UNIVERSITY OF TIMIŞOARA, ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

The 15^th

Symposium of

Students in English

26-27 March 2010

program

The 15^th Symposium of Students in English

Timişoara, 26-27 March 2010

FRIDAY

9.00-10.30 Official address (Room A01)

Professor Pia Brînzeu, Vice Rector, University of the West

Dr. Reghina Dascăl, Chancellor, Faculty of Letters

Dr. Dana Percec, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Letters

Dr. Loredana Frăţilă, Head of the English Department

Plenary:

Dr. Ana-Karina Schneider, Associate Professor, University of Sibiu

Translation as Interpretation:

Vermeer and Shakespeare across Media

10.30-11.00 Coffee break (Sala de Protocol)

11.00-13.00 Presentation sessions 1

13.10-14.00 Workshops 1

14.00-15.00 Lunch break (Sala de Protocol)

15.00-16.30 Presentation sessions 2

16.30-16.45 Coffee break (Sala de Protocol)

16.45-18.15 Presentation sessions 3

20.00 Symposium evening (Manufactura, Str. T. Vladimirescu 9)

Reading: Creative Writing MA students

Theatre: Love Reversed. With Isabela Dămoc, Alexandra Dămoc and Alexandru Incicău

Concert: Flavia Dârvă and PHASER

SATURDAY

9.00-12.00 Presentation sessions 4

12.00-12.30 Coffee break

12.30-13.20 Workshops 2

13.30-14.30 Reading: El Jardin, by Carlos Morton

Meeting with Carlos Morton

Prize draw

Closing of the conference

(Room A01)

Organised by the English Department, University of Timişoara

Special thanks to:

The student organisers and volunteers:

Roxana Apostol, Anda Avram, Paula Avram, Cristina Braiţ, Nicoleta Cârştioabă, Isabela Dămoc, Ioana Duţă, Roxana Ghiţă, Alexandra Gril, Gesina Havrileak, Andreea Iordache, Alexandru Incicău, Sorina Muntean, Lucia Negricioiu, Roxana Peti, Raluca Popescu, Raluca Sălăgean, Vesna Stepanov, Claudia Şonea, Mihaela Toma, Doriana Treta, Sorina Vass, Miruna Vălungan

…and all the members of the English Department

FRIDAY 11.00-13.00 Presentation sessions 1

AMERICAN LITERATURE Room 328 Moderator: Ioana Duţă	BRITISH LITERATURE Room 522 Moderator: Miruna Vălungan	CULTURE AND THE MEDIA Room 150 Moderator: Cristina Braiţ
Loredana Bercuci 2^nd year, English-German Jewish Identity in The Ghost Writer	Radu Florin Borteş 3^rd year, English-French The Hardyan Novel: Universe and Character	Roland Zoltan Adorjani 3^rd year, Braşov Religion and Postmodernism in America. New Age and New Thought movements
Dacian Şulţi 1^st year, American Studies MA Behaviour in Extreme Situations: Three Instances of David Kepesh	Cristiana Cornea 1^st year MA, Cluj-Napoca Samuel Butler’s Erewhon: From Utopia To Dystopia	Şerban-Dan Blidariu 1^st year, American Studies MA Slavery in America: A Racial Issue, Beyond All Else
Timea Farkas 1^st year, American Studies MA The Art of Complementarity in Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men	Maria Costin 1^st year, Baia Mare William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience: The Chimney-Sweeper	Cristina Braiţ 1^st year, American Studies MA The Wicked Witches of the West: The Salem Trials
Bianca Foghel 1^st year, American Studies MA Dichotomies in Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms	Elena Maria Diniş 1^st year MA, Cluj-Napoca A Man in a Woman’s World: Jane Austen’s John Willoughby	Roxana Ghiţă 1^st year, American Studies MA On (In)equality and (Dis)respecting Human Rights in the New World
Alexandra Ionescu 2^nd year MA, Bucharest Native American Creation Stories		Alexandru Maniu 1^st year, American Studies MA Back to the Roots: The Inheritance of Fear

13.10-14.00 Workshops

Ana Kun 2^nd year, Creative Writing MA Murderous Anonymous: A Killer Poetry Workshop for All the Creative Minds Still at Large Room: 522

Mihaela Pănuş Babel Language Centre A certified trainer - why not keep on learning Room: 328

Roxana Ghiţă 1^st year, American Studies MA Fairytales Gone Wild: On Schema Breaking and Defamiliarization Room: 150

15.00-16.30 Presentation sessions 2

AMERICAN LITERATURE Room 328 Moderator: Olivia Lungu	BRITISH LITERATURE Room 522 Moderator: Miruna Vălungan	CULTURE AND THE MEDIA Room 150 Moderator: Mihaela Toma	TEACHING Room 324 Moderator: Roxana Peti
Oana Ivan 2^nd year, American Studies MA Z. N. Hurston: Exploring the Colourful Black	Romina Sopoian University of Cluj-Napoca Martin Amis’s Idiosyncrasies in Time’s Arrow	Isabela Dămoc 3^rd year, English-French The Chaplinesque Comedy of Transposition	Mihaela Sofian 1^st year MA Europe of the Future
Olivia Lungu 2^nd year, Creative Writing MA Characters and Writers in Everything is Illuminated	Chipirlin Luminiţa 2^nd year, English-Latin David Lodge: The Satirical Campus Novel	Alexandra Coman 2^nd year, Romanian-English Should We Condemn Hannibal Lecter?
Mona Măreţ 3^rd year, Romanian-English The Presence of the City in Paul Auster’s Novels	Miruna Vălungan 3^rd year, Romanian-English George Orwell’s World of Totalitarianism	Alexandru Incicău 1^st year, English-Romanian Pocahontas, Lost In Space - Or How Not To Be Creative 101	Jorge Gonzalez Garrido Active Learning Active Learning in the Fast Lane
Claudiu Moga University of Alba Iulia A Life Between Borders In Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Third And Final Continent	Andrea Balint University of Baia Mare The French Lieutenant’s Woman and the Victorian Age	Mihaela Toma 1^st year, English-Romanian Quentin Tarantino: The Revenge vs. Professionalism Duality

16.45-18.15 Presentation sessions 3

AMERICAN LITERATURE Room 328 Moderator: Ioana Duţă	LINGUISTICS Room 522 Moderator: Roxana Peti	CULTURE AND THE MEDIA Room 150 Moderator: Mihaela Toma
George Marius Nicoară University of Baia Mare The Perspective on Love in Faulkner and Eminescu’s Poems	Roxana Maria Apostol 2^nd year, English-French, AML Translating Names and Titles: A Brief Study	Cristina Plavoşin 2^nd year, American Studies MA I Have a Dream by Any Means Necessary
Raluca Pantin 1^st year, American Studies MA A Demand for More Life: Domination, Liberation and Black Female Sexuality in Their Eyes Were Watching God	Ioana Buran 3^rd year, English-French, AML Self-Translation: Translation or Rewriting Translation	Izabella Feher 3^rd year, English-Romanian A Road Trip Through Bohemia in the Company of Andy Warhol. The New Yorker Underground Scene in the 1960s and 1980s
Ioana Duţă 3^rd year, Romanian-English The Translation of Cultural Space in Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides	Cătălin Covercă 1^st year, English-French, AML Pulling Faces: Micro-facial Expressions in Communication	Ana-Maria Iftinca University of Braşov The Metamorphosis of Reality: Kafka and Dali
Natalia Ronkov 2^nd year, Creative Writing MA The Deconstruction of the American Dream in Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides	Roxana Maria Gheorghiţă 3^rd year, English-Spanish Spanglish	Mihaela Popuţa 1^st year, English-French Dali – Madman or Genius?
Andreea Draginov 2^nd year, American Studies MA American Gods

SATURDAY 9.00-12.00 Presentation sessions 4

BRITISH LITERATURE Room 328 Moderator: Gesina Havrileak	LINGUISTICS Room 522 Moderator: Roxana Peti	CULTURE AND THE MEDIA Room 150 Moderator: Vesna Stepanov	BRITISH LITERATURE Room 324 Moderator: Adela Ardereanu
Alexandra Stoian 2^nd year, Bucharest Realistic and Gothic Constructions of Self and Other in Alfred Tennyson’s The Lady of Shalott	Roxana Peti 3^rd year, Romanian-English Ingliş on the Internet	Vesna Stepanov 2^nd year, American Studies MA An Apple a Day Keeps Dr House Away	Erika Ada 2^nd year, Romanian-English New Age Elements in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves and Orlando
Daniela Bătrân 3^rd year, English-Romanian Houses in The Remains of the Day	Raluca Popescu 3^rd year, Romanian-English The Double Predicate in English and Romance Languages	Vesna Stepanov 2^nd year, American Studies MA Conservative Christians and Televangelism	Adela Ardereanu 2^nd year, Creative Writing MA Torture in Waiting for the Barbarians
Andreea Gianina Bera 1^st year MA, Cluj-Napoca A Re-evaluation of the Victorian Novel Conventions – The French Lieutenant’s Woman	Ionela Racolţa 2^nd year, Translation Studies MA Legal Translation. A Case Study: The Contract	Ramona Teodora Cociubei 1^st year MA, Oradea Female Sexualization Through Hair: The Image of Femininity in Children's Stories and Cartoons	Melinda Banyai 2^nd year, Creative Writing MA Female Characters in Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians
Teodora Cindrea 3^rd year, Sibiu On the Power of Literature in Ian McEwan’s Atonement	Adela Rujan 3^rd year, English-Spanish Positive Politeness in Dead Poets Society	Raluca Selejan 3^rd year, Romanian-English Feminism during Communism	Mădălina Borcău 3^rd year, English-French Sailing Towards Damnation: The Myth of Charon in Golding’s Novel
Veronica Fibişan 2^nd year, English-French Alice at the Movies: Lewis Carroll vs. Tim Burton	Silviana Secară 1^st year MA, Oradea Reported Speech in Newspaper Articles	Andrei Antal 1^st year, American Studies MA The Reinvention of Jazz	Adriana Carina Duban 2^nd year MA, Alba Iulia A Style of Her Own: V. Woolf's The Mark on the Wall
Gesina Havrileak 2^nd year, English-French AML Joyce, Picasso and Modernism	Lorana Zaharia and Cristina Liseţchi 1^st year English-French/Spanish Paradoxes and Ambiguities of the English Language	Flavia Dârvă 1^st year, English-Spanish Blues Talk: Phonology, Poetry and Music in the Speech of the Deep South	Sorin-Daniel Faur 2^nd year, Romanian-English Myth and Allegory in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies and Pincher Martin
Mihaela Ioana Topan 2^nd year MA, Baia Mare Lips Unsealed - Discussions on Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad		Csaba Kiss 1^st year, English-French Do You Sing Social Politics?	Sorina Muntean 3^rd year, Romanian-English Jeanette Winterson: “Venetian Passion”

12..30-13.20 Workshops 2

Natalia Ronkov 2^nd year, Creative Writing MA Poems: Writing with Your Senses Room: 328

Lavinia Ciuci Exam Plus LCCI Stations: How to Deal With a Text – A Communicative Teaching Approach Room: 522

Flavius Furtună 3^rd year, Romanian-English British Humour: Monty Python’s Flying Circus Room: 150

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 2010

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!