DAY : 31.03.2006 CULTURAL STUDIES 9.15-9.30 CONFERENCE OPENING AULA UNIVERSITATII- UI2 9.30 10.30 - PLENARY - PROF. DR. MIHAELA IRIMIA Bucharest University Literature (H)as (a) (H)istory 10.30 11.00 - COFFEE BREAK ROOM UI2 Moderators: Dragos Alexandru IVANA / Eric GILDER 11 00-11 20 Eric GILDER (Sibiu, Universitatea Lucian Blaga): Reconstructing Faith and Knowledge in the Performance of an Academic Missionary Call: Sanely Mediating Betwixt Cultures of Critique and Cultures of Belief 11 25-11 45 Roxana BIRSANU(Bucuresti, Universitatea Romana-Americana): I Do not Want to Be Cinderella Anymore Women in Fairy Tales 11 50-12 10 Sorina GEORGESCU(Bucuresti, Universitatea Hyperion): Redefining Romania s Identity in the Context of America s St. Valentine s Day 12 15-12 35 Freddie FUSMAN (Bucuresti): The Identity of Consensus: Missing in Action 12 40-13 00 Dana MIHAILESCU(Bucuresti): Jewish-American Rewriting of the Rags-to-Riches Myth: The Case of Abraham Cahan and Anzia Yezierska 14 00-14 20 Adriana BULZ (Bucuresti): Identity through Citizenship in Martin Antin s The Lie 14 25-14 45 Ruxandra VISAN (Bucuresti): Samuel Johnson or the Visible Author 14 50-15 10 Dragos Alexandru IVANA (Bucuresti): The Backstage of Modernity: London/Londons in 18 th Century English Popular Culture Texts 15 15-15 35 Dana Mariana VASILIU(Bucuresti): Shaping a Monastic Identity: Abbot Suger of Saint Denis 15 35-16 00 COFFEE BREAK 16 05-16 25 Stefania TARBU(Bucuresti, Academia de Stiinte Economice): Old Selves-The self and the Cultural Ages 16 30-16 50 Arina LUNGU (Bucuresti): The Postmodern Conundrum: Felicity versus Freedom 16 55-17 20 Maria-Aurelia COTFAS, Madalina-Monica STANCU, Luana TEODORESCU(Bucuresti, Academia de Studii Economice):What s in a Name? Constructing the Self through Assigned Identities
DAY : 31.03.2006 LITERARY STUDIES 9.15-9.30 CONFERENCE OPENING AULA UNIVERSITATII- UI2 9.30 10.30 PLENARY PROF. DR. MIHAELA IRIMIA Bucharest University Literature (H)as (a) (H)istory 10.30. 11.00 COFFEE BREAK ROOM UI3 Moderators: Raluca NITU /Andreea VERTES-OLTEANU 11 00-11 20 Adriana Elena STOICAN (Promanagement Training Center): Postcolonial Subversion in Fury 11 25-11 45 Andreea SERBAN (Timisoara): The Chronicles of Surfacing: the Woman, the Forest and the Lake 11 50-12 10 Cristina NISTOR (Universitatea Politehnica, Bucuresti): Identity as Love in Rose Tremain s Letter to Sister Benedicta 12 15-12 35 Brandusa NICOLAESCU(Bucuresti, Facultata de Stiinte Politice): Hyphenated Identity and Unhomeliness in Derek Walcott s Passionate Exile 12 40-13 00 Aba-Carina PARLOG (Timisoara): The Alexandrian Torture of the Post-Cartesian Body 14 00-14 20 Andreea VERTES-OLTEANU (Timisoara): An Honourable Case of Murder-Suicide 14 25-14 45 Raluca NITU (Pitesti): Femininity, Femaleness and Feminism in Charlotte Bronte s Novels 14 50-15 10 Marinela LUPSA (Alba Iulia): Romantic Perspectives in William Golding s «The Pyramid 15 15-15 35 Oana-Andreea PIRNUTA (Brasov): Art and Beauty in Oscar Wilde s Picture of Dorian Gray 15 35-16 00 COFFEE BREAK 16 05-16 25 Ioana STAMATESCU(Bucuresti, Academia de Studii Economice): Identity Constructed and Identity Inherited in Scott Fitzgerald s The Great Gatsby 16 30-16 50 Lucian RADU/Carmen ANTONARU (Brasov) : Symbolic Vision in Moby Dick 16 55-17 20
DAY : 31.03.2006 LITERARY STUDIES 9.15-9.30 CONFERENCE OPENING AULA UNIVERSITATII- UI2 9.30 10.30 PLENARY PROF. DR. MIHAELA IRIMIA Bucharest University Literature (H)as (a) (H)istory ROOM UI7 Moderators: Aura SIBISAN / Ilinca ANGHELESCU 11 00-11 20 Ileana BOTESCU-SIRETEANU (Braşov): The Hybridization of Genres and the Difference within Sameness with Jeanette Winterson 11 25-11 45 Simona Elisabeta CATANA(Bucuresti, Universitatea Politehnica): Blank Identities and Subversive Language in the 20th Century British Literature 11 50-12 10 Fabiola POPA(Bucuresti, Universitatea Politenica): Past, Present and Memory in Penelope Lively s «Moon Tiger» 12 15-12 35 Aura SIBISAN (Braşov): Re-discovering reading: "Corpsing" by Toby Litt - Death in the City 12 40-13 00 Eliza Claudia FILIMON ( Timisoara): Objects of Desire in Angela Carter s Fiction 14 00-14 20 Eduard BUCESCU (Bucuresti, Universitatea Romano-Americana):Confucianist Attitudes and Rhetoric in Kazuo Ishiguro s The Remains of the Day 14 25-14 45 Anca BĂDULESCU (Brasov) : Kite Runner 14 50-15 10 Roxana-Emanuela DUDE (Bucuresti, Universitatea Romano-Americana ): Language, Narrative and Identity in Kazuo Ishiguro s A Pale View of Hills and Never Let Me Go 15 15-15 35 Ilinca ANGHELESCU (Bucuresti): Identity Recovered: Morality Tales of the 21 st Century 15 35-16 00 COFFEE BREAK 16 05-16 25 Liliana HAMZEA (Brasov): The Future is Later: Kazuo Ishiguro s Bio-Dystopia 16 30-16 50 Andreea BRATAN (Brasov): Walt Whitman and Lucian Blaga: Affinities 16 55-17 20
DAY : 1.04.2006 LANGUAGE STUDIES 9.30 10.30 PLENARY PROF. DR. NORMAN FAIRCLOUGH Lancaster University UK (Room UI2) Re-scaling Romania: a Discourse-Analytical Approach. Globalization, Europeanization and Recontextualization 10.30. 11.00 COFFEE BREAK ROOM UI2 Moderators: Isabela IETCU/Irina Diana MADROANE 11 00-11 20 Isabela IETCU (Bucuresti): Romanian Intellectuals Between Status Groups and the Free Market of Ideas-An Analysis of an Intellectual polemic in Pragma-Dialectical Terms 11 25-11 45 Irina Diana MADROANE ( Timisoara): Romanian Immigrants in the British Press 11 50-12 10 Gabriela CUSEN (Brasov): Students Perceptions of their Teachers as Reflected in Diary and Interview Data 12 15-12 35 Magdalena ROIBU (Timisoara): Overlawyered 12 40-13 00 Cristina DIMULESCU(Brasov): Talk Creation or Destruction of Meaning? 14 00-14 20 Alina POPESCU (Bucuresti): The Role of the Vernacular in Constructing Anglo-Saxon Identity 14 25-14 45 Andreea POPESCU (Bucuresti): The Pilgrim-Narrators and Their Masks. Linguistic Strategies in Geoffrey Chaucer s The Canterbury Tales 14 50-15 10 Olga BALANESCU (Bucuresti): Jesus Brand 15 15-15 35 Liliana COPOSESCU (Brasov): (Im)Politeness in Classroom Interaction 15 40-16 00 Mihaela POPESCU (Brasov): Knowledge Modelling and Terminology Database 16.00 17.00 GETTING TOGETHER
DAY : 1.04.2006 LANGUAGE STUDIES 9.30 10.30 PLENARY PROF. DR. NORMAN FAIRCLOUGH Lancaster University UK (Room UI2) Re-scaling Romania: a Discourse-Analytical Approach. Globalization, Europeanization and Recontextualization 10.30 11.00 COFFEE BREAK ROOM UI3 Moderators: Nadina VISAN/Andrei AVRAM 11 00-11 20 Larisa Avram (Bucuresti) : Phrasal Transitives and the Left Periphery of ParticlePhrases 11 25-11 45 Nadina VISAN (Bucuresti): A DRT Interpretation of Perfect Sentences-A Context-Based Analysis 11 50-12 10 Camelia CONSTANTINESCU (Bucuresti): On Certain Semantic Properties of Adjectives as Scalar Predicates 12 15-12 35 Ruxandra DRAGAN (Bucuresti): Exploring Resultative Constructions 12 40-13 00 Mihaela GHEORGHE (Brasov University): Aspects of Functional Dynamics in Romanian Subordinate Clauses 14 00-14 20 Daria PROTOPOPESCU (Bucuresti): A Look at the Syntax of Sentence Adverbs in English and Romanian 14 25-14 45 Andrei AVRAM (Bucuresti): On the Phonological Adjustment of English Loanwords in Japanese 14 50-15 10 Elena BUJA (Brasov ): Clitics in Child Language 15 15-15 35 Liliana ALIC (Brasov): A Contrastive Approach to the Category of Aspect (English and French) 15 40-16 00 Corina MICU (Brasov): Borrowings: Contact and Prestige 16.00 17.00 GETTING TOGETHER
DAY : 1.04.2006 LANGUAGE STUDIES 9.30 10.30 PLENARY PROF. DR. NORMAN FAIRCLOUGH Lancaster University UK (Room UI2) Re-scaling Romania: a Discourse-Analytical Approach. Globalization, Europeanization and Recontextualization 10.30 11.00 COFFEE BREAK ROOM UI7 Moderators: Marinela Burada/Alina-Magdalena TOMA 11 00-11 20 Jennifer L. UHLER Brasov): Exploring Romanian Identity through a Course on Great American Myths 11 25-11 45 Oana TATU (Brasov): Instances of Polysemy in Shakespeare s Plays: the Translational Challenge 11 50-12 10 Oana SMOLEANU (Ploiesti): Metaphors of English Learning and Teaching 12 15-12 35 Gabriela CHEFNEUX (Brasov): Strategies of Vocabulary Learning 12 40-13 00 14 00-14 20 Adina Oana NICOLAE (Universitatea Petrol-Gaze, Ploiesti): Hot Metaphors in Business Language 14 25-14 45 Alina-Magdalena TOMA (Universitatea Politehnica Bucuresti): Language Change 14 50-15 10 Marinela BURADA and Raluca SINU (Brasov ): Online Dictionaries a Qualitative Approach 15 15-15 35 Mona ARHIRE (Brasov): Ethics and the Social Role of Translation 15 40-16 00 16.00 17.00 GETTING TOGETHER