Friday, 6 May – Library Conference Hall

08:00 – 09:30 REGISTRATION
09:30 – 10:30 OPENING SESSION
prof. Stipe Grgas – Does Literature Still Speak to Us?
10:45 – 11:45 Julia Schwob (University of Wien) – The Development of Cross-cultural Relationships in Australian Literature after 1950
Filip Medar (University of Zagreb)– That’s not a knife! Building the Image of the Australian Man in Selected 19th and 20th Century Short Stories
Maša Huzjak (University of Zagreb) – Texts from Mallory Ortberg: Subverting the Literary Canon through Humour, Rewrites and Text Messages
12:00 – 12:40 Ana Popović- Marko Vrančić (University of Zagreb) – Discourse Analysis of the Media Reports on Edward Snowden’s Disclosures
Filip Klubička (University of Zagreb) – Hashtags as Discourse Markers in Digital Communication
12:40 – 14:15 LUNCH BREAK
14:15 – 15:15 Ivana Verveger (University of Zagreb) – Free Will in Anthony Burgess´s A Clockwork Orange
Anamarija Tkalec (University of Zagreb) – The Slavery in Parable of the Sower
Ena Hustnjak (University of Zagreb) – The Notion of Race in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
15:30 – 16:30 Andrea Kovačević-Branimir Križanec (University of Osijek) – The Effect of Video Games on Foreign Language Vocabulary Acquisition
Gabrijela Crnjak-Cassy Prskalo (University of Osijek) – Learners’ Motivation at the University Level
Vesna Tunjić (University of Osijek) – Croatian EFL Learners and the Use of Prepositions
16:45 – 17:45 Gracija Horak (University of Zagreb)- Nightmares Are Dreams Too: the Notion of the American Dream in Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Smiljana Rakonjac-Anja Stoilković (University of Novi Sad) – A Deterioration in the Values of the Original American Dream
Karlo Krznarić (University of Zagreb) – Who Finances the North Pole? Growing Up in William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience
17:45 – 18:00 CLOSING SESSION

 

Saturday, 7 May  – Lecture Hall 6

08:00 – 9:00 REGISTRATION
09:30 – 10:30 OPENING SESSION
prof. Milena Žic Fuchs – The Humanities in New Contexts of Research
10:45 – 11:45 Lovro Furjanić (University of Zagreb)- The Economic Singularity in Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis
Adna Oković (University of Sarajevo) BiH- A Bakhtinian Reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
Manuela Neuwirth (University of Graz) – The Good Death – An Author-Oriented Approach to Writing Suicide in Hemingway’s Short Fiction
12:00 – 13:00 Tino Jakšić-Jurica Korade (University of Zagreb) – Cognitive Motivation Behind the Use of the Definite Article and Toponyms
Tena Jurišić (University of Zagreb) – Phrasemes with Numerical Component(s) in English and Croatian – Mutual Concepts
Ivica Jeđud (University of Zagreb) – Let’s Talk About the Birds and the Bees: Euphemisms Associated with Sexual Behavior in the English Language
13:00 – 14:15 LUNCH BREAK
14:15 – 14:55 Petra Pugar (University of Zagreb) – A Marvellous (Hi)story: An Analysis of Guy Gavriel Kay’s Tigana
Nikolina Prskalo (University of Sarajevo)– Kurt Cobain: The Byronic Hero of the Grunge
15:10 – 15:50 Petar Miočević (University of Zagreb) – Totalitarianism in Interwar Europe and the Alternate World of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four
Barbara Mravunac (University of Zagreb)– Defining Social Science Fiction on Caves of Steel
16:05 – 17:05 Aleksandra Krstić (University of Novi Sad) – The Role of a Linguist in the Analysis of the Language Production in the Disordered Brain
Juraj Bezuh (University of Zagreb) – Heidelberg, Geneva and Paris: A Comparison of Note-taking Methods for Consecutive Interpreting
Anamarija Miličević (University of Zagreb)- Language and translation of No Country for Old Men
17:05 – 17:20 CLOSING SESSION

 

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