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VILNIUS UNIVERSITY
Department of English PhilologyLAUTE
(Lithuanian Association of University Teachers of English)
International Literary Conference
LITERATURE AND
SOCIETY
Vilnius University, Faculty of Philology, Domus Philologiae
PROGRAMME29-30 September 2011
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Conference has been suppor ted by:
• Research Council of Lithuania• Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University
CONFERENCE
ORGANIZING COMMIT TEE
Prof. dr.Regina Rudaitytė (Chair) Prof. dr. Jan Borm
Dr. Rūta Šlapkauskaitė Dr. Jolanta ŠinkūnienėDeimantas Valančiūnas
Aida Jungaitytė (Administrative assistant)
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Thursday • 29 September
Registration from 9.15 a.m., Reception Desk at Krėvės Auditorium
(Room 118)
PLENARY SESSION • 10.00–10.30Krėvės Auditorium
Welcoming address from the Rector’s Office of Vilnius University
Welcoming words
by Assoc. Prof. Dr.Antanas Smetona, Dean of the Faculty of Philology
A Word from
Prof. Dr. Regina Rudaitytė, President of LAUTE,
Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Philology
PLENARY LECTURES • 10.30–13.00
Prof. Herbert Grabes University of Giessen, Germany
‘Literature in Society / Society and its Literature: Relationships Under Debate’
Coffee Break • 11.30–11.50
Prof. Jon Cook University of East Anglia, UK
‘Lyric Poetry and Society: Thoughts after Adorno’
Lunch • 13.00–14.00
Excursion around Vilnius University • 14.00–15.00
AFTERNOON SEMINARS • 15.00–16.30
Seminar I Canada Room (A 7)
Chair: Jan Borm
Andrea Rummel University of Giessen, Germany
‘People in the Crowd: British Modernism and the Flaneur’
Irena Ragaišienė
Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania‘Woman and the City in Ann Patchett’s The Magician’s
Assistant’
Milda Danytė Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
‘Thematic and Ideological Shifts in Crime Fiction: How Formulaic Fiction Engages in Social Issues at the Turn of
the Century’
Seminar II Room A9
Chair: Ingrida ŽindžiuvienėAnna Maria Tomczak
University of Bialystok, Poland ‘British Indians: Reality and Fiction’
Dagnė Beržaitė
Vilnius University, Lithuania ‘Dialogues with Life: Dostoevsky and Others’
Dalia Čiočytė
Vilnius University, Lithuania ‘Literary Interpretation of Society in the Period of Soviet
Occupation’
Coffee Break • 16.30-17.00
AFTERNOON SEMINARS • 17.00–18.30
Seminar I Canada Room
Chair: Andrea Rummel
Jan Borm University of Versailles
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France‘Change in the weather? Gobal warming and Arctic issues
in recent English writing’
Regina Rudaitytė Vilnius University, Lithuania
‘And now what days are these?’ : the Private and the Public in Ian McEwan’s Novel Saturday
Szymon Szabelski The John Paul II Catholic University
of Lublin, Poland‘Rebellion against the Monologic Design
in Julian Barnes’ Talking It Over’
Seminar II Room A9
Chair: Ingo Berensmeyer
Aleksander Bednarski The John Paul Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
‘Wales in a Mirror: Welsh Social and Cultural Issues in Niall Griffiths’s Sheepshagger’
Wojciech KlepuszewskiKoszalin University of Technology, Poland
‘Poetry Goes Public: Tony Harrison and his Readers’
Rūta ŠlapkauskaitėVilnius University, Lithuania
‘Private Narratives, Communal Histories: Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family’
WELCOME RECEPTION 19.00–21.00
Hosted by the Department of English Philology
University Café
FRIDAY 30 September
PLENARY LECTURES • 10.00 – 12.30Krėvės Auditorium
Prof. Vincent GillespieOxford University, UK
‘The Presentation of Mary Magdalen in Later Medieval English Drama’
Coffee Break • 11.00-11.30
Prof. Terence BrownTrinity College Dublin, Ireland
“Befitting Emblems of Adversity”: Poetry and the Irish Troubles’
Lunch • 13.00–15.00
AFTERNOON SEMINARS • 15.00–16.30
Seminar I Canada Room (A 7)
Chair: Milda Danytė
Leif Søndergaard University of Southern Denmark in Odense
Who sets the Agenda: the Author or the Terrorist? - Don DeLillo’s Mao II (1991) and Paul Auster’s Leviathan
(1992)
Ingrida ŽindžiuvienėVytautas Magnus University, Lithuania‘9/11 Novel: Ten Years of Existence’
Audronė RaškauskienėVytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
‘Belonging and Exclusion in Junot Diaz’s Novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao’
Seminar II Room A9
Chair: Anna Maria Tomczak
Ingo BerensmeyerUniversity of Giessen, Germany
‘Contingency, Irony, Sexuality: Nature and Law in Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel’
Martin Spies University of Giessen, Germany
‘Celebrating the Stuarts: James Maxwell’s “poetico-genealogical productions”
Marek Smoluk Zielona Góra University, Poland
‘Writings on Manners and Morals in Early Stuart times’
Maciej SulmickiUniversity of Warsaw, Poland
‘Shaping the Present through Representations of the Past: the Influence of neo-Victorian Fiction on the Perception
of Society’
Coffee Break – 16.30-17.00
AFTERNOON SEMINARS • 17.00–18.30
Seminar I Room A9
Chair: Regina Rudaitytė
Jones Irwin St.Patrick’s College, Dublin, Ireland
‘Literature as Social Heresy – From Laure to Pasolini to Despentes’
Deimantas Valančiūnas
Vilnius University, Lithuania‘Questioning Slumdog Millionaire: Comparative Analysis of Danny Boyle’s Film and the Original Novel Q&A by
Vikas Swarup’
Terence AtkinsonUniversite Catholique de l‘Ouest, Angers, France
‘The Case of Penelope Lively and Pack of Cards’
18.30–19.00 Closing Cocktail
SATURDAY 1 October - SOCIAL PROGRAMME
10.00–15.00 - A trip to Trakai;
A visit to the Opera in the evening (optional)
LIST OF CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS
Terence AtkinsonUniversite Catholique de l‘Ouest, Angers, France
Aleksander BednarskiThe John Paul Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Ingo BerensmeyerUniversity of Giessen, Germany
Dagnė Beržaitė Vilnius University, Lithuania
Jan BormUniversity of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France
Terence BrownTrinity College Dublin, Ireland
Jon CookUniversity of East Anglia, UK
Dalia ČiočytėVilnius University, Lithuania
Milda DanytėVytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
Jones Irwin St.Patrick’s College, Dublin, Ireland
Vincent GillespieOxford University, UK
Herbert Grabes, University of Giessen, Germany
Wojciech Klepuszewski
Koszalin University of Technology, Poland
Irena RagaišienėVytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
Audronė RaškauskienėVytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
Regina RudaitytėVilnius University, Lithuania
Andrea Rummel University of Giessen, Germany
Leif Søndergaard University of Southern Denmark in Odense
Marek Smoluk Zielona Góra University, Poland
Martin Spies University of Giessen, Germany
Maciej SulmickiUniversity of Warsaw, Poland
Szymon SzabelskiThe John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Rūta Šlapkauskaitė Vilnius University, Lithuania
Anna Maria TomczakUniversity of Bialystok, Poland
Deimantas Valančiūnas Vilnius University, Lithuania
Ingrida ŽindžiuvienėVytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
International Literary Conference
LITERATURE AND SOCIETY
VILNIUS UNIVERSITY