! English for international relations in Hungary

10 Shona Whyte, Cédric Sarré, Rebecca Franklin-Landi, Noëlla Gaigeot – Revisiting Dictogloss for Teaching Formulaic Sequences in EAP Contexts: a Set of Replication Studies in French Higher Education Sophie Belan – Using a modified dictogloss to teach formulaic sequences: a replication study in an ESP context at the University of Nantes, France (2) Fri 17:30–19:30 Needs analysis and course design in ESP: analysing specific contexts Kate Brantley – Theorizing text and context: towards a socio-cognitive perspective Mónica Fierro – When Moodle meets The Big Short: using cinematic fiction in Business English Aude Labetoulle – Theoretical and methodological underpinnings of French undergraduate ESP course in musicology Željka Babić – Voicing the Needs of ESP Practitioners: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina S26 – Seminar cancelled S27 – Conversation Analysis and the Study of Educational Settings Room 206, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: František Tůma Silvia Kunitz Thu 17:30–19:30 Thomas A. Williams – Conversational blueprints in progress: A conversation analysis of university students’ EFL interaction František Tůma – Managing discussions after student presentations in English as a foreign language seminars Silvia Kunitz – L1/L2 alternation practices in students’ task planning S28 – How specialized is ESP? Characterizing Degrees of Specialization in Specialized Discourses and Domains Room N41, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Convenors: Emilia Di Martino Fanny Domenec Charlene Meyers Philippe Millot (1) Fri 10:30–12:30 (2) Fri 17:30–19:30 Tiffany Jandrain – ESP noun phrases and register variation: The case of research and press articles in medicine and earth sciences Charlene Meyers – Metaphors as Clues to Degrees of Specialization in the Specialized Discourse of Astrophysics Mariagrazia De Meo – English for Art Purposes on screen: language matters in art exhibitions Audrey Cartron – Dictionarization and English for Police Purposes Philippe Millot – How specialised are specialised corpora? Specialisation issues in the building of a small corpus in library and information science Andrea Steiner – Do you speak Legalese? What lawyers and their clients need Fanny Domenec – Corporate ethics as the new specialized? Identifying degrees of specialization in corporate communication S29 – Literary Hermeneutics: Openness in Translating Drama and Verse Room N21, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Convenors: Pascale Drouet Pavel Drábek (1) Sat 10:30–12:30 (2) Sat 15:00–17:00 Abdelkarim Boucetta – The Issue of Translation of Drama in Shakespeare Anne-Marie Costantini-Cornede – Shifts and Drifts in Screen Shakespeare Translations: From Classics to Derivatives, Multilayered Verbal Strategies and the Conveyance of Meaning(s) Pavel Drábek – Translating Drama: A Methodology for a Dramaturgical Translation. Prolegomena to a transnational research project Pascale Drouet – Translating Rhythm for the Stage: Indeterminate Punctuation and the Intimate Voice in some of Howard Barker and David Greig’s Plays Tomáš Kačer – Translating Mannerism: Translator as Dramaturg in Adapting Generic Specifics Filip Krajník – Medieval Performance in the Twenty-First Century?: The Case of Chaucer’s The Parliament of Fowls and Its Translation for Modern Audiences Eliška Poláčková – ‘O Strange Humour!’ Translating Plautus For Performance Oana-Alis Zaharia – Romeo and Juliet – A New Romanian Translation for the Stage

11 S30 – Intralingual Translation Room N42, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Convenors: Linda Pilliere Özlem Berk Albachten Wed 16:00–18:00 Yekaterina Yakovenko – Modern English Biblical Versions: A Case of Intralingual Translation Marina Kulinich – Intralingual translation in various types of discourse Hilla Karas, Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot – Intralingual Diachronic Translation and Transfer: the Case of Old French Linda Pilliere – Copyediting: A case of Intralingual Translation? S31 – Landscapes of Childhood in Modernist Short Story Room 410, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Armela Panajoti Janka Kaščáková (1) Thu 17:30–19:30 Tereza Topolovská – E.M. Forster’s Stories of Panic: The Rite of Passage within the Context of the Dichotomy of the Outside vs. the Inside Armela Panajoti – Thwarted Prospects: A Reading of Saki’s “The Toys of Peace” Mariglena Meminaj – The Child-narrator in The Dubliners (2) Fri 10:30–12:30 Dilek Inan – The Idea of Childhood in Graham Greene’s “The Destructors”: “Destruction after all is a form of creation” Amy Wells – Racism as Child’s Play: The Half-Cast Nanny in Kay Boyle’s “White As Snow” (1933) Janka Kaščáková – Telling the Bees: Death, War, and Children’s Play in Katherine Mansfield’s Prelude and “At the Bay” Cătălin Tecucianu – Coming of age in Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party” and Richard Wright’s “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” (3) Fri 17:30–19:30 Gulsah Gocmen, Bariscan Demir – The Nietzschean Child Gambles: D. H. Lawrence’s The Rocking-Horse Winner Nina Moroz – “The Wishing Tree”: William Faulkner’s Modernist Fantasy for Children Šárka Bubíková – Growing up in Yoknapatawpha: Race, Code/s and Loss of Innocence in William Faulkner’s Short Stories Hana Ulmanová – William Faulkner’s Barn Burning: Initiation into the Southern Culture S32 – Poetic Digression Room S116, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Jiří Flajšar Nataliya Novikova Sat 17:30–19:30 Anna Budziak – The Parenthetical Challenges in T. S. Eliot’s The Cultivation of Christmas Trees Jiří Flajšar – The Vicissitudes of Digression in Two New York Poets Divya Nadkarni – Moving beyond the lyric “I”: impersonal effects and the architecture of digression in the poetry of Larry Levis Nataliya Novikova – Robert Browning’s Digressive Approach to Truth in The Ring and the Book S33 – Contemporary Scottish Short Fiction: “Caledonian Polysyzygy” at Work Room S116, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Milena Kaličanin Soňa Šnircová (1) Fri 10:30–12:30 Attila Dósa – Simulacra and Medieval Demonology in Muriel Spark’s Short Fiction Seda Gasparyan, Mariana Sargsyan – In Search of Identity: Trauma and Irony in the Cognitive Light Ema Jelínková – “Caledonian Polysyzygy” in Kate Atkinson’s Short Story Not the End of the World Milena Kaličanin – Disillusionment and Hope in James Kelman's “talking about my wife“ (2) Fri 17:30–19:30 Vesna Lopičić – The cultural web of Paterson’s “Scotch Settlement” Tom Hubbard – Absurdities and Epiphanies: ‘The Kilt’ Soňa Šnircová – Neo-Romantic Sensibility in Jenni Fagan’s ‘The Waken’

12 S34 – Transcending the Postmodern: The Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm Room 410, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Jean-Michel Ganteau Susana Onega (1) Wed 16:00–18:00 Susana Onega – The Transmodern Poetics of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas: Generic Hybridity, Narrative Embedding and Transindividuality Laura Colombino – Multidirectional Collective Memory: Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant Maria Grazia Nicolosi – Altered States of Interdependence: A Transmodern Reading of Caryl Phillips’s Postmillennial Narratives of Forced Migrancy and Transcultural Re-Location Angelo Monaco – The Novel of Ideas at the Crossroads of Transmodernity: Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island / Independent Scholar Jean-Michel Ganteau – Problematising the Transmodern: Jon McGragor’s Ethics of Consideration. (2) Thu 10:30–12:30 Bárbara Arizti – A Transmodern Approach to Post-9/11 Australia: Richard Flanagan’s The Unknown Terrorist as a Narrative of the Limit Matthias Stephan – Transculturalism, Transmodernism: Representations of Identity in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah Jessica Aliaga Lavrijsen – A Transmodern Approach to Biology in Naomi Mitchison’s Memoirs of a Spacewoman Mojca Krevel – The Future of the Future: William Gibson’s The Peripheral? Laura Roldán-Sevillano – Roxane Gay’s An Untamed State: Gender Violence and Empowerment in the Transmodern Fairy Tale (3) Thu 15:00–17:00 Julia Tofantšuk – Transcorporeality in Monique Roffey’s Novel Archipelago (2012) Merve Sarıkaya-Şen – Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: Interrogating the Transmodern Paradigm Monika Kocot – Gary Snyder and Kenneth White: Transmodern Revolutionaries on a Pathless Path Jaroslav Kušnír – Transcending the Postmodern, Regional and Ethnic Identities? Sara Villamarín Freire – Fatherhood, Community, and the Ethical Bond: Negotiating Transnational Identities in American Literature S35 – From Terror to Horror: Metamorphoses of the Gothic in Anglo-American Literature since the 19th Century Room 409, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Éva Antal Kamila Vránková (1) Thu 17:30–19:30 Elena Andonova – Kalapsazova – Taking Steps beyond Emotion Stereotyping: Emotions Vocabulary in Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian Ilaria Natali – “drifting into unknown places”: Bram Stoker’s Dracula and its sources Greta Colombani – Marriage in Death and Rites of Passage in Wuthering Heights Kamila Vránková – The Formless and the Gothic in Contemporary Anglo-American Children’s Literature (2) Fri 10:30–12:30 Jaqueline Pierazzo – Thoughts on Terror, Horror and the Sublime: In Defense of a Theory of Terror in the Study of Edgar Allan Poe’s Writings Michela Vanon Alliata – The Strange Case of Reverend Jennings: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Green Tea” Ayşe Şensoy – “Their awful mark!”: An Ecogothic Reading of Algernon Blackwood’s “The Willows” Ahmet Gülsat – A Comparative Analysis of Frankenstein in the TV Series Penny Dreadful S36 – Otherness and Identity in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Literature Room N51, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Convenors: Elisabetta Marino Adrian Radu (1) Sat 10:30–12:30 Sercan Öztekin – Otherness in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House Octavian More – Island solitudes: selfhood and otherness in the poetry of M. Arnold and Th. Hardy Tomasz Fisiak – The Other in the House: On Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla”

13 Michel Prum – The Victorian Machine as the threatening Other in Samuel Butler’s Erewhon (1872) (2) Sat 15:00–17:00 Vera Meniailo – “The Victorians are not so far away from us”: How to maintain Victorian identity in XX century literature Carmen Márquez García – Machinery on The Body: Identity Changes Through Alice’s Underworld Emine Akkülah Doğan – Humanized Things and Thingified Humans: Object-Oriented Ontology in Silas Marner Bożena Kucała – “I am rather strong on Voyages and Cannibalism”: the other Dickens in Richard Flanagan’s novel Wanting Simona Catrinel Avarvarei, Nicoleta Rodica Dominte – Behind the Wall of Silence: The Journey of Empowerment of the Other Voice from the Intricate Friezes of the Victorian Female Narrative to the Lofty Pillars of the Law (3) Sat 17:30–19:30 Carla Fusco – Some things are better left unsaid: the perilous path of a neo-Sensation novel Eleonora Ravizza – Exploring Otherness in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace Selin Yurdakul – The Other Side of the Coin Iulia Andreea Milică – Identity Construction and Fashion: The Image of the Governess in the Victorian Novel S37 – Epistolarity and/in Travel Writing (18th–21st Century) Room N43, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Convenors: Ludmilla Kostova Dana Bădulescu (1) Thu 15:00–17:00 (2) Thu 17:30–19:30 Polina Shvanyukova – Letters from the South Seas: Exploration of the Pacific Region in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Writing Małgorzata Rutkowska – “Every Letter from Europe was a Treasure”: Polyvocality and Didacticism in Emma Hart Willard’s Journal and Letters, from France and Great Britain. Ludmilla Kostova – Writing as a Post-Romantic Traveller: The Case of Benjamin Disraeli’s Home Letters (1830-1831) Ladislav Vít – Travelogue as a Dialogue Dana Bădulescu – Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Life in Letters Nina Kmak – “What It Was Like To Be There”: Ryszard Kapuściński’s Dispatches in English Translation S38 – Modernist Non-fictional Narratives of War and Peace Room 206, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Adrian Paterson Christine Reynier (1) Sat 15:00–17:00 Isabelle Brasme – The imprint of the war in Ford Madox Ford’s critical writings Michela Compagnoni – Waiting for war: W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood in China Velid Beganović – ‘God Damn This War’: Virginia Woolf’s Struggle for Peace between the Wars Paolo Bugliani – ‘And this is trivial’: Virginia Woolf’s Creative Response to the Outbreak of WW2 Andrea Rummel – Life-Writing, Subjectivity, Art: Keith Douglas in Egypt during WWII (2) Sat 17:30–19:30 Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz – British Narratives of the Interwar Years Christine Reynier – Vita Sackville-West’s Non Fictional Wartime Writings Adrian Paterson – ‘Of War and War's Alarms’: W. B. Yeats from On The Boiler (1939) S39 – Key Words in Dickens Room 200, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Zdeněk Beran Dominic Rainsford Michael Hollington (1) Thu 15:00–17:00 Group 1: Short Stories and Journalism (convenor: Michael Hollington) Emily Bell – ‘Odd, unsubstantial, whimsical’: Casting Shadows in Dickens’s Short Stories Michael Eaton – ‘Worldly Little Devil’: George Silverman’s Explanation Jeremy Parrott – Charles Dickens as ‘Conductor’: An exploration of roles and meanings Irina Popova – Keywords and their functions in Dickens’s Christmas Stories (2) Thu 17:30–19:30 Group 2: Bleak House (convenor: Zdeněk Beran)

14 Peter Merchant – ‘Found Out’ in Dickens Céline Prest – “It’s a monomania with [Krook] to think he is possessed of documents”: monomania, monologue and monotony in Bleak House Jeremy Tambling – ‘Fashion, dandyism, taste’ in Dickens Shorena Kvaratskhelia – Keywords in Dickens (3) Fri 10:30–12:30 Group 3: Little Dorrit (convenor: Dominic Rainsford) Shu-Fang Lai – ‘Gold’ in Dickens Lilian Nayder – ‘Sideways’ in Dickens Francesca Orestano – Dickens and his Prisons Nathalie Vanfasse – The meaning of the words ‘debt’ and ‘debtors’ in Little Dorrit (4) Fri 17:30–19:30 Group 4: Dickens in the 1860s (convenor: Zdeněk Beran) Matthias Bauer, Angelika Zirker – The Ambiguity of ‘Identity’ in Our Mutual Friend Ewa Kujawska-Lis – ‘Hands’ in Great Expectations Magdalena Pypeć – Keywords in The Mystery of Edwin Drood S40 – The (Neo-)Picaresque Appeal in Anglophone Postcolonial Fiction Room 107, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Cédric Courtois Anna-Leena Toivanen (1) Fri 10:30–12:30 Britta Olinder – Marian Engel’s Monodromos as a Picaresque Novel Jopi Nyman – Rawi Hage’s De Niro’s Game as a Postcolonial Picaresque María Rocío Cobo Piñero – NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names: An Afropolitan Picaresque (2) Fri 17:30–19:30 Sandra García Corte – A Re-Interpretation of the Rogue’s Tale through a Mobilities Lens in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names Sennur Bakirtas – Re-Thinking the Conventions of the Picaresque in Postcolonial Narrative: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Memory of Departure Cédric Courtois – Poetics and Politics of Survival in Postcolonial African Picaresque Novels: Song for Night (2007) by Chris Abani and Beasts of No Nation (2005) by Uzodinma Iweala S41 – Literary Representations of Poverty in British Fiction Room S116, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Martina Domines Veliki Alberto Lázaro Thu 17:30–19:30 Verónica Pacheco Costa – Poor suffragists on the Stage Tatjana Jukić Gregurić – Authority as Poverty and the Victorian Novel Borislav Knežević – Poverty and the Circulation of Capital in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations Pierre Lurbe – “The Annals of the Poor”: George Crabbe’s Parish Register (1807) Martina Domines Veliki – “This is prosperity is it?”: William Cobbett’s Rural Rides in the Context of the Poetry of Wordsworth and Clare S42 – Non-fiction vs Fiction in Postmodernist Travel-Writing Room N21, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Convenors: Elisabetta Marino Dan Horaţiu Popescu Thu 17:30–19:30 Eniko Maior – Non-fiction versus Fiction in V. S. Naipaul’s India: A Million Mutinies Now Eva Szekely – Peter Hurley’s The Way of the Crosses: An Irish Cultural Nationalist Tale of Romania Ligia Tomoiagă – The Atlas of Beauty, a Non-Stereotypical, Non-Ideological and Non-Activist View on Women around the World Dan Horaţiu Popescu – “All I have written here is true... except the lies”

15 S43 – Scotland in Europe and Europe in Scotland. Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Issues Room 206, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Marion Amblard Allison Lindsay Steenson Sun 10:30–12:30 Clément Guezais – Landscaping supremacy: An account of the representations of Scotland in late-medieval French sources Allison Steenson – The Scottish sonnet and Scotland in Europe during the Jacobean Renaissance Sabrina Juillet – The place of Scotland in the 1623 “British” negotiations with Spain Colin Clark – Halting States – Scottish speculative writing and the near future S44 – Seminar cancelled S45 – Paradigms in Twenty-First Century Theatre Room 206, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Sibel Izmir Claus-Peter Neumann (1) Fri 10:30–12:30 James Little – Performing Representation: Living the Lockout and Beckett’s Fizzles Tuğba Şimşek – Conor McPherson’s Theatre and His Approach to Text and Performance Tomáš Kačer – A Constant Replay? American Avant-garde theatre in the context of 21st century post-dramaticality Claus-Peter Neumann – Lee Breuer’s La Divina Caricatura, a Transnational, Multigeneric, Palimpsestic Hybrid (2) Fri 17:30–19:30 Emine Seda Çağlayan Mazanoğlu – From Text to Stage: A Postdramatic Reading of Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen Mesut Günenç – A Paradigm of Dramatic and Postdramatic Tragedy: Simon Stephens’s Motortown Paola Prieto López – Hybrid Afro-diasporic Theatre(s). Blurring Paradigms Andrea Hoffmannová – Verbatim Play as Reflection of Identity Sibel Izmir – Representing the Non-Mimetic: Tim Crouch’s My Arm S46 – Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Fiction Room 257, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Alexandra Cheira María-José de la Torre * Final schedule to be confirmed (1) Fri 10:30–12:30 Elena Pinyaeva – Transformations of Melusina in Contemporary British Fiction Alexandra Cheira – Happily Ever After? A. S. Byatt’s Wonder Tales of Female Empowerment Celia M. Wallhead – The New Uncanny in A. S. Byatt’s ‘Dolls’ Eyes’ Cemre Mimoza Bartu – Voicing the Muted: Hearing the Story of the Villain in Coover’s Stepmother (2) Fri 17:30–19:30 Anikó Sohár – The Role of Fairy Tales in Beauty by Sheri S. Tepper and Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett Camilla Del Grazia – Shape-shifting narratives: Neil Gaiman’s adaptations of fairytale and myth Gülden Yüksel – Exploring Literary Memory through Myths in Jeanette Winterson’s Weight Héloïse Lecomte – “Over the edge”: rewriting Orpheus and Eurydice in Ali Smith’s Artful (2012) (3) Sat 10:30–12:30 Bojana Aćamović – What Homer Failed to Mention: John Barth’s and Margaret Atwood’s Reworkings of an Old Myth Anastasia Sharapkova – The Arthurian myth in fan fiction: destructing and/or experimenting? Petr Anténe – An Amalgam of Myths for Contemporary America and Beyond: Michael Chabon’s Summerland María-José de la Torre – Twilight of the lords and political symbolism of the uncanny: the declinist subversion of modern myths in Sarah Waters’s The Little Stranger (4) Sat 15:00–17:00 Magdalena Wąsowicz – (Re)constructing the Myth of the South: Margaret Mitchell and her Gone with the Wind Miloš Blahút – Mythologizing and demythologizing (grand) narratives of Tom Robbins Ludmila Volná – Myths re-written: Indian Fiction in English Nadia Koukaroudi – Mirror, Mirror on the wall, Who finds justice after all?

16 S47 – Writing (about) Women in Medieval England Room 257, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Filip Krajník Margaret Bridges Klára Petříková (1) Sat 17:30–19:30 Christiania Whitehead – Female Voices on the Border: Late Medieval Representations of St Aebbe of Coldingham Helena Znojemská – Woman against the Devil: Two Medieval English Lives of St Juliana Marcela Sekanina Vavřinová – Subversive Possibilities of the Holy: The Figure of the Female Intellectual in the Book of Margery Kempe (2) Sun 10:30–12:30 Klára Petříková – Women as Readers, Women as the Subject of Early English Devotional Literature (Especially in the Example of Ancrene Wisse) Anna Mikyšková – The Power of Fruit and Flowers: St Dorothy on the Medieval Vernacular Stage and Beyond Filip Krajník – Writing (Divine) Love: Blending the Sacred and the Secular in the Mystical Marriages of St Katherine and the Pearl-Maiden S48 – Ethics and Violence in Contemporary Literatures in English Room 300, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Pilar Cuder-Domínguez Libe García Zarranz (1) Wed 16:00–18:00 Liani Lochner – Cohabitation and Precarity in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger and Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light Aylin Atilla – Responsibility and Vulnerability in Ian McEwan’s Saturday Maria Jennifer Estévez Yanes – Overcoming Violence through Vulnerability: Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West (2) Thu 10:30–12:30 Sini Eikonsalo – Sympathy and Ethical Judgements in 9/11 Novels Jorge Sacido-Romero – ‘Talking and Interchanging’: Care Ethics in Janice Galloway’s Short Fiction Libe García Zarranz – A Trans Ecopoethics of Sustain-ability: Kai Cheng Thom’s Response-able Worldings (3) Thu 15:00–17:00 Cassandra Falke – Reader as Witness: First-Person Perpetrators of Political Violence in Contemporary Literature Rajashree Bargohain, Rohini Mokashi-Punekar – ‘They want to shut their eyes, they cannot’: Violence and the Poetry of Witness in Northeast India Elizabeth Louise Nortjé – Nostalgia and Memory: Emerging Counterdiscourses to Violence in Postapartheid South African Writing S49 – Ageing in Speculative and Science Fiction Room 300, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Sarah Falcus Maricel Oró-Piqueras (1) Thu 17:30–19:30 Ageing and the human in science fiction Maricel Oró Piqueras, Sarah Falcus – Ageing without Remembering: Fantasy, memory and loss in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant Roberta Maierhofer – Playing with Possibilities: Ursula Le Guin and Speculations on the Human Condition Aleksandra Pogonska – Ageing as the 21st century anxiety. Dystopian solutions in the contemporary Italian literature Evrim Dogan Adanur – Longevity as History in Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods (2) Fri 10:30–12:30 Ageing and the posthuman Adriana Kiczkowski – Fact, Fiction and Ageing in a Robotic Assisted Society. A gender perspective Eszter Ureczky – Heaven Is a Place on Earth: The Biopolitics of Old Age and Digital Cloning in the “San Junipero” Episode of Black Mirror Pelin Kumbet – Posthuman Cloned Bodies in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let me Go (3) Fri 17:30–19:30 Ageing and mortality

17 Hanh Bui – The Future Is Young Again: Age and De-Aging in the Blade Runner Franchise Sotirios Bampatzimopoulos – Vampire Mythology and the Unbearable Burden of Immortality Teresa Botelho – “The last time I died…”: Dreaming of Immortality and Body Plans in Post-Singularity Science Fiction Tomasz Dobrogoszcz – Transhuman immortality in Black Mirror S50 – Seminar cancelled S51 – English Printed Books, Manuscripts and Material Studies Room 409, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Carlo Bajetta Guillaume Coatelen Ileana Sasu (1) Sat 10:30–12:30 Teresa Grant – Editing James Shirley: the case of The Constant Maid Leonor Martinez Serrano – The Geometry of the Soul and the Solid Form of Language: Books as Art Objects in Robert Bringhurst’s Poetry Emmanuel Stelzer – Towards a Critical Edition of William Sampson’s Love’s Metamorphosis: Questions of Authorial Intent and Intended Readership Anna Swärdh – Sister, friend, daughter, wife: Rhetorical positioning in the 1563 English correspondence between Cecilia Vasa and Elizabeth I (2) Sat 15:00–17:00 Evelien Hauwaerts – Glorious bastardas: Groundwork for a comprehensive study of Colard Mansion's Burgundian incunables and manuscripts Jesus Romero-Barranco – Punctuation Practice in Early Modern English: The Case of MS Hunter 135 Dietmar Böhnke – The Tauchnitz Edition and Mass-Market ‘Paperback’ Publishing in the Nineteenth Century S52 – Literature/Film in/and Exile Room N21, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Convenors: Wolfgang Görtschacher David Malcolm (1) Sat 17:30–19:30 Peter Leese – Investigating Migrant Cityscapes: London and Los Angeles c. 1960 Ralph Poole – “Living in Exile in My Own Country“: Hypermasculinity and Sexual Violence in Children of God Elisabeth Schober – “Rob a Man of Everything and That Man Will No Longer Be in Your Power”: Exiled Identities and the Power of Texts in Cloud Atlas (2012; Wachowski, Tykwer) Violetta Trofimova – Exile in Life and Works of the Late Seventeenth-Century French Writer Anne de la Roche-Guilhem (2) Sun 10:30–12:30 Anna Kurasova – Anna Akhmatova and Thomas Stearns Eliot David Malcolm – Polish Flowers: Julian Tuwim’s Poetry of Exile Alan Riach – Reading Proust on Coopers Beach Wolfgang Görtschacher – The Pleasures of Exile – Lewis Nkosi Ji-Ching Hsiung – Dwelling in V. S. Naipaul’s The Mimic Men: A Levinasian Reading S53 (Neo)-Victorian Vulnerability: Resistance and Resilience Room S116, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz Simonetta Falchi (1) Wed 16:00–18:00 Elsa Adán Hernández – Social Invisibility and Resilience: The Function of the Lady-maid’s attic in Sarah Waters’s Affinity Jungmin Yoo – Female Resistance and Resilience in Dracula: Mina Harker’s (Re)-Establishment of Agency amid Masculinized Modernity María Elena Jaime de Pablos – Bodies in Transit: Women and Vulnerability in Star of the Sea by Joseph O’Connor Simonetta Falchi – Dickens’s Little Dorrit: Victorian Vulnerabilty, Resistance and Resilience (2) Thu 10:30–12:30 Dianne Hradsky – The (Extra)ordinary Gentlewoman: Tracing the Verbal-Visual Transformation of the “New Woman” in (Neo)- Victorian Texts

18 Georgia Ntola – “I assure you I did not fall – I was pushed”: Representations of Female Authorship and the Prostitute’s Trauma in Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White and The Apple: New Crimson Petal Stories Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz – Sheri Holman’s The Dress Lodger: Neo-Victorian Vulnerabilty, Resistance and Resilience Donna Moore – Sources and Silences: Unlocking the Clues to Glasgow’s Lock Hospital and Filling in the Gaps with Fiction S54 – Urban and Rural Landscape in Modern India between Rupture and Continuity Room N42, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Convenors: Elisabetta Marino Daniela Rogobete (1) Fri 10:30–12:30 Luca Raimondi – Fictional Place-making and Urban Aspirations in Aravind Adiga’s Between the Assassinations Carlotta Beretta – “Picasso Stopped at New Delhi”: Calcutta and modernity in Amit Chaudhuri’s memoir Calcutta Daniela Rogobete – Landscape with the Fall of Human Ethics in Aravind Adiga’s Last Man in Tower Ecaterina Patrascu – The Underworld City of Bombay in Jeet Thayil’s Narcopolis (2) Fri 17:30–19:30 Nevin Faden Gürbüz – Transnational Spaces: India and England in Stoppard’s Indian Ink Elisabetta Marino – Exploring the Clash between Rural and Urban Values in Sohaila Abdulali’s The Madwoman of Jogare Gilles Menegaldo – Between Documentary and Fiction: The Representation of Urban Space and Social Marginality in Mira Naïr’s Salaam Bombay (1988) Sorin Cazacu – Side-effects of Cultural Hybridization in Anita Desai's Fasting, Feasting S55 – The Poetics and Politics of (Dis)location, Migration and Transculturality in the Long Romantic Period (ca. 1750–1850) Room S117, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Gioia Angeletti Michael Bradshaw (1) Fri 10:30–12:30 Maria Daianova – Rootlessness, Absenteeism, Self- and Cultural Identity and Enlightened Didacticism in Maria Edgeworth’s “Irish Novels” Katalin Palinkas – “In fancy still / I breathe your pure keen air”: Dislocated in the homeland in Charlotte Smith’s Beachy Head Paolo Bugliani – John Keats among the lechers Michael Bradshaw – ‘Hey Student!’ Beddoes Raising Hell in England and Germany (2) Fri 17:30–19:30 Robert Rix – Bound for Botany Bay: The Poetics of Penal Transportation Serena Vianello – British Going Eastward: Sir John Malcolm’s Political and Cultural Negotiations with Persia Cian Duffy – A Dane’s Excursions in Britain (1809): Conflict and Community in Feldborg’s travels. S56 – Cooking, Writing, Narrating Room N42, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Convenors: Silvia Rosivalová Baučeková Chiara Manghi (1) Thu 15:00–17:00 Katarina Labudová – Eating Death: Food Metaphors in Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Jillian Curr – Tea with Arwa: An Invitation into the Australian-Arab Home Eszter Ureczky – Life is a bowl of cherries: Modern Japan and Its Traumatic Cultural Heritage in Naomi Kawase’s Sweet Bean (2) Thu 17:30–19:30 Andrea Hübner – Main Course as Colonial Discourse: The Last Supper Menu Jana Pelclová – Advertising Food Narratives Susanne Berthier Foglar – Cooking and Writing as a Border Crossing Activity Kenneth Froehling – The Ogilvie Cook Book, Canadian Cuisine And a Trip Down Memory Lane S57 – Transnational Biography in Europe Room N41, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Convenors: Marleen Rensen Joanny Moulin

19 (1) Sat 10:30–12:30 Marleen Rensen – Transnational Approaches to Artists’ Biographies, 1900–1945 Joanny Moulin – Transnational Artists’ Lives Are a Rare Species Thomas Keller – Transcultural integrity: how to write a non-identitarian biography Philippe Mioche – Revisiting the Biographies of Jean Monnet (2) Sat 15:00–17:00 Mohamed Saad Eddine El Yamani – State of Biography in the Arab World Ayșe Köse Badur – Mehmed Cavid Bey; Between Empire and Nation-State Ágoston Zénó Bernád – Writing Transnational Biographies in Central Europe – The Austrian Biographical Dictionary 1815– 1950 (ÖBL) Adrian Matus – On Both Sides of the “Nylon Curtain”: Rudi Dutschke in Hungary (3) Sat 17:30–19:30 Maximilian Kaiser, Peter Rumpolt – Tracing transnationality through a biographical dictionary: the case of the Austrian Biographical Dictionary Matthias Schlögl – APIS – A Prosopographical Information System David Fontanals – Zweig’s Biographies and his Commitment to a Frontierless and Cosmopolitan Europe Agnieszka Szurek – Transnationality and Multiethnicity in Local Amateur Biographies from Warsaw’s Suburban Region (4) Sun 10:30–12:30 María-Teresa del-Olmo-Ibáñez – Concept and Pedagogy of Exile in Gregorio Maranón Jane McVeigh – We Tell Stories About Ourselves and Others Maria Dubkova – Biography of Place in Peter Ackroyd Francesca Manzari – Writing The Critical Lives of Michel Foucault S58 – Self, Nation, History and Performativity in Scottish Drama by Women from the Eighteenth Century to Today Room 107, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Gioia Angeletti Ian Brown Ksenija Horvat Sat 10:30–12:30 Heather Wells – Catharine Trotter (c. 1674–1749): Questioning Nationality and the Expression of National Identity Ian Brown – Drama coming out of the closet: Scottish women playwrights’ comparative position in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries Gioia Angeletti – Writing Back to Shakespeare in Contemporary Scottish Theatre: Joan Ure’s and Sharman MacDonald’s Revisionist Plays András Beck – The Mindscapes of Mass Destruction in Catherine Czerkawska’s Wormwood (1997) Büşra Erdurucan – ‘Her Idolatry Will Deliver Us to the Devil:’ Religious and Sexual Identity in Linda McLean’s Glory on Earth S59 – Precarious Borders & Imagined Communities: Linguistic and Cultural Challenges of (New) Nationalism Room 206, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Sylvia Mieszkowski Birgit Spengler Massimiliano Demata Ljiljana Saric Sat 10:30–12:30 Alexandra von Thuemmler – ‘I wish someone would explain Northern Ireland to me.’ – National Identity in Nick Laird’s Modern Gods (2017) Sally Ann Schutz – Escapist Nationalism: Recovering the Texas Public Memory Béatrice Blanchet – Reimagining the National Community: The Afghanistan War (2001–2014) and the Precarious Borders of Britishness Lorena Carbonara, Annarita Taronna – Re-thinking Conceptual Narratives of Language Contact: the Challenge of ELF S60 – Seminar cancelled S61 – Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama: The New Medial Challenges of Adaptation Room 206, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Attila Kiss György Endre Szőnyi

20 Pia Brinzeu Rowland Wymer (1) Wed 16:00–18:00 Attila Kiss – Staging the “Skin Ego” in Recent Adaptations of Shakespearean Tragedy Yuki Nakamura – Revenge Drama as a Convention of Representing Anti-Values Ágnes Matuska – Cinematic Aspects of Shakespearean Metadramatic Conventions Gudrun Tockner – “Is that historical?” – Marlowe’s Edward II at the National Theatre (2013) (2) Thu 10:30–12:30 Elżbieta Litwin – Subtext Is Such Stuff As the Truth Is Made On…The New Paradigm of Subtext in the Final Scene of William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet Larisa Kocic – Educated Shrews Ivona Mišterová – 2*bee or not 2*bee, OMG, it’s Shakespeare! Claire Bardelmann – Cultural Transfer and Cultural Politics in French Fanfictions of Romeo and Juliet (3) Thu 15:00–17:00 Magdalena Cieślak – Struggling with the loss of a boy actor – cross-dressing heroines of Shakespeare’s comedies on film Nevin Faden Gürbüz – Re-imagining Shakespeare in Stoppard’s (Screen)Plays Andrei Nae – Teaching Shakespeare through Gangsta Rap on Youtube: The Appropriation of Shakespeare’s Plays in “Thug Notes” Antonella Pulice – The impact of Shakespearean audiodescription on the contemporary social context S62 – Scottish-Czech Literary and Cultural Relationships Room 107, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Tom Hubbard Martin Procházka (1) Thu 15:00–17:00 Martin Procházka – Between Adam Smith and Walter Scott: Scottish Enlightenment and Romanticism in the Czech Culture of the First Half of the Nineteenth Century Olga Roebuck – A Dialogue of Time and Place: National Identity in Architecture – Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Dušan Jurkovič Jeremy Howard – Nekola’s Gifts: Enhancement through Art and Activity (exploring the contribution of a Bohemian artist in Scotland 1881-1915) (2) Thu 17:30–19:30 Margery Palmer McCulloch – A Wartime Friendship and Cultural Exchange: Edwin Muir and Lumir Soukup in Edinburgh and Robert R. Calder – Mr. Joseph Schorstein Tom Hubbard – ‘Hert’s Sang’: Erik Chisholm’s Book on Janáček – Literature and Music S63 – Lessons on Kindness: Contemporary Children’s Literature in an Uncertain World Room N43, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Convenors: Petra Tournay-Theodotou Michaela Marková Thu 10:30–12:30 Michaela Marková – Addressing Diversity and Inclusion in Contemporary Northern Irish/British Literature for Children and Young Adults Roberta Grandi – “And the fox and the rabbit were friends” – Interspecies Conflict and Collaboration in Richard Adams’s Watership Down Petra Tournay-Theodotou – Representing Diversity in Black British Children’s Literature: Jackie Kay’s novel Strawgirl Sonya Andermahr – “You’ve just got to find a way to live there anyway”: Trauma, alienation, and empathy in Patrick Ness’s More Than This Ildikó Limpar – Monstrous Kindness: Coming Of Age in Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book S64 – Bodies “Unskinned” Room 409, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Işil Baş Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou (1) Wed 16:00–18:00 Selen Aktari-Sevgi – Expeausition of Traumatic Mourning in Anne Enright’s The Gathering

21 Cristiana Pugliese – Skin Damage: Racial Segregation and Displaced Identities in South Africa in Athol Fugard’s Blood Knot and Other South African Writings Sascha Klein – “It’s nothing anymore to have a beautiful stock body”: Narcissistic and Masochistic Skin-Egos and Their Bodies in Chuck Palaniuk’s Fight Club and David Fincher’s Film Adaptation of the Novel Nazmi Ağıl, Koç – The Tell-Tale Touch: Haptic Revelations in Dokunma Dersleri by Yalçın Tosun (2) Thu 10:30–12:30 Irene Stoukou – Under Alice’s Skin Işil Baş – Assaulting the Skin as New Aesthetics: Hyperviolence in Dans Ma Peau and Skin Game Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou – Animal and Human Skin: Ildikó Enyedi’s On Body and Soul Anna Anselmo – Remediating the Dead Body: Shapes of the After-life S65 – Translators, Interpreters and Cultural Mediators in the Contact Zones of Contemporary Literature in English Room 107, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Giovanna Buonanno Sebnem Toplu Thu 10:30–12:30 Giovanna Buonanno, Sebnem Toplu – Translators, interpreters and cultural mediators in contemporary literature Nevin Koyuncu – Epic Bards: Yaşar Kemal and Ben Okri as Mediators Between Cultures Eduardo García Agustín – The Intersectional Interpreter: Queerness and Arabness in Saleem Haddad’s Guapa Lucio De Capitani – Anthropologists and Interpreters as Cultural Mediators: Modes of Cross-Cultural Encounter in Amitav Ghosh’s Work María Jesús Sánchez Manzano, Elisa Pérez-García – Code-switching and emotion in Junot Díaz’s “Invierno” (2012) S66 – Shaping the News, Shaping the World Room 200, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: María José Coperías Aguilar Slávka Tomaščíková (1) Sat 10:30–12:30 Katarzyna Kozak – Inflamers and Make-bates: discrediting political opponents in the early eighteenth century media discourse Karin Sabolíková – Reflection of Thatcher’s policy in Czechoslovak daily newspapers Elena Pilgun – Communicative tactics of social regulations in crises situations at the example of Brexit Svitlana Shurma – Manipulation in British and Ukrainian reporting of Mh17 Downing (2) Sat 15:00–17:00 Stephen Joyce – Are Media Gatekeepers Beneficial to Democracy? Adriana Saboviková – Representation of Bulgarians and Romanians in the British press M. Dolores Porto, Isabel Alonso Belmonte – Shaping the public opinion: a multimodal analysis of newsbites Tatsiana I. Svistun – Cultural Portrait of a Country in the Period of the Information War (3) Sat 17:30–19:30 Ulrike Tabbert – ‚Nein heißt nein‘ (no means no)-movement in Germany and its press coverage Flavia Cavaliere – Evaluating discursive strategies in the popular UK press – a case study Haluk Üçel – Decoding Meghan Markle in British Media S67 – Leisure: Time, Space and Practice Room N42, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Convenors: Irmtraud Huber Virginia Richter Thu 10:30–12:30 Melina Munz – Otium in Contemporary Indian Fiction – Conceptual Thoughts Francesca Siverio – The Devil Finds Work for Idle Hands. Leisure and Subversion in Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard Andrés Bartolomé Leal – Float on: Emancipation and/or Escapism in Bitter Moon’s Heterotopias (1992) S68 – Sounds Victorian: Voices and Noises in Nineteenth-Century Britain Room S117, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Béatrice Laurent

22 Anna Kérchy (1) Wed 16:00–18:00 Cultural approaches Béatrice Laurent – Sounds of the Street Alev Karaduman – Search for a Female Voice in an Urban Environment in Victorian England Joël Richard – When “law” rimes with “flaw”: the sound of British justice in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury (1875) Andrea Zittlau – Jenny Lind. Of Lost Voices, the Archives and the Freak Show Zsófia Anna Tóth – Persuasion on Screen: An Authentic Aural Evocation of Jane Austen’s Early 19th Century England? (2) Thu 10:30–12:30 Literary approaches Lilia Miroshnychenko – “Making audible to one a roar of sound where others find perfect stillness”: Fictional Interpretation of the Significance of Sound for Human Relations in George Eliot’s The Lifted Veil (1859) Anna Kérchy – “Take care of the sounds, and the sense will take care of itself!?” The acoustics of nonsense in Lewis Carroll Nathalie Jaeck – Voices and noises in Dickens’s novels: the disturbance of plural orality to logocentric narration. Céline Prest – Scriptural voices and aerial pages in Charles Dickens’s novels Maria Parrino – His Master’s Voice: Sound Devices in Bram Stoker’s Dracula S69 – Anglicist Gender Studies as a European Discipline Room N43, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Convenors: Renate Haas Nóra Séllei (1) Fri 17:30–19:30 Margarida Esteves Pereira – Reading as Re-vision: An Overview of the English Literature Class with a Gendered Perspective and in an Interdisciplinary Framework Julia Salmerón – Teaching Gender and Women’s Lit in an English Studies Degree in Spain: Past, Present and Future Petra Fišerová – Masculinity Studies: The Old and the New (2) Sat 10:30–12:30 Nóra Séllei – The Stakes of Anglicist Gender Studies in Hungary Petra Filipová – Teaching Gender in English in a Central European Setting: Challenges and Approaches S70 – Dissenting Scotland Room 257, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Jean Berton Alan Riach (1) Wed 16:00–18:00 Danièle Berton-Charrière – Mythopoeic dramatic figuration of Jacobite dissenters by François Edouard Joachim Coppée Wafa El Fekih Said – Aspects of divergence in Scotland’s recent immigration strategies Arnaud Fiasson – Dissenting nationalism: from the assertion of a dual identity strengthening the British State to a politically motivated resistance to the Union. Christelle Ferrère – Dissention through poetry: the troublemakers Alan Riach – Dissenters and Heretics: poetry and education (2) Thu 10:30–12:30 Sohir Sadeki – The reality of the dissenting philosophy in Scotland and Britain: norms of equality? Lauren Brancaz-McCartan – The Marketing of Dissent? VisitScotland’s Empowerment of the Scots Jean Berton – The Wallace syndrome of dissenting S71 – Britain in Europe, Europe in Britain: Cultural Approaches to ‘Brexit’ Room 300, Komenského náměstí 220/2 Convenors: Christine Berberich Christoph Ehland (1) Sat 17:30–19:30 Tuğba Şabanoğlu – Britain Beyond Europe? GREAT Britain and Post-Brexit Global Visions Vassil Anastassov – Making Countries ‘Great Again’ Dilyara Davletshina – Perceptions of Britain Post-Brexit Across Russia Michael Mitchell – Brexit: the Commonwealth Connection Cornelia Wächter – ‘Brexit’ and the LGBTQ Community: Cultural Visions of Progress and Backlash

23 (2) Sun 10:30–12:30 Sara Alessio – From Brexit to Brexlit: Challenging British Post War Narrative Petra Rau – The contemporary British novel and EU migration: on the fence or in the trench? Christine Berberich – The Immigrant Experience – Everything I Found on the Beach and God’s Own Country Robert Wirth – Brexitopia on and from the Small Screen: Keeping Britain Nostalgically Calm Christoph Ehland – ‘London Monuments – Memories of a Nation Before Brexit’ Posters Scala, Moravské náměstí 127/3 Fri 14:30–15:00 Maria Proitsaki – From Nikki Giovanni to Seamus Heaney: Poetry via Popular Culture in English Courses Petr Chalupský – Landscapes in the works of Jim Crace and Simon Mawer Borbála Fűköh – Validity Arguments for English for Academic Purposes Test Tasks Thomas E. Bieri – Language Learning Technology Preferences of Business Majors in Japan Yelena Yerznkyan, Susanna Chalabyan, Lusine Harutyunyan – Cognitive Metonymy as the Main Function of Event-Denoting Words (based on the material of business news) Tara McIlroy – Integrating the CEFR into the syllabus: The case of a teaching license literature course in Japan Kristýna Hoblová – The Reception of Brontë Sisters in the Czech Lands Michael Matthew Kaylor, Ivona Schöfrová – Blake’s Altruistic Plate Barbora Zuskinová – Relativizing Reality: Transgressing Boundaries of the Ordinary in British Magical Realism Boucetta Abdelkarim – The issue of Translation of Drama in Shakespeare ESSE Doctoral Symposium 2018 N42, N43, Building N, Janáčkovo náměstí 654/2a Mon 27 Aug – Wed 29 Aug Cultural and Area Studies Session 2B Tue 14:30–16:00 Convenors: Alan Riach María José Coperías Aguilar Tue 14:30–16:00 Lýdia Desiatniková – Representation of Society in Media Discourse: Media Discourse on Teachers and their Role in Society in Selected British Periodicals Orsolya Karácsony – Nostalgia and Remembering in Contemporary US and Eastern European Suspense Thrillers Antonios Karampourniotis – A comparative study of “fear” through cinematic language English Language and Linguistics Session 1B Tue 9:30–12:00 Session 3B Wed 9:30–12:00 Convenors: Olga Dontcheva-Navrátilová Ewa Domagała-Zyśk Tue 9:30–12:00 Jessica Dheskali – Metalanguage in Chinese Master and Doctoral Theses: Focus on Engagement Markers Gabriel Jay Rauhoff – Collocations in Diverse Written English: An Exploration of Phraseology in Second Language Writing Vincenzo Dheskali – A corpus-based Comparison of Albanian and Italian Student Papers in L1 and L2: the Case of Hedges and Boosters Borbála Fűköh – Establishing the Context and Scoring Validity of an English for Academic Purposes test Irina Stoica – The syntax and the semantics of Manner of Speaking verbs Wed 9:30–12:00 Federica Modafferi – Gender differences in Academic Italian English: A preliminary study Maria Bochkova – Gender Identity Construction in American and Czech YouTube Vlogs Zeenat Sumra – ‘Boli, lugha and language, we use all these words’: Code-Switching in Multilingual Speakers in Tanzania Meriem Gueche – Interference and Input Complexity Effects on L2 Acquisition Eliana Garzón Duarte – Identity construction of child refugees in Sweden from the perspective of language rights

24 Literatures in English Session 1A Tue 9:30–11:30 Session 2A Tue 14:30–16:30 Session 3A Wed 9:30–12:00 Convenors: Anne Fogarty György Endre Szőnyi Tue 9:30–11:30 Caroline Ann Kyzek – Exploring Social Issues in the Works of Walpole and Hawthorne Adriana Chakarova – Perspectives on Race and Gender in Post-Civil-War American Prose Fiction Irene Stoukou – Lost in Adaptation: Re-Imagining the Bodies of Alice and Peter Sara Villamarín Freire – The Father, the Other. Representations of fatherhood in contemporary American fiction Tue 14:30–16:30 Efrosyni Manda – Emily Dickinson: The Unorthodox Epistolary Writer Noémi Albert – Memory in Space – Space in the Memory: A New Perspective through four Contemporary English Novels María Jennifer Estévez Yanes – A Literary Approach to Migrant Vulnerabilities in Canada and the United States Carlotta Beretta – The Home and the World: Calcutta in contemporary Indian English Literature Wed 9:30–12:00 Silvia Riccardi – Supernaturalism and the Word-Image Relationship in British Romanticism Petra Slavíčková – The Influence of Friedrich Nietzsche on Virginia Woolf’s Oeuvre Francesca Battaglia – Consonant but Dissonant to the (S)Core: The Neo-Victorian “Afterings” of Sherlock Holmes’ Violin Talal Victor Hawshar – The Counterculture, Social Fear, and the Rationale for a Theory of Narrative Movements Péter Tamás – Ethical concepts in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita

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