Literature and Cultural Studies Section: ‘Birth, Death, and Rebirth: (Re-)Generation as Text’ Thursday, 8 June 2017 From 14.00 REGISTRATION (Central University Library, Calea Victoriei 88) 14.30-15.00 Formal opening and welcome (Central University Library) Mircea Dumitru, Rector of the University of Bucharest Liviu Franga, Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures Octavian Roske, Head of the Department of English 15.00-16.30 Keynote speaker: Thomas Leitch, University of Delaware, The Birth of Cinema, and Some Lesser Births (Central University Library) 16.30-17.00 COFFEE BREAK (Faculty of Foreign Languages, Str. Pitar Moş 7-13) James Joyce room American Studies room British Studies room Mark Twain room 17.00-19.00 Chair: Scott Sprenger Chair: Anamaria Schwab Chair: Yaroslava Evseeva Chair: Shruti Das Andreea Smedescu, University of Diana Benea, University of Bucharest, Yaroslava Evseeva, Institute of Scientific Adriana Elena Stoican , Bucharest Bucharest, The Sign of Darkness in the Exhausted Postmodernism and Post- Information on Social Sciences of the University of Economic Studies, Racial Discourse of George Eliot ironic Replenishment in David Foster Russian Academy of Sciences, Cultural Dissolution and Re(birth) in Gal Manor, Levinsky College, Tel Aviv, Wallace’s Short Fiction Contemporary Views on ‘Good Death’: Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland Robert Browning’s ‘A Death in the Radu Surdulescu, University of Positive Attitudes Towards Death and Shruti Das, Berhampur University, Desert’: The Power of the Poetic Word Bucharest, The Billionaires’ Road to Dying in Today’s Social Gerontological Draupadi: An Image Born and Reborn Scott Sprenger, Lindquist College of Arts Disappearance in Don DeLillo’s Novels Thought in Indian Feminist Fiction and Humanities, Spiritual Death, Cosmopolis and Zero K Kirsten Brukamp, Protestant University Monica Manolachi, University of Realist Rebirth: Gothic Subjectivity in Anamaria Schwab, University of of Applied Sciences, Ludwigsburg, Bucharest, Birth, Death and Rebirth in the Novels of Balzac Bucharest, Afterlives: Life After Death Rebirth as Social Bot via Text The Fifth Figure by Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze Cristian Vîjea, University of Bucharest, in Two Recent American Novels (E. L. Messages: Artificial Intelligence Cristina Diamant, Babeș-Bolyai Resurrection of Moral Values in Doctorow’s The Waterworks and Don Mimics Individual Writing Style of the University, Cluj-Napoca, Archiva(b)l(e) Wuthering Heights DeLillo’s Zero K) Dead Bodies and Cyber Afterlife in David Raluca Andreescu, University of Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas Bucharest, ‘Nobody gets out alive. This place just a big coffin’: On Death and Dying in American Prisons 19.00 OPENING RECEPTION and registration (Casa Universitarilor, Str. Dionisie Lupu 46) Friday, 9 June 2017 9.00-18.00 REGISTRATION (1st floor) James Joyce room American Studies room British Studies room Mark Twain room 9.30-11.00 Chair: Octavian Gabor Chair: Stephanie McKenzie Chair: Alexandra Ileana Bacalu Chair: Anat Koplowitz-Breier Malek Mohammad, American Cornelia Vlaicu, Independent scholar, Monica Ruset Oanca, University of Anat Koplowitz-Breier, Bar Ilan University of Kuwait, Death and the ‘Tragic incidents and surprising Bucharest, Meaningful Deaths: University, Ramat-Gan, Escaping Essence of Narrative in Fyodor redemptions’: Of Death and Rebirth in Martyrdom in La Queste del Saint Death: The Treatment of Rejuvenation Dostoevsky and J. M. Coetzee Louise Erdrich’s The Painted Drum Graal and Immortality in World Literature Radu Stoica, University of Bucharest, Léna Remy-Kovach, Albert-Ludwigs Jonathan McCreedy, Sofia University Carmen Dominte, National University of The Rebirth of Dostoyevsky and the Universität Freiburg, Birth, Death, (St. Kliment Ohridski), Birth, Death and Music, Bucharest, The Leitmotif of Question of Authority in J. M. Healing: Cycles and Repetitions in ‘Re-birth’ in the Marquis de Sade’s Death: From Text and Music to Film Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Justine and Juliette Elena Nistor , University of Agronomic Octavian Gabor, Methodist College, Queen Alexandra Ileana Bacalu, University of Sciences and Veternary Medicine of Peoria, The Rediscovery of the Self Stephanie McKenzie, Memorial Bucharest, The Re-Emergence of Stoic Bucharest, ‘The Flower of Cities All’: Through Pregnancy: Dostoevsky’s University of Newfoundland, The Case Prescriptions for the Imagination in Poetic Chronicles of London Life, Death Crime and Punishment and the of Annabel, Intersex Child: Death and the Scottish Enlightenment and Resurrection Theandric Nature of a Human Being Rebirth in Canadian Author Kathleen Winter’s Annabel 11.00-11.30 COFFEE BREAK (Emerson room) 11.30-13.00 Keynote speaker: Nicolas Tredell, University of Sussex & Palgrave Macmillan, Rites, Resurrections and (Re)Writings: Birth, Death and Rebirth in Ulysses and The Waste Land (Mark Twain room) 13.00-14.00 LUNCH (Emerson room) 14.00-15.30 Keynote speaker: Vera M. Kutzinski, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, What the Living Owe the Dead: William Harris’s Visions of Death (Mark Twain room) 15.30-15.50 COFFEE BREAK (Emerson room) Friday, 9 June (Continued) James Joyce room American Studies room British Studies room Mark Twain room 15.50-17.20 RSAA workshop: Chair: Octavian Roske Chair: Nicolas Tredell Chair: Mark Cronlund Anderson Rebirth of National(ist) Discourse* Tania Cristina Peptan, University of Ioana Zirra, University of Bucharest, The Nuriye Akkaş, Namık Kemal University, Craiova, Detection and Death: Death of the Narrator and the Tekirdağ, From Death to Birth and Keynote speaker: Borgesian Reconfigurations of Poe Author’s Rebirth as a Twofold Regeneration and Pronatalism in Post- Playwright’s Self-Reflexive Actant in Apocalyptic Films Noemi Marin, Florida Atlantic Octavian Roske, University of Bucharest, James Joyce’s Ulysses University, ‘The Cause Is Not Ours, but God’s’: The Mark Cronlund Anderson , University of Rise and Fall of the Confederate State, Ennio Ravasio, Independent scholar, Regina, How Zombies Mythically Rebirth of ‘The People’: Revisiting 1861-1865 Incarnation and Reincarnation in Regenerate America American Rhetorical Theories on Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegans Wake Audience Vlad-Eugen Neagu, University of Roxana Paula Trandafir, University of Bucharest, ‘I Had Died and Been Bucharest, Regeneration and Reborn Numberless Times’. Aspects of rethinking narratives in the science Subject Dislocation in Jack Kerouac’s fiction series Doctor Who On the Road and John Steinbeck’s Tortilla Flat 17.20-17.40 COFFEE BREAK (Emerson room) 17.40-19.40 RSAA workshop: (Continued)* Chair: Anca Mitroi Sprenger Chair: Ioana Cosma Chair: Oana-Alis Zaharia Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, Miami Nataliya Gorbina, Technische Alina Bottez, University of Bucharest, Rebirth of National(ist) Discourse: A University, Ohio, Chuck Norris vs. Universität Dortmund, The Aesthetics Fake Deaths, Fishy Births and Rhetorical Journey between Populist Communism (2015): An Ostalgic of Giotto’s ‘Perfect Circle’ in Iris Bewildering Afterdeaths: Shakespeare and National Identity Appeals Fantasy about ‘the End of History’ Murdoch’s The Sandcastle and Opera Anca Mitroi Sprenger, Brigham Young Ioana Cosma, University of Piteşti, Oana-Alis Zaharia, Dimitrie Cantemir Participants: University, Death and Sacrifice in Resurrecting the Word. The University, Bucharest, Translation and Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, Romanian Contemporary Cinema Phenomenology of the Gift in Norman the (Re-)Birth of the Text: John Florio’s University of Bucharest Mihaela Precup, University of Mailer’s The Gospel According to the Translation of Montaigne’s Essays Octav Gabor, Methodist College, Peoria Bucharest, ‘Emasculated by the Diaper Son and in Colm Toibin’s The Iuliana Tănase, University of Bucharest, Noemi Marin, Florida Atlantic University Bag’: Middle Age and the Vulnerability Testament of Mary (Re)births of the Renaissance Ideal Marie-Louise Paulesc, Arizona State of the Paternal Body in Joe Vision University Ollmann’s Mid-Life (2011) Bogdan Ştefănescu, University of Bucharest Saturday, 10 June 2017 9.00-18.00 REGISTRATION (1st floor) James Joyce room American Studies room British Studies room Mark Twain room Room 2 9.30-11.00 Chair: Alina Cojocaru Chair: Cristina Băniceru Chair: Monica Bottez Chair: Ştefan Colceriu Chair: Lucía Gloria Vázquez Cristina-Alexandra Drăgoi, Cristina Băniceru, West Maja Ćuk , Alfa BK University, Arielle Tetreault, University of Rodríguez University of Bucharest, University of Timișoara, Belgrade, Symbolic Winnipeg, ‘Don’t Talk to Lucía Gloria Vázquez Virginia Woolf’s The Waves: Death and (re)birth in Kate Regeneration and Strangers’: Notions of Death, Rodríguez, University The Birth of the Reader as an Chopin’s The Awakening Reconstruction of Female Monstrosity, Security and the Complutense of Madrid, Author of a Reconfigured Plot Anca Peiu, University of Identity in Margaret ‘Other’ in the Folk Narrative Pastiche, Irony and Alina Cojocaru, Ovidius Bucharest, Narcissistic Atwood’s Novels Ştefan Colceriu, New Europe Hybridization in Brick (2005): University of Constanța, The Suicide: Ernest Hemingway Monica Bottez, University of College Bucharest / Institute When High-school Films Meet Regeneration and Re- between Existential Narrative Bucharest, The Symbolism of of Linguistics (Romanian Neo-noir’ experience of London in and the Feminine Paradox Rebirth in Margaret Atwood’s Academy), The Way from Life Monica Alina Toma, University Peter Ackroyd’s Hawksmoor Surfacing through Death to