UNIVERSITY OF TIMIŞOARA, ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

The 14^th Symposium of

Students in English

3-4 April 2009

programme

The 14^th Symposium of Students in English

Timişoara, 3-4 April 2009

FRIDAY

9.30-11.00 Official address (Room A12)

Professor Pia Brînzeu, Vice Rector, University of the West

Professor Maria Ţenchea, Dean of the Faculty of Letters

Loredana Frăţilă, Head of the English Department

Plenary: Apocalypse Now? Visions of Global Environmental Change in Popular American Film

Dr. Alexa Weik, University of Fribourg

11.00-11.15 Coffee break

11.15-11.45 There is an I and a me in `America´: Self-ishness in American Poetry

Dr. Anthony O'Keeffe

(Room 328)

11.45-13.15 Presentation sessions 1

13.15-14.15 Lunch break

14.15-15.00 Workshops 1

15.00-15.15 Coffee Break

15.15-16.45 Presentation sessions 2

16.45-17.15 The Next Superpower Rivalry? Us-China Relations

Dr. Tom Grunfeld

(Room 328)

18.30 Symposium evening

Reading – Creative Writing MA students

Theatre: A Symposium Interrupted

Concert: Florentin Crăineanu

… and more

(Porto Arte)

SATURDAY

10.00-11.30 Presentation sessions 3

11.30-11.50 Coffee break

11.50-12.35 Workshops 2

12.45-13.15 The Future Of The Book In The Digital Age

Dr. Debra Journet

(Room A12)

13.15 Closing of the conference; Prize draw (A12)

Organised by the English Department, University of Timişoara

Special thanks to:

The student organisers and volunteers:

Anamaria Arşovan, Giorgiana Basista, Nicoleta Cîrştioabă, Isabela Dămoc, Florentin Crăineanu, Andra Jebelean, Andreea Iordache, Marilena Irimia, Mirela Lăpugean, Simbisai Mandizvidza, Sorina Muntean, Loredana Neneşteanu, Lavinia Olariu, Roxana Peti, Raluca Popescu, Raluca Selejan, Vesna Stepanov, Claudia Şonea, Sorina Vass

The Actors: Andreea Iordache, Marilena Irimia, Simbisai Mandizvidza, Claudia Şonea, Sorina Vass

…and all the members of the English Department

FRIDAY

11.15-11.45 ANTHONY O'KEEFFE: THERE IS AN I AND A ME IN `AMERICA´: SELF-ISHNESS IN AMERICAN POETRY

11.45-13.15 Presentation sessions 1

	AMERICAN LITERATURE I Room 324 Moderator: Vesna Stepanov	AMERICAN LITERATURE II Room 328 Moderator: Diana Gomboş	CULTURE AND THE MEDIA Room 150 Moderator: Claudia Şonea	BRITISH LITERATURE Room 522 Moderator: Mirela Lăpugean
11.45-12.05	Vesna Stepanov 1^st year, American Studies MA Lolita. The Wet Dreams of American Prudes	Diana Besoiu 1^st year, American Studies MA Theodore Dreiser in the Society of the 20^th Century	Anne-Marie Popescu 1^st year, American Studies MA The Amish Population	Sabina Andone 3^rd year, English-French Feminine Identities in Othello and Hamlet
12.05-12.25	Andrei Cherăscu 1^st year, American Studies MA Frank Herbert’s Dune – The Human Element in Sci-Fi	Diana Gomboş 1^st year, American Studies MA Light in August: Male Figures – Victims or Prosecutors	Alexandra Ionescu 1^st year MA, University of Bucharest The Jazz Age	Miruna Vălungan 2^nd year, Romanian-English Jane Austen – Female Image
12.25-12.45	Eugen Neagoe 2^nd year, English-French Fishing for Hemingway in Maclean	Rafaela Iacobescu 1^st year, American Studies MA William Faulkner’s Use of Foreshadowing in Light in August and Its Role in the Construction of the Characters	Andreea Draginov 1^st year, American Studies MA Suburban Lifestyle in the 40’s-50’s	Florin Radu Borteş 2^nd year, English-French What Lies at the Basis of Jude the Obscure
12.45-13.05	Raluca Pantin 3^rd year, English-French The Zero Degree and the Silence of Writing: Ernest Hemingway – A Writer in His Time	Cristina Plavoşin 1^st year, American Studies MA Parental Absence and Child Abandonment in William Faulkner’s Writings		Ioana Rişcou 1^st year, Creative Writing MA Predatory Male Behaviour in Thomas Hardy’s Novels

14.15-15.00 WORKSHOPS

Roxana Peti, Nicoleta Cîrştioabă 2^nd year, Romanian-English Speaking. Absurd or Not? (Room 328)

Miruna Surcel, Anamaria Bădăi, Silviana Gainescu 2^nd year, German-English Are Idioms a Pain in the Neck? (English/Romanian/German) (Room 416)

Andreea Varga, Mirela Lăpugean 2^nd year, Creative Writing MA Defamiliarisation in Poetry (Room 522)

15.15-16.45 Presentation sessions 2

	AMERICAN LITERATURE Room 416 Moderator: Georgiana Lolea	CULTURE AND THE MEDIA I Room 150 Moderator: Geanina Huţiu	CULTURE AND THE MEDIA II Room 324 Moderator: Claudia Şonea	BRITISH LITERATURE Room 328 Moderator: Alessandra Penescu	BRITISH AND COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Room 522 Moderator: Mirela Lăpugean
15.15-15.35	Amelia Şimandan 2^nd year, American Studies MA FRI Feminine Characters in Fitzgerald’s Novels	Oana Arion 1^st year, American Studies MA The Portrayal of Automobile Safety in the American Printed Press, 1930’s-1960’s	Adriana Corescu 2^nd year, English-German Common Law	Adriana Ioţcov 2^nd year, American Studies MA Occult and Gnostic Elements in L. Durrel’s Alexandria Quartet	Ioana Buran 2^nd year, LMA The Theme of Isolation in Coetzee’s Novels
15.35- 15.55	Andrada-Timea Farkas 3^rd year, English-German The Soul of the Jazz Age and the Heart of the American Spirit in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby	Ramona Teodora Cociubei 3rd year, University of Oradea The Cyber character: Cyberfeminism in the World... of Warcraft	Alexandra Dascălu 1^st year, Romanian-English To Dominate or to Be Dominated	Alessandra Penescu 2^nd year, English-French Mixing Myths and Symbols: Justine – The Alexandria Quartet	Mirela Lăpugean 2^nd year, Creative Writing MA Poscolonialism in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
15.55-16.15	Georgiana Lolea 2^nd year, American Studies MA The Use of Language in The Road by Cormac McCarthy	Isabela Dămoc 2^nd year, English-French Feminine Figures in Chaplin’s Movies	Claudia Şonea 3^rd year, English-French The skirt: An iconographic inquiry	Sorina Muntean 2^nd year, Romanian-English George Orwell’s 1984	Maria-Mihaela Nistor 3^rd year, University of Cluj-Napoca Issues of Identity in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan
16.15-16.35	Liliana Matici 2^nd year, American Studies MA History and Fiction in Dos Passos’ 1919	Geanina Huţiu-Făt 2^nd year, American Studies MA American Pop Culture in Everybody Loves Ray		Miruna Surcel 2^nd year, German-English The Effects of Permanent Supervision in 1984	Larisa Gâz 2nd year MA, University of Baia Mare Religion in Canadian Literature

16.45-17.15 TOM GRUNFELD: THE NEXT SUPERPOWER RIVALRY? US-CHINA RELATIONS (Room 328)

SATURDAY

10.00-11.30 Presentation sessions 3

	AMERICAN LITERATURE Room 324 Moderator: Anamaria Arşovan	CULTURE AND THE MEDIA Room 522 Moderator: Vesna Stepanov	BRITISH LITERATURE I Room 416 Moderator: Alessandra Penescu	BRITISH LITERATURE II Room 150 Moderator: Mirela Lăpugean	LINGUISTICS AND ELT Room 328 Moderator: Roxana Peti
10.00-10.20	Ioana Duţă 2^nd year, Romanian-English Madness in Chuck Palahniuk’s Works	Bogdan Imbri 3^rd year, English-French The Sacred to the Native Americans	Mădălina Borcău 2^nd year, English-French The Downfall of Society and Inherent Evil. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies	Carmen Crainic 1^st year Irish Studies MA, University of Cluj Reshaping the Culturally Marked Body: Fay Weldon's The Life and Loves of a She-Devil	Mihaela Ioana Topan 1^st year MA, University of Baia Mare Bilingual Cartoons and Young Adults: Pepe Le Pew and Speedy Gonzalez
10.20-10.40	Claudiu Moga 1^st year MA, University of Alba Iulia Spiritual Needs in Chuck Palahniuk’s Survivor	Nicoleta Preda 1^st year, American Studies MA Changes in the Perception of Native Americans in U.S. History	Bianca Foghel 3^rd year, English-German John Fowles: Homogenising Fiction with Self-Reflection in Daniel Martin	Alina Bugheşiu 1^st year MA, University of Baia Mare Revisiting the Reader in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus	Andreea Blaj 2^nd year, American Studies MA Teaching Drama
10.40-11.00	Andreea Iordache 2^nd year, Romanian-English Phoniness and the Painfulness of Growing Up in The Catcher in the Rye	Vesna Stepanov 1^st year, American Studies MA The New World: Accounts of the Genocide of Native Americans	Andra Jebelean 2^nd year MA A Comparative View on Butlers in The Remains of the Day by K. Ishiguro and Radetzky March by Joseph Roth	Denisse Hodoşan 1^st year, English-French The Booker Prize. Literature in Postmodern Times	Alexandra Farkas 3^rd year, LMA Translating Shakespeare
11.00-11.20		Roland Straub 1^st year, American Studies MA Criminal Masterminds of American Culture		Mihaela Ioana Topan 1^st year MA, University of Baia Mare 'Dolly keeps a secret' In The Labyrinth of A.S. Byatt's Possession	Cristina Lupulescu 3^rd year, LMA Anglicisms in Media Discourse

11.50-12.35 WORKSHOPS 2

Ana Kun 1^st year, Creative Writing MA Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Vasile - Creative Writing Workshop (room 328)

Viviana Daniloni 2^nd year, MBA, Timisoara Polytechnic Mirela Lăpugean 2^nd year, Creative Writing MA Deconstruction: Technique-al Manual for Using the Scissors (room 522)

12.45 – 13.15 DEBRA JOURNET: THE FUTURE OF THE BOOK IN THE DIGITAL AGE (Room A12)

13.15 – Closing of the symposium; Prize draw

HOW DO I GET MY PAPER PUBLISHED?

First of all, make sure you read the following very carefully! Also, note that you are under no obligation to submit your paper for publication. Only submit it if you are sure it is original research work which you feel should be printed.

CHECKLIST FOR PUBLICATION:

Make sure you do the following before you submit your papers for publication – otherwise your papers WILL NOT be accepted:

□ make sure you are submitting original work! Please read http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml in order to make sure you don’t plagiarize unintentionally.

□ write according to the format below; complete, accurate references done according to STANDARD are ESSENTIAL

□ check your spelling and language before you submit the paper – papers containing spelling and grammar mistakes will not be accepted for publication

□ submit the paper in BOTH hard copy and electronic format (CD, e-mail, floppy)

□ include with your paper an e-mail address where you can be contacted

□ be prepared to review the paper at the request of the editors, who will contact you via the e-mail address you provide

Deadline for Submission and Style Specifications for Papers

– to be observed RIGOROUSLY –

Deadline for Submission: 1 June 2009

Length of paper: A maximum of 10 pages (A4, 2.5 cm margins), including references and appendices.

Word codes:

1. ITALICS should be used for emphasis, book titles, etc. (but not for quotations).

2. BOLD should only be used for the title and (if you have any) subtitles.

Font: Times New Roman, 12 pt.

Line spacing: DOUBLE

Paragraph indentation: first line, by 0.5 cm

Layout: The name(s) and years of study of the author(s) should be stated at the top of the first page, before the title (name: aligned left, bold; title: Centered, bold capitals).

Please do not insert title pages or page numbering.

Example:

Ion Ionescu

3^rd year, English-French

University of Baia Mare

THE TYGER: WILLIAM BLAKE’S ART OF ALLITERATION

References:

1. All references used in the paper should be given in an alphabetical list at the end of the paper under the heading References (aligned left). Do not use bullets or numbering. Only include the works you have actually cited in the paper.

2. Authors are solely responsible for the accuracy of their references.

Examples:

Cook, G. (1989). Discourse. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fillmore, C. (1978). 'On the Organisation of Semantic Information in the Lexicon.' In: D. Farka, W. Jakobsen & K. Todrys (Eds.), Papers from the Parasession on the Lexicon, April 14-15, 1978 (pp. 148-173). Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society, University of Chicago.

Doyle, W. (1977). 'Learning the Classroom Environment: An Ecological Analysis.' Journal of Teacher Education, 28, 51-55.

Daniel, R.T. (1995). 'The History of Western Music.' In Britannica Online: Macropaedia [Online]. Available: http://www.eb.com:180/cgi-bin/g:DocF=macro/5004/45/0html [1995, June 14].

3. References in the text should use the following format:

Examples:

(Cook, 1989: 35-36)

"...as Cook (1989: 35-36) states..."

(Carlyle, cited in Danson, 1989: 75)

(note that only the family name of the author, the year and the page numbers appear in the parenthetical reference; pay special attention to the punctuation within the references)

For more examples and for how to write references for other types of sources, go to http://www.le.ac.uk/library/sources/subject3/harvard.html .

Notes:

1. Please do not insert footnotes or endnotes.

2. If you are discussing a literary text, make sure it also appears in the reference list!

Papers should be submitted to Claudia Doroholschi, Universitatea de Vest, Bul. Vasile Pârvan Nr.4, Catedra de Limba şi literatura engleză, 300223 Timişoara, in both electronic format and on paper. Electronic copies can also be sent

by e-mail to studentsymposium@yahoo.com.

WE HOPE YOU HAVE ENJOYED THE EVENT,

AND SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!