University of Maribor
Faculty of Arts
Department of English and American Studies
Koroška cesta 160
2000 Maribor, Slovenia
Contact: mbgrad2009@uni-mb.si
Dear participants at the MIR conference 2009,
The organization of the MIR conference had been a pleasure for us and meeting you all an unforgettable experience. We believe that watching your valuable presentations, meeting you as people and sharing experiences about our beloved language (English) is an image that goes on with our work, exploration, and enthusiasm we all share. We will stay in touch because of that which makes us glad.
We would also like to kindly ask you for your papers. If you want them to be published in our MIR journal, please, send them by e-mail no later than 31st December 2009.
We hope that our next conference will be a new chance to meet you again. Or maybe somewhere else, "somewhere over the rainbow where skies are blue and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true".
Best wishes
The MIR conference organizers
Dear organizers,
Thank you for uploading the photos and sending everyone the link, they are really beautiful!
It was a pleasure to be part of your conference and you were wonderful hosts. I heard a lot of brilliant ideas, saw many creative presentations, and, most importantly, thought about most intriguing questions the participants asked each other. The conference was really enjoyable on all levels (including the lavish buffet :)) and I feel I've made new friends and colleagues.
I hope we stay in touch and if you ever decide to visit Belgrade, I'd be glad to be your host and guide.
Best regards,
Aleksandra Maric
Dear postgraduate students,
Your conference was a precious experience for me. The organizers were friendly, open-hearted, hospitable, smiling all the time. The atmosphere was quite positive and enjoyable. I am really looking forward to seeing the same faces again next year. I was really honoured for being a part of the whole event.
I would like to suggest, if you would'n t mind, to separate the literarure and language sections next year so that much time could be saved.
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Best regards to all of you,
Sandra Stefanovic
CALL FOR PAPERS
The postgraduate students niversities to a conference in English and American Literature, Language and Linguistics to be held on Saturday, September 19, 2009 at the University of Maribor. of the Department of English and American Studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Maribor invite colleagues from other u
You are kindly invited to send abstracts (max. 250 words) and registration forms to mbgrad2009@uni-mb.si by May 31st, 2009. Mention your full name, affiliation, postal address, e-mail address, subject area, key words, and the title of your presentation. A selection of articles will be published in MIR, the online literary journal of the Department of English and American Studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Maribor.
E-mail notifications of acceptance will be sent to authors whose papers are accepted by June 30th 2009. The presentation of your paper will take the form of a 15 minute talk plus a 5 minute question session.
Conference fee: 30 €
Conference fee includes conference pack and coffee break refreshments.
Conference fee (in EUR) should be paid to the following bank account:
Bank: Bank of Slovenia, Slovenska 35, 1505 Ljubljana
BIC: BSLJSI2X
Bank account number: SI56 01100-6000020393
Reference: 08110
Beneficiary: University of Maribor, Faculty of Arts, Koroska 160, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
Purpose of payment: MIR 2009 Conference Fee
Payment should be completed no later than July 31st 2009.
Click here to download the Registration form and apply.
Submission of abstracts and application forms: May 31th 2009
Notification of acceptance: June 30th 2009
Conference fee payment: July 31st 2009
Registration 8:00–9:00
Welcoming Remarks from the Conference Organizers 9:00–9:15
1st panel: 9:15–10:15 MYTHOLOGY and SCI-FI (chair: MARGIT BERLIC FERLINC)
Teo Pucko: Connecting Mythologies and Religions through Gandalf the Grey
Mirko Škundrić: The Faustian Bargain or Making a Pact with the Devil
Milan Marković: Challenging the Dogma in Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory
2nd panel: 10:15–11:15 IDENTITY IN LITERATURE (chair: MATEJA SUKIČ KUZMA)
Nataša Bračko: Mother culture above all? The Moral Dilemma of Northern Ireland and the Basque Country in a Literary Perspective.
Tadej Braček: Maribor's New Poetic Force: Kristina Kočan and Tomislav Kiš
Coffee Break 11:15–11:30
3th panel: 11:30–12:30 SEXUALITY AND LITERATURE (chair: HELENA KLANČNIK)
Tijana Parezanović: Metaphorical Significance of Material Objects in Mrs Dalloway and Atonement
Mojca Hojski Tkavc: Wesker’s women in his ‘One-Woman Plays’
Irena Slapar: The portrayal of women in Sarah Kane's plays.
4th panel: 12:30 – 13:30 SOCIAL VIEW AND CULTURE (chair: MOJCA HOJSKI TKAVC)
Georg Drennig: An Officer and A Gentleman – Shaping the Image of the Confederate Soldier in American Popular Culture
Tjaša Mohar: And the Journey Prize goes to… Expanding the Canadian short story canon
Mateja Sukič Kuzma: Social impairment of characters afflicted with autism
Lunch 13:30–14:30
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5th panel: 14:30–15:30 THE POWER OF LANGUAGE (chair: IRENA SMOLE)
Kristína Urbančíková: “I have a dream today!”–The Power of Language in 10 Most Significant American Political Speeches of the 20th century based on the book “Great Speeches for Better Speaking” by M. E. Eidenmuller
Peter Cigrovski: Some Considerations on the Language of Advertising in Ads directed at Men and Women
Aleksandra Marić: DeLillo’s White Noise: Language as a Mirror and Catalyst of Existential Anxiety in a World of Simulacra
6th panel: 15:30–16:30 LANGUAGE AND ITS TYPOLOGY (chair: NATALIJA KOCIJAN)
Jelena Danilović: Word families revisited: recognition vs production
Dejan Ostroško: The language of magazine front covers
Nika Plevnik: Personal Pronouns in Academic Writing: A Corpus-Based Study of ‘I’ and ‘We’
Sandra Stefanović: On sources and types of common errors in high school students’ oral presentations: Error Analysis
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