9.30 a.m. to 1.10 p.m.: Thursday Morning Sessions

Film II (Room 22, 9.30–11.00)
Chair: Tomáš Pospíšil

• Erik S. Roraback (Charles University, Jerome College, and FAMU, Prague; Vermont College, USA), “Cinematic Movement within Orson Welles’s Mr. Arkadin/Confidential Report (1955)”
• Zsófia Anna Tóth (University of Szeged, Hungary), “(Im)morality of the New Woman in the Early 20th Century”
• Patricia Ráčková (University of Hradec Králové, CZ), “Dangerous Liaisons of Film and Literature”

Conversation Analysis (Room 32, 9.30–11.20)
Chair: Jan Chovanec

• Ludmila Urbanová (Masaryk University, Brno), “English Conversation: Authentic and Fictional”
• Milan Ferenčík (University of Prešov, Slovakia), “Organization of Repair in Talk-in-Interaction and Politeness”
• Renata Povolná (Masaryk University, Brno), “Some discourse items as response elicitors in English face-to-face and telephone conversation”
• Nikolay Pitetskiy (University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, CZ), “The Notion of the Communicative Field”
• Robert Vorel (University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, CZ), “Suprasegmental Units in Modern English and Other Languages”

Grammar (Room 33, 9.30–11.20)
Chair: Martin Adam

• Markéta Malá (Charles University, Prague), “Semantic roles of adverbial participial clauses”
• Pavlína Šímová (University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, CZ), “The Transition between Restrictive and Non-restrictive Adjectival Relative Clauses”
• Sigbjorn L. Berge (Agder University, Norway), “The grammatical nature of the English modal auxiliaries: a hypothesis”
• Marcela Malá (Technical University, Liberec, CZ), “Syntactic and semantic similarities and differences between nominal relative clauses and wh-interrogative clauses”
• Vladislav Smolka (University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, CZ), “Non-extraposed subject clauses”

E-learning (Room 34, 9.30–11.40)
Chair: Jiří Rambousek

• Melinda Dooly (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain) and Randall Sadler (University of Illinois, Urbana-Campaign, USA), “Computers as toolkits: language e-learning through international collaboration”
• Jarmila Fictumová (Masaryk University, Brno), “E-Learning for Translators and Interpreters”
• Klára Szabó, Andrea Orosz, and Maria Bakti (University of Szeged, Hungary), “Teaching cross-curricular”
• Tamara Váňová (Masaryk University, Brno), “English Online”
• Stanislava Kasikova (Czech Technical University, Prague), “Designing English Language Courses in Class Server”

Postcolonial and Ethnic Literatures (Room 5, 9.30–11.10)
Chair: Réka Mónika Cristian

• Ralph Slayton (Silesian University, Opava, CZ), “Time and Mother-Child Relationships in J.M. Coetzee’s As a Woman Grows Older”
• Martina Nosková (Masaryk University, Brno), ““Sex and the Umma”: Religion and sex in Mohja Kahf’s columns”
• Iva Polak (University of Zagreb, Croatia), “Postcolonial Imagination and Postcolonial Theory: Indigenous Canadian and Australian Literature Fighting for (Postcolonial) Space”
• Christopher E. Koy (University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, CZ), “Mules and Mulattos in Selected Works of Charles Waddell Chesnutt and Zora Neale Hurston”

Literature and Identity (Room 22, 11.40am–1.00pm)
Chair: Milada Franková

• Réka Mónika Cristian (University of Szeged, Hungary), “Borderlands: Postcolonial Identities and Contemporary American Literature”
• Lidia Kyzlinková (Masaryk University, Brno), “Rendell/Vine: Terrorising Women through Englishness and Ethnicity”
• Slávka Tomaščíková (University of Prešov, Slovakia), “Topic: Sitcom within British Studies”

Language of Written Documents (Room 32, 11.40am–1.00pm)
Chair: Karel Kučera

• Olga Dontcheva-Navrátilová (Masaryk University, Brno), “Supplementive Clauses in Resolutions”
• Danica Malekova (University of Žilina, Slovakia), “Terminology in the Context of Law Writing”
• Jan Chovanec (Masaryk University, Brno), “Cohesive Patterns in Printed News Discourse”

Renaissance Literature (Room 33, 11.20am–1.00pm)
Chair: Martin Procházka

• Jadvyga Kruminiene (Vilnius University, Lithuania), “John Donne’s sermons: paradox as a fundamental structural device“
• Lucie Johnová (Charles University, Prague), “Dark Tones and Corrupt Relationships in Measure for Measure”
• Pavel Drábek (Masaryk University, Brno), “‘There’s Magicke in the web of it’: the occult dimension of Shakespeare’s Othello”
• Lucie Podroužková (Masaryk University, Brno), “Shakespeare’s New Clothes”

Literatures of North America II (Room 34, 11.40am–1.00pm)
Chair: Paul Titchmarsh

• Sorina Chiper (Al. I. Cuza University of Iasi, Romania), “Gertrude Stein: Style in Autobiography”
• Bonita Rhoads (Yale University, USA), “Henry James and the Plunder of Sentiment: Building the House of Modernism from The Spoils of Poynton”
• Jaroslav Kušnír (University of Prešov, Slovakia), “Post-Postmodern Poetics in David Foster Wallace’s Short Stories?”

1 to 2.30 p.m.: LUNCH BREAK

2.30 to 6.10 p.m.: Thursday Afternoon Sessions

Modern British Fiction (Room 5, 2.30–4.30)
Chair: Pavlína Hácová

• Éva Zsizsmann (University of Szeged, Hungary), “Place and Memory in B.S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates”
• Ema Jelínková (Palacký University, Olomouc, CZ), “Muriel Spark’s Concept of Evil in Symposium and Not to Disturb”
• Petr Dvořák (University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, CZ), “The Magic of Names in the Novels and Short Stories by Graham Greene”
• Beáta Bilíková (University of Prešov, Slovakia), “In a trap of narrative: S. Rushdie’s novel Fury”
• Milada Franková (Masaryk University, Brno), “The Novelist, Theory and Reading”

Semantics (Room 22, 2.30–3.50)
Chair: Jarmila Cíhová

• Jana Vokáčová (University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, CZ), “A Comparative View of English, Czech, French and German Idioms”
• Naděžda Kudrnáčová (Masaryk University, Brno), “On the Semantics of English Verbs of Locomotion”
• Tatyana Solomonik-Pankrasova (Vilnius University, Lithuania), “Semantics of Old English feorh: from pagan to Christian tradition”

Methodology II (Room 32, 2.30–3.50)
Chair: Melinda Dooly

• Světlana Hanušová and Petr Najvar (Masaryk University, Brno), “Do early birds really catch the worm?”
• Mária Spišiaková and Dana Benčiková (Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia), “Place of culture in ESP”
• Hana Smíšková (Masaryk University, Brno), “Masaryk University Internationalization Project (teaching English to non-academic staff)”

Cultural Studies of North America II (Room 33, 2.30–4.10)
Chair: Rafal Wordliczek

• Pawel Laidler (Jagiellonian Universtity, Cracow, Poland), “The Significant Role of the Supreme Court in the United States and Canada: A Comparative Study”
• Łukasz Wordliczek (Jagiellonian Universtity, Cracow, Poland), “Direct Patronage: Pork Barrel Legislation and Private Bills”
• Steven Schwartzhoff (Palacký University, Olomouc, CZ), “Buy One for the Gipper: Commemorative Acts, Merchandise and the Creation of Collective Memory”
• Kenneth Froehling (Brno University of Technology and Masaryk University, Brno), “Asterisk on honesty: the tragedy of Roger Maris”

Translation (Room 37, 2.30–4.00)
Chair: Renata Kamenická

• Linda Jayne Turner (Charles University, Prague), “Translator Training in Britain and Germany”
• Simona Mazáčová (Masaryk University, Brno), “Two Book Titles: Translation as Interpretation”
• Magdalena Paluszkiewicz-Misiaczek (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland), “Strategies and Methods in Dealing with Culture Specific Expressions on the Basis of Translations of Administrative and Institutional Terms”
• Vladimír Biloveský (Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia), “Translation of non-literary texts containing literary elements”

Literatures of North America I (Room 22, 4.30–6.10)
Chair: Iva Polak

• Paul Titchmarsh (University of Veszprém, Hungary), “The ‘relentless unforeseen:’ altered-history and paranoia in Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America”
• Marcel Arbeit (Palacký University, Olomouc, CZ), ”(Vain) Search for Heroes in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy”
• Tanja Cvetković (University of Nis, ), “Female Characters in Robert Kroetsch’s Out West Triptych”
• Katarína Labudová (University of Žilina, Slovakia), “From Retrospective to Reconstruction: Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood”

Modern Theatre and Drama (Room 32, 4.30–6.10)
Chair: Lucie Podroužková

• Ondřej Pilný (Charles University, Prague), “The ‘Irish Play’ in the Hands of Contemporary Playwrights from Ireland”
• Glenn Timmermans (University of Macau, China), “Songs for Dead Children: Telling Stories in Contemporary Irish Theatre”
• Clare Wallace (Charles University, Prague), “Responsibility and Postmodernity: Mark Ravenhill and 1990s British drama”
• Jana Javorčíková (Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia), “New Trends in Canadian and American Immigrant Drama: What does the ‘Promised Land’ promise?”

Varieties of English (Room 33, 4.10–5.30)
Chair: Ludmila Urbanová

• Renata Pípalová (Charles University, Prague), “On the Structural Aspect of Textual Hyperthemes”
• Jana Chamonikolasová (Masaryk University, Brno) and Jaroslava Stašková (University of Prešov, Slovakia), “Some difficulties facing native speakers of Czech and Slovak in writing in English”
• Kateřina Tomková (Masaryk University, Brno), “The perception of non-native pronunciation of English by native speakers”

Poetry II (Room 34, 4.50–6.10)
Chair: Zenó Vernyik

• Pavlína Hácová (Palacký University, Olomouc, CZ), “The Poet as Cultural Dentist: Ethnicity in the Poetry of Jackie Kay”
• Debra Shulkes (Deakin University, Victoria, Australia), “Signs not taken for Wonders: Disavowing the Poetic Function in the Work of Sylvia Plath”
• Irena Přibylová (Masaryk University, Brno), “From Woody Guthrie to Ozomatli; Protest Songs in the Changing World”

Translation and Culture (Room 37, 4.20–6.10)
Chair: Simona Mazáčová

• Bohuslav Mánek (University of Hradec Králové and University of Pardubice, CZ), “The Czech Reception of Robert Burns’s Poetry”
• Renata Kamenická (Masaryk University, Brno), “Czech translations of Sonnets from the Portuguese by E. Barrett Browning”
• Jiří Rambousek (Masaryk University, Brno), “Unpublished translations of Poe’s The Raven by František Nevrla”
• Ivona Škanderová (University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, CZ), “William Shakespeare in Pilsen”
• Jaroslav Peprník (Palacký University, Olomouc, CZ), “Canada in Czech Literature”

7 p.m. onwards: Dinner

Venue: MU Restaurant, Vinařská 5