The Erasmus+ team at the Department of English and American Studies
Invite you to an open lecture by
Irena Headland Kalischová, Ph.D
Department of English Language and Literature,
Faculty of Education, Masaryk University,
Brno, Czech Republic
Thursday, April 14th, 2016,
12:00, r. 243
Transcultural Imaginings offers an analysis of the multifarious manifestations of Otherness, which, though seemingly dichotomous, actually form a complex network of oppositions and interactions. The book explores the transcultural visions of American, Bulgarian, Canadian, French, and Pakistani writers expressing the complexities of cultural transformations in these liquid times. Encountering others within the context of facts and fictions about migration and terrorism, and from the perspective of transculturalism, cultural translation, and Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic reading of alterity, allows for the recognition and the acceptance of the Other within.
25-27 November 2016
Sofia University,
Department of English and American Studies
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS:
July 15th, 2016.
For more information, visit the NEW PARADIGMS IN ENGLISH STUDIES site.
17.11.2015 г., 18.00 часа, зала 2.
19.11.2015 г., 18.30 часа, зала 2.
24.11.2015 г., 18.00 часа, зала 2.
26.11.2015 г., 18.00 часа, зала 2.
28.11.2015 г., 13.00 часа, аудитория 243.
Катедра “Англицистика и американистика” има удоволствието да ви покани на две събития, част от програмата на гостуването на ирландския медиевист и поет проф. Бърнард О’Донахю през тази седмица:
Вторник, 20 октомври 2015 г.,10.00. “The Appeal of Chaucer.” Лекция в 243 ауд.
Четвъртък, 22 октомври 2015 г ., 16.30. Поетично четене. В Британската библиотека.
“The Irish poet and academic Bernard O’Donoghue will be visiting Bulgaria between the 19th. and 23rd of October. Bernard O’Donoghue is a native of Cullen, Co. Cork. He spent all his academic career at Wadham College, Oxford where he taught in the history of the English language and on Medieval English. He was a friend of the late Irish poet and Nobel laureate, Séamus Heaney and he has also acted as Chair of the Yeats Summer school in Co. Sligo.
As a poet he has appealed to audiences at home in Ireland and in the UK, where he has resided all of his adult life. Winner of the Whitbread prize for his second collection, he has penned The Weakness; Gunpowder; Here Nor There; Poaching Rights; Outliving; as well as contributing to numerous editions of The Anthology of Oxford Poetry. Recent collections include Selected Poems and Farmer’s Cross. A Seamus Heaney scholar, he also wrote Seamus Heaney and The Language of Poetry.”
Благодарности на Посолството на Ирландия за предоставената възможност.
The Erasmus+ team at the Department of English and American Studies have the pleasure of inviting you to a public lecture by
Dr. Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova and Dr. Renata Povolná,
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Monday, Oct 19th, 18:00 p.m., r. 243
EDUCATING FUTURE TEACHERS OF ENGLISH IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC
The first part of the presentation provides information about Masaryk University in Brno, in particular about Faculty of Education and the courses offered to future teachers of English at the Department of the English Language and Literature.
DEVELOPING ACADEMIC WRITING SKILLS IN ENGLISH ACROSS THE UNIVERSITY CURRICULUM
The second part of the presentation brings results from the two-part research into academic writing skills of university students. The first part is based on present needs analysis while the second part is corpus-based and focuses on the use of discourse markers and the construal of an authorial voice.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:
Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the Faculty of Education, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. She specializes in discourse analysis, genre analysis, stylistics and pragmatics, with a focus on political and academic discourse. She has published the books Analysing Genre: The Colony Text of UNESCO Resolutions (2009) and Coherence in Political Speeches (2011) and co-authored the volume Cohesion and Coherence in English Discourse (2012). She is co-editor of Coherence and Cohesion in Spoken and Written Discourse (2009) and Discourse Interpretation: Approaches and Applications (2012) published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. She is also co-editor of the linguistics journal Discourse and Interaction.
Renata Povolná is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. Her research interests lie in the area of discourse analysis, pragmatics and conversation analysis, concentrating mainly on academic discourse. She has published the books Spatial and Temporal Adverbials in English Authentic Face-to-Face Conversation (2003) and Interactive Discourse Markers in Spoken English (2010) and co-authored Cohesion and Coherence in English Discourse (2012). She is co-editor of Coherence and Cohesion in Spoken and Written Discourse (2009) and Discourse Interpretations: Approaches and Applications (2012) published by CSP. She is co-editor of the linguistics journal Discourse and Interaction.
Organised by the Department of English and American Studies, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
Sponsored by:
Sofia University Science and Research Fund
Academic Foundation for English and American Studies
Embassy of Ireland in Bulgaria
15th – 16th JUNE, 2015
New Conference Hall
Opening: 15th June, 9:30 a.m.
“Ireland and Europe: Cultural and Literary Encounters” is an international conference organised by the Department of English and American Studies.
The conference aims to spark debate within the Bulgarian academic community on a broad range of cultural and literary topics linking together Ireland and Europe. It joins the growing trend of research devoted to the impact that Irish culture and language makes in countries all across the European continent: East and West (for instance, with the recent publication of Bloomsbury’s 2013 ‘The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe’ series with its texts devoted to Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift, and W.B Yeats).
Our intention is to create a forum of discussion that puts no restrictions on academic approaches or methodologies. We have encouraged input from as broad an academic public as can be collected together, including postgraduate students, with a special interest in the broad research field of Irish cultural, literary and linguistic studies.
Our plenary speaker is Jack Harte: renowned Irish author and founder of the Irish Writer’s Union.
The conference will be conducted in English.
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“IRELAND AND EUROPE: CULTURAL AND LITERARY ENCOUNTERS”
Conference Program
15th JUNE:
9:00- 9:30: REGISTRATION (New Conference Hall (‘Mirror’ Hall)
9:30: OPENING ADDRESSES:
Prof. Tzvetan Theophanov, Dr Litt (Dean of the Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology)
Prof. Dr. Evgenia Pancheva (Head of the Department of English and American Studies)
10:00 – 11:00: PLENARY TALK: Jack Harte
Unravelling the Spiral, Rehabilitating the Serpent: An Irish Writer in Search of Lost Meaning
11:30 – 1:00: PANEL 1:
Multilingualism in the EU: The Case of Irish and Bulgarian
Boryana Bratanova
University of Veliko Turnovo
Dublin Bilinguals: Languages and Challenges
Marina Snesareva
Moscow State University
The Nature of Multilingualism and Code-switching in Finnegans Wake
Jonathan McCreedy
Sofia University
1:00 – 2:00: LUNCH.
2:00 – 3:30: PANEL 2:
Ireland in Late-Victorian Speculative Fiction
Vesselin Budakov
Sofia University
Distancing the Stereotype in Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon and Its Literary Source
Zelma Catalan
Sofia University
From Arms and the Man to John Bull’s Other Island: Towards an Analysis of Bernard Shaw’s Vision of Modernisation
Ludmilla Kostova
University of Veliko Turnovo
3:30 – 4:00: Coffee and tea:
3:30 – 4:00: PANEL 3:
Simultaneous Perceptions: Yeats, Joyce & Hermetic Historiography
Niko Pomakis
University of Nuremburg
Theatricalisation of the Political in Joyce’s “Circe”
Bozhana Filipova
Sofia University
“Topological” Vico, Hegel and Joyce
Boris Dimitrov
Sofia University
16th JUNE:
10:00 – 12:00: PANEL 4:
Translating Yeats in France, Russia, and Bulgaria
Vladimir Trendafilov
Sofia University
Translating Ulysses into Bulgarian
Iglika Vasileva
Through “A Multicoloured Pane” to James Joyce’s Literary World
Marina Dobrovolskaya
Russian State University for the Humanities: Moscow, Russia
The Macedonian Translation of James Joyce’s Ulysses
Marija Girevska
12:00 – 1:00: Lunch
1:00 – 2:30: PANEL 5:
Post-Romanticism in Europe: Day-reaming and Obsessive Imagery in the Poetry W.B. Yeats and P.K. Yavorov
Yarmila Daskalova
University of Veliko Turnovo
Petrarch of the Thatched Cottage: Irish Revivalist Translations of the European Literary Canon
Plamen Gaptov
Sofia University
W. B. Yeats’s Gyres as a Cosmological Symbol
Nikolai Todorov
Sofia University
2:30 – 3:00: Coffee and tea
3:00 – 4:30: PANEL 6:
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Implications of the Title
Teodora Tzankova
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Literature
From Pub to Periodical: McDaid’s, Envoy, and The Voice of a Movement
James Gallacher
University of Liverpool
Sketches of the Artist as an Aging Man: Joyce, Yeats and the Intersection of Gender and Age
Dominik Wallerius
University of Mainz: Germany
4:30: Closing remarks and reception
osthuman Transformations: Bodies and Texts in Cyberspace (Sofia University Press, 2014) Dr. Alexandra Glavanakova explores the re/positioning of the human body and the evolution of the textual body in technological culture. Through the examination of a selection of fictional texts – both print and computer- mediated – an extensive account of the transformations of the bodies of fictional characters and the actual reader in interaction with/(in) cyberspace is presented. The book is interdisciplinary – at the crossroads of posthumanism, postmodern literary theory, phenomenology and the philosophy of technology. The author seeks to answer the interrelated questions: How is the human body imagined in print and computer-mediated fictional texts? What is the body’s role in redefining the human in technological culture?
