Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Section
Theoretical Linguistics
Thursday, June 6, Pushkin Hall
From 14:30
15:00-15:30
15:30-16:30
16:30-17:00
17:00-17:30
17:30-18:00
18:00-18:30
19:00
Registration (1st floor)
Formal opening and welcome (Mark Twain Hall)
Mircea Dumitru, Rector of the University of Bucharest
Bogdan Ştefănescu, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Rodica Mihăilă, Executive Director of the Romanian-US Fulbright Commission
Octavian Roske, Head of the Department of English
Invited speaker
David Pesetsky - MIT Linguistics and Philosophy
Coffee break
Misha Knyazev (St. Petersburg State University) – Structural licensing of sentential complements: evidence from
Russian noun-complement constructions
Gabriela Alboiu (York University) & Virginia Hill (University of New Brunswick Saint John) – The TAM System
of gerund clauses in EMR
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (Université de Paris 7) – Proportional MOST as a superlative quantitative determiner
Opening Reception and registration (Casa Universitarilor, Str. Dionisie Lupu 46)
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Theoretical Linguistics
Friday, June 7 - Pushkin Hall
9:00 – 12:00
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
12:00–13:00
13:00-14:30
14:30-15:00
15:00-15:30
15:30-16:00
16:00-16:30
16:30-17:00
17:00-17:30
17:30-18:00
Registration
Petra Sleeman (University of Amsterdam) & Tabea Ihsane (University of Geneva) – Gender mismatches in
French and feature checking
Peter Avery (York University) & Abel Ogola (Kendu Bay, Kenya) – On the acquisition of the Dholuo plural
Andrei A. Avram (University of Bucharest) - On the Eastern vs Western Caribbean Creoles Divide
Mihaela Marchiș (Hamburg University) – A comparative study on analytic causatives in Romance
Coffee break
Invited speaker
Ur Shlonsky – University of Geneva
Lunch (Casa Universitarilor, Str. Dionisie Lupu 46)
Georg FK Höhn (University of Cambridge) – Null pronouns, nominal structure and the illusion of unagreement
Robert Cirillo (University of Amsterdam) – Why all John’s friends are Dutch, not German: on differences in West
Germanic in the interaction between universal quantifiers and genitives
Gabriela Bîlbîie (Université de Paris 7) – A corpus-based approach of ellipsis: insights from Right-Node-Raising
in the Penn Treebank
Coffee break
Alexandra Cornilescu (University of Bucharest) & Alexandru Nicolae (The ‘Iorgu-Iordan’ Institute of Linguistics,
Bucharest) – On the grammaticalization of a constraint on impersonal reflexive constructions in Romanian
Anca Dinu (University of Bucharest) – Towards a compositional model of distributional semantics
Mihaela Tănase-Dogaru (University of Bucharest) – A die-hard case: prepositional genitives in Modern
Romanian
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Theoretical Linguistics
Saturday, June 8 - Pushkin Hall
9:00-14:00
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
12:00–13:00
13:00-14:30
14:30-15:00
15:00-15:30
15:30-16:00
16:00-16:30
16:30-17:00
17:00-17:30
17:30-18:00
Registration
Peter Herbeck (University of Salzburg) – False subjects inside infinitives
John Lumsden (Université du Quebec à Montréal) – On the binary-branching structure of Romanian inflection
Ion Giurgea (The ‘Iorgu-Iordan’ Institute of Linguistics, Bucharest) – Romanian ‘al’: arguments for a Case head
analysis
Ioana Stoicescu, Anca Sevcenco & Larisa Avram (University of Bucharest) – Scalar implicatures in the
acquisition of Romanian
Coffee break
Invited speaker
Giuseppe Longobardi – University of Trieste
Darwin’s Last Challenge
Lunch (Casa Universitarilor, Str. Dionisie Lupu 46)
Mara Panaitescu (University of Bucharest) – The interpretation of free choice items in non-generic contexts
Dorin Ungureanu (Université du Quebec à Montréal) – The distribution and the interpretation of the adjective in
the Romanian nominal phrase
Dafina Ratiu-Gasparin (University of Nantes) – Sharing at the syntax-semantics interface
Coffee break
Adina Dragomirescu (The ‘Iorgu-Iordan’ Institute of Linguistics & Faculty of Letters, Bucharest) – Scrambling in
Old Romanian. An interesting correlation with V-Aux and V-CI
Cornelia Lupșa (Tohoku University) – The distribution of adverbs in Romanian – accounting for the adverb plus
complementizer construction
Alina Tigău (University of Bucharest) – Points of similarity between differential object marking in Romanian and
scrambling in German
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Applied Linguistics
Thursday, June 6, Cartianu Hall
From 14:30
15:00-15:30
15:30-16:30
16:30-17:00
17:00-17:30
17:30-18:00
18:00-18:30
19:00
Registration (1st floor)
Formal opening and welcome (Mark Twain Hall)
Mircea Dumitru, Rector of the University of Bucharest
Bogdan Ştefănescu, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Rodica Mihăilă, Executive Director of the Romanian-US Fulbright Commission
Octavian Roske, Head of the Department of English
Invited speaker
David Pesetsky - MIT Linguistics and Philosophy
Coffee break
Brian Imhoff (Texas A&M University) – Universality, relativity and empiricism in the color debate
Indira Gazieva (The Russian State university for the Humanities) – Ergonyms and firm names in Modern India
Zsuzsa Ajtony (Sapientia University, Miercurea-Ciuc) – Unladylike to be funny? Gender and humor in Downtown
Abbey
Opening Reception and registration (Casa Universitarilor, Str. Dionisie Lupu 46)
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Applied Linguistics
Friday, June 7 - Cartianu Hall
9:00 – 14:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
12:00–13:00
Registration
Daniela Ionescu (University of Bucharest) – The significance of idioms in translating text in context: a case study
Diana Oțăt (University of Craiova) – Inter-lingual ambiguities in translating contracts
Nadina Vișan (University of Bucharest) – Strategies of approaching foregrounding in literary translations
Coffee break
Invited speaker
Ur Shlonsky – University of Geneva
13:00-14:30
14:30-15:00
15:00-15:30
15:30-16:00
16:00-16:30
Lunch (Casa Universitarilor, Str. Dionisie Lupu 46)
Paul Buzilă (University of Bucharest) – Rumaňol. What language do Romanians speak in Spain?
Mihaela Ștefan (University of Bucharest) – Verbal somatic idioms as cognitive micro-models
Simona Mazilu (Polytechnic University, Bucharest) – Confessions as Arguments in Pro-Life discourse
Coffee
Saturday, June 8 - Cartianu Hall
9:00-14:00
9:30-10:00
Registration
Georgiana Reiss (Craiova University) – Mediating between cultures: the use of transference, modulation and
paraphrase in the translation of the EU legislation
10:00-10:30
Ionuț Geană (University of Bucharest) – Prepositional object constructions in Romanian: methodological
perspectives
Diana Hornoiu (‘Ovidius’ University, Constanța) - Gendered narratives in Romanian conversational discourse
Mihaela Zamfirescu (University of Bucharest) – Licensed and anti-licensed lexical PPI’s in Romanian
Coffee break
Invited speaker
Giuseppe Longobardi – University of Trieste
Darwin’s Last Challenge
Lunch (Casa Universitarilor, Str. Dionisie Lupu 46)
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
12:00–13:00
13:00-14:30
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Literature and Cultural Studies Section
Cultures of Memory, Memories of Culture
Thursday 6 June 2013
From 14.30
REGISTRATION (1st floor)
15.00-15.30
Formal opening and welcome (Mark Twain Room)
Mircea Dumitru, Rector of the University of Bucharest
Bogdan Ştefănescu, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Rodica Mihăilă, Executive Director of the Romanian-US Fulbright Commission
Octavian Roske, Head of the Department of English
15.30-17.00
Keynote speaker: Mihaela Irimia, University of Bucharest
Gnomes and Gnomes
(Mark Twain Room)
17.00-17.10
COFFEE BREAK (Emerson Room, basement)
British Studies Room
17.10-18.40
Chair: Zsuzsanna Tóth
Nikolai Endres, Western Kentucky
University, Popular Cultures of
Memory: Mythology from Hesiod
to Hollywood
19.00
American Studies Room
Mark Twain Room
Fulbright Workshop: Institutional
Memory and Individual Experience
Chair: Roxana Oltean, University of
Bucharest
MTTLC Room
Chair: Carmen Dominte
Chair: Sorina Chiper
Elena-Carmen Bobocescu, University
of Bucharest, Genuine Imagination
and Deceptive Memory in Oscar
Wilde’s De Profundis
Cristiana Marinela Vărgatu, University
of Craiova, Spanish Perception of
Shakespearean Plays: Romeo and
Juliet and The Taming of the Shrew
Rodica Mihăilă, University of
Zsuzsanna Tóth, University of Szeged,
Bucharest / Romanian-US Fulbright Camelia Anghel, The RomanianMonica Oancă, University of
Gnostic Spiritual Heritage in Philip
Commission
American University, Bucharest, D.
Bucharest,
Pullman’s His Dark Materials
David Dulceany, Dartmouth College,
H. Lawrence–Marcel Proust:
Remembering God as a Way of Life
Fantasy Trilogy
NH
Memories, Clowns and Elusive
in The Book of Margery Kempe and
Signifieds
Richard Rolle's The Fire of Love
Raphaella Delores Gomez, Università Elijah Ferbrache, Franciscan
University
of
Steubenville,
OH
degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza",
Carmen Dominte, Hyperion University Sorina Chiper, Alexandru Ioan Cuza
Joker says Peace to You... I am Born Dana Mihailescu, University of
Bucharest, The Stage as the
University, Iaşi, Memory and
Bucharest
to Kill: The Politics of National
Chronotope of Memory
Immortality: From Prince Charming
Barbara Nelson, University of
Trauma and Cultural Memory in
to Stelarc
Mihaela Hristea, Gh. Airinei Post and
Bucharest
Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket
Telecommunications College,
Mihaela Precup, University of
Bucharest, Memory as a Background
Bucharest
for Heinrich Heine’s Political
Gene Tanta, University of Maryland,
Purposes
MD
OPENING RECEPTION and registration (Casa Universitarilor, Str. Dionisie Lupu 46)
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Friday, 7 June 2013
British Studies Room
9.30-11.00
American Studies Room
Mark Twain Room
Chair: Daniela Cârstea
Chair: Octavian Roske
Chair: Radu Surdulescu
Chair: Dagoş Ivana
Daniela Cârstea, University of
Bucharest, Archiving Deep Memory:
Poe as a prophet of the Holocaust
in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon
Pym
Mihaela Arsene, Romanian-US
Fulbright Commission / ASE
Bucharest, Memories of Greatness:
The Adams-Jefferson
Correspondence
Dragoş Ivana, University of Bucharest,
Cervantean Negotiations, Generic
Borders: Henry Fielding’s ‘Comic
Romance’; or, the Bourgeoning of
the English Novel
Mădălina Borcău, University of
Bucharest, The Language of
Remembrance: Cultural Memory as
‘Actualised Language’ in Celan’s and
Hill’s Poetry
Octavian Roske, University of
Bucharest, The March to the Sea:
Sherman’s Campaigns and the
Memory of Destruction
Adriana-Carolina Bulz, Military
Technical Academy, Bucharest,
Tracing the Discontinued Memory:
Eugene O’Neill’s Romanian Records
in Petru Comarnescu’s Diary and
Corespondence
Anca Pirnoiu, University of Bucharest,
The Culture of Enforced Branding in
David Small’s Stitches
Anca Peiu, University of Bucharest,
The American Dream of SelfReliance: Avatars of the Anti-Heroic
Couple
Janusz Kazmierczak, Adam Mickiewicz
Universitz, Poznan, Remembering
America in the writings of the Polish
participants of the University of
Iowa International Writing Program
Radu Surdulescu, University of
Bucharest, The Politics of Amnesia:
A Modern ‘Idiot’ in Lucian Dan
Teodorovici’s Novel Matei Brunul
11.00-11.30
COFFEE BREAK (Emerson Room, basement)
11.30-13.00
Keynote speaker: Stef Craps, Ghent University
New Directions in Trauma Studies
(Mark Twain Room)
13.00-14.30
LUNCH (Casa Universitarilor, Str. Dionisie Lupu 46)
14.30-16.00
16.00-16.20
MTTL Room
Keynote speaker: Victor Sage, University of East Anglia
Wicked Voices: Rhetorics of Memory in Contemporary Gothic Fictions
(Mark Twain Room)
COFFEE BREAK (Emerson Room, basement)
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Alice-Madalina Dumitru, University of
Bucharest, Vathek, an Arabian Tale:
a Product of Eighteenth Century
Cultural Memory
James Christian Brown, University of
Bucharest, Anna Brown, Robert
Jamieson, and the Remediation of
Scottish Ballad Tradition
Friday 7 June 2013 (continued)
British Studies Room
16.20-17.50
Mark Twain Room
MTTL Room
Chair: Ruxandra Topor
Chair: Nontsasa Nako
Chair: Katarzyna Baran
Book presentation (15.50-16.50):
Nicolae-Andrei Popa, University of
Bucharest, “Spiritual Religion” and
the Memory of Hume and Paley in
S.T. Coleridge’s Aids to Reflection
Robert Micklus, Binghamton
University, New York, The Age of
Aestheticide
Katarzyna Baran, Universitat Rovira i
Virgili, Tarragona, Past Effaced, Past
Recovered: Memory Control in
Recent Dystopian Cinema
Kevin Sessums, Mississippi Sissy
Andreea-Cristina Paris, University of
Bucharest, Beyond Reason: Allen
Ginsberg’s Cultural Revival of
William Blake
Ruxanda Topor, University of
Bucharest, The Memory of the
French and American Revolutions:
Negotiations of Meaning and
Accent in William Blake’s “Europe,
A Prophecy” and “America, A
Prophecy”
Roxana Oltean, University of
Bucharest, The Culture of
Transatlantic Memory: Negotiating
Cold War Broadcasting Policies
Nontsasa Nako, Binghamton
University, New York, Memory
Industry: “Repackaging” Black
Women’s Narratives of Pain Before
South Africa’s Truth and
Reconciliation
Lucia Opreanu, Ovidius University,
Constanta, Remembrance vs.
Reinvention: Memory as Tool of
Survival and Act of Defiance in
Dystopian Narratives
Eliana Ionoaia, University of
Bucharest, Strategies of Cultural
Memory and Identity Retrieval: The
Case of Yvette Melanson’s Looking
for Lost Bird and Victoria Donda’s
My Name is Victoria
Panel (starting 16.50):
Memoirs and Dreams: A Performance
Chair: Gene Tanta, University of
Bucharest
COFFEE BREAK (Emerson Room, basement)
17.50-18.10
18.10-19.40
American Studies Room
Chair: Maria Antonietta Struzziero
Chair: Mihaela Precup
Chair: Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru
Cristina Chifane, Constantin
Brâncoveanu University, Brăila,
Reiterative Attempts of Retrieving
the Past in Fred D’Aguiar’s The
Longest Memory (1994) and Julian
Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending
(2011)
Daniela Brown, University of
Bucharest, Strategies of Recall in
the Book of Kells
Monica Manolachi, University of
Bucharest, The Memory of Different
Rhythms and Colours in E. K.
Brathwaite’s The Arrivants
Maria Antonietta Struzziero,
Independent scholar, Facing
Memory, This “thing of shreds and
patches” (105): Traces of Loss and
Intimations of Mortality in Julian
Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending
Mihaela Precup, University of
Bucharest, The Dead in the Memory
Palace: The Detective Work of
Memory and Mourning in The
Mentalist (CBS, 2008-)
Dragoş Manea, University of
Bucharest, A Legend Rewritten:
Merlin and the Ideal of Britishness
Alina Roşcan, Carol I National Defense
University, Bucharest, Misreading
Evidence in Before She Met Me by
Julian Barnes
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Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru,
University of Bucharest, Narratives
of Music and Memory in Vikram
Seth's Novel An Equal Music
Alexandra-Ioana Mihai, University of
Bucharest, The Mnemonic
Dimension of Toni Morrison’s The
Bluest Eye
Panel: Memoirs and Dreams: A
Performance (continued)
Chair: Gene Tanta, University of
Bucharest
Saturday 8 June 2013
British Studies Room
9.30-11.00
American Studies Room
Mark Twain Room
MTTL Room
Chair: Luisa Gandolfo
Chair: Arben Bushgjokaj
Chair: Clementina Mihăilescu
Chair: Karen Ferreira-Meyers
Roxana Tohaneanu-Shields,
University of Reading, Challenges to
Peter Lamarque’s Ontological View
of Works of Art: How Does the
Meaning of Works of Art Persist in
the Collective Memory?
Raluca Andreescu, University of
Bucharest, No Humble Abode: Edith
Wharton’s The Mount and the
Commodification of Heritage
Denisa Dumitraşcu, The RomanianAmerican University, Bucharest,
Collective Memory and Cultural
Identity in Jonathan Coe's Novel,
The Rotters' Club
Adela Livia Catană, University of
Bucharest, Oryx and Crake: The role
of Memory in the Construction of
Religion and Social Behaviour
Maria Zirra, University of Bucharest,
Picturing the Troubles: Ekphrasis
and the Intermediality of Cultural
Memory in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry
Luisa Gandolfo, University of
Aberdeen, The Past as a Foreign
Country: Comparative Discourses
on Memory, Land and Conflict in
Palestinian and Israeli Art
Arben Bushgjokaj, Luigj Gurakuqi
University of Shkodra, ‘Memory is a
strange Bell’: The Mind, the Brain,
and Memory in Emily Dickinson’s
Poetry
Dana Mihăilescu, University of
Bucharest, Memory Cues
Imbricated in Turn-of-theTwentieth-Century Family Photos
from the American South: Outlook
on William Faulkner’s Absalom!
Absalom!
Clementina Mihăilescu, Lucian Blaga
University, Sibiu, Self-Retrieving in
Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow via
Kelly and Jung
Elena Nistor, University of Agronomic
Sciences and Veterinary Medicine,
Bucharest, ‘As Salt in the Sea…’:
Reflections on Remembrance Day in
Contemporary English Poetry
11.00-11.30
COFFEE BREAK (Emerson Room, basement)
11.30-13.00
Keynote speaker: David Shumway, Carnegie Mellon University
The Loss of Progressive Metanarrative in the U.S.
(Mark Twain Room)
13.00-14.30
LUNCH (Casa Universitarilor, Str. Dionisie Lupu 46)
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Marta-Teodora Boboc, University of
Bucharest¸and Cristina Ivan,
National Institute for Intelligence
Studies, Bucharest, Emplacement
and Displacement of Memory
Emerging Heterotopias in the
Transnational Geography of
Memory and Identity. A Case Study
Karen Ferreira-Meyers, University of
Swaziland, Cultural Objects in the
South-African Crime Novel: African
Masks as Memories of Culture
Saturday 8 June 2013 (continued)
British Studies Room
14.30-16.00
Mark Twain Room
MTTL Room
Chair: Igor Jurilj
Chair: Dieter Fuchs
Chair: Monica Bottez
Chair: Ludmila Martanovschi
Karla Lebhaft, University of Zadar,
Damnatio Memoriae: Memory and
Identity of the (post) Communist
Croatia
Ioana Zirra, University of Bucharest,
High Modernist Collective Memory
Bombs and Booms: “The Waste
Land” and Ulysses and the
Injunction “Make Love, Not War!”
Monica Bottez, University of
Bucharest, Dickens in Romania:
1983-2013
Emanuela Mărgineanu, Alexandru
Ioan Cuza University, Iaşi, Striving
towards the right memories
Wojciech Klepuszewski, Koszalin
University of Technology, What
Remains – Memory in Arthur
Symons’s Poetry
Cornelia Vlaicu, University of
Bucharest, American Indian Trauma,
Autobiographical Memory and
Community Reconstruction in
Louise Erdrich’s Tracks
Igor Jurilj, University of Zagreb, Vojin
Bakić's Socialist-Modernist
Formations in Contemporary
Croatia: Dénouement or
Denouncement or Transforming
Memory into Pan, Pots and Cutlery
Alysse Kushinski, London School of
Economics, Non-Commemoration
and the Nation: The Politics of
Identity, Memory and Forgetting in
the Former Yugoslavia
16.00-16.20
16.20-17.50
American Studies Room
Dieter Fuchs, Koszalin University of
Technology, The Iliad as the Cultural
Unconscious of James Joyce’s
Ulysses
Martin Potter, University of
Bucharest,
Cultural Memory as Tradition and
Sacrament in David Jones’ Poetry
Orkun Kocabıyık, Muğla University,
An Anonymous Description of Social
Life in a Hybrid Town: Ismeer, or
Smyrna and Its British Hospital in
1855 By a Lady [Martha Nicol]
Ludmila Martanovschi, Ovidius
University, Constanta, Retrieval of
Memory and Negotiation of the
Past: Chicana Storytelling in Sandra
Cisneros’s Caramelo
COFFEE BREAK (Emerson Room, basement)
Chair: Rubén de la Nuez
Chair: Richard Witt
Chair: Mihai A. Stroe
Chair: Judit Pieldner
Mirela Tanta, University of Illinois at
Chicago, Socialist Realism as
Memory Site in Contemporary
Romanian Art
José Manuel Estévez-Saá, University
of A Coruña, Culture, Memory, and
the Aura of the Storyteller
Mihai A. Stroe, University of
Bucharest, Hart Crane and the
Return to the Peace of the Fathers:
Romantic Visions and Time Bridges
Roxana Doncu and Roxana Sfetea,
Carol Davila University of Medicine
and Pharmacy, Bucharest, From
Rembrant’s The Anatomy Lesson to
the Silk Worm: Cultural Memory
and the Flaneur in W.G. Sebald’s
The Rings of Saturn
Hollyamber Kennedy, Columbia
University, Memory Machines and
the Historical Eye: Urban Rituals of
Recovery and Erasure in Postwar
Berlin
Rubén de la Nuez, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore,
(Mis)Translating Memory: Ming
Wong and the “Embodimental”
Cinema
Richard Witt, Independent scholar,
Electronic Encyclopedias and the
Culture of Forgetting
Victoriya Larchenko, Kharkiv
Polytechnic Institute, Global/Local
Online Collective Memory
Construction: Global/Local Online
Popular Culture Commodity to
Represent Online Popular Culture
Consumption Accumulation
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Adriana Elena Stoican, Lumina,
University of South-east Europe,
Bucharest, Rememberance and
Transcultural Reconstructions in
Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed
Earth
Radu Stoica, University of Bucharest,
Between Fiction and Memoir:
Construction of Identity in John
Coetzee's Scenes from Provincial
Life
Judit Pieldner, Sapientia Hungarian
University of Transylvania,
Miercurea Ciuc, The Topography of
Memory in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz