CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

EUROFRINGES. INTERCULTURAL NETWORKING. CHALLENGING STEREOTYPES

 

DAY 1 (6 JUNE)

 

8.30-9.30: REGISTRATION and COFFEE

 10.00 – 10.30: Opening address (room 130)

            – Professor Corina Dumitrescu, PhD, Rectorof Dimitrie Cantemir University

            – Professor Elena Zamfir, PhD, Director of the Institute for Intercultural Studies and Research, DCCU

            – Carmen Beatrice Duțu, PhD, Reader, Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, DCCU

 10.30 – 12.00: Plenary lecture I (room 130)

            Professor Alistair Ross, PhD (London Metropolitan University)

 12.00-12.30: Coffee break

 12.30-14.00: Plenary lecture II (room 130)

            Professor Elena Prus, PhD (Free International University, Republic of Moldavia):  (Re)definirea frontierelor în dramaturgia Europei de Sud-Est

14.00-15.30: LUNCH

15.30-18.00: Panel session I

Literary Studies (room 131)	Cultural Studies (room 132)	Round table: FrinGender in South-East Europe (room 130)
Chairs: Prof. I. Mihăilă, PhD and Lect. Răzvan Staicu, PhD Candidate	Chairs: Prof. M. Goggin, PhD. and Reader Dan H. Popescu, PhD.	Chairs: Reader Carmen Duțu, PhD (DCCU) and Reader Ramona Mihăilă, PhD (Spiru Haret University, Bucharest)
Prof. Ileana Mihaila, PhD – Réception des auteures français des Lumières dans la culture roumaine avant la Grande Guerre	Prof. Maureen Goggin, PhD (Arizona State University) – Circulating Contemporary Protests and Civil Disobedience through Yarn Graffiti	Reader Carmen Duțu, PhD (DCCU): Experiencing a COST European Project: Towards a New Understanding of Women’s Writing
Lect. Razvan Staicu, PhD candidate (DCCU) – Traveller and narrator in search for “the core of things”, as balance between the central and the marginal	Reader Dan H. Popescu (Oradea) – Gypsy msic and its impact on dominant cultures in Hungary and Romania, as reflected in a British travelogue from the 1930s	Reader Ramona Mihăilă, PhD (Spiru Haret University, Bucharest): Mapping Women’s Writing in the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Assist. Chifane Cristina, PhD (Constantin Brancoveanu University, Braila) – Cultural otherness in Herta Muller’s novels	Dr. Cristina Nedelcu (Bucharest University) – Identity Features in the Shadow of Sectarianism: Lebanon	Reader Botezat Onorina, PhD (Spiru Haret University, Constanta): Constructing the Images of the Other: Russian Women Characters in Romanian Literature
Reader Caraivan Luiza, PhD (DCCU Timisoara) – Representations of Otherness in Eginald Schlattner’s “The beheaded Rooster”	Assist. Iov Claudia Anamaria, PhD Candidate (Babes-Bolyai University / Paris 8 University) – “The Rroma identity project” between ethnic group, trans-national minority and European identity	Calin Alice (SNSPA) – The development of gender and sexual identity
Reader Irod Maria, PhD (DCCU) – The Role Of Spirituality In Hubert Fichte’s Ethnopoetics	Lect. Cristian Tiberiu-Popescu, PhD (Hyperion University) – “The Quarrel between the King of France and His Boyars” : Romanian Popular Phenomenology Drawing on the French Revolution’s Ideas	Lecturer Vasile Adelina, PhD (DCCU), Romanian vs. British: an incursion into the thematic of contemporary  women’s fiction

19.00: Outdoors Dinner

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DAY II (7 JUNE)

 

9.00 – 10.00: Plenary lecture III (room 130)

           Prof. Efstratia Oktapoda, PhD (University of Sorbonne): Littératures et cultures dans les Balkans, l’Europe centrale etl’Europe de l’Est. Confins en mutation, écrivains en migration

 10.00-11.00: Plenary lecture III (room 130)

Prof. Alain Vuillemin, PhD (University Paris-Est) – L’expansion des littératures en langue française au sud-est de l’Europe (XVII°-XXI° andècles)

 11.00-11.30: Coffee break

 11.00 – 13.30: Panel sessions

Language studies (room 131)	Cultural studies (room 130)	Literary studies (room 132)
Chairs: Prof. I.V. Rădulescu, PhD and Lecturer Magdalena Ciubancan, PhD	Chairs: Reader Iulia Waniek, PhD	Chairs: Prof. A. Vuillemin, PhD. and Reader I. Paștin, PhD.
Prof. Ioana Vintila Radulescu, PhD (Romanian Academy) – Langues balkaniques et orientales dans l’Union Européenne actuelle et future	Lect. Rosa Isabella Furnari, PhD (Catania University) – The journey of the myths from west to east	Dr. Irena Ragaisiene and Dr. Audrone Raskauskiene (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania) – Stereotyping of Lithuania in Heshel’s Kingdom by Dan Jacobson
Prof. Maria Magdalena Jianu, PhD (DCCU) – The Theory of Complexity in Language Study: Irregularity of Certain Pseudocausal Structures	Reader Iulia Waniek, PhD (DCCU) – Shinsaku Noh as a Mediator between Cultures and Individuals	Reader Iuliana Pastin, PhD (DCCU) – J.M.G. Le Clézio, écrivain des marges du monde dans le recueil. “Raga. Approche du continent invisible’’
Reader Voichita A Ghenghea, PhD (Bucharest Polytechnics) – Effectiveness of the discourse in Technical Documentation from a cultural perspective	Reader Narcis Zarnescu, PhD (DCCU) – La sorcière de la périphérie de l’Empire.	Reader Irina Vainovski Mihai, PhD (DCCU) – Outsiders and In-Betweens: Identity Constructs in the Contemporary Arabic Novel
Lect. Anca Pegulescu, PhD (Ministry of Education (Craiova University) - Literal Meaning  and Indirect Speech Acts in Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul	Lect. Elena Vasiliu, PhD (DCCU) – Endangered Cultural Memories	Reader Felix Nicolau, PhD (Tehnical  University Bucharest) – The perils of science and imagination in Ian McEwan’ s Atonement
Lect. Magdalena Ciubăncan, PhD (DCCU) – The Cultural Dimension of Communication. An Insight into Politeness Strategies in High-Context Cultures	PhD Candidate Teodora Boboc and PhD Candidate Cristina Ivan (Bucharest University): Eastern Versus Western Heterotopias	Prof. Magdalena Dumitrana, PhD (Bucharest University) – The Non-Balkan Romanian Humor Between Irony and Philosophy
Lect. Gabriela Iliuta, PHD (Spiru Haret, University, Bucharest) – Le politiquement correct : de la stéréotypie à l’altérisation du discours publicitaire roumain	Assist. Claudia Bucura, Ph.D. (DCCU): Understanding Present-day Romanian Reality Through the Historical Evidence Presented by the Caricatures of “Gura Satului” Satirical Magazine	Lect. Alis-Oana Zaharia, PhD (DCCU) – Translating Macbeth in Times of Revolution
Lect. Aida Ferencz, Ph.D. (DCCU): The lexical family of the word “blog” in Italian and Romanian

13.30 – 14.30: Lunch break

 14.30 – 17.00: Panel sessions

Cultural studies (room 131)	Education (room 132)
Chairs: Lect. Roxana Mares, PhD candidate and Reader Otilia Sirbu, PhD	Chairs: Reader Florentina Alexandru, PhD and Lect. Fabiola Hosu, PhD
Prof. Elena Zamfir, Ph.D. (Romanian Academy) – Present and Perspectives for the Roma culture in the vision of the Roma intellectuals, leadres and succesful Roma people	Reader Florentina Alexandru (DCCU) – The Intercultural Education a: Modality to Stimulate the Intercultural Dialogue
Lect. Roxana Mares, PhD candidate (DCCU) – Arabic influence in the Balkan gastronomy	Dr. Elena Savu (Bucharest Polytechnics) – Finding The Path to Successful Language Learning
Reader Otilia Sirbu, PhD (Hyperion University) – À l`autre bout du monde	Lect. Fabiola Hosu, PhD (DCCU) – The Death of the Last Metanarrative
Reader Lazar Andreea, PhD (DCCU) – Balancing cultures – Balkan Images in the Romanian Media	Lect. Cristina Nicolaescu, PhD (DCCU) – Intercultural Teacher Education in the Balkan Countries from Theory to Practice
Lect. Stefan Lucian Muresanu, PhD (Hyperion University) – Balkanisme, de l’identite des nations ou européanisme!	Lect. Mihaela Mocanu, PhD and Lecturer Elena Vasiliu, PhD (DCCU) – The Latest Debate: to Clil Or Not to Clil
Asist. Ioana Tinela Huza, PhD Candidate (DCCU) – The Cultural National Dimension	Lect. Doina Ivanov, PhD (DCCU) – How to Become a Good Teacher of English
Lect. Tudor Iordachescu, PhD Candidate (DCCU) – The Mechanisms of the literary anti-utopia used by the Romanian Totalitarian Regime

 

17. 30: Conclusions (room 130)

19.00 – Dinner (optional)

 

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DAY III (8 JUNE)

14.00: Cultural programme (optional) – visit to Mogoșoaia Palace