SWIFT TODAY: HIS LEGACY FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO MODERN-DAY POLITICS
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES
NOVEMBER 30 – DECEMBER 1, 2017
| Thursday, November 30 | |
| 9:00-10:00 | Conference registration the Aula lobby |
| 10:00-10:30 | Conference opening – AulaOpening address: Michael Forbes, Ambassador of Ireland to Bulgaria.
Introductory address: Prof. Madeleine Danova, Dean of the Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology. |
| 10:30-11:30 | Keynote speech Marc Martinez, University of Rouen
SATIRE, TRUTH AND THE ART OF LYING IN GULLIVER’S TRAVELS |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00-15:00 | Panel 1Hall 1
Chair: L. Kostova |
| Eóin Ó Cuinneagáin, University of AmsterdamCOLONIALITY OF BEING AND GLOBAL LINEAR THINKING IN SWIFT’S A MODEST PROPOSAL | |
| Ludmilla Kostova, University of Veliko TarnovoMONARCHICAL POWER IN GULLIVER’S TRAVELS:
SWIFT AS A CRITIC OF ENLIGHTENED ABSOLUTISM? |
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| Gus Worth, American University of BulgariaA SWIFT BREXIT? | |
| Jonathan McCreedy, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”“IS BREXIT THE MODERN DAY ‘WOOD’S HALF-PENCE’?” RE-EVALUATING SWIFT’S ECONOMIC POLICIES IN A TIME OF CONTEMPORARY CRISIS AND UNCERTAINTY IN IRELAND | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30-17:00 | Panel 2Hall 1
Chair: E. Pancheva |
| Tatyana Stoicheva, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”Literaturen VesTnik AND THE FIRST Bulgarian Translation of A Modest Proposal (2013) | |
| Teodora Tzankova, Institute for Literature, Bulgarian Academy of SciencesPARODY AND SATIRE IN TRANSLATION: AN ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TASK (NOTES ON SOME BULGARIAN TRANSLATIONS OF GULLIVER’S TRAVELS) | |
| Evgenia Pancheva, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”“ST. PATRICK’S DEAN, GOOD SIR”: SELF-REFERENTIALITY IN SWIFT’S POETRY | |
| 17:00-18:30 | Panel 3Hall 1
Chair: E. Slavova |
| Christo Stamenov, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”JONATHAN SWIFT ON LANGUAGE AS A SEMIOTIC SYSTEM | |
| Rayna Rossenova, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”“[O]NE WHO HAS LONG BEEN AN INVISIBLE SPY OVER THE ACTIONS OF UNCONSCIOUS MORTALS”: MARY ROBINSON’S “SYLPHID” AND THE IMAGE OF THE SATIRIST | |
| Emilia Slavova, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”POLISHING THE LANGUAGE, POLITENESS, “POLITICAL CORRECTNESS”: FROM JONATHAN SWIFT’S PROPOSAL FOR CORRECTING, IMPROVING AND ASCERTAINING THE ENGLISH TONGUE TO PRESENT-DAY LANGUAGE AND CULTURE WARS | |
| Friday, December 1 | |
| 9:30-10:30 | Hall 1Keynote speech
James Ward, University of Ulster LEGACIES OF MADNESS |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-12:30 | Panel 4Hall 1
Chair: A. Glavanakova |
| Filipina Filipova, Independent scholarA WONDERFUL YAHOO THAT COULD SPEAK LIKE A HOUYHNHNM: POST-TRUTH AND GULLIVER’S GENTLE READER | |
| John Mullen, American University of Bulgaria“A GLASS WHEREIN BEHOLDERS DISCOVER EVERYBODY’S FACE BUT THEIR OWN”: SWIFTIAN TRAITS IN RECENT ANTI-TRUMP SATIRE | |
| Alexandra Glavanakova, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”REWRITING JONATHAN SWIFT’S A MODEST PROPOSAL IN “POST-RACIAL” AMERICA | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-15:30 | Panel 5Hall 1
Chair: V. Budakov |
| Mariya Dogan, Hacettepe UniversityALEXSANDER PTUSHKO’S THE NEW GULLIVER (1935): THE WORLD’S FIRST FULL-LENGTH ANIMATED FILM AND PRAGMATICS OF IDEOLOGICAL ADAPTATION | |
| Melissa Richard, University of RouenSWIFT: FROM BOOK TO TV ADAPTATION_A NEW LEGACY | |
| Monika Kosa, University of Cluj-NapocaENCHANTING THE MIND: THE ROLE OF MAGIC IN JONATHAN SWIFT’S GULLIVER’S TRAVELS | |
| Vesselin Budakov, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”TRAVELS INTO REMOTE PLANETS AND TIMES: ADVENTURE AND SPECULATIVE SF IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY IMITATIONS OF JONATHAN SWIFT’S GULLIVER’S TRAVELS | |
| 16:00 | Conference Closing |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner |
With the kind support of:
Academic Foundation for English and American Studies
Embassy of Ireland in Bulgaria