The 13th Symposium of Students in English

Timişoara, 18-19 April 2008

 

Programme

 

 

FRIDAY

10.00-11.00           Official address (A12)

Professor Pia Brînzeu, Vice Rector, University of the West

Professor Maria Ţenchea, PhD, Dean of the Faculty of Letters

Dr. Loredana Frăţilă, Head of the English Department

Opening session (A12)

JAZZ it UP!!

11.00-11.30           Coffee break (Sala de Protocol, basement)

11.30-13.10           Presentation sessions 1

13.10-14.30           Free (Lunch break)

14.30-17.00           Presentation sessions 2 and workshops

19.00                     Theatre: Serious Concerns

Concert: Feedback

Party

(Club Hideout, Complex Studenţesc)

SATURDAY

10.00-13.00           Presentation sessions 3

13.00-13.30           Coffee break (Sala de Protocol, basement)

13.30                     WeSHOW. A video/sound installation by the Creative Writing MA students (A12)

                              Closing of the conference (A12)

 

 

Organised by the English Department, University of Timişoara

 

Sponsors:

S. C. LIBRI S.R.L.

S. C. PREMS LIBREXIM – LONGMAN DISTRIBUTOR

ROMTELECOM

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TIMIŞOARA WHAT, WHERE, WHEN

 


Special thanks to:

 

The student organisers:

Marius Amza, Sabina Androne, Ioana Bona, Melizanda Chiforeanu,

Alexandru Gondoci, Andra Jebelean, Melinda Karácsony, Emese Kurti,

Andreea Iordache, Marilena Irimia, Iulia Izvernariu, Costinela Nistor, Adriana Oprişa,

Alessandra Penescu, Mirela Petcu, Roxana Peti, Andreea Popescu,

Ramona Schadt, Raluca Selejan, Claudia Şonea,

Cristina Ţăranu, Sorina Vass

 

 

The Opening Session:

Ioana Bona, Andreea Iordache, Melinda Karácsony, Emese Kurti, Sorina Vass

 

 

The Serious Concerns:

Sabina Androne, Ioana Bona, Melizanda Chiforeanu, Marilena Irimia, Mirela Petcu, Claudia Şonea, Sorina Vass

 

..and the staff at the English Department


Friday Morning Sessions (11.30-13.10)

 

Linguistics

Room 416

Moderator: Iulia Para

American Studies

Room 522

Moderator: Georgiana Lolea

British Literature

Room 328

Moderator: Mirela Lăpugean

 

11.30-11.55

OANA BODEA

4th year, English-Romanian

Economic Idioms and Collocations: Piece of Cake or Hard Nut to Crack?

 

ALINA TOMA BALABAN

1st year, American Studies MA

George Washington and A. I. Cuza

 

FLORIN RADU BORTEŞ

1st year, English-French

Tragic Destinies in Hardy’s Novels

 

11.55-12.20

ISABELA DĂMOC

1st year, English-French

Nonce Words: Defining Teenagers

 

GEANINA FĂT

1st year, American Studies MA

Religion’s Role in American Life

 

ADELA CORDOŞ

4th year, English-Romanian

Pagan Elements in Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native

 

12.20-12.45

ROXANA PETI

1st year, Romanian-English

Sound Symbolism in Brand Names

 

LUMINIŢA MIHAELA GĂVAN

2nd year, American Studies MA

Identity and Masculinity Construction in Men’s Health Magazine

 

MIRUNA SURCEL

1st year, German-English

Tess of the D’Urbervilles or a Human Sacrifice Between Paganism and Christianity

 

12.45-13.10

IULIA PARA

2nd year, Translation Studies MA

Side Effects of the Linguistic Globalisation Process

 

 

MIRELA LĂPUGEAN

1st year, Creative Writing MA

The Voice Behind the Story. Ian McEwan’s Atonement

 


Friday Afternoon Sessions (14.30-17.00)

 

American Studies

Room 416

Moderator: Georgiana Lolea

British Culture and Civilisation

Room 328

Moderator: Ioana Bona

 

Literature / Workshops

Room 522           

 

14.30-14.55

ALEXANDRU KOŠA

2nd year, American Studies MA

The Importance of Sound in Movies

 

IOANA BONA

2nd year, English-French

Voices Echoing Across Time: The Legacy of the Celts

 

 

 

 

 

14.30 – 15.20

14.55-15.20

GEORGIANA LOLEA

1st year, American Studies MA

Political Speeches. Kennedy vs. Mitt Romney

 

CRISTINA BĂRBULESCU

3rd year, University of Craiova

Stonehenge – The Magic Land

 

 

RAMONA TEODORA COCIUBEI

2nd year, University of Oradea

Genre Morphosis: Romance Turning to Gothic

15.20-15.45

LILIANA MATICI

1st year, American Studies MA

Iraq and Vietnam – Two Key Points in American History

 

LARISA GÂZ

1st year MA, University of Baia Mare

Culture versus Culture

 

 

 

 

 

15.30 – 16. 20

15.45-

16.10

DENISA MIREA

2nd year, American Studies MA

The Effects of Globalization

 

ANGELICA GYEMANT

1st year LMA, French-English

The Art of British Theatre

 

 

ALINA-CRISTINA DUINEA

4th year, University of Craiova

On Utopian and Dystopian Novels

 

16.10-

16.35

 

ANA-MARIA SCHLUPP, CLAUDIA SPIRIDON

2nd year, German-English

Hooligans: Could You Be One of Them?

 

 

 

16.35-17.00

 

DORINA-MARIA UDRESCU

1st year LMA, French-English

The Divine in English Painting

 

 

Saturday Morning Sessions (10.00-12.55)

 

ELT methodology

Room 416

Moderator: Isabela Pricop

Gender Studies

Room 416

Moderator: Natalia Ronkov

British literature

Room 328

Moderator: Mirela Lăpugean

American Studies

Room 522

Moderator: Georgiana Lolea

10.00-10.25

MIHAELA CHRISTI

1st year, Translation Studies MA

Creative Writing School Projects

 

 

CĂTĂLINA SORINA APREOTESEI

3rd year, University of Baia Mare

1984 and Communism in Romania

SABINA NADINA CEHAN

3rd year, University of Iaşi

The Uncanny of The Man that was Used Up by E. A. Poe

10.25-10.50

ISABELA PRICOP

2nd year, Translation Studies MA

Teaching Tolerance in EFL Classes

 

 

BOGDAN IMBRI

2nd year, English-French

1984. History and Politics: mirrors and prophecies

ADRIANA IOŢCOV

1st year, American Studies MA

Determinism in Faulkner’s Light in August

10.50-11.15

MIHAELA IOANA TOPAN

3rd year, University of Baia Mare

Learning English with the Help of Cartoons: Pinky and the Brain

 

ANDREEA BLAJ

1st year, MA

Shaping and Reshaping Narrative Perspectives: J. Fowles

ILDIKÓ KOVÁCS

3rd year, University of Târgu Mureş

The End of… the Hours

11.15-11.40

 

ALINA BUGHEŞIU

3rd year, University of Baia Mare

A Feminist Approach to Feminism: The Rape of Shavi

ROLAND STRAUB

4th year, German-English

Immortality. Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray

CRISTIANA LĂPUŞAN

3rd year, Univ. of Târgu Mureş

Fight Club: When There Comes the Déja-vu…

11.40-12.05

 

IOANA BOULESCU

2nd year, American Studies MA

Motherhood in Toni Morrison’s Works

TEODORA-CRISTINA POPA

4th year, University of Oradea

Drawing Moustaches to Monalisa

EVGEN NEAGOE

1st year, English-French

The Style of Hemingway’s Posthumous Work: A Computer Analysis

12.05-12.30

 

SILVIA FOGARAŞI

2nd year, Translation Studies MA

Womanhood and Motherhood in Sylvia Plath’s Poems

BOGDAN-SORIN POPESCU

2nd year, University of Suceava

The Deconstruction of Time in Peter Ackroyd's Plato Papers

ALESSANDRA PENESCU

1st year, English-French

Temptation and Fall of Clyde G. An American Tragedy

12.30-

12.55

 

NATALIA RONKOV

3rd year, English-German

Gender Ambiguity and Clothes in Woolf’s Orlando

RALUCA ELENA WEBER

2nd year, English-German

Autism and Waiting: The (Post)modernist (In)communication. A Study on Beckett’s Waiting for Godot

 



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