Faculty of Philology, University of Banja Luka (BiH) in cooperation with
the University of Opole (Poland) and the University of Central Oklahoma (USA)
CELLS
3rd International Conference on English Language and Literary Studies
TRANSCENDING BORDERS AND BINARIES
New Insights into Language, Literature, and Culture
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Banja Luka, June 9 and 10, 2017
Friday 9 June
9.00 – 16.00
Registration
Faculty of Philology, 2nd Floor Foyer
9.00 – 10.00
Coffee
Faculty of Philology, 2nd Floor Foyer
10.00 – 10.15
Welcoming Address from the conference organisers, Room 7
10.15 – 11.15 Plenary Address: Timothy Petete, Professor of Literature and Composition at the University
of Central Oklahoma, USA, Indigenizing the Academy: Contemporary American Indian
Realities and Digital Media Studies, Room 7
11.15 – 11.30
Coffee break, 2nd Floor Foyer
Panel 1a
11.30 – 13.30 Room 7
Chair: Selma Raljević
Selma Raljević (Džemal Bijedić University of Mostar), Transcending Borders and Boundaries: New Insights
into American Literature
Novica Petrović (University of Belgrade), Transgressing Boundaries All the Way to the Nobel Prize: The
Strange Case of Robert Allen Zimmerman of Minnesota
Paweł Marcinkiewicz (University of Opole), Raymond Roussel, John Ashbery, Andrzej Sosnowski, and Their
Image-Complex-Based Cross-Linguistic Triptych
Demir Alihodžić (University of Tuzla), The Symbolic Representations of Gender in Margaret Atwood’s The
Handmaid’s Tale
Panel 1b
11.30 – 13.30 Room 9
Chair: Marijana Sivrić
Stankomir Nicieja (University of Opole), Smashing Borders and Building Bridges: Asian Marital Arts and their
Impact on Western Popular Culture and Cinema
Marijana Sivrić i Lidija Mustapić (University of Mostar), Propunsity towards Ambiguity: Troubles with Puns
Merima Osmankadić (University of Sarajevo), Who are “we” and who are “they” in today’s Great Britain –
Critical Discourse Analysis of Theresa May’s Brexit speech and Nicola Sturgeon’s speech on Scotland’s
referendum
Panel 1c
11.30 – 13.30 Room 8
Chair: Tomislav Pavlović
Radmila Nastić (University of Kragujevac), The Boundless World of Eugene O’Neill
Svjetlana Ognjenović (University of East Sarajevo), A Play for Gaza
Ifeta Čirić-Fazlija (University of Sarajevo), Erasing the Borders: Hybridity in Tom Stoppard’s Plays
Tomislav Pavlović (University of Kragujevac), W. H. Auden’s On the Frontier: Between Political Satire and
Melodrama
Tatjana Dumitrašković (University of East Sarajevo), Changing contexts: history and politics instead of theme
and character in Shakespeare`s histories and tragedies
13.30 – 14.30
Lunch Break, 2nd Floor Foyer
Panel 2a
14.30 – 16.30 Room 7
Chair: Tijana Matović
Tijana Matović (University of Kragujevac), A journey through memory in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant
Olivera Petrović-Tomanić (University of East Sarajevo), Julian Barnes as a postmodern writer and the issues
of national identity and Englishness
Lejla Mulalić (University of Sarajevo), Neo-Victorian Enactment of Scientific Discourse in A.S. Byatt’s
‘’Morpho Eugenia’’ and Its Film Adaptation
Marija Đorđević (University of Belgrade), Whose voice is heard from the closet?” Understanding the
postmodern Self through vocalization and manifestation of the Id in the works of Raymond Federman
Panel 2b
14.30 – 16.30 Room 8
Chair: Łukasz Grabowski
Łukasz Grabowski (University of Opole), Lexical bundles in the description of drug-drug interactions: A
corpus-driven study
Sándor Klapcsik (Technical University of Liberec), Language Differences and Home Visits in Accented Cinema
Amira Sadiković and Selma Đuliman (University of Sarajevo), Sarajevo – A Beginners' Guide: A Case-study in
Translating Trauma
Jelena Ilić Plauc (Tuzla University), English Language Attitudes of Tourism Workers
Panel 2c
14.30 – 16.30 Room 9
Chair: Slavica Troskot
Slavica Troskot (University of Zadar), Queen Liliuokalani's Autobiography as a Testimony of the Monarch
Jovana Petrović (University of Novi Sad), Reconstruction and Deconstruction of Stereotypes in Thomas King's
Novel Green Grass, Running Water
Majda Piralić (University of Sarajevo), Unraveling Racism in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah
Nikola Tutek (University of Rijeka), Diane Schoemperlen: By The Book, Stories and Pictures – Transcending
borders of visual arts and literature
Ivana Bulj (University of Novi Sad), Ambiguous Vessels – between a Ship and a Monster
16.30 – 17.00
Coffee break, 2nd Floor Foyer
17.00 – 18.00 Plenary Address: Ryszard W. Wolny, Professor and Director of the School of English and
American Studies at the University of Opole, Poland: Transcending Borders: Fetishism, The
Human Body and the Way of Symbolic Thinking, Room 7
18.15
3rd annual assembly of The Society for the Study of English in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Room 7
20.00
Conference Dinner
Restaurant "Slobodni um" (University campus)
Saturday 10 June
9.00 – 11.00
Registration
Panel 3a
09.30 – 11.30 Room 8
Faculty of Philology, 2nd Floor Foyer
Chair: Dalibor Kesić
Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska (University of Opole), Between information and persuasion: Discursive
strategies of factual rhetoric in humanitarian communication
Dalibor Kesić (University of Banja Luka), Temporal Metamorphosis of Meaning
Mladen Pralica (Independent Scholar, BiH), Serbian impersonal passive predicate forms and their English
correspondents on the case of translation of the novel The Bridge on the Drina
Ajla Doljančić (Independent Scholar, BiH), Intercultural Communicative Competence: An Evaluation of the
Role of the Culture in Foreign Language Teaching Materials
Panel 3b
09.30 – 11.30 Room 9
Chair: Branko Marijanović
Ognjen M. Kurteš (University of East Sarajevo), Within the Borders of Victorian Moral - The Mill on the Floss
Anđelka Raguž (University of Mostar), Elizabeth Bennet – A Rebel “with a Cause
Marta Marijanović and Branko Marijanović (Independent Scholar/University of Mostar), Stretched among
the “isms:” The peculiar world of Anderson’s and Hemingway’s short stories
Dijana Mirković (University of Montenegro), The Fall of Man as a Choice of Free Will in the Novel Free Fall
by William Golding
11.30 – 12.30 Plenary Address: Biljana Čubrović, Professor of Phonetics, University of Belgrade, Serbia,
Native and Nonnative Vowels: Evidence from Serbian and American English, Room 7
12.30 – 13.00
Coffee break, 2nd Floor Foyer
Panel 4a
13.00 – 15.00 Room 8
Chair: Aleksandra Nikčević-Batrićević
Aleksandra Nikčević-Batrićević and Marija Krivokapić (University of Montenegro), Adrienne Rich’s
Transformational Rhetoric: Moving the Registers of the Twentieth Century Poetry
Aleksandra Izgarjan (University of Novi Sad), Narrative Strategies in The Color Purple as an Affirmation of
Female Tradition
Cristina Diamant (Babeș-Bolyai University), Transgressive Bodies, Transgressing Borders: The Theoretical
Aftermath of Monique Wittig’s Writings on Gender
Dijana Tica (University of Banja Luka), Deconstructing Binaries in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing
Panel 4b
13.00 – 15.00 Room 9
Chair: Sanja Josifović-Elezović
Izela Habul-Šabanović and Larisa Kasumagić-Kafedžić (University of Sarajevo), Task-Based Language
Teaching in EFL Classes
Emir Muhić (University of Banja Luka), Re-Thinking Thinking: Conceptualization vs. (In)accuracy
Sanja Josifović-Elezović and Svetlana Mitić (University of Banja Luka), The instructional and motivational
potential of tandem teaching for pre-service EFL teacher education: a case study
Alma Žero (University of Sarajevo), Teaching in the Twenty-first Century: Pre-service Teacher-trainees'
Expectations and Experiences
15:00
Closing of the Conference
Room 7