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

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