The 13th
Symposium of Students in English
Timişoara, 18-19 April 2008 |
Programme
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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)
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
HIDEOUT
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)
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Linguistics Room 416 Moderator: Iulia Para |
American Studies Room 522 Moderator: Georgiana
Lolea |
British Literature Room 328 Moderator: Mirela Lăpugean |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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12.45-13.10 |
IULIA PARA 2nd
year, Translation Studies MA Side Effects of the
Linguistic Globalisation Process |
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MIRELA LĂPUGEAN 1st
year, Creative Writing MA The Voice Behind the
Story. Ian McEwan’s Atonement |
Friday Afternoon Sessions (14.30-17.00)
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American
Studies Room 416 Moderator: Georgiana Lolea |
British
Culture and Civilisation Room 328 Moderator: Ioana Bona |
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Literature / Workshops Room
522 |
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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 |
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14.30 –
15.20 |
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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 |
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RAMONA TEODORA
COCIUBEI 2nd year, University of Oradea Genre Morphosis: Romance Turning to
Gothic |
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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 |
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15.30 – 16. 20 |
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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 |
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ALINA-CRISTINA DUINEA
4th year, University of Craiova On Utopian and
Dystopian Novels |
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16.10- 16.35 |
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ANA-MARIA SCHLUPP,
CLAUDIA SPIRIDON 2nd
year, German-English Hooligans: Could You Be
One of Them? |
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16.35-17.00 |
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DORINA-MARIA UDRESCU 1st
year LMA, French-English The Divine in English
Painting |
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Saturday Morning Sessions
(10.00-12.55)
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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 |
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10.00-10.25 |
MIHAELA CHRISTI 1st
year, Translation Studies MA Creative Writing School
Projects |
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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 |
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10.25-10.50 |
ISABELA PRICOP 2nd
year, Translation Studies MA Teaching Tolerance in
EFL Classes |
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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 |
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10.50-11.15 |
MIHAELA
IOANA TOPAN 3rd
year, University of Baia Mare Learning
English with the Help of Cartoons: Pinky and the Brain |
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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 |
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11.15-11.40 |
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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… |
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11.40-12.05 |
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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 |
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12.05-12.30 |
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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 |
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12.30- 12.55 |
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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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