ROMÂNIA
UNIVERSITATEA „VASILE ALECSANDRI” DIN BACĂU
MINISTERUL EDUCAŢIEI, CERCETĂRII, TINERETULUI ŞI SPORTULUI
FACULTATEA DE LITERE
Str. Spiru Haret, nr. 8, Bacău, 600114
Tel./ fax ++40-234-588884
www.ub.ro; e-mail: litere@ub.ro







INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

May 6 - 7, 2011

ORGANIZERS

“VASILE ALECSANDRI” UNIVERSITY OF BACĂU, THE FACULTY OF LETTERS, ROMANIA
THE RESEARCH GROUP CULTURAL SPACES, INTERSTUD RESEARCH CENTRE
ATATÜRK ÜNIVERSITESI, ERZURUM, TURKEY




FRIDAY – MAY, 6



09.00 – 10.00 – Welcome and Registration (Foreign Languages Room, University Library / Lectorat limbi străine, biblioteca universităţii)

10.00– 10.15 – Conference Opening (Conference Room – University Library)

10.15 – 11.00 – Plenary session (Conference Room – University Library)


Elena CROITORU - “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, Romania
Transcultural Flows – Refashioning New Identities


11.00 – 11.20 – Coffee break (Foreign Languages Room, University Library)

11.20 – 13.00 – Sessions

 Session A1: Language and culture within/beyond borders (Room C5)

 Session B1: Within/beyond cultural/racial borders (Room C6)

 Session C1: Literature and culture within/beyond borders (Room C12)

 Session D1: Translation as mediation between/among identities (Room C4)


13.15 – 14.30 – Lunch (University Canteen)

15.00 – 15.45 – Plenary session (Conference Room, University Library)


Ahmet BESE - Atatürk University, Faculty of Letters, Erzurum Turkey
Music as an Expression of African-American Cultural Identity in August Wilson’s Plays


15.45 – 16.15 – Coffee break (Council Room)
16.15 – 17.45 – Sessions

 Session A2: Language and culture within/beyond borders (Room C6)

 Session B2: Literature and culture within/beyond borders (Room C12)

 Session C2: Approaching identity: interdisciplinarity /trandisciplinarity (Room C5)

18.15 – Dinner (University Canteen)




SATURDAY – MAY, 7


09.30 – 10.00 – Coffee

10.00 – 11.45 - Sessions

 Session A3: Translation as mediation between/among identities (Room C5) Language and culture within/beyond borders

 Session B3: Approaching identity: interdisciplinarity / trandisciplinarity (Room C6)

 Session C3: Within/beyond cultural/racial borders (Room C4)


11.45 – 12.00 - Closing session (Council Room)








FRIDAY – MAY, 6

SESSIONS
11.20 – 13.00


Session A1: Language and culture within/beyond borders
Room C5


Chairperson
Veronique SIMON, University of Uppsala, Sweden


Elena BONTA – “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania
Job Identities Encoded in Commonplace Similes vs. Their Daily Perceptions. A Case Study

Simona GRUEVSKA MADJOSK – Institute for Macedonian language “Krste Misirkov”- Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Borders, Identity and Language

Naho ISHIKI – Ubon Ratchathani University, Thailand
Local or Original?: Shifting Identities of Two College Students and Their Challenge toward Cultural and Linguistic Marginalization

Antoanela Marta MARDAR – “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galati
The English Collocations beyond Romanian Linguistic and Cultural Borders

Dorota OWCZAREK – Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland,
Dialogic Approach to the Evaluation of Intercultural Communicative Competence in Pre-service English Language Teacher Training

Veronique SIMON– University of Uppsala, Sweden
Building the Subject: Language Autobiographies


Session B1: Within/beyond cultural/racial borders – Room C6


Chairperson


Ahmet BESE - Atatürk University, Faculty of Letters, Erzurum Turkey

Doina CMECIU – “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania
Representing Space in Cultural Discourse
Maria - Cristina GHIBAN (MOCANU) – “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi, Romania
Too Queer to Matter – Identity Struggles in the Mexican-American Borderlands

Manuela MARIN – Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Constructing Cultural Identities in Communist Romania: The Case of People’s Letters

Valentina MIRONSKA HRISTOVSKA – Institute for Macedonian literature, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Macedonian Identity and Balkan Identities

Ioan SAVA – “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania
American Culture and Understandings of Blackness

Cristina-Georgiana VOICU – “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi, Romania
Crossing Borders: Journey into Otherness


Session C1: Literature and culture within/beyond borders
Room C12


Chairperson

Alexandra-Marina GHEORGHE,
University of Bucharest, Romania


Cătălina BĂLINIŞTEANU – “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania
Re-defining Women in “Wuthering Heights” through the Transgression of Borders

Diana CORBAN – “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania
(Re)Writing the Old into Something New or (Re)Construction of Identity in “Great Expectations”: Charles Dickens’s vs. David Lean’s vs. Alfonso Cuarón’s “Great Expectations”

Zornitza DRAGANOVA – University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Narrative Identity Theory – an Abstract or Instrumental Approach

Alexandra - Marina GHEORGHE – The University of Bucharest, Romania
Sōseki’s “Yume jūya” and the Anarchetype – A Different Approach

Nadia Nicoleta MORĂRAŞU – “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania
Exploring the Stylistics of Gendered Identities within Boundaries and beyond Borders

Ecaterina PĂTRASCU – “Spiru Haret” University of Bucharest, Romania
Trapped in the Rooster Coop: Dialectics of Freedom in Aravind Adiga’s “The White Tiger”
Session D1: Translation as mediation between/among identities Room C4


Chairperson
Elena CROITORU, “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, Romania


Maria ACIOBĂNIŢEI – “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, Romania
Identity in Translation: the Case Study of “Memories of my Boyhood” – Ion Creangă

Mariana DINULESCU – “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania
On Translating David Lodge’s “Changing Places”

Anca GÂŢĂ – “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, Romania
Commented Translation as Language Training

Monica NĂSTASI (ŞERBAN) – “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi / “Constantin Brâncoveanu” University of Brăila, Romania
Cultural Identity and Tradition in Translation

Ioan Lucian POPA – “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania
The Contribution of “Secolul 20” to the Advance of Translation Studies in Romania: the Translators into English

Oana SURUGIU – “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi, Romania
Translation and Shaping Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization


FRIDAY – MAY, 6

SESSIONS
16.15-17.45

Session A2: Language and culture within/beyond borders
Room C6


Chairperson
Elena BONTA, “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania


Gabriela ANDRIOAIE – “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania
Metaphorical Concepts beyond Everyday Language
Raluca GALIŢA – “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania
The Identity of Women in ‘THE ONE’ Magazine. A Study on Anglicisms in the Titles

Mircea HORUBEŢ – “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania
Prejudice, Identity, and Relevance in the Process of Interpretation

Daniela MURARU – “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, Romania
Argumentative Techniques in Mediation: Formulation

Roxana POPESCU – “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania
Logical and Linguistic Cohesion in Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea”


Session B2: Literature and culture within/beyond borders
Room C12


Chairperson
Doina Cmeciu, “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania


Elena CIOBANU – “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania
Edges of the Self in Contemporary American Poetry

Oana COGEANU – “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iaşi, Romania
Signifying within and beyond Borders: Travel Writing

Beata MORZYŃSKA-WRZOSEK – Kazimierz Wielki University, Poland
“Memory as Identity Protection in a State of Exile” - The poetry of Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska

Daniela PETROŞEL – “Ştefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, Romania
Concentrationary Spaces in Romanian Science Fiction

Oana STRUGARU – “Ştefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, Romania
Telling a Story at the Border
Proiect POSDRU 6/15/S/22/2008 „Doctoral Burses at USV” sponsorizat de Fondul Social European „Investeşte în oameni”

Andreia Irina SUCIU – “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania
Manifestations of the Self in Charlotte Brontë’s Novels



Session C2: Approaching identity: interdisciplinarity /trandisciplinarity – Room C5


Chairperson
Ioan SAVA, “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania


Dainora MAUMEVIČIENĖ – Vilnius University, Lithuania
Localisation as Communication between Cultures

Mara MĂRGINEAN – Romanian Academy, “George Bariţiu” Institute of History, Cluj Napoca, Romania
Shifting Perimeters to Define Inflexible Meanings – Consumption, Spectacle and Ideological Programming in Romanian Architecture during the 1950s

Gigi MIHĂIŢĂ – European Institute of Romania
Man, Machine and the Common Algorithm

Florin MUREŞANU – “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest, Romania
Crossborder Mobility, Hyperlinks, and Architectural Dyslexia. Reading and Writing the Posturban Space

Monica MUREŞANU – “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest, Romania
The Cultural Identity of Bucharest – Analyzing the Text and Subtext of the Contemporary Urban Space

Violeta POPA, Alin POPA – “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania
About the Romanian Identity Construct













SATURDAY – MAY, 7

SESSIONS
10.00-11.45

Session A3: Translation as mediation between/among identities Language and culture within/beyond borders
Room C5


Chairperson
Ioan Lucian POPA, “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania


Cristina CHIFANE – “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, Romania
Cultural and Linguistic Identity in Translating Romanian Folk Tales

Cătălina COMĂNECI – “Al. I.Cuza” University of Iaşi, Romania
Reshaping News and Identities in the Context of Globalization

Oana Andreea CONTOMAN – “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, Romania
The Cultural and Identity Representativeness of the Journalist Caragiale Nowadays

Laurenţiu ICHIM – “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, Romania,
Socio-cultural Perspectives and Identity Patterns in Stefan Agopian’s Journalistic Work

Petrică PAŢILEA (CRÂNGAN) – “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, Romania
Being a Writer in the Journalistic Space

Ciprian-Lucreţius SUCIU – University of Western Macedonia, Florina, Greece
The Romanian Literature in Greece


Session B3: Approaching identity: interdisciplinarity / trandisciplinarity – Room C6


Chairperson
Naho ISHIKI, Ubon Ratchathani University, Thailand


Mihaela CULEA – “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania
Book Branding and Promoting Authorial Identity. A Comparative Approach
Simona MAZILU – Polytechnic University of Bucharest / “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, Romania
Slippery Slopes in Pro-Life Argumentation

Jan Milosz MISZCZYNSKI – Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Living in Nokia Town. Foreign Direct Investment in Local Communities of Central and Eastern Europe

Diana Elena POPA – “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, Romania
National Imaginarium in World Cinema. A Binary Perspective

Alice Iuliana ROŞU – “Ştefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, Romania
Wine as Universal Symbol of Cultural Identity

Mariana TÎRNĂUCEANU – “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania
Value and Local Specificity in the Artistic Communication


Session C3: Within/beyond cultural/linguistic/racial borders
(paper presentations in Romanian, PowerPoint presentations in English)
Room C4


Chairperson

Cristina CÎRTIŢÃ-BUZOIANU, Romanian Academy


Brînduşa Mariana AMĂLANCEI – “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania
Visual Identity in Advertising

Cristina CÎRTIŢĂ BUZOIANU – Romanian Academy, Iaşi Branch
Epistemological Identity of Communication in Public Space
“ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: This paper is supported by the Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources Development (SOP HRD), financed from the European Social Fund and by the Romanian Government under the contract number POSDRU/89/1.5/S/56815”

Luminiţa DRUGĂ – “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania
Post-revolution Romanians’ First Name between Fashion and Tradition

Adrian JICU – “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania,
Elements of National Identity in Mihai Eminescu's Journalistic Work at “Curierul de Iaşi”
Această lucrare a fost realizată în cadrul proiectului „Valorificarea identităţilor culturale în procesele globale", cofinanţat de Uniunea Europeană şi Guvernul României din Fondul Social European prin Programul Operaţional Sectorial Dezvoltarea Resurselor Umane 2007-2013, contractul de finanţare nr. POSDRU/89/1.5/S/59758 / This paper is suported by the Sectorial Operational Programme Human Resources Development (SOP HRD), financed from the European Social Fund and by the Romanian Government under the contract number SOP HRD/89/1.5/S/59758”.

Mihaela Amalia PETROVICI – “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Romania
An Integrated View upon Postmodernist Conceptual Identity

Virginia POPOVIĆ – University of Novi Sad, Serbia
“A Lost Letter” and “People’s Deputies”. Caragiale - Nušić and Masquerade of Elections

Petronela SAVIN – “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău / “Al. I.Cuza” University of Iaşi, Romania
A Cultural Semiotic Approach on a Romanian Phraseological Corpus. The Onomasiological Field of Water.
Financing of this article was supported in part by the project CNCSIS PD- 582/2010 and in part by project POSDRU/89/1.5/S/49944.