Transformation: Nature and Economy in Modern English and
American Culture
(Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, October 24, 2019)
Research Group: Transatlantic Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century
(Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb)
Workshop Program
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Thursday, October 24
9 – 10:30 Session 1 (Council Hall (‘vijećnica’))
Borislav Knežević, U of Zagreb: Land and Nature in Jane Austen’s Persuasion
Martina Domines Veliki, U of Zagreb: John Clare and Enclosures
Tatjana Jukić, U of Zagreb: A Pre-Raphaelite Hamlet for Industrial Modernity
Zoran Varga, U of Zagreb: The Triumph of Life: Shelley and the Transformative Rhetoric
10:30– 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 11:45 Key note lecture: Professor Cian Duffy, Lund University
Title: Wild Plants and Wild Passions in the Botanical Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
11:45 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 – 14:30 Session 2 (Council Hall (‘vijećnica’))
Shreya Bera, U of Szeged: The Diasporic Sublime in Indo-American Literature:
Nature, Naxal and The Lowland
Ksenija Kondali/ Adna Oković, U of Sarajevo: Technological Encroachment and Social
Changes in Selected American and British Literary and Cultural Texts
Branko Crnogorac, U of Banja Luka: Nature and Economy as Agents in The Remains of
the Day
Tatjana Bijelić, U of Banja Luka: Transformative Power of Exophonic Writing in
Contemporary Poetry in English
14:30 – 16:00 Session 3 (Council Hall (‘vijećnica’))
Stipe Grgas, U of Zagreb: Ecology and Capital: Transformed into What?
Rajko Petković, U of Zadar: From Marceline to Enchanted Kingdoms: Technology and
Imagery in Disney’s Films
Marko Lukić, U of Zadar: Conceptualizing Destitution – The Economy of
Modern Horror Narratives
Emilia Musap, U of Zadar: Embodying Trauma – The Nature of Haunting in Mike Flanagan’s
The Haunting of Hill House (2018)
16:00 – 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 – 17:45 Session 4 (Council Hall (‘vijećnica’))
Milica Jošić-Milinović, U of Banja Luka: From Urban Nothingness to Nature in City of Glass
Petra Sapun Kurtin, U of Rijeka: Port City as a Site of Ambivalent Modernity – New Orleans
in John Kennedy Toole’s Confederacy of Dunces
Lovro Furjanić, U of Zagreb: Contemporary Technology and Human Nature
Zlatko Bukač, U of Zadar: Transforming Literature in the Age of Digital Culture – Narrativity
in Dear Esther
Workshop venue: Council Hall („vijećnica“); Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ivana Lučića 3, Zagreb
Coffee breaks and lunch break will be provided for the participants at the venue.
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